Jeff Alguire

Jeff trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, spent seven years working with some of Chicago's finest Off-Loop theatre companies, and now lives and performs in the Triangle. Acting credits include: Abigail's Party (Party Girl Productions); Over the River and Through the Woods (Raleigh Little Theatre); Why We Torture and the People Who Love them, Road to Nirvana , Long Days Journey Into Night , and One For the Road (Ghost & Spice), and Mairtin in Ghost & Spice/Wordshed's production of A Skull in Connemara (Ghost & Spice). Jeff is co-founder of Ghost & Spice and Common Ground Theatres. He has a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and three years of improv training and performance with Bay Area TheatreSports. For LG Pig: (Set Designer) In the Dog House: The Execution of Dostoevsky, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Glass; (Actor) A Streetcar Named Desire, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Picasso's Closet, Anarchist!

Jason Arrol

Jason produces design, web & photography for LG Pig (Portfolio). Based in Washington, DC, lifelong musician. Credits include: Composer: Durham: A Self- Portrait, CSI: NY; Actor/Musician: The Siamese Connection; Musician: Gulag Follies (Duke Univ.). For LGP: Musician: Grand Guignol, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fistful of Love, Uncle Typhus.

 

Torry Bend

Torry is a set designer and puppet artist. Her set designs include: The Lower D’s, The Miser, The Laramie Project, A Doll's House (Duke University); Circle Course (recently performed in Katmandu); Body Politic (Echo Theater); Pygmalion (Southwest Shakespeare Co); Agamemnon (Getty Villa); and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Empty Space Theatre).
Torry is the Artistic Director of 10foot, directing their premier production of Loser, taking the show to Prague, Minneapolis and New York at the Great Small Works Toy Theatre Festival at St. Anne's Warehouse. For LGP: (Set Designer) Anarchist!, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1; (Masks) Western Men.

Chris Burner

New York credits include A Lie of the Mind, Ring Round the Moon, and Three Sisters. Chris has also performed in productions of Romeo and Juliet with both the WV and NY Shakespeare Festivals. 4:48 Psychosis at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2010. Film & TV: The Sopranos (Season Six); Across the Universe, Chasing the Unicorn. European credits: Macbeth (Bamburg, Germany). Chris teaches acting at The Youth Conservatory at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Acting credits include: The Overwhelming, God's Ear, Oh The Humanity, Now You See Me, Middletown (Manbites Dog) and Trailer Park Christmas (Common Ground). For LGP: (Actor) A Dog From Hell, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, The Italian Actress, 4.48 Psychosis, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.

Monica Byrne

Monica is a writer, playwright, and world traveler based in Durham. She is the author of Nightwork (Manbites Dog Theater) and a debut novel, The Girl in the Road. She holds degrees in biochemistry from Wellesley College and MIT. Her web site is monicabyrne.org. For LGP: (Actor) Rouge et Noir, Fistful of Love, Red Ghost, Richie; (Playwright)What Every Girl Should Know. 

Lakeisha Coffey

Lakeisha is a Raleigh resident who has performed in productions focusing on health issues including 2nd Chances for HIV/AIDS awareness and education and Act Trinity's Diagnosed for colon and breast cancer detection and treatment. Stage credits include J.T. Rogers' The Overwhelming (Manbites Dog Theatre), David Mamet's Boston Marriage (Ghost and Spice Theatre Company), and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (RLT). Lakeisha was part of the original cast of North Carolina's native Samm-Art Williams' The Waiting Room (Raleigh Little Theatre).  She has appeared in Butterfly Wings: Claudine's Story, Not In This House, and Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child each focused on ministry. Lakeisha has appeared in independent films and commercials and through artistic dance she interpreted the thoughts and feelings of characters in The Amistad Saga Reflections and Anatomy of a Woman Abused at the African American Cultural Complex in Raleigh. For LG Pig: (Actor) Night Beast, The Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1, Richie.

Jeffrey Scott Detwiler

Jeffrey has lived and performed in North Carolina since arriving from Michigan in 1993, and currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Lisa and daughter Grace. He was a member of The Somnambulist Project and managing director for Shakespeare & Originals Theatre Company. Acting credits include: Deer Hunting With Jesus, The Pillowman, Back of the Throat (Manbites Dog); King Lear, A Mouthfulla Sacco & Vanzetti (Shakespeare & Originals); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Ghost & Spice); Orson's Shadow (Deep Dish Theater). For LG Pig: (Actor) Rough for Radio I, Three Sisters (on Ice), Rouge et Noir, Europe Central, Goodnight Everything, Anarchist!, Western Men, Stroke/Book, The Birthday Party, Donald, We Are Kate Valk; (Musician) A Dog From Hell. 

Thaddaeus Edwards

Thaddaeus is a founding member of New Traditions Theatre. Credits include The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, Middletown (Manbites Dog); The Art Center's Fifth Annual Ten by Ten in the Triangle Play Festival. Thaddaeus is an ensemble member of both hands theatre where his credits include the parent project and @ liberty. For LG Pig: (Actor) The Cherry Orchard, In the Dog House: The Execution of Dostoevsky, The Island, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.

Jennifer Evans

 

J Evarts

J is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Born in Vermont, her life has taken her to the Seattle area, Tampa, Chapel Hill, Long Island, and, thankfully, back to the Triangle. Acting credits include White People (StreetSigns); Ten by Ten in the Triangle 2006 (Carrboro ArtsCenter); piece~meal, the parent project (both hands theater); Act a Lady, Now You See Me (Manbites Dog). J also appears in the short films Anyuta and Shelter. For LG Pig: (Actor) Ohio Impromptu, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Jane Eyre, Donald, Richie.

Lenore Field

Lenore has been performing in the Triangle since 1995. Acting credits include: Age of Arousal, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Manbites Dog Theater); A Little Night Music, All's Well That Ends Well, Luminosity, Nicholas Nickleby (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Servant of Two Masters (Deep Dish Theater Company); Steel Magnolias (Theatre of the American South). She is a company member with Ghost & Spice Productions and has been seen in Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Six Degrees of Separation, Agnes of God, Long Days Journey Into Night, Shirley Valentine, Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, Boston Marriage. For LG Pig: (Actor) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Italian Actress, The Birthday Party.

Skylar Gudasz

Skylar is a musician, actress and writer. She earned her BA in Dramatic Art and Creative Writing from UNC in 2009 and has since then been writing, recording, and touring with her band, Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls, as well as playing flute, guitar, piano and singing with various groups. Most recent stage acting credits include Hector in Troilus and Cressida, Becca in Rabbit Hole, Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. For LG Pig (Actor): What Every Girl Should Know.

Tom Guild

Tom is a Durham native who attended Duke, spent many years in radio, and now runs SoundTrax Recording Studios in Raleigh. His sound design credits include  Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Party Girl). Tom also appeared in NRACT's production of Talk Radio. For LGP: (Sound Designer) In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dosteovsky, My Lovely Suicides, Jane Eyre, Stroke/Book, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.

Shelby Hahn

Shelby has recently turned his talent for managing data in the field of clinical research to managing the stage for local theater. Credits include Brides of the Moon, Six Degrees of Separation, A Trailer Park Christmas, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Ghost & Spice); Heroes (2nd Avenue). For LG Pig: (Stage Manager) Glass.

  

Jim Haverkamp

Jim is a filmmaker and freelance video editor whose short films have been shown at dozens of festivals across the country, including Chicago Underground, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival. For LG Pig: (Director) Rouge et Noir; (Assistant Director) Fistful of Love; (Filmmaker) Europe Central, Fistful of Love, Goin' a Buffalo, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, The Italian Actress, Night Beast, We Are Kate Valk.

 

Greg Hohn

Greg has been a member of Transactors Improv since 1989, serving as the company's executive/artistic director since 1996. His other theater work includes performances with Archipelago, Manbites Dog, Shakespeare & Originals, Temple Theatre, the Ten by Ten Festival (acting and directing), and Long Beach Playhouse. He also works in film, television, radio, and industrial/corporate media (greghohn.net). Greg teaches Applied Improv (AppliedImprovisation.org ) in the MBA program at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and in academic settings, corporations, and organizations across the country. He has also taught acting and improv in many different venues, including UNC's MFA acting program. Greg graduated from UNC with a degree in English and has written fiction and for stage, radio, and periodicals. For LG Pig: (Actor) Rouge et Noir, Europe Central.

Jane Holding

Jane is a native of Smithfield, NC. She graduated from Swarthmore College and Cambridge and Stanford Universities. Credits include: Oldest Living Confederate Widow: A Confession (Manbites Dog) and Sea Moor Dunes (Hillsborough Amateur Theatrical Society). For LG Pig: (Actor) Rockaby, Three Sisters (on Ice), Fistful of Love, Glass, Richie.

Derrick Ivey

Derrick Ivey has performed, designed, choreographed, and directed for various theater companies throughout the Triangle. Regional acting credits include Jane Eyre, Oh, The Humanity, God's Ear, Mother Courage, Rabbit Hole, How I Got That Story, At the Vanishing Point, The Goat, Suddenly Last Summer, Nixon's Nixon, and Love's Labours Lost. Directing credits include: The Glass Menagerie, Rough Crossing, Deathtrap, Chicago - A Musical Vaudeville, The Zoo Story, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Oliver; as well as his original stage adaptations of Moliere’s The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Greek myth Antigone, James Barrie’s Peter Pan, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Derrick will next appear as the Emcee in Cabaret at William Peace Theater. He will also direct and choreograph Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe for the Durham Savoyards. For LG Pig: (Actor) The Birthday Party; (Set & Costume Designer) Jane Eyre.

John Jimerson

John trained at Circle in the Square in New York; earned a BA in Theatre from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas; and has trained privately with lots of hoity toity people as well. He has acted in New York, regionally, and on tour, and he's very happy that his career has led to North Carolina. Favorite projects include Soundtrack to Cezanne, American Thighs (Workshop Theater Company); Acting Alone (Abingdon Theatre Company); You Can’t Take It With You, The Grapes of Wrath (Arkansas Repertory Theater); A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Willow Cabin Theatre Company); Two Brothers – Who Are Not Brothers (Players Theatre). John lives in Raleigh and is a proud father to boot. For LGP: (Actor) Redghost, Glass We Are Kate Valk.

  

John Justice

John (Board Member, Playwright-In-Residence) is a playwright whose works include Two Sams, Sam/Sara, and How Wisteria Bought the Farm. He is a past awardee of a North Carolina Arts Council playwrighting fellowship and a member of the North Carolina Playwrights Alliance and the Dramatists Guild of America. For LG Pig: (Playwright) Europe Central, Goodnight Everything, Redghost, We Are Kate Valk.
 

Tamara Kissane

Tamara is an actor, playwright, and co-artistic director of both hands theatre company. Tamara spends her daytime hours working as program coordinator for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School and her evenings in Durham with her husband and daughter. Recent acting credits: Out of the Blue (Archipelago); exactly what t(w)o do (both hands). For LG Pig: (Actor) Europe Central, Stroke/Book, Richie, We Are Kate Valk; (Playwright) A Dog From Hell.

Rachel Klem

Dana Marks

Dana (Managing Director) is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theater Training and has performed across the U.S., Russia, Italy, and Germany. Credits include: brooms (both hands), The Man Who, The Fall to Earth, The Pillowman, an oak tree, Dying City, Age of Arousal, Nightwork (Manbites Dog), The Turn of the Screw (Hot Summer Nights). For LG Pig: (Actor) Ohio Impromptu, Come and Go, Cabaret Berlin, Three Sisters (on Ice), Grand Guignol, In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dostoevsky, A Streetcar Named Desire, Europe Central, Fistful of Love, Goin' a Buffalo, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Picasso's Closet, Jane Eyre, 4.48 Psychosis, Stroke/Book, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1, Glass, The Birthday Party, Donald, Richie, We Are Kate Valk; (Director) Rough for Radio I, Faith Healer, Grand Guignol, My Lovely Suicides, A Dog From Hell, The Italian Actress, Harriet Jacobs; (Costume Design) The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fistful of Love; (Stage Manager) Happy Days.

Tom Marriott

Tom is a native of Buffalo, NY and has been acting and directing in the Triangle for decades. He was a company member of Shakespeare & Originals, where he directed A Mouthfulla Sacco & Vanzetti and Julius Caesar, as well as acted in Crimson and Clover, Hurricane Salad, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Prufrock, The Tempest, and the title role in King Lear. Acting credits include Endgame, The Price, Moon for the Misbegotten, Uncle Vanya, Othello (Deep Dish); The Drawer Boy (Ghost & Spice); Titus Andronicus (Delta Boys). Directing credits include Abigail's Party and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Party Girl); Come Back To the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Ghost & Spice). He lives in Chatham County with his wife Alice. For LG Pig: (Actor) Happy Days, Three Sisters (on Ice), My Lovely Suicides, Rouge et Noir, Fistful of Love; (Director) The Jewish Wife, Grand Guignol, In the Dog House: The Execution of Dostoevsky, Jane Eyre, Anarchist!, Stroke/Book.

Jody McAuliffe

Jody is a director, writer, and translator. Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum and member of the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute, she has developed and directed new plays at theaters across the country, including South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center Theatre, Sundance Institute, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Burning Coal Theater, and Manbites Dog Theater. Jody has adapted a number of works including Don DeLillo's Mao II and translated plays from the Russian. Her publications include a novel, My Lovely Suicides, and short fiction in Literary Imagination, Southwest Review, and South Atlantic Quarterly. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Jody teaches at Duke University. For LG Pig: (Director) Grand Guignol, The Birthday Party; (Playwright) My Lovely Suicides, The Italian Actress.

Carolyn McDaniel

Carolyn is an actor, director, and choreographer. She received her BA in Theater Studies from Duke University in 2009. Recent credits include appearing inThe Winter's Tale and directing Titus Andronicus (Delta Boys). For LGP (Actor) Jane Eyre, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1, Glass, What Every Girl Should Know.

J. Alphonse Nicholson

Alphonse  is an actor studying at North Carolina Central’s Dramatic Studies Department. Credits include the title role in Howard L. Craft's Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders (Manbites Dog); The Parchman Hour (Playmakers); Six Degrees of Separation (Ghost & Spice); The Blood Knot (Street Signs) as well as appearing with LGP in special showings of To Kill a Mockingbird and Banned Books Onstage at the Durham Public Library.  For LGP: (Actor) Redghost, Harriet Jacobs, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.

Jay O'Berski

(Artistic Director) Jay is an Associate Artistic Director of Manbites Dog Theater, teaches acting at Duke University, and is a graduate of the Moscow Art Theatre School (MFA in acting). His work has appeared in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Moscow (Russia), San Miguel Allende (Mexico) and Port-au-Prince (Haiti). His book on Middleton & Rowley's revenge tragedy The Changeling is by Palgrave-MacMillan. He designs sets and lighting, currently under the name Sir Lionel Mouse.

Acting credits include:  Endgame, Superior Donuts (Deep Dish); The Baltimore Waltz, Lonely Planet, Execution of Justice, Sleeping Beauty or Coma, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Fuddy Meers, Thom Pain: Based on Nothing, Dying City, Age of Arousal, Black Bird, Buddy Cop 2 (Manbites Dog); Ancient History (Glass House); The Crucible, Three Movements (Duke Players); The Abdication, Landscape/Silence/Night, Those Women, Amor Fortuna, The Woman in the Attic (Archipelago); Ein Kleiner Kowboy, Cymbeline, Hurricane Salad, Julius Caesar, The Tempest (Shakespeare & Originals); piece-meal (both hands); Bug, Bam! Pow! (Dog & Pony Show); The Provok'd Wife, Coriolanus, The Libertine, Women Beware Women, The Winter's Tale (Unseam'd Shakespeare); Aristocrats, The False Servant, Stones In His Pockets, Uncle Vanya, Too Clever By Half, The White Devil (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical); My Life With Boney, Salome, The Castle, Dreadful, The Sea Gull Project (Somnambulist Project).

Directing credits include:  Coriolanus (Antic Shake/Karamu); One Night Only (Abraham Werewolf);The Persistence of Smoke, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Duke Department of Music); Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here (Zenph Productions); Boston Marriage (Ghost & Spice); Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Man Who, Shopping and Fucking, Back of the Throat, The Overwhelming, Nightwork, Cape Disappointment (Manbites Dog); Crimson & Clover, Prufrock, Life/Love/Cows, King Lear, Faust, Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare & Originals); A Steady Rain, Klownmakbeth (Wendell Theatre); I Am My Own Wife, Child of Hungry Times, Misterioso, The Lower D's, Women Beware Women (Duke Players); Stick Fly , Black Terror (Karamu); Three Sisters, Measure 4 Measure (Unseam'd Shakespeare); Old Times, Troilus and Cressida, Titus Andronicus, King Arthur Rules!, The Seagull Project (Somnambulist Project).

For LG Pig: (Director) Happy Days, Ohio Impromptu, Three Sisters (on Ice), The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rouge et Noir, Europe Central, Fistful of Love, Goin' a Buffalo, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Picasso's Closet, Western Men, Night Beast, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1, Glass, Richie, We Are Kate Valk; (Actor) Faith Healer, Grand Guignol, In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dostoevsky, My Lovely Suicides, Goodnight Everything, The Italian Actress, Jane Eyre, Anarchist!, The Birthday Party, Donald; (Puppetmaker) A Dog From Hell.

Jules Odendahl-James

Jules is a director, dramaturg, and sometimes triple-threat performer. She arrived in North Carolina in 1997 with theater company (Bold Maids Productions, 1996-2003) and MFA (UT-Austin) in hand and has been making theater in the area ever since. In between productions, she teaches at Duke University and facilitates the dramatic tendencies of her five-year old. Favorite Directing: The Visit, Marisol, Why We Have a Body, Good Person of Sichuan, Fefu and Her Friends. Recent Dramaturgy: The Laramie Project (Duke Players), As You Like It, All My Sons, I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given to Me By A Young Lady from Rwanda, 9 Parts of Desire (Playmakers Repertory Company). For LGP: (Dramaturg) Western Men.

Michael O'Foghludha

Michael is Board Chair for LGP. Acting credits include: At the Vanishing Point, Deer Hunting With Jesus, The Overwhelming (Manbites Dog); Julius Caesar, Faust, and The Tempest (Shakespeare & Originals). Directing credits: Blackbird (Manbites Dog).  For LG Pig: (Actor) Rough for Theatre I, The Jewish Wife, Faith Healer, Three Sisters (on Ice), Grand Guignol, In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dostoevsky, Rouge et Noir, The Italian Actress; (Director) The Island.

Andy Parks

 Andrew is a software engineer by day and a lighting designer by night. His designs have been seen in Dying City,The Pillowman, The Overwhelming, Middletown (Manbites Dog); Beyond Belief,The Drawer Boy (Ghost and Spice); Radio Gals, Candide, I Hate Hamlet, Mother Hicks (Raleigh Little Theatre). He co-designed @ liberty with Steve Tell for both hands theatre company at Liberty Warehouse. Andy is also a guest artist at Durham Academy Upper School. He is technical director at Long Leaf Opera and designed the lighting for the Blitzstein/Weill Cabaret and Argento's delightful A Water Bird Talk at the 2008 Opera Festival in Chapel Hill. For LGP: (Lighting Design) Goin' a Buffalo, The Island, Jane Eyre.

Tony Perucci

Tony is a performer, director, writer, and teacher. He is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and has trained with SITI, Goat Island, and Mary Overlie. Tony has directed his original and adapted performance pieces in Chicago , San Francisco, Los Angeles, and locally. He is a founding member of The Performance Collective in Chapel Hill, for whom he directed The Activist and created and performed in Sterilize. At UNC, he has directed his original works: Double Indemnity: A Poem of Tabloid Murder, Stand!: Remembering Paul Robeson, Annotation of a Funky Breakdown, and Eating Animals. Recent acting/movement work includes: Now You See Me (Manbites Dog); Cannibal Cheerleaders on Crack (Torso); Beckett's A Piece of Monologue (CSUN); O QUE SE VIU QUE VOCÊ VÊ (Opovoempé); Buy Me! (TPC). For LGP: (Actor) Picasso's Closet, Western Men, Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1, We Are Kate Valk. (Director/Playwright) Donald.

Lucius Robinson

Lucius recently received his B.A. in Performance Studies where he was the recipient of an award for Outstanding Achievement in Live Performance.

Acting Credits include: The Pillowman, Caleb Calypso and The Midnight Marauders, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Buddy Cop 2 (Manbites Dog Theater); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Raleigh Ensemble Players); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (ArtsCenter Stage); The Rivals (DeepDish Theater); The Stonewater Rapture, Howie The Rookie, Cowboy Mouth, The Cherry Orchard, Molly Sweeney (Delta Boys); Vertigo (UNC-Chapel Hill); The Activist (The Performance Collective); Hamlet, The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Prisoner's Dilemma, Twelfth Night (Burning Coal Theater Company).

Directing credits include: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, Quad, The Elephant Man, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter's Tale (Delta Boys); Eurydice, Metamorphoses (CFS Alumni Theater Project); and the Assistant Director of Blackbird (Manbites Dog Theater)

For LGP: (Actor) Grand Guignol, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rouge et Noir, Europe Central, Fistful of Love, Goodnight Everything, The Italian Actress, Jade City Chronicles Volume 1., Donald;  (Director) What Every Girl Should Know; (Stage Manager) Faith Healer.

Meredith Sause

Meredith has been performing in the Triangle for nearly a decade. Credits include God's Ear (Manbites Dog); holding pattern (both hands); The Good Person of Setzuan; Lobby Hero (Deep Dish), Ctrl-ALT-Delete (Blue Monday), Vincent (Dorrie Casey), Sam/Sara (John Justice-Tom Maxwell), Loose Lips Sink Ships, La Ronde (Dog & Pony Show), Prufrock; Cymbeline (Shakespeare & Originals), Rosmersholm; The Complete Word of God Abridged (Open Door), A Doll's House (Burning Coal), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (Cleveland Signstage), Hands Tell Stories; Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Nat'l Theatre of the Deaf);  The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Ghost & Spice). TV and film credits include: One Tree Hill, Dirt Fight, The JP, Fight Circle, and Nat'l Lampoon's: The Trouble with Frank. Meredith has trained at the NC School of the Arts, the National Theatre of the Deaf, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and SITI Company 2007. She sings with the trio, The Drowning Lovers. For LG Pig: (Actor) The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Europe Central, Virginia Woolf's The Waves,The Italian Actress.

Dan Sipp

Dan has performed in the Triangle since 1988 as a member of Transactors Improv Company. He now serves as the company's artistic director. He also performed, studied and directed improvisation in Chicago for eight years and currently teaches at Raleigh Little Theater. Acting credits include The Santaland Diaries (Common Ground Theatre), Out of The Blue (Archipelago) and Superior Donuts (Deep Dish). For LG Pig: (Actor) Jane Eyre, Anarchist!,The Birthday Party.

Jordan Smith

Jordan (Board Member) is a retired UNC professor who has appeared in hundreds of Triangle productions over the years. Recent appearances include The Tempest, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, and Hurricane Salad (Shakespeare & Originals); White People and The Miser (StreetSigns); Tomorrowland (Manbites Dog); An Inspector Calls and Eye of God (Peace College). Jordan is an artistic director of Ghost & Spice Productions. For LG Pig: (Actor) A Streetcar Named Desire, Picasso's Closet.

Geraud Staton

Geraud is a local oil painter and actor. Set designs include Wine in the Wilderness (NTT), the parent project (both hands) and The Pillowman (Manbites Dog). Acting credits include The Overwhelming (Manbites Dog); Wine in the Wilderness (New Traditions Theatre); Native Son (UNC); Prelude to a Kiss (Ghost & Spice). For LG Pig: (Actor)The Cherry Orchard, In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dostoevsky, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anarchist!, Night Beast; (Set Designer) Night Beast, Harriet Jacobs; (Animator) Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1. 

Steve Tell

Steve (Lighting Designer-In-Residence) is an electrical engineer and IC chip designer in Chapel Hill by day. After hours, he enjoys working with other creative people to conjure magic in the theatre. Recent lighting designs include: Abigail's Party (Party Girl), Brilliant Traces (Self-Induced Theatre Project), Ancient History (Glass House), A Moon for the Misbegotten and Private Lives (Deep Dish Theater), and Faust and The Tempest (Shakespeare and Originals). Steve's interests outside the theatre include dancing Argentine tango and writing free software. For LG Pig: (Lighting Designer) Happy Days, Three Sisters (on Ice), The Cherry Orchard, Grand Guignol, In the Doghouse: The Execution of Dostoevsky, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, A Streetcar Named Desire, My Lovely Suicides, Europe Central, Fistful of Love, A Dog From Hell, Goodnight Everything, The Italian Actress, Redghost, Stroke/Book, Birthday Party, What Every Girl Should Know; (Actor) Europe Central.

Alice Rose Turner

Alice is a North Carolina native and received her BFA in acting from Elon University. Recent credits include: Titus Andronicus (Delta Boys), Nathan the Wise (Deep Dish), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Burning Coal), Metamorphoses, Love's Labours Lost, and Psycho Beach Party (Elon University). For LG Pig (Actor): What Every Girl Should Know.

Amaris Whitaker

Amaris is a 2009 graduate of Duke University. Acting credits include The Colored Museum, Day of Absence (Karamu Drama Group); Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Antic Shakespeare); The Overwhelming (Manbites Dog). For LGP: (Actor) Hariett Jacobs; (Coordinator) The Theme Is Blackness Festival.

Mike Wiley

Mike Wiley has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the 2010 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his numerous school and community performances, he has also appeared on Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and National Geographic Channel and has been featured in Our State magazine and on PBS’ North Carolina Now and WUNC’s The State of Things. His play The Parchman Hour was featured as part of the Playmaker's Repertory 2011-2012 season. For LG Pig: (Actor) Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.

Allen Wilcox

Allen (Board Member) has a long history in theater dating back to a deeply-felt PTA recitation of Antonio at age nine. Most fans agree that his thespian high-water mark was a series of Halloween shows on Watts Street in which (miraculously) none of the actors was permanently injured. He now contents himself with encouraging the talent of those who have some. His day job is as an epidemiologist.

Claire Wilcox

Claire (Board Member) Claire's third-grade recitation of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer launched a spotty theatrical career that includes bumbling lines in a junior high school play and providing backstage work for several Watts Street Halloween productions. Ever the cheerleader, she has long enjoyed supporting the thespian activities of her parents in community theatre and prefers contributing offstage to the highly talented local troupes. She practices radiology most days.

Jamie B. Wolcott

Jamie B. Wolcott is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has been making a living as a poster artist and illustrator for 15 years, working with many talented musicians including John Prine and Emmylou Harris. She and her family have relocated to North Carolina in search of space, oxygen and a good school for their daughter. For LG Pig: (Animator) Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1.