BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY - Key Persons
Adrian Egolf appeared as Roxanne in BETC's Cyrano and as Young Alma in Ambition Facing West. Locally, Adrian has worked with The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Arvada Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Symphony, The Barth Hotel, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, The Edge Theater, Creede Repertory Theater, The Denver Children's Theater, Theatreworks, Miner's Alley Playhouse, and Curious Theater Company. Regionally, her credits include: The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Off Square Theater Company, and The St. Petersburg Arts Academy in Russia. Adrian received her training at The National Theater Institute and from being in good company! She also runs her own theater company, ScreenPLAY, which raises money for arts-based non-profits in Colorado with staged readings of movie favorites.
Alice Renouf holds a BA, MA and PhD Candidacy from CU Boulder in Asian Studies and Modern Chinese History. She was on the Board of Directors of the Denver Committee on Foreign Relations, Denver's Asian Art Coordinating Council and has been involved with CU's Conference on World Affairs for over 30 years. Alice currently serves as the Director of the Colorado China Council and Chair, Center for Asian Studies Advisory Council, CU Boulder. Her heart belongs to her acrylic artist group and she loves to run on local trails.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Production Manager
Born and raised in Boulder, Anne Sandoe attended CU for her undergraduate degree. Her subsequent graduate studies and career took her from the West coast to the East, and from upstate New York to the deep South.
Anne is an actress, director, and teacher with a passion for Shakespeare and the performance of his works. After completing her MFA degree, Anne taught acting and voice at San Francisco State University, and then at Wright State University, where she was tenured as an associate professor. During the summers, she performed with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, designed and was Director of their Conservatory Program for two years. That program became the basis for an MFA program in conjunction with the University of Alabama.
After seven years of teaching, Anne's two-career marriage took the family to Cornell University where she took an administrative job with the Graduate School of Business and began what has now been a 32-year career in program administration for graduate business programs at Cornell, Duke, and now CU.
Since returning to Boulder, Anne has enjoyed opportunities to perform, direct and teach. She has been seen in productions at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Longmont Theatre Company, the Shakespeare Oratorio Society and the Coal Creek Theatre. In previous years, she has performed with the Oregon, Colorado, Alabama, Virginia and Antioch Shakespeare Festivals.
Bill Rigler (Board Member) joined Naropa in March 2014 as the Director of University Relations, with functional oversight of the University's marketing and communications, media and public relations, special events, and select strategic partnerships. Bill most recently served as the Spokesman and Director of Communications for former Vice President Al Gore's global climate change initiative. Earlier, Bill worked as the Chief of Staff at the Rockefeller Foundation, as Chief of Staff to former Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro at a global public affairs and communications firm, and at the MDG Health Alliance, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving substantial health gains for the more than one billion people living on less than $1 per day. Bill holds a master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University in New York City. A dedicated cyclist and outdoorsman, Bill has been appointed by the Boulder City Council to the Transportation Advisory Board by the Boulder City Council (serving as Chairman for 2016-17) and to the Marijuana Advisory Panel, and he is a member of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce's Civic Affairs Committee.
Billie McBride spent 20 years in NYC prior to moving to Colorado doing theatre and Television. Her NY stage credits include Torch Song Trilogy (Helen Hayes), Safe Sex (Lyceum) and The Kurt Weill Cabaret (Bijou Theatre). Since moving to Colorado she has worked at The Denver Center (Benediction, The Giver, Richard III, Noises Off, and Trip to Bountiful) and The Arvada Center (The Women, Cabaret, The Importance of Being Earnest, Moon Over Buffalo, Picnic, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Full Monty). Other theaters include And Toto Too (Lost Creatures, Pardon My Dust), Lake Dillon Theatre (Velocity of Autumn), The Pluss at the JCC (Poignant Irritations), TheatreWorks (The Lying Kind), The Barth Hotel (Driving Miss Daisy, On Golden Pond, The Last Romance, and Steel Magnolias), The Cherry Creek Theatre (4000 Miles, Driving Miss Daisy), Miners Alley Playhouse (Grace and Glorie) in which she won a Henry Award for Most Outstanding Actress, and BETC for Ripcord and Outside Mullingar. She has won 3 Henry Awards for acting and directing and was given the Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. Billie is also a director and Voice Over Talent and is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association.
Brenda King has designed the costumes for many shows with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Recent and notable BETC designs include Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!), Cyrano, Ghost-Writer, Bach at Leipzig, Shipwrecked, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, and the world premiere of Morisot Reclining, which garnered a Henry Award nomination and the 2009 Camera's Eye Theatre Award for Best Costume Design. She has also designed costumes for Phamaly, Theatreworks (Colorado Springs), Avenue Theatre, and the University of Colorado. Currently, Brenda is the Costume Director for the Arvada Center for the Arts and was the Costume Director for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for the past nine years. Before moving to Colorado, she managed costume shops throughout the east coast, including the George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ) for eight seasons. She started her professional costume career working at Carelli Costumes (New York, NY) creating costumes for Broadway and movies.
Brian Shea has appeared on the BETC stage in Stupid F##king Bird, Ideation and the upcoming Cyrano. Locally he has also worked at the Denver Center Theatre Company (Death of a Salesman, The Tempest, A Winter's Tale), Curious Theatre Company (On An Average Day), Stories On Stage, and Sis Tryst Company (Savage in Limbo and Abundance). Brian is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and the National Theatre Conservatory. He also works extensively on camera, appearing in In Plain Sight, Shiny Things, The Five, and Headlong, as well as numerous commercials.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Treasurer
- Treasurer of the Board
Bruce Hill recently retired from an accomplished and successful career in telecommunications. In over 30 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Telecommunications, and Avaya, he managed software development for Telecommunication and Data Networking products, Professional Services, and IT organizations. Following a move to Intrado Inc., he managed the team responsible for designing software solutions for the Emergency 911 industry. Bruce graduated with a BS from Colorado State University and an MS from Ohio State University. He holds a Project Management Professional Certification from PMI and is the Principal at Hill Consulting Group, LLC which specializes in Project Management services. Bruce enjoys playing tennis, biking, and hiking with his spouse of more than 36 years. He has been attending BETC plays for over 6 years and additionally supports BETC through the Artists Sponsors program.
Casey Andree has appeared in Ambition Facing West, The Aliens, and Cyrano at BETC. Elsewhere, he has performed as Claude in Town Hall Arts Center's production of HAIR (Henry & True West nominations, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role, Henry award, Best Ensemble) and Melchior in Spring Awakening (True West award, Outstanding Production of a Musical), also at THAC. Casey played Claudio in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's production of Much Ado About Nothing, among other roles. He played lead guitar in Boulder's Dinner Theatre's production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. He also holds his Bachelor's degree in Classics-English from Colorado College, as well as his Master's degree in Education.
Chip Persons has appeared with BETC as Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and as Sir Isaac Newton in Vera Rubin: Bringing the Dark to Light. Locally, he has also worked with The Arvada Center (A Man for All Seasons) and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Richard II, To Kill a Mockingbird, Measure for Measure, Richard III). Chip has performed in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre, Lambs Players Theatre, and Write Out Loud, in the New York productions in Hell: Paradise Found, The Good Soldier Svejk, and Andorra, and overseas in Prague, the Czech Republic. Chip's screenwork include Law & Order and network commercials. He is an Associate Professor in the Theatre & Dance Department at CU Boulder.
Chris Kendall (Artistic Ensemble Member) was seen on the BETC stage most recently in the opening production of our 10th season, playing Tony Reilly in Outside Mullingar. Previous BETC roles include Sigmund Freud in Hysteria, Stipan/Ivo Pasic in Ambition Facing West, Ulysses in Annapurna, Balthazar Schott in Bach at Leipzig, Gene Dinkel in How the World Began (Colorado Theatre Guild Henry nomination), and Porfiry in Crime and Punishment. He has worked with Colorado Shakespeare Festival as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Alonso in The Tempest, Solinus in A Comedy of Errors, and Police Captain in The Inspector General. At other area theaters: F in The Edge Theatre production of Cock and Terry in Casa Valentina, Lou in Vintage Theater's Stella and Lou, Scrooge in The Catamounts' Moulin Scrooge, Mr. Chip in Feral Assembly's The Night Season, Picasso in Miners Alley's A Picasso (CTG Henry Award). For 2015, he received Westword's Best of Denver award for Best Season for an Actor.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Secretary
- Secretary of the Board
Christopher Sarson is English by birth, and graduated from the University of Cambridge, England, with a Master of Arts Degree in Law and Music. He emigrated to the US in 1963 and worked as a producer for public television from 1963-1995, winning numerous Emmys for creating and producing Masterpiece Theatre and a children's TV program ZOOM. He produced Live from the Metropolitan Opera and numerous musical and documentary programs.
Currently Christopher is in private practice in Boulder as a Parenting Coordinator/Decision Maker, Arbitrator and Mediator, specializing in divorce, with a special interest in the children of divorce, and post-divorce parenting issues. He is on the Board of the Boulder InterDisciplinary Committee and the co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division of the Boulder County Bar Association.
He volunteers with Community Mediation Services in Boulder and with the TRU Hospice program. He is President of the Board of Directors for Meals on Wheels Boulder. He serves as a moderator for a panel at the University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs each year. He volunteered as an adult advisor to the City of Boulder's Youth Opportunities Advisory Board and helped establish the EcoPass program in Boulder as a organizer for the Newlands neighborhood.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Vice President
- Vice President of the Board
Diane Zile is a passionate, experienced leader who most recently held the role of Chief People Officer at OtterBox, a company frequently recognized for their engaging culture and innovative people practices. Previously, Diane co-founded the strategic business consultancy Whole Strategies. She has held senior leadership roles at McStain Neighborhoods and Level 3 Communications and has more than 20 years of strategic human resources experience at Fortune 500 companies, including YUM! Brands and Macy's. Diane graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Towson University and received her Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Diane enjoys traveling with her husband David and hiking in the foothills with their pups, Hilo, Kahu & Kailua. She is passionate about theatre and the arts and previously served on the Advisory Board of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Erin Wright (Director of Development) earned a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Locally, Erin has worked as an actor with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and she has appeared in Colorado-made commercials. While living in New York, Erin performed in productions of The Ladies, The Rover, When We Dead Awaken, and Hundreds of Collisions. Erin is also the owner/operator of Wright Services, LLC, where she provides research, copy editing, and proofreading services for her clients.
Geoffrey Kent has appeared at BETC in The Santaland Diaries (2009-2011) and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). He has acted for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival since 2003 playing Iago, Hostpur, Benedick, Mercutio, Macduff, Aramis, Orsino and other one-name characters. Other acting work includes the Denver Center Theatre Company, Arvada Center, Curious Theatre Company, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He works nationally as a Fight Director, has been a recipient of a Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award for said work, and is the former President of the Society of American Fight Directors.
Job Titles:
- Director, Programs & Grants
Heather A. Beasley (Director, Programs & Grants; Artistic Ensemble Member) works with the company as a dramaturg, literary manager, stage manager, and project director. She coordinates BETC's Generations competition and playwright residency program, and solicits scripts for the main production season. She is the project manager for the Star Power Series planetarium original works program. She writes the Food for Thought sections of the BETC show programs and is the staff grant writer. Her past arts administrative work includes positions at Imagination Makers Theatre Company, Seattle Public Theater, and the University of Colorado Boulder Eklund Opera Program. After playing a role as artist and administrative volunteer in the first year of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Heather co-founded the University of Colorado Boulder's annual student-run BoulderFringe Festival. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Colorado Boulder, a master's degree with a focus in dramaturgy from Villanova University, and her undergraduate degree in creative writing and theatre from Creighton University. She is currently on the board of ArtWalk Longmont, and on the 2017 jury panel for the Boulder Arts Commission.
Jim Hunt received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Theatre Guild's Henry Awards. Previous BETC roles include Kaufmann in Bach at Leipzig, Woolsey in Ghost-Writer, Clark/Taylor/Ensemble in Gross Iddecency, and Sterling in Mauritius. Other recent credits include Lewis opposite Bob Moore's Clark in The Sunshine Boys at Lake Dillon Theatre Company; Scrooge in Josh Hartwell's adaptation of A Christmas Carol at Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge; and Selsdon in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Noises Off. Jim is also a proud Curious Theatre company member.
Job Titles:
- Actor / Writer / Director
Josh Hartwell is an Artistic Company Member at Curious Theatre Company, as well as an Ensemble Member at BETC where he has appeared in This, Bach at Leipzig, The Other Place, Shipwrecked, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, and The Sunset Limited. Elsewhere he has been in Detroit and Clybourne Park at Curious (Denver Post Ovation Award, "Best Actor in a Comic Role"), Kafka on Ice at Buntport Theater, and A Puppet Christmas Carol which he adapted for Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge. Hartwell directed Ghost-Writer for BETC in 2013 (six Henry Award nominations, including Outstanding Direction of a Play), and Grounded the following year. Represented by Abrams Artists Agency in NYC, Hartwell's play Contrived Ending (Henry Award nominee) earned feature film and Off-Broadway contracts; The Rank and the Bloodrush was a semi-finalist for The O'Neill Festival's New Play Conference and second place winner at Bottletree's play competition in Ontario; and A Different Client has been produced in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, and Buffalo. His play Dylan Went Electric was produced at Miner's Alley in Golden in October of 2014. Hartwell is an instructor for Curious Theatre Company's "Curious New Voices" and is the first Colorado Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild.
Job Titles:
- Stage Manager
- Freelance Stage Manager
Karen Horns is a freelance stage manager and recent Colorado transplant from Madison, Wisconsin. She spent the last 4 years as the resident stage manager for the Children's Theater of Madison (CTM). Karen has also been a theater educator, teaching technical theater at Verona Area High School and various theater classes through CTM's Summer Stage program. Most recently, Karen stage managed Ideation with BETC.
Job Titles:
- Scenic and Lighting Designer
Laura last appeared as the Pilot in BETC's production of Grounded, and as Myra Babbage in BETC's production of Ghost-Writer, for which she received a Henry Award for Outstanding Lead Performance by an Actress, and Best Actress in a Drama from Westword. Other favorite roles include Harper in Angels In America, Parts I and II (Best Actress - Denver Post/Westword), Valerie in The Weir (Nominated, Best Actress, Henry Awards), Wren in A Body of Water (Best Supporting Actress, Westword), and Ben in Matt & Ben. Laura's on-screen work includes the Season 3 Finale of USA Network's In Plain Sight and local independent feature film The One Who Loves You. She earned her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado.
Luke Sorge has appeared at BETC in Stupid F##king Bird (Con), Ideation (Scooter), Full Code (Joseph/Bert), and as the understudy for Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries. He was also a part of the BETC: Generations new play reading of Burning Cities. A graduate of CU-Denver's Film & Television program, he has acted around town at The Edge Theater, Cherry Creek Theater, Vintage Theater, and others, as well as numerous films of varying length and quality.
Maria Brunet is a Brazilian native whose parents were Spanish and Italian. She spent over thirty years living in France and traveled extensively in Europe, North and South America as well as China. Maria holds a degree in Business from University of Sao Paulo, (USP) - Brazil, an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Ottawa, and graduated from ESSEC's Management Program in France.
Maria worked for 10 years at Allianz, where she did Finance and Marketing, and later worked for 10 years at Deloitte & Touche Consulting, where she worked on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking and Finance service line.
Maria is the former President of International Newcomers at SP, (INC), and owned and sold a PR company in 2013. She is currently the co-founder and President of Aspen Growth Ventures LLC. Maria is an investor and assists on the accelerator program for start-ups in Colorado as a member the Rockies Venture Club (RVC), Ties Rockies. She is the Vice President of Latin Americas at IBCircle. In her free time, she helps various charitable organizations for children and women in Brazil. Maria also speaks five languages.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Vice President
- Vice President of the Board
Maribeth Hite retired from Troika Entertainment in 2008. This ended a 30 year career as Costume Director for several organizations including Troika, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre) in Los Angeles. Maribeth also taught Costuming at the University of Texas-Austin, University of Delaware-Newark and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise. She recently completed 7 years as the Costume Design Adjunct Professor at University of Denver and uses her technical costuming/sewing skills to create functional art for a crafts business: Crazy Quilts by Maribeth. Maribeth has a BA in Theatre from University of Colorado and an MA in Theatrical Costume Design from University of New Orleans.
Michael Bouchard has appeared at BETC in An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Bach at Leipzig, Hysteria, Cyrano, Ripcord, and Season 10 and 11's The SantaLand Diaries. Around town Michael has performed with the The Denver Center Theater Company, Arvada Center, Avenue Theater, Aurora Fox, Curious Theater Company, The Catamounts, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Miners Alley Playhouse, Starkey Productions, Stories on Stage, and the Vintage Theater. Michael is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and the 2009 winner of Best Season by an Actor by the Denver Post; 2011 Denver Post, Westword, and Marlowe winner of Best Supporting actor in a Comedy; 2012 Westword winner of Best on Stage Couple; 2015 Westword Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.
After graduating from MIT, Paul Repetto spent 18 years in the advertising business responsible for a variety of top brands. He entered the natural foods business with a small maker of snack products which, after a merger, became the country's leading manufacturer of granola and fruit bars. Paul co-founded Horizon Organic Dairy in 1991 here in Boulder. Paul was a founding member of the Organic Foods Alliance and has been a guest instructor at CU, Yale, Northwestern and USC among others. He was President of the Board of the Colorado Music Festival and is a long time theatre-goer, honored to be associated with BETC.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- President
- President of the Board
- President of the Jacobs University Foundation of America
Raymond O. Wells is president of the Jacobs University Foundation of America and is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Jacobs University Bremen and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and thereafter had a 35-year career as a mathematics professor at Rice University in Houston. He is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim awards in addition to the U.S. Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and is a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Mathematical Society. In 1970-71 and in 1979-80 he was a Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and he was a Visiting Professor at Brandeis, Gottingen, Paris, Oxford, Colorado, and Bremen. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Wells was in Bremen working on the creation of International University Bremen, and from 2001 until 2005 he served there as Vice President for External Affairs and Professor of Mathematics. He is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington and served as the President of the Carl Schurz Deutsch-Amerikanischer Club in Bremen from 2002 till 2010.
Job Titles:
- BETC Co - Founder
- Managing Director / Director / Actor
Rebecca Remaly is a proud BETC co-founder. Directing credits with BETC include the world premiere of Morisot Reclining (Henry Award Nomination, Best New Play 2009), Ripcord, Cyrano, Outside Mullingar, The Aliens, Annapurna, Mauritius, Shipwrecked!, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, The Clean House, Copenhagen, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Savage in Limbo. Sometimes an actor, Rebecca appeared in the BETC productions Stupid F##king Bird (Mash), Doubt (Sister James), Stop Kiss (Sara), The Glass Menagerie (Laura) and Antigone (Ismene). When Rebecca isn't managing, directing, or acting with BETC, she loves working with other companies, including Curious Theatre Company (Hannah in the world premiere of Collapse), And Toto Too (Essie in The Glider), Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Four seasons as an actor/director/musical director), George Street Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Rebecca is a 2015 and 2016 recipient of a True West Award. She is honored to be the 2016 recipient of the Emerging Professional Award from the National Theatre Conference.
Rochelle Remaly is a Colorado transplant as of 2012, having lived in Charlottesville VA for the previous nine years. She is a native of Pennsylvania, where she was introduced to professional theatre at the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE). Shelley served on the Board of Directors at BTE for six years, including a year as Board President during their 10th season. She is a former RN with a career that included critical care nursing and professional staff development. She has been part of the YMCA movement for 29 years, serving in various roles such as Aquatics Director and Director of Development. She is the Membership Experience Director at the YMCA of Boulder Valley. Shelley has been married to Don Remaly for 44 years and they have three children, Rebecca, Gregory, and Mark, and one grandchild, Jamison.
Job Titles:
- Scenic and Lighting Designer
- Technical Director for the College of Music
Ron Mueller is the Technical Director for the College of Music at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In the last year, he co-designed and built scenery for BETC's Cyrano and Ripcord with Tina Anderson. Also this season, he designed scenery for An Iliad. Previously for BETC, he designed scenery and lighting for Annapurna and scenery for Seminar, The Aliens and Outside Mullingar. Other recent designs include Legacy of Light, a scenic design for CU Theatre and Dance which won a Kennedy Center ACTF Meritorious Achievement Award. He designed the lighting for Crested Butte Music Festival's 2013 production of Barber of Seville and since has designed scenery and lighting for their productions of Rigoletto and Don Pasquale. Most recently at CU Music, he designed scenery for The Tender Land, Side by Side by Sondheim and Albert Herring. He also designed lighting for CU's New Opera Workshop productions of several new works over the last several years. He has been a scenic and lighting technician for the Skylight Opera Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder's Dinner Theatre, Theatre X, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Boulder Broadway Company, Broadway in Boulder, University of Denver Lamont School of Music and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has designed scenery and/or lighting for productions at many of those organizations.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Our Artistic Director
- Producing Ensemble Director
Stephen Weitz (Producing Ensemble Director) is a founding member of BETC, and directed the first production, Jean Anouilh's Antigone, as well as Fat Pig, The Sunset Limited, Gross Indecency, How the World Began, Bach at Leipzig, Seminar, And the Sun Stood Still, Ambition Facing West, Stupid F##king Bird, Full Code, An Iliad, and The SantaLand Diaries. He has performed in the BETC productions Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Copenhagen, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Morisot Reclining, Doubt, Shipwrecked!, and most recently as the title role in Cyrano. He is a frequent guest artist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where he has directed Tribes and Jackie & Me. He has also appeared in DCPA productions of Tom Sawyer, King Lear, Richard III, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Stephen has worked at other prominent area theatres such as Creede Repertory Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Arvada Center, and TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs. Stephen holds an MFA from the Acting program at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as well as an MA in Theatre from CU-Boulder.
Our artistic director, Stephen Weitz, was named "Colorado Theatre Person of the Year" for 2012 by Culture West.