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Jessica Frances Dukes is currently giving a performance for the ages in Beneatha’s Place at Centerstage where she plays the title role. As if that weren’t enough she is also playing in Clybourne Park in the dual roles of Francine and Lena. Both plays make up The Raisin Cycle which runs at Baltimore’s Centerstage through [...]
‘A Quick 5′ has always said that part of its purpose was to introduce the reader to some brand new talent in the DC area. Today’s column is about just that. Korinn Walfall is currently performing the role of Eponine in Les Misérables at the Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts. Her big number [...]
Shuler Hensley is currently playing The Critic in the new adaptation of The Guardsman at the Kennedy Center. You might have seen him on tour a few years ago playing the Monster in Young Frankenstein which he also starred in on Broadway and recieved Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nominations for his portrayal. [...]
Malinda Markland is currently playing the role of Mother in Ragtime at Kensington Arts Theatre. This is not Malinda’s first time at KAT. Previous highlights at KAT include Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Other area credits include Nancy in Oliver at St. Marks Players, James Joyce’s [...]
Robert Richmond is batting 1,000 this season with two stellar stagings at Folger Theatre. Earlier this season he directed Henry V which was one of the best Shakespeare stagings I’ve ever seen, and currently his Twelfth Night is again delighting audiences . Previous Folger Theatre credits include Othello , Henry VIII and Julius Caesar. Regionally Robert’s work has been seen at Roanoke Island Historical [...]
Emily K. Townley is currently playing the role of Elizabeth in Skin Tight which makes up half of the two one-act productions at Studio Theatre called Pas De Deux. She previously appeared at Studio Theatre in Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Bright and Bold Design. Most recently Emily was seen in Tryst at Washington Stage Guild. She is a company member of Woolly [...]
Nancy Opel is currently playing Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Ford’s Theatre. She is also making her DC area debut with this production. Nancy recently appeared in Broadway’s Memphis, Paradise Found (London), and The Toxic Avenger (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics and Lucille Lortel nominations). Other Broadway credits include Gypsy (with Patti Lupone [...]
Francesca Zambello is the Artistic Director of Washington National Opera and the director of WNO’S current production of Show Boat now playing at The Kennedy Center. Previously she has served as its Artistic Advisor. She has directed many WNO productions, including Of Mice and Men (debut in 2001), Fidelio (2003), Die Walküre (2003 and 2007), Billy Budd (2004), Porgy and Bess (2005 and 2010), Das Rheingold (2006), Siegfried (2009), and Salome (2010). [...]
Steve Pickering is currently serving double duty at Shakespeare Theatre Company. He portrays the lead role in Wallenstein and Cominius and a Volscian Lord in Coriolanus. The plays are in repertory through June 2nd. Steve has previously been seen at STC in King Lear. He has been seen on Broadway,on tour and in London in [...]
Kyle Donnelly is the director of Other Desert Cities which is currently playing at Arena Stage. Kyle was the associate artistic director at Arena Stage from 1992 to 1998. Productions at Arena Stage include Ah, Wilderness!, Dancing at Lughnasa (Helen Hayes Award, Best Production), Polk County (Helen Hayes Award, Best Musical) and numerous others. She directed [...]
Erin Weaver is currently playing Catherine Hiatt is Signature Theatre’s wonderful production of The Last 5 Years. She was last seen at Signature in Xanadu as Kira (Helen Hayes nomination). DC Area credits include at Folger Theatre: Comedy of Errors (Luciana), Arcadia (Thomasina) which won her a Helen Hayes Award, and The Tempest (Miranda) ; Round House [...]
Michael Glenn is currently playing Gordon in Olney Theatre Center’s productiuon of Neville’s Island. Michael has been a Washington based actor for over a decade and has performed with many DC area companies. Select area credits include Good People at Arena Stage, Clybourne Park at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cat’s Cradle, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz & [...]
Today’s Quick 5 column has a lot of significance. In over 200 columns I have interviewed some pretty amazing people and you might remember that I did a full cast Quick 5 with the cast of the hit Capital Fringe production Jesus Le Momo last July. If you read this column regularly, you know I [...]
Tammy O’Donnell is the Chair of the Communications and Theatre Department at Prince Georges Community College. The department’s Communication, Theatre Arts, Mass Communication, and Public Relations/Journalism programs are designed to develop professionals in those fields of endeavor. The faculty include both full-time instructors as well as working professionals. Tammy also happens to be the director for [...]
