CAST & CREW

BEVERLY BRUMM (Director) is a theatre teaacher, director and sometime playwright. After receiving an MFA from Yale Drama School, and a Ph.D. from NYU, she began a college teaching career of thirty-four years, the last twenty-seven of which have been at SUNY New Paltz. In the Theatre Department there, she recently directed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, A DOLL'S HOUSE, and THE LARAMIE PROJECT (which will return for a short run the weekend of August 22). Beverly has also directed in various other educational, community, and professional venues in Chicago, Santa Fe, Northampton, and Off-Broadway in New York, as well as in and around the Hudson Valley. Her recent work with TheaterSounds was the reading of DON JUAN IN HELL with Ian Holm and Roger Rees. Having just retired from SUNY New Paltz, Beverly is making plans to return to the midwest, relocating this fall to Chicago.

NICOLA SHEARA has performed on Broadway in GRAPES OF WRATH (TONY Award - Best Play); in the National Tour of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Award - Cleveland Critics Circle); Regional Theatre - NJ Shakespeare Festival COUNTRY GIRL - BEST ACTRESS Nomination); Actors Theatre of Louisville - CRIMES OF THE HEART (World Premiere with Kathy Bates); Missouri Repertory Theater - BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Best Leading Actress Nomination), and in regional theaters across the country from the Alley to the Walnut. Daytime serials include LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING, LOVING etc. Ms. Sheara records books on tape, several of which may found on the shelves of the West Hurley Library.

SONJA LANZENER NYC: with the Manhattan Theater Club in MAD FOREST; Cherry Lane Theater in TRUE WEST with Tim Matheson, Erik Estrada & Daniel Stern; Astor Place Theater in FIGHTING BOB; MCC in SHARON & BILLY with Marisa Tomei; Exit Art in Samuel Beckett's NOT I; and Riverside Shakespeare in TAMING OF THE SHREW, MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR with Anna Devere Smith, and HAMLET with Austin Pendleton. She has appeared opposite Sylvia Sidney in 'NIGHT MOTHER at the Pittsburgh Public Theater and with Lynn Redgrave in the world premiere of THE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN, Tennessee Williams' recently rediscovered, free adaptation of Chekhov's THE SEAGULL. She appeared at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater in I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER with Daniel J. Travanti, Dorothy McGuire and Harold Gould, and also performed in th! e National Tour of that show.