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STEVEN FALES (Actor/Author) is a classically trained actor who turned to writing and stand-up when his perfect Mormon world fell apart. Born in Provo, Utah, Fales began performing as a young boy singing solos in church. When his family later moved to Las Vegas, he started performing with his high school choir at Caesars' Palace and other major resorts on the Las Vegas strip. He trained on scholarship at the Boston Conservatory before serving a two-year mission to Portugal for the LDS Church. He then transferred to Brigham Young University where he completed his BFA in musical theatre and later earned an MFA in acting from the University of Connecticut. In addition to touring Confessions of a Mormon Boy across the country, Fales's New York stage credits include Michael (lead opposite Eden Espinoza) in Blood & Fire (York Theatre and ASCAP Workshop), Ferdinand in The Tempest (Judith Shakespeare Co.), and performing his “Oxy-Mormon” stand-up at Caroline’s, Stand-up New York, and Don’t Tell Mama. Regional credits include leading musical and legit roles at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre Co., New Harmony Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Robert Redford’s Sundance Theatre, Stages St. Louis, and others. Favorite roles include Hap in Death of A Salesman Edmund in King Lear, Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Dr. Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Tony in The Boy Friend, and Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance (opposite Emily Loesser). He has been in staged readings of new plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Theatre in Connecticut with such luminaries as Elaine Stritch, Douglas Sills, Len Cariou, and others. His television credits include commercials and “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” CBS mini-series, “Touched by an Angel”, and “Miracles and Other Wonders.” He is currently working on a new stand-up show called Mormon American Princess and his autobiography Oxy-Mormon Memoirs. Fales is the founder of Possibilities, a proposed organization that assists sex workers desiring to transition out of the sex industry. Fales splits his time between New York City and Salt Lake City where he frequently takes his children to live performances of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dedicated to “Buddy” and “Gee-Gee.”
JACK HOFSISS (Director) Broadway and Off-Broadway credits: The Elephant Man (Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, New York Drama Critics Awards), Total Abandon, The Shadow Box (revival), Surviving Grace, Kilt, Avow, The Final Interrogation of Coucescau’s Dog, My Night with Reg (New Group), Splendora (American Place Theatre and Bay Street), A Mom’s Life, The Subject Was Roses (Roundabout), Seconds Out (Irish Rep), The Years (MTC), No Way to Treat a Lady, One Man Band, Poor Little Lambs, and Tolstoy (West End). The Public Theatre: Quannopowett Quartet, Rebel Women, The 75th, and Out of Our Fathers Use (co-author). Regional credits: Our Town, You Can’t Take It With You, A Raisin in the Sun, Abyssinia, Dinner With Friends, The Sum of Us, Carnival, Lion in Winter, Miss Lulu Bett, All the Way Home, Days of Wine and Roses. New York City Opera: The Student Prince and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (New York City Opera). Film/TV: I’m Dancing as fast as I Can (Jill Clayburch, Geraldine Page, Diane Weist), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones), The Sorrows of Gin (Sigourney Weaver, Eileen Heckert), The Oldest Living Graduate (Henry Fonda, George Grizzard, John Lithgow, Timothy Hutton), Family Secrets (Maureen Stapleton, Stephanie Powers), and The Elephant Man (The Directors Guild of America Award, four Emmy Nominations).
TIM SATERNOW (Set & Lighting Design) is a Set & Lighting Designer who has designed for Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theatres and as art director for television and film. In New York, Tim designed the lighting for the Broadway musical Squonk (Helen Hayes Theatre), the Arielle Tepper Summer Play Festival, and at PS 122. He also worked on many Broadway shows, New York City Opera, Live from Lincoln Center, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Children's Television Workshop. Some regional theatres include the Seattle Rep, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Juilliard School, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Yale Repertory Theatre. Tim was nominated for Outstanding Art Direction on a Special: Hallmark Hall of Fame production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. He is currently Head of Scene Design at the University of Connecticut.
ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Design) has designed more than sixty productions at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami over the past twenty-five years. Mr. Tillman has won for the Carbonell Award for excellence in theatre for Blues in the Night, The Disputation and for his work with Edward Albee on the Playhouse production of Seascape. He also won LA's coveted Drama-Logue award for Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Bea Arthur. Mr. Tillman won the PHILLY Award for The Constant Wife in 2005 (Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia). He made his Broadway debut as costumer designer for Urban Cowboy: The Musical and is currently seen around the country with the national tour of Tuesdays With Morrie.
ROBERT KAPLOWITZ (Sound Design) has worked on a couple of hundred new plays as a composer and/or dramaturgically driven sound designer. Favorites include: Tracy Scott Wilson’s The Story (The Public Theater, Lortel Nomination), The Jo Alder/Mabou Mines residency of Request Concert, Kia Corthron’s Light, Raise the Roof (NYTW), Emily Mann’s Meshugah (Naked Angels), Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig (MCC), and Yasmin Godder’s Hall (The Kitchen). He spent five years as the resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference (2000-2004), is the Producing Artistic Director for Relentless Theatre Company. He and dedicates this and all of his work, to KMO.
CHARLES M TURNER III (Production Stage Manager). On Broadway, Mr. Turner was worked on Golda's Balcony (Helen Hayes Theater) as well as Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). His work Off-Broadway includes Golda's Balcony, Death in Venice, and Franz Kafka's The Castle (MET), Havana Is Waiting (Cherry Lane Theatre), Y2K (MTC), BOB and Culture of Desire (NYTW). Regionally, Mr. Turner has worked with A.C.T., Long Wharf, New York Stage & Film, Wadsworth Theatre, Hartford Stage, City Theatre, and spent six seasons with Actors Theatre of Louisville. Additionally, he has stage managed the past three Lucille Lortel Awards, A Little Night Music (Ravinia Festival), Sweeney Todd (New York Philharmonic), A Question of Mercy (Juilliard School of Drama) and is currently stage managing the Roundabout Theatre's Play-reading Series.
AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager). Recent productions include Bridge and Tunnel; Red Light Winter; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Captain Louie; The Ark; Julius Caesar; Doubt; Spamalot; Woman Before a Glass; Shockheaded Peter; Nine Parts of Desire; Caroline, or Change; Fiddler on the Roof; The Retreat From Moscow; Golda’s Balcony; The Graduate; The Full Monty. Other projects include Man of La Mancha, Proof, True West, Art, Titanic and Tommy. Gene O’Donovan, Ben Heller, Bethany Weinstein and Hilary Austin are Aurora Productions.
THE SPLINTER GROUP (General Manager) Splinter Group Productions, LLC was formed by Seth A. Goldstein in the spring of 2002 to produce works of singular vision for the stage and screen. The company produced the UK premiere of Joe Calarco's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's R&J, which transferred to London's West End and is currently producing Christine Jorgensen Reveals at Dodger Stages. As general managers, The Splinter Group has had the honor to work on such productions as Anne Washburn’s critically acclaimed Apparition, British musical comedy trio Fascinating Aida in Absolutely Fascinating, The Riot Group’s Pugilist Specialist and Ami Dayan’s A Tale of a Tiger. The company was also the Festival Producer for the National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s 2005 Festival of New Musicals. www.splintergroupproductions.com
MB PRODUCTIONS (Producer) Mormon Boy Productions, LLC produces transformational live theatre and film that draw from the rich, colorful stories of Mormondom—past and present. We celebrate American Mormon history and culture, but are not afraid to explore the “dark side” of the now global Mormon experience. By delving honestly and specifically, we hope to unveil universal truths and bring more dialogue to the question: What does it mean to be profoundly human? Founded by Steven Fales and Carleton and Sharon Spaulding.
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