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Five time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long will return in 2012 for his 42nd season with The Lost Colony. First associated with the production at age eight, he joined the company as a colonist boy. While his mother performed in front of the footlights as Queen Elizabeth I and his father worked as property master, technical director, and then director, Mr. Long spent numerous hours backstage under the eye of costume designer Irene Smart Rains, whose guidance and encouragement helped lay the foundation for his career as a Broadway costume designer. Mr. Long has recently designed his 61st Broadway show – Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, running through January 2012, along side Chicago, now in its 16th year! Other Broadway Credits include: Catch Me If You Can, Looped, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens (Tony Award); The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); A Streetcar Named Desire; La Cage Aux Folles; The Boy from Oz; Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Cabaret; Contact (Hewes Award); The Music Man; Annie Get Your Gun; Swing; Steel Pier; Smokey Joe’s Café; Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award); A Christmas Carol; Six Degrees of Separation; Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards). Recent Off-Broadway productions include Lucky Guy and The School for Lies. He has also designed for such artists as Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, the Pointer Sisters, and for choreographers Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Peter Martins, David Parsons and Susan Stroman. Mr. Long was the recipient of the Morrison Award (1992), the UNC Chapel Hill Playmakers Award (1994), the National Theatre Conference “Person of the Year” award (2000), the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (2001), the Distinguished Career Award from the Southeastern Theatre Conference (2002), and the 2004 North Carolina Award presented by Governor Easley. William earned an undergraduate degree in history from The College of William and Mary, was a Kress Fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in stage design from Yale University School of Drama. He also holds honorary degrees from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, and The College of William and Mary. William is president of the Eastern Seaboard Trust, at 501-C3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to the economic revitalization and historic preservation of his hometown of Seaboard, North Carolina. In January 2006, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Robert Richmond
Robert Richmond, is originally from Hastings, England, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was the Associate Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company for 14 years where he directed over 30 productions nationally and Off Broadway. These include: Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Invisible Man, Agamemmnon, The Man Who Would Be King, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar, The Iliad: Book One, and King Lear. He has also staged special concert engagements of Cherubini’s Medea, Tanyev’s Oresteia, Theodorakis’ Electra at Carnegie Hall, Hamlet at the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center, and Comedy of Errors at La Jolla Playhouse. In 2005 his production of Much Ado About Nothing played a command performance for a private reception at the White House in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday for the President and First Lady. Mr. Richmond is an Associate Professor and Head of Undergraduate Performance in the Department of Theatre & Dance at University of South Carolina where he teaches acting and directing. His directing projects this year include: Henry VIII at the Folger Theatre, Washington, DC (nominated for 10 Helen Hayes Awards), Bent in the Lab Theatre at USC, Comedy Of Errors at USC, and he was also the winner of the South Carolina Film Commissions Production grant and he directed the short film Dreadful Sorry written by Dionne O’Dell. This is Robert’s 4th season at The Lost Colony and this fall he will be directing Othello at the Folger Theatre, Washington, DC and Henry VIII at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in the spring. For more information visit: www.robertrichmond.com and Dreadfulsorrymovie.com.
Paul Gallo
Last year Paul Gallo became one of only six lighting designers in the history of Broadway to have designed 50 Broadway shows. In his 31 years on Broadway his designs for musicals include: Wonderland, Pal Joey, Never Gonna Dance, Man of LaMancha, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound Of Music, Triumph Of Love, Titanic, Big, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café, Guys And Dolls, Crazy For You, City of Angels, Anything Goes, Smile, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood and Tintypes. He has also designed many award winning plays on Broadway which include: November, A Bronx Tale, Mauritius, Losing Louie, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Three Days of Rain, The Crucible, 45 Seconds From Broadway, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Epic Proportions, Skylight, The Tempest, I Hate Hamlet, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me A Tenor, Spoils of War, The Comedy Of Errors, The Front Page, The House of Blue Leaves, Heartbreak House, Beyond Therapy, Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Grown Ups, Kingdoms, Candida, The Little Foxes, John Gabriel Borkman and Passione. Mr. Gallo is the recipient of eight Tony nominations, ten Drama Desk nominations (winning one), six Outer Critics Awards, two Obie Awards and the 1986 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School Of Drama. And after all that his proudest achievement is being married to his beautiful wife, Jody, for 24 years and of his two wonderful children, Francesca and Nicholas.
Daniel Moctezuma
This is Daniel Moctezuma’s second year with The Lost Colony and first year as music director. In New York, he worked as keyboard player and rehearsal pianist for Broadway’s In the Heights and toured as the synthesizer player for New York’s Big Apple Circus. Other theaters he has worked with include New Hampshire’s Papermill Theatre, Seaside Music Theatre and Actor’s Playhouse (Miami) Currently he is a staff member of the University of Miami’s Theatre Arts Department.
Jimmy Lee Brooks
Jimmie Lee Brooks is very proud to be returning for his twelfth season at The Lost Colony. He attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a dramatic art’s major before making his professional stage debut as a dancer in 1998 here at Waterside Theatre. A North Carolina native, Jimmie has worked all over the country and beyond including Virginia, Washington D.C., New York, and recently in Buga, Columbia. Credits include Into the Woods, South Pacific and A Chorus Line.
Robert Midgette
This summer marks Robert Midgette’s 39th season with The Lost Colony. For 26 years, he performed the role of Chief Manteo. His impressive theatrical record comes naturally – his father, mother, sister and brother were all involved in the production throughout the years. A native of Dare County, Midgette taught Physical Education and coached at Manteo for 30 years. He now works at Manteo High School. For four years he served as fight captain and this year marks his sixth summer as Fight Director for the production. For his longtime service to The Lost Colony, the Roanoke Island Historical Association dedicated the 64th production season in Robert’s honor. Robert is excited to be involved with this 75th Anniversary production.
Erica Tobolski
Erica Tobolski has coached Voice, Dialects and Text for professional theatres around the country including The Lost Colony (2010), Utah Shakespeare Festival, Clarence Brown Theatre, Charlotte Repertory, and Purdue University and for the film The Wise Kids. She was Acting/Voice coach for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Theatre in Malaysia and dialect consultant for The-Merry-Go-Round, a radio play for NPR, Shining City in Aspen, CO and How I Learned to Drive for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her publications include featured articles in several issues of The Voice and Speech Review, the leading journal for voice research and practice, and in The Voice and Speech Exercise Book. Tobolski is a Regional Editor for the International Dialects of English Archive website and has a private practice in voice consulting and accent modification. She is an actor and voice-over artist and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina in the areas of Voice/Speech and Acting.
