South Carolina Repertory Company presents the Boston premiere of PROFESSIONAL SKEPTICISM by James Rasheed October 29 through November 14, 2004 at the Actors' Workshop, Boston.
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CAST & STAFF BIOS
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Nick Newell (Greg) is excited to join the cast of Professional Skepticism. His New York credits include Taming of the Shrew (Off-Broadway, The Dulce Theatre on 42nd Street), Head: A Rock Reduction of Wilde’s Salome (Relatively Theatre), and Roads to Home (72nd Street Theatre Lab.) His regional credits include Doctor’s Dilemma, Antigone, Mother Courage and Her Children (American Repertory Theatre), The Foreigner (Dorset Theatre Festival), Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends, Last Train to Nibroc, and On Golden Pond (South Carolina Repertory Theatre). Nick also performed in Goldoni’s Villegiatura Trilogy and Tolstoy’s Fruits of Enlightenment (run in Moscow and during a tour of Germany, Italy and Switzerland.) Nick’s first film, Neo-Noir, was a selection at Sundance in 2003. He just finished filming Keeper this summer. Next up is Drawer Boy at SCRC. Nick has an MFA from the Moscow ART Theatre School and is a graduate of the Institute for Advance Theatre Training at Harvard. |
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Jim Stark (Leo) is Artistic Director of the Riverrun Theatre and Associate Professor of Theatre at Hanover College. For South Carolina Repertory Company, he appeared in A Final Evening with the Illuminati. He has been an actor with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Wisdom Bridge Theatre (Chicago), Actors Theatre of Louisville, The People’s Light and Theatre Company (Malvern, PA), and the Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, VA.) He studied at Hanover College and the University of Illinois, where he appeared with the Electric Shakespeare Company and worked extensively with Kabuki teacher Shozo Sato, appearing in Achilles on tour in Japan, Hungary and Cyprus. Jim is a regional representative for The Society of American Fight Directors. |
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Peggy Trecker (Margaret) most recently played the role of Nicole in the award winning play The Rea Sea in NYC's Turnip Festival. Prior to that she was seen in the New York Fringe Festival as Sally in Living With Betty. Other credits include Absolution (Lorraine), Antigone, Hamletmachine (Hamlet), The Water Hen (the Water Hen), Mistero Buffo (The Madwoman), and How He Lied to Her Husband (Aurora) at American Repertory Theatre, Nerissa in the Merchant of Venice, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors and Cassie in A Chorus Line. Tours: Moscow Art Theatre productions of Leo Tolstoy's The Fruits of Enlightenment, Carlo Goldoni's The Holiday Trilogy and Broadway National Tour of Miss Saigon. She holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.
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Blake White (Paul) is thrilled to be making his Boston debut. A proud Southerner, Blake has called New York City home for the last three years. In New York, he has appeared in The Memory of Water, Seen (Invisible City Theatre Company) and Casting Lydia (Caution: Artists at Work). Regional credits include Who's on Top, Stinky Spirits (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Proof, Four Beers (South Carolina Repertory Company); As You Like It, Inherit the Wind, The Long Christmas Dinner, Four Beers (The Warehouse Theatre); The House of Atreus (Mythmakers Theatre Company) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Upstate Shakespeare Festival). He is a founding member of the improvisitional comedy troupe 'evil petting zoo'. Blake has studied at the Shapespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon and is a proud alumunus of Hanover College.
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Clifton “Chip” Egan (Director) is an Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, having served as a member of the Clemson University faculty since 1976 and as Director of Theatre. He received a BA from Hanover College and an MFA from Northwestern University. Egan has a wide variety of professional credits, including work at the South Carolina Repertory Company; The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC; Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, NC; Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA, and the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, KY, in addition to work at several colleges and universities. He served as chair of the Clemson University’s Performing Arts Department from 1989 – 1998, during which time the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts was planned and constructed. He is a past president of both the South Carolina Theatre Association (SCTA) and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). Egan’s honors and awards include the 1998 Founders Award by the SCTA, the 2000 Suzanne M. Davis Memorial Award by the SETC, Clemson’s Class of ’39 Award for Excellence, and an appointment as Alumni Distinguished Professor of Theatre. [director's notes]
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Diane Egan (Stage Manager) has stage managed productions of Grace and Glorie, Time Flies, Goblin Market, The Lion in Winter, The Waverly Gallery, On the Verge, and An Empty Plate at the Café du Grand Boeuf (all at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC), and recently an all-alumni production of God’s Man in Texas at her undergraduate alma mater, Hanover College, in Indiana. For the South Carolina Repertory Company, she has stage managed Gin Game and performed in The Good Doctor and Wit during recent seasons. In addition to stage managing, she is a specific language disabilities therapist in private practice. She received her MA in interdepartmental studies (in the areas of speech and theatre education) from Northwestern University and has worked for Clemson University as an instructor of speech. She has also worked, both onstage and off, with the Clemson Little Theatre and the Clemson Players at Clemson University.
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