January 2010 Issue
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Blog Roll

The new TheatreFace.com blog team!
The new TheatreFace.com blog team!
Meet the new TheatreFace.com blog team!

We’ve got a whole new crew on TheatreFace.com! TheatreFace will now feature five new bloggers. Keeping true to the mission of TheatreFace.com they’ll tackle topic relating to every aspect of making theatre, so there’s sure to be something for everyone. Swing on over to the site and check them out!


Trish Causey
Trish Causey
Trish Causey
www.theatreface.com/trishcausey

A multi-faceted performing and creative artist herself, Trish Causey will be blogging about performing and staying in shape creatively. Currently, she is the Theatre Guide for About.com, a New York Times company. Trish is also a professional production stage manager of theatre, opera and ballet, and teaches voice, scene study and audition workshops. She has performed in international competition and had her work presented at international conferences. In 2008, Trish earned $9,000 in grants for Music Composition, listing on her state’s Artist Roster, and South Arts’ Artist Registry. Her show, “Musical Theatre Talk,” features Broadway stars and creative teams. Trish’s vocal training CD and theatre book are due out in 2011.



Rich Dionne
Rich Dionne
Rich Dionne
www.theatreface.com/richdionne

Rich Dionne is a sound designer and technical director, and is currently the production manager and head of the technical direction MFA program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Rich’s sound designs have been heard at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Human Race Theatre. He has engineered scenery for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alpine Theatre Project, Bread Loaf Theatre at Middlebury College and Weston Playhouse. He is proud to have taught at Lycoming College, University of Scranton and Purdue University.

 

Erich Friend
Erich Friend
Erich Friend
www.theatreface.com/erichfriend

Erich Friend’s career in the theatre spans more than 35 years.  He has worked as a set carpenter, lighting technician, projectionist, rigger and sound operator with touring groups and show production companies; and worked for equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, and systems design consultants.  This has involved many aspects of equipment and systems design from product development, mechanical, electrical and electronic design and fabrication, to software authoring & testing and field technical support. He operates Teqniqal Systems, a theatre consultancy that specializes in performing arts technology and safety.  He also authors the Theatre Safety Blog at www.TheatreSafetyBlog.blogspot.com.

Gwydion Suilebhan
Gwydion Suilebhan
Gwydion Suilebhan
www.theatreface.com/gwydionsuilebhan

Gwydion Suilebhan will be tackling the blog from the eyes of a playwright. He is the author of Reals, The Constellation, Cracked, The Faithkiller, Abstract Nude, Let X, The Great Dismal, Junk and The Treehouse. His plays have been commissioned, produced, workshopped and read by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Source Theater Festival, Active Cultures, Rorschach Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, HotCity Theatre, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Kennedy Center, National Theater, Capital Fringe Festival, Maieutic Theatre Works, Towne Street Theatre, Point of Contention Theatre, Intentional Theatre Group and Theater of the First Amendment. He is currently serving as resident playwright for the Taffety Punk Theatre Company. He also blogs for 2amtheatre.com and at suilebhan.com.

 

 

Richelle Thompson
Richelle Thompson
Richelle Thompson
www.theatreface.com/richellethompson

Richelle Thompson joined the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as resident sound designer in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s in technical theatre from Southern Utah University with emphasis in sound, electrics and stage management. Richelle had designed sound for over 20 productions for ASF, and has also designed for companies including The Alliance Theatre, the 13th Street Ensemble, Birmingham Festival Theatre and was resident sound designer for the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Theatre.  Additionally, she has worked with companies including The Alabama Ballet, The Alys Stephen’s Center, The American Folk Ballet, Nevada Dance Theatre and The Utah Shakespeare Festival.


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