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Staff Biographies
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MALCOLM
EWEN (Producing Director) was the production stage manager
for the Broadway productions of Paul Simon’s The Capeman, The
Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (with Ladysmith
Black Mambazo) and the Tony award winning The Grapes of Wrath. Regional
credits include Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse,
Remains Theatre, Crossroads Theatre and the Kennedy Center. He has
directed such Weston favorites as The Pirates of Penzance, Picasso
at the Lapin Agile, She Loves Me and the New England Tours of Falsettos
and Of Mice and Men. His travels have taken him to Durban, South Africa,
to London's Royal National Theatre and the Festival of Perth in Australia.
Malcolm is a Trustee of the Actors’ Fund of America, and of
Season of Concern, the Chicago theatre community’s AIDS fund-raising
effort. |
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TIM
FORT (Producing Director) is enjoying
his thirty-third consecutive season at the Playhouse. Since he first
tumbled onto the stage in 1973's The Drunkard, he has acted in more
than fifty Weston productions, directed more than forty (including
last year's Tartuffe and Swingtime Canteen), and designed lighting
for almost sixty. Tim particularly enjoys working on Weston’s
“other stages” having directed four productions off campus
in recent years and more than 100 cabarets in the Playhouse cellar
beginning in that distant era when Nixon was president. As a professional
director, actor and designer, he has worked everywhere from New York's
Café La Mama to Toronto's Bayview Playhouse - generally beginning
his summers at the Thousand Island's Playhouse in Gananoque (where
he has just designed lighting for Communicating Doors). Tim is the
Head of the Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston,
Ontario where he has been teaching since 1986. |
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STEVE
STETTLER (Producing Director) has
directed regionally (Denver Center, Portland Stage, Merrimack Rep,
McCarter Theatre), in New York (Circle Rep, Theatre Row) and internationally
(including Teater Ibsen and Det Norske Teatret, the Norwegian state
theatre in Oslo). For five years an Artistic Director of the Obie
Award-winning TNT/The New Theatre of Brooklyn and a longtime instructor
of acting for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National
Theater Institute, Steve serves as a site reporter for the National
Endowment for the Arts and he has been a panelist for the Vermont
Arts Council and an adjudicator for the American College Theatre Festival
and Vermont Drama Festival. His Weston directing credits include Floyd
Collins (Moss Hart Award for Best Production in New England) and WPTC
tours of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, David Copperfield,
Master Class and Dancing at Lughnasa. |
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STUART
DUKE (Managing Director) left a 20-year
career in lighting design to become the WPTC’s year-round General
Manager in 1997. In recognition of his contribution to the growth
of the theatre company, Stuart was promoted to Managing Director and
elected to the company’s Board of Directors in 2001. He oversees
the theatre’s business affairs, marketing, staffing, ticket
sales and serves as Director of Design and Production. Continuing
to spend some winter weeks designing lighting for major regional theatre
and opera companies, he has designed lighting for such Weston productions
as Dancing at Lughnasa, Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation
and the award winning Floyd Collins. A former director of the New
England Theatre Conference, Stuart has served on the design review
board of the United Scenic Artists Local 829 in New York.
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HEATHER
BROWN (Director of Development) comes
to the Weston Playhouse from Albany, NY where she was the Donor Services
and Special Events Coordinator for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
During her tenure at the Symphony, Heather helped to increase subscriptions
and successfully organized various fundraisers which collaboratively
raised over $100,000 per year. Previous theatre and development experience
include positions held with the Egg’s Center for the Performing
Arts in Albany and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. A native of New
York, Heather received her degree in Communications from the State
University of New York at Oneonta. She is a former captain of the
Albany Knickerbocker Rugby Club, where she competed in the fastest
growing women's sport in America. Heather is thrilled to join the
staff at the WPTC and is settling in nicely as one of Vermont’s
newest residents! |
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BARBARA
AX (Audience Services Manager) spent
eight years with the Dorset Theatre Festival, the last four years
as General Manager. Before being named GM, she served as the assistant
to the producing director, editor and marketing director of Theatre
Directories, coordinator of the Conservatory Company and Dorset Colony
House Manager. Several occasions allowed her the opportunity to also
perform with the DTF acting company. She has served on the board of
the Dorset Players, Inc. for six years, four as head of production.
A graduate of SUNY @ Potsdam, she holds a BA in Economics. Manchester,
Vermont is home with her husband, Ken, of 21 years and three children.
In her spare time, if there is such a thing, she enjoys skiing and
is currently working on her EMS certification. It is a dream come
true to be a part of the Weston Playhouse family. |
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DEBORA
HARRY-SPENCER (Office Manager) Debora Harry-Spencer previously
worked as a concierge for nine years at both
The Charles Orvis Inn and The Equinox Resort and Spa in Manchester,
Vermont and was a member of the international concierge association,
Les Clefs d'Or. She graduated from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania
with degrees in Television Production and Secondary Education/Communication
with a minor in Speech and Theatre. Debora worked as a free-lance
television producer and on-air talent before teaching high school
English and directing school drama productions. Her dream has always
been to work in theatre, and she is so pleased to now be a staff member
at The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company. |
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