The Directors of 2012’s Theater Program…
Ian Gerber
Living in a Road Movie
Ian is honored to have been asked to direct for the BolderLife Festival. He has had the privilege of working with the producers of the festival on many Hitching Post plays as a writer and director, and is truly thrilled he had more than 5 hours with his talented actors to rehearse Judy Klass’ beautiful play, Living in a Road Movie. In recent years, Ian has directed Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Say Goodnight, Gracie, and Inherit the Wind for the Theater Company of Lafayette and will be directing Glengarry Glen Ross for them this coming spring. Ian is a Boulder resident, transplanted here from Chicago 17 years ago.
Janine Ann Kehlenbach
Food for Thought
Janine Ann Kehlenbach is very excited to be participating in the BolderLife Festival and working with such wonderful actors. She is a recent Ph.D graduate from the University of Colorado in Boulder with an emphasis in Spanish and Latin American Theatre. She stays busy in the Denver/Metro area teaching and working as Artistic Director for 11 Minutes Theatre Company. Thank you to Dawn, Anthony and the playwright, Rich Rubin, for this great opportunity.
Boyd McCollum
Sitting Together
Boyd comes from a background of directing and writing for film and video, both narrative and documentary. His screenplay Wild Swan was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition, and he was the Producer of Dr. Song: Medicine Woman of Eastern Tibet, a semi-finalist in the 2008 Moondance International Film Festival. With the BolderLife Festival, Boyd is returning to his first love: theatre. As a theatre director, Boyd studied under Joanne Gordon, Artistic Director of the California Repertory Company in Long Beach. He has directed one-act plays including The Chalky White Substance by Tennessee Williams, as well as scene work ranging from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot to The Balcony by Jean Genet. Boyd is originally from Hawaii, but currently resides in Boulder . . . for now!
Marcin Mroz
Wonderful World of Science
Marcin Mroz was born and raised in Poland. In 2001, he moved to New York City, where he worked with the Grotowski-based theater Dzieci. After creating some original work in 2005, he moved to Boulder. While there, he worked with students and alumni from the Naropa University MFA program, where he created, directed, and performed a few theses. One of those was Army of Me (2008) with Mariela Luzmina. He studied Improv Comedy with Meridith Crosley Grundei. He also has in depth theatrical clown training with internationally renowned Giovanni Fusetti. After that, he assisted and directed with Angela Delichatsios, Swimming Upstream (2010), with the Society of Creative Aging. He recently directed a play for The Hitching Post Theater and created and performed with Theater Company Band of Toughs Midsummer Night’s Dream during the 2012 Boulder International FRINGE Festival.
Satya Peram
Tag Lines
Sayta Peram grew up with his grandmother, who is a traditional storyteller. She used to tell oral stories 6-10 non-stop hours. He listened and learned her unique storytelling style. His four years of film school in Berkeley – California polished his artistic skills and he finds nothing more exciting than pursuing learning on a daily basis. Satya considers himself a visual storyteller and, being intrigued by the human condition, feels commissioned to share the human story. This is Satya’s first time directing a staged performance and has found it to be very rewarding.
Erich Toll
Kamasutra/Time is Nature’s Way of Ensuring Things Don’t Happen at Once…
A mild-mannered video producer by day, Erich morphs into a lunatic playwright and director by night. He’s vehemently committed to comedy. When recently offered a lucrative Broadway drama, Erich rejected it with a cryptic one-word response: “Nyet!” He’s an award-winning writer, with dozens of plays and films produced. This is his first play for BolderLife. Warm fuzzy love to Erin, Dawn and the entire BolderLife tribe.
Vonalda Utterback
Eternity
Vonalda is a local actress, director and Hitching Post alumni! She had the honor of producing last year’s sold out play festival and is thrilled to be back this year as a director and actor.
Heather Woodruff
Exploding Maggie
Heather Woodruff was thrilled to have been allowed to sit in the director’s chair for the BolderLife Festival’s premier of Exploding Maggie. Having been on stage for last year’s festival in both Independence Day, directed by Vonalda Utterback, and Seldom is Heard, directed by Patrick Sheridan, she was excited to be able to draw from the experience gained from both amazing directors. Heather is also familiar with directing at the Nomad, having participated in seven of the famous Hitching Post Theatre productions. She’d like to thank her wildly talented actors, DeAnna Heimsoth and Phyl Park, for their commitment, dedication, and patience, Dawn Bower for giving her this magnificent opportunity, and all of the other directors and actors who made this experience both wonderful and memorable.