blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

GALLERY

ROMULUS LINNEY

Playbill for Fugue

Daniel Moore (Joe) is a Richmond, Virginia, actor and director with over 25 years experience in the professional theatre. He has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Trinity Square Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island; Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine; and Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, among others. Local directing credits include The Three Sisters and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with The Production Company, Our Town at Barksdale Theatre, and Who’s Happy Now? and Weeping Mary at Theatre IV. He directed the Oregon premieres of American Buffalo (1977) and Buried Child (1982). He is the author of Allegheny Sideshow, a two-act play that was given a public reading at the Firehouse Theatre in April 2001. He received the 2000 Phoebe Award for "Best Supporting Actor" from the Richmond Times-Dispatch for his portrayal of Tilden in the Firehouse Theatre’s production of Buried Child, and played Oscar in the recent Barksdale Theatre production of The Little Foxes.

Jill Bari Steinberg (Betty) is a Richmond, Virginia, actress, singer and producer. She has been seen in various shows around Richmond since the late 80's. Some favorite recent roles include Yitzak in The Firehouse Theatre's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (which will be revived this August at the Staunton Theatre Festval), Helen McCormic in The Cripple Of Inishmaan, 'Lil Bit in How I Learned to Drive, and Cora in Heathen Valley, all at Theatre Gym.

Sara Heifetz (Mireille) received her BFA in acting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 in addition to completing an intensive acting program at the Oxford School of Drama in England. Favorite Richmond roles include: Woman ("Medea Redux") and Sue ("Gaggle of Saints") in Bash: Latterday Plays and Sooze in Suburbia with Theatre IV's Theatre Gym; Joanne Summerhays Elliot in Because He Can; Glenna, Fortune Teller, and Peep Show Girl in Edmond, Halie in Buried Child, Actor #3 (20+ roles) in Lebensraum, Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone, and Stephanie Rommel in The Big Slam all with the Firehouse Theatre Project; and Callie in Stop Kiss with Richmond Triangle Players, for which she received the 2000 Pheobe Award for Best Actress. Sara plans on moving to Paris, France, to study acting and be near her family

Irene Ziegler (Sue Ann) has performed in over a hundred regional stage productions. She played the principal in the television series, Dawson’s Creek, Space’s mom in Showtime’s Going To California, and guest-starred on the now defunct series American Gothic. Other TV and film credits include The Contender, which was nominated for two academy awards, G. I. Jane, Homicide, The Vernon Johns Story, The Lookalike, Love’s Deadly Triangle, and The Perfect Daughter. Irene’s play, Rules of the Lake, was awarded the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in drama. Rules of the Lake is also the title of her collection of linked short stories, published by Southern Methodist University Press. She has also written for the Discovery Channel’s New Detectives series, and is the author of a dozen award-winning training films. She has recently completed two collections of monologues for actors, 222 Monologues From Literature and 222 Monologues From Movies, both forthcoming from Smith & Kraus. She is currently at work on a novel.