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2009 DIRECTORS BIO’S
Herb Duval | Seth Longland | Jim Stump
Henry Cepluch | Michael Hall | Ricky Glore
Director: Herb DuVal
Show: Summer Cabin by Herb DuVal
Performance Date: Friday, March 6th
Herb appeared in New York in The Three Sisters w/ Elizabeth McGovern and Hide and Seek w/ Elizabeth Ashley. He toured nationally w/ Children of a Lesser God, Equus, Broadway Bound, Much Ado About Nothing, Young Abe Lincoln, performed in stock and regionally at The Barter Theatre, the Virginia Museum Theatre, Sharon Playhouse, Olney Theatre, The Human Race Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, St. Michael’s Playhouse. Recent commercials include Insight Communications and Huntington Bank. Last season he played the title role in The Giver at Stage One in Louisville, and Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross at New Edgecliff. Locally, he directed A Christmas Carol at the Rising Phoenix in Middletown.
Director: Seth Longland
Show: Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno
Performance Date: Friday, March 6th
Seth is a senior BFA Candidate with a concentration in playwriting/directing. He has directed productions of This is Our Youth, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and DMV. He is currently directing the full length of Thom Pain (based on nothing) and is serving as Assistant Director for the Y.E.S. Festival world premiere of Shock and Awe.
Director: Jim Stump
Show: Only When I Bleed by Alan Jozwiak
Performance Date: Friday, March 6th
A native of Cincinnati, Jim Stump holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance with a concentration in Acting/Directing from Indiana University and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. CIncinnati audiences will know him more as an actor, having seen him in performances with Playhouse in the Park, ETC, The Human Race Theatre, Performance Gallery, the Covedale Performance Center and several others. Previous performances with New Edgecliff include The Baker's Wife, The Mousetrap and Three Times the Tale Although acting has kept him busy in CIncinnati, he did direct a staged reading of Trust by Renee Alper for Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative. Directing credits include productions of Bent, Aunt Dan and Lemon and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Director: Henry Cepluch
Show: Boom Town by Jeff Daniels
Performance Date: Saturday, March 7th
This year marks Henry’s 46th year of involvement with theater in the greater Cincinnati area. He has performed or directed with Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre, Middletown Lyric Theatre, Sunset Players, Footlighters, Ovation, and Downtown Theatre Classics. Productions directed for these groups include: Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Putting It Together, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, The Rimers of Eldritch, and Piano Bar. In 2000 he founded the Mad Anthony Theatre Company which is housed in the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton. For Mad Anthony he has directed The Birthday Party, True West, An Inspector Calls, Tuesdays with Morrie, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Art, and Boom Town. Henry won the Art Rouse Award from the Association of Community Theatres of Southwest Ohio in 2003. A retired teacher, he is the arts director for the Fitton Center’s outreach arts group Arts in Common as well as artistic director of the Mad Anthony Theatre Company.
Director: Michael Hall
Show: Unchained by Michael Hall
Performance Date: Saturday, March 7th
Michael Hall is a local actor who recently appeared at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman. Michael is also a former student at Northern Kentucky University. He has also been seen in New Edgecliff Theatre and Performance Gallery productions, among others. Michael's only previous directing credit is Jean Anouilh's Antigone.
Director: Ricky Glore
Show: The Tramp by Ricky Glore
Performance Date: Saturday, March 7th
Ricky is a Senior BA Candidate in Theatre with emphasis on Acting and Improv and a Minor in Creative Writing at Northern Kentucky University. He was last seen on the NKU stage as Carlson in Of Mice and Men and is currently part of the NKU Improv Tour Troupe 'This Side Up' lead by Ken Jones. After graduating at the end of this semester, Ricky will be moving to Chicago to pursue theatre and comedy hopefully at Second City and Improv Olympics.
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