Masterpiece Monologues:
New Works Edition

Molly Allen

Molly Allen of Dave Ken and Molly in the Morning on 92.9 ZZU is thrilled to be The Playwright in Residence at Stage Left Theater. 

Radio personality and Grandma by day, theater lover by night. Molly's original comedy, Closing it Up, played to sold-out audiences in the 2018/19 Season here at Stage Left and went on to win several awards at the Kaleidoscope festival. 

Before that, she took home the "audience favorite" award at the Civic Theater's 29th Playwrights Forum Festival for "The Hostage". She also entertained overflow crowds at Ignite! Theaters 2016/17 season with "On Shaky Ground". 

Look for a showcase of new original material next Spring here at Stage Left!

Thor Edgell

An ex-professional baseball player with the Detroit Tigers and a seasoned actor for many years, Thor’s theatre credits include To Kill A Mockingbird, in which he played Atticus Finch and received a Stage Scene LA award, Days End Early performed at the Ingemar Bergman Festival in Sweden, Long Days Journey into Night, Arms and the Man, Hamlet, Fool for Love, Twelfth Night, The Country Girl and Bus Stop. His TV and film credits include: HBO movie Five Aces, ABC's Body of Proof, Criminal Minds, CBS pilot The Doctor, Seventh Heaven, Angel, Passions, The Practice, Push and Days of Our Lives. Thor has also starred in motion capture video games Battlefield 3 & 4 and Skyrim.

Bethany Fay

Bethany is new to Spokane and couldn't be more excited to get back into the theatre scene! She hopes you have gotten to truly connect with others throughout this pandemic. She received her BFA in Musical Theatre for Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Credits include: Off-Broadway & Regional: Ziegfield's Midnight Frolic, Grease (Patty). New York: Mad-Scientist's Guide to Romance... Other Favorite Credits: Les Miserables (Cosette u/s), Smokey Joe's Cafe, Legally Blonde and West Side Story (Graziella). Praise to God and love to Alan & Piper. www.bethanyfay.com

Jaron Fuglie

Jaron Fuglie is a graduate of Gonzaga's Theatre program. He has been involved in a number of productions in Spokane, most recently SET's production of Twelfth Night. He hopes you enjoy the show.

Deborah Marlowe

Deborah Marlowe, happy Spokanite since October 2019, was a member of LA’s award-winning Actors Co-op Theatre Company. Husband Bob is a Whitworth graduate. Both are thankful to now live near lifelong friends in Liberty Lake and CDA. Selected credits: Ouiser in Steel Magnolias; Common Man in Man for All Seasons; Mrs. Winemiller in Summer & Smoke; Mrs. Bennett in Pride & Prejudice; Julia in Lend Me a Tenor; Mom in True West; Mrs. Pascale in House of Yes; Feste in 12th Night. VO credits: Disney’s Duck Tales, StarWars: Squadrons, Spectrum, Honda, World of Warcraft, Lexus, Home Depot, Petco, USArmy, McDonald’s.

Lynn Noel

It's totally energizing to be part of a team of people making a theatrical production, even in an era of having to keep some physical distance. Good, thoughtful, inciteful people focused on trying to enact playwrights' visions. Challenging, sometimes terrifying and always exciting. I (Lynn?) am(is?) honored to be part of this New Works group and hope (hopes) an essential piece of the equation, you, the audience, is ready to be entertained, appalled, amused, open and reactive to the actions and intentions in the presentations. As live, in-person theater comes closer to reality again, may this production be a compelling bridge from the past year to the future.

Jeffrey Phillips Christiansen

Jeff received his degree in Theater from the University of Portland and is a recent transplant from Oregon. Jeff is so happy to be working with Stage Left on this itteration of Masterpiece Monologues. Jeff has spent the last 6 years performing outdoor Shakespeare and, as such, is so thrilled to have the opportunity to perform on camera (indoors) in a new work. Jeff's last credit was as Snug The Joiner in Spokane Shakespeare Society's Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Bridget Pretz

Bridget Pretz is thrilled to be a part of Stage Left’s Masterpiece Monologues. Her previous credits include Malvolia in Twelfth Night, Alice/Susannah Shakespeare in Book of Will, and Mother Courage in Mother Courage Her Children. She would like to thank Susan, Jeremy, Robert, Michael, and her mother.

Erin Sellers

Erin Sellers is a recent graduate of Gonzaga University and multi-disciplinary theatre artist with experience in acting, directing, and costume design. She has recently been seen onstage in Spokane Ensemble Theatre’s Twelfth Night (Fabia) and StageLeft’s Masterpiece Monologues: The Greeks (Iphigenia). She also recently directed a production of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves at Gonzaga. She is thrilled to be acting again and wants to thank her Twelfth Night team for pushing her to pursue theatre out of school.

Rhead Shirley

Rhead is thrilled to be a part of Stage left’s Masterpiece Monologues. He feels very privileged to bring this new work to life and especially the opportunity to perform with the talented Erin Sellers. He would like to thank the artistic creators of this production and the staff at Stage left for providing a wonderful space for art to thrive.

Nicholas Roy Morgan III

Nicholas Roy Morgan III is always ecstatic to return to the stage, even if people aren't in the audience. Yet! They were last seen at SET's Twelfth Night and as Max in Cabaret at the Civic from the before times. They would like to thank Susan Hardie for providing this opportunity as well as all of their friends for always providing emotional support. And they would love to give a special shoutout to Joshua Baig for always helping them get prepared and motivated.

Donald E Baker

Born in Indiana, Donald E. Baker earned graduate degrees in history and library science from Indiana University. He worked as a public librarian in Evansville, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, while writing or editing books and articles on Midwestern history. After retiring with his husband to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he began writing historical plays to provide context for today’s American experience.

Tom Coash

Tom Coash is a Louisville, Kentucky playwright, producer, and teacher. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards, including the Osborn Award from the National Theatre Critics Association, the Clauder Competition, and an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award and his plays have been produced worldwide. Coash currently teaches playwriting at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Writing Program.

Sandra Hosking

Sandra Hosking’s plays have been performed across the U.S. and internationally, including the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the American Globe’s 15-minute play festival in New York, Buffalo Laboratory Theatre, Chicago’s Gorilla Tango, and more. A champion of new works, she is the founder of Play-Makers Spokane and formerly a resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre and Spokane Civic Theatre. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, she holds an M.F.A. in theatre from the University of Idaho and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.

Colette Cullen Jeremy

Colette is a Dublin-based Irish playwright and director. Her work aims to provoke, illuminate and generate empathy using humour, wit, warmth, and humanity. Her latest play When Rachel Met Fiona premieres in London in September having had a rehearsed reading in Dublin in 2020. Her audio play Blind Date is being produced by Nearfm Dublin and the international Theatre of Others. She co-wrote Deep Shadows a podcast drama series for Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago. Her play Family Tree was long-listed for UK Papatango's 2019 New Writing Prize.

Pamela Kingsley

Pamela Kingsley is an actress, director, and playwright with work produced throughout the U.S., most recently in Boston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Haven, NYC, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Spokane. Her play Mother’s Day was a 2019 finalist for the James Stevenson Prize and won the Audience Choice Award at the 31st Playwrights’ Forum Festival. Stage Left credits include Willow in Sleepwalking (Empower); Mother/Narrator in The Last Christmas Ride Home and director of Freud’s Last Session.

https://pkingsley3.wixsite.com/my-site

Jill Maynard

Jill Maynard’s plays have been produced from New York to LA, where her drama Caffeine Society won an LA Dramalog award for Best Play. Regional production credits include I Got Shoes, commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and produced by Summerworks/U Mass. at Amherst. Recent regional credits include Inez & Alice Consort (Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA); Try This at Home (Aery Theatre Festival, Garrison, NY); and Free Shipping Every Day (Axial Theatre, Pleasantville, NY).

James McLindon

James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theater Co. in New York. When We Get Good Again won the Playhouse on the Square’s New Works @ The Works competition and premiered there in Memphis this past January, winning an Ostrander Theatre Award for Best Original Script. His play, Salvation, was developed at PlayPenn and premiered in New York, Giovanna Sardelli directing, to critical acclaim in the New York Times and elsewhere. Comes a Faery was developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sean Daniels directing, was a finalist for the Humana Festival, and was premiered at the New Ohio Theatre by Nylon Fusion. Mr. McLindon’s plays have been developed and/or produced at theaters such as the O’Neill (selection and six-time semifinalist), PlayPenn, Victory Gardens, Lark, Abingdon, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, Samuel French Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Rep, Lyric Stage, Boston Playwrights, Local Theatre, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Seven Devils. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Brooklyn Publishing, and Applause Books and produced all over the world including London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Luxembourg, India, Dubai, and Estonia.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/4206/james-mclindon

David A Miller

David A. Miller is a playwright, director, and theatre educator. His plays include The Flames (The Collective, NYC), Semi-Permanent (Inkslinger Semi-Finalist), and Remembered: Theatrical Stories from the Rosemont Cemetery (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble). David is Associate Professor of Theatre at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA. Member, Stillwater Writers, NYC. Resident Director, Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, TX. MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

mrdavidamiller.com

Susan Hardie

Susan Hardie has directed and appeared in scores of productions throughout Spokane, WA and the region over the past forty years. Directing is her passion, and recent projects include An Iliad and The Long Christmas Ride Home at Stage Left, and The Book of Will at Spokane Civic Theatre. She has served as adjudicator for the AACTFest Region IX Regional Festival in Coeur d’Alene, ID as well as a variety of student theatre festivals and competitions throughout the region. Susan hails from New York, where she received her BA in Theatre and English at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Lindsay Teter

Lindsay Teter has been performing and directing around the Northwest for almost 20 years. Trained in Acting and Directing at the University of Idaho, Lindsay has worked with Stage Left, Spokane Civic, Portland's Hand-2-Mouth theatre, and a host of others. Most recently Lindsay directed A Bright Room Called Day at Stage Left and was seen as Roxanne in the theatre's production of Cyrano.

Jeremy Whittington

Jeremy is the Managing|Artistic Director at Stage Left Theater where he brings his artistic vision and his business acumen together to create inter-community relationships through art and story. He has been the Resident Designer for numerous theaters including The Public Theater of San Antonio, The Modern Theaters of Spokane/Cd’A, and Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Jeremy attended Ohio University where he majored in Theater Production and later graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2014 with his BFA in Graphic Design from Sanford Brown. Recent stage credits include The Threepenny Opera (JJ Peachum, Stage Left), Disney’s Newsies (Weisel/Teddy Roosevelt, The Public Theater) and Assassins (Sam Byck, The Public Theater-2018 and Lake City Playhouse-2016). Check out Jeremy’s website at www.JeremyCreates.com

Robert Tombari

Robert Tombari is a classically trained actor, director, producer, educator, and an acting/vocal coach. He received his MFA in Acting, with an emphasis in Shakespeare, from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Birmingham, England where he lived for two years. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Boise State University.  

While living in Boise, Robert worked as a stagehand on numerous productions at The Morrison Center for The Performing Arts and has also toured the Pacific Northwest with Idaho Theatre for Youth part of Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  

Robert has performed locally at Spokane Civic Theatre (Morris, Present Laughter) and at Stage Left Theater (Jody, Lonely Planet; Mack The Knife, Threepenny Opera). Robert currently produces the Masterpiece Monologues series for Stage Left Theater. 

Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt is delighted to be producing Masterpiece Monologues: New Works after being involved with the last three editions, both behind and in front of the camera. He has made Spokane his home for the past four years, and Stage Left for three where he serves as a member of the board. Michael was seen most recently as Antonio in Spokane Ensemble Theatre’s inaugural production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the MAC. He has also been in two other main stage productions since his relocation: as Agamemnon in Hecuba at Stage Left, and Gus Paulsen in A Place to Call Home at Spokane Civic Theatre, both in the before-times. His next project will be Thrilling, Chilling Tales from Stage Left streaming in October, where he will be acting in one vignette and directing another (you’ll just have to watch to find out which is which). Michael gives his deepest appreciation to everyone that has worked so hard to bring these new stories to life (it takes a village, yo), and to the community who have shown so much support and love for this little monologue festival dreamed up by the inestimable Robert Tombari.

Elizabeth Kitzig

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Kitzig joined the Spokane theater community in 2015, when her love of arts and crafts found an outlet with managing properties for many shows. That quickly evolved into becoming a Stage Manager for shows such as Left Overs, Arcadia, Fiddler On The Roof Jr., God’s Country, Hecuba, A Place to Call Home, Present Laughter, An Iliad, and I Am My Own Wife. 

During the pandemic, Lizzie learned how to operate the light board and she has been happily pushing buttons ever since.

Paul J Watts

Paul J Watts has been a thorn in the side of Stage Left Theater, both on stage and behind the scenes, getting in the way of performances by adding scenic painting, sound, and light cues for both festivals and season productions since 2017 when Texas ran him out of town. Having pestered the Lone Star State with everything from Stage, Screen, TV performances, photography, makeup, and playwriting, they finally had enough. Now he’s Spokane’s problem. 

His past acting roles as Fred from Civic Theatre’s Present Laughter and Odysseus in Stage Left’s Hecuba were particularly dangerous. Paul has been the Sound Technician for all of Stage Left’s streamed events this past year. Social distancing around him is advised or you may lose a finger.