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Regional: A Christmas Carol [2010, 2011], Providence Gap [Premiere] (Triad Stage); Peter Pan the Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, High School Musical 2, 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s (Blowing Rock Stage Company). Educational: Man and Superman, Pericles, The Waiting Room, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (UNCG).
Regional: The Glass Menagerie, Picnic, Masquerade, The Bomb-itty of Errors (Triad Stage); End Days (Paper Lantern Theatre Company). Educational: Balm in Gilead, Orpheus Descending, Stage Door, The Revenger's Tragedy (UNCG). Film: Be Still (Karrie Crouse/Columbia University); 3 Teeth (UNCSA); Break a Home a House (Blu Films).
Regional: New Music Part I: Night Dance, New Music Part II: Better Days, Masquerade (Triad Stage); End Days, Kimberly Akimbo (Paper Lantern Theatre Company). Educational: The Bomb-itty of Errors, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Orpheus Descending, Oklahoma!, Bus Stop (UNCG). Film: The Importance of Being Honest, Break a Home a House, The Best of Me, Will You Sing with Me?
Regional: Providence Gap [Premiere], A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage); Company, Guys & Dolls (Southern Opera/Musical Theatre Co). Educational: The Threepenny Opera, The Waiting Room, Orpheus Descending (UNCG); The Pirates of Penzance, Trouble in Tahiti (William Carey University).
Regional: The Tempest (NC Shakespeare Festival). Educational: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Threepenny Opera, Evil Dead: The Musical, Alice [Premiere] (UNCG). Film: Diary of Dreams, Horses, REM (UNCSA).
Regional: New Music Trilogy, Providence Gap [Premiere], Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Koko Karate and the Kung Fu Kittens [Premiere] (Triad Stage); Standing on Ceremony [Staged Reading] (Paper Lantern Theatre Company). Educational: Self Defense (or Death of Some Salesmen), Orpheus Descending, Oklahoma!, Bus Stop, Angels in America: Part 1 (UNCG).
Regional: New Music Trilogy, A Christmas Carol [2010, 2011], Providence Gap [Premiere], Koko Karate and the Kung Fu Kittens [Premiere], Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Triad Stage). Peter Pan the Musical, 8Bye Bye Birdie8, Suite Surrender, 8-Track: The Sounds of the Seventies, High School Musical 2: On Stage, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! (Blowing Rock Stage Company). Educational: Oklahoma, Angels in America, Balm in Gilead, The Threepenny Opera, Pericles (UNCG).
Regional: Providence Gap [Premiere], Koko Karate and the Kung Fu Kittens [Premiere], An Actor's Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Triad Stage); Seussical, The Sound of Music (The Prizery); Oklahoma!, Godspell, Grease (Post Playhouse); Dorian [Staged Reading] (Paper Lantern Theatre). Educational: The Threepenny Opera, The Waiting Room, Evil Dead, Bus Stop, Pericles, Man and Superman (UNCG).
Regional: A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage). Educational: The Revenger’s Tragedy (Performed at the Kennedy Center); Stage Door; The Threepenny Opera; Pericles; Balm in Gilead; Alice; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lysistrata (UNCG); Wiley and the Hairy Man (NC Theatre for Young People).
Regional: Tick, tick...BOOM!, The America Play, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage); Rent, The Producers, For the Glory (Flat Rock Playhouse); Jesus Christ Superstar, A Man of No Importance, Blood Brothers (North Carolina Theatre); Les Misérables, Aida (Broadway Series South); Romeo and Juliet: A Rock Musical (Directed by Terrence Mann). Educational: Oklahoma!; Balm in Gilead; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Home on the Morning Train; The Revenger’s Tragedy (UNCG).
Regional: Masquerade, The Bomb-Itty of Errors (Triad Stage) Educational: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Stage Door, The Waiting Room, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Angels in America (Part 1), Lysistrata, The Revenger’s Tragedy (UNCG). If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (NCTYP). Film: Sheetz Commercial (NASCAR media group), The Importance of Being Honest, Break a Home a House (Blu Films), The Pretenders (UNCSA)
Regional: Dial M for Murder, Providence Gap [Premiere], Koko Karate and the Kung Fu Kittens [Premiere], The Actor’s Nightmare (Triad Stage); The Tempest (Olney Center National Players Tour); The Music Man, Footloose (Jenny Wiley Theatre). Educational: Angels in America: Part 1, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Alice [Premiere], Orpheus Descending (UNCG).
Regional: Horn in the West Outdoor Theater [2011 & 2012], Taming of the Shrew (Powerhouse Theater). Educational: Stage Door, Threepenny Opera, Pericles, Alice [Premiere], Wiley and the Hairy Man [NCTYP Tour], Angels in America (UNCG).
Jim received his BA in Psychology/Communication and Theatre Arts from Heidelberg College and his MFA in Acting/Directing from The University of Florida. Tenured in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UF in 1990, he defied conventional wisdom by leaving one month later for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he currently serves as the Coordinator of the Performance Program and MFA Acting Advisor. He also serves as the Resident Fight Choreographer for Triad Stage. Jim teaches both undergraduate and graduate acting classes, and serves as Artistic Director of THTR 232- the annual summer theatre festival co-produced by UNCG Theatre and Triad Stage. As Artistic Director of UNCG Summer Repertory Theatre prior to the new festival, Jim produced over seventy plays in his sixteen years of leadership. In 2001 he received a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence in Theatre Education, and in 2005 was named Outstanding Teacher of Acting in the Southeast serving as mentor to the acting students at the National Festival.
James Fisher, Professor and Head of the Theatre Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a director and theatre scholar. He is the 2007 recipient of the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society and was elected to membership in the National Theatre Conference in 2010. Fisher has directed and acted in over 150 theatre productions and has also authored several books, including Understanding Tony Kushner (U of South Carolina, 2008), The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope (NY: Routledge, 2001), three bio-bibliographies (Spencer Tracy, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor) for Greenwood Press, The Theatre of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia dell’arte on the Modern Stage (Mellen, 1992), The Historical Dictionary of American Theatre: Modernism, co-authored with Felicia Hardison Londré, and The Historical Dictionary of American Theatre: Contemporary. He has published numerous essays and reviews in a wide range of publications, has held several research fellowships, edited six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook, serves as book review editor for Broadside, the publication of the Theatre Library Association, and has edited Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays (McFarland, 2006) and “We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Drama (McFarland, 2008). Fisher was 1999-2000 McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar at Wabash College, where he taught for twenty-nine years, and was named “Indiana Theatre Person of the Year” by the Indiana Theatre Association in 1997 for his direction of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. Fisher has also written two plays in the commedia dell’arte tradition, The Bogus Bride, which has had several productions including an Off-Broadway staging at New York's Primary Stages, and The Braggart Soldier, a free adaptation of Plautus's Miles Gloriosus, first produced in 2006. He received his M.F.A. in Directing at UNCG in 1976.
Michael received his MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also holds a professional acting degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and a Bachelor of Science from Wake Forest University. His professional work includes numerous film and television credits. He is a member of SAG, EQUITY, and AFTRA.
Denise Gabriel teaches movement, acting, choreographs and directs. She holds degrees from University of Nebraska and Ohio State University. Prior to joining UNCG faculty she was the Resident Movement Director with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and a professor with the MFA Professional Actor Training Program and Acting Academy. Other professional credits include Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, Working Theatre NY, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Clarence Brown Theatre. International credits include Shanghai Theatre Academy, (China) Salzburg Seminar at Schloss Leoploidron, (Austria), Artscape Theatre Centre and Dance for All,( Cape Town, Africa). Ms. Gabriel became a tenured professor in 1976 at Ohio University and has continued to teach for numerous universities across the country. She has served as American Theatre of Higher Forum Representative and a Founding Board Member and president of American Theatre Movement Educators. Her professional development and research interest include the interrelatonship of somatic studies and Soto Zen meditation in Embodiment of performance.
John teaches acting and directing. At UNCG, John has most recently directed Macbeth, Urinetown, The Crucible, and A Raisin in the Sun. As a free-lance professional director, John has directed Off-Broadway and for a number of regional professional theatres. Professional credits include the world premiere of Trophies at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Ellen Burstyn, at TheatreFest in Montclair, NJ, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the NC Shakespeare Festival. From 1983-1991, John was the Resident Director for the Asolo Theatre Company in Sarasota, Florida. While there he directed over 30 productions and taught at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training.
Christine Morris teaches voice, speech, and dialects in the BFA and MFA Acting programs and is resident voice specialist for UNCG Theatre, where she also frequently works as a director. Her background includes extensive training and experience in the work of Linklater, Lessac, and Roy Hart. Her work as a voice and dialect coach includes projects in theatre, dance, film, television and audio, and she has also worked privately with clients in the areas of business, law, and television journalism. A professional actress (member of AEA and SAG), she has performed with the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theatre (under director Richard Foreman), the Asolo Theatre, Playmakers Repertory, and in many productions with the award-winning Chapel Hill based Archipelago Theatre. With Archipelago, she developed the solo Blue Roses , which was produced at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham NC, and was also produced at Profile Theatre Project in Portland, Oregon, and at the Tennessee Williams Center in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 2004, she originated the role of The Woman in Romulus Linney's one-woman play Silver River , which over the next two years was performed at Manbites Dog (premiere), Profile Theatre Project, in workshop at the Actors' Studio in NYC, at the Stoneleaf Theatre Festival in Asheville, Appalachian State University, The Sewanee Writers'; Conference, and the Horton Foote Festival of American Playwrights in Texas.