The Play Crawl: Directors
Sam Gilstrap
Director-Parking Lot Drama by Linda Berry
Sam is proud to be working on such a great project. Thank you Susan for this opportunity and the trust you've shown me over the years. I have been a fortunate man over the course of my career, working at The Vic, Germinal Stage, and Miners Alley Playhouse just to name a few. I have also been hard working and have earned the credits that I have. I've played some amazing people and have worked with some the most talented actors in this state in every show I have been in. Thanks to them all and of course, as always, my mom. Thank you for supporting the cause.
Dana Hart Lubeck
Director-Wednesday Afternoon Club by Carol Samson
Dana Hart Lubeck hails from New York where she spent years working as an actor. She graduated from NYU with a degree in musical theatre and then attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where her focus turned to film. Her most recent short, Native New Yorker, has had a successful award-winning run on the festival circuit and last summer, she shot a feature film here in Colorado, which is currently in post-production. Colorado theatre credits include A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Jacques Brel, London Suite and she will soon be seen in Threepenny Opera. Other credits include the pre-Broadway national tour of South Pacific, regional productions of Fiorello!, Oliver, King Lear, Fiddler on the Roof, Proof, Guys and Dolls and the new musical The Man in the Iron Mask, at the Lambs Theatre in New York City. Dana received her MFA in Theatre Performance this spring from Naropa University and is so grateful for the wonderfulwelcome the Colorado theatre community has given her. In addition toperforming, Dana teaches acting, musical theatre, violin and voice. She just finished a year appointment on the voice and acting faculty of New York University.
McPherson Horle
Director-Whine and Cheese by Tracy Shaffer
McPherson Horle is a company member and Producer for The Catamounts, A Performance Group. She has produced JON, The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen, God's Ear and Mr. Spacky...The Man Who Was Continually Followed By Wolves for The Catamounts, all of which have received critical acclaim. She was last seen on stage as Queen Clytemnestra/Athena/The Furies in Messenger #1 for The Catamounts. Her role as Sister Acacius in The Divine Sister, at The Avenue Theater, garnered her The Marlowe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy and a nomination for a Denver Post Ovation Award. BFA, MA from NYU.
Jeremy Make
Director-The Green Crayon by Rebecca Gorman O'Neill
Jeremy is an actor, director, and producer of theater, film, and stand up comedy. In 2008, he drove a golf kart around America for 108 days, exploring the arts and creativity of this great country. A feature-length documentary about the trip premiered to sold out crowds at the Denver Film Festival and is now available at www.kARTacrossamerica.com.
Zachary A. Page
Director-Suicide Hotline by Edith Weiss
Zachary is delighted to return for his second Play Crawl! Favorite previous credits include: Drowsy Chaperone and Six Degrees of Separation (Vintage Theatre), White Christmas (Lone Tree Arts Center), A Chorus Line (Ignite Theatre), The Field and Alice in Wonderland(Denver Victorian Playhouse), and Inspecting Carol(Spotlight Theatre). Zachary can be seen next in The Edge Theatre’s production of House of Blue Leaves this July. <3 to KP, JP, ZMW, PP.
Michael Emmitt
Director-The Girlfriend Connection by Maggie Stillman
Michael Emmitt, while originally from New York, has spent the last decade on stages in Maine, Colorado, and Hawaii; performing operetta, designing sets and costumes, creating original shows, and directing a broad range of classical texts (with a few regional and world premieres thrown in for good measure). His most recent project, Horse & Cart, started with his husband Sean Mahoney, is dedicated "genre-blurring" theatrical installations and publications. Mille grazie
Roger Winn
Director-Wavelength by Susan Hickey
Roger Winn has been active in Denver as an actor, director, producer, musician, and administrator for 20 years. Currently he is the Artistic Director for Spark Theater.
Sheila Traister
Director-La Ruine by Christie Brenner Winn
“It’s the creative process I love, collaborating with other artists in order to entertain, challenge, inspire and educate; it’s a life affirming journey.” ‘Best Leading Actress Awards’ include, ‘Woman’ in Sound of A Voice (Paragon);'"Women in The Blue Room (Theater on Broadway) and ‘Martha’ in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Shadow). On film, in recent years, she’s worked with the likes of Academy Award winning Directors: Jim Sheridan, Taylor Hackford and Peter Bagdonivich; and actors Helen Mirren, Toby McGuire, Hillary Swank, Nathan Lane and Dennis Hopper. She’s had recurring roles, and has starred or guest starred in acclaimed television series and made for TV movies. She’s in pre-production as the director and script consultant on two feature films and is as an actor, director and script consultant in the local theater scene for the 2013 & 2014 seasons; and is a proud company member of TEA (Theatre Esprit Asia). She is forever grateful to the students she is privileged to coach: actors, writers and directors who are, without a doubt, her greatest teachers!
Billie McBride
Director-Svengati by Melissa Lucero
Billie McBride - Broadway credits: Torch Song Trilogy, Safe Sex, Kurt Weill Cabaret. Off Broadway: Honky Tonky Trash, Safe Sex and bosom Buddies Tours: Angela Lansbury, The Gingerbread Lady with Nancy Kelly. Television: The Shining (ABC), The Laramie (HBO), It’s A Miracle (PAX) All My Children (ABC), Perry Mason Mysteries (NBC), Return To Ironside and Unsolved Mysteries for NBC. Denver Theatre: Pardon My Dust (And Toto Too) Grace and Glorie (Miner’s Alley Playhouse), The Giver(Denver Center Theatre Company), Poignant Irritation (Mizel)The Importance of Being Earnest, Cabaret, The Full Monty, The Women, To Kill A Mockingbird (Arvada Center) Becky Shaw, Nickel and Dined (Curious), WIT(Nomad Theatre), Ten Little Indians, Never Too Late (CDP). Awards: Henry Award for Best Actress in a Play, Best Comedy Performance for Skin of Our Teethfrom Westword. Nominated for Emmy - Narration of PBS Documentary, Best Actress (WIT) and best supporting actress (Over the Tavern) Ovation Awards. Billie is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association is also a director and voice talent and can be heard on
