| ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES |
CAST (in alphabetical order) |
 Molly Andrews (Ensemble) is recognized as one of the finest interpreters of traditional music as well as an outstanding vocalist in other styles. Her lineage trails into pre-revolutionary southwest Virginia, hence her natural affinity for the ‘old songs.’ She performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, in venues as diverse as Oxford’s Holywell Music Room to CBGB’s in NYC. Theatre credits include Seattle Rep, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cerritos Center, San Diego Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Arts at St. Ann’s and many others. She was nominated for Best Actress by the Denver Post in 2005, and for the Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts 2000. She is a veteran of NPR’s Mountain Stage, E-Town, the BBC and Radio Oslo. Her most recent CD is entitled Blue Morning Glory and is available online and in the lobby of this theatre. |
 “Mississippi” Charles Bevel (Ensemble) last appeared at Northlight in It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, for which he won the Jeff Award for Best Actor in a Revue. He also appeared in the original Broadway cast of the show (Tony Award nominee), as well as at Arizona Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, Missouri Rep, and Seattle Rep. Other credits include Let Me Live (Goodman); The Piano Lesson (Karamu Performing Arts Theatre); I Am A Man, Thunder Knocking at the Door (Meadow Brook Theatre); Famous Orpheus (Geva); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Plowshares Theatre Company); Stories About the Old Days (St. Louis Black Repertory); and Fire on the Mountain (San Diego Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Seattle Rep). |
 Margaret Bowman (Ensemble) has appeared in Fire on the Mountain at the Denver Center, Seattle Rep and Barter theatres, and in Randal Myler’s Hank Williams: Lost Highway Off-Broadway, on tour, and in regional theatres around North America. Other theatre credits include Always, Patsy Cline; Box Church; and Hair at Stages Rep, and The Rocky Horror Show at Rockefeller’s. Her film and TV credits include A Perfect World, Waiting for Guffman, Leap of Faith, As the World Turns, The Good Old Boys, No Country For Old Men, and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means, as well as commercials and voice-over work. |
 Jason Edwards (Ensemble) Broadway: Ring of Fire (original cast & recording). Off-Broadway: Of Mice and Men, Johnny Guitar (original cast & recording). Tours: Pump Boys and Dinettes (Director), Man of La Mancha (with John Raitt), The Will Rogers Follies (with Larry Gatlin). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Buffalo Studio Arena, Florida Studio Theatre, Barter Theatre. TV: America's Most Wanted, The Nashville Network, Country Music Television (with Ricky Skaggs). In Chicago, Jason received a Jeff Award nomination (Best Actor in a Principal Role) as "Will" in The Will Rogers Follies, and played "Jim" in Pump Boys at the Apollo Theatre and the Marriott Theatre (also Director). Born and raised in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, he is pleased to be performing again in Myler-Wheetman's Fire on the Mountain. |
 Trace Hamilton (Ensemble) is ecstatic to be part of this amazing cast. His previous professional credits include Over the Tavern (Rudy Pazinski) at Theatre at the Center, Big: The Musical (Young Josh) at Apple Tree Theatre, and Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage at Steppenwolf. Trace has performed in numerous school musicals and has been a part of the Schaumburg On Stage ensemble for the past 4 years. Credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Linus), Annie (Bert Healy), and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Trace is a freshman honor student at Bartlett High School and is an active member of chorus, theatre and football. He’d like to thank Northlight Theatre for this awesome opportunity as well as his family for all of their love and support. |
 Tony Marcus (Ensemble) is thrilled to be appearing in Chicago for the second time (the first being a music festival on Navy Pier fifteen years ago). Over the last thirty years he has performed music from Dublin to Yokohama and from Alaska to Florida. Bands he has played with include R. Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Geoff Muldaur's Fountain of Youth, Cats & Jammers, The Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, and The Frank Wakefield Band. His theatrical credits include musical director/musician in Woody Guthrie's American Song at the Berkeley Repertory and San Jose Repertory Theatres, Appalachian Strings and Almost Heaven at the Denver Center Theatre, and Life on the Mississippi at the Julian Theatre in San Francisco. He currently performs with Patrice Haan in the duo Leftover Dreams. |
 Lee Morgan (Ensemble) Broadway: The Who’s Tommy (original cast album), Brooklyn The Musical. Off-Broadway: Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, Heat Lightning (Theatre Row). National Tour: Brooklyn The Musical. NY workshops and readings: Mask (dir. Richard Maltby), Footloose. Regional: Brooklyn The Musical (Denver), Almost Heaven (San Francisco), Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula (La Jolla), The Who’s Tommy (La Jolla), Hamlet in Hamlet and Brutus in Julius Caesar (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Film: Time and Again. TV: Tales from the Crypt, One Life to Live, P.S. I Love You. Lee is also a singer songwriter and performs with his duo partner, Joe Lutton. They have a debut CD, Basic, and a second CD in the works. Listen to some of Lee’s music at www.myspace.com/leemorgansongs and www.joeandlee.com.
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 Mike Regan (Ensemble) is making his first appearance at Northlight, and is a proud member of the “Randy Myler Players.” He has appeared on the west coast at Mark Taper Forum (Cider House Rules and Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams), ACT, Seattle Rep (True West), Old Globe, San Diego Rep, PCPA TheatreFest (20 productions), and the Cerritos Center. Other appearances around the country include: Denver Center Theatre Company (26 productions), Dallas Theatre Center, Arizona Theatre Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Houston Shakespeare, Barter Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Ensemble, The Good Speed Opera House (JFK: The Kennedy Opera), Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Grand Ole Opry. Mike holds an MFA from The American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, and the National Theatre Conservatory, Denver. |
 Ed Snodderly (Ensemble) is a singer/songwriter/roots musician who has made what he describes as “new hillbilly music” all his life. Raised in northeast Tennessee, he learned to play music by watching his fiddler grandfather, guitarist father, and a pedal-steel-playing uncle. He has made music around the US, and is co-founder of the now legendary music club Down Home. Throughout the 80s he performed in Johnson City, TN and played with Eugene Wolf, with whom he recorded three acclaimed albums on the Sugar Hill label as The Brother Boys. In 2001, Nashville Country Music Foundation engraved lyrics from Snodderly’s “Diamond Stream” in the wall of its new Hall of Honor. He played a small role in O Brother Where Art Thou? and has taught at East Tennessee State University’s Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music program. |
PRODUCTION
Randal Myler (Director, Co-Creator) was a Tony Award nominee for Best Book of a Musical for It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. He also wrote and directed the recent Off-Broadway hits Love, Janis and Hank Williams: Lost Highway, for which he received a 2003 Outer Critic’s Circle Award nomination. He has directed at theatres throughout the country, including Northlight, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Bay Street Theater. His writing and directing projects include co-adapting and directing Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, directing Union City (with Rosie Perez) and the musical version of The Immigrant.
Dan Wheetman (Co-Creator) shared a Tony Award nomination for Best Book for It Ain’t Nothin But the Blues. His play Appalachian Strings, written with Randal Myler, has been performed at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre Company, Meadow Brook Theatre, and Virginia Stage Company. He composed and served as musical director for the stage version of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, and received a DramaLogue Award for Musical Direction for Hank Williams: Lost Highway and an L.A. Critics Award for Blues. He toured and recorded with John Denver for seven years, has written a Christmas song for Kermit the Frog, played a fiddle with Itzhak Perlman, worked as an opening act for Steve Martin, and currently plays in the band Marley’s Ghost. His solo album House of a Different Color was released on Sage Arts records.
Vicki Smith (Scenic Design) has designed for theatres around the country, including Denver Center Theatre Company (1998 Tony Award winner) where she has designed 37 productions, Cleveland Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Geva Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Minnesota Opera, Anchorage Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, ACT (Seattle), Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, and San Jose Rep. She was associate set designer at the American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco) from 1980-83. She received her training from the University of Washington where she earned MFAs in both technical theatre and sculpture. One of her designs was recently selected to be part of the Prague Quadrennial Exposition 2007.
Don Darnutzer (Lighting Design) previously designed lighting at Northlight for It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues and The Immigrant. Off-Broadway credits: Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Almost Heaven and The Immigrant. He has also worked for Seattle Rep, The Guthrie Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center Theatre Company, B.B. King’s Blues Club (New York City), The Shakespeare Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, the Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Alley Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, New Orleans Opera, Cleveland Playhouse, Atlanta Opera, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Palm Beach Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera Company, Anchorage Opera, Arizona Theatre Company, ACT Theatre, Fundación Teresa Carreño (Caracas, Venezuela) and San Antonio Festival.
Marcia Dixcy Jory (Costume Design) has designed for Seattle Rep: Inspecting Carol and Memory House; ACT Theatre: The Underpants, The Pillowman, The Night of the Iguana, Good Boys, Omnium Gatherum, Jumpers, Grand Magic, and The Odd Couple; and Seattle Children’s Theatre: Holes. Before moving to Seattle, she costumed over 80 productions for the Actors Theatre of Louisville, including 30 for The Humana Festival of New American Plays. Additionally she has designed for The Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle in the Square, and the Opera Company of Boston. She taught at Tufts University, University of Massachusetts, Smith College, Bennington College, and Cornell University, and is the author of a book about costume design, The Ingénue in White.
Eric Stahlhammer (Sound Design) has designed for productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Attractions, Denver Center Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory Company, National Theatre Conservatory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, and Theatre Aspen. He has also designed at Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, California and Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara. For Columbia Artists Theatricals he has designed productions at Marines Memorial Theatre, San Francisco, and the Salle Pierre-Mercure, Montreal. For Columbia Artists Management he designed national tours of Csardas and Gypsy Spirit, and for Eastern Talent Alliance he designed tours of Savion Glover’s Classical Savion for the U.S. and Japan.
Kristi J. Martens (Production Stage Manager) is glad to be back at Northlight Theatre for Fire on the Mountain. Previous Northlight credits include Bad Dates, A Marvelous Party: The Noel Coward Celebration, Pride & Prejudice, and Everything’s Ducky. Other theaters where Kristi has worked include: Drury Lane Evergreen Park (where their production of Singin’ In the Rain won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical), Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, Festival Theater (Oak Park, IL), Theater at the Center (Munster, IN), Pheasant Run Theatre (St. Charles, IL) and Carousel Dinner Theatre (Akron, OH). She was also the resident stage manager for the children’s theatre at Drury Lane Evergreen Park for over 13 years and was an Assistant Stage Manager at the Goodman Theatre for the Mamet Festival.
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