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Original Los Angeles Cast & Crew |
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Michael McGee
In San Francisco, productions include: TANGO, THE ADDING MACHINE, CRIMES OF THE HEART, GEMINI, THE BRIDGE, LYSISTRATA, BLEACHER BUMS, performed at: The StageGroup Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Shelton Theatre, Berkeley Jewish Theatre and other theatres. He directed a production of Pinter’s THE HOTHOUSE. In Los Angeles highlights include: McGee directed Gorky's THE LOWER DEPTHS on Skid Row, with homeless artists and actors. He continued working on Skid Row with the late Scott Kelman developing shows in Skid Row workshops with music, poetry and acting. McGee played, Polonius, in a production of HAMLET directed and starring Bruce Beatty with a cast including Don Cheadle, Jesse Borrego, Michael Boatman, David Duensing and others. He appeared in the 2nd Story Theater production of, HARRISON, TEXAS, three plays by Horton Foote, directed by Scott Paulin. McGee has appeared in several independent films playing featured roles and has a starring role in the award winning comedic feature THE RAT THING written, directed by and with Kevin Keresey, the film recently played at Cannes Independent Film Festival – this May. McGee also writes and he along with screenwriter Matt Benjamin founded and ran a screenwriters workshop for inmates at Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in Long Beach for 3 years.
WORKING ON ST.NICHOLAS: The process of developing this production has been a journey. Many people have helped in the process along the way and some have been instrumental: Wendy Phillips, Kevin Keresey, Marnie Olson at the Psychic Visions Theatre, Stephanie Feury at the SFS Theatre and of course Scott Paulin. |
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Scott Paulin - Director
is a director and actor living and working in Los Angeles. He began performing in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s appearing at The Magic Theater, The Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Berkeley Stage Company, and the Eureka Theater where he received the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Best Actor Award for his performance as Pavlo in the West Coast Premiere of David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. He began directing at The Bay Area Playwrights Festival with Bill Talen’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story The Gambler. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1980 he has worked extensively in the theater, film and television. He has directed a number of plays by Horton Foote including The Roads to Home, The Midnight Caller, Blind Date, and The One-Armed Man (the last three one-acts performed together as Harrison, Texas) at The Second Story Theater. His production of Getting Frankie Married---and Afterwards by Mr. Foote, recently closed at The Open Fist Theater in Hollywood. He directed the World Premiere of Nicolas Kazan’s The Good Soldier at The Odyssey, John Patrick Shanley’s Welcome to the Moon, and Four Dogs and A Bone, Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Michel Tremblay’s Johnny Mangano and his Astonishing Dogs (Trois Petit Tours), and The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone at The Second Story Theater. In the last year he has performed in Laura Richardson’s comedy Come Back Little Horny and Shock Therapy by Tom Baum at The Lillian Theater. He has also directed thirty-five hours of television drama winning the Humanitas Prize for an episode of the NBC civil rights drama I’ll Fly Away. As an actor he has guest starred in more than one hundred hours of television drama, mini-series, and MOWs and he has played leading roles in feature films including The Right Stuff, A Soldier’s Story, Cat People, Pump Up the Volume, Turner and Hooch, The Accused, and I Am Sam. He is married to actress Wendy Phillips and is the father of Jenny Dare Paulin, also an actress living in New York. |
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Conor McPherson - Playwright
Born in Dublin in 1971, was co-founder of the Fly by Night Theatre Company which performed new plays in Dublin fringe venues. In 1997, Mr. McPherson was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding New Playwright, the London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the George Devine Award in 1997 with his play St Nicholas. He went on to win an Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1999 with his follow-up, The Weir. In 2006 he received a Tony Award nomination for Shining City, (An award winning production of Shining City was also produced in 2009 here in Los Angeles at The Fountain Theatre). In 2008 his play The Seafarer won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actor Jim Norton and garnered Conor a nomination for Best Director. Conor was named by the New York Times as “the finest playwright of his generation”. Conor also writes for film and co-wrote the screenplay for The Eclipse, which marks his debut as a screen director it was released in the U.S. in March 2010 to critical acclaim. The Eclipse was adapted by Conor from a ghost story by Billy Roche and stars Aidan Quinn and Ciaran Hinds. |
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Sam Grant - Stage Manager
Lights / Sound
Sam has worked on too many productions to count, in almost every capacity. From 1989-1995 she was the resident stage manager for the St. Louis Shakespeare Company and the Orthwein Theatre Company from 1993-1995.. Sam moved to LA in 1995 to try her hand in the film business. Sam would like to thank all the actors and directors, who open their hearts and take the chance to show us what it is to be human. |
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Lisa Blake Mitchell - Producer
Lisa was born in Illinois and grew up in Hawaii, but lived two young, impressionable years in Hong Kong, attending Chinese Opera, Kabuki Theatre, the Ballet, and a multitude of creative, street acts. So, it’s no wonder she was hooked from the age of 3 by the desire and need for artistic expression and performance. She studied Theater and Marketing at the University of Hawaii before moving to the Mainland. Her love of acting brought her to Los Angeles, where her passion and experience on both sides of the camera led her thru a journey which returned her back home – to be on LOST (as Vanessa, an elusive “Other”). Working with these wonderful people, and watching the amazing Michael McGee navigate through this story, feeds her soul, reminding her how exhilarating theatre can be. |
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Mike Geary - Producer
St. Nicholas is Mike Geary's first role as producer. In addition to being a producer and actor, for the past two years he has organized and instructed an acting workshop at the Los Angeles Homeless Youth Center called My Friend's Place ( HYPERLINK "http://www.MyFriendsPlace.org" \t "_blank" www.MyFriendsPlace.org). This groundbreaking program brings improvisational games to underserved and troubled youth to help them turn over a new leaf and assert themselves within productive society. In his free time he teaches yoga at Santa Monica Yoga ( HYPERLINK "http://www.SantaMonicaYoga.com" \t "_blank" www.SantaMonicaYoga.com). |
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Alan Savanapridi - Artist
alan@spilledinkmedia.com
Alan is the house designer for the 2nd Story Theater Group and his posters, photography and artwork can also be seen at various theaters and music events across the US. |
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