Denise Burson Freestone
	Producing Artistic Director/Founder
	DENISE BURSON FREESTONE co-founded OpenStage Theatre in 1973 with her husband Bruce and serves as Producing Artistic Director for the Company. During her extensive theatrical career Denise has worked as an actress, director, producer, designer, technician and dancer and has directed and performed in numerous OpenStage Theatre productions. Some of her most memorable acting roles include Goneril in King Lear, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Dotty in Noises Off, Annabella Gotchling in A Bright Room Called Day, Hannah in Angels in America, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Professor Vivian Bearing in Wit (for which she received Special Mention in The Denver Post Ovation Awards, Best Local Actress in the Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins and the OpenStage Theatre OPUS Award for Best Actress) and Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst. Recent directing credits include Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, The Threepenny Opera, The Women and Proof. She also has designed hair, make-up, costumes, properties and special effects and has received several OPUS Awards for directing, acting and designing. Under the Freestone's leadership, OpenStage Theatre has received numerous awards, including the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and the 2011 Henry Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Bruce and Denise are the 2003 recipients of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins, and Denise was named a 2010 Woman of Distinction by the Northern Colorado Business Report.
	Bruce K. Freestone
	Assoc Producing Director/Founder
	BRUCE K. FREESTONE has been an outspoken advocate for the performing arts in Colorado for nearly forty years. Co-founder with his wife Denise in 1973 of OpenStage Theatre & Company, he has served as director, designer, actor and technician. In addition, Bruce is the Company's Associate Producing Director and an ex officio member of the Board of Directors. He serves as the Technical Coordinator for Colorado State University's Lory Student Center; is a member of I.A.T.S.E., the international stagehands union; has worked behind the camera with several major studios on Colorado film locations; and has performed in countless commercials, instructional films and videos, and at industrial trade shows. He has appeared in numerous OpenStage productions, most recently in the title role of Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure and in Noises Off, Enchanted April, The Solid Gold Cadillac and Angels in America. He has directed several OpenStage productions and directed The Sound of Music for Fort Collins Children's Theatre. Bruce serves as the Vice President for the Beet Street Board of Directors and is the recipient with Denise of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins.