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Barby Hendricks
Company Secretary
BARBY HENDRICKS has been working with OpenStage Theatre for several years and has served as the Company Secretary for several years. She was a stagehand for The Winter's Tale and Proof, produced the openstage etc productions of The Six That Fell, Yellow Rose and The Ghost Man and was the assistant director for The Women and The Sum of Us. Barby worked extensively with Friends of OpenStage and has helped produced OpenStage Theatre's fundraisers, Death In Stages and Food for the Future, as well as helping to organize the Colorado Community Theatre Coalition's Festival 2002 in Fort Collins.
Judith Allen
Assoc. Artistic Director/Ex Officio Board Member
JUDITH ALLEN was named 2002 Best Supporting Actress in a Comedic Role by The Denver Post for her role as Chris Gorman in OpenStage Theatre’s production of Rumors and most recently was seen as Leigh Sangold in Splitting Infinity. She currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director for OpenStage, a Producing Artistic Director for openstage etc and is an ex officio member of the Theatre’s Board of Directors. Her numerous directing credits include recent productions of Picnic, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Drawer Boy (OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Play and Best Director), Romeo and Juliet (OPUS for Best Director), Henry IV Part 1, The Living and My Three Angels. Some of Judith's favorite roles with OpenStage include Elenora Duse in The Ladies of the Camellias, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Actress), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Lizzie Morden in Our Country's Good. She also has designed sound and make-up for numerous productions. Judith received the 2001 OpenStage Founder's Award for her exceptional contributions to the Theatre.
Denise Burson Freestone
Artistic Director/Founder/Ex Officio Bd. Member
DENISE BURSON FREESTONE co-founded OpenStage Theatre in 1973 with her husband Bruce and serves as 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. Her most recent work includes the roles of Dotty in Noises Off, Rosemary in Picnic and Annabella Gotchling in A Bright Room Called Day; performing in the Bas Bleu/OpenStage/CSU collaboration of Angels in America; directing The Threepenny Opera, The Women and Proof; and performing as Charlotte in Moon Over Buffalo, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and 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 Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Under the Freestone's leadership, OpenStage Theatre has received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Colorado Community Theatre Coalition's Distinguished Merit Award and special commendation from the Colorado Legislature and the Fort Collins City Council. Bruce and Denise are the 2003 recipients of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins.
Bruce K. Freestone
Producer/Founder/Board Member
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 Producer and an ex officio member of the Board of Directors. He serves as the Technical Coordinator for CSU'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 OpenStage Theatre's Enchanted April, The Solid Gold Cadillac and the Bas Bleu/OpenStage/CSU collaboration, Angels in America. He has directed numerous OpenStage productions and directed The Sound of Music for Fort Collins Children's Theatre in fall 2005. Bruce was a founding member and currently serves on the board of Arts Alive Fort Collins. He was the 2003 recipient with Denise of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins.
Dan Weitz
Company Manager
DAN WEITZ has been acting in Fort Collins for thirty-four years, including serving as Company Manager for OpenStage Theatre for the past seven seasons. He was seen most recently as Finbar Mack in openstage etc's The Weir. Other roles with OpenStage Theatre include Glenn Cooper in Rumors, The Visitor in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Bert Jefferson in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and in openstage etc's WASP by Steve Martin, among others. Dan wrote, directed and performed in OpenStage's 1999 First Night Fort Collins production of 100 Movies in Fifteen MInutes. An OpenStage Company member since 1989, Dan also has appeared with Bas Bleu Theatre, Colorado State University Cafe Theatre, Fort Collins Children's Theatre, the Country Club Dinner Theatre and Foothills Civic Theatre.
L. Michael Scovel
Company Representative to the Board
L. MICHAEL SCOVEL comes full circle with the current OpenStage Theatre production of Noises Off, having debuted with the company as Tim in its 1987 production. He has trained as an actor at Boston University and the University of Northern Iowa and has performed locally with The Dance Connection, Canyon Concert Ballet, IMPACTheatre, Foothills Civic Theatre, Rabbit Hole Radio Theatre, Opera Fort Collins and Bas Bleu Theatre. Notable past roles include Kerry Max Cook in The Exonerated (for which he won an All-State acting award from the Colorado Community Theatre Coalition), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Banquo in Macbeth, Lord Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Brick in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Starbuck in The Rainmaker and the title role in Rasputin. He appeared most recently as Dunois in last season's OpenStage production of Saint Joan. Lenny currently serves as the Company Representative to the OpenStage Theatre Board of Directors. When not on stage, Lenny is a professional woodworker and enjoys his family, working on his house and playing board games.
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