Judith Allen
	Assoc Artistic Dir/openstage etc Prod Artistic Dir
	JUDITH ALLEN most recently directed OpenStage Theatre's production of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure and last appeared in Third as Professor Laurie Jameson. Her turn as Chris Gorman in 2001's production of Rumors netted her a Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy and her 2008 direction of Noises Off garnered a Denver Post Ovation Award nomination for Best Comedy and won the OpenStage OPUS Awards for Best Play and Best Director. She is the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for direction for recent productions of The Drawer Boy (OPUS awards for Best Play & Best Director), Picnic, Romeo & Juliet (OPUS award for Best Director), Henry IV and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as for her acting as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (OPUS award for Best Actress), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, and Leigh in Splitting Infinity. She has been awarded numerous OpenStage OPUS awards for her design work as a make-up artist as well, including the recent OpenStage production of King Lear. Judi is the Associate Artistic Director for OpenStage Theatre. She was awarded the 2001 OpenStage Founders Award for outstanding contributions to the Company.
	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.
	Brenna Freestone
	BRENNA FREESTONE was born and raised in Fort Collins and spent three years training in Los Angeles. While in L.A. she had the honor of studying with Perviz Sawoski and appeared under her direction in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, performing in two roles as well as serving as Dance Captain for the Bharata Natyam themed performance. Some of Brenna's favorite roles include Essie in You Can't Take It With You (1998 OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Supporting Actress), Mrs. Chevely in An Ideal Husband (2006 OPUS for Best Actress), both with OpenStage, and Marjorie in Extremities with openstage etc (2005 OPUS for Best Actress). She appeared most recently as Celia in OpenStage Theatre's As You Like It and as numerous roles in The Book of Liz (2008 OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Supporting Actress). Additional favorites are Kattrin in Mother Courage, Laura in The Glass Menagerie and Estelle in No Exit with Bas Bleu Theatre. She made her directorial debut with openstage etc's production of Boy Gets Girl, followed shortly by Limelight Theatre's Brighton Beach Memoirs. She received the 2010 OPUS Awards for Best Play and Best Director for Bug, which left audiences squirming. Most recently she directed The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which also left audiences squirming, but for completely different reasons. Brenna acts as Company Development Administrator for OpenStage Theatre.
	Brian Hughes
	President
	BRIAN HUGHES is a theatrical veteran who studied at the Gaiety School of acting in Dublin, Ireland. For several years, Brian lived in Los Angeles where he worked in film and television as an actor, casting director and producer. He returned to the stage, and to Colorado, in 2004 and has been seen in the OpenStage Theatre & Company productions of Nickel and Dimed, The Winter's Tale, An Ideal Husband and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and with Bas Bleu Theatre in The Scarlet Letter and The Imaginary Invalid. He received OpenStage OPUS Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Ensemble Cast for his 2009 performance in the title role of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol.
	Ken Benda
	KEN BENDA graduated in 1977 from the University of Illinois during its Golden Age of Theatre with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He spent the next ten years working with various theatre companies in the Chicago area including the Village Players, West Wind Theatre and the Absolute Theater Company, as well as with Steppenwolf Theater Company at the Apollo Theater in Waiting for Lefty. In 1987, Ken moved to Fort Collins and enrolled at Colorado State University, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology. He spent the next ten years working as a biological field technician and conservation advocate. He returned to the stage in 2001, performing in Bas Bleu Theatre’s Dealer’s Choice. He has since appeared with Bas Bleu in The Dead Monkey, Lives of the Saints,Mother Courage and Her Children and She Stoops to Conquer. Ken has appeared with OpenStage Theatre as the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in A Perfect Ganesh, the Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, de Stogumber in Saint Joan, Crook-Fingered Jake in The Threepenny Opera and Touchstone in As You Like It, and with openstage etc in The Weir, Rag and Bone and The Harvey Project. His first appearance as Scrooge and the Damned Soul in Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol in 2009 garnered him an OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Ken provided vocal life to various characters in two episodes of Rabbit Hole Radio Theatre’s series Major Arcana and represented OpenStage Theatre in the "Largest Theater Festival in American History" as part of the cast of 365 Plays/365 Days in March 2007. Ken served as the assistant director and stage manager for OpenStage Theatre's world premier production of Rasputin in 2005 and as stage manager for its production of Splitting Infinity in 2007.
	Joe Hovorka
	Company Representative to the Board of Directors
	Jacob Offen
	Company Development Administrator
	JACOB OFFEN has been an avid thespian for almost twenty years and had the privilege of studying with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 2003. Jacob has appeared in numerous roles with OpenStage Theatre including Anselmo in Man of La Mancha, The Drunk in Little Shop of Horrors and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, for which he received his first OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He also performed in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol in 2009 and 2010 and received the OPUS for Outstanding Supporting Actor both years. In 2010, Jacob appeared in the title role in Bas Bleu’s Reader's Theatre production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot under the direction of instructor and mentor, Peter Anthony. Most recently, Jacob had the honor to portray the title role in Hamlet with Front Range Community College and also appeared onstage last summer in OpenStage’s King Lear. Jacob works as the Company Development Administrator for OpenStage and is pursuing his associate degree in theatre and social sciences. He aspires to eventually earn a B.F.A. degree in theatre.
	Michael J. Martinkus
	MICHAEL J. MARTINKUS is performing for the seventh time with OpenStage Theatre and is proud to be a part of such a wonderful company. He most recently appeared with OpenStage as a Phantom in The Rocky Horror Show and was privileged to be Dance Captain, having never danced professionally before. He was also the Not Too Bright One in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Mike appeared with OpenStage as Agamemnon Bucker (Chicago) in Is He Dead? and in As You Like It and with openstage etc as Woodson Bull III in Third and Andrew in The Maiden's Prayer, which won the 2009 OpenStage OPUS Award for Best Play. He also appeared in Front Range Community College's production of Hamlet. Mike graduated in 2007 from the Acting Concentration program with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the University of Northern Colorado, where he starred as Mark in The Shadowbox and Huey in Italian American Reconciliation, as well as in various one-act plays. As an associate producer and actor for A Film Company, LLC, he appeared in the film The Code: Legend of the Gamers, which featured its premier in Colorado. Mike also designed the wardrobe and make-up effects for A Film Company's Creation and has received three credits on IMDB. He would like to thank his family for their endless support, and all the OpenStage Company Members for being his second family and making him feel right at home. Last, but certainly not least, to everyone that attends The 39 Steps he would like to give a warm thank you. THANKOO!