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"A
Readers Theatre production does not surrender performance power because
it is less "realistic" than conventional theatre. Since the
"real" events take place in the audience's minds, each beholder
can create idealized characters, scenery, and textual perceptions ...more
believable
than the ...director or scene designer can materialize."
William J. ADAMS
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 Callum
Coates, now a London resident, was born and raised in Canterbury
and trained at Mountview Theatre School and Riga Academy in Latvia.
Not long after graduation, Callum joined the Original Shakespeare Company
and in 1994 was part of the first Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition. He
has since worked for the project as a tour guide, researcher, fund raiser,educationalist
and actor and was part of the design committee for the Globe's stage.
Callum is also a freelance costume and props maker. Although he has
made a specialty of 17th century historical and period acting, he has
also done a great deal of other stage work and has been branching out
into film, television and voice-overs. His talks on acting as well as
his demonstrations of Elizabethan clothing have been highlights of the
past several Readers Theatre summer Workshops.
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Dr.
Walter Stump is a faculty member of the Theatre Department at the
University of Southern Maine where he holds the rank of Full Professor.
He teaches Dramatic Literature, Oral Interpretation, Readers Theatre
and Playwriting. He has directed over 120 productions on the educational,
community and professional levels. Stump has directed shows in several
states, countries and major cities including New York , London and
Paris. USM honored him with the Distinguished Scholar in the Performing
Arts Award and Kennedy Center awarded him its Gold Medallion for Excellence
in Educational Theatre. The New England Theatre Conference has initiated
him into its College of Fellows and his USM production of the original
musical GYNT was performed at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and
was awarded the prestigious ASCAP award. Dr. Stump is the former Chair
of the New England Region of Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival and later became the National Chair of Chairs. Professor
Stump was named by Kennedy Center to be a member of the KC/ACTF adjudication
team which is charged with selecting the best college theatre productions
in the United States for performance at the national ACTF festival
in Washington D.C. A forensic coach for over thirty years, he has
been honored three times by the National Forensics Association for
his contributions to Intercollegiate Forensics, including the Distinguished
Service To Forensics Award in 2000. Dr. Stump is a prize winning playwright
producing original plays on the University and Community level with
productions in Maine, Louisiana , California and Nevada. Cactus Charlie’s
Saloon, the first of his Mojave Trilogy, was performed by professional
actors at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City
in a sponsored stage reading. Walter Stump has written two books on
theatre history and several articles. An active theatre historian,
he is considered an expert in English theatrical censorship. He studied
Readers Theatre under William J. Adams and Cornelius Carmen Cunningham,
two of the most important scholar/teachers in the field . Stump has
written seven original Readers Theatre scripts and most recently scripted
and directed Paul B. Janeczko’s narrative poem WORLDS AFIRE for
the Maine based Open Book Players. Dr. Stump has been a member of
the faculty of the International Readers Theatre Institute under William
J. Adams for several years. With the death of Professor Adams in 2005
he was appointed Director, a position he currently holds.
Arlene
McCoy,
Associate Director of the Institute and General/Workshop Manager,
worked with Institute founder William Adams for twelve years before
his passing in 2005. Her background is in elementary education, receiving
her B.A. in English from San Diego State University and her M.Ed.
in Early Childhood Education from Kent State University. She substituted
regularly in Ohio for over eight years, enjoying the interaction with
the children as well as the freedom to spend time in California with
family and friends before returning permanently to San Diego in 1993.
Arlene began working for the RT Script Service in 1993 and became
Workshop Manager in 1994, organizing and administering the annual
Readers Theatre Workshop. She and her husband Robert write, produce
and perform Readers Theatre for various organizations in the San Diego
area.
Lucille
Rioux Associate
Director and Manager of Classroom Methodology.
Lucy received her Theatre/Communication degree from the University
of Southern Maine and her Master's in Education from the University
of New England. She has been a teacher/consultant for the Gifted &
Talented program in the Litchfield, Maine school system for the past
17 years. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of the Open Book
Players, Maine's only readers theatre performance troupe established
in 1996, and has presented workshops on how to use RT in the classroom
at many state and regional educational conferences. She was awarded
the distinction of being chosen as Maine's Middle Level Teacher of
the Year in 1999 and has recently been accepted in the Fulbright Teacher
Exchange Program. She is also co-founder and co-director of the Theatre
Arts Day Camp and serves on the executive committee of the Maine Alliance
for Arts Education. Lucy is a regular featured contributor to the
Readers Theatre Digest, an on-line resource which focuses on all aspects
of readers theatre (www.readerstheatredigest.com). In the past, she
has been Artistic Director for the Monmouth Community Players and
has also served on the board of directors for the Theater at Monmouth,
a professional Shakespearean acting company.
Margaret
Crowell was born and raised in Norwich, England, and has been
a performer since she was 11 years old. She was theatrically trained
in England and has toured with the Birmingham Repertory Company throughout
the British Isles and Europe. Following her move to Utah with husband
Woody,she became an Equity Union member and her theatrical "home"
is Pioneer Theatre Company, a world class professional organization
located in Salt Lake City. Her one-woman shows, "They Called
Her Vincent" (dramatizing the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent
Millay) and "This England" (based on her childhood war time
experiences in Norwich) havebeen performed at our summer Workshops
as well as on tours in Utah. Margaret and Woody teach and perform
RT with school children throughout Utah with the Arts in Education
program.
Cindy
Turcotte is from Bowdoin, Maine, and received her B.F.A. In photography
from the University of Southern Maine. Her interest in creating art
in photography correlates with her work in the art of Readers Theatre.
She is a cofounder and board member of the "Open Book Players,"
Maine's only Readers Theatre performance troupe. Cindy is also a cofounder
and Co-director/teacher of the Theatre Arts Day Camp, with Lucy Rioux,
which runs for two weeks in August. Cindy says, "Working with
young thespians is a joy, and giving them undivided attention for
two weeks is wonderful." She is part of "Reading Rumpus,"
where Maine authors and illustrators work together with students and
parents for a day filled with reading and related activities, including
Readers Theatre. In her "spare" time away from Readers Theatre
and photography, Cindy also works with middle level students who have
emotional disabilities, which she has done for the past 18 years.
Marie
Raymond of Sacramento, California, graduated from Sacramento State
with a Bachelor's degree in Education and is a retired elementary
school teacher and reading specialist. She still spends much of her
time in schools as a substitute teacher in the Sacramento area. Overlapping
Marie's current teaching is her work as Writer/Director of the Chautauqua
Children's Theatre where she produces and directs six original shows
each season including Readers Theatre. Also a performer when the opportunity
presents itself, Marie confesses, "It is marvelous to play villains."
Richard
Harris' first career was as an advertising executive with a major
electronics firm. After his retirement from that first career, he
put his heart and soul into his passion for the theatre, which had
to be put on the back burner while he was involved as a busy executive.
Educated at Texas Wesleyan and, for art training, at Coopers Union
in New York City, Richard now is very involved with Readers Theatre
in his home area of Syracuse, New York. In this second career, he
founded the "By the Book Players," an RT group, and pushes
for increased appreciation of RT as both an entertainment and teaching
tool, with seminars and presentations at local schools, libraries,
and Casanova College. Richard is also involved with the "Saturday
Acting Workshop" which has given him a valuable place to hear
the short plays he has written, another dimension of his interest
in the theatre.
Trudy
Cornelius, a Brooklyn College graduate, is a retired school librarian
who has scripted and directed Readers Theatre for schools in New York
City and the Department of Defense schools abroad. She directs and
acts for "Theatre Voices" and "The Script-in-Hand Company,"
two N.Y. based performance groups, and for seniors and retirees in
N.Y. and Florida, the two cities in which she and husband, Bernard,
divide their time. Trudy is a ballet fan, Henry James devotee, and
enthusiastic competitor in the annual American Crossword Tournament.
Her amazing portrayal of the women in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River
Anthology, "The Women of Spoon River," demonstrates her
power and talent for creating and presenting one-woman shows
Barbara
Egbert has been an educator for over 30 years, concentrating over
half of that time on bringing theatre arts awareness to the schools
and local community of Lake Elsinore, California. She has a Bachelor's
Degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Music and Spanish from
Brigham Young University and a Master's Degree from Azusa Pacific
College in Administrative Education. Barbara was co-director in a
three year investigation for Project R.A.I.S.E. (Reading and Arts
Integrated for Student Excellence), a million-dollar federal grant
to study the impact of Readers Theatre and art as a viable strategy
to improve reading comprehension and theatre arts performance. She
is currently teaching 5th grade and continues to produce and direct
musicals for her school district and community.
Kris
Hayes teaches at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, one of the
largest and best schools in oral interpretation and debate in South
Dakota. Her B.A. is from the University of South Dakota and her M.A.
is from the University of Hawaii, where she worked professionally
in the movies 'The Hawaiian' and 'Kona Coast' and in the TV series
Hawaii 5-0. Kris tries to get to New York City as often as she can,
taking in as many shows as possible while she's there. A voracious
reader, Kris reads everything from weighty history tomes to "trashy"
romances, but is especially interested in material she can convert
into good RT scripts. She can be counted on to stir thoughtful reactions
in her composite pieces and presents a show of this kind at our summer
Workshop.
Steve
Schroeder was born, raised and educated in various California
locales, but has called Illinois home for the past fifteen years.
A proud community college graduate of Saddleback College in Mission
Viejo, California, Steve went on to receive his Bachelor's at California
State University, Chico and his Master's at California State University,
Northridge. Having taught at his alma mater community college for
two years, Steve then took the position of speech instructor/forensics
coach at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he now serves
as Director of Forensics and Co-Advisor of Phi Theta Kappa (the international
honor society for two-year colleges) in addition to his teaching duties
in the Speech Communication discipline.