Guthrie Theater – “The Birds” Event Details

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Guthrie Theater – The Birds

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

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5:30 pm: Welcome, Level 1, Guthrie staff will greet group and direct upstairs for pre-show speakers

5:45 – 7:15 pm: Classroom 3, Level 8

5:45-6:30 pm:   Scott W. Edwards, Sound Designer

Guthrie More than 80 productions since 1997. Theater Seattle Rep; San Jose Rep; Children’s Theatre: more than 40 productions; Jungle Theater: more than 15 productions; Penumbra Theatre: eight productions; Mixed Blood; Illusion Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Ballet of the Dolls (founding member); Theater Mu; Eye of the Storm Theatre; Teatro Latino; Minnesota Opera. Other Production manager/live sound engineer for “A Prairie Home Companion.” Awards San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for The Kite Runner at San Jose Rep; StarTribuneOutstanding Sound Designer for Pride and Prejudice and The Pirates of Penzance; Helen Hayes Award nomination for You Can’t Take It With You at Arena Stage [Guthrie credits: H.M.S. Pinafore, God of Carnage, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winter’s Tale, A Christmas Carol (15 productions since 1996), A Streetcar Named Desire, Circle Mirror Transformation, M. Butterfly, Macbeth, Faith Healer, The Importance of Being Earnest, When We Are Married, Caroline, or Change, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shadowlands, Little House on the Prairie, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jane Eyre, Peer Gynt, 1776, The Merchant of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, Lost in Yonkers, The Real Thing, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Intimate Apparel, The Constant Wife, His Girl Friday, She Loves Me, As You Like It, Oedipus, Death of a Salesman, The Pirates of Penzance, Crowns, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Resurrection Blues, All My Sons, The Canterbury Tales, Antony and Cleopatra, Merrily We Roll Along, Amadeus, Once in a Lifetime, In the Blood, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Blood Wedding, Twelfth Night, To Fool the Eye, Hedda Gabler, The Plough and the Stars, The Darker Face of the Earth, Lake Hollywood, Misalliance, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Ah, Wilderness!, The School for Scandal, Sweeney Todd, Summer and Smoke, Julius Caesar, The Magic Fire, Gross Indecency, The Venetian Twins, A Month in the Country, Thunder Knocking on the Door, The Playboy of the Western World, Racing Demon, You Can’t Take It With You, Fences, The Price, “A Midsummer Night’s Celebration,” 2006 Guthrie Gala; Tours: Death of a Salesman (Dublin Theatre Festival), Ah, Wilderness!; music recording engineer: Dream on Monkey Mountain.]

6:30-7:15pm:  Amanda Friou, Assistant Director to The Birds

Theater Assistant Director:  Off- Broadway: Second Stage: The Blue Flower (Will Pomerantz, Director) Regional: La Jolla Playhouse: American Night The Ballad of Juan Jose (Jo Bonney, Director), Becoming Chaplin (Warren Carlyle, Director/Choreographer);American Repertory Theatre: The Blue Flower (Will Pomerantz, Director).  Director: Off-Off Broadway: HERE: No Such Cold Thing; Ars Nova: Hinterland; Wonderland Collective: Pimp; Barrow Group: Leaf Pile and the Two Brother; Gallery Players: Violating Uncle Piggy; The Secret Theatre: Christmas Carol, The Guillotine. Teaching: Barrington Stage Company (Director of Education), Stagedoor Manor, Wingspan Arts.  Awards: Drama League Directors Project Fall Fellow. Education: Macalester College 

7:15pm:  General Admission Seating in Dowling Studio, Level 9 (doors open at 7)

7:30pm:  Curtain time for THE BIRDS, run time TBD

Post-Show: Escort to Kitchak Lounge, Level 2, Bar / Snacks / Mingle