at age 6
is a UNC grad and former Playmaker and an MFA from Yale Drama School. Bob is a member of the 2004/2005 Burning Coal Company. For Burning Coal: Pentecost, Einstein's Dreams, Henry IV, Night and Day, Watership Down, Tartuffe, and All the King's Men; North Carolina Theatre: Oliver, Guys and Dolls. Raleigh Ensemble Players: Notebook of Trigorin. ACT: Canterbury Tales. Deep Dish: Ancestral Voices. Street Signs: Brecht's Antigone. Theatre in the Park: Visiting Mr. Green. Open Door: Rosmersholm. Theatre OR: The Chosen. Temple Theatre: Frankenstein; The Invisible Man; Arsenic and Old Lace; and No Sex, Please We're British.
at age 12
was born in Cape Town, South Africa and now lives in Raleigh. She is a professional artist working primarily as a painter and is represented by Glance Gallery in Raleigh. Her studio is located at AntFarm, a cooperative studio warehouse located in the historic Boylan Heights neighborhood. For Burning Coal: Einstein’s Dreams, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Travesties and The Dead. Poster Design for Pentecost, Einstein’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, A Question of Mercy and King Henrie IV.
at age 17
is Burning Coal Theatre Company's founding artistic director. He has worked at Trinity Repertory Company (Providence), People's Light & Theatre Company (PA), New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Phoenix Theatre (SUNY/Purhchase), Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre (Cape Cod), Columbia University, and Soho Rep, New Dramatists, Avalon Rep and MINT Theatre (NYC). Originally from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he studied in New York with Uta Hagen, Nikos Psacharapolous and Julie Bovasso. For Burning Coal, he has directed Rat in the Skull, Pentecost, The Steward of Christendom, Winding the Ball, Night and Day, The Weir and Company. He recently directed Of Mice & Men at the Temple Theatre (see recent article in Steinbeck Review), See How They Run at Sandhill Rep and Twelfth Night for Apex High School. He co-wrote The Man Who Tried to Save the World with Floraine Kay, presented in Burning Coal's 2003/2004 season.
at age 3
is an actor, playwright, and educator. He moved to Raleigh this year, having completed his MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University. Productions of his work in New York have included Green Square, and Nightingale Song (First Look Theatre Co.), Hati (BRIC Studio Theatre) and Suspense: A Farce (Very Vignette Festival). Ian's plays have also had productions in Florida, California, and Utah, including The Nature of the Nautilus, winner of the Kennedy Center's Gene Kennedy Smith Award in 2002. He has taught with the University of Utah's Youtheatre, Raleigh's Burning Coal Theatre Company, and New York's Young Playwright's Inc. Ian is a member of Burning Coal Theatre Company and the Dramatists Guild of America.
at age 6
For Burning Coal: James Joyce's The Dead, Juno and the Paycock, Company (choreographer); Other Credits include: A Grand Night For Singing (CFRT); I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; The Sweet By and By; Holiday Memories (Temple Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Our Town, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Shenandoah, Edgar Allen Poe (Barter Theatre); Tintypes (director, Peace College); Kiss Me Kate (choreographer, SART)
at age 5
does independent promotional work and enjoys event/wedding planning, in her spare time. For Burning Coal: James Joyce’s The Dead, The Man Who Tried to Save the World, & All The King’s Men. Other Credits include: Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man (REP) and Dr. Tedrow’s Last Breath (Deep Ellum Ensemble, NYC).
at age 3
returns to the Coal Company once more. Andy works by day for Burning Coal at the “corporate headquarters” as an administrative assistant and he often stage-manages for Burning Coal by night. For Burning Coal: Travesties, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Man Who Tried to Save the World, James Joyce’s “The Dead,” 90 in 90, and he will be stage-managing the upcoming production Lipstick Traces. For Manbites Dog Theater in Durham: Nixon’s Nixon. Maine Shakespeare Festival: Richard III and The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shskpr (abridged). Andy dwells here in Raleigh with his lovely and talented wife, Noelle. When not stage-managing, Andy is also a director looking for a show. If you see a show without a director, do not attempt to direct it yourself. Call Andy and he will come take care of it for you. While in college, Andy directed The Skin of Our Teeth, The Arkansaw Bear, and Eleemosynary. Since then, he has been a slacker.
at age 15
recently appeared in the film Lucky Strike, which was screened at the 48 Hour Film Festival in Nashville. For Burning Coal: Rat in the Skull, Love's Labours Lost, Pentecost, Winding the Ball, Einstein's Dreams, The Steward of Christendom, Romeo & Juliet, Night & Day, The Weir, A Doll’s House, Company, Tartuffe, Man Who Tried to save the World, and Waiting for Godot (director). Other Credits include: Henry V, Uncle Vanya, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Follies, Into the Woods, Terra Nova, A Few Good Men, Smoke on the Mountain, Thyestes (REP), Lebensraum (REP), Want's Unwished Work (Sacred Fools, Los Angeles).
at age 19
studied theatre at Northwestern University and received degrees from American University in Painting and Computer Science. For Burning Coal: Rat in the Skull, Love’s Labours Lost, Winding the Ball, St. Nicholas, Night and Day, The Weir, Macbeth, Watership Down, A Doll House, The Mound Builders, Company, Road to Mecca, Travesties.
at age 11
For Burning Coal: The Dead, All the King's Men, Tartuffe, Juno & the Paycock. Other recent productions include Antigone at Peace College and several staged readings. Stephen will next be seen in Burning Coal's Lipstick Traces.
is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. She has appeared in Burning Coal's productions of Company and A Doll’s House. Sherida has worked with Deep Dish Theater in Boy Gets Girl and A Lesson Before Dying as well as Raleigh Little Theater on A Dance on Widow’s Row and will appear in their upcoming production of Blue. She has also worked with Street Signs Theater as multiple characters in Twilight: Los Angeles. 1992. Sherida has also appeared in Crimes of the Heart , Flying West, Old Settler, Solomon, and A Raisin in the Sun through several local Universities and churches.
at age 4
For Burning Coal: Tartuffe; All the King’s Men; James Joyce’s The Dead. Other credits include: Little Women; Streetcar Named Desire; Ellen Foster; Imaginary Invalid; Wise Men of Chelm; Women in Power; Ramona Quimby; Arkansaw Bear.
at age 2
is a theatre major at Cornell. For Burning Coal: Juno and the Paycock, Watership Down, Romeo and Juliet, The Steward of Christendom, Einstein's Dreams, The Road to Mecca (Assistant Director). Elsewhere: Antigone, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Midsummer Night's Dream (StreetSigns); The Notebook of Trigorin (REP); Jungalbook (RLT); The Good Person of Setzuan, The Nero Project (Cornell University).
