ROSALEE CAST AND CREW BIOS

DOSTIE (Producer) is a versatile visual artist, custom picture framer, production designer, event producer and performance artist. His works have been exhibited extensively at Burlington venues including the Firehouse Art Gallery, the One Half Lounge, and Union Station. This past summer Dostie co-produced the Art’s Alive Festival of Fine Art and Juried Exhibition in Downtown Burlington. He has presented several live art demonstrations and performances at the South End Art Hop (2004–08), the Winter is a Drag Ball at Higher Ground (2004–09), and also on Church St. during the culmination of the 2008 Discover Jazz Festival as a part of the Magic Hat Block Party. In January 2009 he competed with Team USA/Vermont at the 2009 International Snow Sculpting Championships in Colorado and subsequently competed in and won the 2009 Vermont State Championship Snow Sculpting Tournament. Dostie is also an active member of the Green Candle Theatre Company and has recently designed sets for and made his stage acting debut in Aaron Masi’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose in June 2008. In November 2008 he returned to the stage as Dan in Michael Jordan Evan’s Play Art the Father, he also designed the set for The Next State in Fall 2006. Dostie designed sets and props for both of Sweet Racket Productions’ runs of Seth Jarvis’ The Once and Future Ubu in 2005 and 2006. He has also enjoyed building many odd set pieces for the 2006–09 performances by the Spielpalast Cabaret. In April 2008 he designed the set for Heat and Hot Water Productions’ Seeking. Dostie turns custom frames at the Frame Game in South Burlington, is the manager of the Box Art Studio, is the Secretary of the Green Candle Theatre Company’s Board of Directors, and also sits on the Board of Directors for Art’s Alive Vermont serving as both Vice President and Treasurer.

Maura Campbell (Director/Playwright) is the author of more than twenty plays and has been produced locally, regionally and abroad. Her play, Dreamtime, will be included in Smith & Kraus's anthology BEST SCENES AND MONOLOGUES FOR MEN 2010. Upcoming projects in Burlington include Wild Geese, an experimental multi-media production scheduled for late winter. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Burlington College and is a member of the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University. She is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Green Candle Theatre Company.

Martha Jo Walton (Stage Manager/Set Decoration) Martha Jo has been involved in local theater for many years. Onstage she has been seen in LaMoille County Players' Noises Off, Vermont Stage Company's A Child's Christmas in Wales, Quarryworks' Hello Dolly, Daron Byerly's Resolutionaries & More and Waterbury Festival Players' The Canterville Ghost and various venues with Awareness Theater Company, including the film Bill's Bill in which, although it was a stretch, she played the Mother Superior. Behind the scenes, Martha Jo worked on Camelot and Twelfth Night with Quarryworks, Parenting 101:The Musical and two of Maura Campbell's other plays, Self-Evidence and Dreamtime. She was an instructor with VSA Arts of Vermont's High School Self-Advocacy Theater Program, taught acting/theater in the Alburgh Elementary School After school Program and for 4 years was Assistant Director for Missiquoi Valley Union High School's annual musical. Martha Jo lives in the Champlain Islands with her husband Kevin, three of their four adult children, 4 dogs, 2 cats and 17 chickens.

Tracey Girdich (Molly) graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh with a BA in Theatre Arts. She went on to study acting at Circle in the Square in NYC, Atlantic Theatre Co's P.A.W. program, and locally with Mark Nash and Tom Carder. She has acted for stage, radio and film and most recently has been working on The Confession Room, a film by Colleen Kirby and KISA productions. Tracey has performed with several local companies as well as regionally at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in NYC and internationally at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Tracey is a founding member of Green Candle Theatre Company and currently serves as the company’s Vice President and Artistic Director. Tracey has worked to bring to the stage innovative works by Vermont Playwrights such as Keefe Healy, Aaron Masi, Steve Goldberg, Josh Bridgman, Shoshannah Boray and Seth Jarvis. She is thrilled to be working with the award winning Burlington Playwright Maura Campbell.

Dennis McSorley (Mr. Holiday) A native New Yorker now living in Vermont, Dennis jumped started his acting here in 1995. He was last seen as Donny in Green Candle Theatre Company's highly acclaimed production of American Buffalo. He has helped bring the stories of Chekov, Mamet, Stoppard, Albee, Miller, Simon and Vermont writers Steve Goldberg, Keefe Healy, and Jim Lantz to life. He received accolades in the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe Festival's world premiere of Dogs of War by Keefe Healy. He was the gritty cop in Mark Covino's honored short film Talcum, and was nominated for Best Actor at the 2005 Brighton Fringe Festival U.K. This is his third appearance in a new play by Ms. Campbell.

Liz Gilbert (Rosalee) is a 9th grader at U-32 in East Montpelier and is thrilled to be onstage for the first time with the Green Candle Theatre Company. She appeared this past Spring as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and also as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird with Lost Nation Theatre in Montpelier. In the theatre since age five, she has previously enjoyed roles in Vermont Stage Company’s Winter Tales, numerous productions with the Montpelier Theatre Guild, and Center Stage. As singing is an equal love, Liz receives musical theatre training in the summer with Bill Reed and enjoys participating in the Vermont Youth Orchestra Chorus as well. While offstage she enjoys skiing, travel, and just being 14 at home in Middlsex.

Joel Abbott (Sound Design/Music) is an American composer, producer, and sound designer, noted for live-scoring scripted and improvised stage shows. Recent credits include Opus and Prelude To A Kiss with Vermont Stage Company, Dames At Sea at St. Michael's Playhouse, and Mark Twain's A Murder, Mystery, and Marriage: A Musical Melodrama at Lost Nation Theater. His ability to create authentic music in a wide assortment of genres has led to his nickname "The Musical Chameleon". He is also the lead songwriter and all seven members of the comedy-electropop septet The Go Ahead And. Joel would like to thank Maura Campbell for her steadfast determination and trust.

Leon Campos (Music) grew up in NYC, where he started studying the piano at a young age. During the start of his high school education he moved to Greensboro VT where he began composing original music for many different instruments. His compositions earned him recognition numerous times at the states “OPUS” festivals, and in live performances around VT. Currently living in Burlington, he plays piano professionally in a solo setting and with a number of artists of varying styles from the area and in NYC. His main project right now is with the funky experimental rock band Greyspoke.

Brad “Bear” Ingalls (Lighting Designer) is a professional stagehand and lighting designer who has been involved in technical theatre for over 30 years. Bear considers the theatre to be a major force in his life. He enjoys all of the technical aspects, but his passion is for light design, be it for live music, theatre or corporate events. Bear is also the access coordinator at VCAM, a job which he also greatly enjoys. For as much as he is passionate about light design and technical theatre, he wants you to know that he loves nothing as much as his family.

Rosie Grannis (Costume Designer) Rosie grew up on the coast of Maine, her passion for making beautiful clothes started by making mini clothing for her Barbie’s, but professionally she made her start in the late 1990's while working for a Victorian clothing company, she co-designed and sewed with them for six years. Rosie has done costumes for a number of local plays in Maine and has been costume designer for Green Candle in their last three productions including Aaron Masi’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose. Rosie lives in Burlington Vermont; she continues to "get her hands dirty" as often as possible making her own clothing designs and some commissioned work.

Kevin Christopher (Videographer) is pleased to be working with Maura Campbell again, having previously collaborated with her as an actor in her production of Self Evidence and a staged reading of Dreamtime and as an actor and videographer with her Winterset Productions company. He will soon be seen in the Vermont premiere of Maura's play Wild Geese.

Aaron Reil (Original Set Design) This is my first time working with Green Candle Theater Company as well as my first time creating set design. I need to thank Alex, Maura, and GCTC for this educational opportunity. Usually I’m on stage rather than “behind it” (plug for The Full Monty, I’ll be in that). I live in Burlington with my wife, Rebecca (who will be in Maura’s upcoming show Wild Geese) and work as a tattoo artist at Jade Lotus Tattoo and Piercing. Thank you for supporting local theater. Go Browns!!!


Mark Gonyea (Graphic Designer) Mark is a man is few words and many pictures. See them at MrOblivious.com.

Marlo Wamsganz (Web Mistress) loves pixels and paper. See her work at
marlowamsganz.com.

Rebecca Reil (Make-up Design) is a professional Makeup Artist and Co-owner of Triptych Creations, which specializes in makeup design and Special Makeup FX for Theater/Film/Television/Photography, and educational workshops. She is also a childcare provider and choreographer working with local afterschool programs, community projects and theater companies. Recent credits include makeup and Special Makeup FX for Lyric Theater‘s Beauty and the Beast, Green Candle’s The Nose, Maura Campbell’s Self Evidence, as well as the independent films Not Totally Naked and Knock Knock, Who’s There? and creature creations for Haunted Forest’s Project X. She also loves to act and facepaint with her amazing friend Sara. Rebecca is very excited to be working with Green Candle and Maura Campbell again! Keep supporting local theater!!

Sara Glasgow (Make-up Design) is a Professional Makeup Artist and has been involved with theater in the Burlington area for many years. She has gained international attention for her work as a face and body painter, receiving third place in competition at the 2006 Face and Body Art International Convention. For three years, she has been the Department Head of Makeup and Special Makeup FX for Equinox Theatre's Nightmare Vermont. Sara's recent works include Makeup and Special Makeup FX for both Jim Lantz's American Machine and Maura Campbell's Self Evidence, Makeup/Hair for ECP's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Property Management and FX for Green Candle's Keely and Du. Other credits include Special Makeup FX for the independent film Not Totally Naked and Set Design/ Construction for Green Candle's The Probable Pirendello's Wife. She also enjoys bringing the theater arts to young people by teaching classes for the Burlington School District after school programs and owns and operates Face Art, transforming children of all ages into beauties and beasts at a wide variety of private and public venues. Sara is married to her "Superhero" Kevin and they have two wonderful children, who inspire her daily.

Michael Smith (Set Dec Crew) is a self taught artist and reluctant sheep herder living in Underhill, Vermont. He began painting as a hobby in the late 1980’s and now paints full time in between sheep raising duties. His work can generally be seen in and around the Burlington area. He last worked on the set design for Green Candle Theatre Company’s Spring 2009 production of American Buffalo.