LES MISERABLES: SCHOOL EDITION

PRODUCTION STAFF

JAMES TALLACH (Director) James Tallach is a theater do-it-all and an accomplished actor, director, singer, stage manager and dialect coach. As a singer, performed back-up for Barry Manilow in Scotland. He has been performing since he was twenty and has directed, performed or stage managed for many of the area’s leading theater companies including Turtle Lane Playhouse, Metro Stage Company, Hovey Players, Company Theater, and Image Theater. An Actor-in-Residence for the Playwrights Platform, James has directed and performed for many area theater festivals including The Boston Marathon, Playwrights Platform, and Summer Shorts. James previously directed Thoroughly Modern Millie with ACTS, was production stage manager for 42^nd Street and Oklahoma! and made a cameo appearance in High School Musical as Coach Bolton in addition to being the show’s stage manager. He recently directed Turtle Lane’s productions of The Producers and Chess and Metro Stage Company’s Working, Cabaret, and A New Brain; his original musical, A Brand New Day, premiered in 2008. By day, he is the Assistant General Manager at Turtle Lane.

STEVEN BERGMAN (Musical Director & Conductor) Steven Bergman has musically directed The Who’s Tommy and The Two Orphans for Brandeis Theatre Company, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for the Wheelock Family Theatre and the New Bedford Festival Theatre, Das Barbecü for the New Repertory Theatre, the New England premieres of The Gig and When Pigs Fly at the Lyric Stage Company, Personals and Tomfoolery at the Actors Playhouse, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, The Fantasticks, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Something's Afoot, Pirates of Penzance, and Smoke On The Mountain with the Worcester Foothills Theatre, and the world premieres of The Orphan Queen at the Jewish Theatre of New England and Monsters the Musical at Centastage. Some credits as a keyboardist and pit musician include Nunsense Jamboree (national tour with Georgia Engel, CD/DVD with Vicki Lawrence) and national tours of Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, Dreamgirls, and Guys and Dolls. An accomplished playwright, Steven has written History and Rosie, the Teddy Bear (Brooklyn Publishers), Cutting the Leash (JAC Publishing), Have a Seat, Please, and Marvin and Julius (Heuer Publishing). He has also composed musical scores for The Curse is Reversed!, Jack The Ripper: The Whitechapel Musical, Four Kisses and Perfect Sync. Member of the Theater Communications Group (TCG), the Dramatists Guild, MENC, and MTA. By day, Steven serves as Drama and Choral Director for the Littleton Public Schools. Visit him online at www.everydayaholiday.net.

STEPHANIE C. MAVRIDES (Executive Producer, Co-Founder) Stephanie Mavrides is the Founding Director of International Dance Project and Co-Founder of ACTS. As a graduate of Suffolk University and Emerson College, Stephanie has performed with Edward Villella, the National Ballet Of Greece, The Athens Ballet, Dimitri Ivanov Ballet, Boston Chamber Dance Ensemble, Bay State Ballet, Copley Square Ballet Company, as well as in numerous musicals, cabarets, television specials, concerts and fashion shows. She has also coordinated and produced major seminars, dance concerts and musicals with noted artists both domestically and abroad. Stephanie is a recipient of The Capezio Award for Excellence for Choreography.

LENNI KMIEC (Choreographer, Alumni Director) Lenni is a junior musical theatre major/dance minor at Wagner College in New York. She has choreographed shows at ACTS, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma!, 42nd Street, The Wiz, Honk! Jr, Godspell, Oliver, and Annie; and elsewhere at Turtle Lane Summer Workshop, Waltham Drama Camp, The Broccoli Hall School, and The Rivers High School/Middle School. Favorite onstage roles include Maria in West Side Story, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Ti Moune in Once on this Island, Ariel in Footloose, Jen in John & Jen, Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, and Precious in Steel Pier. Lenni has also worked with the American Repertory Theatre, New England Conservatory, Boston Lyric Opera, and was placed third in the musical theatre national NATS competition. This past summer, Lenni appeared in the Reagle Players’ Summer Season 2009 and she will be returning this summer for Mame and La Cage aux Folles.

JOHN MACKENZIE (Scenic & Lighting Design) John MacKenzie serves as the resident scenic designer at Turtle Lane Playhouse. His work has appeared on New England stages since 1976, he has designed scenery and lighting for dozens of theatre and dance companies throughout the region. He is the recipient of both the IRNE Award and EMACT/DASH Award for his work. Directorial credits include Man of La Mancha, Twelfth night, Fall of the Home of Usher, Celebration, Strange Snow, and Dames At Sea. John was president of the Hovey Players for six years. He was most recently nominated for an IRNE Award for his set design of Into the Woods with Turtle Lane. He makes his return to ACTS after serving as set, lighting, and projection designer for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and lighting designer for 42^nd Street and High School Musical.

KRISTIN LUNDIN (Costume Design) Kristin’s past credits with ACTS include costume design/coordination and for Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42^nd Street, Oklahoma!, and Children of Eden; she was also a costume assistant for The Wiz. She has performed and created costumes for renaissance theater in both Massachusetts and Texas. She was also nominated for an EMACT/DASH Award for her set dressing of the Wellesley Players’ production of The Sound of Music. She lives in Chelmsford with her daughter, Erica, and works professionally in the computer field.