The Ensemble...
Glen Coffman is a founding member of Winding Road Theater Ensemble. His Tucson directing credits include Mixed Messages for Borderlands Theatre, Of Mice and Men for Beowulf Alley, and Holy Spirit on Grand Avenue, Lemon Sky and Picnic for Live Theatre Workshop. Independent productions include That Slut! and New House, New Dog. At the University of Arizona he directed productions of Tracers and Trojan Women. For Winding Road he directed our inaugural production Dorothy Parker's Last Call, as well as The Lion in Winter, Fifth of July and A Human Equation. As an actor he has performed locally in Love, Valor, Compassion, The Laramie Project, White People and Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s production of Armor. Email: grtomahawk@q.com
Amy Erbe relocated to Tucson in 1996 from New Jersey. Amy's WRTE roles have included Sally Talley in Talley's Folly, Alyce in The Lion in Winter and Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Some of her other favorite roles here in Arizona include Lin in The Great American Trailerpark Musical (2010 MAC nominee for best actress in a musical) Artie in Eleemosynary, Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men, Jennet Humphrey in The Woman in Black, Chantal in The Balcony, Miss O’Callahan in The Dead, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Witch in Into the Woods and Kathy in The Last Five Years. She has been privileged to act in two of Toni Press-Coffman’s brilliant plays, Holy Spirit on Grand Avenue (Celeste) and New House, New Dog (Suzanne). Amy performed Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the TFACTE Chamber Orchestra and also served as vocal director for the Catalina Foothills High School production of A Chorus Line. Email: aerbe@sprint.blackberry.net Email: aerbe@sprint.blackberry.net
Terry Erbe is the theatre director at Catalina Foothills High School, where he has directed over thirty plays and produced many more. Terry works frequently in the Tucson area as an actor and director. Some of his most notable acting roles include Henry II in WRTE’s The Lion in Winter, Johnny in WRTE’s Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune, George in Of Mice and Men for Beowulf Alley, the Tucson premieres of Toni Press-Coffman’s New House, New Dog (as Jackson) and That Slut (as Ray), David in Social Security at Live Theatre Workshop, ensemble roles in The Exonerated and Leaving Iowa and Victor Fleming in Moonlight and Magnolias for the Invisible Theatre. Some of Terry’s recent directing credits include Prelude to a Kiss and A Perfect Ganesh at Live Theatre Workshop, The Woman in Black at Beowulf Alley, The Last Five Years for Timberwolf Productions, Summer and Smoke for Pima Community College and Love! Valour! Compassion! for Panoramic Productions. Email: terbe@cfsd16.org
Christopher Johnson is proudly in his fifth season as the Artistic Director of Etcetera, the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop where he has directed The Book of Liz, The Wizards Have Landed, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Say You Love Satan, Robots Vs. Fake Robots (2010 MAC Award nomination - Best Director), Killer Joe (2010 MAC Award nomination - Best Director), Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2010 MAC Award nomination - Best Director), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me, The Penis Monologues, Savage in Limbo, Bug, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Titus Andronicus. Notable acting roles with Etcetera include Jailbait, Dying CIty, Kimbery Akimbo, The Eating Disorder Talent Show, Mr. Marmalade, Kittty, Kitty, Kitty, Hedwig & The Angry Inch - 2009 MAC Award nomination - Best Actor, Dog Sees God, Sweet Eros, Fat Pig, The Baltimore Waltz, Tape, and Corpus Christi. Select mainstage roles at LTW include The Santaland Diaries, Cloud 9, Lemon Sky - 2009 MAC Award Nomination - Best Actor, A Perfect Ganesh, Baby with the Bathwater, and The Mousetrap. Christopher has performed elsewhere with Winding Road Theater Ensemble (Fifth of July, The Lion in Winter, Armor), Borderlands Theatre (Yamaha 3000), Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre (Antony & Cleopatra, Camino Real), Invisible Theatre (Swimming in the Shadows), Brachiate Theatre Project (Macbeth) and Tucson’s Shakespeare Under The Stars (Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet). In 2011, Christopher was nominated for the Buffalo Exchange Arts Award for Emerging Performance Artists in Arizona.
Toni Press-Coffman was born and raised the Bronx. She has lived in 14 cities in the United States and done artist residencies in 11 more. She has written 20 plays, which have been produced throughout the country, including in New York, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Portland (OR), Tucson, Columbus, Miami and Baltimore. She has had work developed at the Sundance Institute (All Ye Faithful), Playlabs (Trucker Rhapsody), the Minneapolis' Playwrights Center (Touch), and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Stand). She has received commissions from the National New Play Network, the Sloan Foundation, Bloomington Playwrights Project, and the Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis). Both Touch and Holy Spirit On Grand Avenue won the Arizona State Playwriting Award. Toni resumed acting in the late 90’s at Tucson’s Damesrocket Theater in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Since then she has acted in several Tucson productions. Her most challenging role to date was at Indianapolis’ Phoenix Theatre, playing Sylvia Rivera, a male to female tranny who led the fight to guarantee the transgender community’s civil rights until her death in 2002. Email: tpplay@q.com.
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