It's About Time Theater
Inspiring, Showcasing, Educating and Supporting Women through Theater
We can do it!
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Diane Mountford (Director) |
Diane Mountford (Director) serves as Artistic Director of the Minnesota Shakespeare Project, for whom she has recently directed productions of The Merchant of Venice and T+C: A Riff on Shakespeare, Troy, and the War on Love. Diane has also appeared as an actor with MSP in many roles, including Lady Macbeth, Titania and Beatrice.
Diane was a founding member of the Los Angeles Women?s Shakespeare Company before moving to Minneapolis in 1997. She has played male roles in no less than eight productions, and has led cross-gender acting workshops in California and Minnesota.
She has also had the pleasure of playing the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet in Words and Music, a concert for four actors and symphony orchestra. The concert has been staged by the Minnesota Orchestra (Sommerfest 2005), the Long Island Symphony, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra in Virginia, the Metropolitan Symphony and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony.
In addition to Shakespeare, Diane has extensive experience with musical theatre. She is currently rehearsing the role of the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, and has appeared in Oklahoma at the Ordway Music Theatre, as Mabel in the Pirates of Penzance at the Occidental Theatre Festival, and as Jenny in Company at the Laguna Playhouse.
Diane will be creating a new stage version of the Grimms fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses for the 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
In addition to a theatre degree from Dartmouth College, Diane furthered her study of Shakespearean acting in London and at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA.
When not up to her ears in learning lines, blocking scenes, making props, writing grants, booking tours, and other theatre-related projects, Diane is an avid gardener, amateur pastry chef and surrogate mom to three fabulous felines.
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Cheryl Thorson (Stage Manager) |
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Mark Wojahn (Sound Design/Composition, Sound Editor) |
Mark Wojahn is a name you will not soon forget. His talent in music goes back to his young childhood where he sang at his mothers wedding at 5 years old. He plays a variety of instruments including: Piano, Guitar, Flute... Oh, and American Idol... next season.... you better be ready for me. Composing and recording music are Mark's greatest passions in life. He has just received his A.S. in Music Technology at Rochester Community and Technical College and will be going on to get his B.A. in '07. | |
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Zoe Malichoc (Lighting Designer) |
A recent graduate of Wells college with an ABA in Performing Arts, Zoe became involved with IAT during 12TH NIGHT as a lighting intern. She also stage-managed for Vertigo theatre Factory’s BOUND, as well as Directing the recent production of DEAR GEORGE - LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT. In New York, Zoe directed plays, including I AM by Gertrude Stein, Beckett’s ACT WITHOUT WORDS, CABARET and chaired the Kastalia Honois Theatre Society. She choreographed 3 works for the Wells Dance Collective, and sang in concert choir, and performed in many mainstage productions, including Moliere’s THE SCHEMINGS OF SCAPIN. Zoe has interned with the Mary Go Round Youth Theatre, Commonweal, The Kitchen Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath. Zoe is employed at Mayo. | |
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Midge McCloy (Music Composer/Arrangements) |
Midge McCloy loves composing for singers and instrumentalists, and is thrilled to be working with It’s About Time Theater! She received a music degree from the University of Minnesota in 1986 as a music therapist and pianist and has composed independently for many years. She has studied composition privately for the past several years with Minneapolis-based composers Laura Caviani, Libby Larsen and Carol Barnett and her works have been performed extensively around the Twin Cities. A recent song cycle, “Why Still Dance?” on texts by poet Phebe Hanson, and performed by mezzo-soprano Janis Hardy and pianist Ann Buran, was chosen for Sound Check, a new concert series sponsored by the American Composers Forum and The Southern Theater, Minneapolis. “Letting Go,” a song cycle for treble chorus, received its world premiere this spring by the Seven Gifts vocal ensemble, and used texts by poets Jane Kenyon, Ted Kooser and Bill Holm. Her newest work, Cello Suite, will be premiered by cellist Sandra Haines and pianist Nanch Lichtenstein at Thursday Musical in October. She teaches composition and piano to private students in her Minneapolis studio. | |
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Coralee Grebe (Assistant to the Director, Set Construction, Costume Design, Playbill) |
For the past 18 years, Coralee has been a free-lance writer, playwright, community theater and professional actor, digital film maker and director. She has performed more than 50 roles for local theaters, industrials, commercials and film. Favorite stage roles include Maggie in DANCING AT LUGHNASA, Betty in BETTY THE YETI, Edith Mayo in THE TWO MRS. MAYOS and Jake in STONES IN HIS POCKETS. Coralee has also chaired theater events, such as “10 Minute Test Drives” and “Scenes from an Exhibition.” She is the recipeint of the Joe Saidy Award from the Rochester Civic Theatre, and served as Theater Liason for Rochester’s Sesquicentennial Committee. In a previous life, Coralee was a research chemist. In this life, she is the devoted partner of Ray Bills. She is IAT’s Artistic Director and President of its Board of Directors. In her spare time, you might find her at the poker table. If you have a lot of spare money, sit on down, and maybe we’ll get this theater funded after all. | |
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Ray Bills (Grid Boy, Web Updates) |
Ray shares his passion for It’s About Time Theater and it’s mission to inspire, showcase, educate and support women through theater with his wife, Coralee. Ray’s many performance and technical credits include most local theaters. Ray directed IAT’s production of STONES IN HIS POCKETS and his film, CALLING ALL SUSPECTS won the 2002 Happy Penguin Film Festival Award. He is the Managing Director and Treasurer of IAT and would like all the men reading this to know that, yes, men should value women too! | |
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Rue Wiegand (Graphic Design) |
Rue did the graphic design for AS YOU LIKE IT and QUILTERS with It's About Time Theater and runs her own graphics design business, Designs By Rue 507-281-1005. |
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