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JEANNE L. AUSTIN* as EricaKroner PAUL MEACHAM* as Stanley Kroner DAVID VOLIN as the Lawyer (*Members of Actors Equity Association) |
| JEANNE
L. AUSTIN(Erica Kroner)--
a member of Actors’ Equity Assoc. and a valued member of Tri-State's professional
ensemble, returns for a sixth season. Ms. Austin began Season
2001 by performing several roles in TAT's second annual New Plays Reading
Series. She will be featured during the mainstage season in the
title role of Erica in ERICA'S
LAST MISSION, a provocative new play by award-winning Canadian
Playwright, Tevia Abrams; and will play Mary, an intrepid and experienced
19th century explorer in ON THE VERGE, or
The Geography of Yearning, by Eric Overmyer. She played Ruth
in Season 2000's COLLECTED STORIES,Jeanne
in ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED
IN KINDERGARTEN, and performed in Tri-State's first
New
Plays Reading Series. Other TAT productions
include Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, THREE
TALL WOMEN as A, THE GLASS MENAGERIE
as Amanda, Aunt Ruth in MARVIN'S
ROOM and Maggie in DANCING AT
LUGHNASA. She has appeared in regional, stock and dinner
theaters in roles ranging from Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT to Big
Mama in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. A member of SAG and AFTRA, Ms. Austin
has made radio and television commercials, was in the TV mini-series
WOMEN
IN WHITE, and had featured roles in the motion pictures THE FUNHOUSE,
STUCKEY'S
LAST STAND, and MOTHER AND CHILD. During the school year, she
is the troupe trainer and performs as a puppeteer with an educational puppet
troupe, KIDS ON THE BLOCK. Ms. Austin also directs the One Accord Choir,
a vocal ensemble of developmentally disabled adults sponsored by SCARC.
Since 1984, Ms. Austin has been producing one-woman plays under the name
HerStory Productions, based on the lives of historic women, and most recently,
WE LIVE BY THE WHISTLE, commissioned by the Sterling Hill Mining Museum.
Ms. Austin and her husband live in Augusta, NJ, where they are restoring
a 19th century farmhouse and tending a herd of cashmere goats. |
| PAUL
MEACHAM ( Stanley Kroner)--
Mr. Meacham is the founder and artistic director of TRI-STATE ACTORS
THEATER, for which he has directed DANCING
AT LUGHNASA, MARVIN'S
ROOM, THE GLASS MENAGERIE,
I
HATE HAMLET, A CHRISTMAS
CAROL, THREE TALL
WOMEN, COLLECTED STORIES,
the
musical adaptation of Robert Fulghum's ALL
I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN. He has just completed
the production of season 2001's THE
BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE and
will direct this season's ON THE VERGE.
He has staged many children's musicals, including
WINNIE
THE POOH, CHARLOTTE'S
WEB and THE WIND
IN THE WILLOWS. He has directed and appeared
professionally as an actor for nearly thirty years. Mr. Meacham performed
Off-Broadway with Frank Langella and Diane Wiest in Arthur Miller's
AFTER
THE FALL;
in
FIGHTING BOB, which he also produced; in
the long-running hit, THE PASSION OF DRACULA; and was a member
of the acting company of the Classic Stage Company(two years), playing
featured roles in TWELFTH NIGHT, THE TEMPEST, THE HOMECOMING, THE LADY'S
NOT FOR BURNING, WOYZECK, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDERNSTERN ARE DEAD and
others. He was a founding member of the innovative WPA Theater, where he
acted and directed for five seasons including directing the musical,
CHARLATANS,
for
which he wrote the book and lyrics, and Tevia Abrams' AND NO CEREMONY.
On television, he has appeared in commercials and on "soaps," including
ONE
LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN, and adapted and produced
Edgar Allen Poe's WILLIAM WILSON for the small screen. His films
include HOODLUMS; PRINCE OF THE CITY; THE EYES OF LAURA
MARS, THE GATE and others. He has performed coast to coast in
regional theaters including Milwaukee Repertory Theater[three years](FIGHTING
BOB,
the premiere of David Mamet's LAKE BOAT, A CHRISTMAS
CAROL, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, BORN YESTERDAY); Barter Theater(YOU
CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU); Pennsylvania Stage (EQUUS);
Cohoes Music Hall (two years)(DEATH OF A SALESMAN, OF MICE AND
MEN, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST); George Street Playhouse
(COUNT
DRACULA, MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION); Virginia Stage (THE CRUCIBLE,
A CHRISTMAS CAROL); Missouri Repertory Theater (SIXTEEN STRINGS
OF CASH, a 6th century Chinese opera directed by the renowned
Chinese actor and director, Yeng Ruo-Ching); and New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival (TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR, HENRY VIII). Since founding Tri-State Actors Theater--then
Ranger Summer Theater--in 1988, he has appeared as John Barrymore
in
I HATE HAMLET and
was the Narrator in A CHRISTMAS
CAROL. During last season, he appeared in, and directed two
of the play-readings in TAT's first NEW PLAYS READING SERIES. He
will appear in Tevia Abrams new play, ERICA'S
LAST MISSION in season 2001. He has directed and produced over
twenty-five student productions at Wallkill Valley High School, where he
teaches English and is director(emeritus) of Ranger Theater, the student
theater of Wallkill Valley. Mr. Meacham is a member of Actors
Equity Association, AFTRA, Screen
Actors Guild, and The Educational
Theatre Association. |
| DAVID VOLIN (the Lawyer)--joins
the acting company in his inaugural season with featured roles in two productions--
the
Lawyer in ERICA'S LAST MISSION,
a new play by Tevia Abrams, and Grover, the Yeti, Alphonse
and others in ON THE VERGE, or
The Geography of Yearning, by Eric Overmyer. Mr.Volin's
credits include Alan, RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (New Jersey Repertory Company);
Hugh,
TRANSLATIONS, and Mr. Paravincini,THE MOUSETRAP (Shadow Lawn Summer
Stage); Otto Frank, THE STORY OF ANNE FRANK; Yank, THE HAIRY APE;
Roxy
Gottlieb, GOLDEN BOY; Marquis De Sade, MARAT/SADE; several plays for
the White Buffalo Theatre Company, for which he was co-founder and artistic
director; the Chekhov Acting Company, and others. He has several films
to his credit, including leads in FIDELIO and THE CODE. He is a graduate
of NYU with a BFA in Drama, and has studied acting with Julie Garfield,
Beatrice Straight, and Ted Pugh; and improvisation with Judy Nazemetz and
Christopher Oyen. Prior to joining TAT's acting company, Mr. Volin
spent two months with the Bloomberg Theatre Ensemble performing in ARCADIA
by Tom Stoppard. |
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