Christopher Gabriel (actor) appeared as the White Othello in the Carlyle Brown & Company Production of The Masks of Othello. He has studied acting with the likes of John Houseman, Michael Kahn, John Barton and Timothy Douglas. His other appearances include the Edinburgh International Festival; Off-Broadway at LaMama e.t.c., HERE Arts Center, 18th Street Playhouse and the Atlantic Theater Company; Locally and Regionally at Stratford Festival Theater, Shakespeare on the Square, Beverly Hills Playhouse, Park Square Theatre, and Old Log Theater. His wife Wendy Gabriel was Carlyle Brown & Company's first volunteer and graphic artist and will serve on the Company's Board of Directors.
Gavin Lawrence (actor) first worked with Company founder Carlyle Brown in the title role of the world premier of Buffalo Hair at Penumbra Theatre in 1994, and again as the blind beggar Ngurane Sarr in the Children's Theatre Company's production of The Beggars' Strike in 2002. His first appearance in a Carlyle Brown & Company production will be as Langston Hughes in the multi-media solo show, Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been, currently in development. Gavin is also a playwright and musician. His credits include the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Missouri Rep, Pillsbury House Theatre, Lincoln Center, Source Theatre, and City Theatre in Pittsburgh.
Reid Rejsa (sound designer) designed the sound for The Fula From America.
He has designed sound for The Jungle Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Ordway/McKnight Theater, Frank Theatre, Mixed Blood, The Guthrie Lab, Penumbra Theatre, Eye of the Storm, The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company and others. He was Master Sound Technician for the Children's Theatre Company for ten years, where he designed 30 productions. He has worked as a recording engineer, live sound technician, guitarist and as an audio engineer for KARE-11 News Saturday.
Gwendolyn Schwinke (actor) played the multiple roles of Tamora from Titus Andronicus, Portia from The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona from Othello in the Company's production of The Masks of Othello. She will appear again in the ensemble of the Company's upcoming production of Smith & Brown. As well as an actor she is a playwright whose work has been produced at Red Eye, Cheap Theatre, the Walker Art Center, The Southern Theatre, Intermedia Arts and The Playwrights' Center. She is a teacher of voice and acting and a certified Feldenkrais Movement instructor.
Louise Smith (actor) has been an actor, writer, and solo performer for over twenty-five years. Best know for her work with Ping Chong & Company and her 1990 Bessie Award winning performance for Ping Chong's Brightness, she has worked with Julie Taymor as Ariel in The Tempest, with Anne Bogart in the Obie Award winning production of No Plays No Poetry, with Liz Swados in The Haggadah, Meredith Monk in Venice Milan/Chacconne and Mercy. Her original solo work has been seen around the country and she directed Carlyle in The Fula From America, and is featured in their upcoming collaboration Smith & Brown. She is head of the Theater Department at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where Carlyle was artist-in-residence over four consecutive fall semesters teaching playwriting and developing new work.
Mike Wangen (lighting designer) who first worked with founder Carlyle
Brown in the Penumbra Theatre production of Buffalo Hair. He designed
both of the Company's productions Masks of Othello and The Fula From America. He has been a working lighting designer for over twenty years.
His work has been seen at The Jungle Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and Pillsbury House Theatre. He was resident designer at Penumbra Theatre for twelve years and designed over fifty productions. He is currently lighting director at the Fitzgerald Theatre and serves as lighting designer for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. His modest goal is to become known as the best light man in radio.
James A. Williams (actor) first worked with founder Carlyle Brown in the role of Tambo in The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show at Penumbra Theatre in 1986; and again in the following year he created the role of Billy Brown in Penumbra's production of The African Company Presents Richard III. Mr. Williams went on to direct a production of Tommy Parker at St. Louis Black Repertory Company. He played the Chief of Police in The Children's Theatre Company production of Carlyle Brown's The Beggars' Strike and the Black Othello in the Carlyle Brown & Company production of Masks of Othello. He will appear in the ensemble of the Company's upcoming production of Smith & Brown. He is a founding member of Penumbra Theatre Company, an associate artist with Pillsbury House Theatre and was a member of the resident company at the Guthrie Theater. He has been active actor in the Twin Cities theater scene since 1977.
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