Creative Team Interim President and CEO: Vince Stango VP of Visitor Experience & Education: Kerry Sautner Director of Theatre Programs: Nora Quinn Director & Artistic Director: David Bradley Scriptwriter: Larry Loebell Sound Design: Christopher Colucci & Mark Valenzuela Costume Design: Rosemary McKelvey Lighting Designer: Terry Smith Theatre Programs Manager: Robin Stamey Theatre Programs Associate: Claire Berger Cast Actor 1: Caroline Crocker Actor 2: Katie Keith Actor 3: William Toussaint Understudies: Karina Balfour, Dax Richardson, Isa St. Clair		Listen to a Sample Track. Play above or Download: MP3 | WAV | WMA

Administration

Nora E. Quinn (Director of Theatre Programs) Mrs. Quinn is the Director of Theatre programs at the National Constitution Center and has been with the Center since 2003 when she was brought onboard to help produce and manage the award winning show Freedom Rising. She heads the department as Artistic Director of all theatre programming and is the original creator behind Living News, the Gallery Theatre Series, The Fall 2011 theatre Exhibition hybrid Fighting for Democracy and produces several other performing arts programs at the museum year round along with creating curriculum based performing arts and civic learning programs. She is a professional Theatre Artist, Manager and Museum Educator. Nora’s work includes Directing, Dramaturgy, Design, Acting, Teaching and Theater Management. When not at the Center, she has been a professor of theatre arts at Arcadia University, Community College of Philadelphia, a guest lecturer at University of the Arts in both the Museum Studies and Theatre programs and serves nationally as a consultant on integrating theater and museum programming . Nora was named one of Philadelphia’s top 76 creative connectors by Leadership Philadelphia in 2011. She has worked extensively in the Philadelphia, East Coast Professional Theatre, and Folk Music communities including Radio City Productions, Arden Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Theatre Exile, People’s Light and Theatre, Mum Puppettheatre, Center Stage, Americans For the Arts, Broadway on Broadway, Folger Theatre, Azuka Theatre ( Co-Founder), White Pines productions, Philadelphia Folk Song Society, National Folk Alliance, Canadian Folk Alliance, TEA, NERFA, USITT and others. Nora is a graduate of the nationally recognized Arden Professional Apprentice Program. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association, American Association of Theater and Education and the International Museum Theatre Alliance. She currently sits on a committee for defining best practices in Museum Theatre and presents frequently at the Annual American Association of Museum Conference. Nora holds a B.F.A. from Penn State University and a MA from Villanova University both in Theater Arts Performance, Theory and Management.

David Bradley (Director and Artistic Director) is a Philadelphia-based theater artist, arts educator and consultant. He’s been Artistic Director of Living News since the project began in 2006 and in addition to directing the piece has helped create its curriculum and teacher training materials. He was also Co-Artistic Director and performance director for the NCC’s exhibit/performance hybrid Fighting for Democracy. A long-time company member at People’s Light and Theatre outside Philadelphia, David has directed more than two dozen productions there and for four years was Associate Artistic Director, jointly leading its arts education programs. People’s Light productions include Of Mice and Men, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Doubt, The Crucible, The Giver, Young Lady From Rwanda and Holes. He’s directed frequently at Indiana Repertory Theatre and has also directed at Children’s Theatre Company. His play What’s Now, What’s Next? was commissioned by Scholastic, Inc. as part of their exploration of youth civic engagement. David is co-founder of LiveConnections, which creates multi-generational, cross-genre music programs at World Cafe Live. He works regularly with Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and his arts education work has included collaborations with the Rosenbach Museum, Spiral Q Puppet Theater, Art-Reach and numerous urban, suburban and special needs schools across the region. He’s been a consulting artist for the Animating Democracy Initiative of Americans for the Arts, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and CultureWorks Philadelphia. David has led panels on art and civic dialogue in the U.S. and Mexico and is President of the Board of Shakespeare in Clark Park. He has taught at University of the Arts and Arcadia Universtiy and is a graduate of Yale University.

Larry Loebell (Scriptwriter) is a Philadelphia playwright, screen writer, dramaturg, and teacher. His plays include The Dostoyevsky Man, The Portrait Master, The Shanghai Kaddish, House Divided, La Tempestad, The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, and Pride of the Lion. La Tempestad, House Divided, and Girl Science are published by IndieTheaterNow, and Pride of the Lion, by Playscripts.com. Published short plays in regular production include Angie and Arnie Sanguine, But Who’s Counting, and Just Before the War Between the Plates, all published by Playscripts.com. Monologues and scenes from his plays have been published by Applause Books, Smith and Krauss Books, and Playscripts. He has been awarded four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Playwriting, an EST/Sloan Science Foundation grant, a new play commission from the National Council for Jewish Culture. He has written film documentaries on historical and scientific subjects, and has also written (and received Emmy recognition) for work on the children’s television show Rugrats. He was commissioned by the National Thomas Paine Society to write a biographical play about Paine, which premiered in Paine’s home town of Thetford, England. In addition to Living News, Larry wrote the monologues spoken by the signers of the Constitution which Constitution Center visitors can hear on audio tours of Signers Hall. He teaches playwriting at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA, and film history at University of the Arts.

Robin Stamey (Theatre Programs Manager) Robin is a graduate of Arcadia University where she earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts. While at Arcadia, she competed in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her lighting design of Samm-Art Williams' Home, for which she won regionally and received an honorable mention at the national level. In addition to working on many shows in various capacities at Arcadia, she has recently worked with Band of Artists, Theatre Confetti, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, and Azuka Theatre, among others. She is also the production manager and resident designer for The Renegade Company.

Claire Berger (Theatre Programs Associate)Claire Berger (Theatre Programs Associate) Claire recently graduated from Arcadia University, earning a degree in Theatre and English. She is proud to say that she is currently working full time in the arts. When not at the Center, Claire is a teaching artist in the South Jersey area, working with companies such as Mainstage Center for the Arts, and at local high schools. Claire also works on the weekends with Theatre Horizon, participating in their Autism Drama Outreach Program.

Christopher Colucci (Sound Design) makes sound and music as a theater artist, composer and guitarist. He has designed for the Living News since it's inception in 2006. In 2011, Christopher received his fourth Barrymore award for Outstanding Original Music and Sound Design for In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Wilma Theater). Special Thanks to Nora, David, Allison and the entire Living News team past and present for six wonderful years!

Mark Valenzuela (Sound Design) is a Philadelphia based Sound Designer, and is thrilled to be making his NCC debut with Living News. Design credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, InterAct Theatre, 11th Hour Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, Delaware Theatre Company, Lantern Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Walnut Street Studio 3, Flashpoint Theatre, and Villanova, Drexel, Temple and Arcadia Universities. He was a part of 11th Hour Theatre Company’s Barrymore Award winning ensemble for The Bomb-itty of Errors, and has received 2 Barrymore Award nominations for Outstanding Sound Design. Mark grew up in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky, and holds a BA in English and Theater from Georgetown University.

Rosemarie McKelvey (Costume Designer) is a Philadelphia based costume designer. Locally Rosemarie designs for The Arden Theatre Co., People’s Light and Theatre Co., Delaware Theatre Co., The Wilma Theatre Company, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, New Paradise Labs, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, The Curtis Institute of Music, Drexel University, Villanova University, Azuka, and Pig Iron. Regionally Rosemarie has designed for The Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Connelly Theatre and 59E59 in NYC. Rosemarie is a five time Barrymore Award Nominee and was awarded in 2007 for Caroline or Change and 2009 for Something Intangible both produced by The Arden Theatre Co. Rosemarie attended the 2011 Prague Quadrennial Festival of Performance and Design with the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and was granted a fellowship through the Independence Foundation to travel to London and investigate what new advances in technology and science are being used in various art and design fields particularly textile, sculpture and Performance. Outside of her design work Rosemarie is an adjunct professor at Moore College of Art & Design in the Fashion Design department. For more please visit rosemariemckelvey.com.



Cast


Caroine Crocker (Cast) is thrilled to be joining the Living News team. Previous credits includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delaware Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre), The Dutchman (inVersion Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dancing At Lughnasa, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, and the world premiere of O Beautiful (Resident Ensemble Players), Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Pride and Prejudice (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Tartuffe (Texas Shakespeare Festival), King Lear, The Voysey Inheritance (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night, The Belle’s Stratagem, and Napoli Milionaria! (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She is a proud graduate of the Professional Theatre Training Program (MFA) at the University of Delaware.

Katie Keith (Cast) Katie is incredibly excited to be returning to the cast of Living News. She has been a part of the team since 2009 and is honored to be involved in such an innovative and thought-provoking piece of theater. As a theatre artist in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area, Katie’s work has included Directing, Choreography, Acting, Design, Teaching, and Stage Management. As an actor, some of her favorite credits include Edna in Waiting For Lefty, Lily in Carnival, Ariel in The Tempest, Witch in Into the Woods, and Wendy in Peter Pan. Currently, she is the Program Director and Choreographer for Mainstage’s Harmony Show Choir as well as the Administrative Assistant and Director for their Children’s Theater Program. Educating young artists and embracing theatre as a means to help young people develop who they are, is what drives each project Katie is involved in. Katie graduated summa cum laude from Arcadia University with a B.F.A in Acting.

William Toussaint (Cast) ) is a native of Atlanta, GA and came to Philadelphia three years ago. Upon his arrival he pursued a BFA in Acting at the University of the Arts for two years before leaving in 2011. Theatre Credits Include: Collision Project (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), Brainstorm Project (University of the Arts), and Mark in Dog Sees God (New Hope Players). Other credits include an apprenticeship in The Winter’s Tale (Delaware Shakespeare Festival), Benvolio/Balthasar in Romeo and Juliet (Willpower Tour Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), and George in Stop Kiss (Philadelphia Fringe 2012). William has also had the pleasure of creating young theatre productions with a company he started called Passion Plays Theatre Company. He produced and directed a staged reading of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean in the spring of 2012. William also won 1st place in the August Wilson Monologue Competition, hosted by True Color’s Theatre Company, in 2008. The next year he went on to win 2nd place nationally in that same competition. There was later a documentary made about the competition entitled The Start of Dreams and featured Kenny Leon, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and more. Currently, William continues constant training in the Meisner acting Technique and the Williamson movement technique.

Understudies

Karina BalfourKarina Balfour, originally from California, received her B.A. in Acting from CSU Fresno and her M.F.A. in Acting Pedagogy from the University of Alabama. Since moving to Philadelphia, her credits have included Awesome Alliteration (Betamale Productions), Evil Dead: The Musical (Bootless Stageworks), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eagle Theatre),Terrorism (New City Stage), Black Coffee (Hedgerow Theatre), A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical (Renegade Theatre), Artaud Unbound, Company and Play (EgoPo), A Gravedigger's Tale (B.Someday Productions), Dracula (Tribe of Fools), The In My Body Project, Tony and Tina's Wedding and Bye Bye Liver. Karina also teaches Acting at the Community College of Philadelphia and is thrilled to be a part of the Living News team.