The Ghost Road Company

THE ENSEMBLE		THE BOARD
Ronnie Clark Kimberly Glann Christel Joy Johnson Katharine Noon Mark Seldis Brian Weir Ronald E. Wingate		Katharine Noon Mark Seldis Sara Loe

ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Sarah Broyles Cathy Carlton Patty Cornell Cricket Myers Pamela Shaw Dan Weingarten Maureen Weiss Chris Wojcieszyn

RONNIE CLARK <Back to Top>

Ronnie Clark joined the Ghost Road Company ensemble in 2007 with Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project in the role of Orestes. In 2008 and 2009, he portrayed both Orestes and Agamemnon in Ghost Road’s Home Siege Home trilogy at [Inside the Ford], as well as the various parts of the trilogy at the Getty Villa and on tour. Previously, he had worked on Ghost Road's production of The Tempest in 1998 as Caliban. For five seasons, he performed with Arizona Classical Theatre as part of the Arizona Shakespeare Festival, inhabiting such roles as Benedick, Orlando, Mercutio, Malvolio, and Titus Andronicus, in addition to helming their acclaimed production of Macbeth. In the Los Angeles area, he has been seen on the classical stages of A Noise Within and Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, as well as the "new works" stages of Moving Arts. A native of Southern California, he received his B.A. in Theatre from Humboldt State University (1993) and his M.F.A. in Acting from CalArts(1996).

KIMBERLY GLANN <Back to Top>

Kimberly Glann is thrilled to be the newest member of The Ghost Road Company. An Ohio native, she graduated from Otterbein College, with a BFA in performance theatre. A producer, actor and director, Kimberly earned her Los Angeles theatre chops as a member of the Moving Arts theatre company, where she has been a company member for the past decade, leading the company as its Artistic Director from 2002 to 2005. While at Moving Arts, Kimberly discovered a love for new work -- producing, directing and acting in numerous World Premiere productions. Kimberly produced the World Premiere of EM Lewis’ Song of Extinction, which was the inaugural production of [Inside] the Ford’s Winter Partnership Program and went on to win the LA Weekly Award for Best Production of 2008. 2009 was a productive year for Kimberly, who performed in Handcrafted Healing for the LA Women’s Theatre Project 20% New Works Festival and in All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go, 50 times over four days, for The Car Plays 2009; directed the Car Play Blindspot; and produced both a revival of The Mystery of Irma Vep and Flight: An Evening of Short Plays by EM Lewis. Glann’s business experience includes working as a legal secretary and as a publicity associate at the independent film public relations firm Clein + White, Inc. and for Fox Searchlight Pictures.

CHRISTEL JOY JOHNSON <Back to Top>

Christel Joy Johnson became a Ghost Road Company ensemble member after playing the part of Electra in their 2007 production of Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project. After graduating from San Francisco State University with a BA in Theatre Arts, she moved on to work with Arizona Shakespeare Festival. A few roles there included Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lucius Andronicus in Titus Andronicus. She has also been seen in LA based Moving Arts productions of Infinite Black Suitcase and The Car Plays. In 2008 and 2009, she portrayed both Elektra and Athena in Ghost Road’s Home Siege Home trilogy at [Inside the Ford], as well as the various parts of the trilogy at the Getty Villa and on tour.

KATHARINE NOON <Back to Top>

Katharine Noon is the co-founder and artistic director of the Ghost Road Company. Projects include Elektra-La-La, (conceiver, writer, director), which performed in LA and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Tempest (adaptor, director) as well as collaborating with The Burglars of Hamm to create Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, (Backstage West Garland awards for playwriting and acting and nominated for production of the year by the LA Weekly) which performed at the Seattle and NY Fringe Festivals. The Clytemnestra Project (conceiver, co-writer and director) in collaboration with Theatre of NOTE. This play also performed at The Common Ground Festival at UCLA and has been singled out as one of the 10 best plays of 2001 by the LA Weekly. The Clytemnestra Project also performed at the Ko Festival at Amherst College in July 2003. Katharine co-wrote and performed in Ghost Roads’ Excavate the Monster, which performed at 24th Street Theatre in 2003. She also directed and Co-wrote (with Tamadhur Al-Aqeel) Four Dervishes, which premiered at 24th Street in 2004 and was presented at LATC in 2005. She has directed readings for EST/LA, the Dog Ear Collective, and Moving Arts, and directed the premiere of Laurel Ollstein’s The Dark Ages for Playwrights Arena in 2006. In 2006, she began developing an adaptation of The Eumenides. The subsequent play, Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project, was presented at the Powerhouse Theatre and then traveled to the Fury Factory Festival in San Francisco. Also in 2006 she co-directed and performed in Suzan-Lori Park’s 365 Days/365 Plays. In 2009, she reworked the entire Oresteia trilogy, presented Elektra on tour in NY and SF, Orestes at the Getty Villa, and premiered Home Siege Home, the entire trilogy, at [Inside] the Ford in spring 2009. Katharine is one of the Co-founders the Edge of the World Theater Festival and a professor in the Theatre Department at Loyola Marymount University where she recently directed Arabian Nights.

MARK SELDIS <Back to Top>

Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company with whom he co-created and directed the workshop productions of Excavate the Monster at 24th Street Theatre and Duck[t] Tape Soup at Shakespeare Festival/LA and the Diavolo space. Mark also produced the tour of Clyt at Home to Amherst, MA, the various incarnations of Ghost Road’ Four Dervishes and the ensemble’s Oresteia adaptation (including Orestes Remembered, Elektra, and Home Siege Home) in Los Angeles and on tour. In 2007, on behalf of Ghost Road he helped coordinate the Los Angeles productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days and co-directed Ghost Road's week of the play. He has directed world premieres of two of Ken Urban’s plays (Absence of Weather for Moving Arts at LATC in 2005 and Nibbler for Theatre of NOTE in 2009) and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From 2005-2007, he directed the LA Stage Alliance’s Ovation Awards Ceremony at the Orpheum Theatre. Mark was the Managing Director of The Actors’ Gang from 1990 to 2001 and produced over twenty of their plays, most memorably Hysteria, Mein Kampf, Euphoria, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella and Dreamplay. With the Gang he also co-directed Comings and Goings: An Evening of Beckett One-Acts and directed Cintra Wilson's XXX Love Act, for which he won a Backstage West Garland Award for Best Direction. He produced Andromache for The Evidence Room and About Productions’ Vox and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist for New Crime Productions. He also works in film, having served as Unit Manager on BOB ROBERTS and Associate Producer on DEAD MAN WALKING, and co-producer of the short film TURBANS for PBS and the low-budget feature THE WIZARD OF ID for writer-director Nancy Hower. In 1999 Seldis co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest. He currently serves as Production Manager, Education at The Music Center.

BRIAN WEIR <Back to Top>

For Ghost Road: Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project, Four Dervishes, Carrots for Hare, Sigismund, and the Duck[t] Tape Soup workshop. In 2008 and 2009, he portrayed Hermione in Ghost Road’s Home Siege Home trilogy at [Inside the Ford], as well as the various parts of the trilogy at the Getty Villa and on tour. Other LA Theatre includes: Zanna Don’t, Floyd Collins, The Bungler, Cabaret, Company, And the World Goes Round, Catch 22 (all for West Coast Ensemble). The Break Up Notebook, Mommy Mommy the Musical Musical (Hudson), Infinite Black Suitcase, The Car Plays (Moving Arts), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Classic Theatre Lab), The Memorandum (Odyssey), All Soul’s Trilogy (Playwright’s Arena), Sleeping With the Ambassador (Collage Dance Theatre), What’s Wrong with Angry (Celebration - GLAAD Nomination). Film: 29th and Gay, Rapid Guy Movement, Spanish Fly, Out on a Holiday. TV: You may have seen Brian making over fashion victims on the Style network’s How Do I Look?. Brian has an MFA from CalArts. Mr Weir is always honored to work with Mark, Katharine and the incredibly talented folks at Ghost Road.

RONALD E. WINGATE <Back to Top>

Ronald E. Wingate Jr. joined the company after playing "STARK" in its production of Cody Henderson's Carrots For Hare. Ron was also Assistant Director on Clyt at Home: The Clytemnestra Project. Subsequently, he helped create and appeared in several plays for Ghost Road, including Excavate the Monster, Four Dervishes, Duck[t] Tape Soup, and Orestes Remembered. In 2008 and 2009, he portrayed both Orestes and Apollo in Ghost Road’s Home Siege Home trilogy at [Inside the Ford], as well as the various parts of the trilogy at the Getty Villa and on tour. He is excited to be able to participate in and explore the art of theatre utilizing his love for life, stories, the eclectic, and the collaborative process. Ron has taught, written, and directed at Lansing Community College in his hometown of Lansing, MI. He is a graduate of St.John's College in Annapolis MD where he received a B.A. in Classical Literature and Philosophy and the California Institute of the Arts where he received his MFA in Theatre.

SARA LOE <Back to Top>

Sara Loe, an architect, is currently employed at USC School of Architecture where she is serving as the Assistant Director of the Master of Architecture Programs. In addition to teaching, she has collaborated on several projects since returning to Los Angeles in 1999 including a study of Charles Moore's Faculty Club at UC Santa Barbara with Tomko Woll Group Architects and the design development of the Madison Site Theater for Santa Monica City College with Renzo Zecchetto Architects. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, M. Loe was a Project Manager with Venturi Scott Brown & Associates in Philadelphia where she worked on a master planning study for a Theater and Fine Arts building at Franklin & Marshall College and acted as Project Architect during the construction of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience Laboratory at UCLA. In addition, she has worked with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners in Santa Monica on their Maryland Center for the Performing Arts and Anshen + Allen Architects in San Francisco on various institutional projects. Ms. Loe received her M Architecture I from UCLA and her BA from St. Olaf College in Minnesota.