The Ghost Road Company

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

ASSOCIATE ARTISTS

Hugo Armstrong
Kelsey Barney
Margaret Bodi
James Brandon
Robert Patrick Brink
Sarah Broyles
Cathy Carlton
Patty Cornell
Angela Kang

Jonathan Klein
Julie Lockhart
Cricket Myers
Laura Pruden
Phil Ward
Dan Weingarten
Maureen Weiss
Jacqueline Wright

HUGO ARMSTRONG <Back to Top>

West Coast: Cold/Tender at the Boston Court, Couples Counseling at REDCAT theatre, Clyt at home with Ghost Road, Tousaisha at Theatre of NOTE and Carrots for Hare at The Powerhouse Theater. East Coast: Unseen Energy at the Kitchen, Onionheads at the Kennedy Center, Hapgood at Quantum Theatre, Antigone at the Firkin Crane, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Trouble Theatre Group. Film: Safeway at MOCA, Variations at the Aramand Hammer Museum, Mice and Men with Group Pictures, Carrots for Hare with Charlie Films, and A Robots Tear with Piltdown Productions. He is a graduate of CalArts.

ROBERT PATRICK BRINK <Back to Top>

Rob most recentely played Agamemnon in Ghost Road's revival of Clyt at Home at the KO Festival in Amherst in 2003. LA stage credits include: Dear Charlotte at the Powerhouse, Lucia Mad at 24th St., Wants Unwished Works and Icarus and Aria at the HELIOTROPE, and Loves Labours Lost at the LACMA Shakespeare in Hancock Park. NY Stage: Trilogy at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Trial of Uncle S&M at The Performing Garage, Don Grose's Open Mouth at Tribeca Lab, Joanne Akalytus' Green Card, Jim Kahn's The Loophole at the John Houseman Theater. In August Rob performed in the NY Fringe Festival with Dear Charlotte at Cooper Union. Film: THE INSIDER, THE PERFECT WIFE, MARIE AND BRUCE, CHAIR, MIRO, FROG-G-G!, THE RAVEN'S CRY, ESCAPING OTIS, THE V-BOYS and others.

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. 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).

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. Roles there included Olivia in "Twelfth Night", Lucius Andronicus in "Titus Andronicus, Pistol in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", and Witch 1 in "Macbeth". She has also been seen in LA based Moving Arts productions of "Infinite Black Suitcase" and "The Car Plays".

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), 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). 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 recently performed at the Ko Festival at Amherst College in July 2003. Katharine co-wrote and performed in Ghost Road's, Excavate the Monster, which performed at 24th Street Theatre in 2003. Katharine also directed and Co-wrote (with Tamadhur Al-Aqeel) The Four Dervishes, which premiered at 24th Street in 2004. Katharine is one of the Co-founders the Edge of the World Theater Festival and sits on the national steering committee for NET (Network of Ensemble Theaters). She is also on faculty in the Theatre Department at Loyola Marymount University where she recently directed A Midsummer Night's Dream. She is currently in rehearsals for a reading of a new short play written by Jen Maisel as part of the Dog Ear Collective at 24th Street Theatre. Katharine will also be presenting a workshop in Ghost Road's ensemble techniques at the Network of Ensemble Theatre Festival at Dell'Arte as part of a research grant for Katharine's adaptation of The Eumenides.

LAURA PRUDEN <Back to Top>

Laura Pruden is a member of Ghost Road Company and recently played Clytemnestra in Ghost Road's revival of Clyt at Home in Amherst and before that played Dr. Grimlar in the workshop production of Excavate the Monster. She came to Los Angeles by way of Chicago where she performed at the Touchstone, Chicago Dramatists, Lifeline and Marry-Aarchie theatres, among others. In LA, she has appeared in the Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival's production of American Bullfighter, in several original pieces at the Blank Theatre Company (including Boy,) and in three seasons of Shakespeare in the park at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Also a storyteller, Laura has shared traditional tales, as well as her original stories and adaptations, with audiences of all ages in venues across the country; she is currently a storyteller for the Los Angeles Public Library. Laura holds a Bachelors in Theatre from Northwestern University and an MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts.

MARK SELDIS <Back to Top>

Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company and directed their 2003 workshop production, Excavate the Monster, at 24th Street Theatre and is currently working on a new piece for Ghost Road, Duck[t] Tape Soup. 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 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. He also co-produced 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 Los Angeles History Project for Edgefest and has co-curated it for the past five years. He recently directed the World Premiere of Ken Urban's play The Absence of Weather for Moving Arts and currently works as a Project Coordinator at the Music Center Education Division.

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. 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. 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.

JACQUELINE WRIGHT <Back to Top>

Jacqueline Wright is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and a member of Ghost Road Company, Theatre of NOTE and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. After graduation, Jacqueline teamed up with Ghost Road and played Electra in Electra La La, an adaptation of Sophocles' Electra. Ghost Road's Electra La La premiered in Los Angeles. Then the production went on to the Edinburgh, Scotland Theatre Fringe Festival. Jacqueline won the ADA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Eastern Standard. She has also worked with senior citizens in the project, Living Histories, for the Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre. In this project, actor/playwrights were paired with a senior citizen to create and perform a dramatic piece based on their life. At Theatre of NOTE, Jacqueline played the role of Richard in NOTE's production of Richard III directed by Christopher Kelley. Other notable acting credits include performances at ASK's Common Ground Festival and Theatre of NOTE as Clytemnestra in Ghost Road and NOTE's co-production of Clyt At Home: The Clytemnestra Project for which she received the LA Weekly performance award, Amelia in EST-The LA Projects first Los Angeles production And Still the Dogs. As a playwright, her one-woman show, The Mis-Adventures of Penelope written and performed by Wright was seen at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Her play Eat Me was presented at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles and New York. Another play, Bing was produced at Theatre of NOTE in 2001 and her newest play Buddy/Buddette was workshopped through EST produced in Summer 2003.

CHARLES ERVEN <Back to Top>

Charles Erven is an Associate Professor in theatre at Loyola Marymount University and a professional scenographer. In Los Angeles he has designed sets for Happy End at the Pacific Resident Theatre, The Foreigner, Far Away and Buddha's Big Nite at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Becoming Eleanor at the Long Beach Playhouse. He has also designed extensively in the Milwaukee/Chicago area and throughout the United States including New York, Colorado and The Virgin Islands. His work has been seen in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, Tbilisi, Georgia and Aberystwyth, Wales. He has organized numerous student production tours to Central Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe and the British Isles. In spring 2005 he will be on a sabbatical supported by a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to teach at the Czech Academy of Arts and will work with Warner en Consortien, a performance group in Amsterdam.

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.