THE 2002 CAST & CREW

"THE SPOILERS"

CAST

CREW

Producers Stephen & Bonnie Mackin Stephen and Bonnie worked with his parents for many years at the Imperial where Steve did a little bit of everything and Bonnie was Dorothy and Wayne’s personal secretary.  They were the hotel and theatre managers for many years and also had the Crucible Shop on the corner of 3rd and Bennett where Steve made his custom jewelry (he continues jewelry at the Hospitality House).  Their children, Kirk and Stacy, grew up working at the hotel.  Kirk now lives and works in Loveland for Bose and is married to Cindy who works in marketing.  Kirk and Cindy had their first child, Mackenzie Lynn, this past Easter Sunday making Bonnie and Steve grandparents for the first time.  Stacy has returned to Cripple Creek and works for the city as manager of the Butte Opera House.  Steve and Bonnie are very excited about this summer adventure and thank you all for being a part of it.	Musical Director Josh Lamoreaux  Josh is happy to be back for his second season as musical director/pianist for the Cripple Creek Players.  Josh, a student from Tucson, Arizona, has just completed his junior year as a BFA Musical Theatre major at the University of Arizona.  His performing credits at the University include: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine), The Threepenny Opera (Filch), King Lear (the Fool), Into the Woods (Jack) and Kiss Me Kate (Chorus).  Other theatrical credits include Victory Productions’ West Side Story (Baby John), and Southern Arizona Light Opera Company’s Peter Pan (John Darling).  Musical credits include: last year’s Cripple Creek Players’ Under Two Flags (musical director/pianist), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (composer/arranger/orchestrator), Into The Woods (musical director), Dames at Sea (pianist), and the Gershwin musical Crazy For You (pianist).  He also serves as a part time musical director for Kids Unlimited, a children’s performing arts group in Tucson.  Josh has also won numerous piano competitions at the U of A and also Arizona State University.
Director & Choreographer Richard Hanson Richard Hanson is the artistic director of Music Theatre Arizona and directed the MTAZ productions of Side By Side by Sondheim, Jerry’s Girls and Dames At Sea.  Mr. Hanson is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona where he heads the Musical Theatre program.  At the University of Arizona, he has directed and choreographed Chicago, Follies, Grease, South Pacific, Gypsy, Very Good Eddie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Over Here, Quilters, The Boy Friend, Cabaret and Nine.  Other UA directorial credits are Othello, Caligula, Anatol and Present Laughter.  He is also the director and choreographer of The Entertainers and Encore, the UA musical revue show groups which are celebrating over twenty years of touring and outreach.  Regionally, he has directed Merrily We Roll Along, Peter Pan, Annie, Black Comedy, City Of Angels, The Sound Of Music, The Odd Couple, The Nerd and Baby.  In Tucson, he has directed over twenty productions at the Gaslight Theatre, which include Phantom Of The Opera, Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers and A Christmas Carol.  This is his third season with the Cripple Creek Players having directed My Partner and Under Two Flags.  The Spoilers is his thirteenth Mackin production!	Assistant to the Producers Christopher Armbrister Christopher originally hails from a small town in VA nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Naturally when he made his first trek to Colorado, a decade ago, to work for Dorothy Mackin and The Imperial Players, he fell in love with The Rockies . . .not to mention Cripple Creek.  Chris spent most of his summers during the fist half of the 90’s performing for Cripple Creek audiences in such shows as Four Legged Fortune, The Passion Of Dracula, and Star Crossing as well as functioning as company manager of The Imperial Players.  Chris has assisted the Mackins the last two years with the Cripple Creek Players’ production of My Partner and Under Two Flags.  In 2000 Chris made his film-directing debut with Elements Of Society, a feature length project currently in Internet distribution at cinemanow.com.  In 2001 Chris’ production company, Arthur’s Realm Productions, produced three projects, and so far in 2002 they have produced two films (Old-Fashioned Technology and Shelf Life, both of which Chris directed) and is currently in development on two new film projects, one of which is set in & around Cripple Creek utilizing the melodrama as a central story facilitator.  In theatre, Chris most recently worked in April in Northern California as Fight Director for Sierra Repertory Theatre’s production of Three Musketeers.
Renee Cloutier Costume Designer Renee is from Annapolis, Maryland, and moved to Tucson, Arizona with her family in 1977 and attended the University of Arizona.  She began studying Graphic Art and Design, and later realized she had a creative interest, flare, and passion in Fashion and Costume Design.  After studying Costume Design, she began pursuing her career and it has head her from Theme Parks such as Old Tucson Studios as the Wardrobe Manager, to many film sets including Brooks and Dunn music videos and films like Three Kings with George Clooney, as a set costumer, and designer.  She has been costuming the Melodrama shows at the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson, Arizona for the past 18 years, and loving every minute of it.  Her favorite ones, of course, are the period shows with lots of beautiful costumes to build.  She is really excited to be designing The Spoilers here in Cripple Creek, and to be working with such a great group of people.  Colorado is one of her favorite places, so she gets to combine her love of Colorado with her love of Costuming!  What a treat!  Enjoy the scenery and the show.	Patricia Gawne Costume Designer Patti is originally from Flint, Michigan, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Clothing & Textiles for Michigan State University.  She’s been the Resident Costume Designer for the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson, Arizona for the past twenty-three years, as well as managing the Gaslight Costume Shoppe.  Patti keeps very busy with the two full-time jobs, being the mother of her 18-year-old son, Brian, who is the Assistant Stage Manager for the Gaslight Theatre, and she’s also proud to be an independent Beauty Consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics.  Patti is pleased to be working with the Mackins designing costumes for the Cripple Creek Players production of  The Spoilers.
Scenic Designer & Artist Tom Benson Tom has worked with the Mackin family for over 25 years, first playing Green Jones in The Ticket Of Leave Man for the Imperial Players in 1976, and then designing and painting the scenery for ten seasons.  He is also celebrating his 25th season as resident scenic designer and artist for the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson.  Tom designed sets for three seasons for the Utah Shakespearean Festival and has taught theatre design at the University of Arizona and at Penn. State University.  He has also worked as set designer for the films Tombstone, Posse, and Tank Girl.  Recent design work includes Dames At Sea and Jerry’s Girls for Musical Theatre Arizona in Tucson, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Crimes Of The Heart for the University of Arizona Repertory Theatre, The Wizard Of Oz and Anything Goes for Musical Theatre Southwest in Albuquerque, and Under Two Flags and My Partner for The Cripple Creek Players.	Stacy Mackin - Butte Opera House Manager Stacy is one of the few true locals of Cripple Creek having been born and raised here.  She graduated from Colorado State University with a BA in Liberal Arts, and minors in Anthropology and History.  Being a history person, she is pleased to be in Cripple Creek helping bring some of the history back to the small town, with the melodrama and other theatre throughout the year.  Stacy is the Butte Opera House Manager, working for the City of Cripple Creek, and this past year has had many great opportunities to learn more about the inner workings of theatre.  Following in her grandmother’s steps, Stacy directed her first show, One Act Comedies For Junior High Students, with the Butte Players, a community theatre group for the Cripple Creek area.  She was also the assistant director for A Christmas Carol and Murder’s Bad But Monday Can Kill You, also presented by the Butte Players.  Her work at the Butte Opera House makes her the third generation of Mackins to do theatre in Cripple Creek.  Stacy wishes to thank her parents for their support and her grandparents for bringing melodrama to Cripple Creek 55 years ago.  Publicity Ruth Zirkle-Zalewski Ruth has been a Colorado resident since 1986 when she moved here to work as a journalist. Ruth fell in love with the mountains and the historic communities of Victor and Cripple Creek. She worked as the editor of the Ute Pass Courier and Gold Rush newspapers for nine years, attending and reviewing the Imperial Players productions. She lives  in Victor, where she operates a marketing, photography and internet web design business. Ruth is very happily married to Jon Zalewski. Together they enjoy hiking, traveling and spending time with their dog CB. Ruth loves working with the Mackins and the Cripple Creek Players...here's to a full house in 2002!
Rick Koehn This is Rick’s third year with the Cripple Creek Players!  He is a certified concert lighting director with over twenty years in the business and also has an associate’s degree in electronics.  Rick works for the City of Cripple Creek as the Butte Opera House Technician throughout the year where he runs lights, sound and the movie projector along with many other technical aspects of the theatre.  Rick has lived in Cripple Creek for nine years with his wife Michelle and two children. Michael J. Eddy Michael is very excited to be working with the Cripple Creek Players for the first time.  Over the past eight years, Michael has had the honor of working on over 100 productions with many of Arizona’s finest theatre and dance companies.  Some of his favorite experiences have been Children Of Eden with Phoenix Theatre, West Side Story with Valley Youth Theatre, Romeo and Juliet with Southwest Shakespeare Company and Dames At Sea with Music Theatre Arizona in Tucson.  He has received 13 AriZoni Awards for his work.  Michael would like to send a special thank you to his wife, Laura, for all her support and love.	Rob Stevens Rob loves working for the Mackins and couldn’t be happier to be back in Cripple Creek (106 Degrees in Tucson).  Often referred to as Arizona Bob, Slacker or the guy asleep under the stage, Rob possesses a seemingly endless capacity for appearing competent in fields he knows nothing about.  This uncanny ability has landed him fantastic work doing vastly varied jobs he is unequivocally and ridiculously unqualified for.  So it was with some surprise and delight that Rob found himself back for his second inexplicable appearance as technical director.  During his stay here Rob could be seen enjoying all our fine town has to offer: pushing donkeys out of the way of the table saw, running into Steve’s tractor in the fog, scraping rust off his tools after a sudden downpour, doing jumping jacks in the snow to stay warm or chasing flats down Galena Street in a windstorm.  If his luck holds perhaps next Spring will find him here once again enveloped in billowing clouds of saw dust, cutting boards too short, stapling his shirt to the work bench, spilling paint, sanding his knuckles, wheezing up Pikes Peak, gluing his pocket shut…. Special Thanks To:   Charlotte Cox for all her help with costumes and she also has the difficult task of maintaining the costumes throughout the summer season and does a wonderful job.  Dixie Clare long time friend and artist for her help with painting the sets.   And to Terry Smith, Sound Man, for a great job once again this year.  Also to David Cillo for his support and assistance.  And to Casino Cuts, now located next door above the Horseshoe Saloon, for the maintenance of the wigs.