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<br /> THE CREATORS
<br /> Maureen Quilligau (playwright and costume designer) Francesca Talenti (director)
<br /> Maureen taught at Yale and at Penn before coining to Duke in Francesca works in theater and film: as waiter/director, she has
<br /> 2000 as Florence R Brinkley Professor of English as Chair of the made more than 20 independent films and animations, for
<br /> Department. A Renaissance scholar and prize-winning teacher, which she has received 18 awards and a number of grants. In
<br /> she is the author of The Language of.-lllegorr: Defining the theater, she was playsnight/director for The Uncanny Valley at
<br /> Genre;Milton's Spenser The Politics of Reading; TeAllegoiy The Brick,off-off-Broadway. She has also served as Projection
<br /> of Female.dutliotity: Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Designer for Hamlet at The Folger; Pericles (Oregon
<br /> Ladies, and Incest and Agency in F.li7abeth's Englvtd. She has Shakespeare Festival,The Folger,and The Gutluie);PalmQuatt
<br /> also co-edited three volumes of essays, including Rereading the (RFDCAT); Hysteria (Burning Coal), and Penelope
<br /> Black Legend: the Discourses of Racial Difference in the (Play makers Rep). Francesca is a professor emerita at the
<br /> Renaissance Empires (2003). She has directed/produced University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught
<br /> innumerable community productions of plays. For years she media production. She holds a B.A. cum laude from Brown
<br /> urged Triangle authors to write a play about Elizabeth Keckley. University, and an M.F.A. in film production from the
<br /> She finally gave up and wrote it herself. University of Southern California.
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<br /> Michael Malone (revisions and additional scenes)
<br /> Michael has written many novels and short stories, plays,
<br /> screenplays and musicals, network television shows, poems,
<br /> songs,non-fiction books and essays.They've been published in
<br /> numerous languages and won numerous prizes. For over 40
<br /> years, at various colleges and universities,he taught theatre and
<br /> film,fiction and adaptation. What he loves most in the world is
<br /> helping to bring people together to create art.
<br /> THE CAST
<br /> Brenda Stephens (Elizabeth Keclley) Jane Holding (Anna Burwell)
<br /> Lifelong Orange County resident, Brenda can trace her Jane performs extensively in the Triangle in roles as varied as
<br /> "Hillsboro" family back for over 200 years, Her great, great, Big Mania in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Birdie in The Little
<br /> great grandfather Frank Umstead, a town blacksmith born in Foxes,Lucy Marsden in The Oldest Living Confederate Widow
<br /> 1792, appears in the Orange County "Freedman Marriage Tells All, Belle in the annual A Christmas Carol at St
<br /> Records" of 1866. It is highly likely that he knew F,iizabeth Matthew's, and Jean Mulray in Saints Hare Mothers (adapted
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<br /> Keckley. Brenda is selling her fourth term on the Orange from the novella by Allan Gurganus). At UN. C's Hill Hall,she
<br /> County Schools Board of Education. She is the first school was the Narrator at the world premiere of the dramatic song
<br /> board member from Orange County to be elected to the North cycle Family Secrets. An upcoming project, to be directed by
<br /> Carolina Schools Board of Directors. Previously, as Francesca Talenti, is her solo performance as Mrs. Evelyn
<br /> Hyconeechee Regional Library Director, Stephens was Dupre Wells in Allan Gurganus' $19.95 Deluxe Walking ing Tour
<br /> recognized as the Director of the Year of the N.C. Public of Historic Falls, NC Like Anna Burwell, Jane has read
<br /> Libraries Association. The Senate of the North Carolina PARADISE LOST at least a dozen times,enjoys a strong sense
<br /> General Assembly presented her with a certificate of recognition of grammar,and wouldn't mind butchering a hog.
<br /> for her service. She is a member of the Historic Hillsborough
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<br /> Lilly Nelson (Young Anna Burwell)
<br /> Lilly is a NC native with a love of history and storytelling. She
<br /> Sara Stephens (Young Lizzie Kecble ) has been a lover of acting from her first memories. Her local
<br /> This is Sara's first role in her hometown,where she now serves theatre credits include Boein g Boeing as Gretchen,r1 Streetcar with great success as the CEO of the Hillsborough Orange Named Desire as Stella,Arsenic and Old Lace as Elaine
<br /> County Chamber of Commerce. She has a strong commitment Harper,and more. She recently returned to Raleigh from the
<br /> to finding ways to improve community in our fast-growing town coast where she entertained the masses as Jameson Flynt. She r
<br /> for all its citizens. As a college student,Sara performed regularly also recently filmed a movie in South Carolina that will soon
<br /> with the Peace College Theatre Companny in such productions as be seen on TV. She thinks you all are wonderful and hopes
<br /> Fire One Act Plays by Alan Ball, you continue to support the;its.
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