CAST & CREW
WALLACE NORMAN dons a number of theatrical hats, and is happy to have the chance to put on his dusty director’s fedora for TheaterSounds. Mr. Norman has directed staged readings in New York City, for the Woodstock Theatre Company, and last year directed the cabaret performance of singer John Ormond at Don’t Tell Mama, in New York City, which was taped for, and part of which was aired, on 60 Minutes. As an actor and singer has appeared in more than sixty productions in Off-Broadway, Regional and Stock theaters. In July, he will appear in Woodstock in “Songs of The Theatre, A Cabaret Concert” with Vicky Devany and musical director Bill Lewis as part of the Byrccliffe Centennial Celebration. He is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of WOODSTOCK FRINGE, which presented its first highly-successful season at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock in August of this year.

NICOLA SHEARA (Director) Locally: THREEPENNY OPERA (Bardavon); PROOF (Performing Arts of Woodstock); WENCESLAS SQUARE (PAW); I HATE HAMLET (Shadowlands); NUNSENSE (Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center). In New York: directed plays at Manhattan Punchline, Westbeth Theatre Center, Dramatists Guild, Quaigh Theater and Readings for Primary Stages, The Writers Theater, The New Dramatists ; Regionally at the Mountain Playhouse in Pa. and Blowing Rock, N.C. As an actress, Nicola has been seen on Broadway in THE GRAPES OF WRATH, originated the role of Chick in CRIMES OF THE HEART, and won the Cleveland Critic's Circle Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the Nation Tour of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.

KEN THOMPSON has appeared in the Hudson Valley area in Performing Arts of Woodstock's WENCESLAS SQUARE, ZOO STORY at UPAC's Back Alley Theatre, Shadowland's Social Security and THE MOUSETRAP; and Law & Order: SVU.

VICTOR TRURO is delighted to debut at TheaterSounds. It has fallen to his lot from time to time to be called upon to play professionals ( Edie Falco’s OB-GYN on “The Sopranos”; Judge Douglas Spivak on “Law & Order”; Robert Duvall’s proctologist in “The Paper”), professionals of sorts (sleazy pharmacist on “Criminal Intent”), entrepreneurs (sex shop owner, with Jill Clayburgh, in “Never Again”), and plainer folk (counterman, with Alan Arkin, in “13 Conversations” ; Italian cook from the old country in “The Trade”).