THEATRE13 Members
Michael French | Venus French | Steve Grad | Colleen Mylott |
Phil Van Scotter | Bethany Jean Urban | Judson Webb | Kjersti Webb
Rebecca Brown Adelman
Rebecca has been an actor for more than twenty years. She is a founding member of Theatre13 and an ensemble member of Playback Theatre West, both Colorado-based and improvisational companies. She is the founder and co-director of The Interactive Theatre Project, a program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which uses theatre as a medium for education, dialogue and social change. She has performed in dozens of Colorado productions, including Theatre13's inaugural show, "Relationships, Realities and Repercussions," and "The Pavilion" at The Center for American Theatre in Denver. She has a MA in drama therapy from New York University and has studied at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Circle Repertory, and HB Studios.
Charlotte Brecht Munn
Charlotte was born, raised, and schooled on the east coast and has been working in theatre for as long as she can remember. She holds a B.F.A. in Performing Arts from savannah College of Art and Design where she trained as a director and actor. Charlotte is a founding member of the Boulder Based theatre company, square product theatre, where she collaborates as both an actor and director on both original and published work. Charlotte is pleased to be a new member of Theatre13 and to have worked on all three productions season three.
Kevin Causey
Kevin Causey has been involved in every aspect of theatre, film and television production for nearly twenty years. A producer, director, actor and writer, his work has been seen in more than 50 productions in New York, Los Angeles, Colorado and Europe. As part of his work, he was the co-founder and the first Artistic Director of the Public Theatre at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Among his many duties was the task of constructing and leading the capital compaign to build this theatre in a landmarked building and museum in Boulder, Colorado. He is also a former Board member for Curious Theatre Company in Denver. Kevin received his undergraduate training at the School of Theatre and Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; he receives his graduate training at the school of applied experience, which is ongoing.
Michael French
Michael French has spent most of his life writing and directing his own plays including The Rainy Season, which won the Oval Arts best new play of the year in 1996. He was Artistic Director for the Glasshouse Theatre Company in England, and directed several plays for the much-acclaimed Angry Jello Bubbles Theatre Company in New York City. He co-wrote and co-produced The Buddha Prince, which was recently performed in Central Park in New York City. Mr. French is currently writing a screenplay with the extraordinary Julia Parsley.
Venus French
Venus French has explored her dramatic nature over the years both on and off-stage. she is a natural at business, communications and marketing. Venus holds a BA in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communications at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania and an MS from Columbia University. She has been running her own home-based businesses in crafts and the healing arts for years, has extensive sales experience, loves people and is now using these skills to help run Theatre13.
Steve Grad
Steve Grad is a founding member of Theatre13 and has performed in six shows over its first three seasons, including the critical and popular successes Orphans and Match. Locally he has also performed with the Boulder Philharmonic as the Narrator for Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, and as Norman in Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Before moving to Boulder Steve worked in radio, TV, film and theater. His theater credits include a wide range of roles, including the scarecrow in The Wizard of OZ, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Don Armado in a musical verion of Love's Labours Lost, and Marley in A Christmas Carol. Steve has led improvisational and theater game workshops for actors, non-actors, and the chronically mentally ill and developmentally disabled. He has also sung in the Kentucky Opera choru, the San Francico Russian Folk Ensemble and the Jubilee Singer, a multi-racial gospel and spirtual group founded by Isaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock. Steve has an M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and has worked as a volunteer chaplain and grief group facilitator for Boulder County Aids Programs. He also teaches meditation in the federal prison system for the Shambhala Prison Community, for which he is now helping to develop a prison theater program.
Colleen Mylott
Colleen Mylott frequently directs, choreographs and performs for experimental theatre companies in NYC, Minneapolis and now Boulder, CO. Recently she assisted Moises Kaufman with his newest play 33 Variations at Arena Stage in DC. Other production and performance work includes Theatre13's Match by Stephen Belber, Chaos on the Camino Real, This thing of Darkness created by Randolk Curtis Rand, Dead Wait by Carson Kreitzer and Caryl Churchill's The Skriker. She recently received an MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance where she studied ensemble-based theatre and movement with members of Tectonic Theatre Project, SITI Company and Witness Relocation.
Phillip Van Scotter
Phillip Van Scotter is a musician, actor, and filmmaker. He has created several short films as director, actor, cinematographer, editor, and composer. After working in film and theatre in New York City betwene 1998 and 2001, he returned to his hometown of Boulder, Colorado, where he continus to creatre theater, music, and multi-media art.
Bethany Jean Urban
Bethany Jean Urban is a theatrical artist who creates original theatrical 'events'. She holds an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa Univeristy (Boulder, CO). Bethany is a founding member of Giving Voice Productions and a co-creator of Power to Pleasing: The Sex Lives of Teenage Girls which won "Pick of the Fringe" at the Boulder International Fringe Festival in 2005 and 2006. She is happy to be focusing on the development and growth of Giving Voice Productions. In 2006, Bethany also founded Crimson Crow Productions which house her works in progress. she is also an associate member of Boulder based Theatre13 and co-created and performed the physical theatre piece Once upon a time: The End. Bethany has made her living as a circus performer based in Belfast, Ireland where she created and performed various aerial and acrobatic shows and performed in venues and on streets all over Ireland. She also taught circu to children and teens as cross-community outreach in Belfast. Bethany has spent time living in Los Angeles where she has worked both on camera and off camera in commercial casting. Now in Boulder, she continues her interest in film and dabbles occasionally when the opportunity arises. Aside from her stage creations, Bethany is presently focusing on developing somatically based actor training methods, incorporating contemplative tudies, space awareness practices, experiential anatomy, and Body-Mind Centering. Bethany theaches theatre to at-risk youth in Denver through a program she helped initiate, and continues to develop, called the Urban Voices Performance Project. She is also developing theatrical programming for incarcerated populations.
Judson Webb
Judson Webb studied acting at K.D. Studio in Dallas, the howard Fine Studio in Los Angeles and at Naropa University. In Boulder alone, he has collaborated on the formation of Theatre13, LTO, Bohemian Dinner Theatre, Dead Pheasant Films, Films290 and has produced, directed, written and/or acted in numerous critically acclaimed projects. He has recently completed his first feature length screenplay "The Good Boys" and is currently writing a solo piece to be produced in April
Kjersti Webb
Kjersti Ingela Webb was born and raised in Sweden. She moved stateside in 1996 to study at the Del'Arte School of Physical theatre in Blue Lake California. She has extensive training in physical theatre including Le Coq and Phillipe Gaulier. After Del'Arte she received her Bachelors in Theatre at Naropa University. She has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. She has co-founded several theatre companies, namely Theatre13 and LTO, and is co-founder of Dead Pheasant Films. Having been raised amongst painting and photography the multi-talented Kjersti "think and feels in pictures and colors". She has channeled these strengths into painting and lighting design and was nominated for the Denver Critic Choice Award in 2003 for her lighting of Beauty And The Beast at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder.