February 9 Guests
STUDIO 301
Studio 301 Productions is proud to present our winter quarter production of Spring Awakening by German playwright Frank Wedekind. This is the play that inspired the famed musical of the same name. Mitchell VanLandingham is the director of this moving drama about teenagers in late 1800s Germany struggling with their sexuality and trying hard to discover themselves within a sexually-oppressive culture.
Elizabeth Tremaine is happy to be back with Studio 301 Productions after last spring’s hit production of Hair: the Hippie Love Rock Musical. She has most recently been seen in UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of Hinterland as the Anatomist’s Assistant. She is currently involved with the UC Davis Artsbridge program, teaching elementary school children about the joys of theatre. She plans to graduate this year with a BS is Psychology with a double minor in Theatre and Neuroscience. Her favorite roles include Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (UC Davis) and Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Crossroads Theatre).
Michael Lutheran most recently performed in the Theater and Dance Department’s production of Lucy Gough’s radio-drama Hinterland, voicing the roles of the Anatomist and Skullcoat/God. Past Studio 301 credits include playing the role of MacDuff in Macbeth and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Prior to theater at UC Davis, some of Michael’s favorite roles include Nathan Detroit in Solano Youth Theater’s Guys and Dolls, John Bender in Missouri St. Theatre’s The Breakfast Club, and Arlecchino in Vandan High School’s The Strolling Players. His play, Brother(s) at War, was just chosen to be performed in the T&D Department’s new and upcoming Edge Festival. For Michael’s final act at UCD, he will be directing 301’s upcoming production of Julius Caesar which shall be performed next quarter in May.
Ryan Geraghty is a Theater major at UC Davis. He has appeared in multiple productions with the UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department, including his role as Hitler in the Third Eye Theater Festival’s Fool’s Afloat, the Narrator in Some Things Are Private, and Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Spring Awakening is his first production with Studio 301. Most of his theater experience prior to college was in high school productions, but notable exceptions include his performance at the Willows Theatre in Mame and his work with Butterfield 8 Theater Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline.
JOHN LESCROART
John Lescroart is a New York Times bestselling author of 21 novels, including Betrayal, which is the fourteenth book in the San Francisco based Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series, a stand-alone Wyatt Hunt novel entitled The Hunt Club and a couple of Sherlock Holmes pastiches: Son of Holmes and its sequel, Rasputin’s Revenge. His books have been translated into seventeen languages in more than seventy-five countries, and his short stories have been included in many anthologies. His first novel, Sunburn, won the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Award for best novel by a California author, and Dead Irish and The 13th Juror were nominees for the Shamus and Anthony Best Mystery Novel, respectively. Guilt was a Readers Digest Select Edition choice, and The Suspect, chosen by the American Author’s Association of its 2007 Novel of the Year, was also the 2007 One Book Sacramento choice of the Sacramento Library Foundation.
