September 8 Guests

MINDY COOPER (Director/Choreographer)
has twice held the title of UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence.  Her successful stagings of Oklahoma!  at Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall and Urinetown: The Musical  at Main Theatre reflect her extensive Broadway background as director, choreographer, and performer.

JAZZ TRICE (Chip Tolentino)
is a fifth year super-senior majoring in Dramatic Art with minors in English and Psychology. He’s performed with UC Davis Theatre and Dance as Backwards Soldier in #5 The Angry Red Drum, Cleomenes in The Winter’s Tale, and Jamie Hudson in the self-penned Empty All The Boxes. Credits with Studio 301 Productions include Schroeder in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and Hud in Hair.

ELIZABETH TREMAINE (Olive Ostrovsky)
is happy to be back with UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance where she performed in 2010’s Third Eye Theatre Festival and 2009’s Oklahoma!  Most recently she appeared as a counter-cultural, drug-loving hippie in Studio 301’s wildly successful production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. Her favorite roles include Cindy in Suds, Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Crossroads Theatre), and Sharpay in High School Musical (California Theatre Arts).

TIM ORR
is an actor, composer and theatre lecturer in California and Colorado. He has appeared at numerous theatres across the United States. For five years he was a resident artist with The Foothill Theatre Company acting, writing, composing and producing a literal mountain of theatre with artists from all over the world. For three seasons he has appeared at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Measure for Measure, The Fantasticks, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Christmas Carol). Recent composing credits includes songs and incidental music for Colorado Shakespeare Festival, TheatreFIRST (Oakland, CA), Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and The Foothill Theatre Co. He teaches acting and musical theatre at UC Davis, Colorado University at Boulder, and is a faculty member of the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre (CA). Timothy holds degrees in music, arts management and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from UC Davis.