[NEohioPAL] Farndale Christmas Carol Preview Wednesday Night - $20 Tickets

[Neil Thackaberry]

*The Show: *



The ladies of the *The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild
Dramatic Society* have been producing the very best community theater in
their small town in England for years.  What they lack in theater training,
technical skill, performance discipline, and common sense they more than
make up for with their wild enthusiasm and passionate commitment.  Although
their numbers are small (4 performers and a much put upon stage manager)
they manage to play all the roles, male & female, in *A Christmas Carol*,
just as they did in their recent smash hit productions of *Macbeth, The
Mikado, and ye aulde murder mystery.*



*The Cast *



To add to the confusion of the play, in the Actors’ Summit production,
directed by Paula Kline Messner, all of the women’s roles in the show are
being performed by men and the single male role is being played by a woman.



The cast features five members of the Actors’ Summit company.



Equity actors Neil Thackaberry and Frank Jackman lead a cast that also
includes Zach Griffin, Gabriel Riazi, and Laura Valendza (playing the one
male character.)



Neil Thackaberry is the Founder and Artistic Co-Director of Actors’
Summit.  In addition to his work at Actors’ Summit he has performed with
the Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Ensemble Theater,
and Oberlin Summer theater.



Frank Jackman holds the record for the most roles played at Actors’ Summit
by any actor since its creation in 1999.  He was seen most recently at
Porthouse Theatre as Lazar Wolf.



Gabriel Riazi is a graduate of the theater program at Kent State
University.  He was seen last year at Actors’ Summit in the regional
premiere of *Motherhood Out Loud*.



Zach Griffin is a senior theater student at Kent State University.  He was
seen last year in the regional premiere of *My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish
Wiccan Wedding *at Actors’ Summit.



Laura Valendza is a teacher in the Akron Public School system.  She was
seen here at Actors’ Summit two years ago in the world premiere of *A
Girl’s Guide to Coffee*.





*The Production Team*



Paula Kline Messner, director, is no stranger to Actors’ Summit having
first performed with the company 10 years ago in *Charley’s Aunt*.
Recently she’s been seen in *Becky’s New Car,* *Motherhood Out Loud, *and *The
Bikinis*.  She has enjoyed a long association with *Menopause, the
Musical*having toured nationally with the show.  She will reprise her
role when
*Menopause* returns to Cleveland for a limited run in January.  This is her
first directing assignment for Actors’ Summit.


Preview (Wednesday, 11/27) tickets are $20 ($10 for full-time students
under 30).


Call 330-374-7568 or visit Actorssummit.org.
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