ZCT - The Haunting of Hill House

	Jillian B. Von Gunten (Eleanor Vance) – Jillian has dabbled in theater her entire life. Her participation has occurred both onstage and behind the limelight and across such fine institutions as Zanesville Community Theatre, Rosecrans High School Drama Dept., Denison University Theater Dept., and most recently Muskingum College Theater Dept. At the moment she is serving as the President of Zanesville Community Theatre’s Board of Directors. She is currently a poor, starving college student who’s trying to figure out what she really wants to do when she grows up. She is very proud to have worked with such an outstanding group of players and production crew encompassing brave new comers and seasoned veterans, including her father and mother. She would like to thank you all for coming to see this fine production and adds, “Please be careful as you leave this evening…you never know what can happen, ‘in the night…in the dark.” Happy Halloween.
	Janet Prince ( Mrs. Dudley) Janet Prince AKA JP is delighted to be performing in her second show with Zanesville Community Theater. JP has been in Zanesville a little over a year and lives in the McIntire Terrace neighborhood. Janet discovered ZCT while walking her Italian Greyhound, Buddy. She wants to thank Dan for allowing her to be part of Hill House.
	Stefani Weaver (Theodora) graduated from Crooksville High School and then went on to study theater at Ohio University and graduated 2004 with hopes of attaining a professional career in acting. For the present, Stefani is working as a server at Ruby Tuesday’s in Zanesville. Stefani has been active with ZCT since 1998, with parts in several shows, especially "Working". Stefani says she has made some great new friends, and has had a lot of good times with her past fellow cast and crew members and feels privileged to work with the talented cast of Hill House
	Steven L. Stewart ( Dr. Montague) Steven is an old timer in the theatre world. From grade school in Columbus to High School at Bishop Rosecrans where he and director Daniel Von Gunten shared the stage for the productions of Brigadoon and The Happiest Millionaire. Steve is an Ohio University graduate from the college of Theatre and appeared in university productions of Peter Pan, The Birthday Party and The Front Page, along with numerous graduate student productions. He was also fortunate to appear in the Ohio State University production of The Importance Of Being Earnest and Hello Dolly with the Players Club of Columbus. He appeared in a Columbus community theatre production of Butterflies Are Free. In Zanesville he was seen in Love Rides the Rails and was cast in the Zanesville Community Theatre productions of Of Mice and Men and several years ago in the play Working. For over 20 years Steve’s voice talents have been used in the production of both radio and TV spots in the Mid-west for companies like Lazarus, Elder Beerman and Harts. His copy writing and radio voice work for the Z-Bus won a national award in the most creative category. Some may also remember that he was the manager of Secrest Auditorium. According to Steve, “ My true love is the theatre. It is the one place where for a short while you can forget about the world and just dream.”
	Rob Hewitt (Luke Sanderson) This is my first show with ZCT and my first theater experience ever, as a matter of fact. I hope it goes well. I decided to try acting on a whim so I auditioned for the part of Luke. Normally I spend my time inventing, building, and playing with anything that has a motor—electric or gas powered. I have really loved working with everyone here at ZCT and I would like to do it again, soon! Well, that’s as much as I am willing to disclose about myself without a lawyer being present so this bio is over.
	Mollie Earich (Mrs. Montague ) Autumn…Halloween… and a spooky mansion known as Hill House….it sounded like a show she would like to do—for fun and therapy. And it has been fun! Particularly, it has been a joy to work with several “new” faces in the cast as well as the “seasoned” actors and actresses inhabiting Hill House. Mollie has been involved with ZCT for ten years and she thanks you for your support of local theater
	Max Winland (Arthur Parker) The Haunting of Hill House is Max’s first foray into Zanesville Community Theatre. Max gets his thespian roots from his daughter Liza who has participated in several ZCT productions. Max is a graduate of Zanesville High School and a member of the 1979 COL championship football team. Max graduated from Muskingum College, way back in 1983. After several years in the insurance industry in Dallas, Texas and central Ohio, Max formed his own company, HandyMaxx. Handy Maxx specializes in small contracting projects and comprehensive property maintenance and welcomes new clients. Max has been married for twenty-two years and has two amazing daughters, Liza and Casie. Liza is a freshman at Baldwin-Wallace College and Casie is a freshman at ZHS. Max would like to tanks all his fellow actors for their patience and support. A very special thank you to the Von Guntens for making this experience a blast.
	Dan Von Gunten ( Director ) Director’s Notes If you have gotten this far in the program, then you are probably going to stay for the show or you are simply bored because you came too early and you have read all the biographies of the actors and actresses, the time frame of the scenes, all the people involved back stage, and the “thank you’s” for those folks that volunteered of their time, talents, and personal belongings. Usually the "Message from the Director" or "The Director's Notes" is before the cast biographies, but I wanted it after just to provide some extra reading material for you in case you did come early and are fidgety and have eaten all your popcorn. Well, thank you for coming. It's been some 30 years since I directed a show and I forgot how much work is involved...but that's OK--it's good at my age to have something to occupy my spare time other than working. Halloween is my favorite time of year and since I like spooky, scary stuff I thought it would be really cool to direct a play based on Shirley Jackson's classic story about a Haunted House--that is without a doubt just a little spooky and scary! And what is more appropriate for Halloween than a story about a Haunted House? We hope to give you a few chills and a few thrills. There are seven cast members listed, but actually there are eight. Hill House itself is quite alive and is an active participant in tonight's production and the "living" cast members have become quite comfortable with the idiosyncrasies of Hill House. Please remember that the Theater has quite a history. The building itself has been standing for many, many years, so to paraphrase Shirley Jackson from her novel..."it has stood for eighty years, and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continue upright, bricks meet neatly, floors are firm, and doors are sensibly shut; silence lay against the stone and wood and whatever walks here, walks alone..."
	Melanie Von Gunten (Assistant Director)
	Jan Kiikka (Producer)
	Tech table - a bit of a mess - just beginning tech on October 16, 2005 - You can catch a glimpse of a Richmond Sound Design AudioBox AB1616, CM Labs MotorMix, computer keyboard, and the ABEdit control software running sound for The Haunting of Hill House. More information on Richmond Sound Design products is available at www.RichmondSoundDesign.com

Head shots of cast members ©2005 Dan Olson, Studio Z Photography, used with permission.
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