THE TREASURER by Max Posner
presented by American Theatre Practice and Merrybelle Park Productions
in association with RedBird Theater Company

Max Posner (Playwright)

In addition to The Treasurer, Mr. Posner's plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The Famished, Gun Logistics and SNORE (and other sorts of breathing). His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Page 73, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, The Hangar Theatre, Curious Theatre Company and Production Workshop. Mr. Posner was the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow. He received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Weston Award for playwriting and the Heideman Award from Actor's Theatre of Louisville. He is a current member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Ars Nova's Playgroup. Mr. Posner is working on a commission from South Coast Rep. A graduate of Brown University, he studied with Erik Ehn, Lisa D'Amour and Paula Vogel. He has led writing workshops with high-schoolers in Nebraska, inmates in Rhode Island and youth in Kenya's Kibera Slum. Mr. Posner was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn.

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Derrick Ivey (Director/Scenic Designer)

Derrick is a co-founder of RedBird Theater Company and has worked for over thirty years as actor, director, designer, and producer in collaboration with theater companies throughout North Carolina. Previous directing credits include; The Woolgatherer, Zoo Story, Deathtrap, Lady Windermere’s Fan, the complete works of Gilbert and Sullivan; and his original adaptations of The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Frankenstein, Antigone, and Canterbury Tales.

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Mark Filiaci (The Son)

Mark is a Pennsylvania native who moved from NYC to Durham, NC in 1985. He has performed on numerous stages including Manbites Dog, Temple Theater, RedBird Theater, Cape Fear Regional, Barter Theater, Aggregate, Louisville Rep, Theaterfest, Deep Dish, Rep, NC State (Guest Artist) and ACT among them. Mark is a co-founder of American Theatre Practice with which he has produced and directed several shows over the last 25 years.

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Marcia Edmundson (Ida)

Marcia is a long time member of Manbites Dog Theater, where she appeared in Marjorie Prime, The Receptionist, and The New Electric Ballroom. She has been in productions with the ArtsCenter, Deep Dish Theater, and is a founding member of Bulldog Ensemble. A favorite role was Winnie in Happy Days with Little Green Pig.

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Ben Apple (Male Actor)

Ben is an actor whose most recent regional credits include Radio (Burning Coal), The Foreigner (Firebox Theater) and A Great Big Woolly Mammoth Thawing from the Ice (Burning Coal).

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Jessica Flemming (Female Actor)

Jessica is an actor, singer, stage manager, and theatre educator. She has performed with Curious Theatre Collective and Aggregate Theatre to present original shows for young audiences for over 7 years. Jessica was recently in a production of Obie Award-winning PearlDamour’s Ocean Filibuster at Duke University. She has also been part of the development of two original musicals.

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Edith Snow (Merrybelle Park Productions)

Edith has been working in the Triangle for over two decades in the performing and cinematic arts arenas. www.merrybellepark.com

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JJ Bauer (Stage Manager)

JJ is delighted to be working again with longtime friends. She has been a stage manager, props manager, costume designer, set designer and completely unwilling actor for various area theater companies, including RedBird Theater Company, Deep Dish Theater, Ghost and Spice Productions, NC State Theatrefest, The Open Door Theatre, Street Signs Center for Literature and Performance, and Wordshed Productions.

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Ethan Westmoreland (Assistant Stage Manager)

Ethan has worked on many shows in the Triangle, serving various roles on and off stage—actor, puppeteer, stagehand, you name it—he’s excited to join this collaborative team and help bring The Treasurer to Carrboro!

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Erin West (Costume Designer)

Erin has worked as a costume designer, costume technician, costume shop manager and wardrobe manager for regional and university theaters for over twenty years, with extensive experience designing, patterning, and building costumes for theatre and dance. Erin holds an MFA in Costume Design from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

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Chuck Catotti (Lighting Design)

Chuck has worked in theater in the Triangle area for over thirty years. Credits include Redwood (Bulldog Ensemble), Red (RedBird Theater), Life Sucks and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Manbites Dog Theater), Maccountant (Little Green Pig), Venus in Fur (Common Ground) She Kills Monsters, Uncle Vanya, and Ragtime (Duke University), and Happy Days (Playmakers Rep). He earned his MFA in Theater from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Naveed Moeed (Sound Design)

Naveed is a local writer, actor and photographer. Most recently he worked sound design in Mike Wiley’s, Changing Same: The Cold-blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely. He has finished writing his first full-length play.

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Taylor Bugge (Properties Artisan)

Taylor is a Chapel Hill native. In middle school she took a drama class taught by none other than Marcia Edmundson; she is proud to still be serving her community as a theatre maker and public librarian. Favorite credits over the years include A Doll’s House Part 2, Outside Mullingar, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Oh What a Lovely War and several 10x10 in the Triangles.

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Jock Brocki (Technical Director)

Jock has built sets for various theater companies for decades. He’s happy to lend a hand to friends still out here trying to make art.

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Chris Eselgroth (Graphic Design)

Chris is a freelance graphic designer (aka Foureyes Studio) currently living/working in Morganton, NC.

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