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Paige Price (Artistic Director) Price, a Broadway actress and producer, starred in Saturday Night Fever and was in the original cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as well as Smokey Joe's Café. Most recently she wowed audiences as the star of Theatre Aspen’s 2007 production of The Last Five Years. Her professional career began in 1981 in a television variety show and encompasses performances Off Broadway, as well as in regional theatre, national and international tours. She has shared the stage with stars such as Tony Bennett, Lou Rawls, Ben E. King, Pam Tillis, Jane Monheit and Gladys Knight. Price has also worked in film and television, working beside Tom Cruise, Bob Newhart, John Goodman and Tom Bosley and has hosted the Tony Awards’ live Red Carpet web casts since 2002.
As a producer, Price’s credits include “The Eyes Are The First Thing To Go,” (now, “Midlife: The Crisis Musical!” which played last fall in Boulder). For five years, she produced the critically acclaimed concert and CBS television show Broadway Under the Stars, set on the Great Lawn in Central Park, as well as Broadway Meets Country, presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2005, and many other large productions and concerts around the country and abroad. Last fall, Price co-produced the CBS holiday special “Christmas in Bryant Park,” starring Ben Vereen and Bebe Neuwirth.
Price is also currently First Vice President of Actors’ Equity and has years of high-level experience negotiating with theatre producers on behalf of performers. In 2005 she joined the League of Professional Theatre Women. She was recently named by City Speaker Christine C. Quinn to the Theatre Subdistrict Council, a board comprised of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Speaker Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Skinner, Price, Producer Jed Bernstein, Ben Cameron and Director George C. Wolfe.
Jeffry George (Managing Director) Jeffry has been in the production business since the early 1980’s beginning with the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. He has been associated with resident theaters across the country including the North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and Kansas City Starlight. As a Production Stage Manager he has brought tours into virtually every major city in the United States. Most recently he finished the supervision of a state-of-the-art theater for the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (The Julie Harris Stage) as their Managing Director and as the resident inspector for the United States Department of Agriculture-Rural Development. As the General Manager for the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, Jeffry contributed to their design and build phase of the Count de Hornle Theater which opened in December of 2007. At Kansas City Starlight, he managed an 8,000 seat outdoor audience arena, a 20,000 sq. foot multi use backstage facility and represented the organization on the road managing entertainment events for the Bayer Corporation. It was at Starlight that he had the pleasure of being introduced to Theatre Aspen’s Artistic Director, Paige Price. National tours have included: The Wizard of Oz, Two into One, Side by Side by Sondheim and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and the World premieres of: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Iago, Gizmo Love, Cuckooland, Zombie Prom, Sayonara and The Prince and the Pauper. A few notables that he has had the pleasure of working with are: George Abbott, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune, Rob Marshall, Phillip Wm. McKinley, Tony Randall, Millicent Martin, Cyd Charisse, Alexis Smith and Sydney Poitier. As an actor he has appeared at the Shakespeare Theater in Monmouth, Maine; in the National Tours of Shenandoah and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and on television in Trapper John, M.D. and One Life to Live. Jeffry is very pleased to be a member of the team at Theatre Aspen for their 25th Anniversary Season and now resides in Basalt, CO with his partner of 17 years Hunter O’Hanian.
Marisa Post (Education Director, Theatre Aspen School) Marisa worked as a professional actress, singer and dancer for thirty years. Her New York credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Godspell, Company, and the Town Hall Broadway Revival Series. She toured internationally with Godspell and was a company member with CTC Touring Repertory Theatre.
Locally, Marisa has performed at Aspen Theatre in the Park (Theatre Aspen), The Wheeler Opera House, The Grand Finale and the Aspen District Theatre, in such diverse roles as Germaine in Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Anita in West Side Story and Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
As a director and choreographer, Marisa has created new works for the stage, including Umbrella Man, by Steve Skinner. She is a founding Director of Four Rivers Musical Theatre, producing theatrical concert versions of great American musicals and providing public school workshops for students grades 2 through 12, throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. She has directed and choreographed for Aspen Theatre in the Park, Aspen Community Theatre and in numerous summer stocks and theatre camps.
She was the Choreographer and Movement Instructor for the Opera Theatre Center of the acclaimed international Aspen Music Festival and School, Ed Berkeley Director. Marisa has choreographed operas and benefits including La Boheme, Beatrice and Benedict, The Abduction from the Seraglio, An Evening of Sondheim, Rigoletto and An Evening of Bernstein, starring Judy Kaye.
Marisa Post received her theatre education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied at the Uta Hagen Studio, in New York City. She studied dance and choreography with the famed Luigi.
Kate Webber (Development and Communications Associate) Development and Communications Associate. A graduate of Wake Forest University, Kate comes to Theatre Aspen from San Diego bringing extensive development and non-profit operational skills to the organization. Prior to moving to Aspen, Kate was the Volunteer Coordinator and Case Worker at Rachel’s Women’s Center – a daytime drop-in center for homeless and low-income women in the San Diego metro area. In addition to recruiting, training and overseeing all volunteers and volunteer groups, Kate also designed and implemented programs that educated the women with valuable skills and information pertaining to their health, money-management, and overall well-being.
Kate helped coordinate annual fundraisers for the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and organized benefit and events for the ANGELS Foster Family Organization and the Race for the Cure on the west coast. As the president of the Wake Forest Alumni, San Diego Chapter, Kate also had the opportunity to plan a variety of events, fundraisers and activities.
Peggy Burke (Office Administrator / Playbill Sales) Coincidentally, Peggy shares the same alma mater as Kate Webber, Wake Forest University, where she received her BA in Speech Communications. After a 10-year stint in hospitality group sales, she spent a year traveling to Italy, India and New Zealand, embracing yoga and returned with a desire to get involved with the arts.
She has traveled extensively building relationships both internationally and domestically with meeting planners, ski trip leaders and wholesale tour operators.
In her role of securing ads for the Summer Playbill and office administration, she hopes to use her talents to bridge local and global connections with Theatre Aspen. She also serves as support for all the Theatre Aspen departments.
Peggy became a ‘local’ in 1997. In that first year, she joined the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar, at Aspen Community Theatre and has since performed in ACT’s Man of La Mancha and Wizard of Oz. She is thrilled to be part of a creative, dynamic organization aspiring to evolving Theatre Aspen to even higher levels.
Rodney Lizcano (Company Manager) Mr. Lizcano is thrilled to be joining Theatre Aspen for it’s 25th Season. A native of Texas, Rodney comes to Aspen from New York City where he was Office Manager for the project management firm of Big Show Construction whose clients include Toys ‘R’ Us, Sony, Wynn Hotels, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and JetBlue.
As actor, he has appeared in regional theatres across the country with most notable appearances with The Denver Center Theatre Company for 7 seasons, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, The Open Stage, Stories on Stage, Actors Ensemble Theatre and Off Broadway with DreamScape Theatre Company. Film and TV credits include “Silver City” directed by independent filmmaker John Sayles and “Stage Struck” for Bravo Television. He received his theatre training in Stage Management from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The National Theatre Conservatory.
In conjunction to his accomplishments in Theatre, Rodney is bringing his experience in Advertising, Project Management, Legal support and Event Planning to Theatre Aspen.
Member of Actors Equity (the professional union for Actors and Stage Managers) since 1997. |
