Robert Richmond
Director

Robert Richmond, is originally from Hastings, England, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. For 14 years he was the Associate Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company before pursuing a freelance career. He is delighted to direct The Lost Colony. Robert has directed over 30 productions in New York, Europe and across the nation including Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Invisible Man, Agamemnon (with Olympia Dukakis), Othello, The Man Who Would Be King, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, Wrath of Achilles, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar, The Iliad: Book One, and King Lear. He has also directed special concert engagements of Cherubini’s Medea, Tanyev’s Oresteia, and Theodorakis’ Electra at Carnegie Hall. In 2005, Mr. Richmond’s production of Much Ado About Nothing played a command performance for a private reception at the White House in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday for the President and First Lady. This was the first performance of a Shakespeare play in the White House for many years.Robert taught for seven years in the Classical Studio at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and now is a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina, Columbia where he now resides with his wife and two beautiful children.

Carl V. Curnutte III
Executive Director/ Producer 

A native of Ashland, Kentucky, Carl Curnutte a graduate of Morehead State University now resides in Manteo, North Carolina.  He is a Rotarian, and assists with the March of Dimes. In his career he has worked on several feature films including Chris Rock’s Head of State, Ted Turner’s Gods and Generals, Disney’s Tuck Everlasting with Sissy Spacek, The Farm with Al Pacino, and Local Knowledge.  He has designed costumes for such television series: Ghost Stories with Rip Torn, The New Detectives (Telly Award), The FBI Files, The Prosecutors, Untold Stories of the Navy Seals, and Daring Capers (Telly Award); movies of the week The Killing Fields, and Take the Money and Run; and television pilots Commander in Chief with Geena Davis, Georgetown with Helen Mirren and The End of Civilization with Eric Idle.  His Broadway credits include The Producers (Tony Award), Crazy for You (Tony Award), Guys and Dolls, Private Lives, The Royal Family, and the national tour of A Christmas Carol.  His numerous video designs have won various awards including the prestigious Cindy Award, given for distinction in video production.  Carl’s crowning achievement was receiving a 2003-2004 Primetime Emmy Awards Nomination in the category of Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or Special for his work on the HBO Television Movie Iron Jawed Angels starring Hillary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and Angelica Houston.  He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  This summer marks his 18^th summer with The Lost Colony. He is a former recipient of The Lost Colony’s Evelyn Russell Layton Award, which recognizes promising theatre talent.  He dedicates his summer season to all those who supported and assisted the Costume Shop Replacement project.

William Ivey Long
Production Designer

Five time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long returns for his 38^th season with The Lost Colony.  First associated with the production at age eight, he joined the company as a colonist boy.  While his mother performed in front of the footlights as Queen Elizabeth I and his father worked as property master, technical director and director, Mr. Long spent numerous hours backstage under the eye of costume designer Irene Smart Rains, whose guidance and encouragement helped lay the foundation for his career as a Broadway costume designer.  He holds an undergraduate degree in history from The College of William and Mary and a Master of Fine Arts degree in stage design from Yale University.   He currently has 4 shows on Broadway: Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Chicago.  Other credits include Grey Gardens (Tony Award); The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); A Streetcar Named Desire (which marked Mr. Long’s 50^th design for the Broadway Stage); Sweet Charity; La Cage Aux Folles; Twentieth Century; Little Shop of Horrors; The Boy from Oz; Cabaret; Never Gonna Dance; Contact (Hewes Award); The Music Man; Annie Get Your Gun; The Man Who Came to Dinner; Swing; Steel Pier; 1776; Smokey Joe’s Café; Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award); A Christmas Carol; Six Degrees of Separation; Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards).  His designs have also appeared in performances for such artists as Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, and for choreographers Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Peter Martins, David Parsons and Susan Stroman.  Mr. Long was the recipient of the RIHA’s Morrison Award (1992), the UNC Chapel Hill Playmakers Award (1994), the National Theatre Conference “Person of the Year” award (2000), the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (2001), the Distinguished Career Award from the Southeastern Theatre Conference (2002), and the 2004 North Carolina Award presented by Governor Easley.  In January 2006 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Anthony Cochrane
Musical Director

Anthony Cochrane is a composer, actor and musical director who originally hails from the north coast of Scotland and now resides in New York.  He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and has worked extensively throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. For over 11 years, Cochrane served as an Associate Director and Composer/Musical Director of the Aquila Theatre Company.  In this capacity he has written musical scores and collaborated on the creation of more than 20 productions including The Birds, The Odyssey, The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, King Lear, The Iliad, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing, The Wrath of Achilles, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Man Who Would Be King, Othello, Agamemnon, The Invisible Man, Twelfth Night, Hamlet and The Invisible Man.  He has also written music for 2 short films directed by Alex Webb, Pizza and the award-winning The Girl from 2C.

Mira Kingsley
Choreographer

Mira Kingsley’s choreography and directing work has been seen at REDCAT  (Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, Circle Course) The Bam Next Wave Festival (Once Upon a Time in Chinese America), The Kitchen (Warrior Sisters), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Cantata For Acquiescence), The 24^th Street Theater (Good Night), The Guggenheim Museum Works in Process Series, ASU’s Gammage Auditorium, The John Harms Center for the Arts, The Seattle International Children’s Festival, HERE, The Yard, Joyce Soho, The 24^th Street Theater, Highways, and the legendary Apollo Theater among others. She is currently working with Jazz musician Fred Ho and playwright Ruth Margraff on, Dragon Vs Eagle: Enter the White Barbarians, for the BAM Next Wave Festival in 2009. As a performer she has been seen at venues including Broadway, Carnegie Hall, and The Metropolitan Opera. Mira is a recipient of the Jacob K Javits Fellowship in Theater and has a double Masters degree in Theater Direction and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts where she currently teaches dance-theatre.

Jim Hunter
Lighting Designer

 Jim Hunter joins the company for his first season at The Lost Colony.  Jim’s scene and lighting designs have been seen at such theatres as: Theatre Virginia, Phoenix Theatre, Charlotte Rep, Arkansas Rep, Florida Rep, Playhouse on the Square (Memphis), Drury Lane Theatre (Chicago), Heritage Repertory Theatre (VA), Flat Rock Playhouse (NC), as well as others.  He designed the scenery for the national touring production of VeggieTales Live! and also toured as lighting designer with the modern dance company Wall Street Danceworks.  Recent projects include the lighting design for the World Stage Design Exposition in Toronto and the scene design for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Phoenix Theatre for which he won his second consecutive AriZoni Award for Excellence in Scenic Design.  Professor Hunter serves as the Chair for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina and is the Artistic Director of Theatre South Carolina.   He serves on the Commission for Accreditation with the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Please visit his online portfolio at www.jimhunterdesigns.com

Michael Rasbury
Sound Designer

Michael Rasbury (Bachelor’s 1992 and Master’s of Art 1994, Louisiana Tech) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia.  In 2001, he toured internationally with John Cage’s An Alphabet. Since 2007, he has designed for the “Obie” winning Transport Group in New York. At Actors Theatre of Louisville he provided music/sound for some of America’s innovative playwrights including Jane Martin, John Patrick Shanley, Donald Marguilles, and William Mastrosimone. This summer, the O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference will present Max Understood, a musical written with co-writer Nancy Carlin and based on Michael’s autistic son, Max.

Stacy Sarmiento
Costumer
Daniel Moctezuma
Assistant Musical Director

Daniel Moctezuma is grateful to be making his Lost Colony debut; it is also his first time in North Carolina.  Moctezuma is a recent MFA Creative Writing graduate at the University of Miami and has spent the past seven years working as Music Director and Assistant Music Director for several of the University of Miami’s Jerry Herman Ring Theater Productions, which include: 42^nd Street, She Loves Me, Falsettos, Baby, Sunday in the Park with George, Bat Boy and On the Town.  Last year he worked at Seaside Music Theater in Daytona on Silver Screen Serenade and Stephen Schwartz’s new mosaic musical, Snapshots.  He also worked in the orchestra for the regional premier of I Love You Because at Actor’s Playhouse, in Coral Gables.  He is excited to be leaving South Florida and to eventually join bigger fish in the city that never sleeps. 

Melissa Ricketts Tillery
Production Stage Manager

For over 14 years Melissa Ricketts Tillery has helped actors find their way to The Lost Colony as audition director for the South Eastern Theatre Conference. This summer Tillery journeyed from the mountains of Pigeon Forge, TN to entertain a different set of tourists.  After receiving her MFA in theatre from UNC Greensboro, she spent five years working as Raleigh Little Theatre’s Education Director.   followed by developing Durham Academy’s award-winning drama department.  Many of Tillery’s former students have worked at The Colony over the years and she is proud to join their numbers.  With over 100 directing experiences under her belt, Melissa is thrilled to be directing A Funny Thing… Forum. Melissa would like to thank her family (Scot, Maura, Riley and Doxie) for letting her play at the beach.  She dedicates her work to her parents who have given her so much.

John Underwood
Technical Director

John Underwood is excited to return to The Lost Colony for his 22nd season. A local to Manteo, he has lived and worked in NYC for the last 11 years. New York credits include: Peony Pavillion, The Torch Bearers, The Authors, Voice/Imagining Brad, The Country Club, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, If Memory Serves, A Good Swift Kick, Stomp, Power Plays, De La Guarda, Dinner With Friends, Savion Glover Downtown, Dinah was..., A Night In November, Never the Sinner, The Secret History of the Lower East Side, Snakebit, American Passenger, As Bee's Drown in Honey, The Waverly Gallery, Y2K, Cobb, Lifegame, The Unexpected Man, Marcel Marceau in New York, The Shape of Things, The Book of Liz, Les Mizrahi, Adult Entertainment, Omnium Gatherum, Bat Boy the Musical, Little Ham, Eve-Olution, The God of Hell, Woman Before Glass, Tea at Five, In the Heights, Random Acts One Act Festival, Die Mommy Die, Doris to Darlene. Love to Ma, Dad, Deb, BU, Ry, Sid & Joey.