Guns of Ireland - May 01 - May 10, 2015
Tri-Cities Prep High School
Crew Who's Who
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Jeffrey David Payne
Playwright
Jeff’s young adult novel, "Far From the War", was one of the most critically acclaimed indie novels of 2011. Previously produced plays include "To Kill A Southerner" and "Blue Toxic." His play "Transition Team" was featured as part of the Kansas City Playwrights Festival. As a lighting designer and lighting programmer, Jeff has worked with the Stephen Sondheim Center for Performing Arts, Maine State Music Theatre, Mid Columbia Musical Theatre, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular as well as recording artists ranging from Britney Spears to Faith Hill to Maria Carey. Jeff is currently Chief Technology Officer of Flex Rental Solutions, a Richland based company providing equipment and crew scheduling technology to a large swath of the world’s concert touring, theatre and live event production industry. Jeff studied theatre at the University of Saint Mary and Mathematics at DePaul University. His novels "The Wavy Line" and "The Mail Still Runs" are due out next year.
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Mike Speegle
Playwright
Mike is an accomplished novelist with two published works under his belt including "Pen and Platen" and "Something Greater Than Artifice." Kirkus Reviews recently called "Something Greater Than Artifice" 'A hugely entertaining techno-magic adventure novel' and selected it as one of their indie books of the year for 2014. In his capacity as a staff writer at Richland based technology firm &yet, Mike worked with Hozier’s Alana Henderson on a musicalized stage version of his novel Something Greater Than Artifice and oversaw its production as part of the 2014 Realtime Conference in Portland. His Human Javascript Live musical training event for software engineers was produced last year. Mike is a graduate of the Las Vegas Academy for Performing Arts and holds a BA in English from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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Nina Powers
Composer/Arranger
Nina has been the music director for TCP theater since 2008 but this is her first run at composing music. She's played the violin since age 7 and performed over 200 symphony, string quartet and chamber concerts throughout the Northwest. Now that she's picked up fiddling for Guns of Ireland however, you're more likely to to find her fiddlin at the pub. She would like to thank Jeff and Mike for their solid friendship, trust and general hilarity. The fantastic production team of Margaret, Kevin, Stella, Kathryn and Gen. And most of all her best friend and husband Brett.
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