Director Debera Ann Lund
Having previously directed staged readings of
Picnic,
Blithe Spirit
and Animal Crackers
for Mt. Hood Rep, Deb's recent directing credits include Antigone
at Wilsonville
High School, Twelfth Night for PAE's
33rd annual Shakespeare in the Parks, and Rashomon for
Theatre Vertigo.
She is a proud member of
Actors Equity Association, the American Union for
Professional Actors. She performed in Hazard County and
Mimesophobia at JAW/West 2004 and in Much Ado About
Nothing and Man and Superman (
Portland Center Stage). Debera has toured the west coast with
Master Magician "Dr. Wilderness" and she has performed in improvisational
comedy shows throughout Western Europe for the Department of Defense. Recent
roles include Helen Hobart in Once in a Lifetime, Charlotte Malcolm in
A Little Night Music, Mae Tuck in Tuck Everlasting, Catherine
De Medici in The King Has Gone to Tennebrae, and a multitude of
characters on the Mt. Hood Railroad's Murder Mystery Train.
About The Authors
Fay Kanin (b. 1917) was born Fay Mitchell in New York City, and was educated
primarily in Elmira, New York. When her family moved to Los Angeles, she
completed her fourth year of college at USC and received her B.A. degree.
Kanin got her start in film as a script reader in the Story Department at
RKO. There she met Michael Kanin, who was writing his first screenplay.
Michael Kanin (1910-1993) was born in Rochester, New York, part of an
active theatrical family along with brother Garson Kanin and his wife,
Ruth Gordon. Michael Kanin studied at the Art Students League of New York
and the New York School of Design and embarked on a career in commercial art.
The Kanin family, including Garson and sister Ruth, a costumer, moved
to Hollywood around 1939. Michael and Fay Kanin were married in 1940.
Michael Kanin earned an Academy Award for cowriting Woman of the Year
(MGM, 1942) with Ring Lardner Jr. Fay and Michael collaborated on several films, including
an adaptation of Rashomon called The Outrage (MGM, 1964),
and Teacher's Pet (Paramount, 1958), for which they received an
Academy Award nomination.
Michael Kanin was also a prolific stage
director. In later years he returned to art and sculpted bronzes of
entertainment figures. He died in 1993 from congestive heart failure.
Fay Kanin scripted several television movies,
earning an Emmy for Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974).
She served on the
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors
since June 1974 , with four consecutive terms as president from 1979 to 1983 and
continues to produce films and television.
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