Heather Burns
Performer
While her original roots are in the east, Heather Burns has spent most of her life in Louisville. She attended Northern Kentucky University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Heather has toured internationally with Missoula Children's Theatre and worked with local theatres including Pandora Productions, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Louisville Repertory Company, and the Wayward Actors Company. She first joined Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble in A Midsummer Night's Dream and performed in and co-created Ban: An Appeal.
Tony Dingman
Performer
On loan from the Frazier International History Museum, where lately he can be seen as one of the dueling Elizabethan Sword Masters, Tony Dingman first performed with Le Petomane in A Midsummer Night's Dream and performed in and co-created Ban: An Appeal. He has also appeared with the Wayward Actors Company in The Man Who Came To Dinner and with Necessary Theatre in Search and Destroy. Prior to that, you might have caught a glimpse of him as the guy who said, "I can't believe we live like this," in a wallpaper store commercial that aired locally last year.
Abigail Bailey Maupin
Performer,Capocomica and Artistic Co-Director
Prior to moving to Louisville in 2003, Abigail lived in New York City for eleven years where she worked Off- and Off-Off Broadway and performed at the New York International Fringe Festival. She is co-founder of Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble, with which she has co-created and performed in Siddown, Souvenir, Spot of Cheese, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ban: An Appeal, and Ka-Blam!. Favorite credits include: Phyllis, Iolanthe; Maria, Twelfth Night; Della, Gift of the Magi; Emily, Our Town; Emilia; Othello, with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival; My Fair Lady, Actors Theatre of Louisville; and Sweeney Todd at the Goodspeed Opera House. Locally, she has also appeared with Music Theatre Louisville as: Lucy, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Hope, Anything Goes; Interplanet Janet, et. al., Schoolhouse Rock. She received her BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory.
Gregory Maupin
Performer, Capocomico and Artistic Co-Director
Called one of the "heroes of modern comedy" by NYTheater.com , "a gifted vaudevillian" by the Baltimore City Paper and "husband" by the redoubtable Abigail Bailey Maupin, Gregory is co-founder of Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble, with which he has co-created and performed in Siddown, Souvenir, Spot of Cheese, Ban: An Appeal and Ka-Blam!, as well as his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is a charter member of Brooklyn's Under The Table Ensemble and has created and/or performed shows with the world-renowned Dell'Arte Company, ImprovBoston, Philadelphia's Hotel Obligado Physical Theater Collective, Music Theatre Louisville, and the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, among others. He is a founding member of Louisville's StageLab, and his adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan was performed by New York's Chekhov Theatre Ensemble. He is a native of Louisville and a graduate of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California.
Kristie Rolape
Performer
Kristie first joined Le Petomane as a performer in A Midsummer Night's Dream and also performed in and co-created Ka-Blam!. She recently toured (with Kyle) with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare Alive! program, with which she has been a camp counselor, an artist-in-residence, a touring actor and Lady Macbeth in its 2005 production of Macbeth. Prior to landing in Louisville, she toured the world with Missoula Children's Theatre performing in and directing such plays as Treasure Island and Sleeping Beauty. Other favorite performances for the Barter Theatre and Milligan College include: Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing; Anelle, Steel Magnolias; and Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet.
Kyle Ware
Performer
A Midsummer Night's Dream was Kyle Ware's debut with LePetomane Theatre Ensemble. He also co-created and portrayed the Man of Trust himself in Ka-Blam!. Previous acting credits include roles in Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, Merry Wives of Windsor, Zoo Story, Getting Out, A View from the Bridge, Loot, The Bacchae, and more. Kyle is a graduate of the University of Louisville, where he earned degrees in Art, Theater and English. He toured (with Kristie) as part of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare Alive! program.
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Emiy Ruddock & Karen Ware - Board Members Extraordinaire
