As of this writing in the summer of 2016, Money Man is our most recent play. It imagines what Alexander Hamilton might have said to a group of friends who have come to be with him in the hour before he is rowed across the Hudson River to engage in his fateful duel with Aaron Burr. People, quite logically, question why on earth I would write a Hamilton play in light of the overwhelming impact of Lyn-Manuel Miranda’s fabulously successful musical that opened on Broadway just before Money Man opened in a small town in the California foothills. It’s true… [Continue reading]
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Carol Woods
Carol Woods is a retired English and French teacher living in Sonora, CA. She graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA in 1978 with a degree in American Studies and completed her teaching credential year in the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley in 1980, getting a Master’s in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at the then Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1995. She spent most of her 40-year teaching career in the Mother Lode, primarily at Sonora High. She also taught abroad, in the Peace Corps first in Niger (1983-85) and later in Poland… [Continue reading]
Greg Falken
Greg Falken is currently serving as President of Duende. Greg received a Bachelor of Arts degree in media and communications from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, in 1981. In the four years following graduation, he worked in Hollywood as a recording engineer for A&M Records, and independently. His work included albums, film and television scores and spoken word recordings. In 1984, working with first and second generation personal computers, he began a computer consulting service, which provided system evaluation, installation and training. From 1986 through 1988, Greg was Vice President of Operations for Barnett/Associates, a California collateral production agency…. [Continue reading]
Celeste Boyd
Celeste Boyd is currently serving as Secretary/Treasurer of Duende. Celeste is a retired educator who has been involved with the arts since being in her first “theatre in the round” production as a young girl. She was a church choir member for seven years and acted, danced, sang and worked backstage in college productions. She actively supported the integration of arts into the curriculum during her professional career as a teacher and school administrator. As Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services for the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools Office, Celeste worked closely with the Central Sierra Arts Council to establish the “Arts… [Continue reading]
Rick Foster
Rick Foster is co-founder and Resident Playwright of Duende. Rick is a native Californian. He is the author and translator of many plays. Among them his The Heroes of Xochiquipa (written for Thomas F. Maguire) won the Bay Area Theater Critics Award for Outstanding New Play in 1984. Heroes went on to performances in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Princeton, and Sonora. His translation/adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening has been professionally produced in Los Angeles, and Boise, Idaho and at such colleges and universities as Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunter College, Roosevelt University, Cabrillo College, and Notre Dame College in Belmont, California…. [Continue reading]
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