Photo by Eryn Kovach-Sprenger.
Gary E. Mitchell
Gary E. Mitchell has appeared on many Grand Rapids, MI stages, including Actors’ Theatre, Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, and Heritage Theatre Group.
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre credits include: Lost In Yonkers, Born Yesterday, The Rainmaker, The Sisters Rosensweig, Love Letters, Pinocchio, Singin’ In the Rain, Much Ado About Nothing, Communicating Doors, Art and 1776.
At Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, he earned a Grand Award for Lead Actor as Eddie in Conversations With My Father, and he received a Grand Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Les in Actors’ Theatre’s production of Boy Gets Girl. In 2020, he appeared in a live-streamed and recorded production of Kunstler for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, and will appear in 2022 in Another Antigone for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids.
Heritage Theatre Group productions include The Tempest, Devour the Snow, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth,The Merchant of Venice and Fool for Love. Gary has also appeared in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, California Suite, God’s Favorite, Sight Unseen, Harvey, Bell, Book and Candle, and The Lion In Winter. He also appeared as a guest artist in Grand Valley State University’s Shakespeare Festival productions of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Measure for Measure. He recently appeared as Mel Trotter in the feature film One Life At A Time and can be seen as the President in the web series Real American.
Gary E. Mitchell has appeared on many Grand Rapids, MI stages, including Actors’ Theatre, Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, and Heritage Theatre Group.
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre credits include: Lost In Yonkers, Born Yesterday, The Rainmaker, The Sisters Rosensweig, Love Letters, Pinocchio, Singin’ In the Rain, Much Ado About Nothing, Communicating Doors, Art and 1776.
At Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, he earned a Grand Award for Lead Actor as Eddie in Conversations With My Father, and he received a Grand Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Les in Actors’ Theatre’s production of Boy Gets Girl. In 2020, he appeared in a live-streamed and recorded production of Kunstler for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, and will appear in 2022 in Another Antigone for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids.
Heritage Theatre Group productions include The Tempest, Devour the Snow, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth,The Merchant of Venice and Fool for Love. Gary has also appeared in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, California Suite, God’s Favorite, Sight Unseen, Harvey, Bell, Book and Candle, and The Lion In Winter. He also appeared as a guest artist in Grand Valley State University’s Shakespeare Festival productions of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Measure for Measure. He recently appeared as Mel Trotter in the feature film One Life At A Time and can be seen as the President in the web series Real American.
Gary E. Mitchell as William Kunstler
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 Tim Foley, artist.
A freelance actor, he has appeared in numerous corporate training films, as well as YouTube videos for Baudville, and has appeared in murder mysteries with Ransom Note Entertainment. Gary has taught acting for both teens and adults and has directed adult performance classes at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. He is available to coach individuals preparing monologues for college or professional auditions.
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Gary E. Mitchell as John Adams. Photo: Michael Croff
Photo by Eryn Kovach-Sprenger.
Mary Beth Quillin
Mary Beth Quillin has a B. A. in Theatre with an emphasis in performance and direction from Grand Valley State University. Formerly, she was the Assistant Education Director of the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre and School of Theatre Arts. As a faculty member there she taught acting classes for grades 4 – adult and directed over twenty-five student productions in the performance classes and summer day camps in the School of Theatre Arts.
Performances at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre include: Enchanted April, Communicating Doors, Stuart Little, Love Letters, A Christmas Carol, On Borrowed Time, The Velveteen Rabbit, and I’m Not Rappaport.
Mary Beth Quillin has a B. A. in Theatre with an emphasis in performance and direction from Grand Valley State University. Formerly, she was the Assistant Education Director of the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre and School of Theatre Arts. As a faculty member there she taught acting classes for grades 4 – adult and directed over twenty-five student productions in the performance classes and summer day camps in the School of Theatre Arts.
Performances at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre include: Enchanted April, Communicating Doors, Stuart Little, Love Letters, A Christmas Carol, On Borrowed Time, The Velveteen Rabbit, and I’m Not Rappaport.
Mary Beth Quillin as Abigail Adams. Photo: Michael Croff
Heritage Theatre Group credits include: Talking With, Macbeth, A Mid-winter Night’s Shakespeare and In the Shadow of the Glen. At Actors’ Theatre she appeared in Top Girls, which took third place in the National AACTFEST competition. With Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company she appeared in Pericles, Prince of Tyre and has appeared as a guest artist at Grand Valley State University in their productions of Major Barbara and King Lear.
She has directed original scripts in Actors’ Theatre’s Living on the Edge series, and appeared in Sight Unseen for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids and The Crucible, The Man Who Came To Dinner, and Alice in Wonderland (and Back Again) at Circle Theatre. She has served on the Board of Directors at Circle Theatre, Heritage Theatre Group, and The Stark Turn Players, where she appeared in Mint, by Randy Wyatt. Directing credits with Stark Turn include the world premiere of Four Wounded Women, by Grand Rapids playwright, Michael Smolinski. In September, 2015, she made her directing debut with Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids with their production of Becoming Dr. Ruth for which she received a Grand Award Nomination for Best Director of a Play for the 2015-16 Grand Rapids theatre season. She directed four original 10-Minute Plays in the Playbytes for Playwrights series at the Lowell Arts Players in Lowell, MI. During the pandemic she directed a live-streamed and recorded production of Kunstler and an outdoor production of New Jerusalem for Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, as well as Home for the Chalidays, part of Jewish Theatre's Chanukah Shorts program for 2021.
She works as a freelance actress and can be seen in the web series Lucky Jay, which has garnered numerous awards, including Best Screenplay at the 2015 Miami Web Fest. She also appears in Lucky Jay, Season 2: Here's Looking at Hugh which premiered in November 2016 and is available to view on the web along with season one.
Lowell Arts Players production of "Kids These Days", by Matt Tawney. October 2015
Together Gary and Mary Beth appeared in the short film Seasons (www.philipcarrel.com/Seasons.html), which was honored with an award at the Grand Rapids 2009 Festival of the Arts and was screened at the 2009 Waterfront Film Festival. On stage, they have appeared together in Chapatti, 2 Across, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Stephen Vincent Benet's Stories of America, Sight Unseen, Macbeth, Communicating Doors, Old Love, and Love Letters, where they met over 20 years ago. As real-life husband and wife they love bringing this show to audiences “most of all.”