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 a Grand Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Les in Actors’ Theatre’s production of Boy Gets Girl.
Heritage Theatre Group productions include The Tempest, Devour the Snow, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice. 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 production of Hamlet.
A freelance actor, he has appeared in numerous corporate training films, as well as YouTube videos for Baudville, and currently appears 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.
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 a Grand Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Les in Actors’ Theatre’s production of Boy Gets Girl.
Heritage Theatre Group productions include The Tempest, Devour the Snow, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice. 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 production of Hamlet.
A freelance actor, he has appeared in numerous corporate training films, as well as YouTube videos for Baudville, and currently appears 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.
Gary E. Mitchell as John Adams and Mary Beth Quillin as Abigail Adams
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.
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 also appeared as a guest artist at Grand Valley State University in their production of Major Barbara.
She has also directed original scripts in Actors’ Theatre’s Ben Franklin 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 and Heritage Theatre Group, and is currently serving on the board of The Stark Turn Players, where she appeared in Mint, by Randy Wyatt. She works as a freelance actress and voice talent and most recently recorded Summer on Blossom Street, by Debbie Macomber for Brilliance, Inc.
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 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Stephen Vincent Benet's Stories of America, Sight Unseen, Macbeth, Communicating Doors and Love Letters, where they met over 10 years ago. As real-life husband and wife they love bringing this show to audiences “most of all.”
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.
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 also appeared as a guest artist at Grand Valley State University in their production of Major Barbara.
She has also directed original scripts in Actors’ Theatre’s Ben Franklin 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 and Heritage Theatre Group, and is currently serving on the board of The Stark Turn Players, where she appeared in Mint, by Randy Wyatt. She works as a freelance actress and voice talent and most recently recorded Summer on Blossom Street, by Debbie Macomber for Brilliance, Inc.
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 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Stephen Vincent Benet's Stories of America, Sight Unseen, Macbeth, Communicating Doors and Love Letters, where they met over 10 years ago. As real-life husband and wife they love bringing this show to audiences “most of all.”
