Thomas Q. Fulton, Jr.
Executive Director, The Fairmount Center

A producer, director, actor, and teacher for the past 30 years, Tom has served as Producing Director for three professional regional theatre companies: Center Repertory Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and the Cleveland Theatre Company.  He spent five years as a company member of The Cleveland Play House and served as Artistic Director for Cain Park Summer Theater.  Recently, Mr. Fulton was named director of the Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center, an accredited, college prepertory school in conjunction with the Mayfield Consoritum; 9 high-schools in northeast Ohio. 

Elsewhere Mr. Fulton has performed and directed at many regional theatres in the area including Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music Festival, the Cleveland Actor's Theatre Company, The Halle Theatre, and Actor's Summit Theatre.  Tom grew up in Geauga County and brings a special love of Northeast Ohio to his position at The Fairmount Center.   To learn more about Mr. Fulton, see his website: www.tomfulton.com


Fred Sternfeld
Director, School of Theatre
Director, Fairmount Performing Arts Camp
Fred Sternfeld is a one of Northeast Ohio's most prolific and successful directors.  His work has spanned most of the theatre companies in Cleveland.  He has garnered numerous theatre awards and is well known for his ability to bring honesty and humanity to the characters in all of his productions. To learn more about Mr. Sternfeld, please visit his website: www.fredsternfeld.com

Seth Gordon is Associate Artistic Director of  the Cleveland Play House. At the Play House, he produces FusionFest, helps with season planning and casting, runs the Playwrights’ Unit, and directs plays. His Play House directing credits include Dinner with Friends, Proof, Forest City (world premiere), Vincent in Brixton, Tuesdays with Morrie, A Christmas Story and this season RFK and Of Mice and Men. He has also directed in Cleveland for Dobama Theatre, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, and the Beck Center for the Arts. He recently directed the Arabic premiere of Our Town in Cairo. Previously, he served as Literary Manager and then as Associate Producer of Primary Stages in New York, where he produced and/or directed countless productions, workshops and readings of new plays by this country’s leading playwrights. While at Primary Stages, he also founded the New American Writers Group, which supports the next generation of playwrights. He has also directed at many other New York theatres, and has directed and lectured at various universities including Case Western Reserve University.  He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, The Jerome Foundation, and AT&T. Productions he produced at Primary Stages received Obie Awards, Theatre World Awards, and several Drama Desk nominations. He received the 2004 Northern Ohio Live Award for Excellence in Theatre. He received his education at the High School of Performing Arts in New York, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He considers himself a lucky man.

Marc Moritz originated the role of Talk Show Host in the original Broadway production of the Sondheim/Prince musical Merrily We Roll Along . Theaters worked in include: The Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Long Wharf, Goodman, New Harmony, Cain Park, Dobama and many more. Marc was the Founder/Director of the Cleveland based Giant Portions Improv Troupe. His improv training includes stints at ImprovOlympic and extensive workshops with Paul Sills, Del Close and Charna Halpern. He currently teaches Improv at The Cleveland Improv Institute housed in the landmark Cleveland Hermit Club, as well as Improv at Beck Center and is on staff at Chicago's Second City Training Center. Marc is also a Guest Artist with The University Circle Early Educational Enrichment Program - bringing Improv and other Creative Dramatics into area schools.

Dana Hart apprenticed to the Cleveland PlayHouse and has been a member of Actors Equity for over 25 years. He has performed from Alaska to Zimbabwe and in 48 of the 50 states including seasons with Alaska Repertory Theatre, Center Stage (Baltimore), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre and Theatre West Virginia. He has appeared Off- Broadway in New York and with many Northeast Ohio theatres including The Beck Center, Ensemble, Actors' Summit, Dobama, Clague Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and the Cleveland PlayHouse.

Mr. Hart holds degrees in both Theatre Arts and English (teaching) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is currently the Upper School Drama and Speech teacher at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights and also a member of the faculty at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. While in Alaska Mr. Hart was the co-founder of Playmaking: a theatre company doing theatre and storytelling workshops in towns and villages across Alaska . He was both a teacher and the Artistic Director of the Sitka Summer Fine Arts Camp and a teacher with both the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Fairmount Performing Arts Camp at Laurel School . He has been funded by four states to conduct Artist in the Schools programs in Maryland , Washington , Alaska , and Ohio and was awarded an Ohio Arts Council travel grant to present new works at the Hararre International Festival of the Arts in 2000.

John C Davis (www.thefightdirector.com) has been a theater professional for more than two decades. Though his original course of study is in Architecture, his love of theater over took his professional aspirations and he left his career behind for performing, directing, and choreography for the stage.
Over the Years, John, has certified with: The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), The Society of British Fight Directors (SBFD-Now defunct), The Fight Directors of Canada (FDC), The Nordic Fight Society (NFS), The American Academy of Stage and Screen Combat Choreographers (AASSCC) and I a recognized instructor with The International Order of the Sword and Pen (IOSP).
John is probably best known for his comedy Sword-fighting Show Hack and Slash. The Show has been seen internationally for more than fifteen years and over four thousand performances. After the events of September 11, 2001, John has spent a large portion of every year entertaining the armed forces on six USO tours. These tours traveled to sixteen countries including the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In March of 2006, while in Fallujah, Iraq, Hack and Slash performed their one hundredth show for the USO.

Sean McConaha is the Co-Managing/Artistic Director of The Bang and the Clatter Theatre Company. He has worked for 16 years in Northeast Ohio as an educator, actor and director. He served as the Director of Education at Weathervane Playhouse for 8 years.  He has directed over 40 stage projects including the award-winning productions of Romeo and Juliet,  Angels in America, and A Lesson Before Dying. A graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan, Sean currently serves as an adjunct theatre faculty member at The University of Akron, which is also where he earned his MA in Acting/Directing. His BNC directing credits include The Late Henry Moss, Closer, Blackbird, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Frozen, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Fat Pig, Red Light Winter, Roulette, A Narrow Bridge, Pounding Nails into the Floor with my Forehead. Sean will direct Orange Flower Water, Blackbird, Cagelove, The Lieutenant of Innishmore and Blasted in the 2008 season.