RedBird Theater Company presents
THE PRICE by Arthur Miller

JJ Bauer (Stage Manager/Dramaturg)

JJ is delighted to work again with longtime friends at Redbird Theater Company. She has been a stage manager, props manager, costume designer, set designer, and utterly unwilling actor for various area theater companies, including Deep Dish Theater, Ghost and Spice Productions, NC State Theatrefest, The Open Door Theatre, Street Signs Center for Literature and Performance, and Wordshed Productions.​

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Paul Bogas (Assistant Stage Manager)

​Paul Bogas is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Grant for Playwriting.  His plays have won the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Palm Springs Playwrights Circle short play contest, and the Around the Block playwriting contest.  He is a graduate of Binghamton University and the Yale Law School.  If you are not careful, he will grab a guitar and sing to you. 

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Derrick Ivey (Director)

Derrick has worked as actor, director, choreographer, designer, producer, administrator, and educator in collaborations with Manbites Dog Theater, Playmakers Repertory Company, Theatre Raleigh, Center Theater, Streetsigns Center for Literature and Performance, Archipelago Theatre,  The North Carolina Symphony, The Durham Savoyards, Honest Pint, Deep Dish Theater, Raleigh Little Theater, Burning Coal, The ArtsCenter, Durham Arts Council, Chatham Arts Council, Temple Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theater, Duke University, William Peace University, and many more.  He is a co-Founder of RedBird Theater Company, and has directed THE TREASURER and THE WOOLGATHERER; designed sets for THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE TREASURER, A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 and NUMBERS ARE DOWN; and played Mark Rothko in RED and Serge in ART for the company. Regional directing credits include ZOO STORY, DEATHTRAP, CHICAGO, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, the complete works of Gilbert & Sullivan, and his original stage adaptations of THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, FRANKENSTEIN, ANTIGONE, PETER PAN, and CANTERBURY TALES.

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Tamara Kissane (Esther Franz)

Tamara Kissane is a theatre-maker, actor, parent, and playwright based in Pittsboro, NC. As an actor, Tamara has performed locally with Redbird Theater Company, Justice Theater Project, Artist Soapbox, Theater Book Club, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham Academy, Theater Delta, Actors Improv Theater, Summer Sisters, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Archipelago, and both hands theatre company. Tamara’s plays and monologues have been presented throughout the Triangle and Triad of NC; her work has been selected twice for development with the Carolina Playwrights Lab, won the Mark Gilbert Award in Greensboro, and featured in the Second Stage Season at Burning Coal. Through her podcast and production studio, Artist Soapbox, Tamara has produced, written, and directed a variety of audio dramas from anthologies to full-length series. She co-produces live audio and literary events including ASBX LIVE and Theater Book Club. Tamara was the 2020 Piedmont Laureate and received Outstanding Contribution to the Arts from Chatham Life & Style (2020). 

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Louis Landry (Sound Designer)

Louis is a performer, composer and instructor based in Durham since 2011, following stints in Virginia and Texas as a touring and recording musician. He teaches private lessons at High Strung School of Music, and leads music classes for local preschools. In North Carolina, Landry has collaborated on music and sound for theater productions like Manbites Dog Theater’s PARIS 76 and THE BEST OF ENEMIES; Honest Pint’s SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS; Common Ground’s MACCOUNTANT; and most recently, RedBird's THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CAROL and  REVOLUTION. He also served as musical director for Duke University's productions of BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS, JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, and GRANDFATHERED IN. More at www.LouisLandryMusic.com

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Carl Martin (Walter Franz)

Carl Martin is making his RedBird Theater debut in THE PRICE. Manbites Dog Theater: NIXON’S NIXON, THE TRUMP CARD, SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, THE RECEPTIONIST, SEVENTY SCENES OF HALLOWEEN, NOW YOU SEE ME (premiere); Burning Coal Theatre Company: ALL THE KING’S MEN, THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE WORLD, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE RAINMAKER; RhinoLeap Productions in Asheboro: LEAVING EDEN by Mike Wiley; Theater Previews at Duke: MAO II, THE BODY ARTIST; Deep Dish Theater: JOURNEY’S END; Ghost & Spice: SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO.

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Arthur Miller (playwright)

Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known plays include ALL MY SONS, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, THE CRUCIBLE, and THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999. The playwright died in 2005 at the age of 89, leaving a body of work that continues to be re-staged internationally and adapted for the screen.

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Adam Sampieri (Victor Franz)

A Durham-based theater artist, educator, and musician with numerous credits to his name as an actor, director, designer, playwright, and composer,  Adam recently had the privilege of performing alongside Tim Crouch in his 2007 Obie-Award winning play AN OAK TREE for Duke Arts. Previously for RedBird he played Charlies Dickens in North Carolina playwright Elliot Engel's THE NIGHT BEOFRE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Other memorable performances include originating the role of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in IN THE DOG HOUSE: THE EXECUTION OF DOSTOYEVSKY (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern) as well as turns in PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE (Picasso, ArtsCenter Stage), MISTERIOSO (Bob Dylan, Duke Arts), ARCADIA (Valentine, Deep Dish Theater) and THE MAN WHO (Manbites Dog Theater) for which he also composed the score. His songwriting work with The Alan Davis Band, Mojo Train, and as a solo artist has been featured on stage, screen, and radio, with a new solo EP, I Was Never Here, anticipating release in late 2026. An instructor of Drama and English, he shares his passion for storytelling with the next generation of artists at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, where he founded the curricular theater program in 2008 and just directed his milestone fiftieth production. In 2024, he was inducted into the Blair Academy Arts Guild as a member of its third class–and just the second actor–to receive the honor. He holds a BA from Duke University and an MA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Chandler Vance (Costume Designer)

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Jane Allen Wilson (Esther understudy)

​Jane Allen is an actress and improviser. She was a member of Transactors Improv Company for 13 years, starting in 1997, and has performed with a number of improv and theater assemblages, including Wild Mind Improv, Little Red Backpack/Third Date, & Totally Scenious Improv (which she produces), and past local plays.  She has taught and/or performed applied improv in medical, business, corporate and other settings for 20 years. For RedBird, she previously appeared in THE GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

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Dale Wolf (Gregory Solomon)

Dale Wolf is a veteran for nearly 50 years of the theater arts community  during its most vibrant days in the Triangle. A founding member of  TOUCH Mime Theater (1977—1994), he also had the honor of working with  numerous local companies including: Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern,  Manbites Dog Theater, both hands, Common Ground, Deep Dish, The Delta  Boys and Leviathan Theatre. May they all rest in peace. Most recently, he appeared in a couple of award winning films: NORTH: A LOVE LETTER (2022), created and directed by Ellen Hemphill of Archipelago  Theatre, and BLINK ONCE (2024) by Filmmaker, Jim Havercamp. In addition, Dale is an impressionistic doodler, a gardener, birdwatcher, caretaker of a small parcel of the planet in Durham, NC. There he grows and  shares food from his organic vegetable garden. He also feeds the birds, a  feral cat family of four, assorted squirrels and deer.