Hottentot’s Extreme Makeover”
Karole has worked at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Northshore
Music Theater, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Pasadena
Playhouse, Long Beach Civic Light Opera, California Music Theater,
The Odyssey Theatre, San Jose Rep, American Music Theater of San
Jose, North Coast Rep, and San Diego Rep Theaters. Among her
regional credits, Karole worked for two seasons with the renowned
Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Ms. Foreman recently received a Suzi Bass Award for her
performance as Anita in the Alliance Theatre’s revival of JELLY’S
LAST JAM. She has also received numerous Drama Logue Awards
and a Garland Award for her role as Alexa Vere de Vere in AS BEES
IN HONEY DROWN. She has had the pleasure of co-staring and
working with Armin Shimerman, Billy Zane, Heather Graham, Grace
Jones, Elizabeth Shue, Lea Thompson, Nell Carter, Dom DeLuise,
David Selby, Jonathan Silverman, John Raitt, to name a few. Karole
also co-stared as Tanya in the Las Vegas premiere of MAMMA MIA! at
the Mandalay Bay 2003-2004.
She is the librettist and lyricist of the PRINCESS AND THE BLACK-
EYED PEA, which has garnered the 1999 Jonathan Larson
Performing Arts Foundation Award, the 1996 Richard Rodgers Award,
as well as being selected for presentation in the National Alliance for
Musical Theater’s 1999 Fall Festival in New York. The show will had a
successful concert presentation at the prestigious Ravinia Festival in
Chicago fall of 2006 and is slated to be produced at the San Diego
Repertory Theatre as the holiday offering for their 2008-2009 season.
She is presently at work on an urban opera entitled RULE MY
WORLD, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra
and an experimental musical called THE VENUS HOTTENTOT’S
EXTREME MAKEOVER. In addition to performing, Karole is
interested in creating innovative, contemporary musical theater
ALLAN HAVIS: Playwright, “The Tutor”
For over three decades, Allan Havis has had his plays produced at
theatres across the country and in Europe, including San Diego Rep,
Old Globe, Seattle's ACT, Odyssey, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep,
American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, WPA,
and Philadelphia Theatre Co. His commissioned drama, Restless
Spirits, was a centerpiece of San Diego Rep’s thirtieth season
celebration. Other works commissioned by England's Chichester
Festival, Sundance, San Diego Rep, Ted Danson's Anasazi
Productions, South Coast Rep, Mixed Blood, CSC Rep, Malashock
Dance and Carolina Chamber Chorale. Twelve full length published
plays including Morocco, Hospitality, and The Haunting of Jim Crow.
Allan is the recipient of many awards including Guggenheim,
Rockefeller, Kennedy Center/American Express, CBS, HBO, National
Endowment for the Arts Awards, and San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
2003 Outstanding New Play for Nuevo California.
RUFF YEAGER: Playwright, “Dance on the Sun”;
Composer, “The Venus Hottentot’s Extreme Makeover”
Ruff Yeager is the Artistic Director of Vox Nova Theatre Company, a
collaborative workshop for theatre artists he founded with an
emphasis on the playwright and the development of new works for the
stage. His San Diego directing credits include Bronze, [sic]
(Sledgehammer Theatre); Friends of Dorothy, Bent, Something
Cloudy Something Clear (Diversionary Theatre); Come Back to the 5
and Dime, Jimmy Dean; Medea, Bronze (6th@Penn Theatre); Closer
(Backyard Productions); Stage Directions, A Man of His Word
(Playwrights Project). His recent awards include three Patte Awards
for Outstanding Direction (Bronze), Outstanding Ensemble (Jimmy
Dean), and Outstanding Original Music (Tongue of a Bird), a San
Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play (Bronze),
and a Playbill Award for Best New Play (Losing Mother).
