Eric Stonestreet
K-State Alum (’96)
Eric Stonestreet, a two-time Emmy winning
actor, is currently working on the fourth
season of ABC-TV’s Modern Family. Eric has
been hailed as “one of the season’s biggest
breakout stars” for his role as Cameron. His
recent film productions include Father v. Son
(2010), Bad Teacher (2011), Loft (2012), and
The Day the Laughter Stopped (2012). He
has also appeared on such television shows as
Dharma & Greg, Malcolm in the Middle, The
Mentalist, Party of Five, Spin City, ER, The
West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Greg the Bunny,
Providence, Close to Home, Crossing
Jordan, Bones, Monk, NCIS and Nip/Tuck.
Fran Albright is an actor, singer and dancer, and recently played the role of
Anne in a national tour of the musical, Anne of Green Gables. She has been in seven
Off-Broadway productions in New York, including Firecracker, a Checkov
adaptation and shows at the Public Theatre, Theatre of Harlem and The Pearl
Theatre.
Craig Benton is an actor who has an extensive resume of film, television
series and commercials. Craig has recently relocated to Kansas City, where some
of his appearances include starring opposite Maria Gibbs in Boeing Boeing at the
New Theatre Restaurant and Unnecessary Farce at the Heartland Theatre. His most
recent appearance was in the production of August Osage County at The Unicorn.
Travis Cloer spent a year-and-a-half on Broadway in the Tony Award
winning hit Jersey Boys, where audiences raved about his performance. He can
now be seen playing the “falsettoed” Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys at the Palazzo
Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Other stage credits include Rusty in Starlight
Express, Tony in West Side Story, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, and featured soloist
with The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.
Luke Johnson currently works at the crown uptown professional dinner
theatre in Wichita. He has been performing with them, serving as cast house
manager, and even stage managed a show since last October. His most recent role
was Zach in their next production of "A Chorus Line.” Luke will aslo be featured
in "Sweeney Todd" and "White Christmas" later on this season.
Laura Lindsay is approaching hertwo year anniversary in NYC. She is the
Keenan Ramos, Nathan Jackson, Tyler Woods
Nathan Jackson is the playwright in Kansas City. He is the
author of Broke-ology and When I Come to Die, which premiered
at the Lincoln Center in the Fall of 2008 and Spring of 2010.
Nathan has also worked as a writer on the Showtime series
Shameless and TNT’s Southland. He recently returned to K-State
in Spring of 2011 to vconduct playwrighting workshops and
view the Ebony Theatre production of Broke-ology.
Price Messick, an actor, singer and dancer, recently
completed a national tour and is now living in New York City.
Most recently he was seen in The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee, Reefer Madness, Seussical, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Some of his favorite roles include: Rupunzel’s Prince, Into the
Woods, directed by Moises Kaufman at the Kansas City Repertory
Theatre and John, John & Jen at the Fishtank Performance Studio.
Kurtis Rutherford is currently living in New York City. He
is working as the Technical Director for the Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet, an internationally touring and well
respected, inovative dance troupe. Prior to landing this job, he
was a freelance carpenter working successfully for a number of
scene shops, off-broadway houses as well as a bevy of other
assorted jobs. He is happlily married to fellow K-Stater, and
Freelance Wardrobe Artisan Mary Johnston Rutherford.
David Tompkins is the general manager of the Boston
Ballet Company. “It is an ever increasing battle keeping a
performing arts organization afloat in this day and age, but still all
is good every time you see the artists perform.”
Stage Manager of a production called Welcome to America produced by New Worlds
Theatre Project. The company is a new company, and that takes old Yiddish plays
and translates them to English, while focusing on non-traditional casting. This is
Laura’s second production as an Equity member. Her first was with Urban Stages
(a small, not for profit theatre company that she works for as their Assistant
Program Director). Additonally, Laura works at Juilliard as a stage manager for
the Concert Office under another K-State Alum, Cynthia Baker. Outside of
herprofessional life, she is really enjoying living in New York City. She has been
able to meet a few other K-State Alumns and remarks, “We try to all keep up
with each other. K-State is doing a lot of great things in NYC!”
Vi Tran is a storyteller, singer-songwriter, Equity actor, and
Reuben Lucas spent four years as the resident scenic design associate at the
Denver Center Theatre Company. He is now living in Chicago and freelancing
full-time as a scenic designer. Reuben recently joined USA 829 and is currenly
designing an Opera at his grad school alma mater, UIUC. In a interesting turn,
he has been assigned a fellow KSU graduate, Joe Klug, to be his assistant designer
at UIUC.
Michael Wieser is a actor, singer, and bagpipes player in
arts advocate. As bandleader of the Vi Tran Band, he routinely has
visual artists paint live during performances. He acts as curatorial
programming chair for arts advocacy program Hello Art and
hosts its monthly First Friday trolley tours of Kansas City's
Crossroads art district. He also serves as a facilitator for Artist,
INC. He is currently producing the Vi Tran Band's full-length
debut album, the follow-up release to his 2010 solo debut EP,
GOODBYE, SUMMER.
New York City. He has performed in many productions with
Williamstown Theatre during his Fellowship in 2010 and is
currently an acting member of the Exit Pursued by a Bear theatre
company. Michael was recently cast in Classic Stage Company’s
production of The Cherry Orchard.