Wolf Theatre Academy
Staff
Kelly McAllister
Kelly holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Jose State University. Kelly is an actor, director, playwright and experienced theatre teacher. He has recently taught for the Renaissance Program in Boulder. His bi-coastal credits include theatre classes in New York City for the Hope Theatre, Synapse Productions and Expanded Arts, as well as California credits at Small World Schools, Children’s Theatre Workshop and The Western Stage. Kelly was a reviewer for nytheatre.com and won playwriting awards at the NY Innovative Theatre Awards and at the NYC International Fringe Festival. Kelly is also a former full-time school teacher.
Maggie Tisdale
Maggie holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School. In New York, she appeared in many productions, including Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Bridal Party Botch and Eve of the Trial. Maggie also served as stage manager for the NYU/Atlantic production of Mad Forest, and she worked as a production intern for One Life to Live and Live! With Regis and Kelly. Some of her Denver acting credits include Cinderella at Town Hall Arts Center, Man of La Mancha with Augustana Arts, West Side Story at the Union Colony Dinner Theatre, Annie Get Your Gun with Performance Now, The Cradle Will Rock at the Mizel Center, Annie at the Denver Civic Theatre, Into the Woods at the University of Denver and the Boulder Fringe Festival. Maggie also appeared in the Town Hall Arts Center Cultural Classroom production of Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, and at last year’s Denver Children’s Theatre production of Ramona Quimby as Mrs. Quimby. This is Maggie’s sixth year teaching at the Wolf Theatre Academy.
Crystal Verdon
Crystal holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Concordia University. Recently transplanted from San Diego, Crystal has taught drama and specialty classes such as Shakespeare, Stage Combat, Movement for Actors, and Storydrama for almost a decade. In San Diego, she taught extensively with San Diego Junior Theatre (the oldest continuing children's theatre program in the country), in addition to working with theatres including The Old Globe, North Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Lamb's Players Theatre and 6th @ Penn Theatre. While in Colorado Springs, she was a public school drama director, and the Theatre Education Coordinator for the C.S. Fine Arts Center. In this role, she expanded their educational offerings and wrote museum theatre curriculum. She has also worked extensively as a performer in San Diego.
Emily MacIntyre
Emily is the Production Manager for the MACC, and holds a B.A. in theatre from California Lutheran University. She spent her childhood and young adult years acting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. While working on her degree, she spent three years as a union stage-manager with Kingsmen Shakespeare Company in Thousand Oaks, CA. In California, she directed/designed children’s pageants for local churches, worked crew for Young Actor’s Ensemble, taught Shakespeare camps and acted in children’s theatre with AMGEN’s Community Outreach Project and Pinki’s Playhouse. Emily moved to Denver in June 2003, where she has felt privileged to work with the children and staff of the Wolf Theatre Academy, stage-managing nearly 20 mainstage productions. Other Mizel Center productions include Poignant Irritations, while her Denver Children’s Theatre productions include: The Last Paving Stone, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, and Ramona Quimby. Emily spent one season co-directing/teaching with Acting Up! Theatre Arts for Teens, and periodically lends a technical hand to their productions.
Steve Wilson
(Academy Director)
Steve holds an M.F.A. in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver and a B.F.A. in drama from the University of Southern California. He has been an artist-in-residence throughout the Cherry Creek and Denver Public School Districts, and he was the high school theatre teacher and Performing Arts Chairman at St. Mary’s Academy for 10 years. Steve has directed productions at major theatre companies throughout the Denver area, including PHAMALy (Physically Handicapped Actor’s & Musical Artists League), the Bug Theatre Company, Town Hall Arts Center and The Theatre Group. He garnered awards for Best Director from both the Denver Post and the Boulder Daily Camera as well as the Henry Award (Colorado’s Tony Award) for his production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (for PHAMALy). His acting credits include numerous Shakespeare festivals, the Denver Center Theatre Company, Compass Theatre Company, the Denver Civic Theatre, and the Theatre Group. Steve, who has overseen the development of three theatre companies, is currently the Mizel Center’s Executive Artistic Director, the Director of the Wolf Theatre Academy, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Theatre Guild and the Scientific and Cultural Collaborative.
