Most recently, Dave appeared as Phillie in George Walker's Suburban Motel plays Criminal Genius and Problem Child. He also played George in Glacity’s inaugural production, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Jim in Breathing Corpses and Father in Eurydice. Other recent professional credits include The Baker’s Wife at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor. Before returning to his native Toledo in 2004, Dave worked for 24 years in New York as an actor, director, playwright, and teaching artist. In the last couple years, he has directed with The Village Players, The Toledo Rep, and The University of Toledo, where he is also an instructor. Dave is the artistic director of The Aural Stage, dedicated to presenting the work of local playwrights.
Began his career at the national Theatre of Bucharest, performing in such plays as Andrei Serban’s Fragments of a Greek Trilogy and Robert Wilson’s Hamletmachine and touring internationally. New York credits include "Eurytheus" in Peter Sellar’s Children of Herakles, Serban’s Benvenuto Cellini (NY Metropolitan Opera), and numerous productions at La Mama ETC, including Serban’s Taming of the Shrew. As an Assistant Professor at The University of Toledo Department of Theatre & Film, he has directed several productions, most recently directing Macbeth. Cornel is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and he has directed all of Glacity’s productions.
Scenic design member of the United Scenic Artists, the professional union of all designers working in the entertainment design field. He designed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Breathing Corpses, Eurydice and Suburban Motel for Glacity Theatre Collective, has designed extensively in the Toledo area and nationally. He is a senior faculty member of the UT Department of Theatre & Film, where he designs and teaches theatre design and technology.
(GTC Executive Director)
Chair of the UT Department of Theatre & Film, and costume designer for Glacity. Prior to coming to Toledo, she worked professionally as a cutter/draper at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and the San Francisco Opera, among others. In addition to her costume design work for The University of Toledo, she has designed costumes for several Toledo Rep productions as well as other local organizations, Montana Repertory Theatre and Ms. Un Seen Productions in New Zealand.
(GTC Founding Artistic Director)
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. She is an active professional theatre artist and has performed one-woman shows in Taiwan, Wales, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Hungary, India, Italy, New Zealand, and the U.S. She was the founding artistic director the Cleveland Women’s Theatre Project, the associate artistic director of Round House Theatre in Washington, DC, and the managing director of The Actor’s Space in New York. She played “Martha” in the GTC production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Chair of the Department of Philosophy and co-Director of the Program in law and Social Thought at The University of Toledo. He has appeared as “Nick” in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glacity’s inaugural production, as “Charlie” in Breathing Corpses, and as “Lord of the Underworld” in Eurydice. Ben is originally from southern California, where he played “Ferdinand” in The Tempest at the university of Redlands and worked with the South Coast Repertory Theater. He has appeared in short films and a children’s television production for ABC.
