Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Chuck Tobin Re-Opens Saint Michael's Playhouse

Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Chuck Tobin today announced the re-opening of Saint Michael's Playhouse for the company's 68th season of professional theater with a line-up that includes a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, a new adaptation of a classic thriller, an area premiere of Broadway's new Irish romantic comedy, and a soul-soaring musical by the legendary folk singer/songwrighter Woody Guthrie - all part of what Yankee Magazine hails as "The Best of New England."

The 2015 season includes first-time Playhouse productions of Monty Python's Spamalot, Jeffrey Hatcher's new adaptation of Wait Until Dark, John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar, and Woody Guthrie's American Song. "We are very excited to embark on a season that represents such a wide range of enjoyable shows - from large-scale and intimate musicals to classic and contemporary plays," said Tobin.

This season marks Producing Artistic Director Chuck Tobin's thirtieth year with the professional theater company. Tobin first worked at the Playhouse in 1986 as an actor appearing in numerous productions and soon after became Associate Producer. In 1997 he became Managing Director and in 2007 assumed full leadership as the theater's first Producing Artistic Director.

"For the past three decades it has been an honor to entertain, educate and enrich Northern Vermont with dynamic and vibrant professional theater." Tobin continued "Twelve years ago I became the theater's Producing Artistic Director and during that time have had the extraordinary experience of seeing the Playhouse blossom into "One of the best regional theaters in America" (NYC Drama League) while continuing its historic role as one of the oldest professional theater companies in Northern Vermont."

Saint Michael's Playhouse is an Actors' Equity Association theater company operating as an auxiliary enterprise of Saint Michael's College. The Playhouse produces its productions with theater artists from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater nationwide, along with Vermont-based professional actors, directors and designers. Actors' Equity Association is the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Tobin adds "We rehearse our shows right here in our theater and design and build our scenery, costumes and props on location with our crew of approximately 70 professional theater artists."