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The Grand Theatre is pleased to present the 2nd Annual Valentine's presentation of Love Letters a fundraiser to benefit the Grand Theatre Foundation. This year's performers are one of Salt Lake City's most dynamic couples; Holly Mullen and TEd Wilson.
The play follows the correspondence of two individuals through their lives and explores what it means to love another person and to discover your true self. We see Andrew Makepeace Ladd 3d and Melissa Gardner over a period of 50 years, as the author carries them from second grade through the trauma of adulthood, marriage, divorce and middle age.
Holly Mullen has spent three decades as a newspaper journalist. Her writing and reporting career has taken her to Spokane, Washington; Minneapolis, Dallas-Fort Worth, Ogden and Salt Lake City. She spent 10 years at The Salt Lake Tribune, where she was a news and feature writer and managing editor for sports. Holly oversaw all sports coverage for the paper during the 2002 Winter Olympics and then wrote a popular opinion writer and column for the Utah section from 2002 through 2006. She was editor of the alternative newspaper Salt Lake City Weekly for two years. Holly is currently a freelance writer in Salt Lake City.
A Salt Lake City native, Holly graduated from Olympus High School and the University of Utah. She is the mother of a daughter, Caitlin, who attends Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her son, Sam, is a freshman at Salt Lake City Community College.Holly's parents, Ron "Moon" Mullen and Jean Powers-Mullen, were high school sweethearts who graduated from South High School in 1945. They married in 1949.In her spare time, Holly is an avid road bicyclist with Ted. They also enjoy skiing at Alta, and try to climb a mountain together now and then.TEd Wilson is a veteran of the political and environmental scenes in Utah and beyond. He was elected to three terms as Salt Lake City mayor, beginning in 1976. Ted became director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah in 1987, where he helped bring practical politics to life for thousands of students. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and for Utah governor in 1988. Ted retired from the Hinckley Institute in 2003.
But he did not sit still for long. In the years that followed, Ted was executive director of the non-profit Utah Rivers Council and continued to serve on the boards of various environmental and philanthropic organizations. In November 2009, Gov. Gary Herbert namEd Wilson his senior adviser on environmental matters.Ted is a Salt Lake City native. He graduated from South High School, where he was a cheerleader, in 1957. As Salt Lake City mayor, Ted fought hard to keep the school from closing, and was a key negotiator in placing the Grand Theater at South. Ted graduated from the University of Utah and has a master's degree in economics from the University of Washington.He is the father of five married children and the grandfather of 12. Ted is a well-known mountaineer in Utah and loves to ski the backcountry.Performance Date: Saturday, February 13th 2010 at 7:30 P.M. at SLCC's Grand Theatre, South City Campus, 1575 South State Street.
Ticket Information: Tickets are $25.00. For reservations or more information call 801-957-3322 or visit the-grand.org.
