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Ashland, Oregon HOME Valley & State Sports Nation & World Opinion/Editorial Classifieds Business Columnists Local Issues Obituaries Weather Archive Revels Etcetera Backpage Hot Topics Most Viewed Forum Photo Galleries Video Readers Polls O-Zone Online Games Movie Preview Special Sections Real Estate Guide Menu Guide Shakespeare Subscribe Contact Us Rate Card Place an Ad May 6, 2006 Talent’s Camelot Theatre Company produces third Wasserstein hit Staff reports Right to left, Doug Warner as Timber Tucker, Priscilla Quinby as Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, and Bruce Lorange as Walter Abrahmson star in “An American Daughter” at Camelot. Submitted photo Camelot Theatre Company opens the third production of its 2006 season, “An American Daughter” by the Tony Award Winning, Pulitzer Prize winning author Wendy Wasserstein. Set in Washington, D.C., “An American Daughter” focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert and forty-something daughter of a long-time Senator. When the President nominates Lyssa to a Cabinet post, an indiscretion from her past is discovered. The media turns it into a scandal, which imperils her confirmation and divides her family and friends. “We are dedicating this production to the memory of author Wendy Wasserstein, an uncommon woman,” said Artistic Director Livia Genise Wasserstein died of cancer in New York on January 31. “This is the third Wasserstein play Camelot has produced,” Genise said. “She was definitely a voice for the women of my generation. In ‘The Sisters Rosensweig,’ she invited those of us who had loved and lost to open our hearts one more time. In ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ she invited women to ignore the roles that society was dictating for women throughout the 60s and 70s and, instead, to be true to themselves. She has definitely left her mark as a woman and as a playwright.” CTC Production Manger Bob Herried directs “An American Daughter.” Herried, a longtime theatre veteran, has been a resident stage manager at Camelot. “An American Daughter” stars CTC resident artist Priscilla Quinby as Lyssa Hughes, CTC veteran actor Bruce Lorange as Walter Abrahmson, Arlene Howritz Warner as Judith Kaufman, and CTC Managing Director Doug Warner as Timber Tucker. An Equity actress for over 31 years, Quinby last appeared at Camelot as Countess Malcolm in “A Little Night Music” and as Susan in “the Heidi Chronicles.” Bruce Lorange (Walter Abrahmson) appeared in the last two Wendy Wasserstein productions at Camelot playing Merv Kant in "The Sisters Rosensweig" and Scoup Rosenbaum in "The Heidi Chronicles.” Lorange was a professional actor in Los Angeles and a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse, Bruce is a real estate broker with Windermere Van Vleet Real Estate. Horwitz Warner is making her Camelot debut. She recently relocated to Southern Oregon from Mendocino and the San Francisco Bay Area. Other cast members include David Rees as Senator Alan Hughes, Kristie Abart as Charlotte (Chubby) Hughes, John Simutis as Jimmy, Brian Michael O'Conner as Billy Robbins Jazzmin Parker as Quincy Quince and Larry Parker as Morrow McCarthy. The production team for “An American Daughter” includes Camelot's resident designers: costumer Emily Ehrlich Inget, set designer and master carpenter Don Zastoupil, lighting designer Travis Goodman and sound designer and videographer Charles Cherry. . --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.