About Us

WrightStage Productions is a company of actors dedicated to bringing quality theatre to local stages, and is the brain-child of local actor/director, Neil Akins.

A native of Glens Falls, New York, Neil had a 35 year career in private education where he taught math and English in the classroom and theatre arts as an extracurricular activity. Active in theatre since his high school days, Neil helped establish a regional theatre on Long Island in the 1980's. He has appeared to local audiences in Lake George since 1973 when he joined David and Vicky Eastwood at The Lake George Dinner Theatre and has appeared in 25 productions there, including the original production of Shear Madness. He reprised his role of Detective Rosetti in that record breaking show at The Kennedy Center in 1989. He is currently appearing in Norm Foster's Old Love at LGDT through October 10. Retiring to his hometown in 2004 with his wife, Phyllis, Neil is active in The Glens Falls Community Theatre, directing A Few Good Men in 2006. In May 2008, he directed Our Town as part of the Glens Falls Centennial Celebration. Neil serves on the boad of the Charles R. Wood Theater in Glens Falls and The Last of the Mohicans Outdoor Drama.

Nicholas Baroudi

Nicholas Baroudi debuted on the regional stage with Glens Falls Community Theatre in 2004 in Moon Over Buffalo, and nex t appeared in 2005 with a performance in The Man Who Came to Dinner. 2006 marked Nichol

as' turn into featured roles, beginning

with a collaboration with The Veteran Players in their presentation of the two man Vietnam drama, Medal of Honor Rag, followed by his portrayal of Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men, under the direction of Neil Akins. Nick starred in GFCT's May 2008 production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, also under the direction of Neil Akins. Wrightstage's premiere production of Lee Blessing's A Walk in the Woods in March of 2008 featured Nick as John Honeyman, the United States arms negotiator.

Barbara Miner

After her stunning stage debut as Nun #3 in The Sound of Music as a high school student, it took several years for

Barbara to find the courage and

desire to perform again. But, find those things she did, and she is now a regular performer with The Glens Falls Community Theater. She has also appeared locally with the Theater Company at Hubbard Hall, Homemade Theater in Saratoga, and Schuylerville Community Theater. Her favorite roles have included Lt. Commander Joanne Galloway in A Few Good Men, Nurse Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Catherine in Pippin, and The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat. Barbara has directed the musicals A Little Princess, Disney Kids Cinderella, and Wonderland, all with Adirondack Children’s Troupe Junior Company.

Barbara starred in our second production of The Belle of Amherst in February of 2009 at The Wood Theater in Glens Falls and will appear in our February production of Whose Life is it Anyway?

Barbara works as a school psychologist at Hartford Central School.

David Wiles

This is the face you don’t want to see on stage, for if you do, something has gone terribly wrong.

Dave Wiles, a Glens Falls/Queensbury native, has been involved in various capacities with local theatre groups. He has worked both on-stage and back-stage with American Acting Company, Schuylerville Community Theatre, Fort Salem Theatre and Glens Falls Community Theatre.

Dave stage-managed eight productions for SCT and seven with GFCT including A Few Good Men and Our Town, both directed by Neil Akins. David stage-managed A Walk in the Woods, The Belle of Amherst and Whose Life Is It Anyway?- all for WrightStage Productions.

Kevin McCullough

Kevin's foray into live theatre follows a 44 year career in broadcasting. Most recently he was the anchor of TV-8's "North News-8" in Glens Falls from 2001-2008. He previously anchored and reported at the CNBC network and at local TV stations across the country. In addition to the stage, Kevin now enjoys time for volunteering and occasional voice-over and narration work. He and his wife, Ann, live in Lake Luzerne.

John Kearney

John Kearney started his theatre career in college and has appeared with such area groups as The Guilderland Community Theatre and The Delmar Village Stage and began appearing with The Glens Falls Community Theatre in 2005 soon after moving to the area. His first role was as Professor Dobson in the Dinner Theatre production of Death and Deceit on the Nile. Soon after he appeard as Beverly Carlton in The Man Who Came to Dinner and followed up with performances in the group's Seventieth Anniversary Celebration and as Col. Nathan Jessup in the critically acclaimed A Few Good Men. John co-starred as Andrey Botvinik opposite Nick Baroudi in our premiere production of A Walk in the Woods in 2008 at the Hyde Museum. On screen and television, John was the stand-in for Edward Herrmann in The Skeptic, and played the featured role of General Phillip Schuyler in the historical docudrama American General:Benidict Arnold for PBS, and appeared as an extra in the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds. John has a voice-over business and serves as a licensed pilot on the Steamboat Minnie Ha-Ha.

Joyce Falkenbury

Joyce is a native of Glens Falls with deep family roots in the area with both a father and uncle in the medical profession serving our communities for 55 years. A mother of three, Joyce has had many vocations including banking and health and is a massage and energy therapist. Her favorite work, though, was as executive assistant at INTERLEAF, a high-tech company in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a member of the Glens Falls Operetta Club in the 1960’s, Joyce was a member of the chorus in Camelot and How to Succeed in Business and was in charge of props for The Sound of Music. After moving back to Glens Falls recently she has been involved behind the scenes in the box office and on the house staff. On stage Joyce performed as Mrs. Soames in the recent Centennial production of Our Town. She has been a member of the Senior Theatre Workshop and was seen in The Golden Girls, The Odd Couple, and most recently in the original music murder-mystery, Way Off Broadway. For Wrightstage Productions Joyce was properties master for The Belle of Amherst and is serving as our researcher for the upcoming Whose Life is it Anyway? in which she will also play the head nurse- a fitting role considering her family’s long standing medical roots.

Tony Krivitski

(set/lighting design)

Tony has over four decades of participation in the creation of environments for entertainment. Tony has produced the designs, provided the project management, and/or executed the lighting and lighting systems for performances and for their architectural venues. He has served in similar capacities for a variety of special effects, stage machinery, hand and set properties, furniture pieces, sonic and projection systems and effects, hard and soft scenic elements, and even a few stints as stage manager, plus an acting role here and there, often with a musical instrument. These environments have encompassed nearly every variety of dance and musical concerts. There have been many globally mounted operatic works, including several world premieres, as well as indoor and outdoor theatrical productions, touring shows, and elements for theme parks. Other venues with which he has become familiar include several museums, a professional magician and his proprietary space, display-work for trade shows, major corporate meetings, summer stock, television and film,

Sherry Recinella

Sherry designed and built Barbara Miner's Belle of Amherst dress and is creating Neil's Mark Twain suit. Click here for a recent Post*Star article about her work in the area.

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