Get to Know Your Actors: Mary Shaw (Lisa)
Mary Shaw began her theatrical career in junior high and high school, and followed that up in college at Penn State, No Refund Theatre. Over the last ten years, her theatrical focus has been has been the CoMo theatre scene—in fact, this will be her twenty-third time appearing onstage in Columbia. Here at Talking Horse, she was in Truffles and Nougat last summer and the Talking Horse/Maplewood Barn collaboration The Red Box this spring; you may have also recently seen Mary at
Get to Know Your Theatre People: Barry Beach (director of The Lyons)
Barry Beach joins our team from Jefferson City, where he keeps himself busy both on- and offstage. His parents were founding members of The Little Theater of Jefferson City (TLT) in the late 1960s, and he’s been a part of the mid-Missouri theatre scene ever since. He began appearing on the TLT stage as a high schooler, and since then, he has performed in venues such as TLT, Capital City Productions (CCP), and Scene One Theatre, as well as in TV spots for area businesses. As f
Get to Know Your Actors: An Interview with Jim Malinee (Ben)
We are thrilled to welcome Jim Malinee to the Talking Horse stage for his first production here! (This is not his first time with some cast mates, however: nearly ten years ago he appeared in CEC’s production of Communicating Doors with Monica Palmer and Mary Shaw, who play his wife and sister in The Lyons; he also worked with Monica in Other Desert Cities, also at CEC.) His first play in Columbia was back in 2006, and, as he puts it, “I liked the director so much I married h
Get to Know Your Actors: An Interview with Monica Palmer (Rita)
Monica Palmer moved to Columbia in 2005 to take a job at a local radio station At the start of her radio career, Monica had to relocate on a fairly regular basis. She recalls, "I found if I wanted to make more money or land a better time slot, I had to keep moving to a bigger market. Town to town, up and down the dial and all that. After a few such moves, I discovered the best way for me to quickly find my tribe in a new town was to get involved with the community theatre.” S
