"i love you,you're perfect,now Change" cast

TRINITY BIRD (DIRECTOR) is thrilled to be back for his fourth season as a director for TST. A native of Bronson, he studied theatre at Grand Valley State University. Favorite directing credits include Lost in Yonkers, How to Eat Fried Worms, Seussical, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, big, Footloose, Hair, Biloxi Blues (KC/ACTF Certificate ofMerit) Noises Off and his all-time favorite Pippin. For TST, he has directed The Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Back When the Animals Talked and all three Popcorn shows last season:  The House at Pooh Corner, The Tortoise and the Hare and Jack and the Beanstalk. Favorite onstage roles include Pickering in My Fair Lady, Nicely in Guys and Dolls, Stanley in Run For Your Wife, Harry in Idiot's Delight, Perry in Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest and Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad. Many thanks to his mother, his family, his boss, his students and Charles.

BRIAN SAGE (ACTOR)  is very happy to be returning to TST. Brian is a familiar face both on and off the Tibbits stage having been a part of TST for over 10 years. Tibbits acting credits include Howard in Picnic, Professor Bhaer in Little Women, Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man…, Man #2 in I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change, and Luther Billis in South Pacific among others. He has directed productions of Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, I Ought to be in Pictures, and A Grand Night for Singing. Brian will spend the month of June in Moscow, Russia where he’ll train with the Moscow Art Theatre. He’ll enter the third and final year of his MFA studies with the Hilberry Repertory Theatre at Wayne State University in Detroit in the Fall. Thanks to family, friends and especially Meriah for all the love and support.

MARK KELLEY (ACTOR)  is delighted to be returning to the Tibbits Opera House for his second season. Originally from Chesterfield, MO, Mark received his BFA in Theatre Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University and now calls New York City home. Favorites past roles include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (St. Louis Shakespeare), Joey Evans in Pal Joey (Utah Musical Theatre), the Antipholus Twins in The Comedy of Errors (St. Louis Shakespeare), Harlequin in Triumph of Love (Utah Musical Theatre), Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (Rocky Mountain Rep), and Faker Englund in Room Service (Tibbits Opera House). Eternal thanks and gratitude to his parents, siblings, Aunt Eileen, Aunt Nancy, and his lovely Christina.

TIFFANY WIESEND (ACTOR) is delighted to "return home" to Michigan for a second summer at Tibbits after just receiving her BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory. You may have seen her portray Amy in Little Women or Carol in The Bop She Bops last summer. Favorite roles Tiffany has played elsewhere include Shelley in Bat Boy, Little Red in Into the Woods, and Kim in Bye Bye Birdie. Not only has her education taken her to Boston, but to such places as The Stratford Festival, the country of Greece with the U of D Actor’s Company, and next to NYC in the fall. Tiffany would like to thank sisters Wendy and Natalie for putting up with her incessant singing as a kid, and her Grandma Wiesend for starting her acting lessons early (at the age of three) with home-video court cases and cereal commercials. Tiffany sends sincere thanks to everyone in her life that has supported her along the way, and dedicates every performance to her mother, who is truly an angel on earth, and her Dad, who always has the best seat in the house—looking down from heaven.

ALISON GRITZ (ACTOR) is thrilled to be returning to Tibbits after taking a summer away to move to NYC. You may recognize Alison from the title role in Sweet Charity in the Summer of 2007. Alison has also been seen in such roles as Ti Moune- Once on This Island, Linda-Blood Brothers, Roz-Moon Over Buffalo and Elvira-Blithe Spirit. Alison was seen last year performing at New York National Dance Week in NYC, and has been blessed to have performed at such theatres as The Kennedy Center, The Shubert Theatre and The Lyric Opera House. Alison is a proud graduate of Western Illinois University where she received her BFA in Musical Theatre. Thanks to Charles, and my amazingly supportive friends and family!