The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Phoebe Wray: (Director) has an extensive background as an actress, director, and writer, beginning with the Off-Off-Broadway Movement in New York and extending to resident and stock theatres around the country, including television and film work. Her directing credits run the gamut from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice to Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, including the Boston premiere of Sondheim's Assassins. Her awards include the Weathervane (Ohio) Best Actress, Artist-in-Residence at Colby College, Richard King Mellon Fellow at Yale University, and an Honorable Mention in the Sony Video Awards (as writer/director). She has taught at the University of Southern California and Bradford College and is currently a full-time Professor at The Boston Conservatory.

Notes from the Director: The wonderful thing about Driving Miss Daisy is its humanity, its warmth, the simple way in which it explores serious issues without preaching - issues of racial and religious prejudice, aging, and the conflict of independence and ultimate inter-dependence. The characters are rich and rewarding to explore. There is nothing nasty about this play. Daisy is feisty, not ill-tempered. Hoke is untaught, not stupid. Boolie is concerned, not commanding.

Audiences of any age can relate to Daisy's dignity in the face of her diminishing capacity and the way that effects those closest to her. It's a story of three people whose lives intertwine and touch each other profoundly; proud people; caring people; people who discover their love for each other transcends all the problems and the limits society taught them.

Mary Fogarty (Daisy Werthen) Broadway: Of the Fields Lately, Watch on the Rhine, The National Health. Tours: The Secret Garden, Wonderful Town. Off-Broadway: Hard Feelings, Filumena, Dearly Departed, Steel Magnolias, Shadow and Substance, Bonjour La Bonjour. Films: The Odd Couple II Swing Kids, War of the Roses, Dad, Hello Again, Cold Feet, Missing Pieces. TV:A Season for Miracles, Law & Order; The Cosby Mysteries, Roseanne, Matlock, Jacob Have I Loved, Gideon Oliver; Taking a Stand, Spencer: for Hire, The Unforgiveable Secret, Connect With English. All the major regional theatres, most recently Wit at Dallas Theatre Center.

Julian M. Broughton (Hoke Colburn) was born in New York City and came to Massachusetts for high school and college. He began his professional acting career in the Worcester-Boston area, working with A.R.T., Wheelock Family Theatre, and the Huntington Theatre, as well as the Forum Theatre and Worcester Children's Theatre. Julian recently moved back to NYC and is following his dream of doing theatre and film. This is his second appearance in Driving Miss Daisy, and he hopes to bring all he has experienced to the show.

Bob Dolan (Boolie Werthen) has just completed performing in two new musicals for North Shore Music Theatre: Martin Guerre and The Lady from Maxim's. Recent Boston appearances include George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and multiple roles in The Dining Room. A frequent player at Foothills Theatre in Worcester, Mass. he will reprise his role of the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol there next December. Bob trained at Boston College, Circle in the Square, and Musican Theatre Works in NYC, and with Shakespeare & Company. He is the director of the Certificate Acting program at The Actor's Workshop in Boston.

Tracy Keppel (Stage Manager) This is Tracy's first season with ACT ONE. Her stage managing career includes shows at Dorset Theatre Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Next Act Theatre, and a brief tour to Shanghai. Tracy received her MFA in stage management from UW-Milwaukee's Professional Theatre Training Program. She would like to thank Matt, her husband-to-be (on August 11) for all his love and support.

Kelly Holt (Stage Manager's Assistant) has worked both behind the scenes and on stage throughout the Seacoast area since 1997. She has been seen in Crimes of the Heart, Christmas Carol, Serving His Master; Isles in the Moon, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Birthday Party. Kelly is pleased to play a part in Act One's summer season.

Leslie Darling (Costume Designer) is currently Shop Manager and Designer at Tracy Theatre Originals. She has been costume designer for Hackmatack Playhouse and Dover Repertory. Leslie also has her own dance studio and has been choreographer for both Hackmatack and Dover Repertory for many years. She and her husband Jim were former owners of Dover Rep. and now run Darling Productions. Leslie is a graduate of Fashion Institute of Technology.

Alfred Uhry (Playwright) won a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar Award, and a Tony Award with his first two plays! This 61 year-old Atlanta native took home the Oscar and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988 for his first play, Driving Miss Daisy. Ten years later, The Last Night of Ballyhoo closed on Broadway after landing Uhry the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play.

Uhry's charm for capturing southern humor and wit in his work no doubt came from his Atlanta upbringing. Although he left the South in 1958, he continues to use his roots to explore the depth of human relationships. '~1 am not a social historian; I'm just a playwright," he said. "I am a southern person."

Uhry, a graduate of Brown University, worked for 25 years in the theatre without much success. Still a newlywed, Uhry left for New York in 1959 to become a lyricist, his work slowly making its way to television and Off-Broadway. Only in 1976 did he begin to get any recognition, receiving a surprise Tony nomination for the book and lyrics of The Robber Bridegroom (he eventually lost the award to the smash hit, A Chorus Line).

Following the success of Driving Miss Daisy, the Olympic Games' Cultural Olympiad approached Uhry about producing a play for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The result would be Uhry's next milestone, The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

His latest major success has been the book and lyrics for the innovative Broadway musical Parade, which opened in December, 1998 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont and was directed by theatre legend Harold Prince. Parade is the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan. The musical covers not only the trial, but also dramatizes the love story between Leo and his wife Lucille. The show re-tells the historical story, but it also subtly examines class and race relations, prejudice, and the South.