Front: Jerry Petronis, Kate Hans, Mike Wolske
Back: Terry Ford, Kratia Ure, Scott Fellows
Kate Hans is Opal Kronkie
Kate comes to SPAO as an award winning actress and director. The
Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS) awarded her the 2005
Excellence in Acting award for her role as Veta Louise in The Circle
Players production of "Harvey". She has also won prior TANYS awards in
acting for her ensemble work in "Beauty Queen of Leenane" and "Prisoner
of Second Avenue". Kate won as a director for her ensemble work in
"Spreading the News" for The Spotlight Players. She is no stranger to
the role of Opal having directed two other Opal works, Opal's Husband"
and "Opal's Million Dollar Duck" along with "Arsenic and Old Lace" and
"The Lion in Winter" for the Spotlight Players. Kate has appeared on
stage for Home Made Theater, the Albany Civic Theater, Curtain Call
Theater and as Mrs. Wire in the Schenectady Civic Players production of
"Vieux Carre" with SPAO's Mike Wolske. We welcome Watervliet's
comedienne Kate as she makes her debut on the SPAO stage.
Terry Ford is Solomon Bozo
Terry has always brought enthusiasm to the SPAO stage. Be it a leading
role, such as Oscar in “The Odd Couple”, or a small one, like the phone
man in both “Barefoot in the Park”, and “Full Moon”, you know he’s
going to make it funny. One of the original founders of SPAO, and
former president, Terry produced most of our early productions with
Jerry Petronis, under the moniker The PetFord Twins. His stage roles
have included the SPAO productions of “You Can’t Take It With You” ,
“The Mousetrap” , “Harvey”, “Bus Stop”, ”All in the Timing, Among
Others” - Variations on the Death of Trotsky , "Don't Dress For
Dinner", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "The Foreigner", "Don't Drink the
Water",and "The Solid Gold Cadillac". His most recent appearance was in
the role of the volatile jealous husband in last fall's "Lovers Leap".
Now retired, Terry resides in Stillwater with wife Carole and “Wonder
Dog”, Louie.
Scott Fellows is Bradford Winter
Scott made his SPAO dinner theatre debut in the spring of 2001 at 19
years of age playing the cowering villian Dr. Herman Einstein, the role
Peter Lorre made famous, in "Arsenic and Old Lace". By that time he was
already a stage veteran having appeared previously in the SPAO Youth
Theater production of "Fiddler on the Roof", and The Stillwater School
Drama Society's productions of "My Son is Crazy.... But Promising",
"Jenny Kissed Me", and "The Diary of Anne Frank". Scott's wild dinner
theatre characters continued as Owen Musser, the Georgia red-neck
member of the Ku Klux Klan in SPAO's "The Foreigner", the crazy taxi
cab driver in "Lunch Hour"and the country bumpkin of "A Bad Year for
Tomatoes" all for SPAO. He is most proud of his lead role as the clean
cut fumbling lover in SPAO's hit comedy "Don't Drink the Water". We are
happy to welcome the zany Scott back to the SPAO stage. Scott now
resides in Stillwater.
Kratia Ure is Gloria Gulock
Kratia started performing as a child. She has danced for 13 years
(ballet, tap & jazz) and has been a choreographer for local
cheerleading squads. She has been active in chorus, Madrigal and All
State Choir. She made her theatrical debut with SPAO in 2003 as the
lead role of Casey Delevan in "Kiss or Make Up" and has been a part of
the SPAO family ever since. Just after completing her supporting role
as Amelia Shotgraven in SPAO's 2005 spring production of "Solid Gold
Cadillac", she ventured for a musical as a hot box girl with Clifton
Park's The Not So Common Players rendition of "Guys and Dolls". When
not on stage she is behind the scenes helping with prompting, props,
hair, make-up and scene changes. Kratia is a 29 year old Albany
resident. She is very excited to be back on the SPAO stage and says
"There is no better way to keep busy in the midst of a career change."
She gives thanks to family, friends and SPAO comrades for all their
love and support, with special thanks to Jason and the McClements'
family for their gracious hospitality.
Jerry Petronis is The Doctor
Jerry has been with SPAO from the start producing, acting, and
directing. He played the father in SPAO's first production, "You Can't
It With You" in 1989. He also appeared in the SPAO productions of "The
Mousetrap", "Play It Again, Sam", "The Fantasticks", "Dracula",
"Harvey", "Bus Stop", "Fools", "Heaven Can Wait", and "Wait Until Dark"
during the years at the high school. Jerry developed the current dinner
theatre concept and directed our first two dinner theatre productions,
"Poisoned Pawn" and "The Sunshine Boys". He also directed "Don' t Dress
For Dinner", "All In the Timing", "The Foreigner", "Arsenic and Old
Lace" and last fall's production of "Lovers Leap". Jerry directed the
SPAO Summer Youth Theater musical's "The Sound of Music" and "The King
and I". His dinner theatre appearances include the roles of Felix Unger
in "The Odd Couple", Teddy in "Arsenic and Old Lace", the TV director
in "The Sunshine Boys", Lenny in "Rumors", the director in "All In the
Timing", Peter in "Lunch Hour", and Ambassador Magee in "Don't Drink
the Water". Jerry was advisor and director of the Stillwater School
Drama Society for two years. He has also appeared in Round Lake's
Summer Theater productions of "The Miss Firecracker Contest" and "The
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" and as a lead character in The
Schuylerville Players production of "Murder at the Howard Johnson's".
He is a current member of SPAO's board of Directors. Jerry resides in
Stillwater.
Mike Wolske is Officer Joe Jankie
In Mike’s first two appearances with SPAO, his characters had no lines.
It was not until “The Sunshine Boys” that he finally spoke on stage,
albeit only three lines. Since then, Mike has taken on many roles for
SPAO, from the young panicky lover Paul Bratter in “Barefoot in the
Park” to the dastardly Krojack in “Don’t Drink the Water.“ His other
SPAO credits include “The Odd Couple”, “Divorce Southern Style”, “Full
Moon”, “Murder By Mistake”, “All in the Timing, Among Others”, “Arsenic
and Old Lace”, “Moon Over Buffalo”, “Over the River and Through the
Woods”, “The Foreigner” and "Kiss or Makeup". Mike has also performed
with other area groups, including The Nickel & Dime Players, Albany
Civic Theater, Round Lake Summer Theater, and the Schenectady Civic
Players, where he appeared in the co-lead as The Young Writer in
Tennessee Williams’ self portrait “Vieux Carre” with Kate Hans. We
welcome Mike back to the SPAO stage after a two and a half year
absence. Mike is a resident of Stillwater.