Richard Skipper Celebrates Guy Stroman (1/18/2022)

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Guy Stroman has directed acclaimed productions of The Glass Menagerie, Driving Miss Daisy and Love Letters, all starring Sandy Duncan; The King and I, starring Lou Diamond Phillips (Best Production – Ft. Worth Star Telegram); Twelfth Night – Cleveland Playhouse; Man of La Mancha (Audience Favorite – California Musical Theatre); Steel Magnolias, with June Squibb and Sally Struthers; 1776 (Best Director – Dallas-Ft. Worth Theatre Critics Forum). He has also directed: Art, The Lion in Winter, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Joe Orton’s Loot (Top Ten Production – Pittsburgh Post Gazette), Boeing, Boeing, The 39 Steps The Gin Game, Ray Cooney farces Caught in the Net and Funny Money, and most recently, Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch. Guy’s musical productions include Mame, Oliver, Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, Murder for Two, Smoke on the Mountain, and directing/choreographing numerous long- running productions of Forever Plaid and it’s Christmas version, Plaid Tidings, including the opening productions of new theatres in Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Charlotte and Schenectady.  Guy originated the role of Frankie in the original production of Forever Plaid in New York, London’s West End, and Los Angeles, where he won best acting awards from the L.A. Drama Critics and Drama-Logue. He can be heard on that original cast album, as well as on the recordings Unsung Sondheim, Girl Crazy, The Busby Berkley Album, the London recording of The Most Happy Fella, and the Disney DVD of Aladdin and the King of Thieves. His latest projects include the musical production of Just Laugh, for the new Ken Davenport Festival, and David Dean Bottrell Makes Love-A One Man Show.