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Bill Marlowe
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William Marlowe is a wannabe Renaissance Man. He teaches, acts, directs, stage manages
and designs. Now in his sixth year as Director of Drama here at the Falls, he came
to the college following 15 years as a free-lance artist working across the country.
Nationally Bill has directed the nation’s premier outdoor drama TECUMSEH! as well
as working for five years as Actor/Artistic Director at the Birmingham Children’s
Theatre directing several National Tours. He received the regional Obelisk Award
for Best Actor for his role as the Kabuki Emperor in
The Nightingale. Bill has worked as an Equity stage manager in New York
for Mark Twain The Musical for
two seasons and one season in Hartford Connecticut. Some of his memorable local
roles include: Pseudolous in A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To The Forum, Henry VIII in
Royal Gambit, Herod in Jesus Christ
Superstar, Doolittle in My Fair Lady,
Melvin P. Thorpe in The Best Little Whorehouse
In Texas,Lazar Wolf in Fiddler
and numerous roles in his six seasons at Interplayers including the eleven roles
in A Tuna Christmas which won him
the local Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Spokane for that season. His local
directing credits include: Curse of The
Starving Class, The Tempest,
Insect Comedy,
Strange Bedfellows, Twelfth Night,
The Good Doctor,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oedipus
Rex, Buried Child, Macbeth,
Working, Run For Your Wife,
How To Eat Like A Child,
The Crucible and the critically acclaimed Civic production of
Wit in which he won the Critics Circle Award for Best Director. He was
most recently awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Community Colleges of
Spokane.
Bill most enjoys the opportunity that the Falls affords him as a creative artist
and mentor to students as well as camping trips with his wife Sara and his two dogs
Bilbo and Baggins.
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Craig Rickett
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Craig Rickett contracted the drama bug in 1980 and continues to suffer multiple
symptoms associated with a love of live theatre. He acts, directs, and teaches the
appreciation of theatre for Spokane Falls, beginning his tenure in 1991.
Craig’s acting credits include the role of Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’
Glass Menagerie, performed at the
Spokane Civic Theatre in 1999 and featuring Oscar and Tony award winning Patti Duke
in the role of Amanda. Craig enjoyed performing in other featured roles: Lord Fancourt
Baberly in Charley’s Aunt, Malvolio
in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,
Mr. vanDam in Diary of Anne Frank,
Bill (the boyfriend) in On Golden Pond,
Creon in Antigone, and John (the
professor) in David Mamet’s Oleanna.
Taking his talents to the musical stage, Craig appeared in
Godspell, and as the Fairy Godmother (yes! you read that right) in
Cinderella.
In addition to scripted work, Craig performed for three years as a member of the
Cream of Wit improvisational acting company. He frequently gives public readings
of poetry and prose at various venues.
When not under the lights, Craig enjoys directing plays as well. He was awarded
a Certificate of Merit from the American College Theatre Festival adjudicator for
his direction of Shakespeare’s Midsummer
Night’s Dream. He has twice directed
Diary of Anne Frank. Other directing credits include:
Our Town, Six Characters in Search
of an Author, A Company of Wayward
Saints, The Night Thoreau Spent in
Jail, Prisoner of Second Avenue,
Scapino, and the musical farce,
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum.
In addition to theatre, Craig enjoys reading and writing and performing poetry,
gardening, home improvement projects, cooking, and ballroom dancing. He and his
wife, Darlene, live with Ashley and Steven in Oakesdale.
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Sara Edlin-Marlowe
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Ms. Edlin-Marlowe is the wife of the Director of Drama, William C. Marlowe. Sara
has worked in theatre for many years as an actress, director and teacher. Currently,
she is teaching theatre and speech for the Communications Deptartment here at the
Falls; however, for five years prior, Sara taught in the Applied Education Department
at SCC. For ten years Sara worked for Spokane Public Radio where she was the Morning
Edition Host; presently, she is the Faculty Advisor for KWRS, the campus radio station
at Whitworth where she teaches Broadcasting (Radio).
Professional Credits include: The Basket
by NxNW, Safe Passages, a water
safety video made by the Army Corp of Engineers, and her claim to fame, a small
part in Godfather I. She has numerous
credits as a voice talent on both the East and West coast plus appearing in The Brian Keith Show in Hawaii where
she attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and earned her MFA in Theatre with
the emphasis on directing. Her most recent role was the mother in
‘night, Mother at Spokane Civic Theatre.
Although born in NYC, Sara grew up in Florida and attended the University of Florida
where she earned her AA in Speech/Broadcasting; moving onto the University of Miami
where she had a scholarship in Acting, Sara earned her BA with a double major in
Theatre and Radio-TV-Film. In l980, Sara moved to Arizona to work as a news director
for a radio station. It was in Tucson that she met Bill; they married in l983 and
made the educational circuit before landing in Spokane back in l992.
They have two dogs: Bilbo and Baggins and a large cat, Elrond, who really runs the
house. In her spare time, Sara teaches T’ai Chi Ch’uan, swims and reads mysteries,
fantasy and science fiction.
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