Director of Development [at Handcart Ensemble], Actor. Co-founded Handcart Ensemble [in New York City] with J. Scott Reynolds in 1999, and has acted in all their productions. Other New York theatre: Barrabas at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Nosferatu, and Penthesilea. Selected outside NY: title roles in Peter Pan, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World. TV & film: As The World Turns, Hébbé Kills Jarry (South-by-Southwest Film Festival ‘97) and others. He is training towards certification in the Feldenkrais Method, a system of neuromuscular reeducation useful in freeing the actor's body.

Tasha Oldham was born and raised outside of Salt Lake City in the small mining town of Magna, Utah. Tasha grew up with a great love of the theater, directing and acting in numerous plays and musicals. At 18, she left Magna for Los Angeles to attend UCLA. Later she continued her studies at UC San Diego, where she worked at Channel 35 as a multi-camera television director and producer. There she was selected to participate in the prestigious Directors Training Program through the Television Academy.

Tasha began her film career as a on David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997). She went on to work in development at Tri-Star Pictures. Much of her education has been hands-on experience working as a script supervisor. She has worked with numerous prominent directors such as Wim Wenders, Peter Baldwin and David Steinberg. Currently, Tasha is developing a narrative feature length script and fundraising to complete "Sisters in Zion," a documentary exploring the diverse lives of Mormon women.

Steve has been making films since 1989. "I like to make films about passionate people doing their thing passionately regardless of what their thing is." He has made films about a musician, a scientist, several artists, a mortician, and numerous professional athletes. He has won the Mort Rosenfeld Award twice and Best Documentary film at the Utah Short Film and Video Festival. His work has been selected for numerous other film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival. Lately with his work in action sports has been shown on Fox Sports Net, ESPN, USA Network and NBC. "As a kid I messed around with skateboards, bikes and cameras, and now 25 years later I am again messing around with skateboards, bikes and cameras." Steve lives in Springville with his very cool wife Noelle and the three coolest kids on the planet: Quinn, Fish and Maia.

Member of "Take That" - one of the most successful British bands of all time. Has a twin brother named Justin who works as a DJ in the Manchester area. Has 5 brothers total. Parents divorced when he was young. Used to make appearanced on the Britsh show "The Hitman and Her". Has stayed out of the music industry since the Take That split.

Jason Thomas Orange is a musician, choreographer, and actor. Born in South Manchester on july 10, 1970, a few minutes older than his twin, Justin, he is the second child of Tony and Jenny Orange. He is the second of six boys - Simon, himself, Justin, Dominic, Samuel, and Oliver. After his parents separated, he and his brothers lived with Jenny, while Tony remarried and have another four children - Simon, Sarah, Emma, and Amy.

At sixteen, he left South Manchester High School to pursue his passion on dancing, all the while making a living for himself as a painter and decorator. His talents brought him to a then-famous TV show, The Hit Man and Her, where he'd meet Howard Donald and form a dancing group called Street Beat. The two then went to manager Nigel Martin-Smith who introduced them to Gary Barlow and Mark Owen. After holding an audition for a fifth member - the infamous Robbie Williams - TAKE THAT was born.

Take That's career spans a long six years, from late 1989 to early 1996. The group started off by doing meagre club gigs before they released their first flop single in 1991. They had another two flop singles before luck finally shines on them and brought them to the surface of fame. Everything after that is history. Take That becomes UK and Europe's biggest boyband, with 8 no.1 hits, 4 multi-platinum albums, sell-out concerts, and - of course - a load of merchandise. Here, Jason learned to play guitar, which would be his other passion, and he also choreographed most of the band's swish dance routines.

However, in 1995, Robbie Williams quit the band, and in February 14, 1996, Take That disbanded gracefully although they are still on top. After the band's last show in Amsterdam, April 5, 1996, Jason 'disappeared' and went backpacking around the world, especially to Asia, before starting off an acting career in 1998. He teamed up with Max Beesley (ex-Take That percussionist and actor) and kicked off with a small part in Let's All Go to the Fair at London's Royal Court Theatre. He also played in the 1999 Lynda La Plante tv series, Killer Net, before getting the much-acclaimed part of a street poet in James Martin Charlton's Gob at the King's Head Theatre, London.

Since then, Jason had shunned the spotlight by choosing to go back to college instead. He settles back in Manchester and enrolled for a degree-course in psychology and sociology. He also does a number of charities. Most recent news in May 2004 surrounding the rumour of the Take That reunion, Jason is now said to be a property tycoon in Manchester!

David Osmond started his career early as the lead singer of the Osmond Boys who later changed their name to Osmonds - Second Generation. He comes from the talented stock as the fourth son of Alan, oldest member of The Osmond Brothers. David has worked hard as a singer and dancer and has been able to share his talents with people all over the world including Asia, Europe, parts of China and 49 of the 50 states. David and his brothers have performed on hundreds of television and radio shows and performed live in venues with crowds up to 65,000. He and his brothers have recorded several albums and have had hits in many countries.

David graduated from high school as a member of the National Honor Society and was one of the top five in his class. He is currently attending Brigham Young University with a major in music and theater arts. David is not unfamiliar with this musical production as he performed hte role of Joseph in 1997 in Salt Lake City and starred, as well as backed up his Uncle Donny, with the original JOSEPH cast during the spring o 1998. David's many performances as Joseph received consistent standing ovations and rave reviews which lead him to this current U.S. and Canadian tour.

Joseph Ostraff, a native of Southern California, has been a resident of Utah since 1986. After graduating from Laguna Beach High School in California, Joseph attended Brigham Young University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting. After his BYU experience Joseph married Melinda Weston and moved to Seattle, where he attended graduate school at the University of Washington, receiving a Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting. Since then he has done everything from lumberjacking in Idaho, sweeping floors in a department store, selling his paintings on the streets of Seattle for gas money, and building a house on the Kitsap Peninsula- to traveling the South Pacific on funds collected from art commissions, exhibiting national and internationally, and most recently making a documentary film on the traditional art of tapa cloth making in Tonga. Joseph has also taught in the public school system for seven years and is currently an assistant professor of art at Brigham Young University.

Joseph's mother has been quoted as saying, " What happened to my boy? He used to be so good at art." Allan Fern, curator at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and juror for the 1993 Utah Arts Council Fellowship Competition, is quoted saying upon his selection of Joseph to be one of the fellowship recipients " Joseph seems to have some pent up anger and uses nature as a metaphor to address social concerns." Joseph's response to these two statements is, "When you're doing something you feel is really important many people and especially your mother may not understand you." Secondly, "I consider myself to be a friendly, easy-going artist, but my work does express a frustration towards the way we treat nature and each other. Hopefully the things I do as an artist will have some positive impact on the people within my community."

Joseph is best known for his paintings of fish, birds, and other animals taken out of context from their natural environment. You find his animals swimming down a street or passing through a window or door openings. Along with the uncommon placement of nature and man-made architectural forms you may find other objects such as I-beams, pop cans, springs, and children's toys scattered around. All this is put together in his paintings in an effort to suggest alternative ways for us to look at the world. Albino Trout is a painting about natural selection. Within nature, albino traits are based upon mutant genes that occur randomly within a species. Many animals that have this genetic trait are singled out by predators and have great difficulty surviving. Joseph says, "It fascinates me that we would take this trait and use it to develop albino trout in our fish hatcheries so that people who fish for sport can catch these mutant trout in our rivers, lakes, and streams." Albino Trout, the painting, questions humanity's constant reversal of natural laws and the motives for such actions.

"The fact that our culture has a word like nature implies some sort of separation between ourselves, our culture, and our view of nature. As I peer from my comfortable position of security out towards this wilderness, I see a multitude of complex patterns and ordering systems that are intriguing to me. I see a world that is perplexing and unpredictable.

"Painting is my way of developing a personal sense of pattern and order in response to what I see. The repeated act of painting solidifies my place in nature, while decreasing my need to manipulate, possess, or control nature."

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