The Warehouse Theatre is in its 36th continuous season of Intense, Intimate and Unexpected productions of live theatre. A cornerstone of Greenville's Historic Westend, this award winning converted textile warehouse, is the home of fifteen (sometimes more) productions a year, including our Mainstage and Edge Series, Shakespeare at Falls Park, Resident Theatre Companies, Shakespeare in the Schools program, Improv Late Nights and MORE!
At The Warehouse you can see the sort of theatre you can't see anywhere else in South Carolina's Upstate region...from re-envisioned classics and intense plays everyone knows to some of the most cutting edge new works you can buy tickets to. You'll find the finest mix of emerging talents, local professionals and artists from around the country...all are at the top of their game, and we want you to see their work.
We can't do this without you! Support in any way you can...buy tickets...tell your friends...give a tax-deductible donation. YOU, the interested audience member, are the backbone of The Warehouse.
Our Mission
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional theatre dedicated to theatre as a serious art form; to high-quality, diverse and challenging productions; to the training of theatre professionals; to community outreach; and to student education.
The Warehouse Theatre chooses plays that stretch the imagination of Upstate audiences; that energize and excite the community with Intense, Intimate and Unexpected performances that explore and celebrate the complexities of our time. The Warehouse Theatre does this to encourage an adventurousness of spirit, and to develop a hunger for the visceral impact of theatre, in the mind, heart, and soul.
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Your Warehouse Theatre staff: click on a name for a picture and more info
Paul has just taken lead of The Warehouse
Theatre and intends to make significant positive changes to the organization’s
bottom line as well as an increase in Educational Outreach operations and
programming while staying completely dedicated to the unique identity, vision
and mission of The Warehouse Theatre. He is a member of Actor’s Equity
Association, The Screen Actor’s Guild, and The Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The University of
Texas at Austin with a
concentration in Theatre History and was taught by Oscar Brocket. He received
his BA in Philosophy with a Minor in Theatre from TrinityUniversity in San
AntonioTexas. He was a
founding member and treasurer of The Inside-Out Theatre Company and performed
in nine of the eleven plays it did in its one year life. He is a founding
member of Hopeful Monsters, a New York Citybased theatre company with members Ellen McLaughlin,Susan Fenichell, David Zinn, ML Geiger and
others. As a member of Hopeful Monsters Mr. Savas has performed at Festivals in
Seattle, Austin and produced their Manhattan debut at La MaMa ETC as well as
both The Boston and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra performances. He was a
voicing actor for The National Theatre of the Deaf where he developed a
flexible residency workshop system that could be adjusted to the specific needs
of a wide variety of technical and age levels. With NTD he toured to every
state in the continental US and often played multiple characters at the same
time in the same show in the same scene. With NTD he also learned how to play
the Didgeridoo and has done so professionally since. He studied stage combat
with The Society of American Fight Directors, was certified as a stage
combatant and is an active choreographer of stage fights. He is an accomplished
teacher and has taught across the United Statesin both the CaliforniaStateand New YorkStateUniversity system.He has also taught at numerous private colleges
and universities and teaches a class or two at ClemsonUniversity. He is an active teacher
in the Furman University Learning In Retirement program and enjoys teaching
theatre classes to local retirees. He is a member of Downtown Greenville Rotary International
Club. He lives in Greenville with his wife Shannon Robert and their dog Chester.
Tony Penna (Lighting Designer) Warehouse
Theatre designs include Cloud 9, Sight Unseen, Reckless, Topdog/Underdog, and Tru.He came to South Carolina from Louisville,
KY, where he served for four
years as the Resident Lighting Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville.During his tenure at ATL, he designed over 50
plays and musicals including sixteen original productions in the Humana
Festival of New American Plays.Other regional
theatre credits include productions at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati
Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre, SC Repertory Company,
Studio Arena Theatre, CENTERSTAGE Baltimore, and Pittsburgh Public Theatre.
Mr. Penna is a member of United Scenic Artists, the theatre faculty at ClemsonUniversity and is the resident designer
of NY’s Eleventh Hour Theatre Company.He
earned his BA from HanoverCollege in Indiana(his home state) and his MFA from BostonUniversity.
Elisa, a native New Jerseyan, attended Kean University, graduating with a B.A.
in Visual Arts. She moved to Greenville in 1990, and subsequently received a
master’s degree in Education from Furman University. Elisa continues to pursue
her art (mostly watercolor and drawing), and has entered a number of juried
shows in the area. Her love of literature and theater arts brought her to the
Warehouse Theatre in 1999, where she is currently entering her ninth season as
resident dramaturg. Elisa is often asked, “What is a dramaturg?,” to which she
replies, “A dramaturg, or literary manager is primarily one who digests the
script (not literally, of course)."
Jayce Tromsness was a staff member of TRUSTUS Theatre in Columbia for eight years in various positions including technical director.He was an associate faculty member at USC where he taught voice and speech, period styles, and text analysis and was an adjunct faculty member at MidlandsTechnicalCollege.He served for two years as director for theatre at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County and has served as a resident vocal coach for the University of the South Sewanee, and for the South Carolina Shakespeare Company.Jayce is a founding member of The We’re Not Your Mother Players comedy improvisation group and the Distracted Globe Theatre Company.He is currently a member of the drama faculty at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.At the Warehouse Theatre he directs, act and teaches master classes for the Journeyman Program.
Shannon received an MFA in scene design from FSU and studied design at the Moscow Art Theatre Conservatory. A painter, designer, and teacher, she was Director of Theatre at William Carey University. She has designed internationally for venues in Edinburgh, Nairobi, Bratislava, and Moscow. She worked with Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as Region IV design chair and vice chair and served on the board of the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Shannon managed The Spoon Group Productions in NJ/NY and worked on the Broadway productions of The Grinch, Grease, Xanadu, Legally Blonde, Inherit the Wind, The Pirate Queen, Coram Boy, Jersey Boys, Spamalot, and Hairspray, and The Color Purple.
Erika is a senior at
both Eastside High School and the Fine Arts Center, where she is in her third
year of studying Theatre. She is passionate about acting, but is also very
interested in the design and technical elements and is grateful for the
plentiful opportunities the Warehouse has provided her. She plans to continue
on to higher education and get her MFA. (she's not entirely sure in what aspect
of theatre yet). In her spare time she reads and draws, or can be found
watching wonderful, educational British television shows such as Blackadder,
Black Books, Big Train, and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Louise is a recent transplant from Princeton New Jersey. She graduated from Rutgers University with her MFA in Stage Management in 2007. She has had the pleasure of working on several regional shows including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Footloose (west coast premiere), Desert Song, and High School Musical. Her other recent credits include: White Christmas on Tour, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Scams of Scapin, Afghan Women, and La Traviata. She also had the pleasure of working on an off Broadway Production of What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends. She is very excited to be joining the Warehouse family.
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