Meet the 2025 Season Directors!
The Book of Will
Director: Adam Kampouris
Adam Kampouris (He/Him) daylighting as a backpacking/hiking guide with Blue Ridge Hiking Co., Adam has spent the entirety of his adult life in the throes of a theatre career that has blazed a path from here, to the eastern reaches of NC, northward to the great cities of New York and Philadelphia, and as far west as the 9,000″ peaks of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains (shout out to Creede Repertory Theatre). While his career has largely been in the auspices of performance, a five year detour has found him circling back to the theatre pursuing his curiosity for directing and fight choreography.
Most recently he has served as assistant director for two part Henry VI productions in Montford Park Players’s marathon “Muse of Fire” season, and acted as fight choreographer for Venture Shakespeare’s most recent production of Hamlet.
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Director: CODY W FOX
Cody (he/him) has called Asheville home since 2012 after graduating from Appalachian State University with a minor in theatre and majors in finance and accounting. By day, he dedicates himself to his job as a mortgage banker, but when the summer nights arrive, he fully embraces the world of theatre. Cody has acted in and directed multiple projects including Po’e Henry (a series of one acts of O’Henry and Edgar Allen Poe), Twisted Fairy Tales (rewritten fairy tales from a perspective of less famed characters), Much Ado About Nothing, The Boys Next Door, The Importance of Being Earnest and many more.
Most recently, Cody has been part of two productions during Montford’s 2023 season and took on six shows in the 2024 Muse of Fire season. While he is new to Montford Park Players, he certainly isn’t new to the theatre. Now, he’s thrilled to direct The Merry Wives of Windsor, adding a fresh, 1950s flair to this beloved classic for the Montford stage.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director: Glenna Grant
Glenna Grant is an actor, director, and teacher currently based in her hometown of Asheville, NC.
An Asheville native, Glenna landed in New York after attending the conservatory at Purchase College, where she earned her B.F.A in Acting. In over a decade as an NYC based actor, Glenna performed with such companies as The Public, LAByrinth Theatre, The Riot Group, and as a member of “The Bats” at the Flea Theater.
In Asheville, she has appeared at NC Stage Company in The Revolutionists , Antigone, and As You Like It, and has played several iterations of Kitty Dayle in Immediate Theatre Projects beloved WVL Radio Theatre series.
Offstage, Glenna can be seen on OWN’s Queen Sugar , Fox’s The Following, & Identification Discovery’s Swamp Murders, among others. Her voice work can be heard in GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony , GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned, Lucky 420, and Red Dead Redemption.
As playwright and teaching artist, Glenna traveled through rural Ecuador & Tanzania with Dramatic Adventure Theatre Co, and all across WNC with NC Stage’s Community Tour. From 2018 to 2022, she designed and directed the acting program at Virginia’s Governor’s School for Visual & Performing Arts.
A lifelong lover of Shakespeare, Glenna maintains a focus on work that bridges the classical and the modern. Her directing style is heavily influenced by her work as an acting teacher, and she favors an actor driven process of discovery through rehearsals. She is deeply grateful to all of you for sharing your time and talents with us, and for continually proving that there’s no truer home than the theatre.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Director: Mandy Bean
Mandy Bean (she/her) has been a Montford Park Player since 2007, serving as an actor, director, and costumer for various productions throughout the years. Notable previous directing credits at Montford include As You Like It (2022), Comedy of Errors (2021), Romeo & Juliet (2019), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2018), and several productions of A Christmas Carol. Most recently, she directed Edward III for the 2024 Muse of Fire season.
A native of Weaverville, Mandy has spent her entire life in Western North Carolina and has a deep love for this region. She studied theatre, dance, and literature at Appalachian State University, where she earned a degree in Theatre Education along with a minor in English. She has two children, Jasper and Arthur, with her husband, Scott Bean. Over the years, she has collaborated in some way with almost every theatre company in the area, and is co-founder of the Multiverse Theatre Collective with partner Jason Williams.
King Lear
Director: Jason Williams
Jason Williams (he/him) has worked with the Montford Park Players since 2000. His first show with MPP was The Winter’s Tale. He played the Young Shepard. Over those 25 years, he has worked in almost every aspect of the organization: from actor, to lighting designer, to director, to Board President, to serving as Artistic Director for last year’s season of Muse of Fire. During his time with MPP, Jason has also directed 20+ productions including acclaimed productions of: Love’s Labors Lost, Romeo & Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It, Peter Pan, The Little Prince, Richard II and the repertory productions of Macbeth and Pericles.
Jason keeps returning to Montford Park Players because he respects their mission of providing low cost theatre, especially Shakespeare, to the community. Jason is an Asheville Native and graduate of the Drama program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
She Kills Monsters
Director: Deanna Braine Smith
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