Ian Finley

  Ian Finley holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School at New York University.  In 2012, he was named the Piedmont Laureate in the field of Playwriting and Screenwriting by the arts councils of central North Carolina. He is the author of plays, including The Nature of the Nautilus (winner of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award), And There Was War in Heaven (finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Native, The Greeks, and 1960. 

  Ted Willis (Nate) is the choral director at Cedar Creek MS in Youngsville, NC, as well as a community performer and musician. Past credits: The Old Man and the Old Moon (Mabelu), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Man #2), Guys and Dolls (Nathan Detroit). IG: @tedtriestobake 

 Thomas Porter (Davis)  is excited to work with Ian and Ted once again as he appeared in Ian Finley's 11:50. Other credits include Hair, Southern Baptist Sissies, Bent, and Dog Sees God.