Lou Ursone has served as the Executive Director/Producing Artistic Director of Curtain Call since 2000, having now produced more than 250 productions here. He was honored as the Connecticut Arts Administrator of the Year in 2008, receiving the Elizabeth Mahaffey Fellowship. Lou serves on the Arts and Culture Commission for the City of Stamford, and was its founding chair. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Darien Arts Center for eight years, and on the Samuel French Advisory Committee for four years. He is also a board member of the American Association of Community Theatre. As an actor, he has appeared as The Bishop in Jekyll & Hyde, Mushnick in Little Shop and Hucklebee in The Fantasticks.  Favorite roles: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, (Kweskin Theatre  & Downtown Cabaret), John Adams in 1776 (Kweskin Theatre, Ocean State Theatre, DAC),  The Duke in Big River (STONC), Mack Sennett in Mack and Mabel, Michael in I Do, I Do, Buddy in Follies, Littlechap in Stop The World and as Zaza/Albin in La Cage aux Folles. He has also played in many Mulberry Street productions, including the musical version he wrote: A Merry Mulberry Street Musical. He has performed at Goodspeed, toured extensively and has appeared in numerous films, industrial films, commercials and television, including a recurring role on ABC-TV’s Loving. He also appeared on Ryan’s Hope, All My Children and One Life to Live, with additional principal work on Rescue 911 and Unsolved Mysteries. Thanks, Jan, for all your love and support!