Denise Burson Freestone
	Artistic Director/Founder
	DENISE BURSON FREESTONE co-founded OpenStage Theatre in 1973 with her husband Bruce and serves as Artistic Director for the Company. During her extensive theatrical career, Denise has worked as an actress, director, producer, designer, technician and dancer and has directed and performed in numerous OpenStage Theatre productions. Her most recent work includes the roles of Dotty in Noises Off, Rosemary in Picnic and Annabella Gotchling in A Bright Room Called Day; performing in the Bas Bleu/OpenStage/CSU collaboration of Angels in America; directing The Threepenny Opera, The Women and Proof; and performing as Charlotte in Moon Over Buffalo, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Professor Vivian Bearing in Wit, for which she received Special Mention in The Denver Post Ovation Awards, Best Local Actress in the Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins and the OpenStage Theatre OPUS Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Under the Freestone's leadership, OpenStage Theatre has received numerous awards, including the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Bruce and Denise are the 2003 recipients of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins.
	Bruce K. Freestone
	Producer/Founder
	BRUCE K. FREESTONE has been an outspoken advocate for the performing arts in Colorado for nearly forty years. Co-founder with his wife Denise in 1973 of OpenStage Theatre & Company, he has served as director, designer, actor and technician. In addition, Bruce is the Company's Producer and an ex officio member of the Board of Directors. He serves as the Technical Coordinator for CSU's Lory Student Center; is a member of I.A.T.S.E., the international stagehands union; has worked behind the camera with several major studios on Colorado film locations; and has performed in countless commercials, instructional films and videos, and at industrial trade shows. He has appeared in numerous OpenStage productions, most recently in OpenStage Theatre's Enchanted April, The Solid Gold Cadillac and the Bas Bleu/OpenStage/CSU collaboration, Angels in America. He has directed numerous OpenStage productions and directed The Sound of Music for Fort Collins Children's Theatre in fall 2005. Bruce was a founding member and currently serves on the board of Arts Alive Fort Collins. He was the 2003 recipient with Denise of the prestigious Tree of Peace Medallion from Arts Alive Fort Collins.