Bethany is currently a social work student at USU. She is delighted to work on her first play with such a wonderful director and cast! When not studying or lurking backstage, she enjoys games with family, Dungeons and Dragons with friends, and practicing archery in the backyard. She also loves being the favorite auntie and spoiling her nieces and nephew. Many thanks to all and hope you enjoy the show!

Stanton Allen is thrilled to be performing again with Four Seasons Theatre. Playing Charles in Blithe Spirit has been super challenging and fun. Stanton has loved learning from his super talented cast mates. When he isn’t acting, he’s helping families with their dental care at ABC Pediatric Dentistry, fooling around with prosthetics and 3D printing, and spending time with his family. Favorite past roles include Scrooge (A Christmas Carol),  Pulitzer (Newsies), Daddy Warbucks (Annie), Cogsworth (Beauty & the Beast), Lion (Wizard of Oz).

Laur is delighted to return to the Four Seasons stage for Blithe Spirit!
Laur is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and also attended USU’s music program, vocal emphasis. Select previous credits include The Witch in Into the Woods, Glinda in The Wizard of Oz, Narrator in Joseph…Dreamcoat, Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. When she’s not doing shows, Laur teaches voice and acting lessons out of her private studio.

Melinda has been haunting local stages since 2010. Favorite roles include Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors), Peter Pan (Peter Pan), Tzeitel (Fiddler on the Roof), Minnie Fay (Hello, Dolly!), and Ado Annie (Oklahoma!). Her directing credits include The Scarlet Pimpernel (MTW 2025), Joseph (FSTC 2024), The Wizard of Oz (FSTC 2023), and The Sound of Music (MTW 2021). Melinda is passionate about telling stories, tap dancing, reading, Disneyland, and baking cookies. Special thanks to her dashing husband and two darling wee ones for all their love and support.

Celeste Baillio has a BFA in Music Dance Theatre and Theatre Education from BYU. She is the Executive Director of Music Theater West. She recently directed Emma and Catch Me If You Can for MTW. Some past favorite roles have been Donna in Mamma Mia(FS), 39 Steps(FS),Mother in Ragtime(MTW), Lina Lamont in Singin in the Rain (MTW), Miss Hannigan in Annie (MTW), Katherine in Freaky Friday (FS), Morticia in The Addams Family(FS), Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie(FS), and Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (MTW).

Did Kyle forget to wear a black shirt for picture day? Yes, yes he did. Will he occasionally forget his lines on stage, quite possibly. Nevertheless, Kyle is thrilled to be back on stage with Four Seasons, having last appeared as the green-haired Mr. Wormwood in FSTC’s production of Matilda. It is thrilling to share the stage with such talented people. Thank you for supporting community theather! Much love to his supportive wife and four daughters at home. Enjoy the show!

Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924), which featured themes of drugs and adultery and made his name as both actor and playwright in the West End and on Broadway.

During the frenzied 1920s and the more sedate 1930s, Coward wrote a string of successful plays, musicals and intimate revues including Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (1926), This Year of Grace (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). His professional partnership with childhood friend Gertrude Lawrence started with Private Lives (1931), and continued with Tonight at 8.30 (1936).

During World War II, he remained a successful playwright, screenwriter and director, as well as entertaining the troops and even acting as an unofficial spy for the Foreign Office. His plays during these years included Blithe Spirit, which ran for 1997 performances, outlasting the War (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it), This Happy Breed and Present Laughter (both 1943). His two wartime screenplays, In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with the young David Lean, and Brief Encounter, quickly became classics of British cinema. However, the post-war years were more difficult. Austerity Britain – the London critics determined – was out of tune with the brittle Coward wit. In response, Coward re-invented himself as a cabaret and TV star, particularly in America, and in 1955 he played a sell-out season in Las Vegas featuring many of his most famous songs, including “Mad About the Boy,” “I’ll See You Again” and “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.”

In the mid-1950s he settled in Jamaica and Switzerland, and enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1960s, becoming the first living playwright to be performed by the National Theatre when he directed Hay Fever there. Late in his career he was lauded for his roles in a number of films, including Our Man In Havana (1959) and his role as the iconic Mr. Bridger alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1968). Writer, actor, director, film producer, painter, songwriter, cabaret artist as well as an author of a novel, verse, essays and autobiographies, he was called by close friends “The Master.”

His final West End appearance was Song at Twilight in 1966, which he wrote and starred in. He was knighted in 1970 and died peacefully in 1973 in his beloved Jamaica.