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NEAL
HUTCHESON is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and video
producer from the Southeast United States. Many of his projects
have found an audience through public television, including
The Carolina Brogue (2009; Doc Channel 2009), The
Outlaw Lewis Redmond (2009; Doc Channel 2009), The
Last One (2008; Doc Channel 2008), The Prince of Dark
Corners (2007), The Queen Family (2006), and
Mountain Talk (2004). Three of his films were honored
in a special showing in Berlin, Germany in 2006, and he received
the Bill Arnold North Carolina Film Award in 2008 for The
Outlaw Lewis Redmond. In 2009 he received an Emmy for The
Last One.
His
documentary films currently in production include Atlantic,
Storyteller, and Popcorn Sutton - A Hell of a Life. |
GARY
CARDEN is a celebrated storyteller, folklorist, and
dramatist whose work explores Appalachian identity and mountain
folklore. His collection Mason Jars in the Flood
(2000) won the Book of the Year Award in 2001 from the Appalachian
Writers Association, and in 2006 Carden received the prestigious
Brown-Hudson Folklore Award. In 2008 Carden received an honorary
doctorate from Western Carolina University. In addition to
the The Prince of Dark Corners, Carden penned the
acclaimed Appalachian plays The Raindrop Waltz, Land’s
End, Nance Dude, and Birdell.
• For more on Gary Carden see: Tannery
Whistle
• Web exclusive: Carden
talks about The Prince of Dark Corners
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MILTON
HIGGINS is an accomplished actor who has lent his unique
presence to several of Gary Carden’s dramatic works, including
The Prince of Dark Corners and The Raindrop Waltz,
and many other plays. Higgins grew up in the mountains of North
Carolina, and lives across the road from the Parkway Playhouse
where he often directs and performs. For more about Milton Higgins,
see "Outlaw". |
