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Faces
in the Arts Two years ago Melya Stylos bribed her daughter, Elena, into auditioning for a play at Lord Leebrick Theatre. Now the elder Stylos is the theater's first full-time general manager.
With a background in marketing and law, Stylos might not seem like the obvious choice to oversee the workings of Eugene's bleeding-edge Lord Leebrick Theatre. "One of the things people find interesting about me is that I don't have a theater background," Stylos says. To handle the dozens of big and small jobs that make the backstage show at Lord Leebrick run smoothly, she doesn't have to. Her smile, warm, wide and welcoming, shows that she "really loves working with people" more than any question and answer session could. She spends a large part of her day dealing with people, doing everything from helping get grants and working on marketing materials to selling tickets and answering the phone. "I do 20 different things in the morning and 20 other things in the afternoon," she explains. "And the 40 things I do today won't be the same 40 things I do tomorrow." Stylos is the theater's fourth GM but the first one to ever hold a full-time position, thanks to a three-year grant from the Oregon Community Foundation. One of her top goals is to "make sure that everyone who should know about us, does." But she's definitely got her hands full with other major projects. Over the next year she'll be working on getting Lord Leebrick's summer theater camps up and running. The other big project she's working on is helping Lord Leebrick buy a building. "We eventually want to own our theater space," she says. "Either by buying our current space or by finding a new one." That's been a goal at Lord Leebrick for a very long time, but with a sparkle in her eye, Stylos adds, "We're closer to achieving that goal than we've ever been. We have an angel of a donor who is going to help us jumpstart our campaign."
Opening Nights After Mrs. Rochester Opens Friday, March 3 at UO's Robinson Theatre. The University of Oregon's Robinson Theatre opens After Mrs. Rochester. The play chronicles the true story of writer Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, who ends up as a mad woman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Performances are Mar. 3-4, 10-11 and 17-18. For tickets, call 346-4363. Waiting for Godot Opens Friday, March 3 at The Very Little Theatre's Stage Left. Stage Left at Very Little Theatre opens the Samuel Beckett absurdist play Waiting for Godot. The two-act play focuses on two tramps Vladimir and Estragon, who wait in vain by a roadside for Godot. The intentionally uneventful plot is thought to symbolize the tedium and meaninglessness of human life, which is a common theme of existentialism. Performances are Mar. 3-5 and 9-12. For tickets, call 344-7751.
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