Jordan Smith
Artistic Director
Jordan Smith is a veteran actor/director with many appearances on professional and community theatre stages throughout the Triangle area. He has also appeared on PBS and NPR as well as in numerous industrial films. A performance award winner at Raleigh Little Theatre and with the Gallery Players (Burlington) and a former president of Theatre In The Park, Jordan has appeared in Ghost & Spice’s performances of Cold Storage and Taking Sides and directed the company’s productions of Seamarks and Agnes of God. He is the company’s co-founder and serves as its Executive Producer.
Rachel Klem
Managing Director
Rachel Klem is the Managing Director of Ghost & Spice and has directed and acted in their productions for the past eight years. As an actor: Rita in Educating Rita, Martha in Agnes of God, Joan in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and Joanne in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; as a director: The Play About the Baby, Oleanna, The Miss Firecracker Contest and Souvenir, to name a few. She has been professionally improvising since she was 18 years old, and can presently be seen performing with Transactors Improv. She earned her Master's Degree in Acting from DePaul University's The Theatre School. She is the director of Common Ground Theatre and teaches theatre all over the Triangle.
Jeff Alguire
Technical Director
Jeff Alguire trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He spent 7 years working with some of Chicago’s finest Off-Loop theatre companies and now lives and performs in the Triangle. His local credits include Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire with Little Green Pig and Tony in Abigail's Party with PartyGirl Productions. His Ghost & Spice credits include various roles in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and All In The Timing, Delmount in The Miss Firecracker Contest, Al in Road to Nirvana, Martin in A Skull in Connemara (with Wordshed Productions), and Jamie in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Jeff also has a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and three years of improv training and performance with Bay Area TheatreSports.
Lenore Field
Board Member
Lenore Field has been performing for the past 30 years and has been a company member with Ghost & Spice since 2002. For the company she has appeared in Lights Out at Lulu’s, the one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, The Play About the Baby, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Agnes of God, Silence by the Masters, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Boston Marriage and will appear in the upcoming Six Degrees of Separation. She’s worked with many area companies including PlayMakers Repertory Company (Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 and Part 2, A Little Night Music, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Our Town, Luminosity), Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Italian Actress), Manbites Dog Theater (Age of Arousal, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom), Deep Dish Theater Company (A Servant of Two Masters). Lenore received her training at Syracuse University and The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, NYC.
Melissa Lozoff
Company Member
Melissa Lozoff, born and raised in Canada, moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She spent the next 9 years of her life acting in theater, film, TV, commercials and music videos. Her film and TV credits include Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Jacqui in a prime-time CBS special Jacqui’s Dilemma, Kim Goldman on E!-Entertainment’s O.J.’s Civil, and recurring roles on Days Of Our Lives and The Young And The Restless. Melissa, a member of Ghost & Spice, has been seen locally in Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Love Letters, Bite The Hand/Final Placement, Oleanna, Agnes of God, The Miss Firecracker Contest, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. She teaches at the Acting Conservatory at the ArtsCenter and is the creator/director of Movie Makers, a program where kids and teens write, direct, and star in their own movies.
Rus Hames
Rus Hames grew up in Chattanooga, TN, and schooled/lived/worked in NYC before escaping to Durham in 1999. While in NYC, he worked most notably with Obie-Award winning Ridge Theater on Matthew in the School of Life and Everyday Newt Burman. He spent 5 years working as an actor with Raleigh Ensemble Players (REP) and was honored by IndyWeek for his musical direction (2003) of REP’s Handler. As a director and writer he has created a number of original works and adaptations including Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Best Production, Best Original Script, IndyWeek, 2005). For Ghost & Spice: Silence by the Masters (actor/director), The Miss Firecracker Contest (Mac Sam), Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations (director), Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (director/actor), and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (slides, lighting design). Most recently, he directed Goodnight Everything for Little Green Pig. He will play Jerry in the upcoming At Home at the Zoo. Mr. Hames has a BFA from NYU.
Jennifer Evans
Jennifer Evans made her local stage debut in the Ghost & Spice production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and performed in the Ghost & Spice showcase A Different Moon. Jennifer has also stage managed a number of local productions. She is a Durham native and a graduate of Durham School of the Arts. She has a background in theater, theater crew, modern dance, and photography. She studied film and media production at the American Intercontinental University in Los Angeles. After college, she returned to Durham and has worked with local film makers and film festivals for the last 4 years. Jennifer is also in the local feature film Southland of the Heart.
Amanda Watson
Amanda Watson is one of Ghost & Spice’s newest company members. Acting credits include Oakwood Cemetery Living History, Pentecost, Taming of the Shrew, 12th Night (Burning Coal); A Different Moon (Ghost & Spice’s Intern Showcase); Jane Eyre (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern); Home is Not One Story (Hidden Voices); The Cherry Orchard (Delta Boys); and King Lear (Peace College). Stage Management credits include A New War, Miss Julie, 1776, Hysteria (Burning Coal), The Drawer Boy, Duck Variations & Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Souvenir (Ghost & Spice); The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Partygirl Productions); Flee This Place (The Distillery); and Awake and Sing (2nd Avenue South Players). HR guru by day, theatre geek by night, Amanda is proud of her varied experience in Durham and Raleigh theatre. Amanda is also a company member of Burning Coal Theatre.
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