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Meet our
Artistic Director
 Jon
Wilson, a graduate of
Binghamton University's Theatre Department,
is –
with the start of the 2009-10 season
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serving as Appleseed Productions' artistic director for his twelfth season. Since taking that position, Jon has appeared
regularly on- and off-stage at Appleseed.
On-stage at Appleseed, Jon has appeared in:
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest as "Aide Warren,"
Whose Life Is
It Anyway?
as "Philip Hill,"
Spider's Web
as "Oliver Costello,"
Much Ado About Nothing
as "Hugh Otecake,"
10th Anniversary Show,
I Hate Hamlet
as "Andrew
Rally,"
Closer Than Ever, the
2000
Old Time Christmas Radio Hour as "Steve Snidely,"
George Washington Slept Here
as "Steve Eldridge,"
The
Heiress as "Arthur Townsend," the
1999 Old Time Christmas Radio Hour as "Bugsy," all three productions in the
Unsung Broadway
series, and six of
our Passion dramas.
Off-stage at Appleseed, Jon has served as:
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director of
I Shot
My Rich Aunt (winner of one
TANYS Merit Award),
The Musical
Comedy Murders of 1940 (winner of four
TANYS Merit Awards),
Sorry! Wrong
Chimney!,
The Diviners
(winner of the 2006-07
SALTY Awards for
Best Play Community Theater, Best Actor Community Theater Play,
Best
Actress Community Theater Play,
Best
Supporting Actress Community Theater Play, and three
TANYS Merit Awards),
Spider's Web
(winner of the 2005-06
SALTY Awards for
Best Play Community Theater and
Best
Actress Community Theater Play),
I'll Be Seeing You,
High Society,
The Foreigner
(winner of the 2003
SALT Award for
Play of the Year),
Ten Little Indians,
Where’s Charley?,
The Gift of the Magi,
The Toys
Take Over Christmas (Holiday One Acts),
The Spirit of St. Nicholas,
the
1999 Old Time Christmas Radio Hour,
The Passion Story,
and
A Passion Drama;
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co-director of
Closer Than Ever;
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producer for One Moe Time...With Love,
The Boys
Next Door
(executive producer),
Dracula,
Our Town
(executive producer)
(winner of the 2007-08
SALTY Awards for
Best Play Community Theater and
Best
Supporting Actress Community Theater Play),
The Spitfire
Grill,
Spider's Web,
Children of a Lesser God
(winner of the 2004
SALT Award for
Play of the Year), I'll Be Seeing You,
Holiday One Acts,
The
Dining Room,
Closer Than Ever,
Quilt,
To Whom It May Concern,
George Washington Slept Here,
The
Heiress, Have You Seen My Son?,
The People vs. Judas Iscariot,
and
The Case of Humanity vs. Pontius Pilate;
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co-producer and mentor director
for the 2009
Summer One Acts;
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production designer for
I Shot
My Rich Aunt,
The Musical
Comedy Murders of 1940,
Sorry! Wrong
Chimney!,
The Diviners,
Spider's Web,
and
I'll Be Seeing You;
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scenic designer for
High Society,
I Hate Hamlet,
Holiday One Acts,
The Foreigner,
Closer Than Ever,
and Close Ties;
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lighting designer for
The Boys
Next Door, Our Town,
The Spitfire
Grill,
Whose Life Is
It Anyway?,
Children of a Lesser God,
High Society,
I Hate Hamlet,
The Foreigner,
and
Closer Than Ever;
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sound designer for
The Boys
Next Door and
The Spitfire
Grill;
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assistant director for
Hughie
(Three One Acts on a Winter's Evening);
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stage manager for
Much Ado About Nothing,
On Golden Pond,
and
The Curious Savage;
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properties master
for
On Golden Pond
and The Curious Savage;
and
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program director and instructor for some of Appleseed's Summer Youth Arts
programs.
Right now at Appleseed, Jon is directing A Night of Israel Horvitz!
 Jon has
been nominated for and won numerous theatre awards since coming to Syracuse. Awards he has won are:
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2008-09
SALTY
Lifetime Achievement Award;
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2007-08
SALTY Award for
Best Director/High School;
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2006
SALT Award
for Supporting Actor of the Year in a Musical;
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TANYS Merit awards for
Achievement in Production Design and
Execution, Achievement in Visual
Impact,
Outstanding Program Content, and for Excellence in Ensemble
Acting as a member of the Cuckoo's Next cast;
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The Prestigious Agatha Crusty Award (four-time
winner);
and
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The Point! (six-time winner).
Awards for which Jon has been nominated, but did not win:
SALT Awards for
Director of the Year/Play (2007), Leading Actor of the Year in a Play
(2005), and Director of the Year (2003).
Jon is not only involved with theatre at Appleseed, he also has worked
with many other Syracuse-area community theatre companies and high
schools:
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The
ACME Mystery Co. performing in
Bad Kitty: A Holiday Whodunnit,
Deadly Inheritance, Death Joins the Club,
Death Takes a Cruise, Die Another Death, Florence of Moravia, Hijacked
Holiday,
I'm Fred, I'm Dead, Nick Saint: Private Elf, and
No Time for Death;
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Don't Feed the Actors;
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Eleguin Productions working on Enter the Moose, There's a
Moose in the Oven, In the Waters of the Jordan,
Found a Peanut, There's a Bun in the Oven, and Tying the Knot;
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ES-M High School as scenic designer for
Once Upon a Mattress and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,
and master carpenter for All I Really Need To Know I Learned In
Kindergarten;
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Gifford
Family Theatre performing in
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, and as director
of
Princess Rabbit, The Invisible Dragon, Every
Actor Tells a Story, Myth Interpretations, The
Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock, and
Write Me a Murder;
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Magic
Circle Children’s Theatre performing in Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and
Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty & the Beast;
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Opening
Night Productions performing in Lend Me a Tenor;
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Salt City Center
performing in Brigadoon and
Man of La Mancha;
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Solvay High School
as director and production designer of Amateurs, Over My Dead Body, All Because of Agatha, The Curious Savage,
and
The Odd Couple (Female Version); director, scenic designer, lighting designer of How To Succeed In Business Without Really
Trying, Nunsense: The Mega-Musical, Once Upon a Mattress, High Society, Bye Bye Birdie, and Working;
and director and lighting designer for The Wiz;
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Syracuse Children's Theatre as director of Bugsy
Malone Jr.;
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Syracuse Civic Theatre performing in The Diary of Anne
Frank;
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Syracuse Shakespeare Festival
performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love in
Shakespeare;
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Syracuse Symphony Pops Chorus;
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The
Talent Co. as resident director for and performing in Noises Off,
and performing in Hello, Dolly!, George M!, and Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat;
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Theatre ’90
performing in The Butterfingers Angel and 42nd Street;
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Town of Manlius performing in
West Side Story;
and
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The Wit's End Players performing in Pippin and The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
plus special guest appearance in The Will Rogers Follies.
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He also
appears as "Joe Smart, Jr." in the locally-produced independent film,
Prisoners of Freedom.
Currently, Jon is appearing in some ACME Mystery Co. and Don't
Feed the Actors shows throughout the next few months, and will
be appearing as "Otto Frank" in The Diary of Anne Frank for
Syracuse Children's Theatre at the end of March and in
Miss Nelson Has A Field Day for Gifford Family Theatre in
May.
Outside of Syracuse, Jon has worked with such theatre companies as
Playwrights
Horizons,
Soho Rep,
Hangar Theatre,
Cider Mill Playhouse, and
Tri-Cities Opera Company.
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