About
Square Top Repertory Theatre seeks to create ongoing artistic collaborations, to tell good stories well, and to create new and enduring work.
STRT was founded in 2007.
Charles M Pepiton - Producing Artistic Director
For Square Top, Charlie has directed Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shane Fuller’s $100 Gummi Bears, the staged reading of John Philpit’s Contrapositive, and the staged reading of Damon Falke’s Canaan. Charlie has also directed for Idaho Repertory Theatre, Idaho Repertory Theatre for Youth, and with Idaho’s The Other Place Theatre Cooperative. While with the Co-op, his production of Camus’ The Stranger was invited to perform as part of the 18th annual Victoria International Fringe Festival in Victoria, B.C. As a theatre educator, he has taught at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, TX, Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, ID, and the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. Charlie has an MFA in Stage Directing from UI and a BA in Theatre from Wayland Baptist University.
Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton - PR/Marketing Director
Beka teaches visual art at Pagosa Springs High School. She also works as a freelance photographer and designer. Her most recent book, Broken Cycles, was published in 2007. Her work has been seen at many galleries throughout the South and the Southwest including Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts, The Gallery at St. Marks, and the Marshall Visual Art Center.
Shane Fuller - Associate Artist/Playwright
Shane is a founding member of STRT. He teaches theatre at Milton Academy in Milton, MA. He previously served as Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, TX, and Lee University in Cleveland, TN. He holds a BS in Commercial Art from Oral Roberts University and an MFA in Script and Screenwriting from Regent University. He has directed a variety of plays and independent movies for the past ten years. He also produced and directed Hamlet3, which he toured in Dallas and Chicago with Live Tropical Fish Theatre Ensemble. Shane is also an actor, having recently acted in a short film, Hollywood Photos of Katie Mills, which was shown at the Manhattan Short Film Festival in 2006, and at the Demal Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2007. As a writer, he has scripted several short and full-length works for stage and screen including $100 Gummi Bears which was produced by Square Top Rep in 2007; and Love for a Lifetime which won the national CITA Sketch Writing Contest in 2005. Shane is also an accomplished set and lighting designer, painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.
Erica Curnutte – Associate Artist
Erica holds an MFA in performance from the University of Idaho and a BA in theatre from Wayland Baptist University. Professional credits include: Louise in Always Patsy Cline, and Celia in As you Like it with Idaho Repertory Theatre; Hannah Mae in A Coupla White Chicks Sittin’ Around Talking with Spokane interPLAYERS Ensemble; Ensemble in i The story of Ferdinand with Book-It Repertory Theatre of Seattle; the title role in Hamlet with Animus theatre Project of Seattle; and Mary in the world premier of I, You, He, She and Her with Two-Hours Traffic of Seattle. Erica is a recipient of the Kennedy Center for the Perorming Arts Irene Ryan Acting Award and a Kennedy Center-Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre Fellow.