Here’s a snippet. And here’s the link. He sounds like quite an amazing man.
He was the son of Annie Patricia Donovan and the late Edwin Hartley Poole. Born in Germany and reared in Europe, Stan attended Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. He began making his mark in the southeast United States in the early 1980s with designs for such companies as Theatre in the Square and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Nashville’s Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre in Mars Hill.
Among his notable productions were the world premieres of Maxwell Anderson’s posthumously discovered Masque of Queens, Eddie Lee and Larry Larson’s The Bench, and the rock opera Dracula, Prince of the Dark by John Briggs and Dennis West, produced by the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training. Stan designed the southeastern premieres of Margaret Edson’s Wit, Donald Marguiles’ Dinner with Friends, and the Charlotte Repertory Theatre production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
He joined the staff of Asheville Community Theatre in 1993, and during the next twelve years designed more than 75 shows, ranging from The Lion in Winter to The Santaland Diaries at the alternative theatre, 35below. He was praised for his spectacular work on huge musicals like My Fair Lady and Oliver! as well as intimate, intense dramas (The Crucible) and period comedies (The Importance of Being Earnest), and in 2003 was honored with an exhibition of his specially designed hats.