Cordova, Illinois. Previously at Great Lakes: Cabaret, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, Macbeth, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and A Christmas Carol. He is also the music director for the acclaimed corporate entertainment group, The Water Coolers. Pandora Robertson Choreographer, A Christmas Carol Nineteen seasons at Great Lakes Theater Pandora returns for her 19th year staging dances in A Christmas Carol. GLT credits are movement staging in The Taming of the Shrew and You Can’t Take It With You, and the acting company of She Loves Me. Pandora was a 2011-2012 Director Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre, where she created and directed 13 Most American Dreams, Crash Project, World Wide Dream Stream: Digitally Dipping into the Subconscious and Voice Over. Other local credits include Shorn, Dobama Theatre (director) at The Cleveland Play House, Galileo (choreographer), The Glass Menagerie (choreographer), The Emperor’s Groovy New
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Clothes (choreographer) and Ferdinand the Bull (choreographer). Pandora has worked extensively in Northeast Ohio as a director, actor, choreographer and dancer with, among others, Porthouse Theatre, convergence-continuum and Ensemble Theatre. She danced for seven years with Ohio Ballet under the direction of Heinz Poll. Other professional dance credits include Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Boston Repertory Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and an appearance with The Twyla Tharp Dance Company on Broadway. She holds an MA in Theater Arts from Case Western Reserve University, and has attended physical theater training intensives with The Dell’Arte International School for Physical Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre, Ann Bogart’s The Siti Company and Raymond Bobgan at Cleveland Public Theatre. Teaching credits include Baldwin Wallace University, The Academy for Performing Arts in Chagrin Falls and The University of Akron. Upcoming productions include Free Radical and the Late Night Sketchbook for Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big Box and Living Storefront, a Night of New Theatre with Ohio City Theatre Project.