Jekyll & Hyde

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2016-2017 season Pijor Hall

All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten Nov 11 - 20

A school play. The skies over Los Angeles. The rubble of World War II. Life lessons arise from the most unpredictable places.

Based on the books by Robert Fulghum Conceived and Adapted by Ernest Zulia Music by David Caldwell

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White Christmas Dec 2 - 18

Back by popular demand! Two exarmy men, one pair of sultry singers and an unseasonably warm Vermont winter add up to the perfect holiday musical.

Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank Book by David Ives and Paul Blake

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Pijor Hall

Death of a Salesman

The Velveteen Rabbit

A man struggles to earn a living wage after decades on the job. His grown children struggle to make careers for themselves. When hard work reaps little success, their family begins to doubt each other.

The tale of a child’s beloved toy yearning to be real graces the stage with all the magic and heart of Margery Williams’ original classic.

Jan 13 - 29

By Arthur Miller

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Feb 10 - 19

Adapted by Scott Davidson

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Joseph and the amazingtechnicolor dreamcoat

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Bloom

Mar 31 - Apr 9

Scorned by his brothers, sold into slavery and jailed for a crime he didn’t commit – how on earth is Joseph going to become the second most powerful man in Egypt?

Following a violent incident at school, a 15-year-old boy is assigned to work with his social worker’s father, an urban gardener coping with the loss of his wife. Over the course of one summer, a budding friendship empowers them to grow beyond their troubled pasts.

Lyrics by Tim Rice // Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

By Andrew Morton

Mar 3 - 19

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Parade May 5 - 21

1913. Marietta, Georgia. A teenage girl is found murdered in the factory where she works. The town wants justice at any cost, and all eyes turn to her supervisor, a Brooklyn Jew who has never fit in with their southern way of life.

Book by Alfred Uhry Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Co-Conceived and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Based on the true story of the trial and lynching of Leo Frank

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Pure Imagination Presented by The Musical Theater Project

June 25

Here’s a show that will appeal to the entire family, from the very young to the very young-at-heart. timeless tunes from Disney and Sesame Street will be sure to have kids, their parents and even their grandparents up on their feet for this interactive performance.

Featuring Ursula Cataan, Jodi Maile Kirk, Nancy Maier and Shane Patrick O’Neill

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Our Town

Willy Wonka

Ushering in a new era of modern theatre, Thornton Wilder wrote of a people frozen in the earliest years of the 20th century. Decades later audiences continue to be moved by their simple yet universal struggles, dreams, loves and triumphs.

The world’s most famous chocolatier reemerges after years in hiding, and five lucky children win a once-in-alifetime trip through his factory.

July 14 - 23

By Thornton Wilder

Aug 11 - 13

Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley Adapted for the Stage by Leslie Bricusse & Timothy Allen McDonald Based on the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

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Jekyll & Hyde Conceived for the Stage by Frank Wildhorn & Steve Cuden

Book & Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse

Music by Frank Wildhorn

Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson Orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg Arrangements by Jason Howland Director // Jacqi Loewy Music Director // Anthony Trifiletti Scenic Designer & Props // Douglas Puskas Co-Technical Director & Projectionist // Daniel Temelkoff Co-Technical Director // Riley Kushner Lighting Designer // Maureen Patterson Sound Designer // Stan Kozak Costume Designer // Justin Bilewicz Projection Designer // T. Paul Lowry Stage Manager // Julie Billinghurst Sound Board Operator // Jordan Demich-Bogner Rehearsal Pianist // Corey Knick Assistant to the Director // Jack Horn Jekyll & Hyde Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

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The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited

Welcome to French Creek Theatre Welcome to the 2016-2017 French Creek Theatre Season!

Jacqi Loewy returns to French Creek as the director of Jekyll & Hyde. I am so pleased to have Jacqi back; she has directed two previous TrueNorth productions, and was commissioned to write a play based on the dance halls along Lake Erie, titled 10 Cents a Dance, which we premiered a few years back.

She is accompanied by an all-star production team and cast. Please take time to read their incredible stories in our Bio Section of this program. I continue to be both amazed and humbled by the talent which graces our team, both on- and off-stage, on a continual basis. My sincere thanks to each of you.

Rick Fortney Artistic Director, Lorain County Metro Parks

If you have yet to pick up the new season brochure they are available at the Box Office. Our next production will be in Pijor Hall: All I Really to Know I Learned in Kindergarten runs November 11-20. The play from the best-selling books features stories alternately moving and hilarious, and urges each of us to rediscover the meaning in life’s teachable moments.

Back by popular demand, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will play in Ewing Theatre December 2-18. Please get your tickets early for this holiday classic!

We hope to see you throughout the theatre season. Enjoy the show!

Rick Fortney Artistic Director

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Cast Jekyll/Hyde.......................................................Michael Knobloch Utterson..............................................................................Corey Knick Lucy.......................................................................................DeLee Cooper Emma.............................................................................Angela Mitchell Danvers..............................................................................Jeff Haffner* Nellie....................................................................................Katie Rotuno Lady Beaconsfield/Bar Maid......................Megan Campana Spider/Rich Man/Father....................................Steven Huynh Simon Stride...........................................................................Jack Horn Bishop/Apothecary.......................................................Kris Hebble Sir Proops/Poole.........................................................Joe Bennett General Glossop/Minister......................................Jim Saulino Street Urchin..................................................................Emmy Cohen *denotes member AEA

Production Team Director................................................................................Jacqi Loewy Music Director.................................................Anthony Trifiletti Artistic Director..........................................................Rick Fortney Stage Manager..................................................Julie Billinghurst Scenic Designer & Props.................................Douglas Puskas Co-Technical Director/Projectionist....Daniel Temelkoff Co-Technical Director..........................................Riley Kushner Lighting Designer.......................................Maureen Patterson Sound Designer.................................................................Stan Kozak Costume Designer.................................................Justin Bilewicz Projection Designer.................................................T. Paul Lowry Sound Board Operator..................Jordan Demich-Bogner Rehearsal Pianist...........................................................Corey Knick Assistant to the Director...........................................Jack Horn

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Orchestra Conductor/Piano.........................................Anthony Trifiletti Keyboard................................................................................Jayne Kacik Flute/Alto Flute.....................................................Alison Ortenzi Clarinet/Alto Sax./Bass Clarinet.......Rebecca Gardner Sub.-Mike Komperda Trumpet..........................................................................Jim Wonnacott Sub.- Matt Wirfel Horn.................................................................Melinda Kellerstrass Sub.- Lisa Muth Trombone.................................................................Dale Hildebrand Percussion.....................................................................Don Safranek Percussion.........................................................................Eric Hanson Sub. Kevin Robison Violin.............................................................................Abigail Johnson Cello.........................................................................................Faith Rohde Bass.....................................................................................Kevin Aylward

Thank You

French Creek Theatre would like to give special thanks to TrueNorth Cultural Arts for Timpani and Percussion Instruments.

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Scenes/Songs Act I Prologue Scene 1 - A Hospital Ward • Lost in the Darkness........................................................................Jekyll Scene 2 - A London Street • FaÇade.........................................................................................................Company Scene 3 - St. Jude’s Hospital • BOARD OF GOVERNORS....Jekyll, Bishop, Proops, Danvers, Stride, Lady Beaconsfield, General Glossop • PURSUE THE TRUTH/FAÇADE REPRISE 1............................Jekyll, Utterson, Company SCENE 4- Sir Danvers Carew’s house in Regent’s Park • THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY.....................Danvers, Stride, Emma, Rich Man, Jekyll • TAKE ME AS I AM........................................................................Jekyll, Emma • LETTING GO..............................................................................Danvers, Emma SCENE 5- Outside the Dregs/The Red Rat • BRING ON THE MEN.......................................................................Lucy, Girls • LUCY & JEKYLL AT THE DREGS........................................Lucy, Jekyll SCENE 6- Outside Jekyll’s Laboratory • OUTSIDE JEKYLL’S LAB/THIS IS THE MOMENT..............Jekyll • THE TRANSFORMATION.........................................................................Jekyll SCENE 7- Streets of London • ALIVE...........................................................................................................Hyde, Lucy SCENE 8- Jekyll’s Study • HIS WORK AND NOTHING MORE........................Jekyll, Utterson, Emma, Danvers • SYMPATHY, TENDERNESS......................................................................Lucy • SOMEONE LIKE YOU.....................................................................................Lucy SCENE 9- Shabby street near the Red Rat • ALIVE REPRISE...................................................................................................Hyde

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// End of Act I //

Scenes/Songs Act II Scene 1 - London • Murder, Murder...........................................................................Company SCENE 2- The Laboratory • ONCE UPON A TIME..................................................................................Emma • STREAK OF MADNESS.............................................................................Jekyll • IN HIS EYES........................................................................................Lucy, Emma SCENE 3- The Red Rat • DANGEROUS GAME......................................................................Lucy, Hyde • FAÇADE REPRISE #2.....................................................Spider, Company SCENE 4- The Laboratory • ANGST......................................................................................................................Jekyll SCENE 5- The Red Rat • A NEW LIFE............................................................................................................Lucy • LUCY’S DEATH...................................................................................................Hyde SCENE 6- The Laboratory • THE CONFRONTATION..........................................................Jekyll/Hyde SCENE 7- Church • FAÇADE REPRISE #3.........................................................................Company • THE WEDDING.................................................................................................Jekyll

// End of Act II // // Bows // –– PLEASE NOTE ––

A fog & haze machine is used during this production.

Thank You

French Creek Theatre would like to give special thanks to the Mercury Theatre Company for assistance with props and set pieces.

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Cast and Crew Bios

CAST Joseph M. Bennett (Sir Archibald Proops/ Poole) graduated in 1979 from Grand Rapids College and Seminary.

On becoming semi-retired, he is pleased to be able to indulge in his love of musical theatre.

In the past year, he has played Senator Fipp in Urinetown (Mighty Goliath Productions), and joined the ensemble of Sweeney Todd (The MAD Factory).

Thanks to family, friends, and Studio for their support.

Megan Campana (Lady Beaconsfield/ Bar Maid) is honored and excited to be a part of this extremely talented cast of Jekyll and Hyde.

Megan has been actively involved with the Lorain Community Music Theater as the hair and makeup artist since 2008. Earlier this year, Megan made her on-stage theater debut as part of the Ensemble in Godspell at the French Creek Theater (formerly known as TrueNorth). By day, Megan works as a mortgage closer for a local mortgage company. Megan is also Pg. 14 actively involved in the St. Peter (Lorain) church choir,

Project Praise, under the direction of Mr. Anthony Trifiletti, and as a cantor at the church. She is also a member of Choral Spectrum, a local chamber choir under the direction of Dr. Ted Williams.

Megan would like to thank Jacqi Loewy for this opportunity to be part of such an amazing cast. To her cast mates (and to quote one of her favorite musicals): “Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better, but because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”

Emmy Cohen (Street Urchin) Emmy is a C l e v e l a n d area actor and comedian. Most recently she appeared in The Senator Wore Pantyhose at the Western Reserve Theatre. Her next production will be Murder in Black and White to be performed at Bullfrog’s in North Ridgeville. She’s thrilled to be working with so many great people and would like to thank her family and friends for their support and understanding.

DeLee Cooper (Lucy) is thrilled to be appearing in Jekyll & Hyde.

A graduate of Wright State University’s Professional Actor Training Program, she

Cast and Crew Bios is currently an Actor Teacher with the Great Lakes Theater Education Department and a dancer with Rock the House Entertainment.

Some previous Ohio credits include: Heathers and Billy Elliot with Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Pointillism Jazz Consort in Akron, and Sweet Charity, The Secret Garden, and Alice in Wonderland with Weathervane Playhouse in Newark.

Jeff Haffner (Danvers) (B.A. Ashland University; M.F.A. - University of Georgia) is originally from Parma, Ohio; he is very happy to be a part of Jekyll and Hyde!

Recent credits: Nick O’Brien in Shear Madness (Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse), and Chester Drawers in Sleeping Beauty (Winnipesaukee Playhouse).

He was a company member at the Old Creamery Theatre (Amana, Iowa) for the last 8 seasons, where favorite credits include: Eddie Lawrence in Shear Madness, The Dragon in The Reluctant Dragon, and Kanute Gunderson in the Don’t Hug Me series.

Kris Hebble (Bishop/Apothecary) Kris is very thankful being in this production. Some of Kris’ favorite roles include Dave Bukatinsky in The Full Monty (Beck Center

for the Arts), Mr. Bumble in Oliver (Cain Park), Ali Hakim in Oklahoma (Olde Towne Hall Theatre), T a m m a n y O’Halloran in Miracle on 34th Street (TrueNorth Theatre), and Barnaby Tucker in Hello Dolly (Elyria Summer Theatre).

Kris is a Franciscan Friar with the Order of St. Francis (www.osffranciscans.com) Jackson Horn (Simon Stride) Jackson is proud to say this has been one of his greatest learning experiences in his musical theatre career.

Acting as both assistant director and cast member has opened up his eyes to the diversity of the theatre community. This has been Jackson’s first experience as an assistant director. Some of his favorite acting credits include Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jeffrey in Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell, and Neleus in Julian Fellowes Mary Poppins. He would like to thank his friends Margarita, Jamie, and also his mother June for their never-ending support. Thank you for coming, and Pg. 15 enjoy the show!

Cast and Crew Bios Steven Huynh (Spider/Ensemble) is delighted to be part of the cast for Jekyll & Hyde. A recent graduate of Amherst Steele High School, he is excited to be branching out into local theaters. Favorite credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour) with the MLS Theatre Company and its multiple 2016 Playhouse Square Dazzle Award nominations (Best Musical, Best Chorus, Best Actor). While he is not attending any university at the moment, he hopes to study Musical Theatre at Baldwin Wallace. From him to you, “Thank you for attending tonight’s performance and taking part of our journey to discover what’s behind….the facade.”

Corey Knick (Utterson) was last seen at French Creek in The Glass Menagerie (Tom).

Other credits include Into the Woods (The Baker), The Diviners (C. C. Showers), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick), Cabaret (Cliff), and The Fantasticks! (Matt).

He has also performed with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and at Cleveland Public Theatre. Corey will be back at French Creek later this season in Death of

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Salesman. Thanks to his family and friends for their constant support and encouragement.

M i c h a e l Knobloch is (Jekyll/Hyde) thrilled to be performing on the French Creek Theatre stage for the first time. This is easily the most challenging role he’s tackled and is grateful for Jacqi and Anthony’s trust and direction as well as sharing the stage with such a talented cast. Recent credits include John Wilkes Booth in Assassins (Near West Theatre), Henry in Next to Normal (Brecksville Theatre on the Square), and Boy/Peter in Peter and the Starcatcher (Weathervane Playhouse). Michael attended Case Western Reserve University where he earned a degree in computer science. While there, he performed with the Case Footlighters, a 100% student run theatre troupe, and sang with the All-Male a Cappella group, Speakeasy. When not performing he designs and implements Salesforce solutions as a technical consultant for Acumen Solutions.

Angela Mitchell (Emma) Soprano Angela Mitchell has performed with Cleveland Opera Theater, Lorain Community Music Theater, Opera in the Heights, , and the Moores Opera Center. Her recent roles include

Cast and Crew Bios Cinderella in Into the Woods, Kate in Pirates of Penzance, Musetta in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Mademoiselle Silberklang in The Impresario, and Pauline in La vie parisienne. She is also a member of Quire Cleveland.

Ms. Mitchell holds a Master of Music from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota. She is Assistant Producer for WCLV Classical 104.9 ideastream.

K a t e l y n Rotuno (Nellie/ Ensemble) Katelyn is excited to be returning to the stage after a 9 year hiatus. She was last seen in the regional premiere of The Phantom of the Opera at Baldwin-Wallace. By day Katelyn is a board certified music therapist at The Cleveland Music Settlement serving mental health, hospice, and medical populations.

Proud alumnae of Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Aunt Mutt, this one’s for you!

James Saulino (General Glossop/ Minister) James is from Youngstown, Ohio and has lived in Salem, Ohio,

Nashville, TN, and Milwaukee, WI. As a youth, James studied dance with his sister.

He took clarinet, saxophone, and guitar lessons. He enjoyed listening to records from musicals that his parents played.

James studied at Youngstown State University where he received several degrees in education with minors in English and Social Studies. He taught in several school systems for over ten years and worked as a private event disc jockey. James moved to Lorain in 2012. Jekyll & Hyde at French Creek Theatre is his first venture into theatre.

Production Team D. Justin Bilewicz, III (Costume Designer) Justin is graduate of Ashland University and works as a freelance Costume Designer for the local area. In addition to designing costumes, Justin is the production manager for Sandstone Summer Theatre in Amherst, Ohio, the Drama Director for Clearview High School and the Palace Youth Theatre’s Director in Lorain, Ohio.

Some of Justin’s favorite costume credits include Carrie, The Musical (Sandstone Summer Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Mamaí Theatre Company), Jesus Christ Superstar (TrueNorth Cultural Arts Center), Antigone

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Cast and Crew Bios (Clearview High School), Mothers and Sons (Beck Center for the Arts), and Waiting for Lefty (Case Western Reserve University). Justin is the French Creek resident costume designer and the Ashland University Costume Shop Supervisor. Most recently, Justin designed Legally Blonde for Sandstone Summer Theatre, Directed Beauty and the Beast Jr. for The Lorain Palace Youth Theatre, and costumed the TrueNorth children’s theatre production of Bye Bye Birdie and Clague Playhouse’s production of What I Did Last Summer. Enjoy the show.

Julie Billinghurst (Stage Manager) Julie is happy to return to French Creek to open the season with such a fine show. Previous stage managing credits include: Big Fish, White Christmas, Godspell, and Next to Normal at TrueNorth. Most recently, she was the SM for LCMT’s production of Into the Woods.

Thank you to the production team and cast for making this a fantastic experience. Teamwork make the dream work!

Stan Kozak (Sound Designer) Stan Kozak, currently in his twentyseventh season at Great Lakes Theater, has more than 50 design credits including Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Comedy of Errors, Amadeus, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, Into the Woods and the Tom Hanks’ benefit

performances. His work in 1979 and 1981 with Geraldine Fitzgerald on Streetsongs at GLTF led to the original cast album. Mr. Kozak was the resident sound designer for four seasons at the Porthouse Theatre Company, including productions of Driving Miss Daisy, Niteclub Confidential and a Nightingale Sang.

His collaborations with Victoria Bussert at Baldwin-Wallace College include productions of Chess, Hair, Company, Cabaret, West Side Story, Tommy in Concert, Parade, the Ohio premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, and one of the first nonprofessional productions of Phantom of the Opera. For Cain Park, his design credits include Secret Garden, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Bat Boy, Tick, tick…Boom, Nine, The Wiz, Harold and Maude and Pippin.

Mr. Kozak has also designed sound for Wit and Last Five Years for the Dobama Theater, Iolanthe and Sweeney Todd for the Cleveland Opera, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Forbidden Broadway SVU for the Hanna Theatre and A Shayna Maidel, Brooklyn Boy and Pangs of the Messiah for the JCC. He has served as sound designer for the All-City Musical for the Cleveland

Cast and Crew Bios school system for eight seasons.

He also had the good fortune to have worked with Bebe Neuwirth in her concert performance for the Ideastream Gala in 2005. He was honored to be among the first group of LORT sound designers to achieve recognition in USA 829.

Riley Kushner (Technical Director) Riley Kushner’s most recent builds include: Bye, Bye Birdie with TrueNorth, Into the Woods at LCCC, and The Realistic Jones’s and Peter and the Star Catcher at Dobama Theater. Riley began her professional theatrical carpentry work ten years ago at Baldwin-Wallace College, where she eventually served as

scene-shop foreman. She has since worked on various local productions at Cain Park and elsewhere, and is thrilled to be building on the French Creek stage once again.

Jacqi Loewy (Director) celebrates 4 decades as a busy director/ actor/stage manager/educator.

Her direction has been seen at The Cleveland Play House, Dobama, Ensemble, Interplay Jewish Theatre, CASE, JCC Halle, Playhouse Square and Cleveland Public Theatre. As an AEA/SAG/AFTRA actress/stage manager, Jacqi has worked on Broadway, in international touring companies, at several Cleveland venues and in many recognizable

Cast and Crew Bios feature films/commercials. As a playwright and/or producer, her credits include Mr. Lewis Rules: Stories from the Juvenile Justice System, Legally Addicted (opiate addiction epidemic) and Both Sides of the Family (interfaith relationships).

Jacqi is also a full-time professor of Theatre and Communication at Notre Dame College. “Glad to be back at French Creek (where she directed The Last Five Years, I Do, I Do, Blooms of Steel and was commissioned to write Ten Cents A Dance); thrilled with this fabulous cast, crew and design team, and grateful for your support of live theatre!”

T. Paul Lowry (Projection Designer) has served in artistic, production and design capacities with such companies as Long Wharf Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New Haven Theater Company, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Cleveland Public Theatre, Theatre Ninjas, Near West Theatre, Talespinner Children’s Theatre, Ingenuity Festival and Celebrity Cruises. He is the Technical Theatre Director for Hathaway Brown School. Noted recent design work includes Fire on the Water, Johanna: Facing Forward (CPT), Uz (TPC), The Turing Machine (Theatre Ninjas, received a 2016 Cleveland Critic’s Circle Award for Best Projection Design), Run to the Capulets, Raise up the Montagues (NHTC, Tri-C), and To the Orchard

(Playwrights Local 4181). You can learn more about his work at www. tpaullowry.com.

Maureen E. Patterson (Lighting Designer) returns to French Creek Theatre having previously designed Happy Days and several productions for the 2011 season. Her theatrical designs and production expertise have been showcased in the Cleveland area and beyond for the last eighteen years at the Cleveland Playhouse, Case Western Reserve University, John Carroll University, Cleveland Opera, Cleveland San Jose Ballet, Dallas Theatre Center, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, and many others. For more than a decade, Miss Patterson has focused her talents and creativity on special event lighting and is the Owner and Lead Designer at Solus Lighting LTD. Solus Lighting LTD is the only international award winning company in the city of Cleveland exclusively dedicated to lighting and production management for high end corporate, social and nonprofit events of all sizes. Contact Solus Lighting to bring your events to the next level: 216-912-2199 www.SolusLightingLTD.com Douglas Puskas (Scenic Designer) TrueNorth Theater in Sheffield Lake, OH: The Odd Couple, White Christmas (Scenic Designer). Cleveland Public Theater: Mr. Burns (Properties Designer), The Loush Sisters Love Dickens (Assistant

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Cast and Crew Bios Scenic Designer), White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (Assistant Stage Manager).

Virginia Musical Theater in Virginia Beach, VA: The Little Mermaid (Scenic Designer).

Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA: The Wiz, Shrek the Musical (Scenic Designer). Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, OH: Billy Elliot, American Idiot (Co-Projection Design). The Public Theater in New York, NY: Shakespeare in the Park 2014 Season, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale (Properties Intern).

Graduate of University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music www.douglaspuskas.com Daniel Temelkoff (Technical Director) Daniel is returning to French Creek Nature Center after previously working as technical director on their productions of Curious George, Bye Bye Birdie, South Pacific and Next to Normal as Assistant Projection Director. While relatively new to the technical side of theater, Daniel prefers acting and had been seen in The Wooden Nickelodeon’s The Gyntish Self (Loki, The Mutant Princess, John, Shadow), Negative Space Gallery’s FAIDS (Bill), and Youngstown State University’s productions of Medea (Jason), Reasons to be Pretty (Kent), The Crucible (Reverend Paris), Leading Ladies (Doctor Myers), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Doctor McMurrey), and As You Like It (Sir Oliver Martext).

Daniel has also appears on film in Made in Cleveland and

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Investigation Discovery’s Homicide Hunter.

Anthony Trifiletti (Music Director) is an active solo pianist, collaborative artist, and music director throughout much of Ohio.

As a pianist and music director, Anthony has held positions at TrueNorth Cultural Arts Center, The Lorain Palace Theatre, Lorain Palace Youth Theatre, Sandstone Summer Theatre, Amherst Workshop Players, Lorain Community Music Theatre, The Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton Opera, Dayton Philharmonic Youth Strings, and numerous other venues. Anthony is currently serving on the Board of Directors for TrueNorth Cultural Arts Center. He is a recent graduate of the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. While at UD, Anthony was the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Collaborative Pianist and performed at the American Choral Director’s Association National Convention in 2013. Besides working in theatrical and other performance related settings, Anthony is an active church musician having served at numerous parishes throughout the state. He is currently the music director at St. Peter in Lorain. Congratulations cast, crew, and orchestra on a wonderful performance!

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