NYC. She has also served as the production stage manager at the Bergen Performing Arts Center for its productions, over the past three years, of A Christmas Carol, Beauty and The Beast, West Side Story, and Les Misérables. Select educational credits at MSU include production stage manager for a new workshop musical, Cold Turkey, programmer/board op for Worksa-Foot 2018, and assistant stage manager for The Full Monty, Danceworks 2018, and Worksa-Foot 2017. CARI KAMPER, deck chief, is excited for her third season with OLO, following her final year with the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music. Some of her favorite projects from her collegiate and high school years include 16 functional Kabuki drape drops, building Grease Lightning, a whole forest of Truffula trees for Seussical, and her first two technical directing experiences in the Cohen Family Studio Theater this year. However, the most fun show experience she’s had so far would still have to be American Idiot in her freshman year of college, because she loves the music of Green Day, and her duties as prop drug handler never failed to be entertaining. Her other interests include hiking, urban exploration, playing video games, collecting candles, and trying new foods. She would not be where she is today without JR Simons, and she hopes everyone has a delightful summer of theater. MAYA RICKARD, production assistant HELEN ROOKER, stage manager, is a College of Wooster graduate and returning OLO stage manager. Her recent work includes serving as instrument tech for Once as well as electrics intern at Northern Stage in Vermont, where she grew up. She will be returning to the state at the
end of the summer as resident assistant master electrician and assistant director for Million Dollar Quartet with Northern Stage. She is thrilled to be coming back to the Ohio Light Opera this year to stage manage Girl Crazy and Music in the Air. BETHANY SASSEN, first hand, is excited to be here for her first season at OLO. She graduated in 2016 from Carthage College with a degree in costume design. Since then, she has been working all over the Midwest in everything costumes. She is excited to learn more and grow at OLO. ABBY SCHNECK, production stage manager, is joining the OLO team for the first time this year. Recent productions include Downstairs (Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont), Let The Right One In (The Hippodrome State Theatre in Florida), Peter and The Starcatcher and Sense and Sensibility (The Lyric Theatre in Utah), The Secret Garden and The Addams Family (Northern Michigan University), as well as work for The Cumberland Theatre in Maryland. Abby holds a bachelor’s degree in theater stage management from Northern Michigan University and is currently traveling across the United States stage managing for multiple companies. CHRISTOPHER TUCKER, assistant stage manager, is excited to be returning to the OLO team. He has been working on theater productions both on and off stage for nine years, and has been stage managing for three. Favorite shows he’s worked on include Anything Goes, Quilters, and Little Shop of Horrors. He is a fresh graduate from The University of Mount Union, studying theater technology and design, and hopes to continue working in theater, and not have to return to customer service.
Explore the impact first ladies have made on the political and cultural lives of our nation.
Admission $7 adult | $6 Senior | $5 Child
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Includes: l Self-guided tour of the Education and Research Center exhibits l Guided tour of the home of First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley l Free parking
Museum Hours
May - October - Monday - Sunday 9AM - 4PM November - April - Friday & Saturday 9AM - 4PM First Ladies National Historic Site | National Park Service Located in downtown Canton | 205 Market Avenue South Canton OH 44702 | firstladies.org | 330.452.0876
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