CHOREOGRAPHER
Megan Mazarick
Friday, March 27th at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 28th at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, 29th at 2 p.m.
Yvonne Theater
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, N.J.
MYTHS & HYMNS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
Rider University gratefully acknowledges the generous support of:
The Herbert B. Mayo Performance Endowment
The Martinson Family Foundation for its support of theater technology equipment.
Michael T. '89 & Susana Santaguida '89 Gummel and Kasey & Billy Ziff for their support of our Rider Friend of the Arts patron program.
~ WARNING ~
The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author's rights and actionable under united states copyright law.
Special Thanks to:
Adam Guettel for his artistic input and collaboration
Director’s Note
Myths & Hymns lives in the space where story, ritual, and belief meet.
Since the earliest gatherings of human community, we have used stories to explain what we cannot fully understand: love, loss, creation, suffering, transformation, and hope. Long before formal institutions of religion, pagan ritual offered humanity a way to mark the seasons, honor unseen forces, and give shape to mystery. Around fires, beneath open skies, people sang, danced, and told stories not merely as entertainment, but as acts of devotion. Mythology was not separate from daily life; it was life’s language.
As civilizations evolved, so too did our systems of belief. The rituals changed names, the gods took new forms, and traditions became codified into organized religions. Yet the essential human impulse remained the same. Whether in Greek myth or Christian scripture, we encounter strikingly familiar narratives: sacrifice and redemption, descent and rebirth, divine love and human frailty, journeys toward grace or enlightenment. These stories, separated by geography and centuries, echo one another because they emerge from the same human longing the need to find meaning in existence.
“Our medicine is on our stories” Dr. Bradley Williard, Phd
In this production, we explore how pagan ritual connects and refracts mythology through storytelling, and how those mythic structures continue to live within religious traditions we recognize today. Rather than placing
mythology and Christianity in opposition, we view them as part of a continuum different expressions of humanity’s enduring search for connection with the sacred. The hymn and the myth are not rivals; they are siblings.
Adam Guettel’s score moves fluidly between the spiritual and the earthly, the ancient and the contemporary, inviting us into a theatrical ritual of our own. Each song becomes an offering a meditation on faith, desire, doubt, and transcendence. The performers…these brave souls act not only as characters, but as storytellers participating in a lineage that stretches back thousands of years: artists gathering a community to witness shared truths.
Tonight, we invite you to experience Myths & Hymns not as a linear narrative, but as a ceremony of storytelling a reminder that across cultures and eras, humanity has always sung its questions into the dark, hoping for light in return.
Though the names of gods and doctrines may change, the stories endure. And perhaps what unites myth and religion most profoundly is this: both ask us to believe that transformation is possible.
“Maybe faith is only hoping that we can rise anew And so I rise and so I stand I am awaiting you”
T Oliver Reid
Adam Guettel
Scenes/Musical Numbers
Myths and Hymns will be performed without an intermission.
Prologue Full Company
At The Sounding Jessica Lewis, Stella Frye-Ginsberg
James Neithardt, Noah Bantle
Children of the Heavenly King Eleanor Conover
Saturn Returns Xander Schmidt, Company
Icarus Jonathan Banks, Lucas Brown, Company
Migratory V Avery Nurzia
Life Is But A Dream Female Presenting Ensemble
Pegasus* Nicholas Ammon, Arianna Cardillo & Jayden Hollister
Hero and Leander
Daniel Hanna with Nicholas Ammon, William C. McClough
Sisyphus* Simon Clissold
with Eleanor Conover, Avery Nurzia, Daniel Hanna, Jonathan Banks
Build A Bridge Caroline Quinn
Come To Jesus Jessica Lewis and Xander Schmidt
How Can I Lose You Evelyn Izdepski
There’s A Shout Sadie Patton
Awaiting You Xander Schmidt
The Great Highway Suki Scott and Regan Wright
There’s A Land Avery Nurzia, Lucas Brown, Stella Frye-Ginsberg, Caroline Quinn, Jessica Lewis
Light After Darkness Full Company
Saturn Returns Reprise Lilli Doll, Company
*Lyrics for "Pegasus" and "Sisyphus" by Ellen Fitzhugh
The Cast
Singing Company
Nicholas Ammon, Jonathan Banks, Noah Bantle Lucas Brown, Arianna Cardillo, Simon Clissold, Eleanor Conover, Lilli Doll, Stella Frye-Ginsberg, Daniel Hanna, Jayden Hollister, Evelyn Izdepski, Jessica Lewis, James Neithardt, Avery Nurzia, Sadie Patton, Caroline Quinn, Xander Schmidt, Suki Scott, Regan Wright
Dancing Company Jadyn Kelly, William C. McClough, Morgan Murphy, Brandi Quigley, Margaret White
Understudies
Swing Jacob Ebert
Swing Lily Levine
Swing Cate Malachowski
Swing Vibel Nakande
Artistic Staff and Crew
Director T. Oliver Reid
Assistant Director Cassidy Sweetland
Music Director Peter de Mets
Orchestra Supervisor Patrick Clayborn
Choreographer Megan Mazarick
Assistant Choreographer Avery Nurzia
Production Stage Manager Jamel Baker
Assistant Stage Managers Aby Colfer and Evelyn Engels
Technical Director Brandon Rush
Assistant Technical Director Annabel Jones
Scenic Designer Simon Clissold
Assistant Scenic Designer Jacob Ebert
Scenic Design Mentor Yoshinori Tanokura
Lighting Designer Chloe Dittloff
Assistant Lighting Designer Alyssa Gil-Pujols
Light Board Operator Sawyer Boyle
Follow Spot Operators Phillip Schneller and Camila Peña Colina
Costume Designer Jim Parks
Assistant Costume Designer Emily Hutchings and Chloe Kelly
Wardrobe Supervisor Julianne Maloney
Wardrobe Runner Erica Coleman
Sound Engineer Craig Pincus
Sound Mix Alyssa Gil-Pujols
Sound Runners Natalie Cunningham and Danny Vera
Props Designer Clare Hanrahan
Props Supervisor Ryan Torres
Props Runner Abby Bufis
Production Documentarian Jadyn Kelly
Orchestra
Piano/Conductor Peter de Mets
Reed 1 Ron Chat
Reed 2 Beth Benson
Guitar Neil Nemetz
Drums/Percussion Kathy Goff
Violin 1 Amy Christ
Violin 2
Alyssa Lahoda
Viola Noel Muñoz
Cello 1
Elina Lang
Cello 2 Oliver Holt
Bass Dennis Farrelly
Administrative Staff
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Jason Vodicka
Director of Production Management Buck Linton
Artistic Producer C. Ryanne Domingues
Associate Director of Performance Management Leandra Acosta
Faculty Stage Manager Brandy Lee Hatcher
Costume Shop Supervisor Jim Parks
Props Director Clare Hanrahan
Scene Shop Supervisor Chris Schimpf
About the Cast
NICHOLAS AMMON, SINGING COMPANY (he/him), is a sophomore Musical Theatre Major. Rider credits include: Twelfth Night (Second Officer, Sebastian U/S). Select Credits include: 9 to 5 (Josh Newstead; Fulton Theatre), Grease (Teen Ensemble; Fulton Theatre), Pulling Heartstrings Cabaret (Featured Performer; 54 Below), and Oh Em Gee They Sang That On Glee (Director, Featured Performer; 54 Below). Select Technical Credits include: Rent (Assistant Stage Manager) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Stage Manager).
JONATHAN BANKS, SINGING COMPANY, is a senior Musical Theatre Major. Previous credits include: Music Theatre Wichita – Ragtime (Harlem Ensemble), Twelfth Night (Illyrian Ensemble), Rider University - RENT (Steve), Twelfth Night (Antonio), Into the Woods, Nice Work If You Can Get It. 1 Cor 16:14
NOAH BANTLE, SINGING COMPANY, is a junior Musical Theatre Major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Into the Woods (Milky White), RENT (Swing/Mark u/s), Curtain Up: Arrival. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Ride the Cyclone (Ricky Potts).
LUCAS BROWN, SINGING COMPANY (he/him/his) is a sophomore Musical Theater major. Rider MainStage credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt). The Fire (Lead Fly Op.). Additional credits include: Spring Awakening (Melchior Gabor; Inside Out Theater Company). The National High School Musical Theater Awards (Nominee; Jimmy Awards 2023 & 2024).
ARIANNA CARDILLO, SINGING COMPANY (She/Her), is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider MainStage credits include: Into the Woods (Witch U/S). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: The Six Degrees of Sierra Boggess Cabaret, and Swingin in the seasons (2025 cast).
SIMON CLISSOLD, SINGING COMPANY (He/Him), is a Senior Musical Theater major with a Minor in Technical Theater and Design. Rider Main Stage credits include: Twelfth Night (Horn Player #3 U.S Malvolio), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Ensemble), Rent (The Man/Ensemble) Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble U.S Balaga) and Anything Goes (Offstage Swing) Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear) and Please I'm A Star! (Student 15)
ELEANOR CONOVER, SINGING COMPANY (she/her), is a junior musical theatre major. This is her first Rider Main Stage performance. Last summer, she worked at Show Place Ice Cream Parlor as a singing server and hostess.
LILLI DOLL, SINGING COMPANY, is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major. Rider Mainstage credits include: RENT (Maureen Johnson), Twelfth Night (Hair and Makeup design) Rider Student Theatre Company Credits Include: Carrie (Cris Hargensen), God Is A Snail (Amber), Today I Will Be Singing (Vocalist) @lillidoll_ www.lillidoll.com
STELLA FRYE-GINSBERG, SINGING COMPANY (she/her), is a junior Musical Theatre major making her Rider Mainstage debut. Select credits include; OFF-BROADWAY: Titanique the Musical workshop (Rose DeWitt Bukater), Fowl Play Developmental Showcase (Production Assistant), Theatre Works USA (Production Assistant) AUSTIN PLAYHOUSE: Lizzie: The Musical (Lizzie Borden) , Pretty Filthy (Becky/Taylor), The Toxic Avenger: The Musical (Choreographer) ZACH THEATRE: The Girl Who Became Legend (Raina), Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch (Melanie Todd), A Christmas Carol (Emily Cratchit), Matilda (Amanda Thripp) OTHER: Midnight workshop-Todrick Hall (Featured Dancer) Upcoming: The Addams Family (Wednesday Addams) with Magnolia Musical Theatre @Stellafryeginsberg
DANNY HANNA, SINGING COMPANY, is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. This will be his first Rider mainstage credit. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Swingin’ In The Seasons.
JAYDEN HOLLISTER, SINGING COMPANY, she/her) is a senior Musical Theatre Major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Female Ensemble Swing), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble), Cendrillon (Supernumerary)
EVELYN IZDEPSKI, SINGING COMPANY, is a senior Musical Theatre major with a minor in French. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Castaways and Cutouts (The Starwatcher), Hamlet (Gertrude), and Please, I'm a Star (Student 7). Professional credits include the New Jersey Renaissance Faire (Principal Cast), The Sound of Music at Leavenworth Summer Theatre (Sister Sophia), and Lock In by Drowned Penny Productions (Gabbi).
JADYN KELLY, DANCING COMPANY/PRODUCTION DOCUMENTARIAN, is a junior Musical Theatre major. Rider Main Stage credits: Twelfth Night (Assistant Choreographer). Rider Student Theatre Company credits: Steel Magnolias (Shelby) and Ride the Cyclone (Ensemble). Professional credits: Cats (Rumpleteazer), Shrek (Teen Fiona/Ensemble), Legally Blonde (Dana/Ensemble), and Holiday Inn (Rose/Ensemble).
JESSICA LEWIS, SINGING COMPANY, she/her, a junior BFA in musical theatre major with a minor in music production. Credits include: Wizard Of Oz (Dorothy Understudy/Ensemble; Broadway Theatre Of Pitman) Ride the Cyclone (Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg; Rider Student Theatre Company)
CATE MALACHOWSKI, SWING is a junior Musical Theatre major. Professional Credits: Cats (Jellylorum, u/s Demeter; Broadway Theatre of Pitman).
WILLIAM C. McCLOUGH, DANCING COMPANY (He/Him), is a Sophomore Musical Theatre major. Rider Mainstage credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio u/s). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Emotional Women (Hutton).
MORGAN MURPHY, DANCING COMPANY. This is her Rider Mainstage debut Previous Credits include: Twelve Night (Assistant Stage Manager) and performed in Curtain Up & Entr’Acte–the freshman and sophomore musical theatre showcases.
AVERY NURZIA, SINGING COMPANY/ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPGER, is a senior musical theatre major. Recent performance credits include in The Fire (Emma) at Rider University and she was part of the devising team for Bent, not Broken which premiered at Teatro Della Pergola in Florence, Italy as part of the Meeting of European Theatre Academies.
SADIE PATTON, SINGING COMPANY, (she/her), is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider Main Stage credits include: RENT (Swing) and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Coffee Hour (Barista/Soloist).
BRANDI QUIGLEY, DANCING COMPANY, is a junior BFA Musical Theatre Major with a Minor in Psychology. She is making her Rider Main Stage Debut in Myths and Hymns. Rider Student Theatre Company credit includes: Six Degrees of Sierra Boggess.
CAROLINE QUINN, SINGING COMPANY, is a Junior Musical Theater Major. This performance makes her Rider Mainstage debut. Select Credits include: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Johanna; Trustus Theatre), Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz (Student/Ensemble; Flat Rock Playhouse), and White Christmas (Ensemble/Judy U/S; Broadway Theatre of Pitman).
MARGARET WHITE, DANCING COMPANY, is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major. Past select theatre credits include: Cats (Victoria), Cats (Rumpleteazer), Into The Woods (Little Red Riding Hood), Anastasia (Odette/Ensemble), Anything Goes (Hope Harcourt), and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (U/S Ella / Dance Ensemble).
REGAN WRIGHT, SINGING COMPANY (She/Her), is a junior Musical Theatre major. She is her first Rider Mainstage debut in Myths and Hymns. Rider Student Theatre Company Credits include: Six Degrees of Sierra Boggess, Please I'm a Star and Swingin' in the Seasons Regional credits include: Legally Blonde (Elle Woods) at the Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
About the Artistic & Administrative Staff and Crew
LEANDRA ACOSTA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (she/her), is a graduate of Rider University with undergraduate degrees in dance performance and arts administration and a master’s degree in organizational leadership. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Performance Management and adjunct faculty in the Department of Performing Arts. She has worked with a variety of choreographers including Kate Ladenheim, Randy James of 10 Hairy Legs, Angela Cusumano, Merli Guerra of Luminarium Dance Company, Jennifer Gladney, Robson Alves, Lynn Neuman of Artichoke Dance, and Ryan Davis. Leandra has participated in a number of freelance performances and choreographic opportunities but is mostly engrossed in her arts administrative endeavors. In her role as Associate Director, Leandra oversees and manages various aspects of marketing and promotions for the Department of Performing Arts and Westminster Choir College. She recently premiered a new work in the Fall Dance Concert titled i am // we are.
JAMEL BAKER, PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER. Jamel is excited to be a part of this production of Myths and Hymns as the Production Stage Manager. Jamel has been stage managing for over 10 years for theatre, opera and dance locally and nationally. In addition to stage managing, Jamel has also led Stage Management workshops with Opera Philadelphia & Riot Inc. When not stage managing, Jamel works at Passage Theatre (Trenton, NJ) as the Lead Producer.
SIMON CLISSOLD, SCENIC DESIGNER (he/him), is a senior Musical Theatre Major with a Minor in Technical Theater Design. Select Credits include: Romeo and Juliet (CoScenic Designer; Rider University) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Assistant Scenic Designer; Rider University)
PETER DE METS, MUSICAL DIRECTOR. Recent Music Director credits from Rider include, Rent, The Prom, Urinetown, and Pete(Her)Pan. Other recent Music Director credits include: School of Rock, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Next to Normal, Shrek, West Side Story, Fun Home, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and the off-Broadway revival of the a cappella, doo-wop musical, Avenue X. He also serves as Music Director for TCNJ’s Lyric Theatre, where he has conducted cabaret performances and coached singers for masterclasses with composers, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Schwartz, and Marc Shaiman. He is the Director of Music at Ascension Lutheran Church in Newtown, PA and is a composer of choral, theatrical, and handbell music. peterdemetsmusic.com
CHLOE DITTLOFF, LIGHTING DESIGNER, recently graduated with a BFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. Recent design credits include: Village Light Opera Group's Death Takes a Holiday, Floor Thirteen's The Happiness Treatment, Columbia University's The Winter's Tale and BAKKHAI, Gallery Players' Legally Blonde, and Luna Stage's Hamlet and the ripple, the wave that carried me home. Recent associate design credits include: Waterbury Symphony's Broadway Scores!, Lucky Man: a Warrior's Journey, and the New American Ensemble's The Brothers Karamazov. Recent assistant design credits include DOLLY: A True Original Musical. Chloe is also currently an adjunct professor at Rider University. Find more of her work at chloedittloffdesign.com.
C. RYANNE DOMINGUES, ARTISTIC PRODUCER, teaches acting, directing, and devising as an Assistant Professor at Rider University. From 2017-2024, she was the Artistic Director of Passage Theatre, a professional, regional theatre found in the heart of Trenton, NJ. Prior to her time at Passage, she worked at a variety of theatres on both coasts, with most of her work being for Simpatico Theatre (which she cofounded in 2004) and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine and was a participant in the 2008 Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Next up, Ryanne will continue working with Passage Theatre and Princeton University on a new, devised piece that focuses on issues within the U.S. education system.
EVELYN ENGELS, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER, is a Theatre Design and Technology major at Rider University. Technical credits include: Nell Gwynn (Sound Runner) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Stagehand), and El Gato con Botas (Assistant Stage Manager)
ALYSSA GIL-PUJOLS, ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER/SOUND MIXER (She/Her) is a Junior Theatre Design and Technology major with a Minor with Music Production. Rider Main stage credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and Great Comet of 1812
(Assistant Sound Engineer), Radium Girls (Sound Mixer), A Doll’s House (Sound Designer) Anything Goes (Sound Mixer), Rent (Sound Mixer), Nell Gwynn (Sound Designer), Into the Woods (Assistant Lighting Designer), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Light Board Operator), Lost Girl (Sound Designer), and Twelfth Night (Sound Mixer). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Ride the Cyclone (Sound Designer), INSIDE a Bo Burnham Cabaret (Sound Designer), The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (Sound Designer), Steel Magnolias (Lighting Designer), 24 Hour Play (Lighting Designer).
CLARE HANRAHAN, PROPS DIRECTOR & DESIGNER, graduated from Rider University in 2021 with a degree in Technical Theater and a concentration in Props. She has been working in the props field for 10 years now, and her favorite props include the following: Yorik’s skull in Hamlet, floral designs for Kiss Me Kate, a faux marble bust for Nell Gwynn, fake vegetables for Cinderella, and a library full of fake books for Into The Woods. She also loves when she gets to incorporate her love of photography into her prop work. Clare would like to thank Louise Grafton for sharing her wisdom about the dangers of hot glue guns and for always being her inspiration.
BRANDY LEE HATCHER, FACULTY STAGE MANAGER (she/her), is the Faculty Stage Manager, mentoring and advising students focusing on Stage Management within the Design & Technology program. Brandy Lee joined Rider University after 12 years at The Walt Disney Company in California, most recently as a Senior Entertainment Stage Manager. She received her MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, Irvine and her BFA in Stage Management from Stephens College in Columbia, MO.
EMILY HUTCHINGS, ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER, (she/her), is a senior Musical Theatre major Recent Rider credits include: Twelfth Night (Olivia), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Millicent Understudy), Entr’acte: Come Together, Curtain up: Momentum Select credits include: Strike/Out (Katchadorian) (Act Out, Diva! Festival) The Way You Made Me (Mother) (Act Out, Diva! Festival) Hedy LaRue (Stepinac Theatre)
ANNABEL JONES, ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, is a Senior B.F.A. Musical Theatre major and Theatre Design and Technology minor. Rider performance credits include Momentum and Entr’acte: Come Together, and Twelfth Night (Illyrian Townsfolk/Fabian Understudy). Rider Student Theater Company credits include The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (Alice/As Cast). Professional credits include Strike/Out (Drew; Act Out Diva Festival) and Board of Ed (Jess/As Cast; Act Out Diva Festival). Rider Technical Credits include Kiss Me Kate (Sound & Projection Operator), Natasha, Pierre, the Great Comet of 1812 (Assistant Stage Manager & Stage Carpenter), Die Fledermaus (Assistant Stage Manager) and The Fire (Assistant Stage Manager).
BUCK LINTON, DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT. Buck Linton is the Director of Production Management for all academic stage productions within the College of Arts and Sciences. He is an adjunct faculty member within the Design and Technology Department where he teaches Stagecraft and oversees all production tech credits. Since 2002, he has worked on over 150 productions with Rider University and Westminster Choir College. In that time, he worked as a scenic designer, technical director, projection designer, and/or production manager in all of the performing arts disciplines that Rider has to offer.
Prior to joining Rider University, Buck was the assistant technical director at McCarter Theatre for more than 50 productions. During his time at McCarter, he had the opportunity to work on numerous co-productions with nationally recognized theaters
including La Jolla Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf, Manhattan Theater Club, and Seattle Repertory to name a few. While at McCarter, he also served as a scenic designer and technical director for their education department. Buck has had the pleasure of working as a scenic designer, technical director and production manager with many other regional companies such as Opera New Jersey, Theater Virginia, Theater IV, Ashlawn Opera, Peach State Summer Theater and Jekyll Island Musical Theater Festival.
Buck earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Tech in Scenography and Technical Design. A native of South Carolina, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from Francis Marion University, double majoring in Theater Design and Technology and Fine Arts with a focus in painting and ceramics. He lives in Lawrenceville with his wife and their three children and frequently assistant coaches their various sports.
MEGAN MAZARICK, CHOREOGRAPHER, is choreographer, teacher, performer, collaborator, and curator of Contemporary Dance. She received both her BFA (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and MFA (Temple University) in dance. As a choreographer, she makes work that is humorous, political, theatrical, and personal, often including text, improvisation, and love of fantasy. Her choreography has been presented most frequently in Philadelphia (Live Arts Festival, nEW Festival, Philadelphia Dance Projects, PARD, Cannonball Festival, etc.) and New York City (Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Dance New Amsterdam). She has toured throughout the USA (San Francisco, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia) as part of various dance festivals and events. She has also shown work internationally at Atlas Festival’s Raw Materials Improvised Performance Series (Guanajuato, Mexico), Budapest’s Trafo Theatre, Bulgaria's BlackBox Theater and Dance Festival, Singapore Fringe Festival, Zawirowania International Choreography Competition (Warsaw, Poland), Zielony Jazdow Festival (Warsaw, Poland), Gdansk Solo Dance Festival (Gdansk, Poland), By Chance Festival (Cairo, Egypt), and Contemporary Dance Night (Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt). As a performer she has worked with Susan Rethorst, Keith Thompson, Marianela Boan, Merian Soto, North Carolina’s Blackbox Dance Theatre, and Anonymous Bodies. She has taught at multiple universities and is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Dance Department at Georgian Court University.
CRAIG PINCUS, SOUND ENGINEER, has worked in professional audio and system design for the past twenty-nine years. He has engineered and produced audio for musical theater performances, national television broadcasts, and live concerts.
Craig holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Rutgers University and teaches digital audio production at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ.
Craig also performs and records music, owns a sound and event production service, and directs TheatreCraft Musical Program, a children’s theater company, created with his wife Renee, producing theatrical performances in the central NJ area.
T. OLIVER REID, DIRECTOR. T. Oliver Reid is a multi-talented grammy nominated artist (Hadestown and Sondheim Unplugged) who has spent the past 20 years working on Broadway shows which have amassed more than 20 Tony Awards from the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards. He is also an accomplished cabaret artist and multiple award winner for his solo show, Drop Me Off In Harlem which he directed, wrote and starred in. He has produced and directed concerts for Feinstein’s 54 Below and continues to work in film and television. His CD, Do I Love You, is available on iTunes.
Broadway credits include, Hadestown, Once On This Island, Sunset Boulevard, After Midnight, Chicago, Kiss Me Kate, Follies, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Never Gonna Dance, La Cage Aux Folles, The Wedding Singer, Mary Poppins, Damn Yankees and the 25th Anniversary concert of Dreamgirls. He is Associate Choreographer on Hadestown Broadway and choreographer of the 2nd National tour of Hadestown. www.toliverreid.com
BRANDON RUSH, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, is a graduate of Rider University and has kept a consistent relationship with Rider’s Theatre Department, where he is returning for his second year as their Technical Director. Some of his celebrated works at Rider include, but are not limited to, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Fire, Into The Woods, RENT, Anything Goes, Enemies: A Love Story, A Doll’s House, and Radium Girls
CASSIDY SWEETLAND, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, (she/her) is a Junior Musical Theatre Major with a Business Minor. Rider Main Stage credits include: The Prom (Assistant Stage Manager), Anything Goes (Assistant Stage Manager), Nell Gwynn (Assistant Director), The Fire (LA Jones), and Twelfth Night (Illyrian). Recent professional credits include Props Artisan at Pacific Conservatory Theatre.
YOSHINORI TANOKURA, SCENIC DESIGN MENTOR, originally from Tokyo, is currently teaching scenic design at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Yoshi holds a M.A. in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and an M.F.A. in Set Design from the University of Connecticut. As a freelance designer, his design credits include Moon Over Buffalo at the People’s Light and Theatre, Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro at Westside Theatre, NYC, Exonerated with the Delaware Theatre Company, and Peter and the Starcatcher at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Yoshi assisted John Lee Beatty on a number of Broadway productions, such as Venus in Fur, Doubt, and The Color Purple. Yoshi is a member of the United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
JIM PARKS, COSTUME DESIGNER AND SHOP SUPERVISOR, is excited to be working on this production. He is currently working as Rider University’s Costume Shop Supervisor. Jim has been a costume designer for the better part of 30 years and has worked on a variety of productions for plays, musicals, operas, festivals, film and television. His most recent work was for both RENT and Grease for Middlesex counties Plays in the Park summer season
