james and the - Adventure Theatre MTC

Michael J. Bobbitt
Producing Artistic Director
Morey Epstein
Interim Managing Director
A Co-Production with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma
Roald Dahl’s
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February 14 – April 5, 2016
Words and Music by
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Book by
Timothy Allen McDonald
Based on the Book
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Directed by
Michael Baron
All Ages
Sponsored by:
Our 2015 – 2016
Season sponsored by:
www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org
ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC
presents
james and the giant peach
Directed By
Michael Barono
CAST
James (Peach Cast).......................................................................................................................................................... Eli Schulman
James (Green Cast).................................................................................................................................................Henry Niepoetter
Ladahlord........................................................................................................................................................................ Keith Richards
Spiker................................................................................................................................................................................. Karen Vincent
Sponge..............................................................................................................................................................................Awa Sal Secka
Spider.................................................................................................................................................................................Suzanne Lane
Green Grasshopper.................................................................................................................................................Jimmy Mavrikes*
Centipede.........................................................................................................................................................................Joshua Simon
Ladybug...............................................................................................................................................................................Emily Zickler
Earthworm........................................................................................................................................................................ Tobias Young
U/S Ladybug & Spider............................................................................................................................................Mary Anne Furey
U/S Earthworm & Lahadlord...............................................................................................................................Kevin Alan Brown
U/S Spiker & Sponge.................................................................................................................................. Valerie Adams Rigsbee
U/S Grasshopper & Centipede..........................................................................................................................................Ben Lurye
PRODUCTION STAFF
Director...........................................................................................................................................................................Michael Barono
Music Director...........................................................................................................................................Aaron Michael Broderick
Choreographer.................................................................................................................................................... Rachel Leigh Dolan
Dialects............................................................................................................................................................................Rachel Hishorn
Assistant Director.....................................................................................................................................................Michael Windsor
Scenic Designer..............................................................................................................................................................Katie Sullivan
Costume Designer...........................................................................................................................................................Jeffrey Meek
Properties & Puppets Designer.................................................................................................................... Andrea “Dre” Moore
Lighting Designer.................................................................................................................................................................... Rob Siler
Sound Designer..................................................................................................................................................................... Matt Otto
Stage Manager............................................................................................................................................................. Ellison Roberts
Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................................................................................................April Carter
*Jimmy Mavrikes is appearing courtesy of
Actors’ Equity Association.
Michael Baron is a member of Stage Directors and
Choreographers Union.
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a grant from the Arts and Humanities
Council of Montgomery County and
a grant from the Maryland State
Arts Council, an agency dedicated to
cultivating a vibrant cultural community
where the arts thrive.
ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC STAFF
Michael J. Bobbitt
Morey Epstein
Producing Artistic Director
Interim Managing Director
Amanda Bradley Melynda Burdette
Dannielle Hutchinson
Madeleine Evans
Bethanie Herman
Kathryn Hnatio Vicere
Chanté Leverette
Ryan Love
Elliott Kashner
Chelle Parsky
Ellison Roberts
Dustin Shattuck Martita Slayden-Robinson
Sarah Straub
Heather Williams
Communications Director
Assistant Education Director
Registrar
Assistant Production Manager
Academy Program Manager
Artistic Director of Student Productions,
Education Director
Individual Giving Manager
Master Electrician/Carpenter
Institutional Giving Manager
Finance Manager
Production Associate
Technical Director
Director of Production
Marketing & Graphics Assistant
Patron Services Manager
CAST
ELI SCHULMAN (James Peach Cast) is thrilled to return to Adventure Theatre MTC after appearing in its summer production
Garfield The Musical With Cattitutude (Nermal). DC AREA: A Christmas Carol, Ford’s Theatre; The Secret Garden, NextStop Theatre;
Gypsy, Signature Theatre; Appropriate, Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Studio Theatre 2ndStage;
Gianni Schicchi, The IN Series; Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, Adventure Theatre
MTC Academy; Seussical, Musical Theatre Center. TRAINING: ATMTC Pre-Professional Company; Broadway Artists Alliance NYC.
EDUCATION: Eli is a 7th grader at Westland Middle School in Bethesda.
HENRY NIEPOETTER (James Green Cast) is excited to be making his Adventure Theatre MTC (Glen Echo) debut. Recent
Washington appearances include two productions of Oliver! at Arena Stage (Workhouse Boy/Fagin’s Gang) and Adventure
Theatre MTC, presented at Round House Theatre (Orphan/Thief/Ensemble/Oliver U/S). At Olney Theatre Center he was
in Carousel (Starkeeper/Heavenly Friend 2) and The King and I (Louis Leonowens). Henry portrayed Itys in The Love of the
Nightingale at Constellation Theatre Company and sang in La Bohème and The Little Prince as a member of the Washington
Opera Children’s Chorus. He was Wolfie in Signs of Life at the American Stage Theatre Company in St. Petersburg, Florida and
Young John Alex in the film Of Dice and Men. Henry’s professional theater debut was at Ford’s Theater in A Christmas Carol
(Young Scrooge/Turkey Boy/Ignorance). Henry is a company member of the Pre-Professional Program at Adventure Theatre
MTC.
KEITH RICHARDS (Ladahlord) is excited to return to Adventure Theatre MTC, where he last appeared in Oliver!. DC area credits
include When She Had Wings at Imagination Stage, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Pericles at Folger Shakespeare,
and Children of Eden at The Kennedy Center. Other Regional credits include A Tale of Two Cites and 9 to 5 at Barter Theatre, J.M.
Barrie’s Peter Pan National Tour with 360 Entertainment, A Christmas Carol National Tour with Nebraska Theatre Caravan, Much
Ado About Nothing at Alaska Shakespeare Festival, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun at Wohlfahrt Haus Theatre, Daniel at Sight
& Sound Theatres, Star Spangled Girl at Showboat Majestic, and Twelfth Night and Little Shop of Horrors at Festival 56. Television
credits include American Titans on Discovery Channel, and Deadly Demands on Investigation Discovery.
KAREN VINCENT (Spiker) is so happy to be returning to Adventure Theatre MTC! She has performed the roll of Turtle/
Grandmere in Adventure Theatre MTC’s Petite Rouge, as well as Kate/Lilly in Next Stop Theater’s Kiss Me Kate (Helen Hayes
Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical). Training: BM Eastman School of Music, Aspen Music Festival Fellow, Opera
Studies New England Conservatory. Karen is also a member of Play’s The Thing, an educational improv theater company based
in Kensington, MD.
AWA SAL SECKA (Sponge) is so excited to be performing with Adventure Theatre MTC again! NATIONAL: Adventure Theatre
MTC: National Tour of Big Nate the Musical (Mrs. Godfrey). REGIONAL: Mosaic Theatre: The Promised Land (As Cast). Studio
Theatre: SILENCE! The Musical (Ardelia). Olney Theatre: Avenue Q (Ensemble/ Puppeteer/ Swing for Gary Coleman/ Christmas
Eve/ Bad Idea Bears/ Mrs.Thistletwat). National Museum of African Art: Holly Bass Presents: Flock 01 (Herself ). Robert E. Parilla
Performing Arts Center: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lucy Van Pelt), The Skin of Our Teeth (Fitzgerald), Once in This Island (Ti
Moune), Big Love (Eleanor), Lucky Stiff (Rita LaPorta), The Unmentionables (Aunty Mimi), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Arturo Ui
#2), RENT (Joanne). Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theater: Brigadoon (Featured Ensemble), AIDA (Featured Ensemble),
Hairspray (Motormouth Kid), The Wiz (Dorothy). EDUCATION: Associate’s Degree in Theatre Performance from Montgomery
College,Rockville Park. High School Diploma from Gaithersburg High School Academy of Arts and Communications. Pursuing
Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre from The University of Maryland fall of 2016. She is excited to be continuing her education, and
would like to thank everyone at Adventure Theatre for allowing her such a wonderful opportunity!
SUZANNE LANE (Spider) is happy to be making her Adventure Theatre MTC debut! DC Area credits include Mary-Kate Olsen
is in Love (Mary-Kate) at Studio 2nd Stage, Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Adella, Ensemble) and Carousel (Ensemble) at Olney
Theatre Center, Into the Woods (Rapunzel) and Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island (Rosa) at NextStop Theatre, Sunny &
Licorice (Child, Zookeeper) with Arts on the Horizon, and As You Like It (Celia) at HalfMad Theatre. Regional credits include
Richard III (Lady Anne) and The History of Tom Jones (Sophia) at Reduxion Theatre, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia) at Oklahoma
Shakespeare in the Park, Le Rossignol (Rossignol), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Amore), and The Turn of the Screw (Miles) at
Oklahoma Opera Theatre, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Amahl) and Hansel and Gretel (Dew Fairy) with Cimarron Opera.
Education: BM Vocal Performance, University of Oklahoma.
JIMMY MAVRIKES (Grasshopper) is super excited to return to Adventure Theatre MTC after performing in last year’s Petite
Rouge. Other Washington credits include Oliver and Fiddler (Yussel/Bottle Dancer) at Arena Stage, Cabaret at Signature Theatre,
Bat Boy (Edgar-Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Actor) at 1st Stage, Spamalot and Into the Woods (Jack) at Toby’s Dinner
Theatre, Pirates of Penzance with Washington Savoyards. Regionally he has performed with Infinity Theatre Company (Arpad in
She Loves Me, Sisters of Swing, Stories: Live and in Person!). Proud B.M. Musical Theatre graduate from CUA. Much thanks to the
creative team and the wonderful team at Adventure Theatre MTC for this opportunity to bring arts to the youth of today.
JOSHUA SIMON, (Centipede) a DC native, is thrilled to make his ATMTC debut! In the DC area he has performed in Dani Girl
(Unexpected Stage) Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical, Ragtime (Toby’s), code name:
CYNTHIA (Pallas), and Miss Electricity (NextStop), among others. Selected New York credits include 300: The Musical! (Theatrix),
Jim Sox and the Mystery Baloney (Letter Openers), and The Little Prince (The Drilling Company). He has performed live at The
Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Radio City. Education: BFA, NYU. For Mom, Dad, R, A, and B. joshuasimonactor.com
EMILY ZICKLER (Ladybug) is thrilled to be returning to ATMTC! One of her first theatre memories was seeing James and the
Giant Peach (the play) at Adventure Theatre MTC when she was very young. Previous ATMTC credits include: Garfield: The
Musical with Cattitude, Arlene; Stuart Little, Margalo/Ensemble REGIONAL: Constellation Theatre Co. Avenue Q, Lucy/Mrs. T
(Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical); Olney Theatre Center Godspell, Ensemble; Studio
Theatre 2ndStage Carrie: The Musical, Carrie White. Emily is also a Teaching Artist at ATMTC Academy for students aged 3-5
years old.
TOBIAS YOUNG (Earthworm) is a DC theater scene native and a Helen Hayes nominated actor who is very blessed and
honored to be gracing the stage in his debut performance here at Adventure Theatre MTC! While just closing his Off-Broadway
performance of “Fabulous The Musical” in NYC, and “Guys And Dolls” as the ever so clever Nicely Nicely at Olney Theater, he
is thrilled to be back in town! I would like to thank Michael J. Bobbitt for this amazing opportunity, as well as all those who
support me in my quest to achieve all of my goals!
MARY ANNE FUREY (U/S Ladybug and Spider): is thrilled to return to Adventure after touring as Jenny In Big Nate The Musical last
year. Most recently Mary Anne toured with Theatre IV as Jacob Marley, Fezziwig, and Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol.
Other credits with Theatre IV include The Town Mouse in Town Mouse Country Mouse, and Jack’s Mother/ Giant’s Wife in Jack and the
Beanstalk. Mary Anne has also performed at VA Rep Theatre, Riverside Center, and the PA Shakespeare Festival. Thanks to mom, dad,
Adam, Gig, and Jason for all of their love and support.
KEVIN ALAN BROWN (U/S Earthworm & Ladahlord )is a theatre artist based in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University
of Florida with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a minor in Dance. He married his artistic collaborator and college sweetheart Robin
Neveu Brown in 2007. Kevin spent four years being a professional actor in New York City, where he earned his Equity card, performed
in staged readings, fringe festivals, improv shows, and created new works with his wife. He received his MFA from the Shakespeare
Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University in DC. He is also an avid fan of football. Go
Gators! Go Bucs! Kevin uses his training as well as his musical talents to create new works as well as tackle classical and contemporary
theatre. His hope is to be a collaborative teaching artist as well as an actor in the theatre community, while continuing to explore his
literal and figurative marriage of Theatre and Dance.
VALERIE ADAMS RIGSBEE (U/S Spiker & Sponge) is thrilled to make her DC-area debut with Adventure Theatre MTC and this
fantastic Pasek and Paul musical! NATIONAL TOUR: A Christmas Carol; REGIONAL: Guthrie Theatre: Winter’s Tale; Papermill Theatre
Company: Same Time, Next Year, Nunsense, Sound of Music, Love Letters, Hate Mail; Acadia Repertory Theatre: Wait Until Dark, Sherlock
Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Hansel and Gretel, Murder on the Nile, Peter Pantomime; Advice to the Players: Merry Wives
of Windsor (NH Theatre Award Top 3 Finalist), Richard III; Skylark Opera: Merry Widow; Theatre in the Round: Henry V, Much Ado About
Nothing; Theatre Pro Rata: The Spanish Tragedy, The Life of Galileo; Theatre Unbound: Babe: An Olympic Musical, Frankenstein Incarnate;
Joseph Scrimshaw Productions: Stitch, Bitch N’ Die; Fortune’s Fool Theatre: YARRRH! The Pirate Musical; Pomona College: Into the Woods,
Heartbreak House, The Master Builder, Spoonriver Anthology, Mother Courage, Shakuntala. www.actorval.com
BEN LURYE (U/S Grasshopper & Centipede) is excited to return to Adventure Theatre MTC, where he has performed in Five Little
Monkeys, Alexander...Bad Day, and Frog and Toad (HH Nom). DC: Kennedy Center: OLIVERio: A Brazilian Twist, NYE 2013: Music of the
Mad Men Era (w./Cheyenne Jackson, NSO); Signature: Diner, Sweeney Todd, Revenge of the Understudies, Hello, Dolly! (with Ford’s
Theatre, Helen Hayes Award); Rep Stage: The Fantasticks; Olney Theatre: Forever Plaid, Joseph...Dreamcoat; Studio Theatre: Carrie;
UrbanArias: Blue Viola, Craigslist Cabaret, The Good Friar; 1st Stage: Parfumerie; Toby’s: Ragtime, 1776, Les Miserables, Joseph...Dreamcoat.
UPCOMING: Floyd Collins at 1st Stage. EDUCATION: BM in Vocal Performance, University of Maryland, 2009. Love to Mom, Dad, B&Z,
and Izzy. Follow him at www.benlurye.com.
PRODUCTION STAFF
MICHAEL BARON (Director) is the Producing Artistic Director of Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. At Lyric, he directed Bernice Bobs Her Hair,
Big Fish, Oklahoma!, An Inspector Calls, A Little Night Music, Les Miserables, Triangle, Big River, Tarzan, The Glass Menagerie, The Mystery Of
Irma Vep, Call Me Madam, Spring Awakening, Ragtime, Oliver!, Boeing Boeing, Always…Patsy Cline, The Rocky Horror Show, and Lyric’s A
Christmas Carol (also adapted). He has directed over 80 productions at theaters across the country including the current production
of A Christmas Carol at Ford’s. Other directing highlights include Zach Theatre: Peter and The Starcatcher; Signature Theatre: The Little
Dog Laughed, Songs for a New World starring Alice Ripley, Brian D’Arcy James, Titus Burgess and music direction by Jason Robert
Brown; Adventure Theatre MTC: Big Nate, Charlie Brown, Stuart Little; Goodspeed Musicals: Meet John Doe. Training: B.A., Wake Forest
University; MFA, Trinity Rep. Michael served as the Associate Director of Signature Theatre -winner of the 2009 Regional Theatre TONY
Award and received the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction of a Resident Musical for Adventure Theatre’s production
of A Year with Frog And Toad. He is currently on the board of directors for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
AARON MICHAEL BRODERICK (Music Director) has worked at many area theaters as a music director including Olney Theater,
Metro Stage, Keegan Theater, Red Branch Theater Company and Adventure Theater. Previous work at Adventure Theatre MTC includes
Frog and Toad (2012 Best Musical Nom), Spot’s Birthday Party and the Green Play. In 2010, he was nominated for a Helen Hayes award
for outstanding musical direction for Rent at the Keegan Theater. Currently he works as the music director for St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church and freelances throughout the Baltimore/Washington area. Love to JCCC.
RACHEL LEIGH DOLAN (Choreographer) is excited to be back at ATMTC after choreographing Oliver (Helen Hayes Award
Nomination) last summer. Regional choreography credits include: A Year with Frog and Toad at Imagination Stage; Avenue Q at
Constellation Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award Nomination); Kiss Me, Kate at NextStop Theatre Company; Hair and Cabaret
(Helen Hayes Award Nomination) at the Keegan Theatre; and Seussical at Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theatre. Rachel was
the Assistant to the Artistic Director of Encore Theatrical Arts Project, a nonprofit youth performing arts company, from 2007–2012,
assisting nine original dance musical productions. She is currently a faculty member at The Academy at Metropolitan School of the
Arts and guest faculty at Joy of Motion, American University, and Catholic University of America. Upcoming: American Idiot at Keegan
Theatre. www.rachelleighdolan.com.
RACHEL HISHORN (Dialects) is an Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech at Texas Tech University. She previously taught courses
(voice, acting) at UMBC and continues to coach regionally in professional theatre, as well as with private clients (corporate,
government) on presentation skills and dialect modification. Additionally, Rachel is certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice
Voicework ®, an on-camera host, actor, and an active member of both VASTA and AEA. Education: MFA - Acting & Directing, UMKC,
BFA – Acting, UMBC
MICHAEL WINDSOR (Assistant Director) is thrilled to be a part of this incredible peach of a journey! Michael is Co-Producing Artistic
Director of Monumental Theatre Co. where he has directed several shows, cabarets, and readings. Other directing credits include:
Dog Sees God, Seven Menus, and 21A. Regionally Michael has performed with Imagination Stage, Infinity Theatre, and Annapolis
Shakespeare. Michael graduated from Salisbury University with a BA in Theatre. Special thanks to Michael Baron and Michael Bobbitt
(...so many Michaels), everyone at Adventure, and this incredible cast and crew. Enjoy the show!
KATIE SULLIVAN (Scenic Designer) is a third-year scenic design MFA candidate at the University of Maryland. Productions: James and
the Giant Peach (ATMTC), One in the Chamber –DC (Scenic Designer). Penn and Teller in Vegas, Penn and Teller on Broadway, Signature
Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Washington National Opera, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre, Studio Theatre,
Roundhouse Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Adventure Theatre Musical Theater Center, The Muny, and Milwaukee Rep. (Scenic
assistant). UMD Productions: Good Kids, Spring 2016 Dance Thesis, Fall 2014 Dance Thesis, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Katie would like
to thank her mentors and fellow collaborators.
JEFFREY MEEK (Costume Designer) has been the Resident Costume Designer for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma for 16 years. Jeffrey has
worked with The Point Theatre, Jewel Box Theatre, The Eastman School of Music, Colossal Studios, Reduxion Theatre Company and
Carpenter Square Theatre. He served nine years as Principal Costumer for The Ohio Light Opera and has designed A Very Merry Pops
for the past 12 seasons with The Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Jeffrey has designed A Christmas Carol, The Musical, Annie and Disney’s
High School Musical for Casa Mañana Theatre. Jeffrey served as costumer for Tulsa Opera and designed for Wichita productions of
Swing!, I Do, I Do and the world premiere of Are We There Yet? with Stage One. His work can be seen in the feature films: Pearl Carter
Scott, Fingerprints, and Agenda.
ANDREA “DRE” MOORE (Properties & Puppets Designer) has made theatrical properties her career for 13 years and has been a
theatre technician for more years than she cares to admit. Adventure Theatre MTC credits include A Lump of Coal for Christmas, Caps
for Sale, OLIVER! The Musical, Garfield The Musical with Cattitude, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Petite Rouge , Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol,
Stuart Little, Pinkalicious, Miss Nelson is Missing, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Goodnight Moon, Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat, Big Nate, Three
Little Birds, Winnie the Pooh, A Little House Christmas, Big, The Musical-TYA, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, The Snowy Day, Lilly’s Purple
Plastic Purse (both of them!) and many, many, many more. Her work has also graced the stages of Round House Theatre, Theatre J,
Rorschach Theatre, Imagination Stage, Olney Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and Rep Stage. She also helps to train our future designers
and craftspeople at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park.
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ROB SILER (Lighting Designer) is happy to be making his Adventure Theatre MTC debut. Originally from Washington, D.C., his
work encompasses musicals, plays, children’s theatre, and dance. Across the country, his designs have been seen at the University
of Maryland, Weathervane Repertory Theatre, Ocean State Theatre Company, Riverside Theatre, Ballet Vero Beach, Fusion Dance,
American Ensemble Theatre, and Riverside Children’s Theatre, among others. He received his BFA from Shenandoah University and
is currently working on his MFA at the University of Maryland. Thanks and love to his family, friends, and especially his wife, Colleen.
www.silerlights.com.
MATT OTTO (Sound Designer) Recent design credits are Living Room Series: Immigration for Leviathan Theatre Company (NYC),
Filipino Gold produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company (NYC), Love of the Nightingale produced by The Atlantic Conservatory (NYC),
Exposure produced by Next In Line Productions (NYC). Pavilion for the Barrow Group (NYC), King Lear for Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC),
The Off Broadway Production of The Fatal Eggs for Fractured Atlas (NYC), Hi Hitler at 59e59 (NYC) and The Edinburgh Fringe (SCT),
Square Peg Round Hole for Tectonic Theatre Project (NYC), and Bright Room Called Day for Columbia University (NYC). Other regional
credits include, Merrily We Roll Along for the Yale Dramatic (CT), Beast on the Moon at Worcester State University (MA), Lifetime to
Master for Generator Theatre (AK), In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) at Brown/Trinity Rep (RI), Stones in His Pockets at Yale Rep (CT),
and Johnny Meister and the Stitch with Solas Nua (DC), which earned Matt a Helen Hayes nomination in Outstanding Sound Design.
Matt received his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. For more of Matt’s work please head to his
website www.mattotto.co
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ELLISON ROBERTS (Stage Manager) is proud to be the Production Associate at Adventure Theatre MTC. She has previously stage
managed A Lump of Coal for Christmas and Oliver! The Musical at ATMTC. Local credits as an Assistant Stage Manager include: The Fire
and The Rain, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Constellation Theatre Company); Diner (Signature Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi, and
The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting); Glassheart (Rorschach Theatre). Ellison received
her BA in Theater and Performance Studies from Georgetown University and is a lifetime member of the Mask and Bauble Dramatic
Society. Congrats to this wonderful cast and artistic team!
APRIL CARTER (Assistant Stage Manager) is so excited to be apart of her first show here at ATMTC. A few of her credits include
Avenue Q at Constellation Theatre, Flower’s Stink at the Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences/US Botanic Garden, Bessie’s
Blues, A Broadway Christmas Carol and Three Sistah’s at Metro Stage. National tours include Fabric of A Man, and If This Hat Could Talk.
With a B.F.A. in Theatre/Musical Theatre from Howard University, April has also performed in such regional shows as Ragtime, West
Side Story, Jelly’s Last Jam and Once On This Island just to name a few. Thanks to this awesome cast and crew! Dedicated to the late
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