Company Profiles

(2008 Company Coming Soon)

Kyle Adams	Kyle is pleased and excited to make his debut at The Little Theatre On The Square. Kyle comes to Sullivan from Rockford, Illinois where he will be a senior Musical Theatre major at Rockford College. At Rockford he has enjoyed roles in many main stage shows with some favorites including: The Spitfire Grill as Caleb Thorpe, Into the Woods as Cinderella's Prince/Wolf and in Grease as Kenickie. Kyle also directed and appeared in the original sketch comedy show, Fart's Aren't Funny. Kyle has spent the past five summers at Starlight Theatre in Rockford, appearing most notably in Ragtime as Mother's Younger Brother and in Geppetto and Son as Prof. Buonragazzo. Regional credits: Rabbit Hole as Jason. He thanks everyone here for the opportunity, all of his parents, and Amanda.
Jesse Barfield	Jesse is elated to be in Sullivan working at The Little Theatre On The Square for their summer season! This is a change from last summer, performing at Cedar Point Amusement Park. Recently he appeared in A Chorus Line (directed by: KD Smith), Snakebit, My Favorite Year, Two Rooms, as well as part of the Dance Ensemble in the past three Dance Concerts at Millikin University. He will be graduating from Millikin University in December of this year.
LoriAnn Freeda	LoriAnn comes to The Little Theatre straight from the National Tour of Gypsy performing the roles of Tessie Tura & Miss Cratchitt. She has really enjoyed touring the last 8 months, but also loves performing in regional theatres across the country. Some of her favorite roles include Lilly McBain in Swingtime Canteen, Cookie Cusak in Rumors (Show Palace, FL), Norma Cassidy in Victor Victoria, Hedy LaRue in How To Succeed In Business... ( Naples Dinner Theatre, FL), and Miss Adelaide in Guys & Dolls (Broadway Palm West, AZ). This fall she will be playing the role of Gladys in the National Tour of The Pajama Game. When she's not off performing, she resides in New Jersey. LoriAnn is very excited to be spending the summer here in Sullivan at The Little Theatre! Much love & thanks to her family and friends!!!
James Lee Glatz	James Lee recently completed his junior year at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where he is pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre. At CCM, he has appeared as Frank Lippencott in Wonderful Town, Skeets Miller in Floyd Collins, and as part of the ensemble in The Pajama Game, The Cradle Will Rock, Passion, Thou Shalt Survive, and The Magical Music Of Disney presented alongside the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Other favorite roles include The Tinman in The Wizard Of Oz and Proteus in Two Gentlemen Of Verona at the Interlochen Arts Center. James Lee is thrilled to be part of Little Theatre’s exciting season and looks forward to his summer here in Sullivan.
Michael Haws*	Michael is excited to be back here at The Little Theatre to start its next 50 years of theatre. Since last summer, Michael has performed at The Fireside in Wisconsin and Beef & Boards in Indianapolis. Living in Chicago, Michael has performed for Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane E.P., and Light Opera Works. Favorite regional roles include: Will in Will Rogers Follies, Cervantes in Man of La Mancha, Koko in Hot Mikado, Michael in I Do! I Do!, Kringelein in Grand Hotel, Rev. Shaw in Footloose and Jacob in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Michael is Associate Artistic Director here at The Little Theatre.
Eleni Kanalos	Eleni is extremely excited to be making her debut with The Little Theatre On The Square in such an amazing season. Recent credits include the world premier of Knute Rockne All-American, A Musical at Theatre at the Center and Oklahoma! with Light Opera Works. Entering her senior year at Columbia College as a Liberace Scholar, she has appeared in West Side Story, Urinetown, The Apple Tree, and Ragtime. She would like to thank her family for their endless support and for Marcus: Sagapo.
Glory Kissel*	Glory is thrilled to return to The Little Theatre On The Square for her third summer. She has just returned from the Fireside Theatre in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where she played Mrs. Harcourt in Anything Goes. Before that she finished 450 performances of Shear Madness at the Chicago Theatre. She has been seen in Mary Zimmerman’s production of Pericles at the Goodman, in Over the River and Through The Woods, in Ravinia’s Anyone Can Whistle and many others. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Thanks to my wonderful family, Seth, Guy and the wonderful staff and people of Sullivan!!
Lizzie Klemperer	Lizzie is thrilled to be making her debut with The Little Theatre On The Square in the 2008 Summer Season. Previous roles include Julie Jordan in Carousel, Susan Wilkes in Big River, Jackie Kennedy in First Lady Suite and The Housewife in Assassins all at the University of Michigan where she will be a senior next fall. Other roles include First Spirit in The Magic Flute with the Syracuse Opera Company and Nanette in No, No, Nanette at the Talent Company in Syracuse, New York. She would like to thank her wonderful family for their continued support and of course, the Michigan class of 2009!
Joe Lehman*	Joe is thrilled to be joining the company of Cabaret at Little Theatre On The Square for the first time. He comes most recently from finding out What Every Woman Knows, the James Barrie play at Shaw Chicago. Some of his other Chicago area credits include Freddy in My Fair Lady with Drury Lane Oakbrook, Orlando in First Folio’s As You Like It, Matt in The Fantasticks! at Light Opera Works, Frog in A Year with Frog and Toad at Illinois Theatre Center, and Stephen in the extension of Old Wicked Songs with Apple Tree Theatre. Regionally he has worked with Jewish Ensemble Theatre, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, The Human Race Theatre, New American Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre and Classical Kids Live! among others.
Ben Martin	Ben is thrilled to be a part of The Little Theatre On The Square's Summer Season. He was last seen in the Broadway Palm's production of Hello, Dolly! as a waiter (and glockenspiel player). Previous credits include North Shore Music Theatre's production of Disney's High School Musical, New London Barn Playhouse: Grease (Eugene), La Cage Aux Folles (Phaedra) and Camelot (Sagramore). Ben received a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College in Boston where some of his favorite productions included Hair (Claude), Grease (Doody), Edges (Man 1), Little Fish (Marco) and Hello Again (The Writer). Many thanks to Seth, friends, Mom and Dad and to God.
Jennifer Noble	Jennifer is a sophomore Music Theatre major at Baldwin Wallace College and is thrilled to be performing at The Little Theatre! She is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was a Dance and Music Theatre major at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. Some of her favorite roles include the understudy to Christine Daae in the non-union premiere of Phantom of the Opera at Baldwin Wallace College. Also, Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Evelyn in Ragtime, Cinderella in Into The Woods and featured dancer in Evita with Natalie Toro and the Kentucky Symphony. She also studied dance at Orlando Ballet and the Edge Performing Arts Center in West Hollywood. She thanks Mom, Dad, Zach, and her friends at BW for all their love and support!
Joseph Rosko	Joseph is happy to be making his TLTOTS debut this summer. He is from Canfield, Ohio and currently attends school at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach where he is studying Musical Theatre. Joseph also plays linebacker on the Coastal Carolina Chanticleer football team. Credits include: Curly in Oklahoma!, Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Marius in Les Miz, Frankie in Forever Plaid, the Baker in Into the Woods, Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods, Tommy in Brigadoon, Duke in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Vittorio Vidal in Sweet Charity, Lank Hawkins in Crazy for You, Fyedka in Fiddler on the Roof and Lyle in Footloose. Thanks to God, la famiglia, BB, DB, and Kelly Scurich. Proverbs 3:5-6
Ashley Rubin	Ashley is thrilled to be making her debut at Little Theatre On the Square after recently returning from Prather Entertainment Group’s wildly successful run of Anything Goes! She received a BA in Theater with a minor in Dance from the U of Arizona. Some of her favorite roles include Judy in A Chorus Line, Hot Box/Havana Dancer in Guys and Dolls and Student in Carrie, The Musical. Ashley is an Assistant Rockette for The Rockette Experience at Radio City Music Hall, and currently also dances at Walt Disney World. Ashley would like to thank her Mom, Dad, and Camer for all of their love and support.
Eddie Schnecker*	Eddie is thrilled to return to The Little Theatre On The Square where he played Cornelius in Hello, Dolly! as well as The Mayor of Whoville in Seussical. He recently completed a run of Anything Goes as Billy Crocker and last year toured the country in Man of La Mancha. In 2006 he was awarded an Arizoni Award for playing Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl. Other favorite roles include Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street and Lt. Cable in South Pacific, starring Liz Callaway and George Hearn. He is incredibly grateful to his family and friends for their unbelievable love and support.
Blakely Slaybaugh	Blakely is a rising senior in the BFA Musical Theater Program at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He has been working professionally since the age of ten in professional productions at regional theaters across the country. CCM credits include: Emcee in Cabaret, Dr. Tambourri in Passion, Appopolous in Wonderful Town, Pirates of Penzance, Pajama Game, Godspell and the nationally televised Take Me to the River with the Cincinnati POPS. While in “Cincy” Blakely co-created a show called (UN)Natural Disaster for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, winning two Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, one of which beat the Pre-Broadway run of John Doyle’s Company starring Raul Esparza. Blakely also served as Dance Captain for the premier production of Sleeping Beauty written by Paul Blake who is responsible for writing the national touring production of White Christmas. Other credits include Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, five years as the Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker with the Miami City Ballet, Bill in Kiss Me Kate, Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line, Metamorphoses, Songs for a New World, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and many other professional productions. www.BlakelySlaybaugh.com
Kelli Stryker	Kelli is thrilled to be making her debut at The Little Theatre On The Square! Regional credits include Kiss Me Kate (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Miss Dorothy Brown in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Sister Leo in Nunsense (McLeod Summer Playhouse), Martha in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun (Zilker Hillside Theatre), Texas in Cabaret (Zachary Scott Theatre), The Wizard of Oz and several other shows with Austin Musical Theatre. Kelli has just recently graduated from Webster University’s Conservatory of Fine Arts and plans to move to New York at the end of August. She would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support.
Travis Taylor	Travis Taylor is happy to be making his debut at The Little Theatre On The Square for their 2008 Summer Season. He was recently seen in Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party and Starting Here Starting Now at Chicago College of performing arts, where he will be a junior next fall. He would like to thank everyone at The Little Theatre On The Square for making this opportunity possible, the community of Sullivan for their annual support and contribution to such a great Theatre, and his loving and supportive family!
Tim Moore Technical Director	Tim is thrilled to be back for his second season. He comes to The Little Theatre On The Square from St. Louis, Missouri’s esteemed Webster University’s Conservatory. He brings to The Little Theatre On The Square experience with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Festival 56 of Princeton, IL, as well as technical direction experience from Southwestern Illinois College and also from The Conservatory at Webster University. Along the way, between the many different aspects of theatre, Tim has absorbed a wealth of knowledge and understanding. Tim, 24, currently resides with his family in Marine, IL. He loves the time he spends with his young daughter Emily and in his spare time he enjoys playing the Mandolin and Guitar with his family’s Bluegrass Band. Tim plans to graduate from Webster University in the Spring of 2009 and is presently looking at several graduate schools.
Shawn Pryby Production Manager	Shawn returns to The Little Theatre On The Square as Production Manager. This past year, Shawn directed A Christmas Carol and The Honky Tonk Angels at The Little Theatre. Directing credits include: Baby, I Do! I Do!, Love Letters, The Sound Of Music, Guys & Dolls, South Pacific, Once Upon a Mattress, SALUTE! A Tribute to America’s USO, and Tommy Tune’s 60ish Birthday Celebration. Management credits include- Regionally: HATS! Starring Grammy Award Winner Melissa Manchester, 110 in the Shade, A Little Night Music, 42nd Street, Shear Madness, Oil City Symphony, Forever Plaid, Smoke on the Mountain, Plaid Tidings. Nationally: Hello, Dolly! Starring the legendary Carol Channing, The Pointer Sisters’ Ain’t Misbehavin’, Jesus Christ Superstar Starring Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson, She Loves Me, Man of La Mancha, Once On This Island, Steel Magnolias.
Stacy Walker Company Manager	Stacy is thrilled to be back for her 6th consecutive Summer at The Little Theatre On The Square! During the school-year she also serves as the Education Director at The Little Theatre On The Square and Director of the S.T.A.R. Touring program. Stacy has a B.F.A. in Theatre from Emporia State University in Emporia, KS. She worked for three years as Artistic Director of KidsMatter National Theatre, Inc. in Monticello, IL. Stacy has also worked at Utah Musical Theatre, Parkland College Theatre, The Station Theatre and with Champaign Urbana Theatre Company. Having the opportunity to share her passion for theatre with the stars of yesterday, today and tomorrow is truly a gift she doesn’t take for granted! She feels fortunate to be working with, supported by and related to an amazing bunch of people who enrich every day of her life—love and thanks to you all!
Mark Hueske Lighting Designer	Mark is excited to make his debut at The Little Theatre On The Square this season. Past credits include: Go, Dog, Go! (The Metro Theatre Company); The Spitfire Grill, Tartuffe, Bat Boy: The Musical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Webster Conservatory); Wipe choreographed by Eddy Ocampo; and many other dance concerts around the St. Louis metro area. Graduate of Webster University. Mark also has a diverse lighting background including theatre, amusement parks, rock concerts, dance, and film.
David Scobbie Sound Designer	David is pleased to be joining us for his third year here at The Little Theatre On The Square as Sound Designer. He comes to us from St. Louis, Missouri where he is attending Webster University’s Conservatory and pursuing a BFA in Technical Theatre with an emphasis in sound design. He also works for Entertainment Technology Group where he has worked for seven years doing shows with Ralph Butler Band and other various groups. Some of his favorite shows he has done here at The Little Theatre On The Square include Follies, Godspell, The Full Monty, Hairspray and Smoke On The Mountain. He would like to thank his family for all their love and support. Enjoy the show!
John P. White Costume Desigener	John P. White is excited to be returning to Sullivan and The Little Theatre On The Square. At TLTOTS: La Cage Aux Folles, The Full Monty, Chicago, Honk, Mame, The Lion in Winter, Victor/Victoria, Jekyll and Hyde, Christmas Carol, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie, Music Man, Oliver, Christmas from the Heart and Nuncrackers. Currently, John is the National Costume Designer for the Prather Family of Theatres. Prior to that, he was the resident costume designer for Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, IN. He has also designed costumes for Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY), Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, VA), Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre (Lancaster, PA), Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre (Naples, FL), Broadway Palm West (Mesa, AZ), and Music Theatre Louisville.
Sarah Stark Costume Designer	Sarah is proud to be returning for her second season at The Little Theatre On The Square. After receiving her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Univeristy of Florida, Ms. Stark worked with Lancome Cosmetics as well as designing for various Orlando, Florida dance companies. Productions she’s been involved with include Once On This Island, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Ohio State Murders, Beauty & The Beast and Anything Goes. Her personal favorite was designing and building the coat from TLTOTS’ 2005 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Love and gratitude to Masha and Poppa. She would like to thank Rachael, Heather and Aryna. “I couldn’t ask for a better team!”
Noel Rennerfeldt Scenic Designer	Noel is back at Little Theatre after designing two shows last summer (The Sound Of Music and La Cage Aux Folles). This summer Noel will be designing Guys and Dolls and Cabaret. Noel is professor of scenic and lighting design at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois. Noel would like to thank Sahin Sahinoglu of Northern Illinois University for the Guys and Dolls inspiration. He would also like to thank his youngest daughter Piper, who hates it when he leaves.
Carl L. Sage Properties Designer	Carl is very happy to be returning for his fourth season here at TLTOTS. A self described “theatrical generalist”, he most recently served as Touring Stage Manager/Technician/Scenic Designer for the 2007-2008 S.T.A.R. program touring production of Honest Abe! Other previous theatrical adventures include scenic carpentry at The Shakespeare Theatre Of New Jersey, The Virginia Stage Company and The Orlando Shakespeare Festival; lighting design at the Armory Free Theatre in Urbana, IL and Greasepaint Youth-Theatre in Scottsdale, AZ; full time work as a theatrical technician at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Miki McCoy* Production Stage Manager	Miki is thrilled to be back in Sullivan after a 7 year hiatus. Now based out of New York, her recent credits include: 100 Saints You Should Know, Playwrights Horizons; In This Corner (staged reading), The Old Globe; The Three Musketeers, Macbeth, and For Services Rendered (staged reading), The Acting Company; The Just, The Art of Coarse Acting, and 100 Saints You Should Know (staged reading), Chautauqua Theater Company; A Body of Water, Freezing Paradise: An Evening with Kevin Kline, The Sex Habits of American Women, Othello, and The Stuff of Dreams, The Guthrie Theater; The Snow Queen, The Beggars’ Strike, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Mississippi Panorama, The Children’s Theater (Minneapolis), The Seagull at Classic Stage Company (off-broadway) starring Alan Cumming and Dianne Weist, and A Christmas Carol at The Little Theatre On The Square.
Darren Server Musical Director	Darren was born into a family of stooges; literally, The Three Stooges. His inspiration has always been his grandfather “Curly” Howard and his great-uncles, Moe and Shemp. Darren began singing and playing the piano at the age of ten and has never stopped. It was after a year of performing the role of “Oscar” in the Broadway national tour of 42nd Street that Darren decided to move to New York City. Musical directing and playing piano for NYU’s CAP21 was his first gig in the city. This past season he music directed The Taffetas, Oklahoma!, Always, Patsy Cline, Stand By Your Man, and also played the role of Smudge in Forever Plaid at Totem Pole Playhouse in PA. Darren is very excited to be back working at The Little Theatre On The Square again after serving as the Musical Director for A Christmas Carol last December.

 

 

 

*Actors' Equity Association was founded in 1913 to protect Actors from severe mistreatment that permeated the industry at that time. Since its inception, Equity has had only eleven Presidents. Its current President is Ron Silver. The 39,000 member Association consists of distinguished stars and other professional Actors and Stage Managers who work nationwide, from New York's Broadway to Los Angeles, from Minneapolis to Miami Beach, in regional, stock and dinner theatre, and in theatres for young audiences which build audiences of tomorrow. These Actors and Stage Managers are committed to working in the theatre as a profession, not an avocation, and bring to you the finest professional training and experience. By presenting Equity productions, this theatre offers to you, our audience, the best entertainment presented by the finest quality Actors and Stage Managers that your admission dollars can buy.