The Rocky Horror Show Creative

Director

Stevie Keck

Stevie Keck can often be seen as his drag king alter ego Stevie Phoenix around Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, and more! Stevie has been on stage since he was 3, dancing, acting, in plays and playing music. He is also the founder of Fremont Ohio Pride, a nonprofit that supports and advocates for the queer community of his hometown, Fremont, OH.

Music Director

Allison Rader

Allison is thrilled to be working with Black Swamp players for the first time. Most recently, Allison served as co-music director and choreographer of The Claw with Perrysburg Musical Theatre Company. She has also music-directed A New Brain, Newsies, The Show Must Go Online, The Grunch, and a Children’s Summer Camp with PMT. In addition, Allison has served as Director and Music Director for Perrysburg Youth Summer Theatre and conducted with The Toledo Rep and Horizon Youth Theatre. On the stage, Allison has played a customer in She Loves Me with Waterville Playshop and Sister Sophia in Epiphany Player’s The Sound of Music. Allison is a K-6 Music Teacher and teaches private voice lessons in her spare time. Allison would like to thank Black Swamp Players for this opportunity.

Choreographer

Bridget Drew

Bridget Drew (Choreographer) has previously choreographed Aladdin Jr (Ram Drama Team), The Little Mermaid (OCT), Chess (Toledo Rep), and My Son Pinocchio (OCT). While she enjoys being a part of the production team, her true love is performing.Past/favorite credits: Noises Off (Brooke/Vicki - OCT), Seussical (Gertrude - Epiphany Players), Drowsy Chaperone (Janet Van der Graaff - Black Swamp Players; Kitty - Louisville, KY; Ensemble - Toledo Rep), Avenue Q (Bad Idea Bear - Columbus, OH), Hairspray (Tracy; Croswell Opera House), The Music Man (Zaneeta Shinn - OCT). “Stevie and the cast, I appreciate your diligent efforts in mastering the dances within the limited rehearsal time available. Sam, thank you for reaching out to get me involved, and to the audience, thank you for your unwavering support of community theater. Lastly, I want to express my deepest gratitude to my husband, Damon, for always backing my passion for the stage.”

Stage Manager

Harley Partlow

Harley Partlow is an incoming second year at Bowling Green State University, studying Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They have participated in multiple productions with Black Swamp Players, including The Music Man, Clue: The Musical, The Secret Garden, and Marjorie Prime. They have also worked extensively with Horizon Youth Theater in the past, and have been seen on stage in shows such as Godspell and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Outside of the theater, you can find Harley participating as a member of the BGSU choral group Volaré. They are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to stage manage for this production and hope that you enjoy the show!

Director's Note

Every Saturday night since 1977, people have donned corsets, ripped fishnets, maid costumes, and gold underwear to come together with a group of strangers to chant, sing, and throw hotdogs at a screen. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the film version of The Rocky Horror Show) is not only a cult classic, it is so much more.

It is single-handedly responsible for keeping small theatres and cinemas open. It heavily influenced the punk movement in England. It gave queer representation in a time where there was none to be seen. It is campy, silly, over-the-top, with incredibly catchy music. But more than all of that, it provides people with what we need the most.

Community.

Rocky Horror brings people together. Whether audience members come to celebrate gender-fluidity and pansexuality, or to identify with the outcasts because we all know what it’s like to be ostracized. Whether you come because you like to sing along or shout the callbacks. Maybe you’re here because you know it’s safe for you to dress the way you want. Maybe you’re here to be you. Or maybe someone dragged you along one day and for some unknown reason you too, were hit by the bug. Maybe someone dragged you along today.

No matter the reason that brought you, for the next two hours you are a part of a community. You are among people having the same immersive experience, shouting the same “asshole!” and “slut!” to the stage as you are, singing the same songs, taking that same step to the right, celebrating and loving the same campy, silly, over-the-top show. You are with your people.

I am so incredibly proud of every single person in this production. Not only are they all incredibly passionate and talented, they are equally lovely people. And I think the chemistry on stage speaks to the friendships they’ve forged in the fires of this show.

Rocky Horror brings people together.

Thank you for joining our community tonight.

Stevie