Grease: School Version Creative

Director

Sadie Andros

Sadie Andros is the theatre teacher and director at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, DE. She graduated with an honors degree from Vanderbilt University, where she double-majored in Theatre and English. In addition, she has studied Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She has a Masters of Arts in Theatre Education. In her five years directing at Cape she has put on many productions including: The Sound of Music, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Little Mermaid, Eurydice, and Mamma Mia. As an actress, some of her favorite past roles include Mary (The Women), Izzy (Rabbit Hole), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Aphrodite/Psyche (Metamorphoses), Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Susie (WIT), and Bluebell in the regional premiere of Skinless. She has also partnered with the Lewes Shakespeare Festival to launch an educational program for high school students, and is currently developing a young actors' troupe that will facilitate the development of new work in partnership with the Lewes Library and Spoken Word Festival.

Musical Director

Marian Sunnergren

Marian Sunnergren is thrilled to be the musical director for another season at Cape Henlopen High School. She most recently performed as Marian in THE MUSIC MAN, Ester in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and Guenevere in CAMELOT, and as a member of the ensemble in SHE LOVES ME. Favorite roles include Despina in COSI FAN TUTTE, Anne in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and the Barrymore nominated ensemble of CANDIDE with the Arden Theatre Company. She holds her Bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College and Master’s degree from Westminster Choir College in voice performance and pedagogy. Marian teaches piano and chorus at Cape Henlopen High School, is a teaching artist with Clear Space, and keeps a private voice and piano studio.

Technical Director

Josh Dickson

Josh Dickson is our Carpentry teacher here at Cape Henlopen High School. He enjoys helping students develop a passion for the trade, as well as building his own home, spending time with his two daughters, fishing, water skiing, and sitting by the campfire. He has worked on several theatrical sets, including but not limited to: Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Puffs.

Choreographer

Kelci Atkins

Kelci Atkins, a 10th grade economics teacher at Cape, has long been involved in the performing arts. A dancer since age 5, Kelci trained at Sussex Dance Academy during middle & high school, and Mid-Atlantic Ballet Academy during her college years. At the University of Delaware, Kelci was a member of the Delaware Repertory Dance Company, with a focus on choreography and performance. She has been a teacher at Sussex Dance Academy for 12 years, focusing on classical ballet. She also serves as CHHS's dance team coach, focusing on jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop. This is her second musical to choreography since choreographing Cape's 2020 musical, Mamma Mia.

Pit Conductor

Kait Kresse

Kaitlin Kresse is in her fifth year teaching elementary general music in the Cape family. She has directed the High School drum line for the past five years and is excited to officially direct her first pit orchestra!

Original Creative Team

Warren Casey: Warren Casey was born in Yonkers, New York, and attended Syracuse University. During the late ‘50s, he learned all about “greasers” while working as an art teacher in upstate New York. He moved to Chicago in 1962, where he hoped to pursue an acting career. He supported himself with jobs in retail, including working as an assistant manager of a chain of apparel stores, and as a record salesman. In the meantime, he taught himself how to play the guitar and began writing songs. Mr. Casey acted with the Chicago Stage Guild (where he met Jim Jacobs), the Old Town Players, and the Kinston Mines Theatre. The latter company staged the original production of Grease, which he wrote with Jim Jacobs. After the incredible success of both the musical and the movie, the two collaborated on Island of Lost Coeds, a musical satire of the B-movies of the 1950s. Mr. Casey died in 1988.

Jim Jacobs: Jim Jacobs created Grease (in 1970) with Warren Casey, was born and raised on the mean streets of Chicago’s far northwest side. During the golden era of rock ‘n’ roll (1956-1960) he was a guitar-playing “greaser” student at Taft High School. In 1963, Jacobs met Warren Casey when they were both cast in a local theatre production of A Shot in the Dark. Seven years later they wrote what was to become one of the greatest musicals of all time. Grease opened in 1971 in a former trolley barn called the Kingston Mines Theatre in Chicago. A year later, Grease made it to Broadway and “Greasemania” took off, resulting in one of the longest running shows in Broadway history. The 1978 movie became and remains the highest-grossing movie musical of all time. Originally an actor, Jacobs has been seen on television, in motion pictures, regional theatre, national tours, and on Broadway. He is the co-author of several other plays and musicals including Island of Lost Coeds, a musical spoof of the low budget sci-fi/horror/jungle movies of the 1950s, which he wrote with Warren Casey. In May 2014, Mr. Jacobs was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Columbia College in Chicago. He currently resides in Southern California and remains active in the theatre, especially with the American Theatre Company of Chicago.