110 Stories Design crew

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Makeup Designer
Naya Romero
is a Junior at Empire High School who is in the Tech 3 class. She has been in theatre for 3 years and has been involved in Page to Stage and Greek Olympiaganza. This is her first year creating ideas for makeup and she’s excited to come up with creative looks. Naya is a part of the International Thespian Society and got inducted while she was in Drama 2. She’s decided to see what goes on behind the scenes and is extremely excited to be on the makeup designing team this year and for a couple more years to come.
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Lighting Designer
Brooke LeRoy
is a Junior at Empire High School and has taken theatre/tech classes all three years she’s attended. Brooke is an official theatre officer at Empire, as well as a member of the International Thespian Society. School is her main outlet to express her love of theatre, but she’s also employed at the Vail Theatre of the Arts where she’s learning more about the technical aspects. Her high school performances have included Page to Stage, Greek Mythology Olympiaganza as Prometheus, and now 110 Stories as Lillian. She’s excited to continue being a part of Empire’s theatre family for the coming years and grow as an actress and designer.
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sound designer
Mikayla Mendoza
Mikayla is a senior at Empire Highschool. This is her second year in Drama 3 and her first year in Tech 3. Through her time in the Empire Theatre Department, she has acted in Radium Girls as Irene Rudolph, the 24 hr play Fest, Socially Distant Social Media Triple Threat One Act Extravaganza (#IFeel as Sam), and Mad Mac as Caithness and chorus. Tech wise she has been a part of makeup crew for The Drowsy Chaperone and did spotlight operation for A Chorus Line. She is very excited to be participating in 110 Stories and hopes to bring a well thought out and well executed character to the audience.
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Set Designer
Alexander Yee
is a senior at Empire High School. This is his first year in Tech 3 and first being directly involved with one of the productions here at Empire. He’s very excited to help make the show come to life.
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Light Designer
Catelyn Warren
is a Junior at Empire High School. She is enrolled in Tech 3 and is eager to be more involved in the technical elements of the show. They have helped put together sets of previous shows, including Mad Mac, Trap, Radium Girls, and more. They are excited to work on designing lights and other aspects of the show.
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Set Designer
Fed Nicolary
Is a junior at Empire. Trained and entered in the Tech Theatre Department in 2019, while a rookie in the department, he is willing to contribute and share ideas to everyone he works with.
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Set Designer
Connor Carney
is a senior and has been a part of the Empire Theatre Program since he was a freshman. He has been involved in both acting and tech throughout high school and has loved being a part of the troupe. Some shows that he has previously designed for are the Socially Distanced Social Media Triple-Threat One-Actstraviganza, A Chorus Line and Mad Mac. He has also played various roles in shows and musicals such as Bobby in A Chorus Line, The Porter in Mad Mac, Tyler in iFeel and Tom in Radium Girls. Connor’s favorite part of theatre is forming a family and watching all of our shows come to life, so he is very excited for this upcoming year and to be able to finally perform for an audience again and to be able to see all of the technical elements in action!
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Props Designer
Emily Knoepfle
has been involved in technical theatre for the past three years. They've worked as crew for Nutcracker by Ballet Rincon, and more specifically worked with the props master of that production. They are currently a senior at Empire High School and have taken theatre related classes for all four of their years there. Knoepfle maintains interest in theatre outside of school, and hopes to keep that interest moving forward.
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publicity designer
josh hopkins
is a junior in empire high school he is in his third year of tech and plans to keep moving forward with publicity and website design
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publicity designer
Elizabeth Lonsway
junior at Empire, has been a part of Empire theater department since freshman year and has done theater since middle school. Performed in Page to Stage, Olympiaganza, and A Chorus Line. She is also our publicity designer for 110 Stories and will be playing Glenn.
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props
Riley Peek
has been in technical theatre for the past 3 years. She’s been doing theatre related stuff since 5th grade. She’s a junior at Empire High School and has been in theatre classes here since freshman year. She played Ariel in the 5th grade play Retelling the Little Mermaid, but was unable to continue theatre in middle school.
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Sound Designer
Dayna Bustamante
This is Dayna’s 2nd year in Drama 3, and first year in tech 3. Dayna is a senior and this is her 4th year in the theatre department. You may have seen her in Radium Girls as Madame Marie Curie, The Socially Distant Social Media One Artstravaganza as Jayna and Spokesperson, and Mad Mac as Sergeant, Second Apparition and Chorus and now 110 Stories as Paul Adams. She is also co-designing the sound for 110 Stories and was a spotlight operator for A Chorus Line. She is so excited to be apart of this show, she is honored to be portraying a real life hero. She is also really looking forward to Puffs.
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Costume
Mykaela Elliott
is a junior at Empire and has been in theater since freshman year. They are also in technical theater. Her first show was Drowsy Chaperone and she also did Greek Mythology Olympiaganza. They were one of the playwrights for a show in Page to Stage: Volume 10… again. She also helped plan out the costumes for 110 Stories.
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Costume Designer
Sophie Bartholomew-Gonzalez
is a Junior and she is enrolled in Advanced Drama and Tech 3. She has been involved in lots of shows at Empire High School including 24 Hour Play Festival, The Drowsy Chaperone, Greek Mythology Olympiaganza, A Chorus Line and Page to Stage. This will be her third year participating in Empire’s theatre department as an actress and her first year designing a tech element for a show. Sophie is currently an inducted member in the International Thespian Society and she loves to act and contribute to productions. She’s very excited to be involved in the theatre department at Empire for the next two years.
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Costume Designer
Darby Cech
is a senior at Empire High School and is in her fourth year of drama. She is also the theatre department treasurer. She has been part of many productions including Radium Girls as Sob Sister, The Drowsy Chaperone and Mad Mac. She is in her third year of tech and is designing costumes for a couple of the department’s shows. She is very excited for the upcoming shows and hopes to perform on stage in front of a live audience.
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Director
Richard Gremel
is in his 14th year of teaching acting and technical theatre at Empire High School. Gremel is a graduate of the University of Arizona, where he recieved his BFA in Theatre Education. Gremel has been named Arizona Thespians Teacher of the Year, Circle K Outstanding High School Faculty, and OnMedia Tucson Arts Hero. Aside from teaching, Gremel is a published playwright and has had his plays performed all over the world.