Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Creative

Producer / Director

Terri Klopp

Terri is a founding member of FPFATA and has directed all of our shows for the past 15 years! She would like to thank the other 15 year members for sticking around all this time and the newer members for helping keep community theatre alive and well in Fairview Park.

Assistant Director

Sarah Christensen

Asst direct: Newsies. Choreo: Newsies, Music Man, & more w/FPFATA, BYU Folk Dance, Harp Irish Dance. Roles: too many to fit! Sarah loves doing whatever's needed during FPFATA shows & making goofy faces to the cast backstage to keep things exciting. Thanks to Cat & Molly for lifting what I couldn't carry; I couldn't have done this show without you.

Music Director

Joel McDaniel

Joel is an active music director, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and director in the Northeast Ohio region. He serves as the K-2; 7-12 Music Teacher and K-12 Technical Theater Director at Laurel School in Shaker Heights and has over 10 years of teaching experience as a music and theater educator, has been involved in over 80 theatrical productions. Joel holds a BME in Music Education from Baldwin Wallace University and is currently completing an MMME from Kent State University. He is happy to be returning for a second season to FPFATA.

Music Director

Heidi Herczeg

Heidi Herczeg (Music Director) has been seen music directing all over Northeast Ohio for the last 23 years, including at the Beck Center, Cassidy Theater, Blank Canvas and the Brecksville Theater. She has been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Cleveland Opera Chorus, serving as Children’s Choir Master during her tenure. Heidi holds a bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin-Wallace University, and a Masters of Music Education from Case Western Reserve University. Retiring from Bay Village City Schools in 2020 after 33 years, Heidi is thrilled to be able to devote her time continuing to music directing. Thank you to Terri, Sarah, Rachel, and Joy, for another fun summer.

Managing Director

Joy Meany

Joy is excited to be a part of FPFATA's 14th summer production. She is a 15 year member of FPFATA and currently serves as Board Secretary. She would like to thank Terri & Rachel for all the summers of laughs and entertainment, her husband, Todd, and their three children for supporting her in doing something she loves.

Stage Manager

Rachel Lammers

Rachel is so happy to be spending another summer with her FPFATA family! This is her 14th year with FPFATA where she currently serves as Board Vice President. She would like to thank Terri, Joy, and Heidi for being an awesome team to work with. She would also like to thank her family and her husband, Kirk, for supporting her in all she does!

Choreographer

Catherine Chambers

Cat is excited to be in her third FPFATA production. She is also grateful to be given the opportunity to be both in the cast and the choreographer. Previously she has worked in the cast and been an assistant choreographer. Thank you FPFATA for this opportunity and to my family who had to listen to this soundtrack too many times.

Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain

Molly Brian

Molly is thrilled to be in her 6th FPFATA show as a wife & tango dancer. She is honored to be surrounded by such amazing talent & passion. Molly is grateful for the love and support of her friends, family, castmates & directors. She would like to thank Cat and the directors for entrusting her with the role of Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain.

Set Director

Di-Anna Yeager

Costume Coordinator

Emily Slusarz

Emily is so excited to be participating in her second show at FPFATA as "Reuben" after her debut last year as Ike in "Newsies". She has also recently played Electra in "Gypsy" at ACT. She would like to thank her parents & family, her partner Gwen, her vocal coach Anna, & the production staff for giving her this opportunity! Enjoy!

Original Creative Team

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1969) to Cinderella (2021), his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Before the COVID pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, CATS and The Phantom Of the Opera, he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

Lloyd Webber owns seven London theatres, including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Over the past three years the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete remodelling and reseating of the Gillian Lynne.

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018.

Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre, and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession – musical theatre. Their first collaboration was based on the life of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist, The Likes of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.

Tim has since worked with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here to Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach and Rick Wakeman among others.

Tim founded his own cricket team in 1973, which has now played over 750 matches, and was president of MCC, founded in 1789, in 2002. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media, drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music.

As an EGOT, he is one of only 17 people in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award, was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, and is the proud owner of a boxer dog and two dozen chickens.