The Last Five Years Creative

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Director
Luke Ferrell
Luke is a New Jersey-based Stage Director and Teaching Artist and the proud Owner and Artistic Director of Ferrell Studios! Some credits include Into the Woods (Music Director), Alice in Wonderland (Co-Director), Ideation (Co-Director), Spring Awakening (Music Director), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Director), Sweet Charity (Director). He is a Teaching Artist with Fresh Theatre Arts, where he is the Fall Drama Director and Spring Musical Technical Director for Highland Park High School. He is also the Technical Director at Henry Hudson Regional School and an Instructor and Music Director at the Middletown Arts Center. He is thrilled to see this production take the "stage" as Ferrell Studios's pilot in-person musical!
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Assistant Director and Choreographer
Uchenna Agbu
Uchenna is a New Jersey-based director and playwright. She is heading into her senior year at Rutgers University, studying theater, creative writing, and human resource management. She also recently completed her term as Artistic Director of Cabaret Theatre, where she now currently serves as Director of Outreach and DEI Chair. Past production credits include: Sour Cherries (Playwright, New York Theatre Workshop), tick, tick… BOOM! (Director, Cabaret Theatre), Chicago (Asst. Director, Highland Park High School), Into the Woods (Stage Manager, Cabaret Theatre), and past performance credits include: A New Brain (Mimi, Cabaret Theatre), The Eleventh Hour (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Villagers Theatre), Hair (Ronny/Tribe, Livingston Theatre Company), 21 Chump Street (Andrew, Livingston Theatre Company). She'd like to thank the incredible friends she was lucky enough to work on this show with, and she hopes you enjoy it!
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Co-Stage Manager and Props and Costumes Coordinator
Felicity Winter
Felicity Winter (co-stage manager/props and costumes coordinator) is a New Jersey-based actor, director, and writer. She is a senior at Rutgers University, where she studies theater and political science. She previously served as Director of Finance at Cabaret Theatre. Past production credits include Into the Woods (Director), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Director), Newsies (Production Intern), and Unidentified Female (Playwright). As a performer, her credits include Spring Awakening (Adult Man, Adult Woman), Ideation (Hannah), and West Side Story (Clarice). She would like to thank Luke for giving her this opportunity.
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Co-Stage Manager and Lighting and Sound Coordinator
Nia Abdullah
Nia Abdullah is a recent graduate of Rutgers University-New Brunswick where she majored in English and minored in both Creative Writing and Theater. At school, Nia had been involved in various productions as a director, video editor, stage manager, actor, and more! She recently finished her term as Producer (President) of Cabaret Theatre, a student-run theatre organization at Rutgers, and she plans to pursue a career in Acting and Theater Administration! Nia currently works on the Electrics Crew for Plays in the Park in Edison New Jersey and is involved with stage crew for an upcoming show in New York called "Killer Bois".
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Music Director
Kyle Cao
Kyle is a recent graduate of Rutgers University, where he sang with the Glee Club and Kirkpatrick Choir, performed in over a dozen productions with the Cabaret Theatre and Livingston Theatre Company, and served as Artistic Director of The College Avenue Players. He has recently worked on productions of Spring Awakening (Piano/Conductor), Ghost in the Machine (NJ Premiere, Piano/Conductor), A New Brain (Piano/Conductor), Into the Woods (Piano), 21 Chump Street (Piano/Conductor), Clue: On Stage (Underscore Pianist), tick, tick… BOOM! (Piano/Conductor), and Falsettos (Synthesizer). This summer he will be music directing The Spongebob Musical: Youth Edition and American Idiot (with a full band!) at the Summit Playhouse, as well as The Chatham Community Players' production of Annie Jr.

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