Little Women The Broadway Musical Creative

Director, Set Designer, Choreographer
Darby Goss
Darby Goss is thrilled to be directing her first show at PCA. Prior to directing Little Women, she directed, music directed and choreographed Mamma Mia! at North Andover High School in February 2022, and has music directed several shows including Anything Goes at Acting Out Theatre Company, and Footloose the Musical at North Andover High School. Before finding her love of directing, she has acted in many musicals and straight plays, including Into the Woods, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bye, Bye Birdie, and Footloose.  In addition to her roles in the theatre world, Mrs. Goss teaches elementary music and 4th and 5th Grade Chorus here at PCA and leads one of the worship teams at Great Bay Calvary Church in Dover. Her husband, Nate Goss, is assisting with the audio for the show and he also helped build the set. They are proud cat parents to their hyperactive orange tabby, Jack.
Musical Director, PCA Fine Arts Director
Carroll Stevens
Mr. Carroll Stevens LOVES theatre at PCA. With this being his 12th season, he has so many happy memories he'll remember forever. Mr. Stevens has done some acting himself in past years with his favorite role being that of Fagin in "Oliver". Outside his work with PCA students, he loves playing disc golf, tuning pianos and spending time with Mrs. Stevens and his family. Mr. Stevens would like to thank every member of the cast, crew, pit, and production team that makes serving at PCA such a joy. Let your light shine! (Matthew 5:19)
Pit Director
Katrina Veno
Katrina Veno is in her seventh year as a music teacher at Portsmouth Christian Academy. The Little Mermaid is her fourth musical as pit director. She received her undergraduate degree in Music Education from The University of New Hampshire and a Masters of Music from The Ohio State University in Clarinet Performance. Katrina performs with the Portsmouth Symphony and teaches private and group clarinet and woodwind lessons.
Producer, Choreographer
Victoria Pereira
Victoria is excited to be a closing out her first year at PCA with another wonderful production! She began her new role as the School's Theatre Producer in August 2021. Victoria is also an Admissions Director at PCA and a Pastor at Restoration Church in Milton, NH. She has a passion for the preforming arts and young people and is elated for this opportunity to combine both,
Stage Manager
Jenna Mayes
Jenna is happy to be stage managing another PCA production. She has stage managed both the Black Box and the spring musical productions at PCA since her freshman year and is super happy to have Little Women as her final show. Some of her favorite PCA productions include The Little Mermaid and These Shining Lives. She would like to thank her friends, family, and PCA for helping her to be a stage manager. Jenna is sad to have her time stage managing at PCA coming to a close but excited for the future!

MEET OUR CREATIVE, TECHNICAL, & PRODUCTION TEAMS!

Ella Morganti (10th Grade): Assistant Stage Manager

Kelli Leigh-Ann Connors: Lighting designer

Matt Corso: Lighting Assistant 

Gunner Burgess (11th Grade): Lighting design assistant 

Valerie Smith: Costume Designer

Joy Eisner: Rehearsal Pianist, Rehearsal assistant 

Ken Eisner: Sound Designer 

Nate Goss: Sound Designer, Lead set builder 

 

Light Operation by Daniel Rinehart (11th grade), Brayden Brown (9th grade), and Bobby Robinson (10th grade) 

Sound Operation by Xander Kalapacs (9th grade), and Sam Sherman (10th grade)

 

Lead set builder: Chad Goss 

Set build assistants: El Currier, Grace Wack, Rob Wack, Anna Tolley, Matt Tolley, Sean McKenney, Susie Stevens, David Abbett

Prop assistants: Dawn Jorgensen, Julie Stevens, Abi Eisner, Grace Wack, El Currier, Anne Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Alex Brown

Stage Hands: Maggie Andress, Maycie Andress, Alex Brown, Savannah Senter, Abby Tan, Abby Oberto, Phoebe Gaulin, Louisa Henker, Jonah Locher, Julia Schultze

Hair and Makeup Artists: Emily Vaccaro, Olivia Vaccaro, Kayla Gravel, Kaleigh McKenney

Costume Design Assistants: Monica Leno, Sherill Olstad 

 

Pit Orchestra 

Director: Katrina Veno

Piano: Joe Stevens  

Violin: Tim Lam, Wayne Lam, PJ Lignos, Susie Stevens

Viola: Sierra Lignos

Cello: Ty Dollarhide, Kyla Collins

Flute: Emma Eisner, Cheryl Rudolph

Clarinet: Joey Skubisz

French horn: Sue Williams 

Trumpet: Cort Baussmann, Sam Belmonte

Trombone: Isaac Kohl

Baritone: Erick Angwenyi 

Percussion: Sam Williams 

Bass: Jack Sahlas
 


 

Special Thanks to our Volunteers & Donators: 

Envirovantage, Rachel Tolley, Jane Geyer, Gina Henker, Alane Abbett, Amy Wack, Emily Komerska, Heather Paradis, Aimee Andress, Bethany Vaccaro, Christian Knightly, Sue McKenney, Jeff Brown, Kim Cummings, Christiana Runey, Gina Tan, Matt Tolley, LeeAnna Ngamcharoenthana, Monica Leno, Kelly Belmonte, Robert Burgess, Cynthia Fisher, Jodi Oberto, Nate Goss, Angela Schultze, Kaleigh McKenney