Joe Amato is thrilled to be back with Spotlight! You may remember him as Lonny in the Spotlight Arts Collective production of "Rock of Ages". A Lockport native, he lived in central Illinois since completing his Bachelor’s in Vocal Music Education from Eastern Illinois University in 2011. For the last 7 years, Joe was the middle school and high school choir and theatre director in Shelbyville, IL. While teaching in Shelbyville, Joe also returned to EIU to receive his Masters in Music Education, completing the degree in 2018. This school year, Joe has taken the position of Choir Director at Hadley Middle School and Homer Jr. High School in Homer Glen, which is what brought him back to the Chicago suburbs. As a director, Joe led productions of "High School Musical", "Footloose", "The Little Mermaid", "Godspell", "The Addams Family", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Fiddler on the Roof", "A Christmas Carol Radio Play", "We Will Rock You", and "Beauty and the Beast" at Shelbyville High School. Onstage, some other favorite roles include Gomez Addams (The Addams Family), Lazar Wolf (Fiddler), and Bobby Strong (Urinetown). A big thank you goes out to his wife Emily and son Jamie for all their love and support!

Gina enjoys making those on stage look their very best and prefers to be a behind the scenes kind of person. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with her BFA in Fashion Design. She has been involved with costumes in many plays, musicals, and madrigals in the area over the past 10 years, But this is her first with Spotlight. She'd like to thank her sidekick Louise Sanderson. Without her, this many amazing custom costumes wouldn't have been possible. Nor would Gina's sanity be intact. Which is still questionable.

Jennifer Corp has been active in theatre for the past 40 years. She studied music, theatre and dance at Illinois State University, and has a Masters Degree in Music Education from VanderCook College of Music. In her performing days, favorite roles included Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance", Tzeitel in "Fiddler on the Roof", Doatsy May in "Best Little...in Texas", Smitty in "How to Succeed in Business...", Jacqueline in "LaCage Aux Folles", Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls", Jenny Lind in "Barnum", and Hope in "Anything Goes". In the second half of her career, Jennifer has been involved in Producing, Directing, Choreographing and/or Music Directing for groups such as Opening Night Arts Group (Co-Founder), Oak Lawn Park District, Curtain Call, Lincoln-Way Summer Stock, and Spotlight Arts Collective, to name a few. A choral and theatre director of a large school program for 21 years, Jennifer recently left public school teaching to begin a private piano/voice/drums/guitar studio in Frankfort. Thanks to her husband Tim and daughter Gabrielle for supporting her and her crazy schedule (and Gabby and her parents are joining in the fun this show!). She hopes you enjoy this latest project and that you are inspired to GO GO GO GO!!!

As a founding member and Executive Director of Spotlight Arts Collective, Tamara is so proud of this production. She has been working behind the scenes for the past few years but hopes to be back on stage soon! The youth cast, adult cast and production staff have worked so hard to bring Joseph to life and we hope you enjoy the show!

Liz is excited to be a part of the Joseph production team and enjoyed co-producing with Tamara! Liz is a founding board member of Spotlight and looks forward to many more productions in the future!

Shelby has been a performer for over 15 years. She has been with Spotlight on and off stage since it’s start and now serves on the Board as Assistant Director of Fundraising. Outside of Spotlight she is a gymnastics instructor at United Gymnastics Academy in Frankfort and is costumer director for the spring musicals at Lincoln-Way Central. Shelby thanks everyone for coming and hopes you all enjoy the show!

Virginia is super excited to be back and so grateful to SPOTLIGHT for the opportunity. I absolutely love this cast! Just so much fun! It’s been great stepping out of the dance studio and getting back in the theater. Break A Leg! Good luck to my daughters and thanks to The Dance Company for supporting me