Mamma Mia! Production Team

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Director
Tommy Desalvo
Tommy is in his 15th year as the Drama Club’s director and producer. He has directed The Prom, Curtains, Bad Auditions By Bad Actors, Steel Magnolias, Put On A Happy Face, Our Place, Elephant's Graveyard, The Addams Family, Noises Off, The Wiz, Picnic, All Shook Up, Almost Maine, Legally Blonde, Moon Over Buffalo, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Spelling Bee, Guys & Dolls, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Bye Bye Birdie, Pippin, Grease, Soap Opera, and All in the Timing with the Strawberry Hill Players. Tommy works at the Childcare Learning Centers but has been active in theatre for the last 20 years. He is on the Curtain Call Board and has been involved in many productions there, most recently was the director of Spelling Bee. He would like to thank his production team and wonder cast and crew for all of their hard work!
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Assistant Director
Stephen Emerick
Stephen Emerick is so excited to be Assistant Directing "Mamma Mia!" with the Strawberry Hill Players! Working with this talented cast and crew is always a joyous experience year after year, and helping to create the world and characters, while grooving to ABBA’s greatest hits, has been a blast! Break legs and burn gels to the entire company! Past productions: Dir. "The Toxic Avenger The Musical", "Peter and the Starcatcher", "Macbeth", "Groundhog Day The Musical", "The Lobby", "Boeing, Boeing", "A Piece of My Heart", Asst. Dir. "The Prom", "Curtains!". Most recently he was on stage in Curtain Call’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Stephen is a Director, Filmmaker, and Photographer working on productions in Connecticut and New York.
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Faculty Advisor/Costumer
Annie Dunn
Annie is an English/IB Theatre teacher at Stamford High and in her second year as advisor of the Strawberry Hill Players. She is also the advisor of SHIP and Book Club. While attending high school, she performed in her drama club's musicals and went on to help build sets for her college's productions. Last year, she had the time of her life assisting with A Piece of My Heart, Senior Scenes, as well as costuming The Prom! She is so excited to be back to begin another season with the club! She would like to thank the cast and crew for their faith, trust, and hard work!
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Musical Director
Jerold Goldstien
Jerold was last seen in New York in FACE THE MUSIC for the ENCORES series at the City Center in NYC and before that he played Mushnik in the national tour of with LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. He has appeared on Broadway in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, with Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and John Stamos, and in the musical AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND. He was featured in the national tour A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM starring Rip Taylor (standing by for Mr. Taylor) and co-starred with Dick Van Patten in SCANDALS at Theatre Virginia. Jerold played Chico Marx in both ANIMAL CRACKERS at Arena Stage, Washington and THE COCOANUTS at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He won Philadelphia's prestigious Barrymore Award for his performance in GUN METAL BLUES at the Wilma Theatre, was in the Kennedy Center's long-running production of SHEAR MADNESS and toured Europe as Bert Barry in 42ND STREET. On television he has been featured on NBC’s LAW AND ORDER and CBS’ HACK. As a composer, Jerold's shows (written with William Squier) have been performed around the country. They include: BABALU and MUSIC IS MY FIST -- their send up of the Rat Pack -- which was featured twice at Steve McGraw’s, their holiday musical THE THREE SCROOGES and their newest musical, ROUTE 66 (music: Fred Stark), has been performed in concert at the Stamford Center for the Arts and the inaugural Kansas City Crossroads Festival of New Musicals and in a full production at the University of Maine. Individual songs that he has composed include ‘Garland of Hope,’ performed at New York’s Famed Palace Theatre in the BC/EFA Easter Bonnet Competition, and ‘Where’s the Party Tonight?’ (Lyrics: W. Squier) the theme song for the ABC-TV late night show, WHERE’S THE PARTY? For more info: www.JeroldGoldstein.com
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Choreographer
Caitlin Roberts
Caitlin is a local choreographer, performer and dance educator from Norwalk, Connecticut. She holds a degree in Dance with a Choreography concentration from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. Caitlin has choreographed over a dozen musical productions at various local theater companies and High Schools throughout the tri-state area. She has also performed with local theaters such as Curtain Call in Stamford, The Wilton Playshop, Downtown Cabaret in Bridgeport and Richter in Danbury. Her other performance credits include dancing with Velocity Dance Company, Tapperlesque, Connecticut Ballet and performing in several music videos, flash mobs, film and television productions. www.caitlinannroberts.com
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Assistant Choreographer
Ella Leferman
Ella is so happy to be involved in Mamma Mia — her last SHP show! A senior at AITE, Ella has been studying ballet, hip-hop, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, and contemporary for 14 years with the New Canaan Dance Academy, where she dances with their competition company. She is also a member of the Tap City Youth Ensemble in lower Manhattan. When she isn’t on stage, Ella is an executive member of MYLC and the VP of Curtain Call’s Youth Board. Thank you to Tommy, Caitiln, Ms. Dunn, and Stephen for giving her this chance to combine the two things she loves most: dancing and helping others!
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Stage Manager
Laura Sanchez
Laura is excited to be in her Senior year at Stamford High. She has stage managed “The Prom”, “Curtains”, “A Piece of My Heart”, “Senior Scenes”, “Peter and The Starcatcher”, and “Mamma Mia!” at Stamford High School. She also assistant stage managed last year’s SYT production “The Pajama Game”, and was the light operator last year for “The Addams Family”. She’s really excited and happy to be working with such an amazing and talented cast. Overall, she would like to thank Stephen, Ms. Dunn, Tommy, crew, and the entire cast. She’s really proud of everyone, and is so excited for everyone to see everyone’s hard work. Break legs!!
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Assistant Sound Designer/Board Operator
Miles Desantis
Miles is an AITE senior & VP of Tech for the Strawberry Hill Players. He previously worked as a sound engineer & designer for various productions at Curtain Call, Town Players of New Canaan, and Stamford All-School Musical. He has contributed to Stamford High productions of "Curtains," as well as engineering & design for "A Piece of My Heart," "The Prom," "Peter and The Starcatcher," & “Knight of Teen Angst.” Miles is the 2023 Stephen Sondheim Award winner for Achievement in Sound Design (“The Prom”) & a two-time Halo Award nominee (“A Piece of My Heart,” “The Prom”). Miles will study Sound Design at NYU Tisch School of the Arts this fall. He extends thanks to his family & friends for their support!
Assistant Stage Manager
Molly Fitzgerald
Molly is a senior at Stamford High School. She is so excited to be assistant stage managing this production "Mamma Mia!"! She has previously assistant stage managed Stamford High’s production of :Peter and the Star Catcher", as well as acted as backstage crew for "The Prom", Senior Scenes XXIV, "Curtains", and "Steel Magnolias". She would like to thank Tommy, Stephen, and Ms. Dunn for their consistent hard work, as well as Laura and Liah for being the best possible teammates. She also wants to congratulate the cast and crew for this amazing production!
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Assistant Stage Manager
Liah Bailey
Liah Bailey is a sophomore at Stamford High. She is very excited to be the assistant stage manager of “Mamma Mia!”. Liah has done crew for “The Prom”, “Peter and The Starcatcher”, and stage managed “Senior Scenes”. She was also a part of “Knight of Teen Angst”. She has had such an amazing time participating and being involved with this wonderful production! Liah is very proud of everyone who took part of this process! She would like to thank everyone involved with the process because they all put so much hard work into this.Break legs and burn gels!
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Costumer Assistant
Zoe Guaman
Zoe Guaman is a 10th grader who is very excited to have the opportunity to help costume this wonderful show. She has done many shows with Strawberry Hill players such as "Peter and the Star Catcher" (Robert Falcon Scott), "A Piece of My Heart" (Leeann), multiple SHIP shows, plus more. Outside of school, she does theater at Rising Stars Performing Arts and has been in their production of "Pippin" (as Theo), along with other shows. This is her First time costuming a show and she is having a blast. She would like to acknowledge all the hard work everyone has put into the show and can't wait for these wonderful people to perform it!
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Sound Assistant
Basil Lintern
Basil is a freshman at Stamford High School. He has previously worked as Sound Designer for Senior Scenes and Sound Assistant for "Peter and the Star Catcher". He wants to thank Miles and Tommy for these amazing opportunities, and congratulate the cast and crew, along with the amazing stage managers, for all of their hard work.

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