Carrie The Musical Creative

Director/Choreographer

Victoria Rae Sook, guest artist,

is the daughter of two Bobcats who met on the west green and is proud to be making her OU debut. She is a two-time Drama Desk Award Nominee as the Artistic Director and Founder of Food of Love Productions. She is an active board member of Bristol Riverside Theatre where she offers her dramaturgy services, and she often choreographs and movement directs for the OnComm-Award-Winning The Show Must Go Online. She also raised funds for the five-time Tony Award Winning revival of Company. A proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and an SDC Associate, favorite shows include Mamma Mia, Grease, Shake & Bake: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Midsummer: a Banquet, Twelfth Night, and Gallathea. Victoria has worked in production at the Public Theater and remains, to this day, on their over hire list for when they need a hand. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and The University of South Florida. Victoria resides in Manhattan with her husband and is excited for her next production: baby boy, debuting in June. “Faith, trust, and pixie dust.” @victoriaraesook

Music Director/Conductor/Keyboard 1

Brent Frederick

Assistant Professor in Ohio University’s Schools of Theater and Music and the Music Director for the BFA Musical Theater program. Tantrum Theater: Great Comet of 1812 (Music Director, Pianist), Spring Awakening (Music Director, Music Producer). Selected Broadway: Kinky Boots (Conductor, Keyboards), The Band’s Visit (Conductor, Keyboards), Dr. Zhivago (Keyboards), …Great Comet of 1812 (rehearsal pianist). Selected National Tours: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Music Director). Recent studio recording: Jacqueline Petroccia’s double EP Champagne & Moonshine (Producer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Keyboards). Band leader and orchestrator for the Doo Wop Project and pianist for Kelli O’Hara. BM in Music Education from Shenandoah Conservatory. www.BrentFrederickMusic.com

Scenic Designer

Alex Pio

MFA, Scenic Design, Third Year, Ohio University: Spring 2023: Squeakers (Props Manager), Imaginary Audiences (Props Manager), Scenic Designer: The Thanksgiving Play, Everybody, Blood at the Root; Props Artisan: Julius Caesar, Doctor Voynich and Her Children, What the Gods Gave Me, Hotel Berry; Absentia (Assoc. Scenic Designer), People, Places, and Things (Assistant Scenic Designer) Other: Mamma Mia! (Props Master) UW-Stevens Point Theatre, The Spitfire Grill (Scenic Designer) UW-Stevens Point Theatre, (Props Crafts Apprentice) Santa Fe Opera.

Costume Designer

Mariya Radeva-Nedyalkova

holds MFA from UNLV in Costume Design and Technology, currently OU School of Theatre Faculty. Selected Costume Design Credits, Drama: Mother Courage and Her Children, Things I Know To Be True, A Steady Rain, The Elephant Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, When the Rain Stops Falling, Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Selected Costume Design, Musical Theatre: Legally Blonde, Peter Pan, Seussical, A Year with Frog and Toad, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Selected Costume Design Children’s Theatre: The Reluctant Dragon, The Nightingale, Ozma of Oz. Selected Costume Design, Opera: Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Albert Herring, Il Tabarro, Pagliacci.

Lighting Designer

Alejandro Ridolfi

MFA, Lighting Design, Third Year. Lighting Designer: What the Gods Gave Me, Summer and Smoke, Be Head, Angels in America Pt.1: A Millennium Approaches. Assistant Lighting Designer: Christmas Carol, Indiana Repertory Theatre; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Tantrum Theater; Absentia, Vibrancy Theater. Lead Electrician: Come See About Me, Everybody, Men on Boats.

Sound Designer

Simon Marland

MFA, Sound Design, Third Year. Simon is a composer and sound designer from Boone, NC. Recent sound design credits include Comedy of Errors and Lysistrata with Theater at Monmouth; Summer and Smoke, Ohio University. Simon also served as the production manager for Theater at Monmouth in 2022 and mixed the Tantrum production of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

Projections Designer

Ryan Belock, guest artist,

is based in NYC. Ryan works with the Blue Man Group video department and has also worked as an assistant editor for Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway, West End, and U.S. tour). Other Credits: Irish Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, Juilliard, The Princeton Festival, New York Theater Workshop, Urban Stages, York Theatre, Theatre Now NY, MetroStage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Actor’s Studio Drama School, Chicago’s Ear Taxi Music Festival, Papermill Playhouse, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Goodspeed Opera House, The Center for Contemporary Opera, the Cohen New Works Festival, University of Notre Dame, Ensemble Concept 21, and Austin Opera. MFA - UT Austin. BA - University of Notre Dame. Proud member, IATSE/USA 829. www.ryanbelock.com

Stage Manager

Miranda Korieth, guest artist,

Ohio University Alumni 2020 BFA Stage Management. University of Arkansas: God of Carnage, Ride the Cyclone (Stage Manager). TheatreSquared: Miss You Like Hell, Tiny Beautiful Things (ASM), It Came from Outer Space (SM Swing). Arts One Presents: Next to Normal (ASM). Pioneer Summer Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie, Romeo and Juliet (ASM). Ohio University: Perfect Arrangement, Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwright’s Festival, Bug, The Wolves (SM), Silent Sky, The Government inspector, Failure: A Love Story, The Rover (ASM).

Technical Director

Nicole Hankins

MFA, Technical Direction, Second Year. Ohio University: Technical Director: Dr. Voynich and Her Children, what the Gods gave me, Absentia, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Carpenter: Men on Boats, Summer & Smoke, Everybody Other: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Clue, The Sound of Music, Trouble in Mind, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well (Carpenter).

Properties Designer

Grace Easterday

MFA, Props Technology, Second Year. Ohio University: Yerma (Props Manager), what the Gods gave me (Props Manager), Berry Hotel (Assistant Props Manager), Artisan: Dr.Voynich and her Children, Julius Cesar, Everybody, Summer and Smoke, Men on Boats. Other: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Vibrancy Theater. She has a BS in theater from Frostburg State university.

Associate Music Director

Devin Sudman, guest artist,

MAA, Theatre & Production Management, BA Music, Voice & Conducting. Devin is the Education Director at Stuart’s Opera House where he activates arts programs all over Southeast Ohio. He also is the Choir Director at Hocking College. Music Director/Conductor/Keyboardist: The King & I, Mary Poppins, Into the Woods, Hairspray, South Pacific, Charlotte's Web, The Little Mermaid, Spring Awakening, Stuart Little, Beauty and the Beast, Godspell, Pippin, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ordinary Days, The Addams Family, Carrie, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sister Act, Matilda, Shrek, The Rocky Horror Show, School of Rock.

Associate Stage Manager

Fior Tat, guest artist,

[they/she] Ohio University Alumni 2020 B.F.A. Stage Management. TheatreSquared - Kim’s Convenience, A Christmas Carol, Detroit ‘67, It Came From Outer Space, Tiger Style! (Assistant Stage Manager), FLEX, The Heart of Christmas: A Christmas Cabaret (Stage Manager), Tiny Beautiful Things (Calling Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager). Tantrum Theater: Spring Awakening, Next to Normal (Assistant Stage Manager). Ohio University: She Kills Monsters, Big Love, The Defiance of Dandelions (Stage Manager), Romeo & Juliet, The Wolves, Top Girls, Glengarry Glen Ross (Assistant Stage Manager) Richmond Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (Assistant Stage Manager).

Artistic Director, Tantrum Theater

Michael Lincoln

Michael began teaching at Ohio University in 2003, served as Director of the School of Theater from 2012 to 2020, and is now Professor Emeritus of Theater. Previously Michael taught for New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Southern California. His professional lighting design career numbers over 300 productions in theatre, opera and dance and includes Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and international venues. Highlights: Copenhagen on Broadway, The Bubbly Black Girl… at Playwrights Horizons in NYC, and A Streetcar Named Desire for the Cleveland Play House and Tantrum Theater’s Next to Normal, Caroline, Or Change and Little Shop of Horrors. Michael’s extensive regional credits include long associations with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre in Houston, and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC as well as multi-year associations with Los Angeles Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, and Santa Fe Opera. His multiple Broadway credits as an Associate Designer include hit revivals of Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes and original productions of City of Angels, Six Degrees of Separation, and Lend Me a Tenor. www.michaellincoln.net

Producing Director, Tantrum Theater

Joshua Coy

Josh is an arts administrator, arts advocate, and performer whose most recent administrative roles prior to joining Tantrum Theater include Executive Director of the Wayne Center for the Arts, Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Presenters Network, and Director of Artists Programs at the Ohio Arts Council. For the past decade, his primary performance outlet has been as a banjo player across the Ohio valley region, and previous favorite theatrical roles include Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors), Feste (Twelfth Night), Uncle Jack (Dancing at Lughnasa), and Edmund (Long Day’s Journey into Night). He holds an MA in Arts Policy and Administration from The Ohio State University, a BA in Theatre from Westminster College (PA), and an MA in Theater (Dramatic Writing) at Ohio University.

Director of Education, Tantrum Theater

Rebecca VerNooy

Rebecca VerNooy is a movement theater artist, actor, and writer. Her original work has been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dance Theatre workshop, Joyce Soho, Dixon Place and PS 122. Both Sides of Crazy, her short memoir was published in 2022. She is the Head of Acting at Ohio University’s School of Theater and the Director of Education for Tantrum Theater. https://www.rebeccavernooy.com/

Production Manager, Tantrum Theater

Roberto Di Donato

Roberto is a Venezuelan-American artist from the colonized territories that were originally home for the Tawakoni and Wichita nations known as Dallas, Texas. His highly collaborative projects have been seen in New York and Austin. Roberto's work was called "An Experimental Masterstroke" by Austin Arts Watch and The Austin Chronicle states it "carries you to the boundaries of what you think you want to watch and tips you over it". Roberto has worked with Tantrum dating back to assistant directing Rhinoceros. Roberto will be performing in NYC 2022, developing new material by Kirk Lynn, and he continues to work with the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab in NYC. MFA and MAA from Ohio University School of Theater. @roberto_di_donato | www.robertodidonato.net

Associate Artistic Director, Tantrum Theater

Ally Poole

A multidisciplinary artist working between the US and the UK, Ally Poole's solo work is a blend of live art, theatre and installation while covering issues of race, politics, and pop culture through her perspective as a Black woman. Ally is a Texas native who received an MFA in Advance Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Ally is also a co-collaborator of the female-led, experimental theatre collective, Hot Cousin. Ally received a BFA in Acting from Stephens College and enjoys her career as an actor across theatre, film, musical theatre, and opera.

Assistant Technical Director, Tantrum Theater

Jaxon Meadows

Assistant Technical Director at Ohio University's School of Fine Arts. MA, Theater Management. BFA, Production Design & Technology. Recent works: Ohio University: Men on Boats (Assistant Technical Director), Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Assistant Technical Director), Julius Caesar (Technical Director), Shrek the Musical (Technical Director) & The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Technical Director), Yerma (Assistant Technical Director). He has collaborated with River City Players, Ohio Valley Summer Theater, and Stuart’s Opera House.

Musical Numbers

ACT I

“In” ………. Ensemble

“Carrie” ………. Carrie, Students

“Open Your Heart” ………. Margaret, Carrie, Reverend Bliss, Choir

“And Eve Was Weak” ………. Margaret, Carrie

“The World According to Chris” ………. Chris, Billy, and Students

“Evening Prayers” ………. Margaret, Carrie

“Dreamer In Disguise” ………. Tommy

“Once You See” ………. Sue

“Unsuspecting Hearts” ………. Miss Gardner, Carrie

“Do Me A Favor” ………. Sue, Chris, Tommy, Billy, Ensemble

“I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance” ………. Margaret, Carrie

ACT II

"Entr'acte" ………. Orchestra

"A Night We'll Never Forget" ………. Ensemble

"You Shine" ………. Tommy, Sue

"Why Not Me" ………. Carrie

"Stay Here Instead" ………. Margaret, Carrie

"When There Is No One" ………. Margaret

"Prom Arrival" ………. Ensemble

"Unsuspecting Hearts Reprise" ………. Miss Gardner, Carrie

"Dreamer In Disguise Reprise" ………. Tommy, Carrie

"Prom Climax" ………. Chris, Billy, Carrie, Tommy, and Students

"Alma Mater" ………. Students

"The Destruction" ………. Carrie, Ensemble

"Carrie Reprise" ………. Margaret, Carrie

"Epilogue" ………. Sue, Ensemble

ORCHESTRA

Conductor/Keyboard 1, Music Director: Brent Frederick

Keyboard 2, Associate Music Director: Devin Sudman

Cello: Peter Rhynard

Guitar 1: Drew Krag

Guitar 2: Erik Anderson

Acoustic and Electric Bass: Aaron Jarvis

Drums: Casey Morarity

Electronic Music Programming: KeyboardTEK

PRODUCTION STAFF

Fight Choreographer: Molly Donahue

Charge Scenic Artist: Jacob Brown (guest artist)

Intimacy Coordinator: Rebecca VerNooy

Dance Captains: Caroline Donato, Billy Elias, Abby Golden

Scene Shop Manager: Nicole Hankins

Costume Shop Manager: Sofia Perez

Electrics Shop Manager: Madeleine Hebert

Sound Shop Manager: Daniela Chaparro

Lead Electrician: Quentin Kurtz

Assistant Costume Designer: Vincent Worley

Assistant Lighting Designers: Tobby Tao, Gabriel Hrin

Assistant Stage Managers: Natalie Burkett, Bob Walters

Assistant Technical Director: Nick Wilson

Production Assistant: Anna Grier

Assistant Properties Designer: Bear Alvarez

Assistant Lead Electricians: Tobby Tao, Lillie Wright

Lighting Draftsperson: Alejandro Ridolfi

Light Board Programmer: Gabriel Hrin

SCENE SHOP

Lead Carpenter: Jaxon Meadows

Carpenters: Lydia Ball, Rosemary Burmester, Teigue Hardesty, Charlie Herrmann, Cameron Hess, Lauren Key, Callie Lippencott, Katie Mangan, Luke May, Simon McFawn, Eli Nisly, Charley Peck, Anna Proctor, Grace Roderick, Jude Shreffler, Luis Silva, Jacob Simmons, Nick Sklenar, Lucy Walter

Fly: Allyn Simon, Nicholas Foster, Robertson Walker

PAINT SHOP

Lead Scenic Artist: Carly Huff

Scenic Artists: Hannah Carey, Princess Ibeh, Zach Snow

Paint Crew: Logan Clark, Megan Collina, Kay Collins, Cassie Cope, Ella Decker, Artemis Dexheimer, Nicole Downing, Julia Germer, Addison James, Mdison Keally, Callie Lippencott, Bella Martin, Gabe Marusic, Katarina Puig, Leilani Stillwagon, Sylvia Witt, Sebastian Yobé-Bowen, Isabella Zallo

PROP SHOP

Set Dresser: Bear Alvarez

Prop Artisans: Izzy Bawn, Billy Elias, Sam Erwin, Macy Fletcher, Conrad Gothard, Annaka Guerrero, Keely Heyl, Ruth Kennedy, Aidan Kelly, Alex Pio, Addy Plessinger, Eliza Russo, Anna Scott, Kaycee Scott, Maggie Wisday, James Walkowski

COSTUME SHOP

Draper: Molly Walz (guest artist)

First Hands: Liz Haas, Georgia Fried

Stitchers: Emma Adkins, Grace Auble, Aurora Azbill, Grace Breslow, Madeline Hammons, Sean McGlynn, Caitlyn Neill, Crystal Odiri, Ivy Posey, Kaya Roll, Vincent Worley

CRAFT SHOP

Costume Crafts Artisan: Sarah Beth

WARDROBE

Wardrobe Supervisor: Sarah Biernacki

Wardrobe Crew: Sarah Biernacki, Emily Ewen, Brandon Lipsky, Crystal Odiri, Vincent Worley

ELECTRICS SHOP

Undergrad Shop Manager: Quentin Kurtz

Light Board Operator: Livi Harden

Projections Operator: Elisabeth O'Neill

Follow Spot Operator 1: Simon McFawn

Follow Spot Operator 2: Alexandro Ramirez-Nagy

Lighting Crew: Hannah Barton, Hope Barton, Sydney Campbell, Katie Carpenter, Addie Collard, Cassidy Disantis, Beatrice Feldbush, Destry Gunther, Madeleine Hebert, Gabriel Hrin, Amanda Johnson, Quentin Kurtz, Kharla Landrau, Alexandra Marusich, Simon McFawn, Timothy Oh, Alejandro Ridolfi, Chloe Robinson, Nick Swope, Tobby Tao, Aidan Timko, Bob Walters, Lillie Wright

SOUND SHOP

Sound Board Operator: Elisabeth O'Neill

Sound Mixer (A1): Carla Spearman

Mic Operator (A2): Christopher Reinhardt

Sound Crew: Erin Abney, Chris Burns, Lily Franks, Abe Haprian, Kekoa Huihui-Andrew, Ayana Johnson, Simon Marland, Sid McCarty, Isabella Scanlan, Carla Spearman

PUBLICITY/FRONT OF HOUSE

Crew: Ben Griffithe, Braven Jones, Grace Larger, Nick Latham, Alex Mackeown, Freddie Masselli, Emily Royse, Victoria Skok, Miriam Snavely, Vivian Waye

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Director, School of Theater: Merri Biechler

Assistant Directors, School of Theater: Dan Denhart, David Haugen

School of Theater Faculty and Staff

Heritage Interpreting: Gregory Lawson and Denny Stark

Robertson Walker

Arts West

Stuart's Opera House

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