Having started performing at a very young age, Lanni has had the privilege to perform and direct in countless plays and musicals. She was the assistant director of Lake George YOUTHEATRE for over 25 years, putting up three full length Broadway musicals with 55 students each summer. Locally Lanni started directing the NCCT Teen shows in 2016. Some of her favorites include: Footloose, Once on This Island, Crazy for You, and Little Mermaid. Lanni became director for Trumbull Hall Troupe in 2017. She has directed original Picoult and Wilber shows such as Over the Moon and Love at First Bite, along with licensed musicals such as Newsies and Chicago. And she has also been the director of the Hartford High School musical for the past four years. When not doing theatre, she is an instructional coach at Dothan Brook School.

Alicia Dale is proud to have been the music director for Trumbull Hall Troupe for the past four years. During the school year, she is the music teacher at Dothan Brook School in Wilder, VT and band director at Ottauquechee School in Quechee, VT. She has been the music director of DBS’s drama club for the past six years, the music director of the Broadway Ventures for the past two years, and has been the lead instructor of various summer camps through the Upper Valley Music Center for the past two years. She enjoys running a piano studio of students throughout the Upper Valley, and when she’s not teaching, she’s playing tennis, reading a good book, or spending time with her family.

Ally Weiner-Sawyer grew up in the Upper Valley dancing and performing from an early age. Her mother was a dance instructor and Ally always knew she wanted to spend her life with dance. As a young person she was involved with many North Country Community Theatre teen and adult shows. Ally joined Trumbull Hall Troupe in 2009 as choreographer for Over The Moon. She has choreographed every show since! When Ally’s not working in theatre she is busy with businesses she owns, The Dance Collective, a Lebanon based dance studio, and The Pink Alligator, a Lebanon based consignment clothing shop.

Jodi Picoult is a New York Times bestselling author with over 40 million books in print. She cofounded the Trumbull Hall Troupe as a means of providing her own children with a meaningful musical theater experience, which would also allow them to make a difference in the lives of children in need. She has collaborated on seven musicals with composer Ellen Wilber, all of which were debuted by the Trumbull Hall Troupe, and two of which have been licensed and subsequently performed by teen theater groups around the world. She is also the co-librettist, with Timothy Allen McDonald, of the new musicals BREATHE (inducted into the Library of Congress Performing Arts COVID-19 Collection), BETWEEN THE LINES (debuted off-Broadway 2022], THE BOOK THIEF (UK pre-West End run October 2023] and the upcoming AUSTENLAND.

Ellen Wilber received her Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College and has retired from teaching after 41 years of being a music educator. Ellen was the Music Director for the North Country Community Theater teen program for 18 years and created and directed the Lebanon, NH Recreation Department’s Summer Children’s Theater Workshop for 25 years. As a composer Ellen has collaborated with Jodi Picoult on the creation of 8 children’s musicals and also for Jodi’s novel, Sing You Home. They have written over 200 songs together. Ellen performs professionally with the Cardigan Mountain Tradition, a New Hampshire bluegrass band and in the pit orchestras for local productions.