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Theatre Conservatory presents the Summer Players in ’s Theatre Conservatory ’s presents the Summer Players in Julianne Argyros Stage • August 9 & 10, 16 & 17 at 1 & 5 pm and August 15 at 7 pm a musical based on the play by Sir James M. Barrie CAROLYN LEIGHMorris "moose" charlap Lyrics by Music by Additional Lyrics by Additional Music by Betty Comden AND ADOPH GREEN Jule Styne original Broadway production conceived, directed and choreograhed by Jerome Robbins The cast of Peter Pan Set and Costume Design Lighting Design Sara Ryung Clement KARYN D. LAWRENCE Choreography by Production Manager KELLY TODD JACKIE S. HILL Sound Design JEFF POLUNAS Stage Manager KRISTEN CRUZ Musical Direction by Erin McNally Directed by Hisa Takakuwa James Barrie left the copyright of PETER PAN to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and thousands of children have benefited from his gift in the years since his death. The producers are proud and happy that everyone who has bought a ticket for today's performance is helping a sick child get well. Cast of Characters (in order of appearance) SHANE IVERSON�������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wendy Darling JADEN FOGEL��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� John Darling NIKA NATALIE AYDIN���������������������������������������������������������������������� Michael Darling KIRA WENDLAND����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Liza KYRA GOFF������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nana, Cecco LINDSEY WIERCIOCH������������������������������������������������������������������Mrs. Darling, Jukes NICK SLIMMER���������������������������������������������������������������� Mr. Darling, Captain Hook CHRISTOPHER HUNTLEY�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Peter Pan JASMINE O’HEA�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tinkerbell GRAYSEN AIRTH������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Lion SARAH COCROFT��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Kangeroo LAUREN LYONS��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ostrich JAMIE OSTMANN�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Slightly BENJAMIN SUSSKIND��������������������������������������������������������������������������������First Twin DOMINIC DANIEL BRACK �������������������������������������������������������������������Second Twin SAUL RICHARDSON����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Curley MITCHELL HUNTLEY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tootles KELSEY BRAY����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nibs JOSHUA MYRAN�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Nemo SEAN KATO���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Otis MIKEY COSTA���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Noodler BLAKE LASZLO��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Smee CHRISTOPHER DELFINO�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Alan Herb SAMMY LA SCALA������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Alf Mason GRACE TOMBLIN MARCA���������������������������������������������������������������������Canary Robb JULIA URONE������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Chay Turley KATHERINE PARRISH������������������������������������������������������������������Morgan's Skylights SYDNEY PARDO���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mullins ALLIE MGRUBLIAN������������������������������������������Starkey, Voice of the Mysterious Lady ALLISON BAAYOUN������������������������������������������������������������������Crocodile, Lean Wolf KAYLEE WAN�����������������������������������������������������������������������Crocodile, Shooting Star RACHEL CHARNY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Tiger Lily TATUM HARKAVY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Crooked Fire LAUREN BOVA���������������������������������������������������������������������� Great Big Little Panther EMME O’TOOLE����������������������������������������������������������������������� Little Loud Oak/Jane MADDY NICKLESS�������������������������������������������������������������������Thundering Waterfall TARA THOMPSON����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Turtle Blossom KASEY JACQUES��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wild Dove PETER PAN Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 • Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com - See more at: http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Setting The Darling Nursery and Neverland, circa 1905 Length Two hours with one fifteen minute intermission Staff Fight Director....................................................................................... Richard Soto Assistant Director.................................................................................. Sanaz Toossi Assistant Musical Director���������������������������������������������������������������� Brianna Beach Music Captain................................................................................... Allie Mgrublian Assistant Costume Designer��������������������������������������������������������������� Kate Poppen Costume Assistant .................................................................. Brianna Ellis-Mitchell Assistant Stage Manager................................................................. Kathleen Barrett Production Assistant.......................................................................... Jasmine O'Hea Technical Director........................................................................... John Gaddis IV Props Master........................................................................................ Byron Bacon Lead Scenic Artist.................................................................................... Judy Allen Costume Shop Manager........................................................................... Amy Hutto Master Electrician.....................................................................................Lois Bryan Sound/Video Supervisor�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ian Burch Wig and Makeup Supervisor.......................................................... Laura Caponera Light Board Operator................................................................... Sumner Ellsworth Sound Engineer....................................................................................... Sam Levey Assistant Sound Engineer ............................................................... Kelsi Halverson Deck Crew............................................................................................Emily Kettler Special thanks to Robert Nafarrete, accompanist About The Summer Players Today’s performers are students in or recent graduates of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory. The Summer Players have all completed at least one year in acting classes and range in age from 9 to 20. The Summer Players program is the only one in the Conservatory that combines so many ages and levels of experience. In order to be chosen as a Player, students must have strong recommendations from their SCR acting instructors and go through an audition and interview process. They make a commitment to rehearse for 100 hours over five weeks and are held to the highest standards. These actors represent some of the most talented and committed students. The SCR Theatre Conservatory is a vital and wide-ranging program offering classes to adults and kids at every level of experience. Please visit scr.org for more information. Media Partner J.M. Barrie S cottish playwright and author James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) began his professional career as a journalist after graduating from Edinburgh University in 1882. He published his first novel, Better Dead, in 1887. Although the book sold poorly, it marked the start of Barrie’s ultimately successful literary career, which yielded over 25 published novels and plays. The character of Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s 1902 novel, The Little White Bird. In 1904 Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up premiered in London and quickly became the hit of the season. The play’s popularity inspired the author to write a novelization of the story, and J.M. Barrie, circa 1898 in 1911 he published Peter and Wendy. Although Barrie continued to write both plays and novels for the rest of his career, Peter Pan remains his best-known work. Barrie died of pneumonia in 1937 and gave Peter Pan’s copyright to a London children’s hospital as a part of his will. The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up M any historians claim that Peter Pan’s origins stem from an event in Barrie’s own childhood. In 1867, Barrie’s older brother, David, died just a day before his fourteenth birthday after he fell down and fractured his skull while iceskating. Barrie, just six years old at the time of the accident, spent years caring for his grieving mother, who took comfort in knowing that her deceased son would stay a carefree boy forever. Barrie also drew inspiration for Peter Pan and his Lost Boys from his relationship with the young Llewelyn Davies brothers: George, John, Peter, Michael and Nico. Barrie became close with the family in the late 1890s and dreamt up the stories of Peter Pan and his adventures to entertain the boys. When the brothers’ parents, Arthur and Sylvia, died just a few years apart, Barrie became the Llewelyn Davies boys’ legal guardian. Michael Llewelyn Davies, Barrie’s favorite of the brothers, dressed as Peter Pan Mary Martin as Peter Pan in the original 1954 Broadway production of the musical Peter Pan’s Lasting Popularity P A statue of Peter Pan in England’s Kensington Gardens eter Pan, Wendy, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys remain popular characters among children and adults alike due to the many adaptations of Peter Pan. Although Barrie’s play was a holiday tradition in London for 50 years after its debut, the original text is now rarely performed, and modern audiences are more familiar with the 1953 animated Disney film and the 1954 musical adaptation. The musical boasts three Broadway revivals since its original production 60 years ago. The role of Peter Pan was written for Broadway star Mary Martin, who won a Tony Award for her performance. Today, the musical remains a favorite among families and is performed at theatres across the country. It has also been filmed for television three times, and in 2014 NBC plans to air another live performance of the Peter Pan musical. ACT ONE Overture Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendy, John, Michael, Mrs. Darling, Liza, Nana Tender Shepherd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John, Michael I Gotta Crow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Neverland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy I’m Flying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, Liza Pirate March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates Hook’s Tango. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates Indian Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tiger Lily, Indians, Neverland Beasts Wendy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, John, Michael, Lost Boys, Neverland Beasts Hook’s Tarantella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates Liza’s Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liza, Peter, Neverland Beasts ACT TWO Entr’acte I Won’t Grow Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Lost Boys, Tiger Lily, Hook, Pirates, Indians, Neverland Beasts, Liza Oh, My Mysterious Lady. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Peter, Mysterious Lady Ugh-A-Wug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter,Tiger Lily, Indians, Lost Boys, Liza, Neverland Beasts Distant Melody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy, Michael, John Hook’s Waltz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates Crow Reprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Liza, Lost Boys, Indians Nursery Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darling Family, Lost Boys Grow Up Reprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darling Family, Lost Boys Finale Ultimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Jane, Grown-up Wendy Bows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Full Cast Director’s Notes “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” I Artist Biographies Musical Numbers - J. M. Barrie n choosing a Players show Music Director, Erin McNally, and I look for a script that will provide a challenging educational experience for our young student actors.We choose material that demands the actors “fire on all cylinders”—testing their training of voice, body, intellect, emotion, and imagination, requiring both individual bravery and generous ensemble work. It is important that the story can be explored from their truth and shared in their voice. Peter Pan is the most beloved of stories, touching on themes of family, independence, childhood, and the power of both storytelling and belief. Our Pan emerges from the imaginations of the Darling children within the walls their nursery—a place where flying is possible, fairies do exist, and Neverland is always just outside the window. Theatre is also limitless; a place where a top hat can turn a young actor into an Edwardian father or a fake moustache into a pirate captain. Theatre enables us all to fly—and realize that possibility is only limited by our imagination. So together let us make believe that we can all fly and seek to keep our hearts forever young. Erin and I thank the cast for their inspiring commitment and open hearts, our incomparable artistic and production team and SCR’s incredible staff for their caring work, limitless support and generosity. —Hisa Takakuwa Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) was born in New York City on August 21, 1926. After attending Queens College in New York she worked as a copyrighter for radio stations and advertising agencies. Collaborating with composers such as Cy Coleman and Moose Charlap, Leigh also wrote the Broadway stage scores for Peter Pan, Wildcat and Little Me. Her catalog boasts some of the biggest standards to emerge from Broadway stage scores including “The Best is Yet To Come,” “Young at Heart,” “How Little We Know,” “Westport,” “Spring in Maine,” “The Rules of the Road,” “Firefly,” “Witchcraft,” “I’m Flying,” “I Gotta Crow,” “I Walk a Little Faster,” “you Fascinate Me So,” “hey, Look Me Over,” “Tall Hopes,” “El Sombrero,” “One Day We Dance,” “It Amazes Me,” “The Other Side of the Tracks,” “Real Live Girl,” “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Here’s to Us,” “a Doodlin’ Song,” “Stay With Me,” “On Second Thought,” “Pass Me By,” “When In Rome” and “Ouzo.” Leigh also contributed to the film scores of The Cardinal and Father Goose. Late in her career she also contributed to the scores for TV specials such as Heidi as well as the bicentennial show for Something to Do. Carolyn Leigh died in New York on November 19, 1983. \ Morris (Moose) Charlap (music) was a Jewish-American Broadway composer. Born Morris Isaac Charlip in Philadelphia, he was best known for Peter Pan (1954). The idea to do the show came from Jerome Robbins, who planned to have a few songs by Charlap and Leigh. However, the show evolved into a full blown musical, with additional songs by Jule Styne and Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. Moose Charlap is also listed as the composer for the movie musical Hans Brinker (lyrics by Alvin Cooperman), which starred Eleanor Parker (her singing voice was that of Charlap's wife, Sandy Stewart), Richard Basehart, John Gregson, Robin Askwith, Roberta Torey, Sheila Whitmill and Cyril Ritchard. It was based on the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge. Charlap was married to singer Sandy Stewart, whose biggest hit was “My Coloring Book” in 1962. They had one son—Bill Charlap, a well-known jazz pianist. Charlap had a daughter Anne Charlap and son Tom Charlap, a bass player, from a previous marriage. Betty Comden and Adolph Green (additional lyrics). The team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, 1991 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, and the longest running creative partnership in theatre history, began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called The Revuers, which included the late Judy Holliday. They went on to collaborate with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins on what was the first show for all of them, On The Town. Also with Bernstein they collaborated on the score for Wonderful Town. With Jule Styne they wrote the book and/or lyrics for Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Subways Are For Sleeping, Peter Pan and others. They also wrote the book for Applause, the book and lyrics for On the Twenith Century and the lyrics for The Will Rogers Follies, with Cy Coleman, and A Doll’s Life. Five of these, Applause, Hallelujah Baby, Wonderful Town, On the Twentieth Century and The Will Rogers Follies won them six Tony Awards, and A Doll’s Life, a Tony nomination. Their many film musicals include Singin’ in the Rain, The Band Wagon, On the Town, Bells are Ringing, It’s Always Fair Weather, Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway. Their non-musicals include Auntie Mame and What a Way To Go. Two of these musicals, The Band Wagon and It’s Always Fair Weather, received Academy Award nominations and, along with On The Town, won the Screen Writers’ Guild award. Singin’ in the Rain was voted one of the ten best American films ever made and, by a vote of international film critics conducted by the prestigious magazine Sight and Sound, it was ranked third among the ten best films of all time. As performers, Comden and Green appeared in On the Town and later did an evening at the Golden Theatre, A Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green, comprised of material from their own shows and movies, and from their act, The Revuers. In 1977 they did a new version of A Party, and toured with it. A Party received an Obie Award when it was first performed. They are both members of the Council of the Dramatists Guild, have been elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and have received the Mayor of New York’s Certificate of Excellence. Comden received the Woman of the Year Award from the Alumni Association of New York University. She appeared in the films Garbo Talks and Slaves of New York, and on the stage in the Playwrights’ Horizons production of Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic? Green appeared in the films Simon, My Favorite Year, Garbo Talks, Lily In Love and I Want To Go Home. Some of their best-known songs include “Just In Time,” “The Party’s Over,” “Make Someone Happy,” “New York, New York,” “Neverland,” “It’s Love,” “Lonely Town” and “Some Other Time.” Stars they have written for in their musicals and films include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday, Mary Martin, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Nancy Walker. Jule Styne (additional music) made Broadway sing for 50 years as composer of High Button Shoes; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Two on the Aisle; Hazel Flagg; Gypsy; Peter Pan; Bells Are Ringing; Say Darling; Do Re Mi; Subways Are for Sleeping; Funny Girl; Fade Out-Fade In; Arturo Ui (the dramatic score); Hallelujah, Baby!; Red Shoes; Darling of the Day; Lorelei; and Sugar. His many film scores include Anchors Aweigh and My Sister Eileen as well as the title song of Three Coins in the Fountain. His songbook includes the standards “All I Need Is the Girl,” “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You,” “Just in Time,” “People,” “I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” “Small World” and “Time After Time.” He is a member of the Songwriter’s and Theatre Halls of Fame; a 1990 Kennedy Center Honoree; and the winner of two Grammys, an Oscar for “Three Coins in the Fountain,” an Emmy, the Donaldson Award, and the Drama Critics Award as a producer. The following lyric writers have collaborated with Styne: Frank Loesser, Sammy Cahn, Leo Robbin, Bob Hilliard, E. Y. Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Birkenhead, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Bob Merrill. Styne served on the Dramatists Guild Council and has been a member of ASCAP for more than 50 years. Hisa Takakuwa (director) is a classically trained actor, director and educator. She has worked at many theatrical institutions around the country including Sundance Children’s Theatre, The Music Center on Tour and Indiana Repertory Theatre. At SCR she appeared in The Man Who Came to Dinner and in 14 seasons of A Christmas Carol and Education Touring Productions. She is the Director of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory and directed past Players productions of Metamorphoses, Hard Times, Cinderella, Mansfield Park, Into the Woods, Snow Angel, Seussical, Annie and Bliss. While a longtime resident artist at the classical repertory company A Noise Within, she appeared in many productions including The Triumph of Love, The Comedy of Errors, The Misanthrope, Another Part of the Forest, The Seagull and Our Town. She directed Henry V, Twelfth Night and Shooting Stars at the Actors Co-op theatre in Hollywood. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Erin McNally (music director) is an accomplished actor, vocalist and educator. She has been inspiring young actors at SCR for over 11 years, including musical direction for the last eight Summer Players’ shows and the creation of a musical theatre class for the advanced teen students and Summer Acting Workshop. Armed with a BA in acting and musical theatre from CSU Fullerton, she has been a guest artist at the Hollywood Bowl for 13 years and has performed with such greats as Patti LuPone and Kristen Chenoweth. Her concert and cabaret credits are extensive, including two sold out solo concerts this season at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. When she is not performing, McNally also shares her passion for acting and voice with students at Tri-School Theatre, St. Juliana School and Disneyland, where she is a teaching artist for Disney Performing Arts. Southern Utah University, The New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble, Teatro Jornaleros, The Wooden Floor, Sage Hill High School, Fugitive Kind and Sacred Fools. Her work has also been seen in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania. www.kdlightingdesign.com. Jeff Polunas (sound design) is thrilled to be designing this production for the Summer Players after spending the past two summers mixing. Polunas received his MFA in sound design at UC Irvine and is currently the production sound engineer at CSU Fullerton. He has designed over 85 productions in his career. Credits include In the Red and Brown Water, 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, (UCI); Ivy & Bean, Anastasia Krupnik, Between Us Chickens (South Coast Repertory); The Full Monty, Peter Pan, The Wedding Singer, The Producers (Summer Repertory Theatre); and Company, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest (PCPA Theaterfest). He has been nominated four times for the KC/ACTF Regional Sound Design Award. He would like to thank his wife Valerie for her love and support. Kelly Todd (choreography), a UCLA theatre graduate, has directed, choreographed and performed in musicals in Los Angeles and New York. She is a proud resident artist at the Chance Theater, where some of her favorite projects have been West Side Story, for which she received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) 2012 Special Award for Fight Choreography, and Triassic Parq in 2013 and Jerry Springer: The Opera in 2011, both of which won the Ovation Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theatre and garnered her Ovation Award nominations for Best Choreography; and the professional world premiere of The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat by the Tony Award-winning composer of Urinetown, Mark Hollman. She was named Southern California’s Choreographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by StageSceneLA. Other credits include Ivy+Bean, The Musical, Absurd Person Singular and Seussical at SCR, The Who’s Tommy at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and two world premieres, Keep Movin’ On, featuring the music of Sam Cooke, and What’s Going On, featuring the music of Marvin Gaye. Kristen Cruz (stage manager) is excited to be working on the Summer Players show for her fourth production. She grew up dancing, singing and acting, so as her love for the arts and organizational talents aligned, she found her passion: Stage Management. Her other theatre credits include Laguna Playhouse, Irvine Barclay Theatre, The Wooden Floor, Little Fish Theatre, The Actor’s Fund, American Coast Theatre Company, Chance Theater and numerous dance companies in Southern California. She holds a MFA in stage management from UCI and a BA in theatre arts and minor in music from Vanguard University. Following this production, she will be joining Actor’s Equity and SCR’s stage management team. Sanaz Toossi (assistant director) is thrilled to be back at SCR, where she graduated from the conservatory and last assisted in directing Bliss. She is a proud graduate of UC Santa Barbara. Her first Summer Players show was East of the Sun, West of the Moon, in which she portrayed a villainous troll stepsister. Sanaz would like to thank Hisa and Erin for their endless support and her parents for their endless patience. Sara Ryung Clement (costume and set design) returns to SCR where her recent projects include costumes for 4000 Miles and Bliss, sets and costumes for The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois and How the World Began (both world premieres) and the set design for Absurd Person Singular. Additional regional and local design credits include East West Players, Open Fist Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Cornerstone Theater Company, Denver Center Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, CenterStage, A Noise Within, Marin Theatre Company, SPF, Elephant Theatre Company and Deaf West Theatre. She holds a MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama and received her AB from Princeton University. sararyungclement.com Brianna Beach (assistant music director) was the assistant music director for the Summer Players production of Seussical and the assistant director for the Teen Players’ Alice vs Wonderland. A former Conservatory student, she also appeared in several SCR productions, including A Christmas Carol, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden, Hard Times and Peter Pan. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in theatre in 2012 and is currently pursuing her K-8 teaching credential at CSU Long Beach (where she hopes to instill a love of theatre within all her students!). She'd like to thank Hisa, Erin, Sanaz and Kristen for making the process incredibly fun, as well as the cast of Peter Pan for always bringing their best selves. Karyn D. Lawrence (lighting design) is a Los Angeles based lighting designer with a MFA in lighting design from UC Irvine. 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