Production Staff Profiles
Benjamin Beardon
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Santa Clarita, California
At CCM: Scenic Designer for Light in the Piazza; Assistant Scenic Designer for Clybourne Park, 42nd Street, Yeast Nation, Our Country’s Good, Godspell. Elsewhere: Props Intern and Scenic Artist for Ariadne Auf Naxos, Romeo and Juliet, Porgy and Bess, Marriage of Figaro, Blind Injustice at Cincinnati Opera (Cincinnati, OH); Costume Intern and Dresser for A Christmas Carol, The Snow Geese, Burt & Me at Meadow Brook Theatre (Rochester, Michigan).
Alex Mason
Fourth-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Elsewhere: Cabaret, Mean Girls, Curious Incident..., Side Show, Assassins, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables, Silent Sky and Honeymoon in Vegas.
María Fernanda Ortiz
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Mexico City, Mexico
At CCM: Assistant Designer for The Bardered Bride and The Secret Garden, Designer film production of The Good Trouble Project and Little Shop of Horrors, future designer for Our Town and Pippin. Elsewhere: Costume Stitcher/Wardrobe head for The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Book of Will, The Bridges of Madison County, Romeo and Juliet and a children´s production The Gnomes of Gnot-A-Hill (Texas Shakespeare Festival).
Corbin White
Senior Sound Design and Technology student from Boston, Massachusetts
At CCM: The Secret Garden. Elsewhere: Souvenir (Arrow Rock, Missouri), Kiss of the Spider Woman and Dream Girls.
Colin Gallaher
Third-year MFA Make-Up and Wig Design student from Wappingers Falls, New York
At CCM: Make-Up and Wig Designer for Once, Pippin. Elsewhere: Make-Up and Wig Apprentice (2021) at the Santa Fe Opera, Make-Up and Wig Designer for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut) (KCACTF award winning), Make-Up and Wig Designer for Uncle Vanya at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut) and Evita at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut).
Marley Giggey
Third-year MFA Stage Management student from Chantilly, Virginia
At CCM: Travelogue, Student Choreographers’ Showcase 2020, Assistant Stage Manager for Clybourne Park, The Bartered Bride. Elsewhere: Resident Stage Manager for Treasure Island, Richard III, The Trial, Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Titus Andronicus, The Adventures of Peter Pan, Twelfth Night, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Tempest at Synetic Theater (Arlington, Virginia), Stage Manager for Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Mojo at Studio Theatre (Washington, DC), Production Assistant for Company, Dying City, Xanadu at Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA).
Simon Knox
Senior Theatre Design and Production student from Madison, Indiana
At CCM: Pippin, 42nd Street, The Secret Garden, Clybourne Park, She Loves Me, The Phoenix Project. Elsewhere: Ragtime, Windfall and Anna in the Tropics at Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, New York), Pie-Creator for the Broadway tour of Waitress.
Griffin Whitaker
Senior Technical Production student from Columbus, Ohio
At CCM: Master Carpenter for Clybourne Park, Assistant Technical Director for Opera Gala, Technical Director for Wings, Technical Director for Once, Technical Director for Pippin.
Leah Berry
Senior Stage Management student from Lexington, Kentucky
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager The Rocky Horror Show, Student Choreographers Showcase; Project Manager for Light in the Piazza, Little Shop of Horrors and,The Laramie Project; Assistant Production Manager for CCM 21-22 Season. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager Holiday Inn, Flashdance, Mamma Mia!, and Matilda with Surflight Theatre (Beach Haven, New Jersey); Assistant Stage Manager James and the Giant Peach with Lexington Children's Theatre (Lexington, Kentucky).
Madison Stone
Senior Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Dinner at Eight, Production Stage Manager for CCM's Opera Bootcamp, Production Assistant for 42nd Street, Assistant Stage Manager for Clybourne Park, Production Stage Manager for Midsummer Night's Dream. Elsewhere: Stage Management Trainee for Cincinnati Opera’s The Coronation of Poppea.
Anika Shirvaikar
Sophomore Stage Management student from Millburn, New Jersey
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for She Loves Me and Thirty Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Assistant for Julius Caesar and Pippin, Wardrobe Crew for Our Town, Scenic Crew for Once and Sunday in the Park With George. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Thirteen Jr., Seussical Kids, and Something Rotten Jr. with Pixie Dust Players (Rahway, New Jersey).
Assistant Production Managers
Leah Berry
Senior Stage Management student from Lexington, Kentucky
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager The Rocky Horror Show, Student Choreographers Showcase; Project Manager for Light in the Piazza, Little Shop of Horrors and,The Laramie Project; Assistant Production Manager for CCM 21-22 Season. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager Holiday Inn, Flashdance, Mamma Mia!, and Matilda with Surflight Theatre (Beach Haven, New Jersey); Assistant Stage Manager James and the Giant Peach with Lexington Children's Theatre (Lexington, Kentucky).
Emma King
Senior Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager of Wings, Assistant Production Manager of TDP Projects 2021, Production Assistant of Clybourne Park. Elsewhere: Production Stage Manager of Little Shop of Horrors and Newsies with Performing Arts, Inc. (Cincinnati).
Ian Axness
Second-year MM Orchestral Conducting student from Los Angeles, California
Axness is a conductor, coach, and collaborative pianist. At CCM: From Broadway With Love (CCM Philharmonia). Elsewhere: Orpheus in the Underworld (Juilliard), La Bohème (Mannes), Beardo (Pipeline Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street), Pericles (Two River Theater, NJ), Lyrics & Lyricists (92nd Street Y), Carousel (New York Philharmonic), Flora the Red Menace (Oberlin College). Teaching artist with The Performing Arts Project, Bridge Arts Ensemble and NY City Opera. BA from Oberlin College.
Suzanne Barnes
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati Ohio
At CCM: Co-scenic charge artist for L’Amant Anonyme, assistant scenic designer for Pippin, props manager for Sunday in the Park with George. Elsewhere: Assistant scenic charge artist and props artisan for Twelfth Night at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
Assistant Lighting Designer
Aiden Bezark
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Lighting Designer for Once and Into the Woods, Motion Graphics Designer for Wings and Hope after Hate, Assistant Lighting Designer for Pippin, Bright Star, La Clemenza di Tito. Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Little Shop of Horrors at Carnegie, Assistant Lighting Designer for Swan Lake and The Nutcracker at the Cincinnati Ballet.
Assistant Costume Designer
Erin Donnelly
Second-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Costume shop assistant at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), costume alternations for Royal Caribbean productions, including Mamma Mia! and Cats.
Assistant Wig and Make-Up Designer
Tiara Jones
Second-year Master’s Makeup and Wig Design student from Alexandria, Virginia
At CCM: Wig and Makeup Designer for She Loves Me, Sunday in the Park with George, Fellow Travelers and Blue Stockings, Assistant Designer for Frankenstein, Pippin and Our Town, Pre-Show Artist for Xanadu, The Marriage of Figaro, Something Rotten, Lysistrata and The Trojan Women, Makeup Artist for CCM Idea Lab and 1966 Film. Elsewhere: Carmen, The Sound of Music, The Jungle Book, Tenor Overboard, Holy Grail and The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson with the Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York), Designer in the Annual DAAP Fashion Show, New York Fashion Week, recipient of the Albert C. Yates Fellowship.
Megan Vaughn
Senior Costume Design and Technology student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor for The Secret Garden, Assistant Costume Designer for Bright Star, Wardrobe Head/Dresser for Clybourne Park, Wardrobe Head for The Bartered Bride, Wardrobe Head/Dresser for The Rocky Horror Show, Assistant Costume Designer/Wardrobe Head for Lady Windermere’s Fan, Dresser for Our Country’s Good, Dresser/Stitcher for Guys and Dolls.
Emily O’Donnell
Senior Costume Design and Technology student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Wig and Makeup Crew for 42nd Street, Dresser for The Secret Garden.
Corey Cochran
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Fort Worth, Texas
At CCM: Wardrobe Head for Xanadu and The Marriage of Figaro, Stitcher for Pippin, and Sunday in the Park With George, Crafts for Lysistrata and She Loves Me, Costume Designer for Orpheus in the Underworld. Elsewhere: First Hand for Pippin, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling bee, Jesus Christ Superstar, Robber Bridegroom and Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Timber Lake Playhouse (Carroll County, Illinois). Stitchers Apprentice for The Sound of Music at The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York).
Costume Graduate Assistants
Meredith Buckley
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Bloomington, Indiana
At CCM: Our Town and The Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: The Comedy of Errors and the original production Snug (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Little Shop of Horrors and Little Women (Indiana University).
María Fernanda Ortiz
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Mexico City, Mexico
At CCM: Assistant Designer for The Bardered Bride and The Secret Garden, Designer film production of The Good Trouble Project and Little Shop of Horrors, future designer for Our Town and Pippin. Elsewhere: Costume Stitcher/Wardrobe head for The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Book of Will, The Bridges of Madison County, Romeo and Juliet and a children´s production The Gnomes of Gnot-A-Hill (Texas Shakespeare Festival).
Brittannie McKenna Travis
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Indianapolis, Indiana
At CCM: Costume Designer of Fellow Travelers, Blue Stockings; Costume Coordinator of Xanadu; Wardrobe Supervisor of Lysistrata + Trojan Women, Dialogues of the Carmelites. Elsewhere: Costume Designer of Sidra Bell’s Work Within Dreams with Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana); 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Costume Design Award Recipient for In the Heights (Washington D.C.); 2022 Costume Design Intern at Television Academy Foundation – Emmy’s (Los Angeles, California).
Natasha Cox
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from South Orange, New Jersey
Elsewhere: Designer for A Doll's House: Part Two with PURE Theatre (Charleston, South Carolina), True West with PURE Theatre (Charleston, South Carolina), Fool For Love with PURE Theatre (Charleston, South Carolina), Student Choreographer Concert with College of Charleston, (Charleston, South Carolina) Enron with College of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina).
Dionte Mercado
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Alpharetta, Georgia
At CCM: Master Electrician for Xanadu and Pippin. Lighting Programmer for Spring Dance. Elsewhere: Electrics Apprentice for Santa Fe Opera 2021 Season.
Assistant Head Electricians
Nate Miller
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Lighting Tech with I.A.T.S.E. Local 5 at the Cincinnati Opera.
Abby Fluck
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Wayne, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Board Operator for Xanadu, Assistant Master Electrician for Pippin and The Burials, Production Electrician for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Electrician 2 for Hughes Project 2.0 Elsewhere: Electrician Apprentice for Grease, Private Lives, Always Pasty Cline, God Of Carnage, An American in Paris, and Murder on the Orient Express at The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts).
Paige Baumann
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Lighting designer for The Magic Flute, associate lighting designer for Student Choreographers' Showcase and assistant lighting designer for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Elsewhere: Assistant lighting designer for Pippin, Bonnie & Clyde, Mamma Mia!, Sylvia and The 39 Steps with Summer Repertory Theatre Festival (Santa Rosa, California).
Nate Miller
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Lighting Tech with I.A.T.S.E. Local 5 at the Cincinnati Opera.
McKenna Brennan
Senior Technical Production student from Los Alamitos, California
At CCM: Automation Op on Clybourne Park, Wardrobe Crew on 42nd Street, Master Carpenter on Little Shop of Horrors, Automation Op on Light in the Piazza.
Sarah Patisaul
Junior Stage Management student from Cary, North Carolina
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Frankenstein, Assistant Stage Manager for The Burials, ASM for Julius Caesar, Production Assistant for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Spotlight Operator for Pippin. Elsewhere: PSM for the Spring Recital with Pirouette Dance Company (Cary, North Carolina) ASM for Little Women at the Virginia Theatre Festival (Charlottesville, Virginia) ASM on Fidelio with Queen City Opera (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Janay Sukkarieh
Senior Technical Production student from Irvine, California
At CCM: Master Carpenter for Opera Gala, Scenic Carpenter for CCM’s 2019-20 season. Elsewhere: 2021 Stage Crew at the Santa Fe Opera, Production Assistant at South Coast Repertory, Lighting Assistant for The Britney Runs a Marathon Movie Premiere.
William Baker
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Frisco, Texas
At CCM: Lighting Designer for La Voix Humaine, Wings, Pas De Quatre; Projection Designer for Wings, Assistant Lighting Designer for 42nd Street, Master Electrician for L'Orfeo. Elsewhere: Lighting Fellow at Rock the House AV (Cleveland, Ohio), Lighting Intern at Cincinnati Ballet (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Paige Baumann
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Lighting designer for The Magic Flute, associate lighting designer for Student Choreographers' Showcase and assistant lighting designer for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Elsewhere: Assistant lighting designer for Pippin, Bonnie & Clyde, Mamma Mia!, Sylvia and The 39 Steps with Summer Repertory Theatre Festival (Santa Rosa, California).
Aiden Bezark
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Lighting Designer for Once and Into the Woods, Motion Graphics Designer for Wings and Hope after Hate, Assistant Lighting Designer for Pippin, Bright Star, La Clemenza di Tito. Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Little Shop of Horrors at Carnegie, Assistant Lighting Designer for Swan Lake and The Nutcracker at the Cincinnati Ballet.
Jason Bowden
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Carrollton, Texas
At CCM: Media Programmer and Content Creator for “The Hughes Project,” Projection Designer and Media Programmer for “The Laramie Project.” Elsewhere: Assistant Lighting Designer for Leon Bridges TV Specials with XR Studios (Los Angeles, California) Scenic/Projection Designer for “Cheer in Every Room” with Lightborne Communications (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Natalia Carlson
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Atlanta, Georgia
At CCM: Lighting Designer for the CCM Prep Youth Ballet Concert, Rise (CCM Idea Lab) , Multiplicity (CCM Idea Lab), Associate Lighting Designer for Giselle, Assistant Lighting Designer for Galileo Galilei and Xanadu Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for the Miami Dance Theater (Oxford, Ohio) and The Andree Expedition with the Cincinnati Song Initiative, Assistant Lighting Designer for The Pirates of Penzance, Aida, Bal de Triomphe & The Toast and Morris & Friends with the Cincinnati Opera, Lighting Second Assistant at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts).
Abby Fluck
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Wayne, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Board Operator for Xanadu, Assistant Master Electrician for Pippin and The Burials, Production Electrician for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Electrician 2 for Hughes Project 2.0 Elsewhere: Electrician Apprentice for Grease, Private Lives, Always Pasty Cline, God Of Carnage, An American in Paris, and Murder on the Orient Express at The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts).
Andrew Gange
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Flower Mound, Texas
At CCM: Assistant Lighting Designer for She Loves Me, Assistant Media Designer for Hughes Project 2.0, Assistant Lighting Designer for Galileo Galilei, Assistant Lighting Designer for The Burials, Assistant Lighting Designer for Light in the Piazza
Oliver Hunt
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Milton, Georgia
At CCM: Projections Designer for The Magic Flute, Programmer for Xanadu, Media Programmer for Fall Dance, Content Creator for Sunday in the Park With George. Elsewhere: Production Sound, Video and Lighting Technician for Interlochen Center for the Arts, summer 2021.
Kate Ingram
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Associate Lighting Designer for Giselle, Assistant Lighting Designer of Once. Elsewhere: Assistant Lighting Designer of Something Rotten!, staff electrician/board operator of A Chorus Line and Spongebob The Musical at Plays-in-the-Park (Edison, New Jersey).
Ashton Karp
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Kingwood, Texas
At CCM: Our Town.
Ian MacIntosh
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Screens producer and content creator for The Hughes Project, lighting and projection designer for Travelogue, Fall Dance. Elsewhere: Assistant lighting designer for Leon Bridges TV Specials with XR Studios (Los Angeles, California), content creator for Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins with the Dutch National Opera and Ballet (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
William Meckstroth
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from San Jose, California
At CCM: Assistant Lighting Designer for Frankenstein, Dance Works (Fall 2022), Something Rotten!, Production Electrician for L'Amant Anonyme, Assistant Lighting Designer for Student Choreographer’s Showcase (Fall 2021) Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Romeo and Juliet with Silicon Valley Shakespeare (San Jose, California), Programmer/Board Operator for Shylock with Tabard Theatre Company (San Jose, California).
Dionte Mercado
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Alpharetta, Georgia
At CCM: Master Electrician for Xanadu and Pippin. Lighting Programmer for Spring Dance. Elsewhere: Electrics Apprentice for Santa Fe Opera 2021 Season.
Claire Michels
Junior Lighting Design and technology student from Oregon, Wisconsin
At CCM: Spotlight operator for Choreography Showcase, Assistant Master Electrician on Fall and Spring Dance shows, Assistant Lighting Designer for Emelia. Elsewhere: Associate Lighting Designer for Titanic and Sweeney Todd with Oregon Straw Hat Players, Lighting Designer for Nutcracker, Recitals (2018, 2019) with A Leap Above Dance (Oregon, Wisconsin).
Nate Miller
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Lighting Tech with I.A.T.S.E. Local 5 at the Cincinnati Opera.
Sydney Riddle
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Head Media Tech/Operator for Galileo Galilei, Assistant Lighting Designer for L'Amant Anonyme, Assistant Lighting Designer for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty and Spring Awakening. Elsewhere: Warehouse crew member for Jason Aldean tour, Dude Perfect tour and Shinedown tour at Bandit Lights (Knoxville, Tennessee), Assistant Lighting Designer for New Works 2022 with The Cincinnati Ballet.
Riley Rowan
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
At CCM: Programmer for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, and Our Town, Production Electrician for Sunday in the Park with George, Asst. Production Electrician for Dance Works, Programmer for Little Shop of Horrors.
Kyle Strickland
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Plano, Texas
At CCM: Light Board Operator in Choreographers’ Showcase. Elsewhere: Deck Electrician in ALIEN/NATION with Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts).
Samuel Wilson
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Master Electrician and Programmer for Wings, Master Electrician and Programmer for Magic Flute, Assistant Master Electrician and Programmer for The Good Trouble Project, Spot Op. for 42nd Street. Elsewhere: Programmer for Shrek at Performing Arts Inc, Lighting Design Intern for Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre, Live Entertainment Tech for Kings Island.
Lighting Graduate Assistants
Baron Leon
Second-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Orlando, Florida
Elsewhere: Disney Contemporary Resort’s New Years’ Eve Pixar Party, the University of Mobile’s The Secret Garden, Emerald Coast Theatre’s Constellations, and Everblue Arts’ Band Geeks.
Alex Mason
Fourth-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Elsewhere: Cabaret, Mean Girls, Curious Incident..., Side Show, Assassins, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables, Silent Sky and Honeymoon in Vegas.
Kristen Peck
Second-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Fontana, California
Elsewhere: Bee-luther-hatchee, Heathers and Real Women Have Curves at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona); God of Carnage with The Wayward Artist and Titus Andronicus with Southern California Shakespeare Festival.
Alaina Pizzoferrato
Third-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Lemont, Illinois
At CCM: Lighting Designer for Xanadu, Sunday in the Park with George and The Light in the Piazza.
Nick Hunley
Junior in Technical Production from Worthington, Ohio
Elsewhere: Run Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, The Lord of Cries and at The Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico).
Mia Adrian
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Shelby Allred
Sophomore Technical Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Set crew in Puffs, Student Technical Director in Indecent with CAST Kentucky Theatre.
Annalee Crosser
Sophomore Stage Management student from Edmond, Oklahoma
At CCM: 2nd Assistant Stage Manager for L'Amant Anonyme, Production Assistant for The Marriage of Figaro Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for The Bridges of Madison County with Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Winchester, Virginia), Assistant Stage Manager for Once Upon a Mattress at Lyric Thelma Gaylord Academy (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).
Peggie Dona
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Set/Props Running Crew for Our Town, Costume Running Crew and Set construction Crew for Xanadu.
Iz Dillon
Sophomore Technical Direction student from Carmel, Indiana
At CCM: Head Carpenter for Frankenstein, Run Crew for Xanadu and Blue Stockings, Wigs and Makeup for Once, Spotlight Crew for She Loves Me.
Abby Fluck
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Wayne, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Board Operator for Xanadu, Assistant Master Electrician for Pippin and The Burials, Production Electrician for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Electrician 2 for Hughes Project 2.0 Elsewhere: Electrician Apprentice for Grease, Private Lives, Always Pasty Cline, God Of Carnage, An American in Paris, and Murder on the Orient Express at The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts).
Sophia Gamble
Sophomore Stage Management student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
At CCM: Production Assistant for Our Town and Sunday in the Park with George.
Hannah Kate Hawver
Sophomore Stage Management student from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Cincinnati Dionysia and Choreographer's Showcase; Production Assistant for Xanadu, Orpheus in the Underworld and Galileo Galilei; Deck Electrician for Something Rotten and Dance Works 2023
Ashton Karp
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Kingwood, Texas
At CCM: Our Town.
Bri Kelly
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Elsewhere: Assistant sound designer and A1 on Jekyll and Hyde an Immersive Musical Thriller, A1 on Always, Patsy Cline with Free Range Humans (Fredrick, Maryland), A2 on Cabaret with Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina), Sound Designer and Audio engineer on Pippin with The Free Theatre (Gaithersburg, Maryland), A1 on Romeo and Juliet with The Endangered Species Theatre Project (Fredrick, Maryland).
Benji Lookatch
Sophomore Technical Production student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
At CCM: Head Carpenter for Something Rotten and Cinderella, Wardrobe Crew for Our Town, Scenic Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, L'Amant Anonyme and Galileo Galilei.
Emily Mallendick
Sophomore Stage Management student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Dialogues of the Carmelites and Spring Awakening. Production Assistant for Blue Stockings and The Burials. Deck Electrician for Cincinnati Dionysia and Frankenstein. Wig and Makeup Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, Scenic Crew for Xanadu and Pippin Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Rent with Stone Productions (Toledo, Ohio).
Nate Miller
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Lighting Tech with I.A.T.S.E. Local 5 at the Cincinnati Opera.
Liz Mitan
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Meredith Randall
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Wardrobe Crew Head for Cinderella, Wardrobe Crew Head for Fellow Travelers.
Anika Shirvaikar
Sophomore Stage Management student from Millburn, New Jersey
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for She Loves Me and Thirty Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Assistant for Julius Caesar and Pippin, Wardrobe Crew for Our Town, Scenic Crew for Once and Sunday in the Park With George. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Thirteen Jr., Seussical Kids, and Something Rotten Jr. with Pixie Dust Players (Rahway, New Jersey).
Brady Smith
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Amelia, Ohio
At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.
Declan Smith
Freshman Musical Theatre student from West Hartford, Connecticut
Elsewhere: Ren in Footloose and Robert in The Drowsy Chaperone at Conard High School (West Hartford, Connecticut), Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!, Jamie in The Last Five Years with Benjamin Rauch at West Hartford Summer Arts Festival.
Lucia Thill
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Minneapolis, Minnesota
At CCM: Our Town. Elsewhere: Wizard of Oz at Southwest Community Education (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
Lauren Wooten
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from West Chester Township, Ohio
Anna Campisano
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Louisville, Kentucky
At CCM: Scenic Charge for Pippin, Xanadu, The Magic Flute and The Light in the Piazza. Scenic Painter for Blue Stocking, Once, The Laramie Project, The Secret Garden, Clybourne Park, 42nd Street, Lady Windemere's Fan and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Paint Shop Assistant from the 2021-22 season. Elsewhere: Scenic Paint Overhire for Cincinnati Playhouse (Spring 2022), Scenic Painter for Cinderella and The Tempest at Interlochen Center of the Arts (Summer 2021) and Scenic Paint Intern of Williamstown Theatre Festival (Summer 2019).
Suzanne Barnes
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati Ohio
At CCM: Co-scenic charge artist for L’Amant Anonyme, assistant scenic designer for Pippin, props manager for Sunday in the Park with George. Elsewhere: Assistant scenic charge artist and props artisan for Twelfth Night at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
Maddy Byrnes
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cleveland, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Prop Master for Magic Flute, Assistant Prop Master for Xanadu, Prop Master for L'Amant Anonyme.
Madisen Frazier
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art from Gainsville, Florida
At CCM: Props Master for Punk Rock, The Marriage of Figaro, Galileo. Elsewhere: Props Designer for Hello Dolly and Crazy for You at the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina), Props Artisan for Perchance to Dream, Music in the Air, The Devil’s Rider, Pirates of Penzance, Into the Woods, South Pacific, and Girl Crazy at the Ohio Light Opera (Wooster, OH).
Ali Flanagan
Senior Theater Design and Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Cinderella, Frankenstein, Something Rotten!, Blue Stockings, Once, The Laramie Project, L’Amant Anonyme, The Good Trouble Project. Elsewhere: Treasure Island and Anything Goes at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, Michigan).
Sean Haffey
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mentor, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Designer for The Laramie Project, Prop Master for Little Shop of Horrors, Hope After Hate. Elsewhere: Set Advisor for The Secret Life of Bros at Cincinnati Lab Theatre.
Liz Mitan
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Sami Tamulonis
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Westerville, Ohio
At CCM: Scenic Designer for Once, and Lysistrata and Trojan Women, Charge Artist for Galileo Galilei, Charge Artist for Fellow Travelers, Scenic Designer for Agrippina Elsewhere: Scenic Artist for Cinderella, Margaritaville, Leading Ladies, and On the Golden Pond at Cumberland County Playhouse (Crossville, Tennessee).
McKenna Brennan
Senior Technical Production student from Los Alamitos, California
At CCM: Automation Op on Clybourne Park, Wardrobe Crew on 42nd Street, Master Carpenter on Little Shop of Horrors, Automation Op on Light in the Piazza.
Aaron Graham
Senior Technical Production student from Columbus, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Little Shop of Horrors (2020), Master Carpenter for The Bartered Bride (2019). Elsewhere: Carpenter for Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (2018-19), Carpenter for Glimmerglass Opera Festival Summers (2019,2020,2021), Carpenter for Weston Playhouse (2018).
Nick Hunley
Junior in Technical Production from Worthington, Ohio
Elsewhere: Run Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, The Lord of Cries and at The Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico).
Thomas Iodice
Senior Technical Production student from Fairfax, Virginia
At CCM: Technical Director for Something Rotten!, Assistant Technical Director for The Marriage of Figaro.
Grace Mayo
Senior Technical Production student from Dublin, Ohio
At CCM: Technical Director for Cinderella, Assistant Technical Director for Galileo Galilei and Dance Works 2021-22, Head Carpenter for The Good Trouble Project. Elsewhere: Technical Director for The Addams Family and Smokey Joe's Café, Assistant Technical Director for Legally Blonde, Cinderella, The Comedy of Errors, and Brigadoon, Carpenter for Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana).
Stephanie O’Rear
Senior in Technical Production student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Technical Director for Xanadu, Galileo; Assistant Technical Director for The Good Trouble, The Magic Flute; Master Carpenter for 42nd Street, The Secret Garden. Elsewhere: Intern at Scenic Solutions.
Janay Sukkarieh
Senior Technical Production student from Irvine, California
At CCM: Master Carpenter for Opera Gala, Scenic Carpenter for CCM’s 2019-20 season. Elsewhere: 2021 Stage Crew at the Santa Fe Opera, Production Assistant at South Coast Repertory, Lighting Assistant for The Britney Runs a Marathon Movie Premiere.
Logan Vanderpool
Senior Technical Production student from Fairfield, Ohio.
At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Xanadu, Master Carpenter for Say What You Want to Say, Scenic Crew for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Rocky Horror show, Secret Garden. Elsewhere: Carpenter for Cinderella at Trollwood Performing Arts School.
Mia Adrian
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Peggie Dona
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Set/Props Running Crew for Our Town, Costume Running Crew and Set construction Crew for Xanadu.
Ashton Karp
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Kingwood, Texas
At CCM: Our Town.
Emily Mallendick
Sophomore Stage Management student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Dialogues of the Carmelites and Spring Awakening. Production Assistant for Blue Stockings and The Burials. Deck Electrician for Cincinnati Dionysia and Frankenstein. Wig and Makeup Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, Scenic Crew for Xanadu and Pippin Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Rent with Stone Productions (Toledo, Ohio).
Liz Mitan
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Melanie Reitman
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art from Buffalo Grove, Illinois
At CCM: Scenic Running Crew for Xanadu, Blue Stockings, and Pippin, Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist for A Dream Play. Elsewhere: Props Crew for the Celebrate Cedar Point Spectacular Parade and Night Show at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio).
Brady Smith
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Amelia, Ohio
At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.
Dani Silver
Senior Sound Design and Technology student from East Brunswick, New Jersey
At CCM: A1 for Something Rotten, Production Sound Engineer for Giselle, Assistant Sound Designer for Pippin, A1 for Once, Production Sound Engineer for Our Town Elsewhere: A1 for A Chorus Line, The SpongeBob Musical, Something Rotten; A2 for America the Beautiful, Rock, Roll and Soul, and Showtune at Plays-in-the-Park (Edison, New Jersey).
Production Sound Engineer
Geoffrey Mintz
Senior Sound Design and Technology student from Perrysburg, Ohio
At CCM: Sound Designer for Light in the Piazza, Sound Designer for Exposure Therapy, Production Sound Engineer for BOOM (2020). Elsewhere: Area Supervisor for Bands in Residence 20-21 (Cedar Point), Lead Tech for Nashville Hits and Fangtastics (Cedar Point).
Alena Milos
Senior Sound Design student from Cleveland, Ohio
At CCM: Sound Designer for Dialogues of the Carmelites, A1 for Pippin, Assistant Sound Designer for Blue Stockings, Co-Sound Designer for Boom 2022, PSE for Assistant Sound Designer for The Laramie Project, A2 for The Secret Garden, A2 for The Rocky Horror Show. Elsewhere: A2 for Little Shop of Horrors and Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Boise, Idaho), Mix Engineer for The 39 Steps at Great Lakes Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), Mix Engineer for Bands in Residence at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio).
Patrick Kiernan
Second-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Kingston, New York
Elsewhere: Off-Broadway productions of A Salute to the Brave (world premiere) and She Stoops to Conquer (The Actors Company Theater); Simon Dawes Becomes a Planet (Time Shared Productions); Richard III, As You Like It, Around the World in 80 Days (world premiere), Julius Caesar (co-design, Matt Webb), Stuart Little, The Shakespeare, Stealer (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Henry VI Part One, Breach (Baldwin Wallace University); The Hunting of the Snark (The Players NYC/University of Michigan).
Mia Teboe
Junior Sound Design and Technology student from Lebanon, Ohio
At CCM: Production Sound Engineer for She Loves Me, A1 for 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, Assistant Sound Designer for Sunday in the Park With George, Submix/Soundscape Tracking Operator for Pippin, Mic Tech for Once, Associate Audio Engineer for Musical Theatre Senior Showcase 2021. Elsewhere: A1 for The 70s on Demand! at Kings Island.
Kayla Chen
Junior Sound Design student from East Brunswick, New Jersey
At CCM: Assistant Sound Designer for She Loves Me, Assistant Designer/A2 for The Burials, Mic Tech for Pippin. Elsewhere: Sound Technician/A2 Sub for A Little Night Music with Barrington Stage Co. (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), A2 for The Nutty Professor and A2 for The Cher Show with The Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit, Maine).
Bri Kelly
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Elsewhere: Assistant sound designer and A1 on Jekyll and Hyde an Immersive Musical Thriller, A1 on Always, Patsy Cline with Free Range Humans (Fredrick, Maryland), A2 on Cabaret with Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina), Sound Designer and Audio engineer on Pippin with The Free Theatre (Gaithersburg, Maryland), A1 on Romeo and Juliet with The Endangered Species Theatre Project (Fredrick, Maryland).
Brenden Friedel
Junior Sound Design and Technology student from Orlando, Florida
At CCM: Something Rotten!, Xanadu, Dance Works, and Orpheus in the Underworld Elsewhere: Mamma Mia and Much Ado About Nothing at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (Reno, Nevada), Audio Engineer at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (Orlando, Florida).
Corbin Hopkins
Senior Sound Design and Technology student from Austin, Texas
At CCM: A2 for The Rocky Horror Show, PSE for Midsummer, and Asst. Sound Designer for Wings.
Sound Shop Graduate Assistants
Alex Brock
Third-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Greenfield, Indiana
At CCM: Production Sound Engineer for 42nd Street, Assistant Designer for The Bartered Bride. Elsewhere: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theater, Bay Street Theater, Syracuse Stage, Chautauqua Theater Company and New York Stage and Film.
Ryan Hurt
Third-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Lincoln, Nebraska
At CCM: A1 of The Rocky Horror Show, Production Sound Engineer of Bright Star, Sound Designer of Clybourne Park, Assistant Sound Designer of Lady Windermere's Fan, Sound Designer of Association of Controlled Dreamers. Elsewhere: Sound Designer of The Niceties at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Sound Designer of Woyzeck at South Dakota State University, A1 of Seussical at South Dakota State University
Patrick Kiernan
Second-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Kingston, New York
Elsewhere: Off-Broadway productions of A Salute to the Brave (world premiere) and She Stoops to Conquer (The Actors Company Theater); Simon Dawes Becomes a Planet (Time Shared Productions); Richard III, As You Like It, Around the World in 80 Days (world premiere), Julius Caesar (co-design, Matt Webb), Stuart Little, The Shakespeare, Stealer (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Henry VI Part One, Breach (Baldwin Wallace University); The Hunting of the Snark (The Players NYC/University of Michigan).
Aaron Harris Woodstein (they/them)
Third-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Sound Designer for Our Town, Unfortunate Mechanism (CCM Radio Play) and The Missing (Radio Play). Elsewhere: Sound Designer for It’s a Small World at Bristol Valley Theater (Naples, New York), Macbeth and Twelfth Night at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York, New York), Casa Valentina with Pride Films and Plays (Chicago, Illinois), The Peacebook Festival 2019 and The Light 2019 with Collaboraction (Chicago, Illinois), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Saint Sebastian Players (Chicago, Illinois).
Wig and Make-Up Running Crew
Matthew Danforth
Sophomore Musical Theatre student from Demarest, New Jersey
Franco Valerga
Sophomore Musical Theatre student from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Elsewhere: Sky in Mamma Mia! and Galileo in We Will Rock You.
Wig and Make-Up Graduate Assistants
Colin Gallaher
Third-year MFA Make-Up and Wig Design student from Wappingers Falls, New York
At CCM: Make-Up and Wig Designer for Once, Pippin. Elsewhere: Make-Up and Wig Apprentice (2021) at the Santa Fe Opera, Make-Up and Wig Designer for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut) (KCACTF award winning), Make-Up and Wig Designer for Uncle Vanya at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut) and Evita at Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Connecticut).
Tiara Jones
Second-year Master’s Makeup and Wig Design student from Alexandria, Virginia
At CCM: Wig and Makeup Designer for She Loves Me, Sunday in the Park with George, Fellow Travelers and Blue Stockings, Assistant Designer for Frankenstein, Pippin and Our Town, Pre-Show Artist for Xanadu, The Marriage of Figaro, Something Rotten, Lysistrata and The Trojan Women, Makeup Artist for CCM Idea Lab and 1966 Film. Elsewhere: Carmen, The Sound of Music, The Jungle Book, Tenor Overboard, Holy Grail and The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson with the Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York), Designer in the Annual DAAP Fashion Show, New York Fashion Week, recipient of the Albert C. Yates Fellowship.
Mia Adrian
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Suzanne Barnes
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati Ohio
At CCM: Co-scenic charge artist for L’Amant Anonyme, assistant scenic designer for Pippin, props manager for Sunday in the Park with George. Elsewhere: Assistant scenic charge artist and props artisan for Twelfth Night at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
Maddy Byrnes
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cleveland, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Prop Master for Magic Flute, Assistant Prop Master for Xanadu, Prop Master for L'Amant Anonyme.
Madisen Frazier
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art from Gainsville, Florida
At CCM: Props Master for Punk Rock, The Marriage of Figaro, Galileo. Elsewhere: Props Designer for Hello Dolly and Crazy for You at the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina), Props Artisan for Perchance to Dream, Music in the Air, The Devil’s Rider, Pirates of Penzance, Into the Woods, South Pacific, and Girl Crazy at the Ohio Light Opera (Wooster, OH).
Roza Gavriilidis
Senior Stage Management student from Norwalk, Connecticut
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Partenope, Production Assistant for Bartered Bride.
Simon Knox
Senior Theatre Design and Production student from Madison, Indiana
At CCM: Pippin, 42nd Street, The Secret Garden, Clybourne Park, She Loves Me, The Phoenix Project. Elsewhere: Ragtime, Windfall and Anna in the Tropics at Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, New York), Pie-Creator for the Broadway tour of Waitress.
Rachel Ledington
Junior Stage Management student from Round Rock, Texas
At CCM: Magic Flute. Elsewhere: Little Mermaid at Zilker Hillside theatre, Kids Act Out productions at Liberty Exhibition Hall.
Melanie Reitman
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art from Buffalo Grove, Illinois
At CCM: Scenic Running Crew for Xanadu, Blue Stockings, and Pippin, Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist for A Dream Play. Elsewhere: Props Crew for the Celebrate Cedar Point Spectacular Parade and Night Show at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio).
Sage Shepard
Junior Stage Management student from Cornwall Bridge
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for The Wild Party and Dance Works, Assistant Stage Manager for Cincinnati Dionysia, Sunday in the Park with George, and Le Nozze de Figaro, Production Assistant for Ariadne Auf Naxos Elsewhere: Stage Management Intern for Chicago, Camelot and Mary Poppins at The Muny (St. Louis, Missouri)
Lauren Wooten
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from West Chester Township, Ohio
Stage Management Office Assistant
Jie Min
Second-year MFA Stage Management student from Harbin, China
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Dance Works 2022, Assistant Stage Manager for L'Amant Anonyme, Assistant Stage Manager for Dance Works 2021 Elsewhere: ASM for Ushuaia Blue, ASM for Babel at Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia), Co-director and Media Designer for Am I Still Alive, Film Producer for A Painting at Beijing Dance Academy (Beijing, China), Executive Director and Dance Choreographer of Gala Celebrate the Spring Festival at China Central Television (Beijing, China).