Production Staff Profiles
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).
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).
Morgan Piper
Senior Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Something Rotten!, Giselle, and Dance Works. Assistant Stage Manager for Once, Together/Apart, From Broadway With Love, and The Hughes Project. Production Assistant for Lady Windermere's Fan Elsewhere: Cinderella with the Cincinnati Ballet, The House of the Negro Insane at the Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia).
Thomas Iodice
Senior Technical Production student from Fairfax, Virginia
At CCM: Technical Director for Something Rotten!, Assistant Technical Director for The Marriage of Figaro.
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).
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.
El Bowers
Freshman Stage Management student from Liberty Township, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for 101 Dalmatians at Rise Up Performing Arts (Hamilton, Ohio).
Assistant Production Managers
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).
Katie Reus
Junior Stage Management student from St. Louis, Missouri
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for A Dream Play, Assistant Stage Manager for Giselle, Blue Stockings, Dance Works (Fall 2021), Student Choreographer's Showcase 2021, Production Assistant for From Broadway with Love.
Assistant Lighting Designers
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).
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.
Amira Rowe
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Wardrobe Head for Xanadu, Wardrobe Head for The Marriage of Figaro, Wardrobe Supervisor for Something Rotten, Assistant Costume Designer for Frankenstein. Elsewhere: Costumes Advisor for Tarzan, Costumes Advisor for Anastasia, Draper for SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical.
Lauren Wooten
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from West Chester Township, Ohio
Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.
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
Michael Donahue
Junior Sound Design student from Norwalk, Connecticut
At CCM: Production Sound Engineer for Dialogues des Carmelites, Production Sound Engineer for The Burials, Assistant Sound Designer for Orpheus in the Underworld. Elsewhere: A2 for Kinky Boots, Something Rotten and Mamma Mia with Forestburgh Playhouse (Forestburgh, New York).
Electrics Show Assistants/Lighting Graduate Assistants
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.
Assistant Technical Director
Lukas Hummeldorf
Junior Technical Design and Production student from Covington, Kentucky
At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Something Rotten!, Master Carpenter for Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: Intern Technical Director for Indecent and Big Fish at the Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (Covington, Kentucky), and the Shop Foreman for Radium Girls and Tuck Everlasting at Notre Dame Academy (Covington, Kentucky). Overhire with IATSE Local 5, and carpenter with CVG Made.
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.
El Bowers
Freshman Stage Management student from Liberty Township, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for 101 Dalmatians at Rise Up Performing Arts (Hamilton, Ohio).
Willow Heichel
Freshman Technical Production student from Granville, Ohio
At CCM: Scenic crew for Something Rotten Elsewhere: Deck Electrician for Crazy for You with the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina).
Arcadia Paff
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Running Crew in Legally Blonde with CYPT, Assistant Lighting Designer in Shrek with CAST, Light Board Operator in Spring Awakening with CAST, Lighting Designer in Puffs with CAST, Lighting Designer and Projections Operator in Big Fish with CAST.
Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.
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).
Scenic Artist’s Assistant
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.
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).
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.
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).
Mia Adrian
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
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.
Maya Eberhardt
Senior Technical Direction student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Technical Director of Pippin, Master Carpenter of The Laramie Project. Elsewhere: Welder at STAGES St. Louis, Stagehand at Bogart's (Cincinnati), Carpenter at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.
Gabby Ullman
Junior Technical Production student from Scottsdale, Arizona
At CCM: Master Carpenter for Galileo Galilei and Assistant Technical Director for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: she’s worked on installations for Disney World, and built for news studios and Super Bowls.
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).
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.
Lukas Hummeldorf
Junior Technical Design and Production student from Covington, Kentucky
At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Something Rotten!, Master Carpenter for Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: Intern Technical Director for Indecent and Big Fish at the Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (Covington, Kentucky), and the Shop Foreman for Radium Girls and Tuck Everlasting at Notre Dame Academy (Covington, Kentucky). Overhire with IATSE Local 5, and carpenter with CVG Made.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
Brady Smith
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Amelia, Ohio
At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.
Sound Shop Graduate Assistants
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, Hair, and Make-Up Assistant Designer
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).
Wig and Make-Up Graduate Assistants
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.