Production Staff Profiles
Associate Lighting Designers
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).
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).
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
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).
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).
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 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).
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).
Assistant Head Electrician
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
Liz Mitan
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Production Sound Engineer
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).
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
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).
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).
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).
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).
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