AGRIPPINA

Lucy Evans 
First-year Artist Diploma in Opera student from Bellingham, Washington

At CCM: Agrippina in Agrippina, Madame in Bulrusher (Opera Fusion: New Works), Uta Hagen in Robeson (Opera Fusion: New Works). Elsewhere: Rosina (cover) in The Barber of Seville and Marie de Medici in Galileo Galilei with Opera Theatre of St Louis (St Louis, Missouri); Maddalena in Rigoletto with Holy City Lyric Arts and Opera (Charleston, South Carolina); La Messaggera and La Ninfa in L'Orfeo, Agent 1 in M. Butterfly (World Premiere) and Kitchen Girl (cover) in Rusalka with Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Alto Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Albany Symphony (Albany, New York).

Tess Klibanoff 
First-year Artist Diploma Opera student from Rochester, New York

At CCM: Agrippina in Agrippina, Mère Marie in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Dorothée in L'Amant Anonyme, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen in Carmen (CCM Bootcamp), Djamileh in Djamileh (CCM Bootcamp), Suzy in La Rondine. Elsewhere: Chorus in La Bohème, chorus in Aida, chorus in Pirates of Penzance at Cincinnati Opera (Cincinnati, Ohio), Turnspit in Rusalka with Luke Housner Summer Opera (virtual), Zerlina in Don Giovanni with New York Lyric Opera (New York, New York).

Rachel Kobernick 
First-year Artist Diploma in Opera student from West Chester, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Léontine in L'Amant Anonyme, Yvette in La Rondine. Elsewhere: Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Pamina in The Magic Flute and The Shepherd in Tosca with Opera on the James (Lynchburg, Virginia), Chorus in Fidelio with Queen City Opera (Cincinnati), Chorus in Aida and La Boheme with Cincinnati Opera.

John Potvin 
Second-year Vocal Performance student from Aiken, South Carolina

At CCM: Pallante in Agrippina, 2nd Commissioner in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Estonian Frank/Interrogator/Senator Joseph McCarthy in Fellow Travelers. Elsewhere: Gloster Heming in The Mother of Us All with Chautauqua Opera (Chautauqua, New York), Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni and The Baker in Into the Woods with Furman Lyric Theater (Greenville, South Carolina).

John Mburu 
First-year Artist Diploma student in Opera from Warwick, Virginia

At CCM: Parson in The Cunning Little Vixen, Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia, Pallante in Agrippina, Paul Jr. in Robeson (Opera Fusion: New Works), Pope  Urban VIII in Galileo Galilei, Logger in Bulrusher (Opera Fusion), Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere: Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette at the Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York) , Chorus in Aida with Cincinnati Opera, Prisoner 1 in Fidelio with Queen City Opera (Cincinnati), Bob The Old Maid and the Thief with the Lee University Opera Theatre (Cleveland, Tennessee).

Jaeyoon Choi 
Second-year Master’s in Vocal Performance student from Seoul, South Korea

At CCM: Narciso in Agrippina, Sister Claire in Les Dialogues des Carmélites. Elsewhere: Chorus in La Bohème, Pirates of Penzance and Aida with Cincinnati Opera.

Sarah Scofield 
Second-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from Paris, France

At CCM: Sœur Martha in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Die Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte and Messaggiera in L’Orfeo with CCM Opera d’Arte.

Salleigh Harvey 
Second-year Master’s in Vocal Performance student from Fountain Inn, South Carolina

At CCM: Ensemble in The Highlands (Opera Fusion: New Works), Cricket/Owl in The Cunning Little Vixen, Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Ottone in Agrippina, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites.
Elsewhere: Ensemble in Liverpool Oratorio with Cincinnati Opera, Old Baroness (cover) in Vanessa with Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, South Carolina), Commendatore in Don Giovanni and Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods with Furman Lyric Theatre (Greenville, South Carolina).

Chuanyuan Liu 
Second-year Artist Diploma student from Changchun, China

At CCM: Ottone in Agrippina, Cardinal 1/Oracle 1 in Galileo Galilei. Elsewhere: Polinesso in Ariodante with Pittsburgh Opera, Orfeo cover/Amore in Orfeo & Erica with Victory Hall Opera (Charlottesville, Virginia), Song Liling cover in M. Butterfly蝴蝶君 with Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Man Under the Arch/Hotel Clerk in The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Priest/Medium in In a Grove with Pittsburgh Opera.

Su Hyeon Park
Second-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from Jeonju, South Korea

At CCM: Poppea in Agrippina, Chorus in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere: Chorus in Aïda with Cincinnati Opera, Chorus in La Bohème with Korea National Opera (Soeul, South Korea).

Kaylyn Taylor 
Second-year DMA Voice student from Las Vegas, Nevada

At CCM: Poppea in Agrippina, Gabriel in The Creation. Elsewhere: Poppea in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with Utah State Opera (Logan, Utah), Maria/Liesl (cover) in The Sound of Music with Music Theatre West (Logan, Utah), Susanna/Barbarina (cover) in Le nozze di Figaro with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre (Logan, Utah).

Atticus Rego 
Second-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey

At CCM: Claudio in Agrippina, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, John Styx in Orpheus in the Underworld (Opera d’Arte), Bass Chorus in Bullrusher with Opera Fusion: New Works. Elsewhere: Encouragement Award Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (Kentucky District).

Dinithi Fernando 
Sophomore Acting student from Independence, Kentucky

At CCM: Supernumerary in Agrippina, BIPOC Theatre Lab: Classics in Color. Elsewhere: CLARA (short film)..

Alison Pogorelc 
Second-year Artist Diploma in Opera Directing student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

At CCM: Director for L’Amant Anonyme. Elsewhere: Assistant stage director at the Metropolitan Opera (New York City), director for Ariane et Barbe-Bleue with West Edge Opera (Berkley, California). Recipient of the National Opera Association’s JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Stage Director Fellowship and OPERA America’s Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize.

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).

Roza Gavriilidis 
Senior Stage Management student from Norwalk, Connecticut 

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Partenope, Production Assistant for Bartered Bride.

Melanie Reitman 
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Buffalo Grove, Illinois

At CCM: Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist for A Dream Play and Props Manager for Agrippina. Elsewhere: Props Crew for the Celebrate Cedar Point Spectacular Parade and Night Show (2022) and Summer-bration (2023) at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio).

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.

Katie Reus
Senior 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.

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). 

Mia Adrian
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio

At CCM: Our Town.

Kristen Peck
Second-year Masters Lighting Design student from Fontana, California

At CCM: The Burials, Danceworks 2022. Elsewhere: God of Carnage at The Wayward Artist (Santa Ana, California), Titus Andronicus at Southern California Shakespeare Festival (Pomona, California), Heathers, Bee-luther-hatchee, Real Women Have Curves at California State Polytechnic University (Pomona, California).

Sydney Riddle 
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Lighting Designer/Head Electrician for The Wild Party, Assistant Lighting Designer for Spring Awakening, Head Electrician for A Dream Play, Assistant Lighting Designer for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Assistant Lighting Designer for New Works 2022 with the Cincinnati Ballet, Warehouse Crew and Touring Lighting Tech at Bandit Lites (Nashville, Tennessee).

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.

Elora Bowers 
Sophomore Stage Management student from West Chester, Ohio

At CCM: Production Assistant for Something Rotten, Costume Crew for Dialogues of the Carmelites, Assistant Stage Manager for Dido and Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi, Scenic Crew for Spring Dance, Deck Electrician for Sweet Charity.

Willow Heichel
Sophomore 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).

Lily Landoch 
Sophomore Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for An American in Paris and Clue, Production Assistant for Spring Awakening and Dialogues of the Carmelites, Wardrobe Crew for Frankenstein and She Loves Me, Spotlight Operator for Spelling Bee. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Pippin and The Producers at North Shore Center for Performing Arts (Skokie, Illinois).

Maddi Myer 
Sophomore Lighting Design student from Houston, Texas

At CCM: Assistant Media Designer and Media Programmer for Sweet Charity, Board Op for Spring Awakening, Follow Spot Op for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Media Board Op for Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance and Media Tech for The Overview Effect at Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia).

Moira Seger (she/they) 
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Charge for Everybody, Assistant Scenic Designer for The Rape of Lucretia, Props Manager for The Cunning Little Vixen. Elsewhere: Props Artisan for Camelot, H.M.S. Pinafore, and Orpheus in the Underworld with The Ohio Light Opera (Wooster, Ohio).

Morgan Terry 
Sophomore Technical Production student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Let the Right One In, Automation Programmer and Operator for Clue: On Stage. Elsewhere: Scenic Carpenter for Honky Tonk Angels, Baskerville, Annie, Million Dollar Quartet, and On Golden Pond with Totem Pole Playhouse (Fayetteville, PA).

Bethany Untener
Sophomore Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Production Manager for Hughes Project 2.0, Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Suessical Kids with Cincinnati Children’s Theatre

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.

Iz Dillon 
Junior Technical Production student from Carmel, Indiana

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Frankenstein and Fellow Travelers, Assistant Technical Director for Let The Right One In and Clue. Elsewhere: Carpenter at Cortland Repertory Theatre (Cortland, New York).

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 
Senior Technical Production student from Worthington, Ohio

At CCM: Techncial Director for Let The Right One In, Assistant Technical Director for Cinderella, Programmer for Sunday in the Park with George, Head Carpenter for Pippin, Assistant Production Electrcian for Spring Dance. Elsewhere: Laser Design and Programming Intern at Image Engineering (Baltimore, MD), Stage Crew Lead at The Sante Fe Opera (Santa Fe, NM), Stage Crew Apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera.

Hunter Lee
Senior Technical Production student from Amelia, Ohio

At CCM: Deck Electrician for Pippin, Head Carpenter for Xanadu, Production Assistant for The Good Trouble Project.

Benji Lookatch 
Junior Technical Direction student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for The Rape of Lucretia and Once on This Island, Head Carpenter for Something Rotten! and Cinderella. Elsewhere: Carpenter and Run Crew for Oliver, Verdi's Aida, Elton John's Aida, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at Utah Festival Opera and Music Theater (Logan, Utah).

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).

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.

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.

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.

Elora Bowers 
Sophomore Stage Management student from West Chester, Ohio

At CCM: Production Assistant for Something Rotten, Costume Crew for Dialogues of the Carmelites, Assistant Stage Manager for Dido and Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi, Scenic Crew for Spring Dance, Deck Electrician for Sweet Charity.

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).

Kaitlin Barnett 
Second-year Masters in Sound Design student from Butler, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Sound Designer for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Production Sound Engineer for Frankenstein, A1 for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: A1 for A Wrinkle in Time and Paradise Ballroom at New York Stage and Film (Poughkeepsie, New York), Cinderella and Steel Magnolias at Studio Tenn (Franklin, Tennessee), Sound Designer for The Lightning Thief and Secret Soldiers with Nashville Children's Theatre (Nashville, Tennessee), Little Women, Peter and the Starcatcher, and 42nd Street at Belmont University (Nashville, Tennessee), A Christmas Carol with Nashville Repertory Theatre (Nashville, Tennessee).

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).

Bryan Pivaral
Second-year Master’s Sound Design and Technology student from Miami, Florida

At CCM: Sound Designer for Everybody and 2023 Dance Showcase, A2 for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: A1 and PSE for LDI 2023 via Double Trouble Entertainment (Las Vegas, Nevada), Assistant Sound Designer for Laughs in Spanish (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), A1 for 2023 Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre (Logan, Utah), Sound Designer for  Daughter and When 5 Years Pass at California Institute of the Arts (Santa Clarita, California). Sound Designer for Pipeline, Italian Futurist Project, Red Velvet and Children's Hour at Florida International University (Miami, Florida).

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).

Katie Reus
Senior 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.

Mia Adrian
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio

At CCM: Our Town.

Suzanne Barnes
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Props manager for 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦, 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺, and 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. Co-scenic charge artist for 𝘓'𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘦 and 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯. Scenic Charge artist for 𝘓𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘢 / 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯. Elsewhere: Asst. scenic charge artist for 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 at The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Props intern for the Cincinnati Opera's 2023 Summer Festival.

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.

Liz Mitan 
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Charge for Let The Right One In, Frankenstein, She Loves Me and Gianni Schicchi.

Melanie Reitman 
Junior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Buffalo Grove, Illinois

At CCM: Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist for A Dream Play and Props Manager for Agrippina. Elsewhere: Props Crew for the Celebrate Cedar Point Spectacular Parade and Night Show (2022) and Summer-bration (2023) at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio).

Sage Shepard 
Senior Stage Management student from Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Clue, Fairies, Swans and Still Waters and The Wild Party. Assistant Stage Manager for Sweet Charity, Cincinnati Dionysia, Sunday in the Park with George, and Le Nozze de Figaro. Production Assistant for Ariadne Auf Naxos. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for ALICE (in wonderland) at Cincinnati Ballet (Cincinnati, Ohio), Stage Management Intern for Chicago, Camelot and Mary Poppins at The Muny (St. Louis, Missouri).