Production Staff Profiles
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
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).
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
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 Manager
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).
Assistant Scenic Designer and Scenic Charge Artist
Mia Adrian
Sophomore Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Mason, Ohio
At CCM: Our Town.
Assistant Lighting Designer
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.
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.
Assistant Production Electrician/ Programmer/ Board Operator
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.
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).
Lily Landoch
Freshman Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Production Assistant for Dialogues of the Carmelites, Wardrobe Crew for She Loves Me.
Maddi Myer
Freshman Lighting Design and Technology student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Followspot Operator for Something Rotten!
Moira Seger (she/they)
Freshman Stage Design student from Cincinnati, Ohio.
At CCM: Something Rotten!, Cincinnati Dionysia.
Morgan Terry
Freshman Technical Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Scenic Crew for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Spot Op for Jersey Boys and Deck/Scenic Crew for White Christmas at Fulton Theatre (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.
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
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.
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).
Hunter Lee
Junior 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
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.
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.
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).
Production Sound Engineer
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).
Sound Shop Graduate Assistants
Kaitlin Barnett
First-year Master’s Sound Design and Technology student from Butler, Pennsylvania
At CCM: A1 for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Cinderella and Steel Magnolias at Studio Tenn (Franklin, Tennessee), 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
First-year Master’s Sound Design and Technology student from Miami, Florida
At CCM: A2 for She Loves Me Elsewhere: 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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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)