CCM PLAY SERIES PRESENTS

FRANKENSTEIN

By Nick Dear 
From the novel by Mary Shelley

Feb. 9-12, 2023, Patricia Corbett Theater

  • Director | Susan Felder
  • Choreographer | Lucia Duque
  • Intimacy/Dialect Director | Sarah Summerwell
  • Fight Director | k. Jenny Jones
  • Scenic Designer | Sean Haffey*
  • Lighting Designer | Sharon Huizinga
  • Costume Designer | Natasha Cox*
  • Sound Designer | Corbin Hopkins*
  • Wig & Make-Up Designer | Kelly Yurko
  • Production Stage Manager | Sarah Patisaul*
  • Props Designer | Hattie Fann*
  • Media Designer | Ben Nicholson

*CCM Student

Content advisory: This production contains adult content, including scenes depicting physical and sexual violence.

Frankenstein will last approximately two hours with a 15-minute intermission.

Frankenstein promotional artwork by CCM student Hunter Trammell

Director's Note

By Susan Felder

What is it to be human? The synapses of the brain fire, we shudder and we respond from the boxes of experience and images that shape us. Or is there something more? What is innate human nature?

During the summer of 1816, 18-year old Mary Shelley arrived in Geneva with her lover, Percy Shelly, her step-sister, Claire, and Lord Byron. Mary’s beloved father condemned her relationship with the much older Shelley and rejected his daughter.   The weather that summer grew dim. Mary writes: “The thunder storms that visit us are grander and more terrific than I have ever seen before.” Forced indoors, they read German ghost stories to pass the time. Lord Byron proposes a challenge, a competition, to write the best ghost story. And in an era defined by scientific advance and exploration, isolated in the splendor of the mountains — from the mind of 18-year old Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is born.  

Nick Dear’s adaptation returns in part to the Creature’s point-of-view in this classic story. The play offers questions of the nature of life and creation. In pursuing creation, where are the boundaries? And what are our responsibilities for what we create? 

Acknowledgments

Special thanks (music) to Carson Mehlbauer.

The Place and Time

Setting: 1820s Regency Era

Location: Ingolstadt Germany, Geneva Switzerland, Orkney Islands, Polar Ice cap (Arctic Circle)

The Company

  • Creature | Kevin Naddeo
  • Victor Frankenstein | Hunter Trammell
  • Elizabeth | Katie Kinman
  • William | Gavin Duffy
  • Gretel/Servant in Frankenstein Household | Hannah Toronto
  • Agatha/Townsfolk | Kendal Rayborn
  • DeLacey | Cassandra Reeves
  • Felix/Servant in Frankenstein Household | Brandon Cook
  • Female Creature | Chloe Hill
  • M. Frankenstein (Victor’s father, owner of estate) | Malik Smith
  • Clarice/Townsfolk | Gabi Adams
  • Klaus/Serv/Rab | Nick Casey
  • Ewan/Client/Servant in Frankenstein Household | Evan Kupersmith
  • Gustav/Townsfolk/Serv in Frankenstein Household | Kiki Hellerman
  • Constable/Townsfolk/Serv in Frankenstein Household | Madi Burnett
  • Understudies | Galen Arnett and Hannah Toronto

Cast Profiles

Creature

Kevin Naddeo

Kevin Naddeo
Senior Acting student from Cherry Hill, New Jersey

At CCM: Ryan Martin in The Burials, Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar, various understudies in Midsummer Night's Dream, Uncle Jakob/Leon in Hope After Hate.


Victor Frankenstein

Hunter Trammell

Hunter Trammell
Senior Acting student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Ben Martin in The Burials, Cinna/Flavius in Julius Caesar. Elsewhere: Sean in The Match Game with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Lee in True West with The Konk Basement (Cincinnati), Panfilo in The World is Ending and Maybe That’s Kinda Hot (Bellevue Park, Cincinnati). Film Credits: “And Then I Go” and “House of the Witch”.


Elizabeth

Katie Kinman

Katie Kinman
Junior Acting student from Louisville, KY

At CCM: Minnie/Collins/Waiter/Swing in Blue Stockings, Cougar 3/Greek Chorus in Cincinnati Dionysia, Wilfred/King/Hilarion understudy in Giselle. Susannah in X-MAS, Tour Guide Assistant in Dummies (CCM Transmigration).


William

Gavin Duffy

Gavin Duffy
Sophomore Acting student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: K.I.D.S. (Transmigration). Elsewhere: Crutchie in Newsies with CAST NKY, Damien in Sally Salem and the Spooktacular Birthday Extravaganza with Cincy Fringe Festival, Beethoven in Dog Sees God


Gretel/Servant in Frankenstein Household

Hanah Toronto

Hannah Toronto  
Sophomore Acting student from McLean, Virginia

At CCM: #2 in The Wolves, Socko/Clarice in Up Yours!, Swing #3 in A Dream Play. Short films: And…Action, Wax Dolls, and Burnt Out.


Agatha/Townsfolk

Kendal Rayborn

Kendal Rayborn
Sophomore Acting student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: BIPOC Theater Lab, 404: Play Not Found (Transmigration).  


DeLacey

Cassandra Reeves

Cassandra Reeves (she/her)
Sophomore Acting student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Mother/Blind Man in A Dream Play, Sunny in The Doghouse. Elsewhere: Susan in Sally Salem and the Spooktacular Birthday Extravaganza with The Cincy Fringe Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio), Wendla in Spring Awakening with The Cincinnati Actor's Studio (Cincinnati, Ohio).


Felix/Servant in Frankenstein Household

Brandon Cook

Brandon Cook 
Sophomore Acting student from Atlanta, Georgia

At CCM: Greg in The Burials, CB in Dog Sees God (CCM Lab Project).


Female Creature

Chloé Hill

Chloé Hill
Junior Acting student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Assistant Director for Cincinnati Dionysia, Rebecca in Our Town, Transmigration 2022. Elsewhere: Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Liberty Exhibition Hall (Cincinnati), Paminea understudy at Bellevue Park (Cincinnati).


M. Frankenstein (Victor’s father, owner of estate)

Malik Smith

Malik Smith (he/him)
Senior Acting student from Louisville, KY

At CCM: Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Jayden in The Burials. Joy in Dirty Laundry, Ensemble in 404: Play Not Found, Dioneo in The World’s Ending and that’s Kinda Hot (CCM Transpigration).


Clarice/Townsfolk

Gabi Adams

Gabi Adams
Sophomore Acting student from Seattle, Washington

At CCM: Bessie in Dog House. Elsewhere: Floor 6, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and A Murder to Solve (short films).


Klaus/Serv/Rab

Nick Casey

Nick Casey 
Sophomore Acting student from Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Elsewhere: Dickon in The Secret Garden (NJYA) , vocalist in Sondheim on Sondheim , performer in Legally Blonde and Les Misérables with Pixie Dust Player.


Ewan/Client/Servant in Frankenstein Household

Evan Kupersmith

Evan Kupersmith 
Sophomore Acting student from Atlanta, Georgia

At CCM: Ensemble in Cincinnati Dionysia, Matt in Dog Sees G-d (CCM Lab Production).


Gustav/Townsfolk/Serv in Frankenstein Household

Kiki Hellerman

Kiki Hellerman 
Sophomore Acting student from Chicago, Illinois 

Elsewhere: Titus Andronicus with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Theatre, When Beggars Die with Queen Mab’s Players and working as a venue technician with the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.


Constable/Townsfolk/Serv in Frankenstein Household

Madison Burnett

Madison Burnett 
Sophomore Acting student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky


Understudies

Galen Arnett

Galen Arnett 
Junior Acting student from Winchester, Kentucky

At CCM: Howie Newsome in Our Town, Ralph in Blue Stockings.


Hanah Toronto

Hannah Toronto  
Sophomore Acting student from McLean, Virginia

At CCM: #2 in The Wolves, Socko/Clarice in Up Yours!, Swing #3 in A Dream Play. Short films: And…Action, Wax Dolls, and Burnt Out.


Production Staff

  • Technical Director | Logan Vanderpool
  • Assistant Stage Managers | Indy Caramelli, Annalee Crosser
  • Production Assistant | Kait Naylor
  • Assistant Production Managers | Emma King, Katie Reus
  • Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist | Liz Mitan
  • Assistant Costume Designer | Amira Rowe
  • Assistant Lighting Designers | Baron Leon, William Meckstroth
  • Wardrobe Supervisor | Savannah Brooks
  • Pattern Maker/Draper | Meredith Buckley, Clara Cavins, Miranda Cotman, Abby Powers
  • Wardrobe Crew Head | Peggie Dona
  • Media Operator and Assistant Media Designer | Oliver Hunt
  • Disguise Programmer and Content Creator | Andrew Gange
  • Wardrobe Run Crew | Kassidy Schley, Nick Feldmann, Ella Gover, Lily Landoch
  • Production Electrician | Gregory S. Falcione
  • Associate Production Electrician | Riley Rowan
  • Associate Production Electrician/Media Tech | Nate Miller
  • Light Board Operator | Charlie Raschke
  • Deck Electricians | Sophia Gamble, Emily Mallendick
  • Electrics Crew | CCM Lighting Department & Technology students
  • Lighting Graduate Assistants | Jessica Drayton, Baron Leon, Kristen Peck, Alaina Pizzoferrato
  • Assistant Technical Director | Gabby Ullman
  • Lighting Programmer | Eli Suarez*
  • Head Carpenter | Iz Dillon
  • Automation Operator ( Creative Connors) | Iz Dillon
  • Set Construction Crew | Matti Andrews, Jeffrey Bell, William Blank, El (Elora) Bowers, Anna Camerer, Nick Feldmann, Raeya Garcia, Ella Gover, Laura Hanks, Willow Heichel, Corvo (Mary) Hopkins, Lily Landoch, Kaitlin Mier, Maddi Myer, Kait Naylor, Molly Powell, Charlie Raschke, Evan Reinhart, Paloma Robles, Kassidy Schley, Moira Seger, Jordan Shaw, Emma Shreve, Morgan Terry, Bethany Untener, Reagan Warvel 
  • Scenic Charge Artists | Ali Flanagan, Suzanne Barnes, Liz Mitan
  • Paint Crew | Sami Tamulonis, Sean Haffey, Simon Knox, Abigail Heyd, Mia Adrian, Melanie Reitman, Molly Powell, Anna Camerer
  • Scene Shop Assistants | McKenna Cameron Brennan, Isabelle /Izzy Dillon, Lukas J. Hummeldorf, Nick Hunley, Benji Lookatch, Grace Elizabeth Mayo, Janay Sukkarieh, Gabrielle Sprouse Ullman, Logan Timothy Vanderpool
  • Set/Props Running Crew | Corvo Hopkins, Anna Camerer, Moira Seger, Emma Shreve, Jeffrey Bell
  • Assistant Sound Designer | Alex Hsiung
  • Production Sound Engineer | Kaitlin Barnett
  • Sound Board Operator/A1 | Brady Smith
  • Sound Shop Graduate Assistants | Kaitlin Barnett, Patrick Kiernan, Bryan Pivaral, Aaron Woodstein, 
  • Assistant Wig and Makeup Designer/ Wig and Make-up Run Crew Head | Tiara Jones
  • Wig and Make-Up Run Crew | Tiara Jones, Declan Smith, Sam Yousuf
  • Wig and Make-Up Graduate Assistants | Shannon Dolinar, Colin Gallaher, Tiara Jones
  • Makeup Artists | Shannon Dolinar, Tiara Jones, Kelly Yurko
  • Costume Dyer/Painter | Erin Donnelly
  • Costume Crafts Artisans | Nato Herman, Emily O’Donnell, Natalie Zimmerman
  • Props Construction Crew | Mia Adrian, Suzanna Barnes, Maddy Byrnes, Anna Carmer, Hattie Fann, Corvo Hopkins, Simon Knox, Liz Mitan, Molly Powell, Melanie Reitman, Moira Seger, Sage Shepard, Emma Shreve, Amber Slater

Production Staff Profiles

Scenic Designer

Sean Haffey

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.


Costume Designer

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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).


Sound Designer

Corbin Hopkins

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.


Production Stage Manager

Sarah Patisaul

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)


Props Designer

Hattie Fann

Hattie Fann 
First-year Master’s in Stage Properties student from Woodbury, Tennessee

At CCM: Prop Manager for Something Rotten!. Elsewhere: Assistant Props Manager at the Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York), Props Manager at Des Moines Metro Opera (Indianola, Iowa), Props Manager at the Cumberland County Playhouse (Crossville, Tennessee).


Technical Director

Logan Vanderpool

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.


Assistant Stage Managers

Indy Caramelli

Indy Caramelli
Junior Stage Management student from Austin, Texas

At CCM: Various dance, opera and musical theatre productions Elsewhere: Austin Actors Studio and Liberty Exhibition Hall


Annalee Crosser

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).


Assistant Production Managers

Emma King

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

Katie Reus
Junior Stage Management student from St. Louis, Missouri

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for A Dream Play, Assistant Stage Manager for GiselleBlue Stockings, Dance Works (Fall 2021), Student Choreographer's Showcase 2021, Production Assistant for From Broadway with Love.


Assistant Scenic Designer/Scenic Charge Artist

Liz Mitan

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

At CCM: Our Town.


Assistant Costume Designer

Amira Rowe

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.


Assistant Lighting Designers

Baron Leon

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.


Will Meckstroth

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).


Wardrobe Supervisor

Savannah Brooks

Savannah Brooks
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Dallas, Texas

At CCM: Wardrobe Head for Xanadu, The Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: Wardrobe Crew for Cinderella, The Mock Marriage, The Fantasticks, Hello, Dolly at the Ohio Light Opera (Wooster, Ohio); Wardrobe Supervisor for Legally Blonde at Grand Prairie Arts Council (Grand Prairie, Texas).


Pattern Maker/Drapers

Meredith Buckley

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).


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Clara Cavins 
Second-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Minneapolis, Minnesota

At CCM: Costume Design for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: First Hand at Santa Fe Opera, Wardrobe Technician at The Guthrie Theater, Costume Design at Saint Paul Academy, Minneapolis Musical Theater, Design Assistant at Theater Latte Da, The Ordway Center.


Miranda Cotman

Miranda Cotman  
Second-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Westerville, Ohio

At CCM: Design Assistant for Blue Stockings, Draper for She Loves Me Elsewhere: Firsthand at The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York), Firsthand & Stitcher at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company


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Abby Powers 
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Jamestown, Ohio

At CCM: Wardrobe Head for L'Amant Anonyme, Wardrobe Head for Sunday in the Park with George, Costume Design Assistant for A Dream Play Elsewhere: Stitcher for Enchanted AprilMuch Ado About Nothing and Metromaniacs at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, New Jersey)


Wardrobe Crew Head

Peggie Dona

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.


Assistant Media Designer/ Projection Programmer

Sydney Hunt

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.


Disguise Programmer and Content Creator

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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


Wardrobe Run Crew / Set Construction Crew member

Lily Landoch

Lily Landoch
Freshman Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois

At CCM: Production Assistant for Dialogues of the Carmelites, Wardrobe Crew for She Loves Me.


Associate Production Electrician

A headshot of Riley Rowan

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.


Associate Production Electrician/Media Tech

Nate Miller

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.


Deck Electricians

Sophia Gamble

Sophia Gamble 
Sophomore Stage Management student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky 

At CCM: Production Assistant for Our Town and Sunday in the Park with George.


Emily Mallendick

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).


Lighting Graduate Assistants

Jessica Drayton

Jessica Drayton
Second-year Lighting Design and Technology student from Power Springs, Georgia

At CCM: Lighting design for Cinderella, projections for Les Dialogues des Carmélites. Elsewhere: Lighting design for Sleepy Hollow with Dayton Ballet (Dayton, Ohio), Young Frankenstein with Circle Theatre (Fort Worth, Texas), Into the Breeches with Stagewest Theatre (Forth Worth), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Raisin in the Sun with WaterTower Theater (Plano, Texas) and Pleasure Trials with Amphibian Stage (Fort Worth), Projections for Fierce! With Cincinnati Opera and Eugene Onegin with Dallas Symphony Orchestra.


Baron Leon

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.


Kristen Peck

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

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

Gabby Ullman

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.


Lighting Programmer

Eli Suarez

Eli Suarez (he/him) 
Junior Lighting Design and technology student from Dublin, Ohio

At CCM: Lighting Programmer for Haunted House Experience, The Laramie Project, Once, and She Loves Me, Assistant Lighting Designer for Pippin, Production Electrician for The Burials, She Loves Me, and Danceworks 2022. Elsewhere: Lighting programmer for Carrie, Spamalot, and Mamma Mia! at Short North Stage (Columbus, Ohio), Assistant Lighting Designer for Comics Come Home 26 at TD Garden Arena (Boston, Massachusetts).


Head Carpenter/ Automation Operator ( Creative Connors)

Izzy Dillon

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.


Set Construction Crew

Indy Caramelli

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

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).


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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)


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Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.


Scenic Charge Artists

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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).


Suzanne Barnes

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.


Paint Crew

Sami Tamulonis

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

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.


Simon Knox

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.


Mia Adrian

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

At CCM: Our Town.


Melanie Reitman

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).


Scene Shop Assistants

McKenna Brennan

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.


Izzy Dillon

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

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.


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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

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

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

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).


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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

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

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.


Production Sound Engineer/ Sound Shop Graduate Assistant

Kaitlin Barnett

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).


Sound Board Operator/A1

Brady Smith

Brady Smith 
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Amelia, Ohio

At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.


Sound Shop Graduate Assistants

Patrick Kiernan

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

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 PipelineItalian Futurist ProjectRed Velvet and Children's Hour at Florida International University (Miami, Florida).


Aaron Woodstein

Aaron Harris Woodstein (they/them)
Third-year MFA Sound Design and Technology student from Chicago, Illinois 

At CCM: Sound Designer for Our TownUnfortunate 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).


Assistant Wig and Makeup Designer/ Wig and Make-Up Run Crew Head

Tiara Jones

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.


Wig and Make-Up Running Crew

Declan Smith

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.


Costume Dyer/Painter

Erin Donnelly

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.


Costume Crafts Artisans

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Nato Hermann 
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Elsewhere: Wardrobe Apprentice in Chicago with Theatre Aspen (Aspen, Colorado), Wardrobe Apprentice in Rock of Ages with Theatre Aspen.


Emily O'Donnell

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.


Props Construction Crew

Mia Adrian

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

At CCM: Our Town.


Suzanne Barnes

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

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

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

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

At CCM: Our Town.


Melanie Reitman

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).


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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)


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CCM apparel now available for purchase online

March 23, 2023

Back by popular demand, official CCM-branded apparel is now available for purchase online! Show your school spirit this spring with official UC College-Conservatory of Music apparel. The CCM Tribunal is sponsoring the college's spring apparel campaign to help raise funds for student initiatives. CCM-branded t-shirts, hoodies and quarter-zip pullovers are available for purchase online now through April 23, 2023.

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"Cinderella" transforms CCM stage into storybook wonderland...

Event: March 2, 2023 12:00 AM

Join the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music for an absolutely magical production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s musical Cinderella on March 2-5 in CCM’s Patricia Corbett Theater. Get your tickets now through the CCM Box Office!

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CCMpower is a volunteer group of fans, advocates and alumni dedicated to empowering students and fueling the future of the arts through scholarship opportunities and more.

The competitive scholarships CCMpower provides help attract and retain the best and brightest students, nurture professional development opportunities and – in turn – continue CCM’s tradition of excellence for the next generation of student-artists. Join or renew your CCMpower membership today to help provide critical scholarship funds.

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Sponsors

Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust
Scholarship and Resident Artist Sponsor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Sponsor
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
Dance Department Sponsor
All-Steinway School Sponsor
Louise H. & David S. Ingalls Foundation, Inc.
Community Partners
The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel
Visiting Artists & Thinking About Music Sponsor
CCMpower: Friends and Alumni Fueling the Future of the Arts 
The Strader Fund at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
CCM Digital Sponsors
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer 
Greg Mathein 
Gary & Barb Cummins 
Jim & Linda Miller 
George & Carroll Roden
Musical Theatre Department Sponsors
Genevieve Smith
Opera Production Sponsor
Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
Opera D’Arte Sponsor
An Anonymous Donor
Estate of Mr. William A. Friedlander
Mrs. William A. Friedlander
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
Ariel Quartet Sponsors
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
Choral Studies Sponsors
Anonymous
  Classical Guitar Sponsor

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn
Orchestral Sponsor
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
Starling Pre-Collegiate Sponsor
Starling Strings Sponsor
Dr. Timothy E. and Janet L. Johnson
Thom Miles and Roberta Gary
Organ Department Sponsors
Keyboard Club of Cincinnati
Louis and Susan Meisel
Piano Department Sponsors
Kevin and Nancy Rhein
   Wind Studies Sponsor

Edward Donovan and Cheryl Carter
Jeff Thomas Catering
The Castleberry Family
KMK Law
Paula Boggs Muething & Brian Muething
Patti Myers & Alan Flaherty
Trish & Rick Bryan
Graeter’s Ice Cream 
CCMpower
eat well celebrations and feasts 
The Summit Hotel
Event Sponsors
Buddy Rogers Music
LINKS Sponsor
Sponsors listed as of August 30, 2022

General Information


Land Acknowledgment

The Cincinnati area and the land that the University of Cincinnati has been built on is the native homeland of the Indigenous Algonquian speaking tribes, including the Delaware, Miami, and Shawnee tribes.


Box Office

Located in the CCM Atrium, the Box Office is open Monday through Friday, 1-5 p.m.; and one hour prior to curtain for all ticketed performances. MasterCard, Visa and Discover cards are accepted.

  • Location: CCM Atrium Lobby next to Corbett Auditorium
  • Telephone: 513-556-4183
  • Email: boxoff@uc.edu
  • Mail: CCM Box Office, P.O. Box 210003, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003

Parking

Convenient parking is available in the CCM Garage at the base of Corry Boulevard off of Jefferson Avenue. Additional parking is available in garages throughout the UC campus. Any questions concerning on-campus parking should be directed to UC Parking Services at 513-556-2283.


Tax Credit

If you find that you cannot attend your performance, your tickets may be donated for tax credit as a charitable contribution. Simply notify the Box Office prior to the performance to release your seats, and give your name and address. A tax donation receipt will be mailed to you.


Lost and Found

If you have lost an item, contact lost and found at 513-556-9413.


House Policies

The House Manager has been instructed to minimize the disturbance to patrons already seated when accommodating latecomers. The director and producer of each production select times that are least likely to interrupt the performance, and latecomers will be seated only during these times. Latecomers who miss these opportunities will not be admitted until intermission. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.


Cameras, Phones and Recording Devices

The video or audio recording of performances is prohibited.

The use of cameras, with or without flashes, recording devices, cellular phones and other electronic devices inside the theater is prohibited. Please leave them with the House Manager.


Smoking and Refreshments

Smoking and refreshments are not permitted in the theater. Effective May 1, 2017, smoking and tobacco use (including chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes) shall be prohibited by students, staff, faculty, visitors, vendors and contractors at all times in or on University of Cincinnati properties, including events on university property during non-school hours. This includes all shelters, indoor and outdoor theaters and athletic facilities, bridges, walkways, sidewalks, residence halls, parking lots, and street parking and garages owned by the university.


Hearing Enhancement

Telex listening devices are available for checkout during performances in both Patricia Corbett Theater and Corbett Auditorium. Please inquire at the Box Office.


Wheelchair Seating

Wheelchair seating is available in both Corbett Auditorium and Patricia Corbett Theater. Seating is limited, so reservations should be made with the Box Office when ordering tickets. These seats are subject to availability.


Group Sales

The Box Office can accommodate groups for major productions and concerts. Preview and benefit performances are also available for some productions. For more information, call the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183.


CCM Faculty and Staff

CCM's faculty and staff and its state-of-the-art facilities make possible the professional training and exceptional education on which CCM believes the future of the arts relies. The school's roster of eminent faculty regularly receives distinguished honors for creative and scholarly work, and its alumni have achieved notable success in the performing and media arts. More than 150 internationally recognized faculty members work with students from around the world, specializing in eight areas of study.


Know Your Exit

Map depicting exits from Patricia Corbett Theatre

Performance dates and repertoire are subject to change. View CCM's current calendar of events.

The purpose of these performances is educational, and they are part of a University of Cincinnati academic program.