CCM OPERA SERIES PRESENTS
An Opera by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the 2007 novel “Fellow Travelers” by Thomas Mallon
March 30-April 2, 2023, Patricia Corbett Theater
*CCM Student
Fellow Travelers Act I will run approximately 55 minutes, followed by a 15-minute intermission. Act II will run approximately 55 minutes.
Cincinnati Opera and CCM foster the development of new operatic works in their joint program: Opera Fusion: New Works.
Two new operas—Robeson by Scott Davenport Richards and David Cote and The Righteous by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith—will receive workshops this spring, and the public is invited to attend a sneak peek! Learn more.
By Greg Eldridge and Daria Zholnerova
Fellow Travelers has a special connection to Cincinnati and, indeed, to CCM. Many CCM students have been involved throughout the years in workshopping new productions through the Opera Fusion: New Works program and in partnership with Cincinnati Opera. Fellow Travelers is a clear example of the value of these workshops, and several cohorts of CCM singers have been involved at various stages of its development. Now regarded as a modern classic, a return to CCM of this beautiful music had been in the cards during the pandemic, and it is a huge thrill to welcome home this stunning opera in an entirely new production.
Fellow Travelers is many things — a social critique, an alarming portrait of a world in which multiple bigotries influence all aspects of governance, a questioning of the compatibility between religion and lived experience, but it is, above all else, a love story. In a world in which relationships of all types are often reduced to mere physical expressions or a showcase of sexuality in place of intimacy, we have sought to explore with Timmy and Hawk what happens when two people in love can carve out their own bubble in space and time and be with each other — even if ‘only for an hour.'
INTERMISSION
Tim writes to Hawk and Mary after 2 years in France. Hawk is now married to a woman he met at the Christmas party, but confesses to Tim that he misses him and would like to see him when he returns to America.
CCM wishes to thank composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce for giving their time so generously to coach, consult and converse with our production. A grateful student body gives thanks.
With heartfelt thanks to the supporting staff, coaches, voice teachers, acting coaches and supervisors who have made this complex undertaking possible.
* Performs Thursday
^ Performs Friday
# Performs Saturday
+ Performs Sunday
Henry Benson (he/him)
First-year Artist Diploma Opera student from Marinette, Wisconsin
At CCM: Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers, Fenton in Falstaff, Nemorino in the 2021 Italian Opera Gala. Elsewhere: 2023 Young Artist at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, 2021 Artist in Residence with Dayton Opera, Tenor II in The Tibetan Book of the Dead at Eastman Opera Theatre.
Logan Wagner
Second-year Master’s student from Villa Hills, Kentucky
At CCM: Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers, L'Aumonier in Les Dialogues Des Carmelites, Don Basilio/Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Colin in L'Amant Anonyme, Orfeo in L’Orfeo with Opera d’Arte. Elsewhere: Jumper (Cover) in The Falling and the Rising at Des Moines Metro Opera (Indianola, Iowa), Padre in The Man of La Mancha and Monostatos in The Magic Flute at Utah Festival Opera (Logan, Utah).
Hailed as "show stopping!", baritone Michael Pandolfo has become one of the most sought-after and exciting singers of his generation. Noted for his bright voice and confident high notes, his high caliber performances at Florida Grand Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival and Des Moines Metro Opera have garnered attention and critical acclaim.
In the Spring of 2022, Michael made his Florida debut as a Studio Artist with Florida Grand Opera, singing a well-reviewed performance of Marullo in Rigoletto, in which he was praised for his standout "manly baritone". He also sang the bombastic role of Senator McCarthy in Fellow Travelers. That summer, he made his debut with Des Moines Metro Opera as Robin Starveling in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which he will also be covered the role of Demetrius. In November of 2022, Michael made his principle debut as Count Robinson in a brand new Spanish language version of Il Matrimonio Segreto with Florida Grand Opera.
Looking ahead to 2023, Michael is engaged in a number of contracts including some concert work at home in North Texas, and venturing back to his musical theatre roots to sing Anthony in Sweeny Todd at Opera Tampa. He will be spending his summer as a Young Artist with Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico.
Mr. Pandolfo graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2018 with his Bachelor's of Music in Vocal Performance, where he studied with renowned soprano Cynthia Lawrence. In 2021 he graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with his Masters in Music, where he studied with revered teacher Professor William McGraw.
Erik Nordstrom (he/him)
First-year Artist Diploma Opera student from Saint Paul, Minnesota
At CCM: Marquis de la Force in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travellers, Young Galileo in Galileo Galilei, Ophémon in L’Amant Anonyme and Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere: Baritone in Hydrogen Jukebox, Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory, Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass at Lawrence University, Marullo in Rigoletto at Central City Opera (Central City, Colorado).
Emily Garcia (she/her)
Second-year Master's Vocal Performance student from Tucson, Arizona
At CCM: Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers. Elsewhere: Beatriz Rappaccini in the University of Arizona's production of La Hija de Rappaccini, Le bergère / La chouette in the University of Arizona's production of L'enfant et les Sortilège, Mère Marie (Understudy) in the University of Arizona's production of Dialogue of the Carmelites.
Emma Marhefka
Second-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from Allentown, Pennsylvania
AT CCM: Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers, Citizen Chorus in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere: Younger Alyce in Glory Denied at Knoxville Opera (Knoxville, Tennessee) and Opera Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Tampa (Tampa, Florida), Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Valeria in Mayo at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, New York).
Joseph O’Shea
Second-year Master's in Vocal Performance student from Mobile, Alabama
At CCM: The Doctor in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro. Elsewhere: Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Cover of Escamillo in Carmen with Janiec Opera in Brevard, North Carolina. De Rocher Brother in Dead Man Walking at Pensacola Opera, Marquis D'Obigny in La Traviata at Mobile Opera, Ko-Ko in The Mikado and Cover of The Mikado in The Mikado at University of South Alabama, Dandini in La Cenerentola, cover of Elder McLean in Susannah, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore.
John Potvin
First-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).
Ryan Henry
First-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from McAllen, Texas
At CCM: Chorus in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Tommy McIntyre in Fellow Travelers. Elsewhere: Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Georgia State University, Falstaff in Falstaff at Festival of International Opera Italia (Urbania, Italy).
Ashlyn Rock
Artist Diploma student from Sterling, Virginia
At CCM: Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers, Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Marie Celeste/Duchess Cristina in Galileo Galilei. Elsewhere: Chorus in Aida at Cincinnati Opera (Cincinnati, Ohio), Contessa cover in Le nozze di Figaro at Berlin Opera Academy (Berlin, Germany), Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Emmie in Albert Herring, Celia in Iolanthe, Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, Monica cover in The Medium at Mason Opera (Mason, Ohio).
Erin Alcorn (she/her)
Second-year DMA Voice student from Coppell, Texas
At CCM: Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers, Soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C for CCM Chorale and Orchestra, Soloist in Eric Whitacre’s Goodnight Moon for CCM Wind Symphony. Elsewhere: Musetta (cover) in La Boheme for Cincinnati Opera, Adina in The Elixir of Love, Francine in Monkey and Francine for Tri-Cities Opera, Adina in The Elixir of Love for The Dallas Opera Outreach, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro for Oberlin Opera Theater, Zerlina in Don Giovanni for UNT Opera, La Bergère in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges for Oberlin Opera.
Maren Hrivnak
First-year Master’s Vocal Performance student from Madison, Mississippi
At CCM: Lucy in Fellow Travelers, Sister Felicity in Dialogues des Carmélites, Soloist in Haydn's Missa Brevis in F major (CCM Chamber Singers). Elsewhere: Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor and Chorus in Noye's Fludde with St. Olaf College Lyric Theater (Northfield, Minnesota), Stacey in The Bachelor with IES Milan Opera Theater (Milan, Italy), Chorus in Carmen and Chorus in L'elisir d'amore with Opera Mississippi (Jackson, Mississippi).
Candace Williams
First-year Artist Diploma Opera student from Capitol Heights, Maryland
At CCM: Constance in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Lucy in Fellow Travelers. Elsewhere: Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at University of Kentucky Opera Theatre (Lexington, Kentucky), Lucinda and Cinderella/Rapunzel (cover) in Into the Woods with Distilled Theatre Company (Lexington, Kentucky), Norina in Don Pasquale (partial) at Oakwood University (Huntsville, Alabama).
William R. Langley, guest conductor
Hannah Schendel, assistant conductor (conductor on April 2)
© Simon Pauly (Berlin)
Founding Music Director of the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, William R. Langley, began his career as an orchestral conductor at age 16. In 2009 he founded the Wolf River Chamber Orchestra and in 2011 the MRO. The MRO served as the Orchestra in Residence at the Buckman Performing Arts Center where he has given over 45 performances in the Memphis area. Langley also serves as conductor of the Blueshift Ensemble and frequent guest conductor with All of the Above Ensemble, contemporary ensembles dedicated to programming and promoting new and existing chamber works while incorporating multi-genre collaborations.
An avid performer, the young Maestro has appeared as guest conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Starling Chamber Orchestra, Blueshift Ensemble, Concert:Nova, and All of the Above ensemble. In 2017 he made his opera debut with the CCM Opera Theatre where he conducted a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide as a part of their "Bernstein at 100" centennial celebration and has since gone on to work with the opera companies of Cincinnati (as the John L. Magro Resident Conductor 2021-2022) workshopping, covering, and performing various operas since 2018 and in Naples (Florida) covering Ramon Tebar and making his debut (2022) in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied. Langley has recorded albums with the Memphis Repertory Orchestra (Dvorak + Tchaikovsky, “Voyagers : Scheherazade + Mitton”) and All of the Above Ensemble (Double Portrait), the latter of which led to his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall in the fall of 2018. Next season (2022-2023) will feature a return to Cincinnati Opera, his debuts with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, cover weeks with the ASO and Opera Naples, and a return to CCM to conduct their spring production of Fellow Travelers.
In demand as a cover conductor, Langley has been a frequent cover with both the Atlanta and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras covering such conductors as Sir Donald Runnicles, Louis Langrée, Carlos Kalmar, Juanjo Mena, Ramón Tebar, Peter Oundjian, Nathalie Stutzmann, Nicola Luisotti, Xian Zhang, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Han-Na Chang, to name a few.
Langley holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the UC College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Cincinnati where he studied under the tutelage of Maestro Mark Gibson. He was selected by members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the American Austrian Foundation to be awarded one of two esteemed Ansbacher Fellowships for Young Conductors with the opportunity to study in Austria at the 2019 Salzburger Festspiele.
Langley, who “conducts with considerable theatricality, elicited a dramatic performance from the orchestra.” (Jon Sparks/Commercial Appeal), was the subject of a featured article entitled “Young Conductor Realizing Dreams” in the Commercial Appeal as well as the Memphis Flyer’s cover story “20 < 30” as one of “20 young Memphians shaping the city’s future”.
Daria Zholnerova
Artist Diploma Opera Directing student from Saint Petersburg, Russia
Elsewhere: Director of Don Giovanni, director of Snow Maiden, director of L'elisir D'amore, director of Dido and Aeneas at Unlikely Opera House (Saint Petersburg, Russia), director of La Traviata at St. Petersburg Conservatory Opera and Ballet Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
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.
Brittanie McKenna Travis
Third-year Master’s in Costume Design and Technology student from Indianapolis, Indiana
At CCM: Costume Designer for Fellow Travelers, Blue Stockings; Costume Coordinator for Wild Party, Xanadu; Wardrobe Supervisor for Lysistrata + Trojan Women, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Wardrobe Head for Cinderella. Elsewhere: Costume Designer for Sidra Bell’s Work Within Dreams (Muncie, Indiana); 2021 National Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Costume Design Award for In the Heights (Washington D.C.); 2022 Costume Design Intern at Television Academy Foundation – Emmy’s (Los Angeles) including PBC Season 2 (YouTube), The Purple Glasses (Los Angeles).
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).
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.
Quinn Morgan (she/her)
Senior Stage Management student from Erie, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Fellow Travelers, Production Stage manager for L'Amant Anonyme, Production Manager for The Hughes Project 2.0, Assistant Stage Manager for Giselle, Assistant Stage Manager for Student Choreographer's Showcase. Elsewhere: Calling Stage Manager for Beauty and the Beast, Resident Assistant Stage Manager at Cincinnati Ballet (Cincinnati, OH), Assistant Stage Manager for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Assistant Stage Manager for Man of La Mancha at Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre (Logan, UT).
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.
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.
Morgan Piper (she/her)
Senior Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Something Rotten!, Giselle, and Dance Works. Assistant Stage Manager for Once, From Broadway With Love, and The Hughes Project. Elsewhere: Cinderella and The Nutcracker with the Cincinnati Ballet, The House of the Negro Insane at the Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia).
Anika Shirvaikar
Sophomore Stage Management student from Millburn, New Jersey
At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for She Loves Me and Thirty Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Production Assistant for Julius Caesar and Pippin, Wardrobe Crew for Our Town, Scenic Crew for Once and Sunday in the Park With George. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Thirteen Jr., Seussical Kids, and Something Rotten Jr. with Pixie Dust Players (Rahway, New Jersey).
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.
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).
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).
Jayna Fry
First year MFA Costume Design student from Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada
Elsewhere: Many shows in various Utah theaters
Bella Pfeiffer
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: ALD for Choreographers Showcase, ALD for Sunday in the Park with George, Laser Designer for The Hughes Project 2.0 Elsewhere: Lighting and Laser Designer with Image Engineering (Baltimore, Maryland).
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).
Michael Donahue
Junior Sound Design student from Norwalk, Connecticut
At CCM: Production Sound Engineer for Dialogues des Carmelites, Production Sound Engineer for The Burials, Assistant Sound Designer for Orpheus in the Underworld. Elsewhere: A2 for Kinky Boots, Something Rotten and Mamma Mia with Forestburgh Playhouse (Forestburgh, New York).
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.
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 April, Much Ado About Nothing and Metromaniacs at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, New Jersey)
Meredith Randall
Sophomore Costume Design and Technology student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Wardrobe Crew Head for Cinderella, Wardrobe Crew Head for Fellow Travelers.
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)
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)
Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.
Nick Gundrum
Freshman Musical Theatre student from Cincinnati, Ohio
Elsewhere: Ensemble in label•less with Lachey Arts (Cincinnati), Pierce in Capser the Friendly Musical with The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Freshman Lighting Design and Technology student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Followspot Operator for Something Rotten!
Evan Reinhart
Freshman Technical Production student from Zionsville, Indiana
At CCM: Scenic Run Crew for Fellow Travelers, Cinderella, and She Loves Me, Wardrobe Crew for A Dream Play.
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
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
Rosie Burns Pavlik
Senior Stage Management student from Farmington Hills, Michigan
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Dialogues of the Carmelites, Julius Caesar, and Orpheus and the Underworld, Calling Stage Manager for Cincinnati Dyonisia. Assistant Stage Manager for Cinderella, Galileo Galilei, and Travelogue, Production Assistant for The Magic Flute, and Rocket Science, Wardrobe Supervisor for Spring Awakening. Elsewhere: Orchestra Stage Manager for Aspen Music Festival, Assistant Stage Manager for The Sound of Music (Aspen Music Festival) and The Absentee (The KNOW Theatre of Cincinnati), Sub-Assistant Stage Manager for Don Giovanni (Aspen Music Festival).
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)
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).
Evan Reinhart
Freshman Technical Production student from Zionsville, Indiana
At CCM: Scenic Run Crew for Fellow Travelers, Cinderella, and She Loves Me, Wardrobe Crew for A Dream Play.
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).
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).
Michael Donahue
Junior Sound Design student from Norwalk, Connecticut
At CCM: Production Sound Engineer for Dialogues des Carmelites, Production Sound Engineer for The Burials, Assistant Sound Designer for Orpheus in the Underworld. Elsewhere: A2 for Kinky Boots, Something Rotten and Mamma Mia with Forestburgh Playhouse (Forestburgh, New York).
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).
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).
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).
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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Join or renew your CCMpower member today to help provide critical scholarship funds. Visit foundation.uc.edu/ccmpower to learn more.
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
ArtsWave: Funding Arts, Fueling Community
CCMpower: Friends and Alumni Fueling the Future of the Arts
The Strader Fund at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
CCMONSTAGE ONLINE Broadcast Sponsors
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer
Musical Theatre Department Sponsor
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. & Paul G. Sittenfeld+
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Dr. & 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
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
Louis and Susan Meisel
Piano Department Sponsor
Richard E. Thornburgh
Edward Donovan and Cheryl Carter
Jeff Thomas Catering
The Castleberry Family
KMK Law
Sandra & Stephen Joffe
Paula Boggs Muething & Brian Muething
Patti Myers & Alan Flaherty
Trish & Rick Bryan
Prestige AV & Creative Services
Graeter’s Ice Cream
Rhinegeist Brewery
CCMpower
The CCM Harmony Fund: Challenging Hate & Prejudice through the Performing Arts
Event Sponsors
Buddy Rogers Music
LINKS Sponsor
Sponsors listed as of August 30, 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you have lost an item, contact lost and found at 513-556-9413.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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'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.
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.
