Production Staff Profiles
Baron Leon
Third-year Masters Lighting Design student from Orlando, Florida
At CCM: Lighting Designer for Fellow Travelers, 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, She Loves Me, L'amant Anonyme, and Dance Works 2021, Assistant Lighting Designer for Frankenstein and Xanadu. Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Orpheus in the Underworld at Opera in the Ozarks (Eureka Springs, Arkansas), Dido and Aeneas at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), Newsies at Emerald Coast Theatre Company (Walton County, Florida), Sleeping Beauty at Cincinnati Ballet Academy, Sound of Music at The Carnegie (Covington, Kentucky), Assistant Lighting Designer for Ring of Fire at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Carmina Burana at The Cincinnati Ballet.
Clara Cavins
Third-year graduate Costume Design and Technology student from Minneapolis, Minnesota
At CCM: Costume Designer for She Loves Me and Still Waters, Design Assistant for Galileo. Elsewhere: Costume Designer at Saint Paul Academy and Summit School (Saint Paul, Minnesota) and Minneapolis Musical Theater, Design Assistant at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Saint Paul) and Theater Latte Da (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
Brenden Friedel
Senior Sound Design student from Orlando, Florida
At CCM: Sound Designer for Sweet Charity, Associate Sound Designer for Something Rotten!, Production Sound for Fellow Travelers, Spring Awakening and 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Sound Designer for Ragtime at Flint Repertory Theatre (Flint, Michigan), A2 with Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (Incline Village, Nevada).
William Meckstroth
Senior Lighting Design student from Kensington, California
At CCM: Lighting Design for Undergraduate Opera 2024, Media Designer for Sweet Charity, Assistant Lighting Design for Something Rotten!, Frankenstein, and Danceworks. Elsewhere: LD for Romeo and Juliet at Silicon Valley Shakespeare (San Jose, California), Design Intern at HLB Lighting Design (Denver, Colorado).
Kali Ashurst
Third-year Master’s in Stage Management student from West Palm Beach, Florida
At CCM: Production Stage Manager (PSM) for Spring Awakening, PSM for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Assistant Stage Manager (ASM) for The Burials, ASM For The Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: SM for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and PA for Singin' in the Rain at Weston Theater Company (Weston, Vermont), ASM for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (National Tour 2022, 2023), PSM for Schwabacher Summer Concert at San Francisco Opera.
Suzanne Barnes
Senior Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Props manager for 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦, 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺, and 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. Co-scenic charge artist for 𝘓'𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘦 and 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯. Scenic Charge artist for 𝘓𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘢 / 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯. Elsewhere: Asst. scenic charge artist for 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 at The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Props intern for the Cincinnati Opera's 2023 Summer Festival.
Nate Jones
Senior Musical Theatre student from Tallahassee, Florida
At CCM: Robin/understudy Nostradamus in Something Rotten!, Phil in The Wild Party, Ensemble/understudy Jean-Michel in Cinderella, Swing in Sunday in the Park with George, and Swing in Spring Awakening.
Hannah Kate Hawver
Junior Stage Management student from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
At CCM: PA for Xanadu, Orpheus in the Underworld, and Galileo Galilei, Assistant Stage Manager for Cincinnati Dionysia, Student Choreographer's Showcase (2023), and Sweet Charity, PSM for Gianni Schicchi + Dido and Aeneas, and American in Paris + Other Works. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana), Assistant Stage Manager at Gulfshore Playhouse (Naples, Florida), Assistant Stage Manager at Long Bay Theatre Company (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina).
Sage Shepard
Senior Stage Management student from Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut
At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Clue, Fairies, Swans and Still Waters and The Wild Party. Assistant Stage Manager for Sweet Charity, Cincinnati Dionysia, Sunday in the Park with George, and Le Nozze de Figaro. Production Assistant for Ariadne Auf Naxos. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for ALICE (in wonderland) at Cincinnati Ballet (Cincinnati, Ohio), Stage Management Intern for Chicago, Camelot and Mary Poppins at The Muny (St. Louis, Missouri).
Michael Hamburg (he/him)
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Production Assistant for Sweet Charity. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Kinky Boots, RENT, Into the Woods, and George Remus: A New Musical and Music Operator for Guys and Dolls at The Carnegie (Covington, Kentucky).
Assistant Production Managers
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.
Annalee Crosser
Junior Stage Management student from Edmond, Oklahoma
At CCM: ASM for Something Rotten and Frankenstein, PA for Le Nozze di Figaro and L'Amant Anonyme. Elsewhere: SM Intern for The Knock at Cincinnati Opera, ASM for The Bridges of Madison County at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Winchester, Virginia).
Associate Costume Designer
Amira Rowe
Senior Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Associate Costume Designer for Sweet Charity, Wardrobe Supervisor for Something Rotten and Spring Awakening, Assistant Costume Designer for Frankenstein, Wardrobe Head for Xanadu and The Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: Draper for SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical, Beauty and the Beast and Rock of Ages, Costume Advisor for Tarzan and Anastasia
Assistant Costume Designer
Meredith Randall
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Toledo, Ohio
At CCM: Assistant Costume Designer for Sweet Charity, Wardrobe Supervisor for Let the Right One In, and Wardrobe Head for Cinderella and Fellow Travelers. Elsewhere: Wardrobe Head and Stitcher for I Do! I Do! and Baby at Otterbein Summer Theatre (Westerville, Ohio).
Assistant Lighting Designers
Sydney Riddle
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
At CCM: Lighting Designer/Head Electrician for The Wild Party, Assistant Lighting Designer for Spring Awakening, Head Electrician for A Dream Play, Assistant Lighting Designer for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Assistant Lighting Designer for New Works 2022 with the Cincinnati Ballet, Warehouse Crew and Touring Lighting Tech at Bandit Lites (Nashville, Tennessee).
Kassidy Schley
Sophomore Lighting Design student from North Richland Hills, Texas
At CCM: Assistant Lighting Designer for Sweet Charity, Lighting Technician/Board Op for Something Rotten, Lighting Technician/Follow Spot Op for 2023 Fairies, Swans and Still Waters. Elsewhere: Deck Electrician for Opera Theatre of St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri).
Max Cotman (they/them)
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Westerville, Ohio
At CCM: Costume Designer for A Dream Play, Draper for Cinderella, Draper for Frankenstein, Draper for She Loves Me, Craft Artisan for Spring Awakening, Asst. Costume Designer for Blue Stockings. Elsewhere: Firsthand on Candide at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York), Firsthand on Sound of Music at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York), Draper on The Jungle Book at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York).
Nick Feldmann
Sophomore Sound Design student from Cincinnati, Ohio
At CCM: Mic Technician for Something Rotten! and Spring Awakening, Scenic Crew for Cincinnati Dionysia, Wardrobe Crew for Frankenstein. Elsewhere: Sound Designer for Burning Down the House and Daughter of War at Cincinnati Lab Theatre (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Ella Gover
Junior Stage Management student from Piqua, Ohio
At CCM: Mic Crew for 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty, Assistant Stage Manager for Spring Choreographers Showcase. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Seussical Jr. and A Wrinkle in Time at Dayton Live Creative Academy (Dayton, Ohio).
Lily Landoch
Freshman Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: Production Assistant for Spring Awakening, Production Assistant for Dialogues of the Carmelites. Wardrobe Crew for Frankenstein, Wardrobe Crew for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Pippin at North Shore Center for Performing Arts (Skokie, Illinois).
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.
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 Shop Graduate Assistant
Max Cotman (they/them)
Third-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Westerville, Ohio
At CCM: Costume Designer for A Dream Play, Draper for Cinderella, Draper for Frankenstein, Draper for She Loves Me, Craft Artisan for Spring Awakening, Asst. Costume Designer for Blue Stockings. Elsewhere: Firsthand on Candide at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York), Firsthand on Sound of Music at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York), Draper on The Jungle Book at Glimmerglass Festival Opera (Cooperstown, New York).
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.
Assistant Head Electrician
Laura Hanks
Sophomore Lighting Design student from Columbus, Ohio
At CCM: Follow Spot Operator for She Loves Me, Light Board Operator for Cinderella. Elsewhere: Deck Electrician for Illinois and Follow Spot Operator for Henri VIII at Bard SummerScape (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York).
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.
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).
Lauren Wooten
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from West Chester, Ohio
At CCM: Wardrobe Head for Something Rotten and Lysistrata + Trojan Women. Elsewhere: Craftsperson and Wardrobe Crew for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Maddi Myer
Sophomore Lighting Design student from Houston, Texas
At CCM: Assistant Media Designer and Media Programmer for Sweet Charity, Board Op for Spring Awakening, Follow Spot Op for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Media Board Op for Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance and Media Tech for The Overview Effect at Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia).
Production Sound Engineer
Michael Donahue
Senior Sound Design student from Norwalk, Connecticut
At CCM: Sound Designer for Dido and Aeneas & Gianni Schicchi, Production Sound Engineer for Dialogues des Carmelites, Production Sound Engineer for The Burials. Elsewhere: Sound Designer/A1 for Jersey Boys, The Addams Family, Matilda, Spamalot, and Clue with Forestburgh Playhouse (Forestburgh, New York).
Brady Smith
Sophomore Sound Design and Technology student from Amelia, Ohio
At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.
Mia Teboe
Senior Sound Design student from Lebanon, Ohio
At CCM: PSE for Let the Right One In, A2 for Sweet Charity, Sound Designer for The Wild Party, PSE for She Loves Me, Sound Engineer for 35MM, Assistant Sound Designer for Sunday in the Park with George. Elsewhere: Assoc. Sound Designer for Fiona at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), A1 for Label-Less and A2 for A Chorus Line at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Cincinnati, Ohio), A1 for Seussical Jr. at Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio).