CCM Student Bios

Aiden Berchtold
First-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Stickton, California

Hadley Bruno
Junior Costume Design and Technology student from Seabrook Island, South Carolina

Elsewhere: Costume Designer for John Lennon and Me and Dancing at Lughnasa (Stephen F. Austin State University).

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).

Kaz Chaplain 
Freshman BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Erie, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Wigs and Makeup Crew for Pride and Prejudice. Elsewhere: Young Edward Bloom in Big Fish (Normandy Highschool), Zack Mooneyham in School of Rock (Normandy Highschool), Aaron Schultz in Legally Blonde (Normandy Highschool), Whickersham Brother in Seussical (Normandy Highschool), Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Normandy Highschool).

Remy Conway 
Freshman BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Ridgefield, Connecticut

Emmaline Hirschten 
Sophomore BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Indianapolis, Indiana

At CCM: Run crew on Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Wardrobe and stitcher 42nd Street with The Lexington Theatre Company,  Wardrobe and stitcher Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with The Lexington Theatre Company, Wardrobe Riverside with The Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, Stitcher Hairslay with the Indy Drag Theatre.

Norah Jeziorowski 
Sophomore BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Decatur, Georgia

At CCM: Run Crew in Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Wardrobe Supervisor for The Magic Flute, Cendrillion, and Elixir of Love with the Janic Opera Company

Wyatt Laminack 
Sophomore BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: WHAM crew for La Finta Giardiniera Elsewhere: Stitcher for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company

Rachel Luneke 
Senior BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Covington, Kentucky

At CCM: Costume Designer for Pride and Prejudice, Assistant Costume Designer for La Finta Giardiniera, Draper for Emilia, Wardrobe Crew Head for Everybody. Elsewhere: Stitcher/Wardrobe for Wolf Trap 2024 summer season (Vienna, Virginia), Stitcher/Wardrobe for Ohio Light Opera 2023 summer season (Wooster, Ohio).

Graceanne Martin 
Freshman BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Wigs and Makeup crew for Pride and Prejudice.

Liz Maxfield (she/they) 
Freshman BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Elsewhere: Costume Designer for the Dent Schoolhouse 2024 Season (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Ray Ravenna
Freshman BFA Costume Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Lexi Revis
Second-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Laramie, Wyoming

At CCM: Draper for Pride and Prejudice, Cendrillon, and Mahagonny ein Songspiel, Costume Design Assistant for Dark Sisters, Wardrobe Crew Head for The Winter's Tale and Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Wardrobe Crew for Radical Humanity at the University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming).

Megan Vaughn 
Senior Costume Design and Technology student from Houston, Texas

At CCM: Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor for The Secret Garden, Assistant Costume Designer for Bright Star, Wardrobe Head/Dresser for Clybourne Park, Wardrobe Head for The Bartered Bride, Wardrobe Head/Dresser for The Rocky Horror Show, Assistant Costume Designer/Wardrobe Head for Lady Windermere’s Fan, Dresser for Our Country’s Good, Dresser/Stitcher for Guys and Dolls.

Kyle Williams
Second-year MFA Costume Design and Technology student from Bells, Tennessee

At CCM: Costume Design Assistant for Emilia, Costume Designer for SCS 2025, Draper for Pride and Prejudice, Wardrobe Supervisor for La Finta Giardiniera.

Gavin Barrett
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Ridgefield, Connecticut

At CCM: Spot Operator for Wonderful Town, Light Board Operator for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elsewhere: Run Crew/General Electrician for Shakespeare On The Sound (Norwalk, Connecticut), Over-hire at Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts).

Jack Capobianco 
Freshman Lighting Design student from Ashburn, Virginia

At CCM: Light Board Operator for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Follow Spot Operator in The Littlest Mermaid.

Rob Chalk 
Junior BFA Lighting Design & Technology student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky

At CCM: Assistant Lighting Designer for In the Green, Production Electrician/Programmer for Hänsel und Gretel, Production Electrician for Dark Sisters.

Sophia Ciranni
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Newark, Delaware

At CCM: Light Board Operator for Student Choreographer’s Showcase.

Zayda DeJong 
Junior BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Chattanooga, Tennessee 

At CCM: Assistant Production Electrician for Cendrillion and “Dance Works 2026”; Assistant Lighting Designer for Buffalo Talks to the Moon; Deck Electrician for Emelia; Spot Operator for In the Green. Elsewhere: Lighting Technician Apprentice (Bandit Lites).

Lucy Dunn (they/them) 
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Baltimore, Maryland

At CCM: Scenic Crew for The Winter’s Tale and a Spotlight Operator for La Finta Giardinara.

Will Everson 
Junior BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from St. Louis, Missouri

At CCM: Programmer for Cendrillion, Lighting Designer for Buffalo Talks to The Moon, Assistant Lighting Designer for Antigone, Media Op for Sweet Charity, Assistant Production Electrician for Cunning Little Vixen, Assistant Production Electrician/Deck Chief for Wonderful Town, Assistant Lighting Designer for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Assistant Lighting Designer for Hair. Elsewhere: Electrician at Opera Theater of St. Louis (Summer 2023 & 2024) and Technician at Bandit Lites (Summer 2025).

Leo Goffinet 
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Indianapolis, Indiana

At CCM: Deck Crew for A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Elsewhere: Light Operator for Sweeney Todd, Light Operator for Shrek Jr. (Footlite Musicals).

Ella Hamlin 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from St. Louis, Missouri

At CCM: Production Electrician for L'Egisto, Asst. Production Electrician for The Nutcracker 2025, Asst. Production Electrician for Pride & Prejudice, Lighting Board Operator for Student Choreographer's Showcase 2025, Spotlight Operator for Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Deck Electrician for Opera Theatre of St. Louis 2025 Festival Season, Deck Electrician for Aida. (2023), Projections Operator for Steel Magnolias (2024), Spotlight Operator for Newsies (2024) at STAGES St. Louis.

Ryan Johnson 
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Annapolis, Maryland

At CCM: Wardrobe for Cendrillion, Followspot for The Lightning Thief.

Jacob Kaplan 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Dallas, Texas

At CCM: Electrics Crew for Let the Right One In and The Cunning Little Vixen. Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for County Fair with North Texas Performing Arts Collegiate Pursuits (Plano, Texas) and Oliver at Outcry Community Theater (Plano, Texas).

Bri Kelly 
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Gaithersburg, Maryland

Elsewhere: Assistant sound designer and A1 on Jekyll and Hyde an Immersive Musical Thriller, A1 on Always, Patsy Cline with Free Range Humans (Fredrick, Maryland), A2 on Cabaret with Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina),  Sound Designer and Audio engineer on Pippin with The Free Theatre (Gaithersburg, Maryland), A1 on Romeo and Juliet with The Endangered Species Theatre Project (Fredrick, Maryland).

Julia Koch
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Jack Langlinais 
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky

At CCM: Pride and Prejuidice.

Lia Lubinsky 
Junior BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Westerville, Ohio

At CCM: Clue! Rappaccini's Daughter, The Winter's Tale, Wonderful Town, Emilia, Coppélia.

Isaac Ludlam 
Freshman Lighting Design and Technology student from Flower Mound, Texas

Avery Merz
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Warrington, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Follow Spot Operator - Tirésias+Songspiel, Light Board Operator - Lightning Thief, Scenic Run Crew - Sweeney Todd. Elsewhere: Light Board Operator - Fifth Third Arena (Cincinnati OH), Warehouse / Production Intern - Starlite Productions (Moorestown NJ).

Ben Niemczyk  
Second-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Hartland, Wisconsin

At CCM: Les Mamelles de Tirésias + Songspiel Mahagonny Songspiel, Pride and Prejudice, Coppelia, DanceWorks.Assistant Lighting Designer 2 for La Finta Giardiniera, Lighting Designer for Dance Works, Lighting Designer for Coppelia. Elsewhere: Lighting Technician at Lighthouse Productions (Green Bay, Wisconsin), Lighting Designer for Amelie, Dance Works 2023, “Afterimages” 2023 and As We Climb at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (Stevens Point, Wisconsin).

Arcadia Paff 
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Elsewhere: Running Crew in Legally Blonde with CYPT, Assistant Lighting Designer in Shrek with CAST, Light Board Operator in Spring Awakening with CAST, Lighting Designer in Puffs with CAST, Lighting Designer and Projections Operator in Big Fish with CAST.

Jacob Pasiuk 
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Little Mermaid, Tuck Everlasting and Mary Poppins with Bunce Performing Arts (Maple Grove, Minnesota). Lighting Designer for Mamma Mia! with White Bear Lake Community Theater, The Shape of Things and Tiny Beautiful Things with Century Community College, The Larkin Dance Studio recitals, Urban Dance Company recitals, and White Bear Dance Studio recitals (White Bear Lake, Minnesota). Associate Lighting Designer for Jesus Christ Superstar with Century Community College (White Bear Lake, Minnesota).  

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

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

Ryan Peerless 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Lighting Designer on Student Choreographers’ Showcase. Elsewhere: Assistant Lighting Designer on Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman for The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (Fort Worth, Texas); Assistant Lighting Designer on Beautiful: The Carole King Musical for The Carnegie (Covington, Kentucky).

Ian Rafalo 
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Deck Electrician for Pride and Prejuidice.

Ella Rosoff 
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Bethesda, Maryland

At CCM: Lighting Designer for Intimate Apparel, Assistant Lighting Designer for Rent, Associate Lighting Designer for Student Choreographers’ Showcase, Assistant Lighting Designer for Wonderful Town, Lighting Programmer for Emilia, and Assistant Production Electrician for Coppelia. Elsewhere: Lighting for concerts, sporting events, and corporate events, including The Preakness Stakes, Washington Wizards Home Opener, Guns N' Roses and Lamb of God.

Jill Schlax  
Junior BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Yarmouth, Maine

At CCM: Assistant Production Electrician on L'Egisto, Assistant Lighting Designer on The World Goes 'Round. Elsewhere: Staff Electrician at Des Moines Metro Opera

Ava Smalley
Freshman BFA Lightning Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Carmella Somich
Freshman BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Cleveland, Ohio

At CCM: Wigs Hair and Make-up Crew for The Winter’s Tale, Spotlight Operator for Dance Works 2024.

Emily Spiering 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Milford, Ohio

At CCM: Deck Electrician on Nutcracker: Just Desserts, Board Operator on L'Egisto.

Kyle Strickland 
Junior Lighting Design and Technology student from Plano, Texas

At CCM: Light Board Operator in Choreographers’ Showcase. Elsewhere: Deck Electrician in ALIEN/NATION with Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts).

Hayden Valkema 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Plainfield, Illinois

At CCM: Scenic Crew for Let The Right One In, Assistant Production Electrician for An American In Paris, Scenic Crew for The Cunning Little Vixen, Assistant Production Electrician for Once on This Island, Lighting Programmer for The Winter's Tale, Lighting Programmer for BLINK! 2024.

Audrey Visscher 
First-year MFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Piscataway, New Jersey

Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time with Burbage Theatre Company (Pawtucket, RI); Assistant Lighting Designer for The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT);  Lighting Designer for Polaroid Stories & Lighting Designer for Silent Sky with University of Rhode Island (Kingston RI).

Jack Walter 
Sophomore BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Canton, Ohio

At CCM: Media Operator for The Lightning Thief, Lighting Operator for La Finta Giardiniera, Deck Electrician for Emilia. Elsewhere: Lighting Director for CAIN the Band, Installation Technician for RSG, Lighting Programmer for Alive Music Festival, Lighting Technician for OneRepublic.

Flynn Wilson 
Junior BFA Lighting Design and Technology student from Portage, Indiana

At CCM: Board Operator for Clue: On Stage, Spot Operator for Let the Right One In. Elsewhere: Lighting Technician at Miami F1 with 4Wall (Miami, Florida), Stage Manager at Gallagher Way with DUFF (Chicago, Illinois) Rigging Technician at Robinhood for 4Wall (New York, New York).

Hank Burns-Pavlik 
Junior BFA Sound Design and Technology student from Farmington, Michigan

At CCM: PSE on Dark Sisters, ASD on La Finta Giardiniera. Elsewhere: Sound Design on Cosi Fan Tutte, A2 on My Fair Lady, Siddhartha, She at Aspen Music Festival and School (Aspen, CO), Audio Crew and House Engineer at Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, South Carolina).

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).

John Dougherty 
Sophomore BFA Sound Design student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky

At CCM: Asst. Sound Designer on Sweeney Todd, PSE/ASD on Cendrillon, A1 on Pride and Prejudice, Mic Tech on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mic Tech on Wonderful Town, Run Crew on Dark Sisters, Run Crew on La Finta Giardarina. Elsewhere: Sound Designer for It's a Wonderful Life at The Carnegie.

Mia Elias
Freshman BFA Sound Design student from Dallas, Texas

At CCM: Pride and Prejudice

Nick Feldmann 
Junior BFA Sound Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Sound Designer for Dark Sisters, A1 for Wonderful Town, Associate Sound Designer for The Winter’s Tale Sound Designer for Student Choreographers’ Showcase, A2 for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Assistant Designer/A1 for American in Paris. Elsewhere: Audio Engineer for Country Crossroads at Kings Island, Sound Designer for Burning Down the House and Finding Neil Patrick Harris at Cincinnati Lab Theatre.

Jacob Gers 
Junior BFA Sound Design student from Greensboro, North Carolina

At CCM: Antigone (Assoc. Sound Design), Student Choreo Showcase (Fall '25, Head of Sound), Cendrillon (A1). Elsewhere: Summer Apprenticeship at Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, sound and video engineer in Cincy.

Avery Lawson
Freshman BFA Sound Design student from Frankfort, Kentucky

At CCM: Costume crew on The Lightning Thief, mic tech on And the World Goes Round, scenic crew on L'Egisto.

Daniel Massey 
Second-Year MFA Sound Design student from Columbia, Illinois

At CCM: Sound Designer for BAAM, Production Sound Engineer for Hair. Elsewhere: Production Audio for Public Obscenities at TFANA (Brooklyn), Production Audio for Multiple Productions at the Signature Theatre (New York), Assistant Sound Designer for Night of the Iguana at the Signature Theatre (New York), Assistant Director of AV at the Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Sound Designer for Wizard of Oz at Children’s Theatre Cincinnati.

Emma Miller
Junior Sound Design student from Marysville, Ohio

At CCM: HAIR, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Once on This Island, Spelling Bee. Elsewhere: Pump Boys & Dinettes, Clue Onstage, Tuesdays With Morrie, Jersey Boys (Totem Pole Playhouse), Mrs. Dalloway a New Musical (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Grease (The Carnegie).

Val Molloy 
Sophomore BFA Sound Design student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Mic Tech for Sweet Charity, A1 for Rappaccini's Daughter Elsewhere: A/V Technician for Hamlet at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (Park Tour).

Rowen Mosteller (they/he)
Sophomore BFA Sound Design student from Columbus, Ohio

At CCM: A1 for Coppelia, Mic Tech for The Lightning Thief.

Will Schade
Freshman BFA Sound Design student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Student Choreographer’s Showcase 2025 (A1), Cendrillon (WHAM Crew), Rope (Wardrobe Crew).

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

At CCM: Debut production in Our Town.

Ember Tra 
Freshman BFA Sound Design and Technology student from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 

At CCM: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Playback Operator).

Reagan Warvel
Senior BFA Sound Design and Technology student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Lacey Vailikit 
Senior BFA Sound Design and Technology student from Fairfax, Virginia  

At CCM: Brigadoon (Sound Designer), Double Bill Opera (Head of Sound), Nutcracker: Just Desserts (Head of Sound), The Lightning Thief (A1), HAIR (A2), In the Green (Assistant Sound Designer), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mic Crew), Student Choreographers’ Showcase 2024 (A1). Elsewhere: Audio and Projections Engineer at Berkshire Theatre Group (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); A1 for Tenderly (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); A1 for Singin' in the Rain, Little Women, Million Dollar Quartet (Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre); A1 for Seussical (The Carnegie).

Ryan “Ann” Bradbury  
Junior BFA Stage Design, Props, and Scenic Art student from Dallas, Texas

At CCM: Asst. Scenic Designer for A Midsummer Nights Dream (Designer: Gabby Trice), Asst. Scenic Designer for Once on This Island (Designer: Mark Halpin), Scenic Charge for Lighting Thief, Scenic Charge for In The Green. Elsewhere: Asst. Scenic Charge for Little Women, Scenic painter for Singin’ in the Rain, Scenic painter for Million Dollar Quartet at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Scenic Charge: Jessica Hightower).

Regan Densmore 
Third-year MFA Stage Design student from Calabash, North Carolina

At CCM: Set Designer for Hair, The Winter’s Tale, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Elsewhere: Set Designer for King James at the Warehouse Theatre and Paint Charge at the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute.

Luke Dufilho 
First year MFA Stage Design student from Fredericksburg, Virginia

Elsewhere: Scenic Designer for Pride and Prejudice, Assistant Scenic Designer for 9 to 5, Assistant Technical Director for Queen Margaret, Assistant Technical Director for Dr. Frankenstein, Assistant Technical Director for Head Over Heels with TheatreCNU (Newport News, Virginia), Scenic Designer for Twelfth Night, Scenic Designer for Macbeth with the James River Shakespeare Company (Newport News, Virginia). 

Madeline Field 
Junior BFA Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Chicago, Illinois

At CCM: Props Manager (The World Goes Round), Assistant Props Manager (In The Green & Midsummer Nights Dream). Elsewhere: 2024 Technical Apprentice at Oak Park Festival Theater (Oak Park, IL), Props/Technical Staff at Long Lake Camp For The Arts (Long Lake, NY).

Adriana Gonzales 
Freshman BFA Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Boston, Massachusetts

EJ Goodman   
Junior BFA Stage Design, Props, and Scenic Art student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Designer for Les Mammelles des Tiresias, Props Manager for Pride and Prejudice, Scenic Charge for Hänsel und Gretel, Assistant Scenic Designer for The Winter's Tale, Secondary Assistant Scenic Designer for The Rape of Lucretia. Elsewhere: Scenic Arts Intern for Des Moines Metro Opera.

Taylor Helms  
Third-year MFA Stage Design student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Designer for Rappaccini’s Daughter, Emilia and Coppélia. Elsewhere: Scenic Artist at Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Opera and Cincinnati Landmark Productions.

Josie Heys 
Senior BFA Scenic Design Properties and Scenic Art student from Wilmington, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Design for Intimate Apparel; Assistant Designer for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cendrillon; Prop Manager for L’Egisto.

Owen Keeler 
Sophomore BFA Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art from Farview, Tennessee

At CCM: Wardrobe crew for Wonderful Town, Wardrobe crew for Dark Sisters,  Assistant Set Designer for The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical.

Joseph Schmitt (they/them) 
Junior BFA Stage Design, Props, and Scenic Art student from Louisville, KY 

At CCM: The World Goes 'Round (Scenic Designer), Rope (Scenic Charge), Dark Sisters (Scenic Charge), Wonderful Town (Assistant Scenic Designer), Clue! (Assistant Scenic Designer). Elsewhere: 2025 Scenic and Props Intern at Cincinnati Opera (Cincinnati, OH), 2024 Production Intern at Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (Louisville, KY).

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

At CCM: Scenic Designer for Dark Sisters, Props Manager for La finta giardiniera, Props Manager for The Cunning Little Vixen, Assistant Scenic Designer for The Rape of Lucretia, Scenic Charge for Everybody. Elsewhere: Props Artisan for The Sound of Music, The Count of Luxembourg and Guys and Dolls at Ohio Light Opera (Wooster, Ohio).

Ella Stumpf 
Sophomore BFA Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Lexington, Kentucky

At CCM: Scenic Design Assistant for Let the Right One In and La Finta Giardiniera. Elsewhere: Props Designer for Alice in Wonderland Junior, Scenic Designer for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus the Musical and Shop Assistant and ASM for Seussical Junior at Woodford Theatre (Versailles, Kentucky).

Gabby S. Trice 
Third-year MFA Stage Design student from Blacksburg, Virginia

At CCM: Set Designer for Everybody, Clue, La Finta Giardiniera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera) and The Lightning Thief.  Elsewhere: Set Design for As You Like It at The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Madison, NJ), Set Design for Legacy of Light & The Rocket Men at Synchronicity Theatre (Atlanta, GA), Associate Set Design for Dracula and Camelot at The Human Race Theatre Company (Design: C. Calvert) - (Dayton, OH), and more throughout the Southeast.

Camille Agostino
Freshman BFA Stage Management student from Norwalk, Connecticut

At CCM: Production Assistant for The World Goes 'Round. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for White Christmas and La Cage Aux Folles at Music Theatre Of Connecticut (Norwalk, CT).

Sarah Anderson 
Senior BFA Stage Management student from Washington, D.C.

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Intimate Apparel, Buffalo Talks to the Moon; Assistant Stage Manager for The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dance Works, John Proctor Is the Villain; Production Assistant for Once on This Island. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Always... Patsy Cline, Our Town (Hope Repertory Theatre).

Natalia Aldana P.
Second-year MFA Stage Design, Props and Scenic Art student from Bogotá, Colombia

At CCM: ASM in Just Desserts, ASM in Mamelles di Tiresias & Mahagonny Songspiel. Elsewhere: SM Intern in Des Moines Metro Opera (Indianola, Iowa), Production Manager in VII Festival Creadores y Amigos de La Mama (Bogotá, Colombia), Production Manager Assistant in 12° Gran Encuentro de Chelistas  (Bogotá, Colombia), Violinist in Filarmónica Joven de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil de Cámara.

Leah Berry 
Senior Stage Management student from Lexington, Kentucky 

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager The Rocky Horror Show, Student Choreographers Showcase; Project Manager for Light in the Piazza, Little Shop of Horrors and,The Laramie Project; Assistant Production Manager for CCM 21-22 Season. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager Holiday Inn, Flashdance, Mamma Mia!, and Matilda with Surflight Theatre (Beach Haven, New Jersey); Assistant Stage Manager James and the Giant Peach with Lexington Children's Theatre (Lexington, Kentucky). 

El Bowers 
Junior BFA Stage Management student from West Chester, Ohio

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for The Marriage of Figaro, Assistant Stage Manager for Choreographers’ Showcase 2024, Assistant Stage Manager for Gianni Schicchi and Dido and Aeneas, Assistant Stage Manager for The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee.

Indy Caramelli 
Senior BFA Stage Management student from Austin, Texas

At CCM: Rope (PSM), Frankenstein (ASM), A Dream Play (ASM), Orpheus in the Underworld (ASM), Xanadu (ASM), Wings (PA), Student Choreographers' Showcase (PA). Elsewhere: John Lewis: Good Trouble Workshop (Workshop Manager) with Cincinnati Opera, The Velvet Rage Tour (Tour Manager) with TODDY INC.

Mateo Castillo 
Freshman BFA Stage Management student from Phoenix, Arizona

At CCM: Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Mahagonny Songspiel (Opera Double Bill).

Ela Congleton 
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from Lexington, Kentucky

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Rope, Assistant Stage Manager for Student Choreographer's Showcase, Production Assistant for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elsewhere: Production Assistant for 42nd Street and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Lexington Theatre Company (Lexington, Kentucky).

Matilda Dalton  
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from Perrysburg, Ohio

At CCM: PA in La Finta Giardiniera, ASM Hansel and Gretel UGOP, ASM Pride and Prejudice.

Bethel Daniel 
Freshman BFA Stage Management from Denver, Colorado

Heidi Lauren Duke
Third-year MFA Stage Management from Barrington, Illinois

At CCM: Associate Director for Sweeney Todd, Assistant Director for Ariodante. Elsewhere: Assistant Director for La Cenerentola (Lucca, Italy) Director/ Choreographer for original productions of Rape of Lucretia, Hansel & Gretel, Tosca, Aida (New York), Kiss Me Kate at Seagle Music Festival, Don Pasquale and La Traviata for Hubbard Hall Opera, Assistant Director for Rigoletto and Tosca at Opera Detroit, Associate Director for opera tour of A Death In the Family (Szeged, Hungary and Avignon, France) and Azuriales Opera Festival (Nice, France).

Halena Edwards  
Junior BFA Stage Management student from Memphis, Tennessee

At CCM: PSM on Les Mamelles de Tirésias, ASM on Cendrillon, ASM on Student Choreographers Showcase Spring '25, ASM on La Finta Giardiniera, PA on Let The Right One In. Elsewhere: ASM Intern on Steel Magnolias, Sister Act, South Pacific, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts), ASM on Carmen Jones (Hattiloo Theatre).

Crystal Espinoza 
Second-year MFA Stage Management student from Corona, California

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for L'Egisto, Assistant Stage Manager for Dark Sisters. Elsewhere: KÀ by Cirque Du Soleil, Vivaldi's Motezuma at Opera Neo, Cabaret at PCPA, Verdi's Aida and Elton John's Aida at Utah Festival Opera, Music Production Services Supervisor at The Santa Fe Opera.

Ali Fishbain 
Senior BFA Stage Management student from Madison, Wisconsin

At CCM: PSM on Joyful Noise*, PSM on The Nutcracker ‘25, PSM on Hänsel und Gretel, SM on CCM Moveable Feast 2026, SM on CCM Freshman MT ‘28 Showcase, SM on CCM Senior MT/Acting ‘25 Showcase, SM on CCM Moveable Feasts 2025, ASM on The Witch (in collab. with The Carnegie), ASM on Le Nozze Di Figaro, PA on The Rape of Lucretia. Elsewhere: ASM on Pirates! A Penzance Musical* (Opera Columbus), ASM on Sweeney Todd: Teen (Children’s Theater of Madison), ASM on Center Stage 2026 (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), ASM on A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), ASM on The Light in the Piazza (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), ASM on Hadestown: Teen (Children’s Theater of Madison), PSM on Beetlejuice Jr. (Children’s Theater of Madison), SM on Clifton Heights Music Festival (Rohs Cafe, Cincinnati).

Raeya Garcia  
Junior BFA Stage Management student from Austin, Texas

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for The Cunning Little Vixen and Duke Ellington's Jazz Nutcracker, Production Assistant for Agrippina and A Dream Play. Elsewhere: Production Stage Manager for Chicago and Million Dollar Quartet and Assistant Stage Manager for Newsies and Legally Blonde at Interlakes Summer Theatre (Meredith, New Hampshire), Assistant Stage Manager for Million Dollar Quartet and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at Totem Pole Playhouse (Fayetteville, Pennsylvania).

Chloe Garrard
Freshman Stage Management student from Fort Payne, Alabama

Elsewhere: Stage manager on You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Addams Family, Elf! The Musical, The Lion King and various others.

Laila Gose  
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from Canal Winchester, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Mahagonny Ein Songspiel and Les Mamelles De Tirésias, Assistant Stage Manager for The Shards of An Honor Code Junkie, Production Assistant for Wonderful Town.

Michael Hamburg  
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for In the Green, Production Assistant for Sweet Charity. Elsewhere: Production Stage Manager for The Rocky Horror Show at The Carnegie (Covington, Kentucky), Assistant Stage Manager for PLAYLIST, 60th Anniversary Celebration at Cincinnati Ballet, Assistant Stage Manager for TICK, TICK... BOOM!, Kinky Boots, Into the Woods, RENT, George Remus: A New Musical at The Carnegie.

Maggie Harris 
Second-year MFA Stage Management student from Fayetteville, Arkansas

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Wonderful Town, Rappaccini's Daughter. Elsewhere: ASM for American Idiot, Assassins and Spring Awakening at University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas), Production Stage Manager for Metal Children at University of Arkansas, PSM for Believe in Stupid Sh*t at Starline Theatre Co.

Chloe Hessling  
Junior BFA Stage Management student from Lebanon, Ohio

At CCM: PA on Everybody, ASM on Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Stage Management Apprentice with Gretna Theatre in Pennsylvania: PSM on Elephant and Piggie, ASM on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, ASM on Million Dollar Quartet, ASM on Hadestown: Teen Edition, PSM on The Enchanted Bookshop at Springboro Community Theatre.

Andrew Hille 
Junior BFA Stage Management student from Cleveland, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for The Lightning Thief and Buffalo Talks to the Moon, Run Assistant Stage Manager for Seussical, Production Assistant for The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Grease and Brigadoon at Porthouse Theatre in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

Patrick Johnson 
Second-year MFA Stage Management student from Canton, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Emilia, Sub-Assistant Stage Manager for La Finta Giardiniera. Elsewhere: AEA Production Stage Manager at the Forestburgh Playhouse in Forestburgh, NY (2024-25), AEA Production Stage Manager for Theatre Workshop of Nantucket 2024 Season, which included the World Premiere Adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street, Assistant Stage Manager for Head Over Heels at Theatre Horizon (Norristown, Pennsylvania).

Lily Landoch  
Senior BFA Stage Management student from Chicago, Illinois

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for The Lightning Thief and In the Green, Assistant Stage Manager for Clue: On Stage, Dark Sisters, and An American in Paris & Other Works, Production Assistant for Spring Awakening and Dialogues of the Carmelites. Elsewhere: Stage Production Intern for Disney Live Entertainment, Production Stage Manager for Legally Blonde and Newsies, Assistant Stage Manager for Chicago and Million Dollar Quartet at Interlakes Summer Theatre (Meredith, New Hampshire), Assistant Stage Manager for Pippin and The Producers at Music Theater Works (Skokie, Illinois).

Katie Mogren 
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from St. Paul, Minnesota

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Coppélia and The Winter's Tale, Production Assistant for Clue: On Stage, Wig & Makeup Crew for Rappaccini's Daughter and The Rape of Lucretia. Elsewhere: Production Stage Manager for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The SpongeBob Musical and Costume Designer for Frozen Jr. at Ashland Productions (Maplewood, Minnesota), Production Stage Manager for Alice in Wonderland with Lakeshore Players Theatre (White Bear Lake, Minnesota).

Erin Mormile 
Freshman BFA Stage Management from Cincinnati, OH

Cassiopeia Motschenbacher 
First-year MFA Stage Management student from Portland, Oregon

At CCM: ASM for Rope, Danceworks and Cover PSM for It’s a Wonderful Life. Elsewhere: PSM for Stupid F**king Bird, Spring Awakening, A Bright Room Called Day and ASM for Rhinoceros, The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA); SM for The Jungle Book and ASM for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Broadway Rose Theatre; ASM for Beauty and the Beast and Freaky Friday at Young People’s Theatre Project (Portland, OR).

Alyssa McCarty 
Sophomore BFA Stage Management from San Clemente, California

At CCM: At CCM: PA on The Lightning Thief, Costumes ASM on Brigadoon In Concert.

Kait Naylor  
Junior Stage Management student from Loveland, Ohio

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Dance Works 2024, Assistant Stage Manager for for Angles, Assistant Stage Manager for The Cunning Little Vixen, Assistant Event Manager for BOOM 2024, Assistant Stage Manager for The Rape of Lucretia, Production Assistant for Frankenstein. Elsewhere: Production Stage Manager for Annie Jr. at the Royal Theatre Company (Mason, Ohio), Production Stage Manager for The Magic Flute at Queen City Opera (Cincinnati), Production Assistant for Don Giovanni at Cincinnati Opera.

Ella Schrecker 
Freshman BFA Stage Management from Charleston, South Carolina

At CCM: Production Assistant for Pride and Prejudice. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Fiddler on the Roof and Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Musical with Charleston Stage (Charleston, South Carolina).

Mary Scott
Freshman BFA Stage Management from Mason, Ohio

At CCM: The Lightning Thief, It's A Wonderful Life (Co-production at The Carnegie).

Jordan Shaw 
Senior Stage Management student from Cleveland, Ohio

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for Pride and Prejudice, Production Stage Manager for Coppelia, Assistant Stage Manager for Once on This Island and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Elsewhere: Stage Management Intern for Lollapalooza 2025, Assistant Stage Manager for Annie, Jesus Christ Superstar for Porthouse Theatre (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

Finley Spence
Third-year MFA Stage Management student from Mission Viejo, California

At CCM: Dark Sisters PSM, Winter's Tale ASM, Little Mermaid ASM, Everybody ASM. Elsewhere: Into the Woods SM and The Threepenny Opera SM with University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA).

Bethany Untener 
Senior BFA Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Production Stage Manager for John Proctor is the Villain, Assistant Stage Manager for Seussical, Assistant Stage Manager for Rappaccini's Daughter, Assistant Stage Manager for Fall Dance 2023, Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Unto These Hills, Production Assistant for SpongeBob the Musical at The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

Sam Verba 
Sophomore Stage Management student from Lebanon, Ohio

Elsewhere: A. Burr and Prop Manager in Hamilton: The Musical with Z Company Arts (Monroe, Ohio), Light Programmer in Electronic Music Group (EMG) under Will Kuhn (Lebanon, Ohio).

Lilly West
Sophomore BFA Stage Management student from Elgin, Illinois

At CCM: Assistant Stage Manager for Cendrillon, Production Assistant for In the Green and Emilia, Child Supervisor for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Twelfth Night and Shakespeare's Sonnets in Modern Time at Goodly Creatures Theatre (Elgin, IL), Production Stage Manager for Legally Blonde and Assistant Stage Manager for Little Shop of Horrors at Summer Place Theatre (Naperville, IL), Production Stage Manager for Mary Poppins and Absurd Person Singular and Assistant Stage Manager for The Cake and The Lightning Thief at Steel Beam Theatre (St. Charles, IL).

Jaemir Whitfield 
Junior BFA Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Dark Sisters, The World Goes Round, Hansel and Gretel. Elsewhere: Disney’s Descendents and All About Susie (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati).

Celia Bentrott  
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Akron, Ohio  

At CCM: Wardrobe Crew for Lightning Thief, Fly/op for Cendrillion, Scenic Crew for Songspiel/Tiersias. Elsewhere: Assistant Electrician and Spot-Op at Weathervane Community Playhouse.

Juliette Bernheisel 
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Set Crew in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, A1 for Just Desserts: Selections from The Nutcracker and Faculty Works.

Jaye Bloemeke 
Junior BFA Technical Production student from Atlanta, Georgia

At CCM: Head carpenter for Hair, Assistant head carpenter for Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Assistant Technical Director and Draftsman for Timberlake Playhouse for Frozen, Glü.

Jaime Boeskool  
Junior BFA Technical Production student from Nashville, Tennessee

At CCM: Lead Carpenter (In the Green, Emelia), Automation Operator (Midsummer). Elsewhere: Stage Operations Technician at Maine State Music Theater (Annastacia, Tootsie, Footloose, West Side Story)

Ryan Buckley  
Sophomore BFA Technical Production student from Worthington, Ohio

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Carpenter at Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, Massachusetts).

Willow Heichel 
Senior BFA Technical Production student from Granville, Ohio

At CCM: Run crew for Something Rotten, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Fellow Travelers, and Cinderella. Head Carpenter for Once on this Island, Assistant Technical Director for Emilia, ATD and TAIT Operator for Coppelia, and Technical Director for The World Goes Round. Elsewhere: Carpenter/welder for Cinderella and The Girl on the Train at Flat Rock Playhouse (Flat Rock, NC) and carpenter/welder for Newsies and Ragtime at STAGES St. Louis (St Louis, MO).

Odin Hirsch 
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Elyria, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Automation for La Finta Giardiniera. Elsewhere: Technical Director for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with the Lorain County Children's Pioneer Theatre (Elyria, Ohio).

Corvo Hopkins 
Sophomore Technical Production student from Littleton, Colorado

At CCM: Scenic Run Crew for Something Rotten!, Frankenstein, and Cinderella. Elsewhere: Scenic Designer and Technical Director for Bye Bye Birdie and Lion King Kids, Assistant Technical Director for Legally Blond and Rent, Scenic Designer, Technical Director, and Projections Designer for Frozen Kids, and Props Master for Annie at Performing Arts Academy (Highlands Ranch, Colorado), Technical Director for The Shadow Box at Wheatridge Theater Company (Wheatridge, Colorado).

Hadley Klusman
Sophomore BFA Technical Production student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Head Carpenter on And the World Goes Round’, Automation Operator on Pride and Prejudice, Scenic Run Crew on Emilia and The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: Scenic Carpenter at Porthouse Theater (Kent, OH).

Ava Morsch 
Sophomore BFA Technical Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Rope, Deck Electrician for The Lightning Thief, WHAM Crew for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wardrobe Crew for A Winters Tale.

Benjamin Pino 
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Solon, Ohio 

At CCM: Costume Hand in The Lightning Thief

Evan Reinhart 
Senior BFA Technical Production student from Zionsville, Indiana

At CCM: Student Choreographers' Showcase, The Nutcracker, Dance Works, Assistant Technical Director for Hair, Rappaccini’s Daughter, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Scenic Designer for Hänsel und Gretel, Head Carpenter for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Everybody. Elsewhere: Properties Carpenter Apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera. Technical Apprentice at Theatre Aspen, Carpenter at PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre (Santa Maria, California).

Paloma Robles
Junior BFA Technical Production student from Franklin, North Carolina

At CCM: Assistant Technical Director and Head Carpenter for A Midsummers Night's Dream, Automation Programmer and Operator for Wonderful Town, Head Carpenter for The Cunning Little Vixen, Automation Operator for Agrippina. Elsewhere: Staff Carpenter at The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, New York), Run Crew for Le Jeune Dance (Blue Ash, Ohio).

Red Stotler 
Freshman BFA Technical Production student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic Run Crew for Wonderful Town. Elsewhere: Construction Crew for Mean Girls with Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (Cincinnati).

Morgan Terry 
Senior BFA Technical Production student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania

At CCM: Techncial Director for Rope and Coppelia, Automation Designer/Engineer for Lightning Thief, Assistant Technical Director for Wonderful Town, Head Carpenter for Let the Right One In, Automation Programmer and Operator for Clue: On Stage. Elsewhere: Automation/Electrics Intern at Showman Fabricators 2025, Rigger and Carpenter at Stages St. Louis 2024, Scenic Carpenter with Totem Pole Playhouse 2023.

Blake Yavuz  
Junior BFA Technical Production student from Los Angeles, California

At CCM: Automation Operator for HAIR!, Head Carpenter for Hansel und Gretel, Head Carpenter for La Finta Giardiniera. Elsewhere: Carpenter for The Agitators, Cabaret, The Play that Goes Wrong,  and Little Shop of Horrors at PCPA.