MEREDITH FREEMAN, President

holds a B.A., Northwestern University and an M.F.A. Yale School of Drama in Theatre Management. She served as Managing Director of Circle Repertory Company, New York City; Director of the Story Department, Chesler/Perlmutter Productions; Founding board member of the Ojai Playwrights Conference; Manager of Special Projects, Disney Theatrical Productions. Certificate in Dispute Resolution, Straus Institute Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Educational Theatre Association; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Theatre Communications Group; International Thespian Society, Pepperdine University School of Law.

GEORGE CRENSHAW, Vice President

is a retired theatre educator with credits from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Crenshaw has been the Theatre Arts Coordinator at Education Alternatives in Elyria, Willoughby Hills, Strongsville, Bedford, and Cuyahoga Falls. He has extensive involvement with Center Theatre, Imagination Theater, and City Lit Theater Company in Chicago Illinois. Currently, he is  the Acting Teacher at Beachwood Summer Theatre Camp. Favorite roles include Smee in Peter Pan, the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Rutledge in 1776, Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in Threepenny Opera, and Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Crenshaw specializes in participatory theater and has been a theatre Artist-in-Resident in Illinois, Idaho, Indiana at St. Mary of the Woods College, and Kansas where he was named Educator of the Year by the Kansas State Department of Education.

SARAH PEASE-KERR

holds a B.A., Princeton University, English with certificates in Theatre, Spanish Language & Culture, and M.Ed. Harvard University in Arts in Education. Her professional theater credits include work with Dobama Theater, Cain Park, the Cleveland Play House, and the Contemporary Theater Company. At Princeton University. Sarah directed several original works including her own adaptation of Lorrie Moore’s short story How to be an Other Woman and Due Unto Others, a contemporary retelling of the Samson and Delilah story. Her thesis Learning the Route as (S)he goes: Director as Storyteller and Theatrical Adaptation received highest marks. Pease-Kerr originated Kulture Kids’ Improv Olympics and as an expert researcher and writer assisted on The Great Law of Peace, Last Fugitive Slave, In the Storm, A Classic(al) Dilemma, Ma’at Is Missing , has written The Secret is Out and other Kulture Kids scripts. Pease-Kerr served as a Princeton Public Interest Fellowship as an Educator for the Community Group in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She has taught humanities at Wildwood School in Los Angles and is currently teaching English at Sewickly Academy in Pittsburgh, PA.

GABRIELLE VEHAR

holds a M.S. in Communications from Ithaca College, and both a B.F.A. in Acting and a B.A. in Theatre/Dance, with a Music Minor, from Case Western Reserve University, including additional studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Gabrielle has been Artist/Educator/Trainer for the Western New York Institute for the Arts in Education, New York State Council on the Arts, and Minneapolis/St Paul’s Stepping Stone Theatre, Buffalo’s Opera Buffs, Hiram College, and Ithaca College. She has served as Director/Choreographer for Daemen College in NY, Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre Midwest tours, Events Unlimited Industrial Shows (Buffalo), Stage Door Theatre in Wisconsin, Clarence Central High School in NY, Case Western Reserve University’s Eldred Theatre, Fridley High School in Minneapolis, and for the dance film SCHISM. Her librettos for the operas Eleanor Roosevelt and George Sand…and Chopin?  have been sung in New York with her new libretto Shot! about the assassination of President William McKinley by the Nickel City Opera. She has written the libretto for Syracuse’s Society for New Music called PUSHED ASIDE, the story of Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the original suffragettes who worked with Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

MOLLY CORNWELL

holds a B.A., Bellarmine University and M.F.A., Case Western Reserve University. Cornwell has a Master Teacher Certification, in Michael Chekhov Technique from Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium, Kent State University . She is the Hathaway Brown School Director of Theater Emeritus. Appearances on stage include Dobama Theater, Cleveland Play House, the Hanna Theatre, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Beck Center for the Arts, Eldred Theatre and others.  A member of the following professional organizations: Actors Equity Association; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Educational Theatre Association; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Theatre Communications Group; and the International Thespian Society.

MITCHELL POULOS

is an actor, voice-over artist, theatre director and acting coach. He was most recently seen as a Guest Star on Blue Bloods. Other TV credits include Half Life (Pilot), Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Perception, Arrested Development, and The Office. Most Recent Films include, When We Grow Up, Nanay Ko, Tango Shalom, and Waiting in the Wings: The Musical. Mitch recently won Best Actor in the Fulton Theatre (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Subscribers Choice Awards as Joey in the play, A STEADY RAIN, and nominated for a Broadway World Best Actor Award as Joe Keller in All My Sons at Theatre Raleigh (North Carolina). He also played Bob the Mechanic in Priscilla Queen of the Desert in productions at Ogunquit Playhouse, The Gateway Playhouse and on the Norwegian Epic Cruise Ship. He was an original cast member of the 1^st National Tour, the Canadian Production and the US National Tour of Billy Elliot, the Musical. Mitch can also be seen in several national commercials and is the owner of PrimeTime Reels that edits performance reels and clips for actors and other performance artists.

ROBIN PEASE, Secretary