Marry Me A Little Archives - Good People Theater Company

Robert Schroeder

March 17, 2018October 19, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

(Sound Design) Bob has been involved somewhere in theater for the last 40 years. He has run lights (started on an old auto transformer board), sound (an Altec Lansing 6 channel tube job), carpentry, and rigging. He has worked at the La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts for about that long, has been a Technical Director for several production companies including Golden State Children’s Theater, and has taken shows “on the road” as part of Jr Programs in southland communities in the late eighties. Bob has a degree in Education from BIOLA University and his “day job” is with Montebello Unified School District.

Rebecca Schroeder

March 17, 2018November 15, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

(Stage Manager / Assistant Stage Manager) Becca is a California State University, Long Beach grad, an elementary school teacher by day, theater technician by night, working with Good People from the start on Closer Than Ever (Hollywood Piano), The Fantasticks (Hollywood Fringe 2014), A Man of No Importance (Hollywood Fringe 2013), as well as Barrymore (Greenway Court and El Portal). Becca is a fan of choreographing and performing. Recent projects: Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Fame.

Oliver Lan

March 17, 2018October 21, 2018
by oliverlanadmin

(Graphic Design) Oliver is a graphic designer based in Los Angeles. He works across a range of disciplines from print to web to architectural spaces. His projects include work for UCLA, United Way and Whole Foods Market. Oliver’s has been recognized by AIGA, Type Directors Club, the One Show, and Communication Arts.

David Laffey

March 13, 2018October 19, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

David has appeared in productions throughout Southern California including Camelot, The Mikado (NankiEPoo), The Secret Garden (Neville Craven) and Crazy for You (Moose). In the summer of 2013, he was fortunate enough to be part of a concert run of West Side Story with the BEAUTIFUL San Francisco Symphony. The cast album won the International Classical Music Award for Recording of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy. In 2011, David earned an Ovation nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his work in the Southern California Premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera.

Jessie Withers

March 5, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

Jessie Withers originally hails from Canada where she studied theater and opera. Jessie is a recent alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Credits include Young Little Edie, Grey Gardens (Broadway World Nomination Best Featured Actress Musical) opposite Broadway veteran Sara Gettelfinger, SoCal premier Jerry Springer: the Opera as Shawntel/Eve (Broadway World Nomination Best Featured Actress Musical, Susan in Nerve (Best Performance Lead Actress in a Play OC Registrar), Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables, Pam Sakarian in Baby, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, and Irene Malloy in Hello, Dolly!

Kathy Gillespie

February 12, 2018October 21, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

(Costume Designer) Educated at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles with a B.S. in Nursing. Kathy took on a second career in costuming in 1984, and started The Costume House, a theatrical costume design/rental company in 1990. Fifty musicals/plays later, including 17 built for shows directed by GPTC’s own artistic director, Janet Miller.

Michael P. Wallot

February 12, 2018November 15, 2018
by Kimberly Fox

Michael is the former Artistic Director of Broadway Bound Orange County, the Star Theatre Company in Oceanside, The Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, and Carbondale Repertoire Theatre in Pennsylvania. He has directed and cast well over 100 productions nationwide from NYC to SoCal. As a performer he appeared in 7 Broadway/National Tours including The Phantom of the Opera and Joseph. As the casting director for GPTCo, Michael cast our inaugural production of A Man of No Importance, which won the StageSceneLA Award for Best Ensemble. Michael now resides in Scottsdale, AZ, but frequents LA as often as possible and telecommutes for GPTCo anytime we need him!

Corey Hirsch

February 5, 2018November 15, 2018
by oliverlanadmin

(Music Director) Corey is an LA Drama Critics Circle award winner and LA Weekly Award nominee for GPTCo’s A Man of No Importance. A sought-after musical director and pianist in Southern California, this is Corey’s 16^th musical production collaboration with Janet Miller. A graduate of The Juilliard School (BM Composition) and the University of Southern California (Adv. Cert. Scoring for Film and TV), Corey is a commissioned composer/arranger, assistant conductor for the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Adjunct Professor of Voice for the Theater and Dance program at CSUF, and Music Director and Vocal Coach for Disney. Recent MD credits include The Addams Family and The Full Monty (3D Theatricals), and The Pajama Game (Musical Theatre Guild).

Katherine Barrett

February 5, 2018November 15, 2018
by oliverlanadmin

Kate has stage managed on 3 continents and performed all manner of stagecraft wizardry across the United States. Educated at Northwestern University and California State University, Fullerton, she currently resides in Southern California where she has served as stage manager for many local theater companies.

Kate tours internationally as stage manager with Wiesenthal. She is the Production Manager for the Whittier Center Theatre. Her favorite lighting designs include A Man of No Importance, The Fantasticks, Seussical- the Musical, Man of La Mancha, The Tempest, and The Nutcracker.

Kimberly Fox

February 5, 2018November 15, 2018
by oliverlanadmin

(Board President, Company Principal as Marketing Director) Kimberly started her marketing career in the arts, first working at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa before its opening season in 1986, and later serving as Director for a summer music festival in San Diego County. When the arts hit hard times economically in the late 1980s, Kimberly migrated her marketing skills to Silicon Valley, eventually founding a technology marketing firm which she and her three partners grew to 90-person consultancy. She sold her stake in that business and, after a few left turns, ended up back in arts marketing. Kimberly has a BA in Music from Duke University, an MA in Music from CSULB, and she played the lead in Annie Get Your Gun her senior year in high school.

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