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Michelle Stein (Hannah) is in 10th grade at Robinson High School and is excited to make her LTA debut! She fell in love with acting at a very young age and loves making people smile. Credits include Lilia, original cast of On National Road – The Musical, Annie in Annie (PWLT) and Duffy (Riverside Center for Performing Arts). Also, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (SFTC) and other shows with MVCCT and Sterling Playmakers. Michelle has also taken part in commercials and short-film opportunities that she has enjoyed. Michelle loves spending time with family and friends, writing stories and making art.

Hannah Taylor (Gretchen) is a Washington, DC-based actress, and she is so excited to make her Little Theatre of Alexandria debut this year! Recently, she portrayed Hildegard von Bingen in Rejoicing in Broken Pieces (Catholic University of America) and Juror 8 in 12 Angry Jurors (Catholic University of America). She thanks her family for their support (mainly because they are the only people reading this).

Lourdes Turnblom (Torrey/Adam’s Mom) is delighted to be returning for her third show here at LTA. Most recently she performed in LTA’s Sister Act and Something Rotten!. Her previous credits include Shrek The Musical (Gingy), She Kills Monsters (Vera) and Oklahoma! (Aunt Eller). She would like to thank all her friends and family for always cheering her on and especially her love, Alex, for always supporting her. Lourdes hopes you all enjoy the show!

In case of an emergency, LTA has three AEDs (automated external defibrillators) They are located as follows:

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Helen Bard-Sobola (Co-Properties Design) is very happy to be working with such a great team, especially Mac and Heather. LTA has been Helen’s home for more shows than she can count. WATCH Awards for Spamalot and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (DS). Other nominations include Something Rotten! (LTA), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and The Boys in the Band (DS). Backstage is a delight, but many moons ago, the spotlight was my home. Love always to my family: Ally and Mike. Support local theatre where and when you can!

Luana Bossolo (Co-Producer) is a longtime LTA member, having produced and assistant produced several shows for LTA, including A Fox on the Fairway, The Fabulous Lipitones and To Kill a Mockingbird. She has been painting LTA sets since 2010. Recent sets include Mary Stuart and Something Rotten!, for which she received a WATCH nomination.

Kacie (KC) Carlyle (Set Dressing) is delighted to be working on this wonderful production, which is her first as set decorator. She thanks Luana, Joanna, Zell and especially MYKE for their patience and guidance.

Bridget Carpenter (Author) created the 2016 miniseries “11.22.63” for Bad Robot and Hulu from Stephen King’s bestselling novel. “11.22.63” premiered at the Sundance Festival, was nominated for a Writers Guild Award, and won the Saturn Award for best limited series. Prior to “11.22.63,” she wrote and co-executive-produced all five seasons of the Peabody Award-Winning series Friday Night Lights . She was a Consulting Producer for HBO’s Westworld and a CoExecutive Producer for Parenthood . In 2013 she was the Executive Producer/Showrunner for the Sundance Channel drama series The Red Road . Carpenter’s plays have been produced by Steppenwolf, the Public Theater, the Alley Theatre, La Jolla Rep, Berkeley Repertory Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and many other theaters across the country. She has written several songs for film ( Basmati Blues ; Dear Dumb Diary ) and has adapted Freaky Friday as a

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movie musical for the Disney Channel, airing in 2018. Most recently, she was awarded the Princess Grace Statue. Awards: a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a McKnight Grant, the Princess Grace Award, the Kesselring Prize, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. WGA and Emmy nominations for Friday Night Lights . Her plays Fall, Up and The Faculty Room are published by Samuel French. An alumna of New Dramatists, Carpenter received her BA and MFA from Brown University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Chris Harrison, and their children, Rita and Henry.

Margaret Chapman (Co-Properties Design) is happy to be back making all the arts and crafts with Helen and Heather after most recently producing Mary Stuart (LTA). The past few years, she has been designing props and producing shows for LTA, St. Mark’s Players and The Fat and Greasy Citizens Brigade, including Blue Stockings, You Can’t Take It with You, August: Osage County, Sister Act, Evita and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). She also serves as the Vice Director of the LTA Council and as the President of the SMP Board of Directors.

Kimberly Crago (Master Electrician) See JK Lighting.

Melissa Dunlap (Co-Stage Manager) Previous stage management credits: The Fabulous Lipitones, Driving Miss Daisy and A Christmas Carol, all at LTA. If her name looks familiar, you may have seen her in local productions as Rose in Enchanted April (ACCT), Jean Louise Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (LTA), Sarah in Laughing Stock (LTA), May in Fool for Love (PCP) or Margaret in Silent Sky (ACCT).

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Christine Farrell (Co-Stage Manager) is proud to be a member of the production team for Freaky Friday. Favorite past production team credits include: King Hedley II , Heathers: The Musical , Snakebit, Urinetown : The Musical, Bent and Love! Valour! Compassion! with DS; Harvey, The Audience, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged ), The Odd Couple: Female Version, 33 Variations, Rabbit Hole and Company with LTA; and The Color Purple, Sister Act, Parade and The Wiz with SMP. Happy to be back doing live theater again!

Joanna Henry (Director) has worked on almost 100 productions and directed more than 80, recently Doubt at VTC and The Best Worst That Can Happen at ACCT. Directing at LTA: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), 33 Variations (LTA Outstanding Production), Rabbit Hole (Ruby Griffith Award), Gypsy, Company, Into the Woods (Best Director), The Music Man. Regional Directing: W;t, three benefits: BC/EFA, Olney Theatre, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She’s also received three WATCH nominations (Director). Four of her productions have received Ruby Griffith Awards. A retired theatre educator, she is a private acting coach.

Katie Beth Hicks (Assistant Director) enjoys being surrounded by creativity, whether on stage (including roles as Julia in The Wedding Singer at Diamond Head Theatre; Judge in Legally Blonde The Musical at LTA; and Illona in She Loves Me at Manoa Valley Theatre) or off (including Les Misérables for Peter Lockyer and Anything Goes for Stefan Sittig). A huge mahalo to Joanna, Stefan, et al., for making this a fun experience!

Jim Hutzler (Co-Set Construction) has worked on many LTA sets as master carpenter and set construction crew, often alongside the set painting of his wife, Mary. Recent WATCH Award nominations with co-builder Jeff Nesmeyer include Something Rotten! and Design for Murder. Thanks to all those volunteers who make LTA the special place that it is.

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Tom Kitt (Music) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. Next to Normal also received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score. He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom.); High Fidelity (Broadway); Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway); Superhero (2nd Stage); Disney’ s Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical) ; Dave (Arena Stage); The Winter’s Tale , All’s Well That Ends Well, and Cymbeline (The Public›s NYSF); From Up Here and The Madrid (MTC); Orphans (Broadway) The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons) and As You Like It (Toho Co., Japan). As a music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include SpongeBob Square Pants , The Musical (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom, Drama Desk Nom.); Head Over Heels; Jagged Little Pill; Grease Live!; Rise (NBC); and American Idiot. His work with Green Day also includes additional arrangements for their Grammy Award-winning album 21st Century Breakdown and their album trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! Tom received an Emmy Award as co-writer (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) for the 2013 Tony Award opening number, Bigger . Other Television Songwriting credits include a musical episode of Royal Pains , and songs for Penny Dreadful, Sesame Street, and Julie’s Greenroom. As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator, credits include the Pitch Perfect films , 2Cellos featuring Lang Lang (Live and Let Die), The Kennedy Center Honors, 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore, Pippin (Deaf West), and These Paper Bullets. Upcoming projects include musical adaptations of the films Almost Famous, Magic Mike, and The Visitor.