CREATIVE TEAM BIOS

MOLLIE BERMAN (Costume Design) is in her fourth season with TNP as Costume Shop Supervisor. After graduating with her MFA from FSU, she joined the creative team for Disney Parks Live Entertainment as well as freelanced as a designer in the Orlando area. Previous design credits include Blithe Spirit, The Wedding Singer, Footloose, Yours, Truly, Bye Bye Birdie, and She Loves Me (TNP). She has designed for TheatreWorks Florida, Mad Cow Theatre and Florida State University. She has previously worked at Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Olney Theatre Center and Williamstown Theatre Festival and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She would like to thank her friends, family, and husband Reece for their unending support and encouragement.

JORDAN CRAWFORD (Assistant Stage Manager) is a senior at The Village School. Her past credits include: Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), Heathers (Heather MacNamara), and A Chorus Line (Cassie). She is very excited to be a part of this amazing show! She would like to thank her family for supporting her, as well as the TNP staff for helping put on this fantastic show. She hopes you enjoy the show!

KATIE CROSS (Video) is the owner of Cross Align Media, a content creation company specializing in video production for small businesses, artists, and nonprofits. Cross Align Media helps expand their clients reach through affordable, high-quality media content. She produces the majority of the video content for TNP, including sponsor videos, lobby screens, archival videos, social media video posts, and fundraising videos. Her content work extends to creating the projections for shows like Mary Poppins and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Katie filmed and edited The Belle of New Orleans - the movie within By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Katie is also a working actor, and can be seen in commercials for Wawa, Florida Lottery, AutoNation, and Tropical Smoothie Cafe. She will appear in a feature film on BET in 2023. To learn more about Cross Align Media, visit crossalign.com or follow @crossalign on Instagram. For more information on her acting, go to katiecross. com or follow @katiecrossofficial.

JILLIAN FEIGENBLAT (Properties Coordinator) graduated from Florida Atlantic University with her BFA in theatrical technology and design. This will be her second time working with The Naples Players and she couldn’t be happier to be back and creating with such a wonderful team again! Her most recent work experience was with American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin where she worked as a properties artisan. She hopes you enjoy the show (and the props!)

CHARLES FORNARA (Music Director/Conductor) has music directed over 175 productions, including, at TNP, A Christmas Carol, Something Rotten!, Mary Poppins, Gentleman’s Guide, The Wedding Singer, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, Sister Act, The Rocky Horror Show, Catch Me If You Can, The Spitfire Grill, Les Misérables, All Shook Up, 42nd Street and many others, as well as over 20 teen productions for KidzAct. Also in Naples for TheatreZone, he has music directed nearly 40 shows including A Little Night Music, Bridges of Madison County, Aida, The Secret Garden, Legs Diamond, Sweet Smell of Success, Grand Hotel, Little Women and Hair. Originally from Providence, RI, Chas conducted Jim Steinman and Roman Polanski’s Dance of the Vampires in Stuttgart, and has taught and coached singers all over the US and Germany, now offering private lessons here in Naples. A proud member of Actors’ Equity, he has appeared in almost 100 musicals, operas and concerts, including several appearances here in Naples with TheatreZone, most recently as the title role in Sweeney Todd. Much love to his beautiful wife, Dawn, and a big thank you to this wonderful orchestra!

DAWN LEBRECHT FORNARA (Director/Choreographer) is a native of New York and has served as director and choreographer for TNP’s Something Rotten!, Mary Poppins, The Wedding Singer, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, Sister Act, The Rocky Horror Show, Catch Me If You Can, Legally Blonde, The Spitfire Grill and 42nd Street, among others, and with KidzAct for many productions, including Joseph…Dreamcoat, Hairspray, Disney’s Camp Rock, Les Misérables and CATS. She has choreographed many shows for TNP, including A Christmas Carol, A Gentleman’s Guide, All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Cabaret. As a performer, she has been seen in the National Tours of 42nd Street, Seussical the Musical, Anything Goes and Grease

A proud member of Actors’ Equity, she has been seen here in Naples in TheatreZone’s Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), Jekyll & Hyde (Lucy), Stepping Out with Donna McKechnie , Legs Diamond (Kiki) and Hair, among others. Other recent roles include (Sheila) A Chorus Line, (Sally Bowles, Velma Kelly, Bombalurina) CATS and (Ulla) The Producers. Love to husband Chas and her family.

MICHAEL HOOVER (Scenic & Projection Designer) Based in Minneapolis, Michael is happy to once again escape the frozen tundra of Minnesota for a few weeks in sunny Florida! Something Rotten! was Michael’s debut production at TNP earlier this season. He has designed for many theaters in the Twin Cities; including the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Theater Latte Da, Six Points Theater and the History Theatre. Nationally, Michael has designed productions at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, The ZACH Theatre in Austin and the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota. In addition to his freelance career as a scenic designer, Michael is the Head of Scenic Art at the Guthrie Theater.

ABBY MAY (Lighting Design) is very excited to be returning to the hills and The Naples Players again for The Sound of Music! Fun fact: this is Abby’s 7th production of The Sound of Music, her last one being an international tour starting in Singapore! Abby is a freelance lighting designer who travels the country doing dance and theatre, and is also the resident Associate Lighting Designer at City Springs Theatre Company in Atlanta. She is a graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Class of 2017) and now lives in New York City. Abby’s selected credits include: The Cake (LD), The Last Five Years (LD), Into the Woods (LD), A Chorus Line (LD), The Producers (Assoc. LD), and The Sound of Music International Tour (Assoc LD). abbymayld.com