LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA - Key Persons
ADAM LAPORTE (Male Swing) is making his Lyric Theatre debut. OTHER THEATRE: On The Town, Seussical, Floyd Collins, Residents of Craigslist at Oklahoma City University; Peter and the Starcatcher at The Arts Center of Cannon County; The Baseball Play at Oklahoma Contemporary.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ - is making his Lyric Theatre debut. :LYRIC'S THELMA GAYLORD ACADEMY: Cyrano De Burger Shack, Newsies. REGIONAL THEATRE: Little Shop of Horrors, Footloose, Elgin Performing Arts Center; Aladdin Jr., Mamma Mia, Peter Pan, High School Musical, Lawton Community Theatre; James and The Giant Peach Jr., Lawton Ballet Theatre; Into the Woods, Chickasha Community Theatre, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Duncan Little Theatre.
Job Titles:
- Payroll & Accounts Payable Administrator
Carly Ann Moore (ensemble) is making her Lyric Theatre debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: Legally Blonde (Elle Woods) and Hairspray (Amber) at Pinewood Bowl, Inc.; Little Women (Amy) at The Stage Theatre. OTHER THEATRE: Sister Act (Nun) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) at Oklahoma City University.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Development
COLE CLOUTIER (Lenny/Sheldon/Camille) - is making his Lyric Theatre debut! OTHER THEATRE: Featured Dancer in Texas: The Outdoor Musical Drama; Male Singer/Dancer in Six Flags Over Texas' Chart-Toppers: Ovation; Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Peter in Bare: A Musical Pop-Opera. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Studies B.M. Music Theatre at OKCU; American Spirit Dance Company.
Job Titles:
- Resident Sound Designer / Engineer
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- Vice President of Education
EMILY J. PACE - AT LYRIC: OKLAHOMA! Musical Interactive, Kinky Boots, Lyric's A Christmas Carol, Lyric Kids' Clubhouse, The Rocky Horror Show, Frost/Nixon, Junie B. Jones the Musical, Rock of Ages, Titanic. REGIONAL THEATRE: As You Like It, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park; Grease, Matilda, Shrek the Musical, The Laurel Canyon Cabaret, Jack Frost, Twas the Night Before Christmas, Casa Mañana; The Producers, Heathers: The Musical, American Idiot, The Pollard Theatre Company; Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Tommy, Rent, Tulsa Project Theatre; Chicago, Jewel Box Theatre; Guy and Dolls, Summerstock Productions; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre; Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma City Theatre Company. OTHER THEATRE: Floyd Collins, The Grass Harp, Side Show, A Chorus Line, Sunset Boulevard, Godspell, The University of Central Oklahoma.
EMMALEE HAMILTON - is making her Lyric Theatre debut. LYRIC'S THELMA GAYLORD ACADEMY: The Sound of Music, Matilda, SpongeBob SquarePants, Into the Woods, Chicago High School Edition. REGIONAL THEATRE: Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Story, The Wichita Falls Theatre; High School Musical, Mamma Mia, Annie, Lawton Community Theatre; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Seussical, Duncan Little Theatre; A Year with Frog and Toad, Duncan Little Theatre-Children's Theatre Experience.
Job Titles:
- Resident Lighting Designer / Master Electrician
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- Resident Costume Designer
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- Vice President of Facilities
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- Vice President of Marketing
JOSHUA THOMPSON - AT LYRIC: Big River, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. REGIONAL THEATRE: Little Shop of Horrors, The Pollard Theatre Company. Mamma Mia, White Christmas, Singing in the Rain, Bye Bye Birdie, Oklahoma!, Repertory Company Theatre. Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Tarzan, Shining Star Productions. OTHER THEATRE: Sweeney Todd, RENT, Big Fish, Sweet Charity, Theory of Relativity, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Grease, University of Central Oklahoma. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: B.M. in Musical Theatre from the University of Central Oklahoma.
JOSIAH BROOKS - at LYRIC THEATRE: Kinky Boots, Master Class, Cat in the Hat. REGIONAL THEATRE: Romeo and Juliet, Oklahoma Shakespeare. OTHER THEATRE: Romeo and Juliet, Bye Bye Birdie, Pioneer Summer Theatre Festival, 26 Pebbles, That Uppity Theatre Company. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Macbeth, 26 Pebbles, Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, University of Central Oklahoma, BFA from the University of Central Oklahoma. 2019 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Region VI Finalist.
KEN SINGLETON (Billy Cane) is making his Lyric Theatre debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: Little Shop of Horrors (Drury Lane); Anything Goes (Music Theatre Works); Oklahoma!, Ragtime, The Emperor's New Clothes (Marriott Theatre); Marie Christine (Bohemian Ensemble Theatre); and The Most Happy Fella (Theo Ubique). Other Credits include: Carousel, Rock of Ages, Mary Poppins, Titanic, Gaslight (Timber Lake Playhouse); Hands on a Hardbody, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Next to Normal (Keystone Repertory Theater).
Job Titles:
- Production and Rental Associate
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- Production / Company Manager
MAXIMUS WHITE - is making his Lyric Theatre debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: FINALE JTF SAC, Kids alive! JTF TX, Kids alive! Ragtime, Chorus Line Classen SAS, Kiss me Kate Classen SAS, Beetlejuice Junior, itheatrics. FILM: Finding Carlos, Web of Spider-Man, Rotten!, The First 280 Honest Words of My Life.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Finance
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- Vice President of Governance
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- Special Projects Associate
MICAH MARINE (Herb/Chenille) - is making his Lyric Theatre debut! OTHER THEATRE: Heathers the Musical at Tribble School of Performing Arts; Peter and The Starcatcher, Hello Dolly!, A Chorus Line, The Importance of being Earnest, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at CRHS; Shrek The Musical and 25 TH Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Cypress Academy of Performing Arts. CRHS. FILM: 9 Words, Framed (SXSW Finalist), Are You Ready, Homecoming Date, Big Brother, Big Sister, The Woods Project. MUSIC: Two-time nominated album titled "Lilac," as well as multiple nominations for singles "Snow" and "San Jacinto".
Job Titles:
- Producing Artistic Director
MICHAEL BARON (Producing Artistic Director) At Lyric, he directed Master Class, Grease, Frost/Nixon, Titanic, Singin' in the Rain, Bright Star, When We're Gone (World Premiere), Freaky Friday, Fun Home, Disney's When You Wish, James and the Giant Peach, I Am My Own Wife, Assassins, Fiddler on the Roof, Dreamgirls, Mann…And Wife (World Premiere), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (World Premiere), Big Fish with David Elder and Tony-nominee Emily Skinner, Oklahoma!, An Inspector Calls, A Little Night with Tony-nominee Dee Hoty, Les Misérables, Triangle, Big River, Tarzan, The Glass Menagerie, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Call Me Madam with Tony-winner Beth Leavel, Spring Awakening, Ragtime, Oliver!, Boeing Boeing, Always…Patsy Cline, December Divas, The Rocky Horror Show and the annual production of Lyric's A Christmas Carol (also adapted). He has directed over 95 productions at theaters across the country including the current production of A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre in D.C. Other regional directing highlights include - ZACH Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher, Spring Awakening; Signature Theatre: The Little Laughed, Songs for a New World starring Tony-winner Alice Ripley, Tony-nominee Brian D'Arcy James, Emmy-nominee Titus Burgess and direction by Jason Robert Brown; Adventure Theatre: Huck Finn's Big River (World Premiere), James and the Giant Peach (2017 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Direction), the world premiere musical Big Nate; Goodspeed Musicals: Meet John Doe; Trinity Repertory Company: The School for Scandal. La Mama: The Whore of Sheridan Square (wrote and directed, published in anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006). NEA: 2010-2022 Poetry Out Loud National Competition Finals with hosts: John Leguizamo, Kerry Washington, and Anna Deavere Smith. Teaching: American, Brown, Holy Cross and Rhode Island. Michael has been a theatre grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Training: B.A. in Theatre Arts, Wake Forest; MFA in Directing, Trinity Repertory Conservatory. Michael served as the Associate Director of Signature Theatre in Virginia - winner of the 2009 Regional Theatre TONY Award. Michael received the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction of a Resident Musical in D.C. for Adventure Theatre's production of A Year with Frog and the Toad, 2016 Oklahoma Governor's Arts Award and a special award from Mayor's Committee on Disabilities Concerns and the Yad B'Yad, Hand in Hand Award from the Jewish Federation of OKC. He is an emeritus board member for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, member of Oklahoma City's Rotary Club 29 and serves on the Oklahoma Arts Institute Theatre Advisory Panel and the Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day committee.
Job Titles:
- Director of Marketing and Public Relations
MICHAEL ISAAC (Jimmy Ray Dobbs) is making his Lyric Theatre debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: The Full Monty (4 times!), Kiss Me Kate, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, Treasure Island, Songs for a New World, Honk, Jekyll & Hyde, Frosty the Snowman. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: NYU Tisch School of the Arts CAP 21, Guildford School of Acting. @weperformfit
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- Marketing Coordinator / Interactive Coordinator
NIA SIER - is making her Lyric Theatre debut. LYRIC'S THELMA GAYLORD ACADEMY: Honk Jr. REGIONAL THEATRE: Matilda, Frog and Toad, Ragtime, KidsAlive Theatre; Seussical, Hairspray Jr, Edmond Fine Arts; Hairspray, Working the Musical, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Classen SAS @NE; An Extraordinarily Pleasant Enjoyable or Exciting Trip to the Museum (A Newly Written Operetta), Cimarron Opera. OTHER THEATRE: Children of Eden Jr., Finale at Junior Theatre Festival West; Dot and The Kangaroo, iTheatrics New York Workshop.
PATTY IRWIN (Margo Crawford) is making her Lyric Theatre debut! OTHER THEATRE: Reflections at the Duplex NYC, Little Women, The Bartered Bride, and Noises Off! at Oklahoma City University. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: B.M. Music Theatre & Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University.
ZAK REYNOLDS is making his Lyric Theatre debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: Bella: An American Tall Tale at Dallas Theater Center; The Snowy Day & Other Stories at Denver Center for the Performing Arts; I Put A Spell On You with Jay Armstrong Johnson at Le Poisson Rouge; Grease, Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde, Spamalot!, Beauty and the Beast, The Santaland Diaries at Casa Mañana; Every Brilliant Thing at Circle Theatre; Dogfight at WaterTower Theater; Newsies at Lyric Stage; A Wrinkle in Time, Rapunzel Rapunzel! and SkippyJon Jones at Dallas Children's Theater. NATIONAL TOUR: A Year with Frog & Toad with Casa Mañana. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Best Actor for D Magazine 2014; Studied at Circle in the Square Theatre School.