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Brandon Kalbaugh has worked in scores of Off-Off Broadway plays at venues such as the ATA, The Producers Club, the Horse Trade Theatres, and The Looking Glass Theatre.  In these productions he has worked as an actor, director, playwright, and producer.  As an actor he has also toured nationally with an acclaimed children's theatre, performed in outdoor theatre, and appeared in a handful of independent films.  A co-founder of the Two Spoons Theatre Company in NYC, he served as the Co-Artistic Director until relocating to NOVA in 2008.  As a playwright he has received national recognition in writing competitions, and has been produced in NY and Virginia.  A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, he has worked in their offices and screened plays for the New Group Theatre Company (Broadway).  He has written three full length, and numerous short plays.  Now, a teaching artist in Northern Virginia, he works with Creative Kids, the DC Opera, and of course, Encore where he also continues to create the stories for their Spring and Christmas shows.

 


Tabitha Dees , Scenic Design, is a Muralist, Faux Finisher and co-owner of Murals Faux You! Her works can be viewed in 17 states as well as Canada and Italy. She has most recently completed the 2006 Designer Showcase at Rust Manor in Leesburg, Virginia.   Her works include many residential and commercial properties as well as a project for the film, Miami Vice , Universal Studios. She has worked with ETAP since it's inception. Tabilth's website is: Murals Faux You!


Kathryn Karassik Ahearn , Vocal Direction, made her Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in Ralph Williams' Serenade to Music. She sang with the Opera Company of Boston under the direction of the late Sara Caldwell for fifteen years. Roles included Yvette in Puccini's La Rondine, Kate Pinkerton in Verdi's Madame Butterfly, the Dew Fairy in Humperdink's Hansel & Gretel and Annina in Verdi's La Traviata.  Locally, she sang two seasons performing leading roles with the Wolf Trap Opera Company.  She also received rave reviews as the soprano soloist in Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Villa Lobos' Bachianas Brasilares with the Great Neck Symphony in New York. Other accomplishments include a successful run in the leading role of Mary Wilson in  musical The Drunkard at the Charles Playhouse in Boston. Ms. Ahearn is co-founder, director and producer of University of Mary Washington's Operafest, which just completed its seventh season. In addition, she heads the vocal department at the university.She received her Bachelor of Music at Boston University and her Masters of Music at The Boston Conservatory. Union affiliations include AGMA, AEA and AFTRA.

 


Alex Armstrong, Sound, has been involved in sound for community theatre since his high school days. Alex engineerd the sound for R&B Artist Genie Ortega , as well as local community favorites Barnum , Brigadoon, and many others. This is Alex's 14th production with Encore Theatrical Arts Project. "I really enjoy working with Raynor and the performers year after year."

 

Costumer- Dawn Martin

Remember Paris Author- Scott Dees