Nice Work if You Can Get It

ADAM ANDREWS, VICE SQUAD, is a junior BFA Musical Theatre Major. Rider Mainstage Credits include: Into The Woods (Mysterious Man), Rent (Ensemble), Anything Goes (Sailor Swing), Radium Girls (Actor 8 & 9 u/s.) Rider Student Theatre credits include: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Swing), Carrie (Swing).

JONATHAN BANKS, SWING, is ecstatic to be back on the Rider Stage! He is a transfer Musical Theatre Junior. He wants to say thank you to his family and new friends that have welcomed him into this community at Rider. Previous credits include: Music Theatre Wichita – Ragtime (Harlem Ensemble), Twelfth Night (Illyrian Ensemble); Rider University - RENT (Steve/Ensemble), Into The Woods (Baker U/S). 1 Cor 16:14

KATE BILENKO, DANCE CAPTAIN/ENSEMBLE, is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider Mainstage credits: Kiss Me, Kate (Swing), Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula/Conrade/Choreographer). Select professional credits: Me And My Girl (Sally Smith), Guys And Dolls (Ensemble) with Ohio Light Opera Company, and Nunsense (Sister Robert Anne), Beauty And The Beast (Babette) with Revival Productions at Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center. www.katebilenko.com

BROOKE BIRBILIS, OLIVE, is a junior Musical Theatre major. Select credits include: Anything Goes (Angel Swing, Rider), The Little Mermaid (Ariel, Broadway Theatre of Pitman), and The Prom (Angie Dickinson, Broadway Theatre of Pitman). 

HANNAH GRACE BONNETTE, EILEEN EVERGREEN, DRAMATURG, GREEN CAPTAIN, is thrilled to be a part of Nice Work's amazingly talented cast. Originally from New Orleans, LA, Hannah is a BFA Musical Theatre senior. Professional credits include Alexa in Thick as Thieves and Atina in The Little Mermaid (Pickleville Playhouse), Eliza Doolittle (Jefferson Performing Arts) Rider credits include Writer/Music Director (Starseeds: a musical, RSTC), Beatrice (Emotional Women, RSTC), Angels Swing (Anything Goes), Jane Doe (Ride the Cyclone, RSTC), Zelda 1918 (The Ghosts of Gatsby, Westminster Choir College). Thank you to my entire cheering section back home for believing in the fearless little girl who just wanted to sing out.  Instagram: @hannahgracebonnette"

CHARLOTTE CALDEJON, LUCY, Charlotte Caldejon is a junior BFA Musical Theatre major and is thrilled to be a part of Nice Work If You Can Get It! Previous professional credits include It's Never Too Late (Young June) with Theatre To Go and Excuse Me (Selena) with Pennies Pictures. She will soon be performing with Bound for Broadway at Triad Theatre in NYC!

CHRISTINA CLAIRE, FLO/JEANNIE MULDOON U/S (She/Her), is a Senior BFA Musical Theatre Major. Rider credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble), Bean a Long Day (Frenchie/Tara RuBean/Betty U/S), Into the Spotlight (Soloist), and Rebirth (Soloist). Professional Credits: The Prom at Axelrod Performing Arts Center (Shelby/Alyssa Greene U/S).

SIMON CLISSOLD, ENSEMBLE, DUKE U/S , is a Junior Musical Theater major with a Design and Tech Minor. Rider Main Stage credits include: Natasha Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble, Balaga U/S),Anything Goes (Offstage Swing), Rent (Ensemble), Into the Woods (Wolf U/S) Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear), Please I'm A Star (Student 12).

LEAH ROSE CROSSAN, DUTCHESS ESTONIA DUTWORTH, is ecstatic to be a part of Nice Work If You Can Get It as the understudy for the Duchess! She is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Leah’s recent credits include playing Ida in Westminster Opera Theatre’s Die Fledermaus, performing in the ensemble of Broadway Theatre of Pitman’s The Prom, and swinging Rider Student Theatre Company’s Ride the Cyclone. Leah is so thrilled to have this experience working alongside such wonderful peers and faculty and is so excited for everyone to enjoy this show!

GARRETT CURRIER, VIC/VICE SQUAD [He/They] is a sophomore Musical Theatre Major. All the way from sunny San Diego, CA, Garrett’s other credits include Kinky Boots (BToP); Disney’s Tarzan, R&H’s Cinderella, The Wedding Singer (Moonlight Amphitheatre); The Addams Family, Little Shop of Horrors (Junior Actors Company); New Works: God is a Snail (Student Work); Tanner Maverick’s Book of Sound (Ritz Theatre). TV/Film credits include Asher (Co-Star) in Love, Victor (Hulu & Disney+). www.garrettcurrier.com | Insta: @garrett.currier.official | Tiktok: @garrettcurrier"

GRAY STEPHEN DAVIDOCK, DUKE MAHONEY, is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Fedya Dolokhov), Anything Goes (Dippy/US Whitney), Kiss Me, Kate (Ensemble/US Fred Graham), and Urinetown (Billy Boy Bill). Professional credits include The Crossing: A New Musical (George Washington).

SHAE DUGGAN, MILLICENT WINTER (they/she) is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major. Select Rider Main Stage credits include: NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Opera Dancer, Sonya U/S); RENT (Assistant Choreographer/Props Designer); KISS ME, KATE (Associate Choreographer, D/C); and THE PROM (Props Designer). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: FUN HOME (Helen Bechdel); MACBETH (First Witch); OUR NEW WORLD: A GREEN CABARET FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (Soloist); THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB (Soloist); and SWINGIN’ THE SEASONS (Production Stage Manager).

RAFAEL FERRERA, ELLIOT, is a senior BFA Musical Theater major. Previous Rider Main stage credits include: Anything Goes (Sailor/Billy US), Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble/US Anatole), The Prom (Mr. Hawkins), Kiss Me Kate (Ensemble/US Gremio/US Hortensio). Professional credits include: The Prom (Nick) Broadway Theater of Pitman. 

JAYDEN HOLLISTER, ENSEMBLE/SWING, (she/her) is a junior Musical Theatre major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble).

EMILY HUTCHINGS, MILLICENT U/S, is a junior Musical Theatre major pursuing a career in performance and costume design. She is thrilled to be making her Rider MainStage debut! Recent Rider credits include: Entr’acte! Come Together: Sophomore Showcase, Curtain up! Momentum: A First Year Showcase. Select design credits include: Dracula! A Comedy of Terrors (Costume designer, Middle Sex County College), Steel Magnolias (Costume designer, Rider Student Theatre Company)

AIDEN MICHAEL KELLY, COOKIE MCGEE, is a Senior BFA Musical Theater major. Rider Mainstage credits include Into the Woods (Narrator), Anything Goes (Moonface Martin), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Servant/ u/s Pierre), Love and Information (Piano Player/Principal Actor), Urinetown (Robbie the Stockfish/ u/s Bobby Strong), Into the Spotlight, and Rebirth. Professional credits include Sweeney Todd (Beadle Bamford; Tibbits Opera House), Grease (Roger; Broadway Theatre of Pitman), and Rent (Homeless Person; Tibbits Opera House). Upcoming credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello D.D.S. & Others; Tibbits Opera House) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Barfée; Tibbits Opera House).

JILLIAN ANN LEE, GLADYS/UNDERSTUDY EILEEN (she/her) is a senior Musical Theatre Major. Rider Credits include: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and Anything Goes. Past Professional Credits include: The Prom at Axelrod Performing Arts Center and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Asbury Park Theatre Company.

BREANNA LEMERISE, DUTCHESS ESTONIA DUTWORTH (she/her) is a Rider University Senior BFA Musical Theatre major, and she is thrilled to have the chance to work with such a phenomenal company for her final Rider production! Rider Credits: Anything Goes (Evangeline Harcourt), Kiss Me, Kate (Swing), and Swingin’ the Seasons (Director; Rider Student Theater Company). Professional Credits: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey) at Grandstreet Theater, and Xanadu (Erato) and The Wizard of Oz (Toto) at Cortland Repertory Theater. Catch her this summer playing Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Clear Space Theater! She would like to thank her parents for their endless support and love throughout her entire life, but especially these past four years. Love you both!!!

MEGAN LOZITO, DOTTIE, is a Senior BFA Musical Theatre Major. Rider Main Stage credits include: The Prom (Kaylee). Professional credits include: Grease (Ensemble/US Sandy/Us Cha Cha)

JULIETTE MANERS, CHORUS GIRL (ROSIE)/BILLIE U/S, (she/her) is a senior Musical Theatre Major, Arts and Entertainment Industries Management (AEIM) Minor, and Co-Founder and President of Rider Broadway Green Alliance. Select Credits include: Grease (Sandy; Broadway Theatre of Pitman), Young Frankenstein (Inga; Red Barn Summer Theatre), Lone Star Love Potion (Tammy Jo; Red Barn Summer Theatre), The Spongebob Musical (Sandy; Grandstreet Theatre), Songs of Nature: An Eco Cabaret (Soloist/Green Captain; 54 Below), 54 Below's Spooky Spectacular (Featured Performer; 54 Below), Stars in the House for Climate Action (Green Captain Spotlight; Green Room 42 (Seth Rudetsky)), Always Something There… (Ella (Original); 29 Hour Readings 1&2 (Sandy Rustin)), The 25th Annual... Spelling Bee (Olive; Rider Student Theatre Company (RSTC)), The Prom (Olivia/Ens./U/S Mrs. Greene; Rider University), Carrie the Musical (Norma/Frieda/Helen Swing; RSTC), Pete(HER) Pan (Swing/ASM, Rider University (Deidre Goodwin)). juliettemaners.com

LUCAS DIEGO MARINETTO, JIMMY WINTER, is a Senior Musical Theater Major at Rider University. This is Lucas’ first time ever playing a lead! Lucas’ previous Credits include “World of Dance” (S2 2018), “So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation” (S13), “A Christmas Story: The Musical, National Tour” as Scut Farkus (2016). He is so excited to share the stage one last time with his fellow Rider students and can’t wait to put on a show for everyone!

MADDIE QUIGLEY, THE CHORUS GIRLS U/S, is in her sophomore year and is so excited to be swinging her first show. Past roles include, Val in A Chorus Line (Cultural Arts Playhouse), Maureen in RENT, and Little Becky Two Shoes in Urinetown (John W. Engeman theater). She is so grateful for this cast and crew. Toi Toi Toi!

COLE RUSSELL, FLOYD is a junior musical theatre major. Professional credits include Newsies (Davey) - The REV Theatre Company. Rider Mainstage credits include: The Prom (Ensemble) and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ensemble).

ELENI SEGERBLOM, JEANNIE, is a senior Musical Theatre Major from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Rider Main Stage credits include: The Prom (Mrs. Greene). Regional credits include: Holiday Inn (Lila u/s, Ensemble; Broadway Theatre of Pitman), Sister Act (Sister Mary Irene; Virginia Musical Theatre).

BLAINE STABE, EDGAR, (He/She/They) is a sophomore Musical Theatre Major and Technical Theatre and Design Minor. Upcoming credits include: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Vice Squad; Rider University) and NJ Renaissance Faire (Jean Bonadvis; NJ Renaissance Faire).

DOMINIC TRIVINGO, CHIEF BERRY, is a senior Rider musical theater major. Rider credits include The Prom (Barry US), Spelling Bee (William Barfeé), Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (Genuis) and a soloist in cabarets such as Magic to Do, Our New World, and Swinging the Seasons 2023. Professional credits include Seussical (Horton) (Mr. Mayor/ Wickersham 1 Horton US) and Pinkalicious (Peter)

ELLEE JO TROWBRIDGE, BILLIE BENDIX (she/her), is a Senior BA Double Major in Musical Theatre and Technical Theatre. Select Performing credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Balthasar/Dogberry, Beatrice/Benedick US), Radium Girls (Irene Rudolph, Katherine Wiley, Mrs. Michaels, Board Member #2, Grace Fryer US). Select Tech credits include: Anything Goes (Stage Manager), Into The Woods (Production Stage Manager.)

ABIGAIL WESTERS, ALICE, is a junior Musical Theatre major. Rider Main Stage credits include The Great Comet of 1812 (ensemble). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include Please, I'm A Star (choreographer, co-writer, Student #2), Coffee Hour, and Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt).

MITCHELL AARON WILEY, JEB, is a Senior BFA Musical Theatre Major. Rider Main Stage Credits include: Kiss Me Kate (Ensemble, U/S Baptiste), Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro), and Anything Goes (Ensemble). Piano Credits include: Nell Gwynn (Lead Pianist–Rider University), Starseeds (Lead Pianist/Arranger–Rider Student Theatre Company), and Into The Woods (Piano 1–Rider University). Artistic Credits include: Teddy, Phoebe, and the Visionary (Writer [Book/Music/Lyrics]–Rider University/The Green Room 42). Upcoming Credits Include: Tibbits Opera House; Million Dollar Quartet (Jerry Lee Lewis), Little Shop Of Horrors (Male Cover), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chip Tolentino).

LANDON WINSLOW, VICE SQUAD/CHIEF BERRY US (He/Him), is currently a sophomore Musical Theatre Major here at Rider University. Rider Main Stage credits include: RENT (Mr. Jefferson/Ensemble).

GAVIN WRIGHT, SENATOR EVERGREEN, is a senior Musical Theatre Major. Rider Mainstage Credits: Into The Woods (Baker), Kiss Me, Kate (Ensemble/General u/s), Prom (Barry Glickman), Urinetown (Mr.McQueen/Caldwell u/s). Professional Credits: Little Shop of Horrors (Orin), Rent (Ensemble/Roger u/s), Something Rotten (Shakespeare), Camp Rock (Axel Turner). RSTC Credits: Fun Home (Swing/ Roy u/s), Mythos: Mythical Influence (Ensemble), Jason Robert Brown Cabaret (Ensemble).

LEANDRA ACOSTA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (she/her), is a graduate of Rider University with degrees in dance performance and arts administration. During her time performing at Rider, she was awarded both the Dance Merit Scholarship and Mildred S. Hawkins Dance Scholarship and helped adopt the Dance Mentorship Program. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many fantastic choreographers during her time performing at Rider including: Kate Ladenheim, Randy James, Angela Cusumano, Merli Guerra, Jennifer Gladney, Robson Alves, Lynn Neuman, and Ryan Davis. She was recently featured as a choreographer for the 2023 Senior Dance Capstone performance, Acknowledgements. In her role as Associate Director, Leandra creates programs for and manages the social media pages for the Department of Performing Arts and Westminster Choir College.

NICHOLAS AMMON, Stage Manager (he/him), is a freshman Musical Theatre Major. Rider Main Stage credit include: Rent (Stage Manager). Select Credits include: 9 to 5 (Josh Newstead; Fulton Theatre), Grease (Teen Ensemble; Fulton Theatre).

JAMEL BAKER, STAGE MANAGEMENT MENTOR. Jamel is excited to be a part of this production as the Stage Manager Mentor. Jamel has been stage managing for over 10 years for theatre, opera and dance locally and nationally. In addition to stage managing, Jamel has also led Stage Management workshops with Opera Philadelphia & Riot Inc. When not stage managing, Jamel works at Passage Theatre (Trenton, NJ) as the Lead Producer.

HENRY BREIT, PROPS SUPERVISOR, is a sophomore acting major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (Writer/Therapist U/S). Rider Student Theater Company (RSTC) credits include: Wherever You Go There You Are (Host), and Sin of Man (The Valet).

C. RYANNE DOMINGUES, ARTISTIC PRODUCER teaches acting, directing, and devising as an Assistant Professor at Rider University. From 2017-2024, she was the Artistic Director of Passage Theatre, a professional, regional theatre found in the heart of Trenton, NJ. Prior to her time at Passage, she worked at a variety of theatres on both coasts, with most of her work being for Simpatico Theatre (which she co-founded in 2004) and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine and was a participant in the 2008 Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Having trained with Tectonic Theatre Project, her devising work stems from the Moment Work technique. Next up, Ryanne will continue working on a new piece with Passage Theatre that was commissioned by Princeton University with the goal of premiering in 2027.

LOUIS F. GOLDBERG, MUSIC DIRECTOR, Louis has conducted more than 300 musical productions across the United States and Europe including tours of Man of La Mancha, Cabaret, Chicago and 42nd St. Recent projects include a four-month stint Off-Broadway at the York Theatre playing Ted Shapiro in Red Hot Mama: The Sophie Tucker Songbook, a role he premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, followed by engagements at the Players’ Club in NYC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, Santa Fe Stages and at London’s Greenwich Theatre. In Philadelphia, Louis has conducted St. Louis Woman and Peter Pan and Wendy at the Prince Music Theater, Dirty Blonde at the Wilma Theatre, and Evita at the Walnut St. Theatre. As a pianist, Louis was a 1985 Stravinsky Award Finalist and won Silver and Bronze medals in the International Piano Recording Competition. He has been the Musical Director for productions at the Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Repertory Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Syracuse Stage and for more than ten years worked as a performer, arranger and orchestrator at Hershey Park in Chocolatetown, USA. Louis has taught in the Musical Theatre programs at Syracuse University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of the Arts. He currently serves on the faculty of the Musical Theatre Program in the Department of Performing Arts at Rider University. At Rider, Louis has directed the first-year showcases Anticipation, Arrival, Momentum and Rebirth, Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan, the musical revue Cole, and has served as music director for Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Assassins, The Theory of Relativity, Once on This Island, White Christmas, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, The Full Monty, The Wedding Singer, The Light in the Piazza and Rent.

CLARE HANRAHAN, PROPS DESIGNER is always happy and excited to come back and work for her Alma mater. Her recent work includes The Children’s Hour, Love and Information, and LAST WORDS at Rider University. Clare actively works in the North Jersey and New York City metro area theater scene, where she will join the team at Plays in the Park in Edison, NJ this summer. Clare would like to thank Louise Grafton for sharing her wisdom about the dangers of hot glue guns and for always being her inspiration.

AVERY HUBERT, PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER (they/she) is a senior double major in Theatre Design & Technology and Theatre Making. Select Rider credits include: Rent (Production Stage Manager), Radium Girls (Production Stage Manager), Much Ado About Nothing (Scenic Design; Props Design), Last Words (Assistant Stage Manager), and Ride the Cyclone (Stage Manager; Rider Student Theatre Company).

ROBIN LEWIS, DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER, Rider credits include: RENT, Anything Goes, The Prom, Will Rogers Follies, Bonnie and Clyde, White Christmas, Pippin, Catch Me If You Can, All Shook Up, The Full Monty, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and The Producers. Film credits include: choreography for Bernie. Broadway performing credits include: Fosse (also film), Beauty and the Beast, and A Christmas Carol. His tour credits include: The Producers, A Chorus Line, Hello, Dolly!, Beauty and the Beast, Where’s Charley? at the Kennedy Center) and Jubilee during the Tony Awards® at Carnegie Hall. He is currently a faculty member in the musical theatre department at Rider University.

BUCK LINTON, DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT. Earning his MFA in Scenography and Technical Design (Virginia Tech), Buck joined Rider University as its Technical Director in 2012 and became the Director of Production Management in 2022.  He professionally produced more than 200 productions with such venues as The Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theatre.  Selected works include Travesties, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Take Flight, Herringbone, Lookingglass Alice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Falstaff, Die Zauberflöte, Pelléas et Mélisande, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Clemenza di Tito, Oreste, Sunjata Kamalenya, The Odyssey Experience, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, Turandot, Chicago, EDDA (Ping Chong & Sequentia Ensemble, international tour). Since 2012, he has produced more than 100 productions for Rider University’s College of Arts and Sciences in the performing arts.

TODD LOYD, LIGHTING DESIGNER, is the lighting director for Rider University’s Department of Performing Arts. He supervises the lighting for every performance that the department produces in addition to mentoring several students that assist in designing, hanging, focusing, and programming the lighting for each show. At Rider he has designed over 30 productions including plays, musicals, dance recitals, cabarets, and operas. Some of the highlights include Anything Goes, Radium Girls, The Prom, Clean Slate: A World Premiere Musical, Urinetown, Cabaret, Polaroid Stories, Rider Dances: Moving in Our Community, Pippin, Bright Star, Hair, Heathers The Musical, Once On This Island, She Kills Monsters, A Chorus Line and Metamorphoses. Other selected professional projects include Rock of Ages and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Forestburgh Playhouse), Clean Slate: A World Premiere Musical and The Gun Show (Passage Theatre), and Journey to Oz (Children's Theatre of Charlotte and Experiential Theater Company).

CRAIG PINCUS, SOUND ENGINEER, Craig Pincus has worked in professional audio & system design for the past twenty-nine years. He has engineered and produced audio for musical theater performances, national television broadcast, and recording studio clientele. Craig holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication from Rutgers University and teaches digital audio production at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ. Craig also performs and records music, owns a sound & event production service, and directs TheatreCraft Musical Program, a children’s theater company, created with his wife Renee, producing theatrical performances in the central NJ area.

CAROLINE QUINN, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (She/Her), is a Sophomore Musical Theatre Major. Select Credits include Sweeney Todd (Johanna) and Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz (Ensemble). She’s excited to be on her very first stage managing team and be part of this incredible production. She hopes you enjoy the show!'

BRANDON RUSH, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, Brandon Rush is thrilled to make his debut as Technical Director for Rider University’s 2024-25 season! Since his graduation from Rider in 2015, he kept a consistent relationship with Rider’s Theatre Department, where he has worked as an overhire carpenter, Sceneshop Supervisor, and most recently as Assistant Technical Director. Rider University Production Credits include: Assistant Technical Director for Radium Girls, Doll’s House, Enemies, and Anything Goes. As a freelance Technical Director, his credits include: Dracula, The Last Five Years, and Emergency at Princeton Summer Theater.

ROBIN I. SHANE, COSTUME DESIGNER. Robin is an Associate Professor of Theatre where she teaches classes in Design, Script Analysis, and runs the new Theatre-Making program at Rider University. Some favorite designs at Rider include Enemies:A Love Story, Last Words, Cabaret, Polaroid Stories, Pippin, Kiss Me, Kate, and many Rider Dance concerts. Robin has been a professional costume designer for over 25 years; recent professional credits include The Outsider (Act II Productions,) Children of the Sun (PAC) The Pillowman and In The Next Room, or, The Vibrator Play (Hedgerow Theatre) and OK Trenton (Passage Theatre).  Regionally and nationally she has designed at The New Victory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Yale Rep, The Hedgerow, Theatre Exile, Philadelphia Artist’s Collective, EgoPo, Passage Theater, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, The National Constitution Center, The Revision Theater, the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, Soho Rep and The Harrisburg Opera, as well as for film and television.  Robin holds a MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and a BA in Theater and Psychology from Wesleyan University. 

SAMUEL STEPHENSON, COORDINATOR OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (he/him/his), received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in English Literature and Music from Wabash College, graduating magna cum laude under a full-ride Lilly Scholarship. As a Joseph Flummerfelt Scholar, he received his Master of Music in Choral Conducting with distinction from Westminster Choir College. Samuel has performed with many choirs across the world. He toured with the Wabash College Glee Club internationally to Taiwan and organized and managed the renowned Choral Institute at Oxford, a summer program at the University of Oxford for inspiring conductors to work with leading figures in the choral world. He has performed with The Same Stream, whose recordings can be found on all major music services, and at the Weiwuying National Center for the Arts as part of the opera chorus for Verdi’s La Traviata. Most recently, Samuel conducted Morten Lauridsen’s Mid-Winter Songs with the Westminster Choir in concert at Washington D.C. He currently works as the Performance Management Coordinator at Rider University and Music Director at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Warminster, PA.

YOSHINORI TANOKURA, SCENIC DESIGNER, originally from Tokyo, is an educator and freelance set designer. Yoshi has been teaching scenic design at Rider University. Outside the school, his design credits include A Christmas Story (Bristol Riverside Theatre), O.K. Trenton (Passage Theatre), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Berkshire Theatre Group), Moon Over Buffalo (People’s Light & Theatre), Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro (Westside Theatre, N.Y.C.), Exonerated (Delaware Theatre Company), and Peter and the Starcatcher (Adrienne Arsht Center). Yoshi assisted John Lee Beatty on a number of Broadway productions, such as Doubt and The Color Purple. Yoshi holds an M.F.A. in Set Design from the University of Connecticut and is a member of the United Scenic Artists, Local 829. 

CLAIRA WILLIAMS, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER, (she/her) is a freshman Musical Theatre major. Select credits include: Little Women (Amy March; APEX Theatre) and Sister Act (Sister Mary Robert; SMTC). Rider MainStage credits include: Anticipation (First year show case). She is very thankful for this opportunity and hopes you enjoy the show!