LDTC debut. Additional credits: The Secretary and The Cake at Curious Theatre Company; The Diary of Anne Frank, The Moors, Sin Street Social Club, All My Sons, and Sense & Sensibility at The Arvada Center Black Box Repertory; Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Flame Broiled. or the ugly play at Local Theater Company; Mud Blue Sky, Misery, Exit Strategies, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, I’ll Eat You Last, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane at The Edge Theater; Agnes of God, Stella & Lou, and ‘night, Mother at Vintage Theatre; The Lying Kind at THEATREWORKS; The Women and The Birds Sing Too Loud at Circus Theatricals (New American Theatre); and Twelfth Night, The Early Girl, Stage Blood, and So Long on Lonely Street at American Stage. Emma has won the Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award for outstanding acting three times and received seven nominations. She is a four-time True West Award-winner and has been honored multiple times by Westword including being awarded Best Season for an Actress. So much gratitude to LDTC, Melissa Livingston, Laurie Carter Rose and love always to Rich Messenger.

LDTC debut!  Recent credits: The Cake (Della) Human Race Theatre Co. OH,  Good People (Jean), New Harmony Theatre IN, The Roommate (Robyn),  Light Up the Sky (Irene Livingston), Citadel Theatre, IL; Menopause the Musical (Soap Star), Fireside Theatre, WI; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Masha), Artists’ Ensemble Theatre, IL; It Shoulda Been You (Georgette Howard), Farmers Alley Theatre, MI; Favorite past credits include: Follies, Drury Lane Oakbrook; Bed Full of Foreigners, Drury Lane South; Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour with Ted Neely and Carl Anderson); Sunset Boulevard (London’s West End starring Betty Buckley) TV/Film: Chicago Med, The Tonight Show, Early Edition. Originally from Cincinnati, Laurie is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Miami University and a proud 27-year member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She also enjoys print and voice-over work, is represented by NV Talent, and has called Chicago home for the last 20 plus years where she lives with all her “Rose Boys”, S, N, D, & H.  www.LaurieCarterRose.com

Melissa serves as Associate Artistic Director at the Lake Dillon Theatre Company. Previously, she directed The Cake at the LDTC.  Additionally, she has directed Frozen Jr and co-directed Madagascar Jr. for LDTC’s Youth Theatre programs. Melissa co-founded A Chick & A Dude Productions, a non-proit theatre company in Austin TX, and served as Co-Artistic Director for 13 years. In Austin, she directed over 20 professional productions and garnered several accolades, including Austin’s B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Direction of a Drama in 2003, and the 2013 Austin Lifestyle Magazine pick for Best Production of the Year. Some of her favorite directing credits include: A Steady Rain, The Whale, Mrs. Packard, and Marvin’s Room. She holds an MFA in Directing from The University of California, Irvine. Melissa specializes in new plays. Her artistic focus is on using theatre to facilitate change by amplifying awareness of social issues affecting American women.

WHITNEY N. CARTER: (Stage Manager): At LDTC: Every Brilliant Thing, The Roommate. Additional credits include: And Then They Came For Me (Lewis Family Playhouse/MainStreet Theatre Co.), Globe For All Tour of The Winters Tale (The Old Globe), Gypsy (Cygnet Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (New Swan Shakespeare Festival), Dogfight (Cygnet Theatre). Whitney graduated from University of California, Irvine in 2019 with her masters in drama - stage management. She is thrilled to be back doing what she loves. All of the love and gratitude to my mother for her constant unwavering support.

Kinsey Lahn is so excited to be back at LDTC after spending the summer here as an Education Apprentice. She is a playwright, teaching artist, and new Summit County resident. Her collection of ten minute plays, And... What if? as well as a full length play, Ms. Dueberry’s Mansion, received productions during her time at UC Irvine. Kinsey has written and performed a solo show, Oversharing with Kinsey, and she wrote for The Barrens Theatre Co.’s Out of Time. She can’t wait to keep making art and watch the leaves change color. Much love to Melissa for bringing her to the county.

Leah Mazur (LDTC debut): Select design credits include the scenic designs for The Nether, Stick Fly, Spring Awakening (SMCM), and Next to Normal (Kansas Repertory Theatre); costume designs for The Nether, Macbeth, Spring Awakening (SMCM), Amadeus (Spinning Tree Theatre), Hand to God, and Eclipsed (The Unicorn); and lighting designs for Angel Street and Next to Normal (Kansas Repertory Theatre).  Leah is a freelance Scenographer and Assistant Professor and Resident Scenographer in the department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, just south of the D.C. area.

Ben serves as the LDTC Director of Production. At LDTC: More than 75 productions including sound design for: Grounded, Velocity of Autumn, Dancing Lessons, Grace, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Driving Miss Daisy (Ovation Award Nomination “Best Sound Design”), The 39 Steps... Scenic Design at LDTC: 1940s Radio Hour, Ring of Fire. This season marks his 14th season with the Lake Dillon Theatre Company. Ben also performs in some productions in his spare time. BFA, University of Florida.  Love to Debbie and the doggos.

Martha Carter (Lighting Designer): Silent Sky (Perseverance Theatre), Miracle on 34th Street (Actor's Co-Op), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Actor's Co-Op), Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Rouge Machine), Driving Ms. Daisy (The Laguna Playhouse), A Lighting Night Music (Madison Opera), The Penal Colony  (Long Beach Opera), Cinderella (Long Beach Ballet), Famous (The 11:11), Peter Pan and Evita (Panama City, Panama). Martha is based out of Los Angeles. She is the Head of Design and an Assistant Professor at California State University Long Beach and enjoys collaborating with ensemble companies to create new work that insights positive change within communities. Martha was nominated for an Ovation award for Burners, a new play produced by Moving Arts. www.marthacarterdesigns.com

Sheila is so proud to be part of her first production with LDTC. A native of North Carolina, Sheila has called Richmond, Virginia home for more than 30 years, where she works as a freelance Costume Designer for several theatre companies. Favorite design credits include: The Cake, The Rocky Horror Show, Falsettos, An Act of God, Seven Homeless Mammoths, The Laramie Project, The Normal Heart, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Kid Like Jake (Richmond Triangle Players); King of Crimes, Murder Ballad, The Toxic Avenger, Rapture Blister Burn (5th Wall Theatre); The Diviners, Wishing Well, Private Lives, Now Then Again (Chamberlayne Actors Theatre); 1940’s Radio Hour, Guys & Dolls, Charlie Brown Christmas (Henrico Theatre Company) Film work: King of Crimes.