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Dr. Patricia Marchesi, Director

Patricia Marchesi first fell in love with theater when she was seven years old and her parents took her to watch the opera Carmen in Rio de Janeiro's Opera House. She began to participate in school theater at the Notre Dame school in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, and then continued at the Vienna International School when her family moved to Austria. She eventually came to the United States for college, then graduate school -- her PhD dissertation was (predictably) on English Renaissance drama and Shakespeare. She has attended workshops on performance at the Folger Shakespeare Library and written several musical librettos, the latest of which is based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South and was workshopped at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder. Her most recent directing credit is Once Upon a Dream at the Center for Musical Arts (Lafayette, CO). She would like to dedicate her work in Cinderella to her beloved parents who always nourished her love of theater and literature. She would also like to thank everyone at Holy Family for the opportunity, her fellow directors for all their hard work, and the students in the cast and crew for their talent and dedication.

Siblings Patricia Marchesi and Marcia Marchesi in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Dr. Marcia Marchesi, Musical Director

Marcia Marchesi has participated in theater since a young age. At 17, she conducted her first full-length musical performance and at 19, she was already a producer and music director. She has attended the prestigious ASCAP Music Theater Workshop in Burbank (led by Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz) and has composed music for seven shows. Credits include My Fair Lady, Crazy for You, The Sound of Music, Once Upon a Dream, North and South the Musical, and Once Upon a Time, and her first HFHS show Mary Poppins.

Marchesi could not be more thrilled at the opportunity of music directing shows at HFHS! She thanks her fellow directors for all their talent and hard work. and the fantastic cast/crew for an amazing and magical ride putting this show together! We hope you'll love this production as much as we do. Enjoy this magical evening!

Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.