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Jesse Garlick

Director

Jesse Garlick is a Boston-based director, actor, and theatre educator who is thrilled to be returning to South Stage after having directed the Frosh show in 2016, ’17, and ’18. Boston credits: A Christmas Carol, Journey to the West, Arcadia (Central Square Theatre) Good, Assassins (New Repertory Theatre) A Story Beyond (Liars&Believers), Hamlet, As You Like It (Brown Box Theatre Project). New York credits: Good (PTP/NYC), Who Would Be King (Ars Nova/Liars&Believers). International Credits: Yellow Bird Chase (Assembly/Liars&Believers). Jesse is also a faculty member at the Boston Ballet’s Education and Community Initiatives Department, the current winter show director at Beaver Country Day School, and is Education Director/Artistic Associate with the Boston-based theater company Liars & Believers. MFA: ASDS. BFA: BU. Congrats to the cast and crew on a tremendous show! It’s an honor to work with such talented and brilliant students. Jessegarlick.com 

Ryan Spruck

Technical Director

Mr. Spruck graduated from Alfred University with a degree in Technical Theatre.  He was the Technical Director of Theatre at Elmira College, and then North Shore Music Theatre. Mr. Spruck loves sailing and playing musical instruments like the guitar, bowed psaltry, hammered dulcimer, and playing modern board games like Agricola, Antiquity, Carcassonne, and Vinhos.

Jeff Knoedler

Producer / Poster Layout

Mr. K is worried that when people find out what an awesome job he has, they will take it away. Shhh. He grew up on a farm in Nebraska and desperately rode east until he came to Boston. He has been a Theatre teacher at NSHS for 20 years. BS in English/Theatre Ed. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. MA in Theatre Ed. from the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Perk Perkinson

Perk teaches Acting, Costume Design, and Public Speaking at NSHS. Professional acting credits include Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth & The Comedy of Errors. Also, The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage), Allegiance (Speakeasy Stage), and Arabian Nights (Central Square Theatre – IRNE Award). She holds a BFA from Boston University’s School of Theatre.