Staff

Winter 2024 Staff- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Sarah Lueck

Director

This is Sarah’s directorial debut. She has been with Adirondack Center Stage for 15 years, starting as an actor in the program in 2009 then continuing on to be on the artistic team.
Sarah was prop master for Willy Wonka in 2019. Since then she has been the choreographer for the summer workshop. Sarah has choreographed The Night Before Christmas, Seussical, Shrek the Musical, Grease, and The Spongebob Musical.

Theresa Crombach

Stage Manager

Alyssa Petteys

Costumer

This is Alyssa’s eighth year with Adirondack Center Stage and her first year as costumer! She has been involved both on stage and behind the scenes with Adirondack Center Stage, Corinth MS/HS Drama Club, and several other theatre companies. Apart from singing and acting, she has helped various productions with set painting, props, hair, makeup, quick changes, and choreography. Most recently, Alyssa assisted Cornell University’s Melodramatics Theatre Company with makeup and costume changes during their production of Chicago. In the future, she would like to become a teacher.

Summer 2024 Staff - The Spongebob Musical

Jonathan Granger

Music director

Jonathan has been Musical Director/Accompanist for over 30 theater productions, and has worked with ADK Center Stage since 2018. Some notable productions he has musically directed include: School of Rock, The Little Mermaid, Willy Wonka, Seussical, Shrek, Grease, Anything Goes, Little Shop of Horrors, Bare: A Pop Opera, RENT, Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. At age eight, Jonathan started piano lessons and continued his training for over two decades. Jonathan has earned four platinum and two gold rankings with his choruses over three years in the "Great East Festival" and his Select Chorus was chosen to perform at Carnegie Hall in 2014. He is actively involved in the local community through the Glens Falls Lions Club and promoting advocacy for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Sarah Lueck

Choreographer

This is Sarah’s 15th year with Adirondack Center Stage. She began by acting in the ensemble in
Willy Wonka Jr. in 2009. She continued to act on stage in numerous productions with both
Adirondack Center Stage as well as the Corinth MS/HS Drama club. Sarah has been dancing since she was three. She took 14 years of classical ballet classes at Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater, as well as 5 years of tap and 7 years of jazz/musical theatre. Through college she took classes in ballet, jazz and musical theater dance. Sarah has choreographed The Night Before Christmas, Seussical, Shrek the Musical, Grease, and The Spongebob Music.

Lauren Ogden

Director

Lauren is excited to return again to Adirondack Center Stage as Director. Working with the ACS kids is an absolute blast! Her favorite part of directing is witnessing the “aha” moments when an actor has a great idea or realization. She serves on the ACS board, and has been involved with the program since its founding in 2008. She began as an actor in the program, and has written several plays for ACS, including Christmas Around the World (2019) and a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013). She won a TANYS award for her costume designs in ACS’s Disney’s The Lion King (2017), and as Director for Seussical (2021). In addition to her role as Director, she currently serves as Vice President of the ACS Board. She's passionate about supporting local arts organizations, and has been involved in a wide variety of theatre groups around the area, including Glens Falls Community Theatre, Hudson River Shakespeare Co., Schuylerville Community Theatre, The Classic Theatre Guild, Lake George Youtheatre, Hubbard Hall, Home Made Theatre, Saratoga Children’s Theatre and Saratoga Arts. During the school year, she teaches French and Spanish at Troy High School. She is the Faculty Advisor for the Troy French Club, chaperones Ski Club, and helps with Troy HS theatre productions. This fall she is excited to direct her first production on the Troy HS stage!

Alyssa Petteys

Costume Designer

Katherine Maynard

Stage Manager

Katherine’s love for theatre runs deeply, as she has vivid memories of her parents bringing her to Broadway as a young girl. She is extremely proud of her most important role as Mother to four outstanding children, all of whom love the theatre as much as she does. While being onstage is not her aspiration; we are lucky to have her backstage as her strengths for organization, management, and creativity are endless. She has worked with the Corinth MS/HS Drama club for several years in areas such as student management, costume design, prop production, lead hair and make-up artist and stage management. Katherine holds a Master’s of Special Education degree from Salem State College, which aids in her ability to interact and connect with our actors with an increased understanding of how they learn and communicate.

Kendra Schieber

Producer, and Grant Writer

Kendra is an artist and arts enthusiast. She has volunteered as producer and grants administrator for the Summer Theatre Workshop for many years, each year successfully reapplying for multiple program grants. In the program's second year, she directed Willy Wonka Jr. She has been a set and props painter and designer for ACS productions and for plays with Glens Falls Community Theatre as well. Kendra attended the Art Students League in New York City and University of Pennsylvania. She runs her own business, The Sign Studio, which has given Corinth, the surrounding area, and parts of Bucks County, PA a collection of picturesque signs and logos for businesses, churches, and municipalities. She volunteers as President of To the Himalayas With Love, Inc. and Secretary of the Corinth Merchants' Association. She is a founding member and past president of The Philadelphia Calligraphers' Society. She loves traveling, skiing, canoeing, hiking, and plein air painting.