EMAIL: abene@sharonschools.net
BIO: Alyssa Burke (she/her) is a Greater Boston area director, choreographer, and teaching artist. Previous organizations include Greater Boston Stage Company, Wellesley Theatre Project, Bourne High School Drama, and Needham Community Theatre. Directing and choreography credits include: Bye Bye Birdie, Spring Awakening, Hadestown: Teen Edition, Once Upon a Mattress, The Prom, The Sparrow, Beauty and the Beast, Shrek, Seussical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Curtains, The SpongeBob Musical, A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, Cinderella, Newsies, Little Women, The Music Man, and Fiddler on the Roof. Over the past decade, she has developed and taught workshops such as Viewpoints, Musical Theatre Dance, Broadway Bootcamp, Intro to Choreography, Intro to Directing, Acting a Song, Auditioning, Clowning, The Actors Tool Box, Script Analysis, and Laban for Text and Voice. She is a proud adjudicator of the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild's Middle School Musical Theatre Awards.
EMAIL: dflowers@sharonschools.net
BIO: David Allen Flowers (he/him) is an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music and a music director in the Greater Boston Area. In addition to serving as the Director of Music and Sound for the Sharon High School Theatre Company, he is also in his 5th year as Resident Music Director for Arlington Children’s Theatre. David has worked with The Marblehead Little Theatre, The Young Company at Greater Boston Stage Company, The New School of Music, the education departments at Barrington Stage Company and the Ogunquit Playhouse, Priscilla Beach Theatre, Stonehill College Theatre Company, Stage 284, and has performed with Symphony New Hampshire.
EMAIL: rglenister@sharonschools.net
BIO: As a choir director and music teacher, Rachel's chief aim is to instill a lifelong love of learning in her students through student empowerment, mutual empathy, and community engagement. She received her B.S. in Music Education at Western CT State University and her M.M. in Music Education at Kent State University. As a lifelong learner, she attends annual music education conferences, reads the latest in music education journals, and takes supplemental classes and workshops when available including The Guitar Teachers Workshop and the AP Summer Institute course. She has experience teaching elementary, middle, and high school choral and instrumental ensembles, K-12 general music and AP music theory, and adapted general and choral music for special education programs.
BIO: Gordon McFarland is a freelance scenic carpenter and theatre technician. He has a background in technical direction and holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies from the University of Oregon. He would like to thank his mom, Jane, and his high school theater teacher, Mr. Graff for the introduction to the world of theatre.