Freaky Friday Production Team
Connie Cameron
Connie Cameron is a graduate from the University of Georgia where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Costume, Stage and Lighting Design. Over the past couple of years she has had the distinct honor to be a part of The Theatre Project as a member of the production team on several shows which include Co-Stage Manager on A Christmas Story: The Musical and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Set Designer and Production Manager for Singin’ in the Rain and finally as Set Designer, Costume Collaborator and Production Manager for Mamma Mia. She is a member of the Junior League of Atlanta and a member of the Performing Arts Patron Association Board that serves to support Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School |
Rosemary Giordano
While Rosemary has been involved in theatre in some shape or fashion her entire life, she really enjoys bringing the production together through costuming. Rosemary has been sewing since her Grammy first taught her how to make doll clothes when she was only about 8 years old. Being allowed to use her imagination to design clothes using the various trims, laces and fabrics scraps her grandmother would save for her eventually led to a lifelong passion for creating and design for theatre. Rosemary has costumed well over 100 shows for several different theatres in the Atlanta area and is excited to now be working with The Theatre Project. When not busy sewing, Rosemary runs a small private school and spends her free time training her three kitty-cats to do all sorts of fantastic tricks - she just can't get them to agree to wear the costumes. |
Noah Kirby
Noah has been working in the theatre since he was 4 years old. He was a part of several children’s choirs, school theatre, band and choral classes, and eventually went on to obtain a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Theatrical Performance from Columbus State University. While in Columbus, Noah studied Musical theatre voice with Debbie Anderson. He has been musically directing since 2015 and has worked with vocalists and actors from age 3 to age 57. He is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Hampton High School, and gives private voice and acting lessons in his spare time. He loves theatre and voice, and loves sharing these things with his students even more. |
Shellie McClain
Shellie McClain has been working with The Theatre Project for the last 10 years. In that time, she has been a part of 15 theatre project productions in one way or another. Starting out as a parent, volunteering in the costume shop and now as the Props Manager. She has been a Georgia resident almost her entire life and graduated from Osborne high school in 1987. In her spare time, she enjoys taking care of her nine goats, spending time with family, and being as involved in her children’s lives as much as possible. She truly enjoys being a part of an organization that is bigger than herself and loves to help each production come alive. Shellie is a very compassionate, selfless, genuine person who always brings laughter into the room. She devotes most of her time to help and serve other the best she can. |
Heather Schutz
Heather has been with the Theatre Project since 2010. She has served primarily as choreographer but wears other hats as well. Combined with her other professional experience she has choreographed over 50 shows in her career. Also a performer, some of Heather's favorite on-stage credits include: Cat in the Hat (Seussical), Morticia Addams (The Addams Family), Z's Favorite (Will Roger's Follies), and Grace Ferrell (Annie). Heather is the drama teacher at MDE school in Atlanta, a school for students with special needs. Heather also teaches Musical Theatre and tap classes here at the Mable House and privately. |
Rachel Rudd
Rachel’s passion for musical theatre began when she stepped on stage as a performer at the age of 10. Her first show was Bye Bye Birdie with the Footlights Summer Theatre program in Erie, PA whom she credits with igniting her passion for the arts. Over her more than 30 years in the theatre, she has performed in the roles of Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Peggy in Godspell and Elsa the Baroness in The Sound of Music as well as performed in professional dinner theater and numerous community theater productions. She was asked to choreograph and assistant direct early in her teens and she then fell in love with that side of theatre. In 2012, Rachel opened a performance studio in Pennsylvania that offered drama, dance, and voice. There, she taught acting with a primary focus on Meisner technique and MASK technique. Other credits include working with the Footlights Summer Theatre program, directing the drama program at Mercyhurst Prep, and working as a choreographer on productions like The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Spring Awakening at Penn State Behrend University. In 2015, in search of less snow and more sun, her family packed up and moved to Marietta, GA. She was introduced to the Theatre Project almost immediately and began working in various capacities beginning as Assistant Director in Mary Poppins in Spring of 2016. Since then she has gone on to direct Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Christmas Story, Singin’ in the Rain and Mamma Mia! with the awesome team at The Theatre Project. |
Gerald Williams
Gerald Williams, Jr. has been a member of the Theatre Project since 2010. He started out as an ensemble member with his son in the Fall 2010 production of Oliver! It wasn’t until The Spring 2011 production of Willy Wonka that Gerald began working as a member of the stage crew. The highlight of his time with the Theatre Project was when he worked on the stage crew and appeared on stage with both of his sons in the Fall 2012 production of Little Mermaid. He was then given the opportunity to be a Stage Manager during the Spring 2014 production of Honk! He has been a Stage Manager with the Theatre Project ever since. |