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Text Box: Jim Brown, President Years with Playhouse South: 9 Email: jim_brown@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Jim has been involved with Playhouse South since 1999, when his a cappella singing group, Fourth Avenue, performed at the first "A Crazy Night of Improv." Since then, he has been a PHS regular, appearing on stage and directing various productions. Some of his favorite roles include , Junior (Dearly Departed), Caiaphas (Jesus Christ Superstar), and Pharaoh (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). In addition, Jim has acted in, hosted, and/or co-directed most of the "Another Crazy Night of Improv" performances. Jim's directoral credits include Vocal Director for "King and I," "Baby," and "The Sound of Music," "Once Upon a Mattress," "Into the Woods," and "The Wizard of Oz." In addition, he was the Co-Director for the premier production of "Before the Final Touch" and the Assistant Director for "South Pacific." Jim has also served on the PHS Board of Directors as the Treasurer. Beyond his activity at PHS, Jim is the Manager of Operations at Apex Capital Management. He is happily married to fellow actor/director Amy, and they are the proud parents of a beautiful daughter, Alli. He also boasts a collection of over 1,000 Pez dispensers.   Text Box: Rob Breving, Vice President Years with Playhouse South: 6 Email: rob_breving@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Rob has been actively involved with Playhouse South both onstage and behind the scenes for several years. He is excited to be working in our new home in Kettering. He has performed in many shows at PHS and also at Beavercreek Community theater. Some favorite roles include Norval in "Dearly Departed" and Franz in "Sound of Music", Ed Carmichael in "You Can't Take It With You." and Max in "Lend Me a Tenor". He was seen onstage last season in Frankenstein and Company. Rob has also had the unique opportunity of being involved on the directing side as well in the productions of "Steel Magnolias" and "Man Who Came to Dinner." When not at the theater for one thing or another, Rob is an insurance underwriter for Cincinnati Financial Corp in Fairfield, but he lives locally in Miamisburg. This year, Rob's goal as Vice President is to give our patrons the best season yet. If you have any ideas or shows you'd like to see, please contact him via email.   Text Box: Cindy Carleton-Simon, Secretary Years with Playhouse South: 2 Email: cindy_simon@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Cindy has been actively involved with the theatre since 2001 when her “son” performed in his first production with Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS).  While with TUTS, Cindy solicited raffle/door prize donations, sold raffle tickets and flowers, ran hospitality, ushered and handled many administrative tasks.  Cindy was also producer and talent scout for TUTS’ 2003 Mother’s Day Spring Fest Variety Show,” co-producer and talent scout for their 2002 Christmas Spectacular production, vice-president, acting president (for a short time), and assistant treasurer.  She is more of a behind-the-scenes volunteer, but has been known to get up on stage with a microphone a time or two (only to announce, of course).  Cindy is the board member liaison, facilitating communications and scheduling between the theatre and the City of Kettering Board of Education.  You may now find Cindy helping in hospitality, at the box office, ushering, running errands, re-organizing, and basically volunteering anywhere that is needed when time permits.  She is also trying her hand as Board Secretary.  In Cindy’s other life, she does volunteer work for the Corvair Club of Cincinnati and gets paid for her “real” job that she obtained based on her never-ending volunteer work.  She is part of a business management team that provides continuing medical education seminars and facilitates resident physician training for osteopathic physicians all over the U.S.  Cindy recently married another PHS volunteer, who coincidentally is the father of the son that dragged them into the theater back in 2001!      Text Box:   Becky Norgaard, Treasurer Years with Playhouse South: 2 Email: becky_norgaard@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Becki Norgaard has been with Playhouse South for about a year.  A lifetime theatre junkie she has been blessed to be a part of many different shows over the years. Becki has appeared in the Playhouse South productions of Company and The Wizard of Oz. Her favorite role of all time was as Lisa in David and Lisa. In real life, Becki is a Financial Analyst for LexisNexis, the supportive spouse of Jason an Air Force officer currently attending AFIT and the proud mother of Brett (13), Jordan (10) and Raef (2). The most exciting part of her role as treasurer is the opportunity to maximize the financial contributions of the community to allow Playhouse South to present the highest quality shows possible and to allow PHS to contribute to the community well-being, as a whole.    Text Box: Carrie Thurston, Member-At-Large - Membership Years with Playhouse South: 4 Email: carrie_thurston@playhousesouth.org  Biography:  Carrie became involved with PHS in 2003 when she stage managed The Sound of Music. Since then she has been the AD/SM for Clue: The Musical at Beavercreek Community Theater, played Ouiser in Steel Magnolias, been the AD/SM for The Secret Garden here at PHS. Currently she is the AD for The Three Musketeers. She'll be stage managing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and directing South Pacific this coming season. Carrie is the purchasing agent for Crown Packaging in Kettering. She also finishing up her BFA degree in Design Technology at Wright State. This is Carrie's first time on the Board of Directors, but she is really looking forward to this opportunity.     Text Box:   Sean Mitchell, Member-At-Large - Publicity Years with Playhouse South: 1 Email: sean_mitchell@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Although I have only been with the theater for a short time, I have enjoyed every moment. I am very fond of the theater, and I cannot think of a better way to spend my extra time other than working with all of the dedicated people and great performers at Playhouse South. As a recent graduate from the University of Toledo in Public Relations, I find that the theater is a great place to open up and use some new ideas. When possible, I do motivational speaking and enjoying cracking a joke here and there. I am very excited for the future of Playhouse South and with Publicity. One can never have too many people and there are never too many ideas.     Text Box: Jim Spencer, Member-At-Large - Special Events Years with Playhouse South: 3 Email: jim_spencer@playhousesouth.org  Biography: Jim has been involved in community theater since 1991, mostly with Theatre Under the Stars in Kettering. Starting with a small role in "Carousel", he has appeared in over 20 productions with TUTS, including featured roles in "Sound of Music"(Herr Zeller), "Anything Goes"( Elisha J. Whitney), "Godspell"(John the Baptist/Judas) and "My Fair Lady"(Alfred P. Doolittle). Jim has also appeared with the Dayton Playhouse, Sorg Opera Company and Dayton Opera Funatics. He was the last past president of the board for TUTS and the first show he directed (Larry Shue's "The Foreigner") was unfortunately the last show produced by TUTS. When the opportunity arose to merge theaters with Playhouse South, he worked dilligently with the PHS board to make the transition as smooth as possible. Since then Jim has directed "Inspecting Carol" and appeared in "Company" and "The Wizard of Oz" (as the Wizard). He is working on several different shows in the upcoming season, and has hopes of being with this group for a long, long time. Peace!