Winter park playhouse staff

Roy Alan (Artistic Director) - Worked for over 42 years as a performer, director, choreographer, and artistic director; Served as an entertainment manager at Universal Studios Florida for 6 years; Co-owned The Master Class Academy, Inc. for 9 years: Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the professional actor’s union, for 27 years; Directed, choreographed and performed in over 200 productions across the country including Broadway, National Tours, Regional, Stock and Dinner Theaters; Member of Central Florida Performing Arts Alliance.

Heather Alexander (Executive Director)- Received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from The University of North Florida; Worked in Management positions for 18 years; Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the professional actor’s union for 16 years and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for 9 years.; Board Member of the Orange Avenue Business Association; Member of “4 Arts” group; Member of Winter Park Cultural Consortium; Member of Central Florida Performing Arts Alliance.

Michael Edwards (Associate Director)- Received his BFA in theatre from The School of Performing Arts at United States International University in San Diego; Graduate of the College of Theatre Arts at the famed Pasadena Playhouse; Member of Actor’s Equity Association, Screen Actor’s Guild and  the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for over 30 years; Serves on Central Florida Liaison committee for Actor’s Equity Association; Worked as a director, artistic director, and actor for over 40 years in regional, dinner, and small professional theatres, summer stock companies, theme parks universities and schools across the country.

Lisa Rost (Director of Marketing and Development)-  Received BSA in communications from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Former Director of Sales for the Arts & Cultural Alliance; 20 year veteran of the tourism and group sales industry; Worked in subscription sales department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.,   Held numerous positions for several Fortune 500 entertainment organizations including most recently Planet Hollywood Inc. and Hard Rock Café International Inc. where she developed the sales and marketing departments for each organization as their Vice President of Sales. Currently sits on the Orange County Community Action Awareness Team in affiliation with the Orange County Arts Education Center helping take arts education into the entire Central Florida community.

Chris Leavy (Musical Director)-Received his BA in theatre from The University of New Hampshire and is currently pursuing his Masters degree. Chris is a freelance music director and pianist/conductor whose professional career spans over 25 years and nearly 100 shows.  His recent work includes the Kansas City Crossroads Musical Theatre Festival (Frog Kiss, Maccabeat!), the Kansas City Fringe Festival (Disgracefully Yours), Branson Missouri's Mansion America (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Silver Dollar City (Classic Country Nights and Dickens Christmas Carol).  Other favorites include Steel for the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA and Pippin at Portsmouth, NH's Theatre by the Sea.  Chris served as music supervisor for the Vagabond Stage Company’s Friday Night Live Cabaret, and produced four editions of Broadway Rocks, a musical revue of rock & roll favorites from Broadway/off-Broadway musical theatre at the Vandivort Center Theatre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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