You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Based on The Comic Strip “Peanuts”

Charles M. Schulz

Book, Music and Lyrics

Clark Gesner

Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC.

April 7, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

April 8, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.

April 8, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

Lewisville Grand - Black Box

100 North Charles St.

Lewisville, TX

Presented by Our Productions Theatre Co in conjunction with Young Artist Training Program

Executive Producer, Scenic Design & Technical Direction by Scott Kirkham

Directed by Stephanie Riggs

Musical Direction by Mark Mullino

Choreography by Alex Davison

Sound Design by Jay Hogg

Sound Effects by David Lanza

Lighting Design by Lisa Miller

Costume Design by Stephanie Riggs

Production Stage Management by Sydney Han

House Management by Andrew Fosha, Meagan Fosha & Laura Geiger

Band:

Mark Mullino, Piano

Sal Bollinger, Bass

Chad Ostermiller, Reeds

Katie McCoy, Violin

Kami Lujan, Percussion

Special thanks to:

Our Volunteers

Parish Episcopal School

The Staff of the Lewisville Grand

Our Sponsors:

The Town of Flower Mound

The City of Lewisville

Our Donors

Board of Directors & Associate Producers

Alex Davison, Andrew Fosha, Meagan Fosha, Laura Geiger, Scott Kirkham, and Stephanie Riggs

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Casting

Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Charlie Brown… Emma Tull

Linus… Veronica Fenoglio-Kushera

Schroeder… Arhaan Iyer

Lucy… Riley Martens/Olivia Hill

Sally… Alyssa Martin

Snoopy… Sophie Rose Kirkham

Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

Charlie Brown… Nadia Fox

Linus… Riley Dereska

Schroeder… Axel Kennedy

Lucy… Olivia Hill

Sally… Sophie Rose Kirkham

Snoopy… Alyssa Martin

Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Charlie Brown… Tara Mozena

Linus… Jordyn Peter

Schroeder… Slade Kirkham

Lucy… Riley Martens

Sally… Kylie Callaway

Snoopy… Berkley Broeker

Additional Staff:

Light Board Ops - Olivia Hill & Riley Martens

Sound Board Ops (SFX) - Nadia Fox, Tara Mozena, Emma Tull

Pit Singers - Berkley Broeker, Veronica Fenoglio-Kushera,

Slade Kirkham, Sophie Rose Kirkham

Box Office -

Alex Davison & Meagan Fosha, Managers

Ushers -

YATP Students

Meet The Cast

Berkley Broeker

Snoopy

Berkley is so excited to be a 6th year student at YATP, graduating Senior, and in her final year at FMHS Theatre! She is planning to pursue a BFA in Acting after graduation. Berkley is one of the presidents of her Improv Troupe at FMHS, and previous favorite roles include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Percy Jackson), A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple), As You Like It (Jaques), and Addams Family (Pugsley). She is so excited to continue to pursue theatre in the future and wants to thank her friends, family, and especially Mrs. Stephanie, Mrs. Alex, and Mr. Mark for this amazing opportunity!

Kylie Callaway

Sally

Kylie is so excited as a 7th year YATP student and graduating Senior! She soon graduates from Flower Mound High School and plans on attending Mississippi State University next year. Previous credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Sally Jackson) with YATP, A Murder is Announced (Julia), and The Addam's Family (Flapper) with FMHS. She would like to thank her directors and parents for their continuous support. She hopes you enjoy the show!

Riley Dereska

Linus

Riley is thrilled to be part of YATP as a 1st year student. Riley previous credits with New Song School of the Arts the past year include Newsies (Muriel and Spot Conlon), Christmas Shorts (Crazy Hank) and Frozen (Sven). Other credits include Willy Wonka (Mrs. Bucket and an Oompa Loompa) and Matilda (Chorus). She loves her YATP famiy and is excited to be on this journey with them.

Veronica Fenoglio-Kushera

Linus

Veronica is grateful to be joining YATP this year as a 1st year student. She also has the honor of being a freshman admitted to the Theater Collective Magnet at Richardson High School. Recent credits include Dallas Children Theater's production of Harry Connick Jr's The Happy Elf (Ensemble, u/s), Willy Wonka Jr. (Mrs. Bucket), and The Music Man (Ensamble). When not rehearsing you can find Veronica reading or listening to music. She would like to thank her parents for acting as her chauffeers and always helping her pursue her dreams.

Nadia Fox

Charlie Brown

Nadia is excited to be a 7th year Young Artist Training Program (YATP) student and a freshman in high school. Recent credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Mr. D/Hades) with YATP and Annie, Jr. (Grace) with Outcry Theatre. Nadia won Best Performer this year in her high school UIL festival competition for her performance in The Yellow Boat (Benjamin) and advanced to Nationals with all superiors at the Texas Thespian Festival for her solo musical performance. When not singing and acting, Nadia enjoys drawing, painting, and video games. She would like to thank her parents for all of their support, her YATP teachers for all their guidance, and her YATP cohorts for all the fun and friendship.

Olivia Hill

Lucy

Olivia Is very excited to be a 3rd year student with Young Artist Training Program! They’ve had a passion for theater since the first grade and cherish the opportunity to work with people that love it just as much. Some past favorite roles include Noises Off (Poppy U/S and ASM, Honk! Jr. (The Cat), Of Winners, Losers, and Games (Mr. Redd), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Charon/ Katie/ Oracle/ Dodds/ Newscaster/ Squirrel). They look forward to performing this spring in Chess (Ensemble, Svetlana U/S) & getting to work behind the scenes as an ASM. They would like to give a big thank you to their amazing directors and castmates as well as a HUGE shout out to their awesome family for all their love and support.

Arhaan Iyer

Schroeder

Arhaan is a 2nd year YATP student and a middle school student at Greenhill School. Previous credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Chiron) with YATP, Gypsy (Little Rock/Angie) with MainStage Irving-Las Colinas, and Elf Jr. (Walter Hobbs) and Seussical (Horton) with Greenhill School. Arhaan would like to thank his family for their support.

Axel Kennedy

Schroeder

Axel is very excited to be a 1st year student with Young Actors Training Program (YATP) this year. He is in 5th grade at St. Marks School of Texas. He studies piano with Music So Simple. Previous credits include North Texas Performing Arts (NTPA) Beauty and the Beast (Chip), where he won a Best Supporting Actor Award. Other credits include Festival a New Musical (Daedle), and The Addams Family (Ancestor). He loves the YATP community and thanks them for a great 1st year. He thanks his family and friends for supporting him throughout his whole entire life. A very special thanks to his directors for believing in him and helping him to succeed!

Slade Kirkham

Schroeder

Slade is a 10th year YATP student and a freshman in the Music Conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Vocals and Jazz Piano/Composition), so he is ecstatic to be playing this role! Favorite credits include Into the Woods (Jack), Project Youth (Gabe) and The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Grover). He also enjoyed performing six seasons in Ben Stevenson's The Nutcracker (Party Child) with Texas Ballet Theater at both the Winspear Opera House in Dallas & Bass Hall in Fort Worth. Other credits include The Black Tie Dinner Invitation (featured actor/voice over). He gives love to his YATP family, regular family and furry family. He is thankful to his piano teacher, Mike Springer, & his YATP teachers for teaching him SO well that he can ace AP Music Theory as a freshman. He is represented by CORE Talent. Check out & subscribe to his YouTube Channel - GDM Epic.

Sophie Rose Kirkham

Sally & Snoopy

Sophie Rose is over-the-moon excited to be a 9th year musical theatre student of the Young Artist Training Program (YATP). She was seen this past year as in A Christmas Carol (Martha Cratchit) and in The Sound of Music (Brigitta) at The Tony Award winning Dallas Theater Center. Other credits include Gypsy (Baby June) with MainStage Irving-Las Colinas and in Ben Stevenson’s Cirque du Ballet as well as multiple seasons of The Nutcracker (Party Child) with Texas Ballet Theater at the Winspear Opera House, Into the Woods (Little Red Ridinghood) with YATP, and in Evita with Lyric Stage (Children's Chorus) at the Majestic Theatre Dallas, among others. She also plays piano with Springer Music, guitar, and her first script, Rogue, was featured in Our Productions Theatre Co.’s 2022 Play Readers Club Festival. She is a member of the Youth Ballet Ensemble & Performance and Competitive Ensemble with Texas Ballet Theater School Dallas and is represented by CORE Talent. Love to her YATP family! @sophierosekirkham

Riley Martens

Lucy

Riley is a 7th year YATP student and a junior in high school. Her most recent credit was Harry Connick Jr.'s The Happy Elf (Ensemble, u/s) at Dallas Children's Theater. Some of her favorite YATP credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Annabeth Chase), and Into The Woods (Rapunzel, Cinderella’s Mother). She made the switch to online school this year to pursue theater, and teaches herself ASL and keyboard in her spare time. She is represented by CORE Talent and looks forward to starting the infamous college audition process this fall. Endless thanks to her supporters and mentors for being the best cheerleaders!

Alyssa Martin

Snoopy & Sally

Alyssa is an 8th year YATP student and homeschooled sophomore. Favorite credits: Mountain Christmas Memory (Jenny Harper) at Temple Christian Academy, Mary Poppins (Jane Banks) at King’s University, Into the Woods (Little Red Ridinghood) with YATP, God Given Talent (Samantha Bacon) at Rockpointe, Magic Treehouse (Annie) at North Texas Performing Arts, Time Travelling History Channel Series (Voiceover Narrator), Annie (Annie) at Gateway, and The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Clarisse/Ares) with YATP. Alyssa competes nationally in public speaking tournaments and has won multiple nationally recognized tournaments at colleges and universities in her theater-based speech performances through this organization. She thanks God, her family, and YATP!

Tara Mozena

Charlie Brown

Tara is a 7th year Young Artist Training Program (YATP) student and graduating high school Senior, pursuing the arts in college next year and just completed her audition process with YATP CAPstone program. Some of her favorite theatre credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Clarrise/Ares/Swing) with YATP and As You Like It (Adam/Hymen) with Junior Players Dallas. She enjoys vocal performance, costuming, and dance. She has danced for 11 years at Top Hat Dance Center. As a writer, her first original script was featured in the 2022 Play Readers Club with Our Productions Theatre Co. She would like to thank her family and coaches at YATP for encouraging and helping her on her journey.

Jordyn Peter

Linus

Jordyn is a 6th year YATP student & a graduating Senior. She is excited to announce that she will be attending Auburn University in the fall to major in nursing. Some previous credits include: an The Addams Family (Ancestor), A Murder is Announced (Clara Swettenham), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Luke/Gabe), & Into The Woods (Milky White/ Granny/ Giant/ Sleeping Beauty). She hopes you enjoy the show!!

Emma Tull

Charlie Brown

Emma is an 8 year YATP student. Favorite credits with YATP include Cats (Skimbleshanks), Into the Woods (Florinda), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Every Princess Tale. Favorite credits with Guyer Theatre include Beauty and the Beast (Les Files de la Ville), Anastasia, and Matilda. She has begun the College Audition Prep (CAPstone) program with YATP with an intent to study Musical Theatre at university upon graduation to pursue a career in the performing arts. She sends love to her YATP family and thanks her parents and sister for their support.

Time:

The average day in the life of Charlie Brown

Act I

Opening

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Schroeder

Snoopy

My Blanket and Me

Queen Lucy

The Kite

The Doctor is In

Beethoven Day

Rabbit Chasing

The Book Report

Act II

The Red Baron

My New Philosophy

The Baseball Game

Crabbiness Survey

Glee Club Rehearsal

Little Known Facts

Suppertime

Happiness

Bows

Special Thanks to our Donors:

(Donations received from January 1, 2023-March 29, 2023. Please advise of any errors or omissions.)

Producing Director ($1,000 or more)

Scott Kirkham & Stephanie Riggs

Producing Manager ($500-999)

Jim Lindsay & David Khuns

Producing Stage Manager ($250-499)

Antoinette & Riley Dereska, Corey, Sherilyn & Nadia Fox, Michelle, Elaina & Olivia Hill, Morgan & Axel Kennedy, Murro Martens, David, Tracy & Tara Mozena, Stephanie Tourk, Dale A Wheeler

Producing Assistant ($150-249)

The Broeker Family, The Callaway Family, Cara & Riley Martens, Michael, Sheryl, Mikayla, Alyssa & Hannah Martin

Producing Patron ($75-149)

Emily Amidon & Jordyn Peter, Catherine Fenoglio, Julian Kushera & Veronica Fenoglio-Kushera, Axel Kennedy, David Mozena Investment Company, David Northway, Pete & Pam Peterson, Christopher Peterson, Rande Thompkins

Friends of Our Productions Theatre Co. ($25-74)

Cindy Accardi, Nicholas Buchhorn, Arvelle Daigle, Debbie Duchamp, Anisa Iyer, Rebecca Kennedy, Marty Marks, Linda Mozena, Jason Thompkins, Joni & Neale Whitmore

Young Artist Training Program

Student Donation Guild - Helping to make this production possible:

Berkley Broeker, Kylie Callaway, Riley Dereska, Veronica Fenoglio-Kushera, Nadia Fox, Olivia Hill, Arhaan Iyer, Axel Kennedy, Slade Kirkham, Sophie Rose Kirkham, Riley Martens, Alyssa Martin, Tara Mozena, and Jordyn Peter

Your support makes this work in our community possible.

Yours. Mine. Ours.

Our Producitons.

Production Team Bios

Stephanie Riggs (Artistic & Educational Director) holds a B. F. A. in Theatre and Television from Texas Christian University, where she received the Fine Arts Guild and Ann Bradshaw Stokes Scholarships for her work in Musical Theatre. While at TCU, Stephanie studied voice under Dr. Vincent Russo, editor or ‘The Journal of Research in Singing’ and Jan Sullivan, author of The Phenomenon of the Belt-Pop Voice. As a director & producer, she has directed both professional and youth theater productions winning critical acclaim and awards in the D-FW area. Stephanie has also twice directed the youth choir composed of her own students for the Dallas Summer Musical’s stop of the National Tour of Joseph...Dreamcoat®. An award winning and nominated actress as well, Stephanie has performed with Casa Mañana, Lyric Stage, Our Productions, PRT, Theatre Three, Uptown Players, and WaterTower Theatre. She appeared in the regional premier of multiple Tony Award winning producer, GFour Production’s touring production of Motherhood, The Musical and is a multiple time featured soloist with the Las Colinas/New Arlington/Garland Symphonies. Stephanie has also performed cabaret style entertainment regularly both with Uptown Players, Denise Lee Onstage and independently as both a solo and collaborative artist. She is an accomplished voice-over/recording artist working for companies such as Mary Kay Cosmetics, The Staubach Corp., Southwest Airlines, WRR Classical 101.1 & The Las Colinas Symphony. She is the current Educational Director and Artistic Director of Our Productions Theatre Co., a professional, nonprofit theatre & is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

Her alumni students and interns have appeared in or worked on several off-Broadway and Broadway productions along with many National Touring productions, appeared in locally at the Tony Award winning Dallas Theater Center, and other local professional theatre productions including Lyric Stage, WaterTower Theater, Casa Mañana & of course here, at Our Productions Theatre Co. among other area theaters. Students are also currently appearing in & working on national television series, for the Disney Co., and in both commercials and feature films. Stephanie also offers private vocal coaching/tutoring to selected YATP students simultaneously developing both the proper belt/pop placement and a classical/legit sound in addition to other musical styles and a sought after college audition coach. Her students are known for their technical skill, discipline, courteousness, and work ethic. Most alumni students that are working professionals today credit YATP with giving them a solid foundation that helped them off to a great start. Stephanie’s graduating seniors regularly gain admittance to top university programs, most attending with scholarships. Previous graduates have been accepted to NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, AMDA, CCM, New York Film Academy, Studio School LA, CAP21, The Julliard School, OCU, Texas State, Pepperdine, Elon, SMU, TCU, Colorado State University, Millikin University, Baylor, Pace, New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts, University of Oklahoma, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and many other outstanding collegiate programs.

Mark Mullino (Music Director) has worked extensively throughout the Metroplex and the United States as a musical director and actor. Locally Mark has directed/musical directed/conducted at Water Tower Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Uptown Players, Plano Repertory Theater, Lyric Stage, Labyrinth Theater, Collin Theater Center, Our Productions/ Theatre FMPAT, PFamily Arts and Theater Arlington. Mark Has received numerous Column Awards and Leon Rabin Awards and nominations. In addition to musical directing/acting, Mark plays piano for the weekly Cabaret show “Mamaʼs Party”, teaches musical theater at KD College and Collin College, maintains a private studio and is an artist. Additionally, Mark is the President and co-founder of Dallas Young Artists. Mark received his Bachelors in Music from Hardin-Simmons University.

Alex Davison (Choreographer) is a YATP alum and so excited to be back where it all started as a resident choreographer, faculty & board member! Previous choreography credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (YATP), Spamalot (University of North Texas), Big Fish (Rockwall High School), and Christmas Wonders, Christmas Stars (Theatre Frisco). Previous stage credits include How I Became a Pirate (Dallas Children's Theater), West Side Story (Garland Summer Musicals), and The Boy From Oz (Uptown Players). Alex holds a Bachelor's of Music in Musical Theatre from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Scott Kirkham (Technical Diretor/Scenic & Prop Design) serves as Executive Producer and Production Designer for Our Productions Theatre Co. He holds an M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Florida State University’s School of Theatre and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Texas A&M University. In the daytime, he works as the Technical Director for the Noble Family Performing Arts Center at Parish Episcopal School. A Dallas native, Scott’s career has taken him to Florida, Ohio, New York, California, and back to Dallas. An award winning designer, his favorite shows in Dallas include Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, Plano Repertory Theatre; Pump Boys and Dinettes, Contemporary Theater of Dallas; Macbeth, Bucket Productions, One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest, Damn Yankees, Irving Community Theatre; Rehearsal for Murder, Another Murder, Another Show, Pegasus Theatre, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Adventures in Love, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Art, Project Youth, Peter Pan, Greater Tuna/Red, White and Tuna, God of Carnage, Ordinary Days, Into the Woods, Our Productions Theatre Co. Scott is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. He is father of two, husband of one, and human to three shelter dogs, 6 chickens and one cat. (if looking for a pet, please consider a shelter animal first).

Sydney Han (Production Stage Manager) is a YATP alum with performance credits including Into the Woods (The Witch) and CATS (Grizabella). She also has worked crew from lighting to sound as a YATP intern. She is so excited to be back helping out for this amazing show after being Production Stage Manager for last year's The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical! She found her love for theatre through performing, but she loves going behind the scenes to put on a great show using her excellent management skills!

Lisa Miller (Lighting Design) is grateful to return to Our Productions. Previous design works also include, The Fort Worth Opera, the Opera Studios at UNT and TCU, Theater Three, Island ETC in Galveston, and Sherman Theatricks. Dance Design includes Ballet North Texas, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Wichita Falls Ballet and Lafayette Ballet Theater She has also worked with the Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theater. Lisa is the founder of Hope Rising, an arts organization in North Texas that seeks to raise awareness and put an end to Sexual and Domestic Violence through the arts.

Jay Hogg (Sound Design) is returning this year after managing the sound design for last year's fully outdoor production of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Jay is an owner of 2 Imagine It Productions and has an extensive history of sound design at some of the top venues in the area including Winspear Opera House and Bass Hall.

David Lanza (Sound Effects) works as resident sound designer for Amphibian Stage Productions and Kids Who Care, as well as regularly designing for many other DFW based companies. Some recent sound design credits include No Child (Amphibian Stage Productions), Over Forty (Jubilee Theatre), The Addams Family Musical (All Saints Episcopal School) The Mountaintop (Dallas Theater Center), Spamalot (UNT Theatre), and Witch (Stage West). David has also acted as production sound operator for national tours of Menopause The Musical, A Tuna Christmas and Tuna Does Vegas, as well as the annual Dance Salad dance festival in Houston, TX. Additionally David has provided sound design and mixing for animated media projects produced by companies including Nickelodeon, Alfalfa Studios, Kate Spade, and The Ford Foundation. David holds a Bachelor of Science in Audio Engineering Technology from Belmont University. www.DavidLanzaAudio.com

Our Productions Theatre Co.

Flower Mound-Lewisville-Dallas

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Casting

Meet The Cast

Upcoming Auditions for 2023-2024 Young Artist Training Program Company & Summer Musical Theatre Intensive
May 30 - June 3, 2023

Our Productions Theatre Co.

Flower Mound-Lewisville-Dallas

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Casting

Meet The Cast

Upcoming Auditions for 2023-2024 Young Artist Training Program Company & Summer Musical Theatre Intensive May 30 - June 3, 2023

Upcoming Auditions for 2023-2024 Young Artist Training Program Company & Summer Musical Theatre Intensive
May 30 - June 3, 2023