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Stage & Dance
Curtain Call
Arena Dinner Theatre closes out its 2017-18 season with Stephen Sondheim's brilliant A Little Night Music. The 1973 hit musical weaves the stories of...
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Stage & Dance
Brock Ireland
If you've ever met Brock Ireland or seen him perform onstage, it's hard not to be won over by his openness and his warmth.
Ireland grew up in Wabash,...
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Stage & Dance
Brian Ernsberger
Few people can strike the perfect balance between their passion and their career. Brian Ernsberger is the exception.
As a child, Ernsberger was "pai...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Primarily known in Fort Wayne for hisrole in the rock band Downstait, Sean Arata has spent the past few years making a name for himself in local thea...
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Stage & Dance
Michael Nelaborige
Michael Nelaborige was born and raised in Fort Wayne's north side in what was then considered "way out in the country" (north of Dupont and Coldwater...
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Stage & Dance
Curtain Call
The Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins has had a difficult history--thanks in part to America's own difficult history. When it premiered off-Broadway...
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Stage & Dance
Brock Graham
As a child, Brock Graham had already decided on his career: he was going to be a writer. Spurred by an elementary school Young Authors victory, he sp...
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Stage & Dance
Curtain Call
When Andy Planck was choosing the first season for Three Rivers Music Theatre, the one thing he knew was that the summer musical would be Hair. It ha...
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Stage & Dance
Curtain Call
A community theater can't go wrong with a season-closing show like South Pacific, as Arena Dinner Theatre has proven. Already sold out before opening...
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Stage & Dance
Aaron Mann
Fort Wayne's current crop of ultra-prolific actors who perform in back-to-back shows includes Fort Wayne native and professional actor Aaron Mann. He...
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Stage & Dance
Aimee Lackey
Aimee Richards Lackey learned at an early age that life sometimes gets in the way of your goals and you have to roll with the punches.
Born in Fort ...
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Stage & Dance
Kat Hickey
Theatre professionals and amateurs alike often find it hard to balance their lives and their passion. Kat Hickey has found a way to make it work.
H...
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Stage & Dance
Prentis Moore
Prentis Moore went from "very, very shy kid" to class clown in just a few short years.
Born in Detroit, Moore's family moved to Fort Wayne when he w...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
From an early age, Gavin Drew was aware of the power of entertainment.
“I think that performing was just in my DNA. Whenever I found someone who ...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
When it comes to musical theater families, Jillian Cook Bixler’s definitely qualifies. She has been performing since childhood, she married a fellow...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Imagination, family and the outdoors have always played a big part in Teresa Bower’s life. As a tomboy growing up in Fort Wayne, she, her brother an...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
A surprising number of actors get their start in Fort Wayne theater and go on to work professionally in big cities – New York, Hollywood, Chicago. B...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
A common theme among performers, even the most expressive ones, is a secret innate shyness.
Such is the case for Jana Henly.
“My shyness as a kid...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Becky Niccum has spent a lifetime using her imagination and creating her own worlds.
“I loved going back into the woods and pretend that I was li...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Stephanie Longbrake learned from early childhood that all the world’s a stage. Even the living room fireplace.
“I turned every floor I could fi...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Mikki White may be known more for her singing than her acting, but she likes a challenge. Fort Wayne audiences have the opportunity to see her challe...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Many performing artists draw from past experiences of pain and angst to shape their performances. Albert Brownlee, by contrast, had a happy childhood ...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Emily Arata says that she was a sensitive, talkative child who had an opinion about everything and liked to be the center of attention.
She also cl...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
For some performers, theater is in their blood. This statement could not be truer of Stuart Hepler, who stars as Beethoven in the current Fort Wayne ...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Over the past 30-odd years, Gary Lanier has proven himself to be a triple-threat powerhouse and has become a pillar of the Fort Wayne theater communi...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
For many performers, acting is a way to make their voices heard. For others, it’s a way to learn about the human experience and to take away lesson...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Fort Wayne’s community of actors continues to grow and excel with every year, thanks in part to the world-class education provided at IPFW Departme...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
As the oldest of five children, Jim Nelson learned to be “loud and noticeable” from an early age. In fact, he says, “I was pretty dramatic from ...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Any good theatrical role is worth putting work into. Some roles are worth putting forth a little extra effort. For Everett Collier, playing Hoke in D...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
William Andrews would have been a viral YouTube sensation if YouTube had been around when he was a toddler.
“When I was two my mom started to encou...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Like many little girls, Renee Gonzales was obsessed with Cinderella. Unlike most little girls, she was not obsessed with the Disney princess, but rath...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Nancy Kartholl, one of Fort Wayne’s most prolific and respected actors, never had childhood aspirations to be anything other than an actress or sin...
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Stage & Dance
Featured Actor
Many stage actors got their start in theatre to overcome shyness. Others fell into performing because they are natural entertainers.
Tracey Buckmaste...
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