Kathy Dorgan, Artistic Director, Spotlight Director

This is Kathy's sixth summer with CTE, her fifth as Artistic Director. Kathy is the drama teacher at Olympia High School. She has a B.F.A. in Theatre and an M.A.Ed. in administration from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and has taught acting and theatre classes for over 16 years. Kathy is committed to working in and promoting theatre arts whenever and wherever she finds opportunities.

Jason Haws, Showcase Workshop Director

This is Jason’s fifth year with CTE, He has directed numerous plays and musicals for children including Cinderella, 42nd Street, Honk!, As You Like It, and The Time Dad Thought I was From Outer Space for CTE. As an actor, Jason has been a member of Harlequin Productions for the past eight years and has been seen on the stages of Centralia College, The Evergreen State College, The Olympia School District, Abbey Players, and Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and CTE. Jason has a Master’s Degree in Teaching and is going into his tenth year as an educator in the Olympia School District.

Bree Osgood, Arts Festival Workshop Director and Music Director

Bree Osgood is trilled to be back for her twentieth summer with CTE, beginning as a young student, to an intern, and now as the musical director which she has been for the past seven years. After graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, Miss Bree Osgood began her teaching career at Ferrucci Junior High in Puyallup where she conducted a flourishing choir program and introduced musical theatre, putting on such shows at “Into the Woods” and “Guys and Dolls”. Now, thrilled to be the choir director at Tumwater High School, Miss Osgood directs four choirs at THS, teaches a musical theatre class, and started a men’s choir after school. She is also the conductor of the Intermezzo choir for Tahoma Girls’ Choir which traveled internationally to perform in Russia, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia. An avid lover of musical theatre, Ms. Osgood had musically directed over twenty shows many of which have been over the last six years have been with Creative Theatre Experience. Some of her favorite shows to musically direct have been; “Pippin”, “Once upon a Mattress”, “42nd Street”, and “Into the Woods”. Bree also loves to perform and was last seen as “Belle” in “Beauty and the Beast”.

Paul Purvine, Leadership Team Director

Paul is a eleven year veteran of CTE. Favorite roles include Lysander in Midsummer for Harlequin Productions, Francis in Capital Playhouse's La Cage aux Faux, Jesus in St. Martin's production of Godspell, the title character in Centralia College's Fortinbras, and in two Olympia Little Theatre shows Bus Stop as Bo and Jeff in The Curious Savage. He is a member of Theater Artists Olympia. Paul has also been seen performing for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. Paul is proud to be back working with CTE, working with people he loves, and working to benefit the community. 

Jennifer Seifter, Choreographer

Jennifer is thrilled to be returning for her fourth summer with CTE. Performing in Musical Theatre since the age of 7, she's appeared on the stages of Capital Playhouse, Olympia High School, and Tacoma Musical Playhouse, and can be seen this summer portraying the role of Anita in Capital Playhouse's West Side Story. She also performed in numerous ballets as a company member of Ballet Northwest for 8 years. Jennifer is a Musical Theatre major at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and looks forward to her sophomore year this fall.

Holly Berchet-Hall, Visual Arts Faculty

This is Holly's 5th year as CTE's Visual Arts Faculty. Holly has been a middle school teacher for 14 years. She loves kids, loves art and is excited to be back with the CTE for another magical summer.

Sarah Sugarbaker Visual Arts Faculty & Set Designer

Sarah  is an MFA candidate at the Ohio State University.  This is her first year with Creative Theatre Experience.  She is excited to return to the west coast.

 Technical Director

Staff

Sheila Whybrow, Summer Administrative Assistant

This is Sheila’s fifth year as administrative assistant. Sheila is an elementary school music specialist with the North Thurston School District and teaches at Mountain View Elementary School where she conducts several performing groups. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a degree in music education. She performs with Opera Pacifica. Sheila has two sons who have been involved with CTE since 1998.

Jen Ryle, Production Assistant

This is Jen’s third season with CTE. Two years ago, she came to us as an intern from The Evergreen State College working primarily with Spotlight. After a lifetime of loving music, children’s literature and theater, she graduated from TESC in June of 2006 and went right to work on her dream of creating a children's theater for Olympia. She co-founded Olympia Family Theater (www.olyft.org) this past fall to produce theater for young audiences and their families in our community. Jen directed two of OFT's three successful shows this past school year and an even bigger and better season is planned for 2007-08 including after school creative drama classes. She is grateful to be returning to us for the summer, both as a parent (all three of her daughters are joining us) and as a member of our staff. Last year she coordinated the costumes and props for our productions including Peter Pan. She wants to thank all the parent volunteers, interns and kids who helped. She'll need you again because this year she will be doing the same.

Other

Interns

CTE also has a great Intern Program!   To meet this season's interns go to CTE Interns; to learn more about the Intern Program, go to CTE Intern Program.