Mean Girls High School Version Creative & Crew

Director/Music Director

Holly Rose

Holly is happy to be able to work with such amazingly talented theatre artists and volunteers here at FWHS! Some of Holly's credits include performing in A Narrow Bed (Wings Theatre, NYC), dancing alongside Smashmouth (Radio City Music Hall, NYC) and playing “Benten” in the World Premiere of The Kyogen Rope (O’Malley Theatre, Chicago). You may have seen her locally as Aunt Rose in Wild Mushrooms (Renton Civic Theatre) or as Gabriella in Boeing Boeing (Tacoma Little Theatre). Some local directing credits include: Guys and Dolls (Rosebud CTC), Once Upon A Mattress (Rosebud CTC), I Hate Hamlet (Knutzen Family Theatre), If Spiders Made Honey (Burien Little Theatre), and A Very Lovely Dress (Stone Soup Theatre) to name a few. Holly also enjoys being involved in the vibrant Northwest film community. Some recent projects, Kanashimi and Waiting for Exit, are film festival nominees. Holly has directed numerous workshops and children’s theatre productions throughout Minnesota, Chicago, and NYC. Holly is also the Founder and Artistic Director at Rosebud Children's Theatre. Holly is the Troupe Director of FWHS Thespian Troupe #3541. At the 2024 Washington State Thespian Festival, 15 of Holly's students won EXCELLENT awards making them state honorees and 5 of her students won SUPERIOR wards making them National Qualifiers! The Educational Theatre Association and Washington State Thespians awarded Holly the “Inspirational Teacher Award” for her dedication and creativity with her students. A special thank you to all the participants and their families for helping to keep this dream of live theatre alive for everyone! Education: B.F.A. Musical Theatre, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University; Performance Certificate, American Musical & Dramatic Academy NYC; MBA with emphasis in Project Management, Keller Graduate School of Management, Teacher Credential, Northwest Educational Development.

Production Manager/Costumer

Melanie Downing

Audio Technician 1

Lucas Burris

Audio Technician 2

Joseph Corey

Assistant Stage Manager/Run Crew

Isaiah Muhammad

assistant

Sadia Adam

Original Creative Team

Tina Fey

Tina Fey (Book)

Tina Fey is a writer, actor, and producer known for her award-winning series 30 Rock and for nine seasons on Saturday Night Live (Weekend Update, Sarah Palin, Mom Jeans.) Films: Sisters, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Date Night, Mean Girls (her first screenplay). In 2010 she became the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Her book Bossypants has sold 2.5 million copies. She co-created Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) and was an Executive Producer on Great News (NBC). She is thrilled to make her Broadway debut as a writer and not as a dancer in Cats as previously stress-dreamt. She lives in NYC with her husband Jeff Richmond and their two fancy daughters. She dedicates her work here to her mom Jeanne, for loving and feeding the many teenage loudmouths that went on to be characters in this show.

Jeff Richmond

Jeff Richmond (Music)

Jeff Richmond is an award-winning composer, songwriter and producer for television, theatre and film. He served as composer and an Executive Producer on NBC’s 30 Rock, winning three Primetime Emmy Awards alongside his wife Tina Fey. He was a musical director at The Second City in Chicago and at Saturday Night Live, where he spent five seasons composing original songs for stars like Jack Black, Queen Latifah, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Jeff’s New York theatre credits include his musical Melancholy Baby, the inaugural production of the Ars Nova Theater, and the score for Fully Committed on Broadway starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson. He is currently executive producing, directing and scoring episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in New York City, where he lives with his wife and their two daughters.

Nell Benjamin

Nell Benjamin (Lyrics)

Nell co-wrote the score to Legally Blonde, the Musical with composer Laurence O'Keefe, which received Tony Award nominations, Drama Desk nominations, and the Olivier and Helpmann Awards for Best Musical.

Nell wrote the lyrics to Mean Girls, which received multiple Tony Award nominations, including for Best Original Score and Best Musical.

Nell's play, The Explorers Club, won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.

Nell has written book and/or lyrics for Pirates! (or Gilbert and Sullivan plunder'd), Sarah, Plain and Tall, Cam Jansen (Drama Desk-nominated), I Want My Hat Back, How I Became A Pirate, The Mice, Life of the Party and Because of Winn Dixie.

Upcoming musicals are: Huzzah!, Life of the Party, Dave.

Television writing includes "Unhappily Ever After", Animal Planet's "Whoa! Sunday with Mo Rocca", "Electric Company", "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris", "Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway", "Julie's Greenroom."

Benjamin is the recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant.