KELLI LEIGH-ANN CONNORS (Director) is a freelance theater artist who has enjoyed a 40 year career in the performing arts as a performer, director, playwright and designer. She is a performing member of PowerPlay, an applied theater company that uses the technique of theater laboratories to bring awareness of real world situations such as micro aggression and bias in the workplace. As a director Kelli has more than 90 major theater works to her credit. She has received a multitude of Spotlight nominations and is the recipient of the Best Director Award for her production of Annie at the Rochester Opera House, as well as the proud recipient of the Kids Free to Grow Award given by the York County Child Abuse and Protection Agency for her work with abuse prevention theatre. For the past 12 years Kelli has served as the theater educator in the Gifted and Talented Program for MSAD 60 and is a published author of three plays through Eldridge Publishing. Being committed to learning, Kelli is currently working on her MFA in directing.!

As someone who normally performs onstage, Griffinn is ecstatic to dip his toes into the world of directing! I am incredibly grateful to have been given this opportunity, and give my thanks to my cast and the staff here at Noble! Theater credits include: Titanic: The Musical (Seacoast Repertory Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (Threshold Stage Company), Happy days: The Musical (Rochester Opera house), A funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum (Rochester Opera house) Mamma Mia! (Hackmatack Playhouse) Peter and The StarCatcher (Hackmatack Playhouse), and American Buffalo (Threshold Stage Company).

Kathy wears many hats at Noble including choral accompanist, musical director, producer, pit director and more. She is happy to leave the directing duties to Kelli and Griffinn for this show and to focus on making the production run smoothly!