KELLI LEIGH-ANN CONNORS (Director) is a long time resident of New England where she has enjoyed a forty five year career in the performing arts. As a freelance theatre artist Kelli is a performer, director, choreographer and designer. She is a performing member of PowerPlay which brings theatre laboratories into the workplace, teaching business professionals to recognize bias and micro-aggression in the workplace. As a director she has gained distinction at the Rochester Opera House, bringing them their first Spotlight Awards for her direction of Annie in 2012. Kelli has directed, choreographed and designed more than 150 major works in theaters across New England. She is the published author of three murder mystery scripts that are translated into four languages and performed internationally and 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. She serves as the Theatre Arts Excel Instructor for MSAD 60 as well as the Noble High School theatre director. She brings a skill based approach to the theatre department, enabling the students to win titles in the Maine One Act Festival competitions for the past four years. Kelli is currently working on her masters of fine arts in directing.

Kathy is in her 12th year as producer and musical director for the theater program at Noble. Her main job for Black Box is to keep everyone organized and fed! Kathy is a piano teacher, choral pianist and Church musician. She lives in Dover with her husband Greg and dachshund, Hannah.

Joseph Solari-Howard is an actor, director, and playwright based in New Hampshire's seacoast region who recently graduated with a B.A. in Acting and Directing from UNH. In the past year, Joe has worked extensively with RGC theatre, acting in both the original and remount productions of Ride the Cyclone as Mischa Bachinski, as well as directing RGC's first ever Shakespeare: Macbeth. Joe was most recently seen on the Maine stage as an emergency understudy in Hackmatack’s Mark Twain’s Folly.

Carol MacDonald attended Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music in Winchester, VA in Music Theater. Carol has also been a lead singer in a few area bands. She has won and placed in area Karaoke contests. She has been performing in the Seacoast area for about 27 years with Garrison Players, Lakeside Players, Get-a-Clue-Production, Oreobelle Productions, Hill-Fellow Productions, The Leddy Center and The Players Ring. She also served on the Garrison Players Arts Center’s Board of Directors. Carol is the Creator, Producer and Director of the popular “Impersonators of Romance” series.