RENT the Musical Creative
Director
Brenna DaughertyRecent graduate of the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College and current Masters student
Stage Manager
Audrey Phipps Audrey is a Musical Theatre major with a minor in Stage Management. She is so grateful to have had the privilege of working on such an important show.
Music Director
Pax PayneGlad to be returning to Athens to be making her music directorial debut
Graduate of Ohio University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a minor in Conducting and Philosophy
Currently a Piano, Voice, and Songwriting Teacher
Afterwards will be moving to North Dakota to pursue a Master of Music in Vocal Performance
Grateful to her friends and family for their love and support and would like to thank all of those involved in Rent for making this memorable and rewarding experience possible.
Choreographer
Alexis ParsonsAlexis is thrilled to be working with the endlessly talented cast of RENT! She has had the pleasure of choreographing 9 to 5: The Musical, The Rocky Horror Show (which she directed also), The Producers, Shrek The Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Spring Awakening, Godspell, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grease, Quilters, and Seussical Jr. She would like to thank the entire cast and crew for making this show so much fun, her daughters, Eden and Harmony, for being wonderful little people and hardly ever complaining about her rehearsal schedule, and her husband, Kit, for being a true partner, onstage and off! Enjoy the show!
Lighting Design
Lillie WrightI’m majoring in Production Design and Technology with a focus in lighting and minoring in Business Administration.
Props Manager
Grace EasterdayThird Year MFA in Props technologies at Ohio University. She would like to give 'props' to everyone who made this show possible.
Costumer
Geneviève ShaftelTechnical Director
Jaxon MeadowsAssistant Technical Director/Sound Design
Bob WaltersRehearsal Pianist/Asst. Music Director
Dan CagleGraduate of the BFA Acting program at Ohio University Class of 2022
Has played piano for almost 20 years
They were thrilled to be a part of this production and to have been given the opportunity to work with such a talent cast & crew!
Rehearsal Pianist
Zack WinklemanOriginal Creative Team
BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JONATHAN LARSON
Musical Arrangements Steve Skinner
Music Supervision
and Additional Arrangements Tim Weil
Original Concept/Additional Lyrics Billy Aronson
Dramaturg Lynn Thomson
RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and the New York Theatre Workshop
Rent
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com