A Little Princess Creative

Dance Captain

Becca N

Becca’s experiences with Sierra Vista Community Theatre's Youth Theatre started in 2022 with Twisted Fairy Tales’ Performing in “A Glitched Curse” and “Portal Troubles”. She continued through the years taking on the roles of Mrs. Barry and the Woman in Silk in Anne of Green Gables and in this season Nancy in An Avalanche of Murder. Becca is not only skilled onstage but offstage as well. She was the Production Stage Manager for The Wizard of Oz Jr. and a Lighting Board operator for many shows such as Godspell 2012 Revised and Honk! The Musical. Becca has also been one of the Camp Counselors for 2023 and 2024's Youth Theatre Summer Camp.What is your Favorite Musical? “There’s too many. I can’t pick just one!” What does family mean to you? “People who are always there for you. Even non-biological ones.”

Jr Music Director

Kayalynn F

Kayalynn joined the Sierra Vista Community Theatre’s Youth Program in 2022 as Dorothy in Wizard of Oz Jr. She has since performed as Diana in Anne of Green Gables and the Cat in Honk! The Musical. She was one of the Camp Counselors in 2024’s Youth Theatre Summer Camp. She also has performed in other venues as Emily in Our Town and Christian in Pilgrim's Progress. Kayalynn has extended her love of theatre from onstage to offstage working as a part of the Best Ever Stage Techs (BEST) for the production of A Christmas Carol last season and as the Production Stage Manager for this season’s An Avalanche of Murder. Kayalynn has also been the Sound Board Operator for The Mousetrap, and most recently was the Light Board Operator for A Comedy of Errors.

Director

Kirri Miller

Kirri has been a part of Sierra Vista Community Theatre since The first production "Edgar Alan Poe's- Nightfall" in 2019. She had directed many shows through the years such as: Alice In Wonderland, Nana's Naughty Knickers, Into the Woods Jr., Rocky Horror Picture Show, Twisted Fairy Tales, Wizard of Oz Jr., Anne Of Green Gables and Proof. Kirri is a part of the Board of Director’s, the Youth Theatre Producing Artistic Director and the Vice Chair of Education. She wants to thank Sierra Vista Community Theatre and their continued support in her directing these productions. A Little Princess was a book she grew up with and loved the movies, to be apart of such a classic tale is a privilege and she hopes everyone enjoys the show the cast and crew are about to preform. Favorite Musical - "It is forever changing, but right now is The Hunchback of Notre Dom."

Assistance Director

Xavier Young

Dialect Coach

Dave Dahl

Costume Designer

Rory Rodrigue

PSM - Youth

Harley Noble

PSM

Robin StClair

EXPERIENCE: Yes. Most recently PSM for A Christmas Carol last season, The Comedy of Errors this season and concurrently with the Little Princess, Addams Family, the Musical. FAVORITE MUSICAL? Godspell.

Costume Assistant

Brenna Macher

Set Designer

Jenny Norwood

Set Design Assistant

Aiden Swallow

Sound Designer

Mia Pritchard

Props Designer

Robin StClair

Lighting Designer

Jeremy Heisner

Marketing Manager

Gina Florez

Music Director - Piano

Simon Spencer

EXPERIENCE: Simon is a singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and novice accordionist who typically performs around Bisbee. This is his first time music directing. FAVORITE MUSICAL? I’ve been really obsessed with Sweeney Todd lately!

Music Director - Vocals

Phyllis Kinlaw

Choreographer Assistant

Anna Crossland

EXPERIENCE: Anna began dancing at age 4 with the Sierra Vista Ballet and continued until age 16. She also trained in various styles at Limelight Productions. In college, Anna took dance classes and was invited back to choreograph their Spring Musical at Eastern Arizona College. She has since worked on various dance projects, including instructing Buena High School's Colourguard and working with a youth theatre in Illinois helping choreograph their productions and teaching a Broadway Dance class! She is so excited to spend time with these talented and passionate kids and is very proud of how hard they’ve worked! FAVORITE MUSICAL? This question isn’t fair!

Choreographer

Cassie Levitt

Original Creative Team

Andrew Lippa is a composer, lyricist, singer, actor, conductor, and producer. His concert work Unbreakable had its world premiere with The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in June 2018 with 300 artists onstage, including himself. In May of 2018, he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a new production of his and Brian Crawley's A Little Princess in concert at the Royal Festival Hall to a sold-out crowd of nearly 3,000 people. His hit song "Evil Like Me" appears in Disney's Descendants. Written for Kristin Chenoweth, the soundtrack hit #1 on the "Billboard 200" album chart, #1 on the iTunes and Billboard soundtrack charts and "Evil Like Me" was certified gold in 2017. He has conducted celebrated pianist Lang Lang and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of a commissioned symphonic work for piano, soprano, tenor, children's chorus, and orchestra. I Am Harvey Milk, his epic oratorio for men's chorus, orchestra and soloists, has seen over 50 productions including Disney Hall and Lincoln Center. Lippa's musical, The Man in the Ceiling, based on Jules Feiffer's book (and co-written with Feiffer) released a world premiere studio album in May of 2019. His obsession with Netflix's Tiger King yielded two songs/videos in April, 2020 and, for a while, got his mind off the pandemic.

Brian Crawley is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the book and lyrics for A LITTLE PRINCESS (composer Andrew Lippa) which debuted at Theatreworks of Palo Alto in the summer of 2004. He also wrote the book and lyrics for VIOLET (composer Jeanine Tesori) which was mounted Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1997, then remounted in a concert version in 2003 to help inaugurate their new theater. Other musicals he has written include EVANGELINE with Ted Dykstra, and DOWN THERE with composer Lewis Flinn. He appears in the documentary ONE NIGHT STAND, in which he writes a short musical in 24 hours with composer Gabriel Kahane. For the libretto of VIOLET, Brian won the Kleban Award. Prior to the Playwrights Horizons production, and on its behalf, VIOLET was given the Richard Rodgers Musical Production Award and an AT&T OnStage Award. Afterwards, besides a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, VIOLET received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical over all the year's Broadway offerings (as did Paula Vogel's play HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE; the first time two off-Broadway pieces took these top awards in the Drama Critic Circle's history). Brian's plays have been developed or staged at Lincoln Center, New York Theater Workshop, the National Alliance of Musical Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill summer theater conference. He majored in Theater Studies at Yale and has an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Brian is a member of the Dramatists Guild.