Kaylee Brennand – President

Email: kaylee@vail.net
Committee: All

Kaylee is a production stage manager and passionate about live theatre. While she has been seen on the stage in the past usually she can be found backstage.

Heather Lemon

Email: hlemon@slifer.net
Committee: Finance, Nomination
Heather has lived in the Vail Valley since 1994 after 9 years in Hong Kong. She raised three children here who were all active in speech and theatre on the local stages including Evening on Broadway productions. Now that the kids have flown the nest, it is her turn to enjoy her passion. Active in theatre during high school and college, she acted in commercials during her Hong Kong days. Now a local Realtor for Slifer Smith and Frampton Real Estate, she practices law in her free time and serves on the theatre Board
She manages to squeeze in skiing, hiking and travel and enjoying the Vail Valley.

Nicole Whitaker – Vice President

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NicoleWhitaker17
Committee: PR/Mktg-Chair, Development

Nicole joined VVTC in the Summer of 2008 after performing in her first VVTC production Side By Side By Sondheim. Her passion for Theatre Arts and Marketing pre-empted her to find VVTC and join the Board of Directors later that Fall. By day Nicole is Director of Sales & Marketing for Manor Vail Lodge and has resided in the Vail Valley for 7 years. She has worked in Hospitality Sales & Marketing industry for nearly 10 years in Park City, Utah and Vail Valley. Originally from Utah Nicole attended Weber State University and participated in several Miss America Organization pageants and earning honors such as: 2nd Attendant – Miss Brigham City Peach Queen, 1st Attendant Miss Snow Country, 2nd Attendent Miss Weber County, & top ten Miss Utah USA. Since joining VVTC she has performed in the following: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey)produced by Porchlight Players, Rocky Horror Show (Phantom), & Evening on Broadway 2009. Nicole loves singing, acting, dancing, traveling, spending time with friends & family and visiting her nieces and nephews as often as possible.

Larry Dutmer

Committee: LRP, A&E
Larry has been involved in Vail Valley Theatre Company productions either on stage or drumming the orchestra pit since 1996 and has served on the theatre company board since 2009. He moved to the valley from Chicago in 1996 with his wife, Deb, and two boys, Jake and Will, to take his current job as a counselor with Colorado Mountain College. Larry values the arts and serves on the board to help promote theatre as a performing outlet for locals and as an opportunity for the community to see quality productions.

Todd Frye

Committee: A&E
Only involvement truly allows you to experience the Theatre arts and I recommend you try it soon, what fun you will have! Locally I have enjoyed roles in Virginia Woolf and Evening on Broadway. Other endeavors include many musicals with roles like Will Parker in Oklahoma and Harold Hill in The Music Man. Before moving to Vail I served 8 years on the community theatre board in my home town of Duncan, Oklahoma. Remember, there is a way for everyone to participate in theatre even if it just buying a ticket and enjoying a show. See ya in the spot light!

Bart Garton

Website: www.gartonvideo.com

Committee: Nomination

Bart was raised in the Vail Valley, moved to Aspen while in high school and grew to love theater and film production during those years. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University for no apparent reason save for a love of math and lack of any serious film options. He started Garton Video Productions in 1988 and continues to produce television and web based programs both locally and nationally. He’s passionate about theater in the valley and joined the board in ~2009 (Kaylee?) in hopes of helping to create more awareness, accessibility, and quality of local productions. Married with three children, Bart can usually be found on a mountain bike trail or competing in the latest stupid adventure race. He’ll ski and snowboard in the winter too, if pushed.

Diana Honey-Kiss – Secretary

Committee: PR/Mktg
Diana Honey Kiss has lived in the Vail Valley since 1984 and has been a Board Member of the Vail Valley Theatre Company for 12 years.  After 20 years as a Radio Personality, she brings her knowledge in performing and marketing to the Company.  She believes Theatre is a team sport where you never get hurt except to break a leg.

Connie Kincaid

Committee: Nomination-Chair, Development, PR
A performing Board member of the Vail Valley Theatre Company having joined in 2006 for the wildly popular and successful An Evening on Broadway productions which played at the Vilar Performing Arts Center each winter season for many years. You may have most recently seen her as Columbia in VVTC’s October production of The Rocky Horror Show, dancing while Judy Collins sang her infamous tune, Both Sides Now during The Youth Foundation’s 2010 Star Dancing Gala, or in the 2009 production of Godspell with The Porchlight Players. During daylight hours she is a REALTOR® /co-owner of Vail Property Brokerage, Inc. and has proudly served on the Board of Education with Eagle County Schools for ten years. Dancing and performing since the age of three; beginning her professional career at age sixteen, Connie is reliving her first career and true passion. Hailing from Los Angeles, she can be seen in the films, Grease 2 and Pennies From Heaven, as well as touring with Columbia Artists and the Danny Daniels Dance America Tap Dance Company. In fact, if you come across any of those tour videos – let her know, as tap dancing on Pointe is truly a lost vaudevillian art! She would like to extend a special thanks to her family for accepting the “theatre life” and understanding how important dancing, performing, and entertaining is to living for her.

Charis Patterson

Committee: PR/Mktg, LRP
Charis has been a performer since a child, whether singing in the bathrooms of local restaurants (great acoustics), in high school and college, or during her stints with the Missoula Community Theater and American Cabaret Theater. Charis has performed with the Vail Valley Theatre Company for ten years now, performing most recently in The Rocky Horror Show (Janet), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum (Geminie), Man of La Mancha (Dulcinea/Aldonza) and Annie Get Your Gun (Annie).  Charis is also an active member of the Board of Directors of the Vail Valley Theatre Company, in case you need someone at whom to direct your complaints about the content of this show. Charis would like to express her thanks and love to her wonderful children for happily living without her for the past few weeks, her father for watching them, and to her amazing husband for his support, and for wearing a blindfold during the show.  Please LIKE us at Facebook.com/VailTheatre.

Lance Schober

Committee: A&E-Chair
Lance Schober is very happy to be part of the board for the Vail Valley Theatre Company.  He is a true Vail native and only left to pursue a theatrical education in California and New York.  Lance worked for three years as a professional Musical theatre actor in New York and on tour in the US, but came back for his love of the mountains and to make acting a hobby. For several years he has participated as an actor for many of VVTC’s theatrical productions and looks forward to helping the theatre company grow to offer top quality entertainment to the Vail Valley.  When Lance is not on stage, he is an Officer  with the Animal Services department of Eagle County, and urges any future pet owners to come to the Animal shelter in Eagle to adopt a pet.

Robert Wagner

Committee: LRP-Chair, A&E, Development
Robert is delighted to be back on the Vilar Stage. Most recent roles include Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello DDS), The Rocky Horror Show (Brad Majors), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mitch Mahoney), Godspell (Jesus), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Pseudolus). Robert has also directed two shows for VVTC, most recently Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Butterflies Are Free. He also owns a local entertainment company Slippery Slope Productions. SSP and VVTC teamed up last January to produce an amazing Musical Theatre Workshop with Tony Award winner Karen Olivo and Choreographer Sergio Mejia. Robert will be moving down to the big city of Denver within the next few months to continue his passion for the arts. He’d like to thank the cast and crew for such an incredible journey of professionalism and comedy. Thank you for supporting local theatre here in the Valley! Much Love to Lorrie Lopes-Wagner who continues to watch and whisper her support from the best seat in the house…