OIO Artistic Staff
Artistic Staff 2024
Directors, Conductors, Designers
- Thomas Cockrell, OIO artistic director; music director and conductor, La traviata. Beauty and the Beast/L’enfant et les sortilèges
- Kristin Roach, music director and conductor, The Crucible
- Linda Ade Brand, stage director, La traviata and L’enfant et les sortilèges, stage skills
- Benjamin Wayne Smith, stage director, The Crucible, stage skills
- Lisa Tricomi, stage director, Beauty and the Beast and Little Red’s Most Unusual Day (Studio Artist outreach production), acting coaching
- Emily Ulibarri and Raymond Ulibarri, choreographers, movement class
- Kim Welborn, costume designer
- Spencer Musser, scenic designer and technical director
- Matthew Ishee, lighting designer
Music Staff
- Stephen Karr, head vocal coach, chorus master
- Lorraine Ernest, alumna vocal instructor, May-June
- W. Stephen Smith, alumnus vocal instructor, July
- Darrin Newhardt, musical theatre and crossover skills class, Broadway Cabaret music director
- Hannah Harnest, coach accompanist
- Siying He, Zachary Kierstead, coach accompanist apprentices
- María Fátima Corona del Toro, assistant conductor
Production Staff
- Carol Brian, production stage manager
- Lia Bernhardi and TBA, stage managers
- Alice Crist, Victoria Gonzalez, Loren Smither, Margaret Wells, costumers
- Eli Davis, assistant lighting director
- Powel Brumm, assistant technical director
- Poppy Garner, production assistant