Local Actors and Their Summer Jobs

This comment came from Josh Meredith, who's a theatre student at Marshall University who starred in dozens of community theatre shows locally, and I wanted to post it out here for everyone to see:

Thanks for the nod to A Chorus Line!

I wanted to say that I think a great part of community/college theatre around here (and I'm sure you'll agree) is that it prepares young people to work professionally. I thought you might be interested in the students that I know of who will be getting paid to work in theatres this summer.

As for me, I will be working at the Independent Theatre Collective in Wheeling, WV opening Jeremy Richter's new musical [best imitation] that appeared at the New Works Fetstival at Marshall last year.

This production will have a four-week run in Wheeling starting June 4, and will tour to FestivALL in Charleston on June 21 and 22. After that, the production will head up to Washington, DC, to do a five-performance run at the Capitol Fringe Festival! It's going to be a new, exciting experience! Also working at ITC this summer are Liz Pollack and Ethan Treutle, both from Marshall as well.

Nathan Mohebbi and Scott Burner will be working at Jenny Wiley Theatre all summer long in their season, which includes Cinderella and Joseph and the Amazing, Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Lots of exciting things happening for the students at Marshall! Those are the only ones I know, but I'm sure there may be a few others!