PRODUCTION & STAFF BIOS
PRODUCTION BIOS
GerRee Hinshaw (she/her) - Director
GerRee Hinshaw is an actor, director, and theatre maker. She last appeared in the world premiere of REFUGE, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL and THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST, and THE WAR ANTHOLOGY. A Curious Theatre Company artistic company member, GerRee is also an associate artist and board member at Local Theater Company. Colorado stage credits include MEN ON BOATS (The Catamounts), MISS YOU LIKE HELL (The Aurora Fox), and RAISED ON RONSTADT (Local), a play written by Ms. Hinshaw, for which her performance received a Henry Award. Her directing credits include DREAMHOU$E (Theatreworks) and THE BALLOT OF PAOLA AGUILAR (BETC).
Bethany Rachel (she/her) - Stage Manager
This is Bethany’s debut with Phamaly! Some of her favorite past theatrical credits include Jesus Christ Superstar, Swing!, Her Naked Skin (Boston Conservatory at Berklee), Joseph...Technicolor DreamCoat (New Bedford Festival Theatre), The Rocky Horror Show, Hands on a Hardbody, Matilda (Wagon Wheel). Bethany is the Production Coordinator for the Theatre & Dance Department at CU Boulder. Bethany lives with migraines and chronic pain. Bethany is beyond grateful for her husband and dear friends.
Amanda Fisk (she/her) - Lighting Designer
Amanda is thrilled to be in her first year with Phamaly. Amanda’s work spans theatre, dance, and circus with past design credits including Solstice: A Winter Circus Experience (Touring), Rooted (Touring), Nutcracker (Colorado Conservatory of Dance) and Heathers (UNCSA). Assistant design credits include Pippin (Phamaly), &Juliet 1st National Tour, and Amystika (Criss Angel). She also works as a theatre consultant designing spaces for other artists. Amanda lives with ulcerative colitis and vertical strabismus.
Susan Rahmsdorff-Terry (She/Her) – Costume Designer
This is Susan Rahmsdorff-Terry’s first show with Phamaly and she is delighted to join this incredible team of artists. Susan learned to sew from her mother who thought it might keep her out of trouble. It mostly worked, and her award-winning costumes have been seen all over the Front Range and beyond. Love to Luke, Essie, Mom and Stripe.
STAFF BIOS
Corinne Melon (she/her) – Managing Director
Corinne is an arts administrator, vocal coach, and opera stage director dedicated to bringing equity to the arts and advocating for performers. Prior to working at Phamaly, she served as the Executive Director for the Arapahoe Philharmonic, bringing a renewed focus on artistic excellence to the company. Corinne founded and served as the Executive Artistic Director of Denver Immersive Opera, a company dedicated to supporting female identifying and LGBTQAI+ artists while creating immersive operatic productions that resonate with modern audiences. She has also served as the Production Manager for Boulder Opera Company and Company Manager for Boulder Music Institute. Corinne holds a Performer’s Certificate in Voice from the University of Denver, a dual MM in Opera and Musical Theatre Performance from Arizona State University, and a BM in Voice Performance with a minor in Theatre from Middle Tennessee State University. Corinne lives with anxiety and depression.
Ben Raanan (he/him) – Artistic Director
Ben Raanan is a disabled theatre maker and advocate originally hailing from Chicago, Illinois. His artistic focus is centralized around creating artistically rigorous theatre with, for, and about the disabled community. Ben is the Artistic Director at Phamaly Theatre Company, the longest running disability theatre company in the United States. Ben received his BFA from Drake University with a concentration in directing/musical theatre, and his MFA in directing from DePaul. Some of his favorite directing credits include: Spring Awakening, My Name is Asher Lev, Spitfire Grill (Phamaly Theatre Company), Cost of Living (Renaissance Theatre Works + Curious Theatre Company), Macbeth (Spectrum Shakespeare), Antigone: Born Against, Eleemosynary, Bob: A Life In Five Acts, Crumble: Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati) Mockingbird (Falcon Theatre).
Erin Banthoff (she/her) – Operations Manager
Erin is a Denver-based theatrical artist always searching for the next creative opportunity. By day she navigates the creation of stigma abolishing theatre with Phamaly Theatre Company, on staff since 2019, proudly working as the Operations Manager. By night she is trying to find time for everything else: performance, podcasting, costuming, design, directing, and learning to cook better than your mama can. Every day she is thankful for her supportive circle and partner in crime, Jeremy Althoff. Erin lives with Hashimoto’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, and Anxiety.
Annie Jacobs (she/her) – Technical Production Manager
Annie joined Phamaly in December of 2019. She moved to Denver from Connecticut where she had been the Director of Production at ACT of Connecticut. Prior to that, she had spent over a decade production managing in New York theatres, including APAC, Queens Theatre, and Prospect Theatre Company. Her time in New York also included working at Showman Fabricators. While there, her projects included Broadway's Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Disney World's American Idol Experience and NBC's The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon. Annie is an alumnus from the Theatre School at DePaul University and the School of Drama at Yale University.
Lauren Lynch-Eidson (she/her) – Marketing & Communications Manager
Lauren (she/her) hails from Clarksville, TN and earned an MFA in Arts Administration from Texas Tech University. She has had a passion for accessibility in the arts for many years, spending three+ years volunteering in-person and virtually for A.B.L.E. Ensemble, a Chicago-based theatre for, with, and by individuals with developmental disabilities, and volunteering at Phamaly before becoming a full-time employee.Lauren is also an Adjunct Professor in Arts and Culture Management at The University of Denver, and a newly published playwright. Previously, she had the privilege of working at Wonderbound Ballet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center among others. When she's not at work, you can find her playing board games, singing with the Denver Women’s Chorus, or stealing cuddles from her dog, Harry Pupper, and her husband, Eric. She lives with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depressive Disorder.
AJ Watson (He/Him) – Production Accessibility Manager
AJ is very excited to be entering his first year with Phamaly. Originally from the east coast and earning his chops in the world of film and television, serendipity brought him to the company after walking down the street, newly arrived in Denver and deciding to go to a performance of Alice in Wonderland presented by Phamaly! From there he volunteered backstage for Vox Vergere and then A2’d for Spring Awakening.
Raekwon Fuller (He/Him) - Intern Fellow
Raekwon Fuller is a second-year Theatre Management student at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, on a mission to bring his vision to life as the founder of The Alana, a theatrical arts complex dedicated to being a vibrant hub for artists with disabilities. Being an artist and activist, Raekwon is fueled by a passion for joy, artistry, and love. Having been born and raised in South Carolina, he has a soft spot for sweet tea, healthy gossip, and hearty laughter. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Fordham University and has previously worked with the National Black Theatre and The Public Theater. Raekwon strives every day to make The Alana a reality. He’s deeply grateful to be at Yale a Phamaly Fellow, loves his cohort, and thanks God daily for his many blessings.
LITERARY ARTIST BIOS
Clare Barron
Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Other plays include: You Got Older (Page 73; Steppenwolf) which received two Obie Awards for Playwriting and Performance, a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist and the #1 most-recommended play on the Kilroys' List; I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr); and Baby Screams Miracle(Clubbed Thumb; Woolly Mammoth).
She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, and the Page 73 Fellowship; and is a member of New Dramatists.
Concord Theatricals
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, James Graham, Katori Hall, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Arthur Miller, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein,Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions.
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