Lee Ann is thrilled to return to CenterStage as the MD for Oliver, Jr.  Lee Ann has been directing, teaching, music directing, and performing in Colorado for over 25 years. Lee Ann’s passion is educational theatre, working with aspiring young actors to foster the love and craft of theatre. She has worked with the award winning Northglenn Youth Theatre (Henry Award Sound of Music), Ft. Collins Children's Theatre, CYT, the Venue and CenterStage Theatre Company and serves as Associate Director of Student Live at Aspen Academy in Greenwood Village.

Recognition: Three-time Henry Award nominee for outstanding musical direction for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Scottsboro Boys  and Once on This Island.  Other music direction credits include: Jane Eyre, Camelot, Brigadoon, Annie (Performance Now); Side by Side by Sondheim (Cherry Creek Theatre); Titanic, Man of La Mancha (Augustana Arts). Also the Director of the 2024 Henry Awards.

Directing credits include Annie Jr., James and the Giant Peach, Charlotte’s Web, Willy Wonka Jr., Winnie the Pooh (Aspen Academy), and Once Upon a Mattress (CenterStage).

Performance credits include: Tuck Everlasting (Vintage); Caroline, or Change (Aurora Fox); 42nd Street, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast, Hello, Dolly! (Performance Now); Sister Act (MidTown Arts Center) Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof (Ovation West);  and appearances with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the William Hall Master Chorale, Opera Fort Collins, Fort Hays College, Colorado Music Festival, and the Metropolitan Choral Festival.

Lee Ann received her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting from Colorado State University and completed doctoral coursework at the University of Northern Colorado in Vocal Performance/Opera Directing.

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