Board of Directors and Staff

Directors

Julie Menard – President

Trudi Olivetti – Vice President

Bruce Whear – Volunteer Coordinator

Alma Mahon – Secretary & Education Director

Danuta Shasha -Treasurer

Stanis Ames – Marketing

Steve Black – Season Planning

Ted Merritt – Ticketing

Betty Lautner – Membership

Dayle Persons

Anne Lucas

David Foye

Christina Easthope

Staff

Andrew Barnett – Facility Manager/Technical Director

Andy Barnett has been involved with MLT for over 25 years as a producer, designer, builder and board member. He designed and built his first set at the Marblehead Middle (Village) School in 1992 for “Fiddler on the Roof”. Andy has built scenery for Marblehead Middle and High School, Salem High School, Rebel Shakespeare Company, Stage 284, Endicott College, Gordon College, Opera Boston, Gloucester Stage, Roxbury Center for the Arts, MassJam, Perkins School for the Blind, Boston Center for the Arts, Mssng Lnks, The Summer Revels, Riversing and The Christmas Revels. His work is a tribute to the many dedicated artists who believe in making live theater great.

Ali Mahon – Education Director – began her community theatre experience back in the Poconos in Pennsylvania at the Pocono Playhouse where she could be seen doing everything from being on the stage performing to ushering to running the concession stand. From there, she attended Emerson College receiving a B.A. for Theatre Education and later Lesley University where she received her M.Ed. for Integrating the Arts into the Curriculum. For over ten years she has been the middle school drama teacher in Saugus, MA where she teaches sixth-eighth grade students during the day and runs the after school drama club, which regularly has more than 100 members. During the past summer months Ali has been the Senior Camp Director for the Chestnut Hill School Creative Arts & Sports Program. Ali also assists with “Stone and Compass” where she travels with students to Bulgaria to help make cross cultural connections.