Sooner Theatre
101 E. Main Street
Norman, OK 73069
(405) 321-9600
(405) 364-0543 (fax)
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Aubrey Adams is excited to be a part of The Studio, and is really enjoying working with such passionate, talented children everyday! Over the past few years, she has been involved in several Sooner productions, working both on and off the stage. Some of her favorite credits include, Lucy, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Tess, Crazy for You, Ronette, Little Shop of Horrors, Ensemble, Lyric Theatre’s Disney’s High School Musical. She graduated from OSU in 2006 and began choreographing for many local theatres including, Choctaw High School, Poteet Theatre, Norman High School, Classen High School for the Performing Arts, Summerstock Productions, Rose State College and The Sooner Theatre. She has a love for the performing arts, and is excited to share that with these young kids! “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.” Psalms 28:7 |
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Jennifer Heavner Baker holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Music Theatre from the University of Oklahoma. She is a professional actress and choreographer who has worked in numerous productions across the country. Most recent roles include Rita La Porta in Lucky Stiff, Nancy in Oliver!, Carlotta in Phantom, Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and the Prima Donna in Sugar Babies at Bucks County Playhouse. Additionally, she has appeared in commercials, television and film. As a choreographer, her jobs include Six Flags Amusement Parks, Discoveryland, Bear Creek Farms, the Oklahoma Dome Dedication, numerous musicals and live events and Oklahoma Lottery commercials. She is active with the Norman Christmas Parade and June Bug Jam, co-directs Norman’s Celebrity Sing, serves on the cabinet for United Way of Norman and is a board member for the Norman Chamber of Commerce. Jennifer resides in Norman with her husband Jay and their two daughters, Addison and Aubrey. |
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Christina Browning is an award-winning music director who recently relocated to Oklahoma from Ohio. In Ohio, Christina served as the music/vocal director for over ten high school musical theatre productions. She has served as a church choral director, vocal clinician and private voice instructor. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music (Music Education and Vocal Performance) degree from Wright State University. In addition to teach, Christina has had principal roles in various opera and musical theatre productions. |
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Stephanie Govich is thrilled to be back in Oklahoma after spending the last 8 years in New York City. Stephanie brings with her over 20 years of dance experience, including Classical Ballet, Tap, Modern, Jazz, Musical Theatre and Pointe. While in NYC, Stephanie studied with some of the most influential names in the dance industry including Kat Wildish, Germaine Salsberg, Shea Sullivan and Ginger Cox and was on faculty at Broadway Dance Center and New Dance Group Arts Center. Recently, she was selected as a guest choreographer for the Arts In Motion company. Her most recent collaboration with husband Mat produced the beautiful little Mila, now 13 months old.
Stephanie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Central Oklahoma with a B.A. in Dance Education where she received the Department of Education’s Most Outstanding Student Award. She has performed with Friends University and the Wichita Ballet Theatre, featuring Nilas Martins and Wendy Whelan. Stephanie has also appeared in many musical theatre productions and was a principal dancer with Royal Caribbean International. While a member of the Kaleidoscope Dancers Company and the Patti Parrish Dance Company, Stephanie worked with many accomplished artists such as Lane Alexander, Frank Chaves, Bill Evans, Savion Glover, and Clay Taliaferro.
"Dance is my life", says Stephanie "and I am delighted to spend each day teaching children and seeing in them the love, desire, and passion I have always felt for dance. Their energy and spirit are a constant source of inspiration.” |
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Steven Harris (accompanist) was born in Norman Oklahoma in 1975. He has earned his (BFA)- Bachelors of Fine Arts in (Music) Piano major from the University of Oklahoma in 2008. While attending OU, he worked as a professional musician throughout the state and once in a while out of state. His duties have included working as an (associate musical director)- rehearsal pianist and vocal coach for musical theatre productions from grade school through professional levels. He has worked with productions such as, A Chorus Line, Damn Yankees, Sooner Theatre Showcase, Will Rogers Follies, My Fair Lady, Godspell, Good News, The Music Man, Oklahoma, Fiddler on The Roof, The Wizard of Oz, Li’l Abner, The Fantasticks, etc. He is currently on the accompanying/coaching staff for the University of Oklahoma School of Music, Musical Theatre and the School of Dance. He has also served as accompanist and teacher assistant for Moore Public Schools vocal/instrumental program since 2001.Steven is extremely proud of having affiliations with Sooner Theatre Productions and working in the new Studio of The Sooner Theatre. |
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Shannan Fish Hinckley left the East Coast and moved to Norman, OK one year ago and is thrilled to be teaching at “The Studio” (a performing Arts Academy in association with The Sooner Theater). Shannan made her Sooner Theater debut in November 2008 as Grace Farrell in Annie. Shannan received a BFA in Music, Dance, and Theater from Brigham Young University. While in college she had leading roles in Sunset Blvd., Chess, Anything Goes, Little Shop of Horrors, Sound of Music, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Tapestry, and The Neighborhood. Some of her professional regional credits include: Polly in Crazy For You, Millie and Sarah in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, West Side Story at Robert Redford’s Sundance Theater and I Hear America Singing at Opryland USA in Nashville, TN. Shannan also starred as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Walt Disney World and was the Lead Singer/Dancer on the ms Ryndam for Holland America Cruise Lines. She has toured all over the United States doing corporate theater and conventions and had the amazing opportunity of performing all over Asia and North Africa as a member of the internationally acclaimed Young Ambassadors. She is so happy to be back directing after taking a seven year break to have her three adorable little boys. She owned and directed her own entertainment company in Arizona and has taught voice and dance for 15 years. She enjoys working with kids and most importantly loves to pass on her passion for the stage to young aspiring performers – hoping to build their self-esteem along the way. |
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Melany Pattison grew up in Ardmore and came to OU on a music scholarship. She graduated with a BFA in vocal performance. Melany has toured and directed with Cimarron Circuit Opera Company for 20 years and also directed their summer children’s camps before coming to The Sooner Theatre and co-founded the summer production camp at The Sooner. Willy Wonka Junior is her 12th summer production to direct. Throughout the year, Melany is the musical director for The Sooner Theatre Show Troupe. Melany is on the staff of All Saints Catholic School where she teaches music, drama, musical theatre and directs the choir and was selected as the 2007-08 Teacher of the Year. Melany has a daughter, Molly, who will be a 8th grader at Alcott and twin boys, Nick and Clay, who are 2008 Norman High graduates. In her spare time, Melany frequently performs in Sooner Theatre productions and fundraisers. |
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Robert L. Reed is a much sought after tap teacher, producer, choreographer, and performer. He's taught and performed all over the world. He received rave reviews for his teaching at Broadway Dance Center in NYC. For several years he served as Professor and Artist-In -Residence at a performing arts university. Mr. Reed is proficient at teaching many styles of tap and is the protégé of Maceo Anderson, a founding member of the Four Step Brothers dance act. Three of his young students, the St. Louis Hoofers reached the semi-finals on Star Search. He was with Riverdance as dance captain and toured as a principle. with Incognito in Europe. Reed was a featured artist at the Peg Leg Bates Resort and has toured with Cab Calloway. Mr. Reed has opened for such Luminaries as Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Redd Foxx, Cher, the Smothers Brothers and David Hasselhoff, just to name a very few. He is the founder and executive/artistic director of the internationally renowned St. Louis Tap Festival, which is now in it's 16th year. Reed is also the founder of the Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization. He appears in the critically acclaimed Peg Leg Pates documentary Dancing with the Peg. He performs and travels worldwide. As two of the Six Feet of Rhythm he performed with his daughter Robin and his son Robert L. Reed III, who toured with Savion Glover in the international tour of "Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk". Robert hosted his own television show in Japan named for him Robert Hall, which recently featured Quentin Tarantino and Brittany Spears as guests. The Mayor of St. Louis, The Honorable Francis Slay declared, July 30, 2005 as Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Day. |
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Christopher Rice has just returned from a summer performing in New York to continue his training at OU. He has performed in over 50 live productions over the years. His passion for teaching, choreographing, directing, and performing have opened many doors from him. Directing/Choreographer credits include: Disney's High School Musical!, Godspell, Little Women, Into the Woods (for the Sooner Theatre!), You Can't Stop the Beat!, as well as dozens of productions for Oklahoma's CFHC Drama Program. Christopher has spent several semesters as a dance instructor in OKC and, in past summers, has choreographed full productions for local Summer Musical Theatre Intensives. His choreography can bee seen all around the metro area at different high schools and in show choirs and talent programs all around. Christopher has studied dance for many years and comes equipped with the desire for his students to excel and be well-prepared for future performance opportunities. |
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Susan Wood is a native Oklahoman with a BME from East Central University. Since graduating Susan taught music in the Norman Public School system, studied Music Education at The University of Oklahoma and has been performing and studying voice privately. Her performance experience includes operatic, musical theatre and jazz repertoire. Her credits include a European tour with the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra as the vocal soloist, several Opera Galas at Gaillardia, Marian in The Music Man, Little Mary Sunshine in Little Mary Sunshine, Opening Night, OKC Festival of the Arts, Greenwood Jazz Festival, Jazz in June, Summer Wind Festival, May Fest and several Sooner Theatre productions. Over the past four years Susan has been teaching voice and piano in her own studio and pre-school music classes for the Metropolitan Library System. |
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In Conjunction with the University of Oklahoma's A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre
THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Feb 5-7 & 11-14, 2010 Annual Musical Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Fund Raiser
DEATH AT REHAB: A MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR
(at The Hall at Old Town Plaza) Feb 11-13, 2010 The Sooner Theatre hosts ROB LAKE MAGICFebruary 20, 2010 AN EVENING WITH RUTHIE FOSTER March 12, 2010 SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM
March 26-28 & April 1-3, 2010
MARCIA BALL IN CONCERT
April 9, 2010
SOONER THEATRE SHOWCASE
April 17, 2010 |
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