StageDoor Theatre

Belinda Parker, Director/Choreographer: Belinda’s performing experience includes the international and world tours of A Chorus Line with Donna McKechnie and Baayork Lee, the original pre-Broadway productions of Drumwright with John Cullum and Dangerous Music with Shawn Cassidy and Dreamgirls writer and composer Tom Eyen and Henry Kreiger.  She has assisted as director and choreographer for numerous shows, working directly with Burt Reynolds, Charles Nelson Reilly, Donald McKayle, Tony Stevens, Lorna Luft, Roy Clark, Wayne Cilento and others.  For two years with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Belinda performed as the lead singer and dancer for various shows and acted as company manager and dance captain. She has also performed in film, television, touring and stock productions.  Her acting and vocal training include The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Circle-In-The-Square in New York City, The Burt Reynolds Institute of Theater Training in Boca Raton, FL and as a theater major at the University of Tennessee.  Her dance training in New York City includes Martha Graham Studio, Steps On Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, and classes with Finis Jung and Luigi. Belinda is grateful to StageDoor and Nelson Conway for all the wonderful productions she has had the opportunity to work on.  These include Urinetown, Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into The Woods, Jr., Annie, Jr., Les Miserables and Crazy For You.  Now the mother of 5 children, she lives in Bailey and is having a great time working with the StageDoor kids.

Marion Denckla, Director: Having performed for the first time at age five, Marion has been actively involved in theater for the majority of her life. She enjoys all aspects of theater including performing, directing and writing, as well as working back stage. Her experience includes Drama Instructor at John Wood Community College, and Director for Cinderella, Affair Play, and Honk at Millikin University. Marion’s performance credits include: The Further Adventures of Maide Marian, The Baker’s Wife, The Applicant, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Cinderella, Hamlet Machine, Carmen, Evita, Jekyll and Hyde, Alice in Opera Land, Nunsense, and The Legend of Molly Brown. She enjoys teaching and working with children and is delighted to be part of the staff at Stage Door. Marion earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She wishes to thank her family for all of their support and love.

 

Deb Christensen, Accompanist: After spending 23 years in Denmark, where she left Colorado to be an exchange student, met and married her Danish husband and delivered over 1300 babies, she returned to her roots in the mountains of Colorado. Here she is thoroughly enjoying her career with Intero Real Estate Group in Conifer. She has been playing the piano since she was 3 and accompanying “forever”. The balance that this gives her life along with the joy to be able to follow and support the kids is an essential part of her being. "It is a great honor to be part of the productions at Stage Door. To see these students take challenges and excel in this nurturing environment is a true joy."

 

Sandy Hoban, Summer Camp Instructor: Sandy received her first B.A. in Theater Arts through Rutgers University and her second in English & Theater Education through the University of Wyoming.   Sandy has a diverse teaching background that includes teen summer drama camps, middle school drama, college communication courses, and high school English and Theater.  Beyond teaching, Sandy has work experience in radio broadcasting, TV production, and event planning.

 

Anne Russell, Summer Camp Instructor: Anne Russell has been involved in the StageDoor Education program since its inception 7 years ago. She has contributed in some way to almost every one of StageDoor's productions since that time. Anne has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas, and 30 years of experience working in classrooms with children of various ages. Anne believes that the most lasting learning takes place when one is having fun. LET THE FUN BEGIN!!

 

Christine Shaulis Gudreau, Summer Camp Instructor: Christine was born and raised in Germany, where she studied voice and dance and began singing for a professional opera chorus at age 16.  Following a move to San Diego, Christine received a B.M. in Music History, Voice Performance and an M.M. in Choral Conducting.  Since then she has conducted choral music from elementary through adult choirs in California, Italy, North Carolina and, since 2002, Colorado. Recent projects include guest conducting Evergreen Chorale in The Most Happy Fella, study with Helmuth Rilling at the International Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon and an upcoming collaboration with Evergreen Chamber Orchestra in April 2010 Christine works as vocal music teacher for Jefferson County Schools and has created many musicals and concerts with students of all ages, including a recent production of Oz for 220 students at Parmalee Elementary School.  She teaches voice privately and serves as Artistic Director for Altezza Chamber Chorale.

 

Arlene Pellegrino, Watercolor Instructor: Arlene is a newcomer to Stage Door, singing in the Chorale. She has always been interested in the arts, having done a 5 year stint acting in tutorial films, commercials, and some Hollywood films as an ex- tra. She had a 30 year career as a piano teacher, teaching the rational methods, and inventing a quick chord method that was received as a miracle by many hundreds of students who had struggled with traditional methods. She studied art history in college and has worked in various media over the years, starting with oil painting, where she was a regular, selling at art fairs. More recently, Arlene has turned to watercolor, teaching classes in it on cruise ships all over the world. The challenge was teaching huge classes to people who had never painted or did not know how to draw at all. The results were fantastic. A step by step method for beginners produced paintings that were good enough for an art show at the end of each cruise that brought many great comments from other passengers.