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Chris Roberts - Director, Acting, Guitar, Physical Theater & Stage Combat
Originally from Medway, MA, Chris went to Philadelphia for his BFA from the University of the Arts. While at University of the Arts, he studied acting with Drucie McDaniel, Pete Pryor, and Helena White. Speech was studied under Neill Hartley and David Howie. Chris learned stage combat with Charles Conwell. While in Philadelphia Chris had the chance to work with award winning companies such as Pig Iron Theater Company, Enchantment Theater Company, Tribe of Fools, and Apparatus Dance Collective. Through a small company he created, Shady Lane Mask Ensemble, he produced and directed pieces for the Equinox Theater Festival (UArts), Intuitions Theater Festival (UPenn), and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. While at Boulder CO, for his MFA in Actor Created Physical Theater, through Naropa University, he studied with Thomas Prattki and Amy Russell from the London International School for the Performing Arts. He was also very lucky to have trained under Jin Woo Yoo for movement and Giovanni Fusetti for red nosed clown (Director of Helikos).
Chris’ works have a distinct passion for linking movement and music. With a background as a singer/songwriter, Chris has had opportunities to perform live on radio WOMR and WPEP along with various other performances. He has worked primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Beyond directing the Holliston School for the Performing Arts, Chris is a member of the Norfolk Cultural Council and Directing the Musical at Medway High School.
Chris has successfully completed the Music Together® Teaching Workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey.
Chris’ works have a distinct passion for linking movement and music. With a background as a singer/songwriter, Chris has had opportunities to perform live on radio WOMR and WPEP along with various other performances. He has worked primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Beyond directing the Holliston School for the Performing Arts, Chris is a member of the Norfolk Cultural Council and Directing the Musical at Medway High School.
Chris has successfully completed the Music Together® Teaching Workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey.
Becki Waters - Piano, Voice & Music Theater
Ms. Waters received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied with Marjorie Melnick. While there, she performed in several productions, including Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep, and as a featured soloist for Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Missa Brevis. She performed in opera scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro, Dido and Aeneas and Die Zauberflöte. Ms. Waters attended graduate school at Westminster Choir College, receiving her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy as a student of Ms. Sharon Sweet, former soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. As a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, she performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Loren Maazel. While at Westminster, she performed in opera scenes from Rusalka, Die Fledermaus, and La Traviata. At Westwood High School she was the vocal director and accompanist for their productions of Anything Goes! And The Pajama Game. She is presently on the Voice and Piano faculty at Dean College in Franklin, MA.
