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ABOUT AMERICAN ROSE THEATRE

American Rose Theatre is a nonequity professional 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission to create and produce performing arts that serve and educate the community.

PAST PRODUCTIONS

JEREMY LAPP, DIRECTOR (The Music Man). A native San Diegan, Jeremy has been working in the theatre business for over 21 years performing in over 100 shows in and around San Diego County. Favorite stage roles include Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Crew in A Little Princess and the Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Directing credits include Alice (Chicago, IL), Oliver, A Christmas Carol (Inland Theatre Award), Beauty and the Beast, Godspell, Traditions of Christmas, Once upon a Mattress (NYT Award), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (NYT Award) and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. This is his first experience with ART. He makes his home in Temecula, CA where he runs a Freelance Graphic Design Business specializing in Theatre design and advertising.

BETTY KING, DIRECTOR (Li'l Abner)
Betty is a San Diego native who started her theater training at San Diego Junior Theatre under the auspices of Don and Bonnie Ward. She performed and worked at Starlight prior to attending USC as a Fine Arts Major and Dance Minor. She graduated with a BS in Education from USC in 1981 and MA in Education from SDSU in 1990. Fourteen years ago she helped start C-MENT (Christian Musical Enrichment Theatre) at Penasquitos Lutheran Church and has been the Director and Choreographer since 2002. She has also been an assistant director and choreographer at BBYT as well as at Westview High School. Betty has been blessed with the opportunity of combining her love of theatre with teaching children and, as a mother of three daughters, feels strongly that all children should be taught to sing and dance. For ART, Betty has directed Grease (ART Youth) and choreographed Oklahoma. This summer she will direct Li'l Abner for ART Youth.

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