THE STAFF

Jalyn Courtenay Webb

Jalyn has been a favorite performer and vocal coach throughout northern Colorado for the last 20 years. Favorite roles she has played on stage include Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Anita in West Side Story, Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, the Baroness in Sound of Music, the Witch in Into the Woods and Arlene in Baby. Jalyn also toured the Western Slope with a production of Quilters and was the singer of the national anthem for the Colorado Avalanche from 1996 through 1998. Jalyn directed the Vocal Jazz department at CSU and taught elementary music at the Washington Core Knowledge School in Ft. Collins, CO for two years where she was honored as a presenter at the national Core Knowledge Convention for her original lesson plan ideas. Jalyn was also a member of the critically acclaimed acapella group, eLeMeNO-P, with whom she toured for several years and recorded the album No More Lonely People. Jalyn received a B.A. in Music Theatre/Vocal Performance from UNC in Greeley, CO and did graduate work in Music Education at CSU. She is currently the district manager for Brighton Collectibles in Colorado, a women's accessory store, and still performs locally in dinner theater across northern Colorado, most recently at the Carousel Dinner Theater and the Union Colony Dinner Theater in Greeley.

Andreas Tischhauser

Dr. Tischhauser has received degrees in music and performance from Wichita State University, Florida State University and the University of Colorado.  After starting his doctoral residency at the Cincinnati Conservatory he returned to FSU to finish his Doctorate of Music.  He is currently a professor of music at Fort Lewis College and enjoys an active performance career as an actor and singer in music theater and opera.  He has been involved with numerous opera companies including the Santa Fe Opera and the Central City Opera Company. His most recent roles include Ralph Rackstraw in Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore, Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute, the Chevalier in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmélites and Nemorino in Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore. He has also been active as a performer in the Diamond Circle Melodrama based in Durango.  As a choral singer Dr. Tischhauser was featured as the tenor soloist for the late Robert Wagner in Haydn's Creation and has performed with the regional groups Santa Fe Pro Musica and Desert Chorale. Maintaining a career as a flutist as well, Dr. Tischhauser has held positions as the principal flutist with the Cincinnati Civic Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony. Dr. Tischhauser will be performing this January with Helmuth Rilling in New York and will be a featured soloist in this summer's Music in the Mountains festival. He will also be representing the state of Colorado in a professional and cultural exchange to the Czech Republic and Slovakia this spring.

Sara Christensen

Sara is a M.F.A. candidate at the University of Utah in the Modern Dance department. She received her B.A. in Modern Dance from Weber State University in 2003 where studied modern, ballet, choreography, improvisation, jazz, hip hop, dance history, dance film, pilates, rhythm, African-based dance and technical foundations for theater. While at WSU she was the full dance departmental scholarship recipient from 1997 to 2002 and the recipient of the Linquist Scholarship in the Performing Arts. At the University of Utah she received a University Teaching Assistantship and performed in PDC in 2005. She has also taught a variety of dance classes at both universities, and at the Repertory Dance Theatre, Evolution Studio and the Hughs Center for the Performing Arts. Sara performed and choreographed for several years with the Orchesis Dance Theater at WSU and was a guest performer with the Repertory Dance Theatre for Andy Noble's Schleps, Demons and Mad Skillz in 2003. Sara attended a Summer Intensive Study Abroad in Urbino, Italy through State University of New York, New Paltz and was a guest performer with Transfusion Hype, a professional jazz/hip hop company based in Salt Lake City.

Mark Lewis

Mark is first and foremost a storyteller, but one who wears many hats! His goal is to re-awaken the art of storytelling in the world of today and to re-introduce this world to it's imagination. He is also a master of "Old Wave Special Effects." His 25 years of professional experience have most recently won him two Emmy awards for his show Word Pictures from WTTW in Chicago and guest spots on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Vicki! with host Vicki Lawrence. Mark has performed across the United States, Europe and the British Isles. He is also an actor with several films and national commercials to his credit as well as having been a featured performer on the CBS hit series Northern Exposure. Mark is a published author with four books to his credit and is the founding director of Laughing Moon Productions - a Creative Consultation Business whose clients include MCA/Universal, Disney Imagineering and Silicon Gaming Inc. He is an art director for film and television and spent a year in the concepts division for a major toy manufacturer. He teaches writing, storytelling and creativity classes to students of all ages and his storytelling workshops have been hailed by professionals, librarians, and educators from kindergarten through college and beyond. Mark also sings, composes music and plays the recorder.

Mark Lewis believes in the Imagination!

Christopher Johnson