President 2025-2026, and 2012-2014; Stage Insights Chair
Liz Eichler (she/her) is a member of American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, and has managed LCT’s Stage Insights for over 12 years. Her career has encompassed arts, costuming, education, and arts education, and has worked at the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware, New Jersey Shakespeare Company, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the University of South Carolina, and more. She’s taught Marketing, Digital Marketing, Communications, Theatre, Design and Acting. BA in Theatre and Speech (DeSales University), Master of Theatre Education (Rutgers’ Mason Gross SOTA) and MBA from Wright State. A proud mom of five amazing humans, and proud grandmother.
Vice President
Shelby has a background in theatre education and dance, including the Director of Artistic and Educational Programs with the Surry Arts Council in North Carolina where she directed, choreographed, designed and taught for students throughout North Carolina and Virginia. Shelby has a background in teaching students diagnosed with various physical, mental, and learning disabilities. Shelby has taught at various institutes across the country including Lexington Children’s Theatre, Shooting Stars YouTheatre, Missoula Children’s Theatre, StageRight MTC Inc, Morehead State University, Surry Community College, Surry Arts Council, Ryle High School, Surry County Schools, Millennium Charter Academy, Cincinnati Public Schools, Boone County Public Libraries, Kenton County Public Libraries, Grant County Public Libraries and now The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati.
Treasurer
Pamela M. Young has been on the LCT board since Summer 2013 as treasurer. She enjoys being a part of this vibrant group. Her full time job is with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati since 2007. Pam says there is something about seeing children attend live theatre and the amazement on their faces, totally hoping they become the next generation of theatre goers!
Secretary
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Board Member
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong is Associate Professor of Theatre at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has an M.F.A. in directing and a Ph.D. in Theatre, both from University of Hawai’i at Manoa. At Miami University, she teaches dramatic literature, theatre history, theatre for social change, and community-based theatre. She has created a series of public humanities projects based on the history of Freedom Summer in 1964 with grants from the Ohio Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She is currently co-editing a collection of essays, Devising Theatre for Social Change: Creative Tools for Critical Times (Bloomsbury Methuen). In addition to facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed, she has created location-based games, site specific performances, theatre about climate change, and digital storytelling with community groups. She is the advisor of the Walking Theatre Project, a student-led social justice theatre company. When she’s not teaching theatre, she’s swimming or spending time outdoors.
Board Member
Marsha has been a professional actress since the age of 19. Her theater credits include The Food Chain, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Amazing Grace (Off-Broadway), and The Wood Demon at the Mark Taper Forum (with the Antaeus Company), and Woman in Mind (with Helen Mirren) in Los Angeles. She has also worked extensively in film and television. She looks forward to getting involved in the theater community here in her home state of Ohio.
Christa (she/her) brings more than 25 years of experience in marketing and communications roles, primarily serving in nonprofit arts organizations. She spent 14 years at the Tony Award-winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as the theatre’s public relations director and later associate director of marketing and communications. Christa’s professional work also includes tenures at Cincinnati Opera, the Educational Theatre Association, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Christa earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University. She lives in Hyde Park with her husband, Stephen, who chairs the Department of Music and Theatre at Xavier University, and their very needy golden retriever. In her spare time, she’s most likely found in a theatre or with her nose stuck in a book.
Board Member
Terry is a longtime supporter of Cincinnati’s theatre community and the proud mother of a local professional actor, giving her firsthand insight into both the joys and challenges of a life in the arts. She previously served as Box Office Manager at The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) and even made a brief on-screen acting debut in the 2021 Know Theatre world premiere of SHOCK, The Spine Tingling Tale of Miss Spidra by Joe Zettelmaier.
After a career in a science-based profession, Terry is honored to support the League of Cincinnati Theatres and the artists and organizations that make Greater Cincinnati’s theatre community thrive.
Past President 2023, 2024
Erin Carr (she/her) is currently working as a physical theatre practitioner, intimacy choreographer, and movement/kinesics consultant out of Cincinnati, OH. She is a proud graduate from NYU-Tisch where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing. She also recently received her MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurship and is currently working on her neuro-linguistic programming certification. In addition, she is the Co-Artistic Director of the feminist-centric theatre company, ReVamp Collective, based in Philadelphia, PA, as well as the Co-Founder of Solasta Theatre Lab in Cincinnati, OH. Additional information: www.erincarr.com
Past President 2019-2022
Accomplished artist and educator Maggie is now the Assistant Dean of Prep and Community Engagement at UC – CCM. Previously she was the Artistic Director at SCPA, and Theatre Director of The Carnegie. She served as President of LCT through the Pandemic. Maggie has extensive experience in community arts programs, dance, theatre, administration, and education. She is also a Cincinnati native. She obtained an undergraduate degree from Miami University in theatre, education, and community arts and a Master’s in Teaching from Thomas More University.
American Legacy Theatre | Dora Bayliss |
Broadway Series | Elizabeth Truitt |
The Carnegie | Tyler Gabbard |
The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati | Roderick Justice & Krista Katona Pille |
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music | Curt Whitacre |
Cincinnati Lab Theatre | Torie Pate |
Clifton Perfomance | Carol Brammer |
Cincinnati Landmark Theatres | Rodger Pille |
Cincinnati Playhouse | Katie Baskerville |
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | Candice Handy |
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati | Torie Wiggins |
Falcon Theatre | Ted Weil |
Gem City Groundlings | Riki Mitakides |
Human Race Theatre Company | Emily N. Wells |
InBocca | Caroline Stine |
Know Theatre & Cincinnati Fringe Festival | Katie Hartman & Bridget Leak |
Magnolia Theatre Company | Gina Minyard |
Miami University Theatre | Marly Wooster |
NKU SOTA | Michael Hatton |
Stage Right MTC | John Siedenberg II |
The Ghostlight Stage Company | Alyssa Batsakis |
The Story Collective | Susan Jung |
Xavier University | Stephen Skiles |
Mayor Aftab Pureval showed his support for Cincinnati Shakespeare Co. at the capital campaign launch. After the speeches he connected with Candice Handy, Associate Artistic Director as well as other staff and creatives at CSC.
Crazy for You is a celebration of classic musical theatre. This show is filled with romance, glamour, and enough comedic chaos to keep the audience laughing the entire evening.
