Gamut Theatre Group Full Time Core Company
Melissa Nicholson
Executive Director
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Melissa Nicholson is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Gamut Theatre Group and has worn many hats in her professional career, including actor, director, playwright, and teacher. She has written 25 original plays and is a past president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association. She was recently inducted into the Women’s History Garden, as recognized by the Civic Club of Harrisburg. Ms. Nicholson holds a B.A. in Communications/Theatre Arts with a Minor in Writing from Susquehanna University. She is a founding Board member of the Harrisburg Area Theatre Alliance, serves on the Arts & Entertainment Committeee of the Ned Smith Center, and resides in the beautiful “Bedford Falls-like” town of Millersburg, PA with her husband, Clark, Co-Founder of Gamut Theatre.
J. Clark Nicholson
Artistic Director
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J. Clark Nicholson founded Gamut Theatre with his wife Melissa as the Popcorn Hat Players Children’s Theatre in 1992. Clark studied Theatre at the University of Georgia & University of South Carolina. He spent many years touring as an actor and director to share the works of classic authors including the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Euripides, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. He trained in modern Improvisational theory and application at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Improv Theater in Manhattan. Among his favorite roles are Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Atticus Finch in the stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Sir in Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, Macduff in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and both Hamlet and Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Weimy Montero Candelario
Resident Theatre Manager
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Weimy Montero Candelario is an actress from The Dominican Republic. She recently graduated from The University of Connecticut with a BFA in acting. A few of her previous roles include Cordelia in King Lear, Ophelia in Hamlet, Marianne in The Revolutionists, Miss Pat in The Colored Museum, Kay in Voices of the Eighth Part III: Hallowed Ground, Don John/Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Doctor Blenkinsop in A Doctor's Dilemma, and Lady Mac in A Shorter Scottish play. In addition to being seen on stage, Weimy can be found teaching, writing, and even working in the scene shop. She is currently working on a Spanish adaptation of a Popcorn Hat Players script!
Hope Mackenzie
Public Relations Manager
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Hope Mackenzie holds their BFA in Applied Theatre and is trained in acting, dance & movement, playwriting, and directing. They love using their artistic skills to promote Gamut and connect with individuals through theatre. They have written, produced, and directed various works in their career. Hope’s choreography was recently featured at Gamut in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Frankenstein. They were recently seen on the Gamut stage in King Lear (The Fool), Hamlet (Horatio), Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Frankenstein (Female Creature), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sybil). Favorite past credits include The Tempest (Ariel), Silent Sky (Henrietta), and As You Like It (Jacques).
Elizabeth Hood
Production Manager
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Elizabeth Hood is a recent graduate of LIU Post’s BFA Musical Theatre program. She was most recently seen in Gamut Theatre’s King Lear (Edmund), The Revolutionists (Charlotte Corday), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess), Frankenstein (Agatha), The Pirates of Penzance (Isabel/Mabel Cover), and the Stage Door Series reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dorian Gray).
Alex Winnick
Technical Manager
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