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Meet the Actor - Valarie Falken

And Then There Were None is the lovely Valarie Falken’s first show at Lakeshore Players. Val is taking on the Role of Emily Brent, the conservative staunch woman in this months production.

Employer: Special Education Professional at Wayzata School District

City: Plymouth

Hobbies: Dancing, drawing, and painting

Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings, Wuthering Heights, Into the Wild

Favorite Music: Anything Hanson!

Favorite Food: I don’t discriminate, I love all food equally.

Favorite Plays: West Side Story, Sylvia, and Crimes of the Heart

Favorite Lakeshore Players Show: And Then There Were None

Favorite Thing about this Show: My first entrance.

Favorite Thing about the Cast and Crew: How everyone works hard toward the common goal of putting on a really good show. 

Thing about Lakeshore Players: the very apparent love of theatre.

Fun story about working on this show: It has been really great working alongside my fellow SDSU Jackrabbits Dietr and Sam Poppen. It’s the first time we’ve been 

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Meet the Stage Manager - Bri Collins

Lakeshore Players would like to give a warm welcome to the And Then There Were None Stage Manager Bri Collins. This is Bri’s first production with LPT. She has quite the feat ahead of her each performance, running this very light and sound heavy show.

Employer: OffiCenters

Hometown: Blue Mounds

Hobbies: Reading and watching football

Favorite Book: The Red Tent, S, and Mermaids Singing

Favorite Music: Country

Favorite Food: Breakfast

Favorite Plays: Time Stands Still

Favorite Thing about the Cast and Crew: They are all hilarious and fun people to be around

Thing about Lakeshore Players: The people and the environment

Proudest Moment: Climbing to the top of an active volcano

Past Shows/Roles: The 39 Steps/ Dancing Shadow Puppets

Special Talents: Laughing without smiling

Fun Facts: I walked with lions, ran with cheetahs and rode elephants in Africa last year.

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Meet the Artistic Director - Ben Ratkowski

Say a warm welcome to Lakeshore Players Artistic Director, Ben Ratkowski. This Milwaukee transplant started at LPT back in June, and since his arrival LPT has seen a wave of new and exciting artistic changes.

You can follow Ben’s twitter @BenRatkowski

Hobbies: Cooking—especially baking (wanted to be a baker when I was a kid), playing and watching sports (Go Packers and Brewers), making people laugh, spending time with loved ones

Favorite Music: have eclectic tastes. I like show tunes, to jazz, pop, rock…and more. The only genre I do not like is country.

Favorite Food: Sfincione, kielbasa, pizza, pancakes, waffles, anything with peanut butter and chocolate

Favorite Plays: I cannot chose just one. It is like trying to pick your favorite child.

Favorite Lakeshore Players Show: Whatever is currently playing (though I have an affinity for “Jungle Book” because I directed it).

Favorite Part of this Show: How this show, though, written in the 1930’s, is surprisingly topical for today. That and gangsters, of course!

Favorite Things About the Cast and Crew: This is a smart bunch of people who work together very well.

Favorite Thing About Lakeshore Players: Lakeshore Players Theatre is a young 61 years. There are a lot of wonderful things that happened in the past. There are many exciting things currently happening. And the future is also quite promising.

Proudest Moment: I am eternally proud of my family. I also proud of the moment that I married my wife.

Honors and Awards: Graduated #6 in my class in high school.

Past Shows and Roles: My very first show: In first grade I played a snowman (and can probably still sing you some of the songs).

Special Talents: I am exceedingly skilled and filling-out surveys. Plus I’m humble.

Fun Facts: As kids, my sisters (1 older and 2 younger) and I would play “church.” Now I put on plays in an old renovated church.

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Meet the Costume Designer - Kiley Cermak

This is Kiley’s ninth Lakeshore Players show as costume designer. After working with small local theatre groups, Kiley is happy to say she is the Resident Costume Designer at LPT.

  Follow Kiley’s Blog at kileycermakova.com and her Twitter @kileycermak

Employer: LPT, Resident Costume Designer and Office Manager

Hobbies: Knitting, Reading, Sewing, and the BBC

Favorite Book: Doctor Zhivago and anything by Jane Austen

Favorite Music: Classical and Opera (Mozart and Puccini) The Beatles, and Bobby Long

Favorite Food: Czech and English food, pizza, and nachos

Favorite Plays: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Macbeth

Favorite Lakeshore Players Play: Suessical, I loved that show because I got to go as crazy as I wanted. It was so much fun making everyone look like a Dr. Suess character and everyone did a great job!

Favorite Part of This Show: Gabby. I think that Robert Sherwood did a wonderful job writing an independent woman of the 1930s. It is very rare to see this type of woman in any art form during this time. Because she was such I great role model for women I wanted to give her a costume that really fit who she was, and something that I really wanted to make.

Favorite Thing about Lakeshore Players: The rich history that we have here. Everywhere you look there is a story. Also, I think that it is wonderful that LPT works so hard to mentor youth in the arts. And they are willing to take a chance on new, young artists.

Proudest Moment: When I got my first costume-designing job out of college. I couldn’t have been happier to be able to share my vision with an audience.

Honor and Awards: At the 2010 Ivey Awards honoring costume designers, I was one of the 20 or so Costumers honored.

Past Shows: Fuddy Meers (Loudmouth Collective), The Jungle Book (LPT), Big River (LPT), Everybody Loves Opal (LPT), Alice in Wonderland (LPT SYP), Willy Wonka Kids (LPT SYP Jr.), Suessical (LPT), The Odd Couple, the Female Version (LPT), Inherit the Wind (LPT), James J. Hill, Empire Builder (LPT, and Landmark) The Doc Barker Story (LPT and Landmark) The Rise and Fall of W.B. Foshay (LPT and Landmark)  (Loudmouth Collective) Oh, the Humanity (The Peanut Butter Collective), Joe Dowling’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the Moon, Featuring Kate Mulgrew as Lady Capulet (The Peanut Butter Factory), Richard II (Classical Actors Ensemble), All’s Well That Ends Well (Classical Actors Ensemble), 10 Virgins (Theatre Unbound), Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (LPT) and Our Countries Good (Starting Gate)

Special Talents: I can tell you the time period of just about any women’s fashion.

Fun Facts: My mother taught me how to sew when I was six years old. At Hamline University I minored in history, specializing in Slavic History. (I am just lying in wait until we do Chekov!)

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Meet the Stage Manager - Jeff Musch

Jeff is returning to the Lakeshore Players booth for another show as Stage Manager. He has done numerous LPT shows both on stage and running the show. Jeff is an incredible asset to the LPT community, and we couldn't do it without him. There isn’t a person that Jeff cannot make smile, or check their props. You can catch him stage-managing this month’s production of The Petrified Forest, and later this season stage-managing Annie.

Employer: Paradigm Reporting and Captioning

Hobbies: Theatre, books, movies and TV

Favorite Music: Oldies and Musicals

Favorite Food: Pizza, Pasta and Burgers

Favorite Lakeshore Players Show: Once Upon a Mattress, and Over the River and Through the Woods