Puppeteers
Rachel Frawley is an Atlanta-based actor, writer, director and producer, as well as Artistic Director of Piccadilly. An apprentice company graduate of the Atlanta Shakespeare Co., she has performed steadily in Atlanta’s theatre scene, as well as working in indie film, commercial and voice over. She has narrated over 35 audiobook titles, and produced for the Weird Sisters Theatre Project for their 2017 and 2018 seasons. She has taught and directed acting camps, classes and master classes for theatres and studios across Atlanta. Rachel has worked and continues to train as an intimacy professional, is certified in Mental Health First Aid and is a certified Artistic Mental Health Practitioner. Recently she wrote, directed and produced Suzi nominated The Mad Hatterpillar and Her Many Heads, a new children’s puppet musical for Synchronicity Theatre’s Stripped Bare series (music by Sarah Beth Hester). They continue to develop that project with local theatres.
Evan Hill Phillips is a graduate from Michigan State University with a BFA in Theatre & an alumnus of Aurora Theatre’s Apprentice Company 2019. After living in Michigan all of his life, Evan moved to Georgia and has performed at a variety of different theatres such as Aurora Theatre, Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Out Front Theatre, the Center for Puppetry Arts, Synchronicity Theater, Destination Theatre, Working Title Playwrights & Stone Mountain Park. Evan is also an Associate Artist of the Sense-Ability Ensemble, a team of artists that wrote, devised & performed Farm! A Musical Experience. The show is one of the first university created sensory friendly productions for neurodiverse audiences. Evan’s other hobbies include improv, puppetry, stage-combat, graphic design, animation, quoting cartoons, cooking tostadas & playing music on the Alto Saxophone. Lots of love to friends & family for all of their support. Sporadic updates at @evanhillphillips & www.evanhillphillips.com.
LeeAnna Lambert Sweatt graduated magna cum laude from the University Of Connecticut with a BFA in Acting. Since moving back to Atlanta she has worked as a Teaching Artist specializing in acting and storytelling for the Alliance Theater. As a WolfTrap Artist she helps teach classroom teachers how to integrate the arts with their curriculum in order to make learning interesting and fun for the students. Using puppetry and storytelling she teaches the students how to bring their imagination and stories to life! LeeAnna also has worked as an acting teacher at Georgia Shakespeare Theater, Georgia Ensemble Theater, and Pace Academy. She toured as a puppeteer for Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Program and GMT, and has acted at many theaters all over the city of Atlanta, recently in A Point of Order at Centerstage North.
Dani Ramos is an Atlanta-based actor, storyteller, stage manager, and teaching artist. She is honored to have gotten her B.A in Theatre and Performance Studies from Kennesaw State University and has gone on to work on and backstage for various stages across Atlanta including 7 Stages, Horizon Theater, Woodstock Arts, and more. When she’s not performing, working backstage, or teaching budding theater kids, she can be seen dressing up as various Disney princesses, cuddling her cats, writing, and listening to podcasts…possibly all at once.
LeeAnna demonstrates puppetry techniques to preschool children
Lorie Summers has a B.A. in Theatre and English from Smith College, and has been performing with puppets since 1997. Ms. Summers’ performances range from Japanese Bunraku Puppetry on stage, to “Xperimental Puppetry Theatre” at the Center for Puppetry Arts, to puppet shows at bookstores, and puppet therapy with adolescents who have mental illnesses. Her greatest passion since 2000 has been Kids on the Block. Kids on the Block is an international puppetry program that was started in 1977, and is operated by agencies worldwide, including Mental Health America of Georgia. What began as a volunteer position at the National Mental Health Association of Georgia (now d/b/a Mental Health America of Georgia) grew into a vocation for Lorie. She now heads the program at MHA of GA, and since the year 2000, she has performed for more than 60,000 children in the state of Georgia.
Lorie with Eel from Splish, Splash: Water Stories
Playwrights
Bobby Box: Co-writer for ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Carol Daniel : Sole writer for Imagination Station, Wish Tales, Once Upon a Time in China. Co-writer for Splish, Splash: Water Stories, Butterfly Ballad, Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors, and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Carol was the Director of Piccadilly Puppets for many years, and wrote scripts and music for many, many shows. Carol Daniel
Barbara Goltz: Cherokee Tales (original version), Foxy Christmas
Kara Morrison: Updated version of Cherokee Tales
Nancy Riggs: Sole Writer for A Shore Thing, Cat and Mouse Tales, Jonah: The Prophet Who Ran Away, and Piccadilly Holiday. Co-writer for Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors and Splish, Splash: Water Stories.
Alejandra Ruiz: Translator for La Balada de las Mariposas
Pamela Shook: Co-writer for Butterfly Ballad.
Kids on the Block was developed by Kids on the Block, inc.
The Piccadilly Puppets Company 