Like Us 
William Christoffels (Producer)
William Christoffels trained at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City with the likes of Daniel Ferro (Kathleen Battles coach) and George Shirley (of the Met) and Peter Sicilian at Tri Cities Opera having a career in Oratorio under the batons of Leonard Bernstein and Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall and Philharmonic Hall. Following a stint with the United States Army Field Band he settled in the New York metropolitan area and sang with the Amato Opera and Light Opera of Manhattan (LOOM), as well as the Schola Cantorum of New York and Schola Cantorum of New Jersey. Upon arriving upstate he studied with Peter Sicilian at Tri Cities Opera and performed with Cooperstown Theatre Festival and Glimmerglass Opera. Now living in the Elmira area he has performed with the Elmira Little Theatre, Ithaca Opera, Elmira Choral Society, Cornell Savoyards , Thursday morning Musicales and the Market Street Irregulars . Much experience has been gleaned in a career spanning over 40 years.
Donna Christoffels (Music Director)
Donna Christoffels was born in Ft Wayne, Indiana moving to NJ in her teens. She trained at Montclair State University and the prestigious Manhattan school of Music. Following school Donna found employment as a church organist and choir director and was an accompanist for sacred concerts and Broadway Shows throughout NY and NJ. Upon moving upstate she was hired by the Cooperstown Theatre Festival in Cooperstown NY. Moving to the Watkins Glen area in 1992 she continued as a church organist and accompanist for Market Street Irregulars, Odessa Montour Central School, Lake Country Players, Ithaca Opera and the Cornell Savoyards. She also continues to train young pianists in the art of keyboard mastery.
Camilla Schade (Director)
Camilla Schade, throughout a long theatre career, has created and directed movement shows, children’s theatre, solos, musicals, melodramas and improvisation for schools, colleges, theatres, arts centers and civic groups. Before moving to the area she was artistic director and creator of CoMotion, a Lancaster PA theatre company. Currently, as playwright and actress, she tours her solo show PERFORMING THERAPY: A One-Woman, Group-Therapy Comedy About Depression. She has also been seen on The Kitchen Theatre and Hangar stages in Ithaca as well as Theatre Incognita, Music‘s Recreation, the Light in Winter Festival, and Cornell’s Johnson Museum. She can be found throughout the southern Finger Lakes as a freelance teaching artist for the Hangar Theatre and numerous other arts centers, schools and programs.
The Cast:
Anthony Curren
Freckels (Perils of Priscilla)
Anthony Curren has been in over 15 productions with groups such as the Lake Country Players, Elmira Little Theater, And Odessa-Montour High School. He was last seen in Whose Life is it Anyway?, A Medical Drama put on by the ELT. Spanning many years of amatuer theater, this is Anthony's first professional show. He would like to thank his castmates, directors, producers, and supporters of the arts.
Anna Deery
Sign Carrier
Anna Deery will be a junior in high school in the fall. She has been performing in many different community theater productions since the age of six as well as dancing since she was three. For the past four years she’s been a member of Young Actors’ Workshop. After high school, she is interested in pursuing theater as a career. Anna is very excited to be part of the Old Havana Courthouse summer theater.
Joe Edkin
Joe has been involved in theater for over 25 years. He has appeared on stage (Amadeus, Murder at the Vicarage, Arsenic and Old Lace, Room Service, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Wait Until Dark, etc.), designed make up (A Funny Thing...Forum, Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc.), stage managed (You Know I can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Play It Again, Sam, etc.), designed posters and program books (various), and directed (...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Diary of Anne Frank, Whose Life Is It, Anyway?). He currently serves on Elmira Little Theatre’s Board of Governors.
Sarah Schlueter-Eisman
Nellie (The Old Cookie Shop) and Priscilla (Perils of Priscilla)
is 16 years old (17 on July 22, 2011), and has been performing publicly since she was 8. She has been in many productions with The Lake Country Players, StanWyck Productions Youth Theater, Stagekids, Elmira Little Theater and others. She is a home-schooled life-long vegan and a member of Young Actors Workshop (YAW). Sarah is thrilled to be a part of these hilarious melodramas, with such an amazing cast, crew, and production staff.
Thomas Primerano
Hugo (Run to the Roundhouse) and Ivan Paine (DK Molar)
Tom ran away from home at the early age of 25. In order to support himself, Tom took up with a local con-artist and became a consummate drifter. Tom’s acting career began after he worked a con on a Hollywood movie mogul, who decided that Tom’s acting skills were being wasted on the short con and invited him to Hollywood for a screen test. In the eight years that Tom has been working in Hollywood, he’s been nominated for numerous Golden Globes and SAG awards for parts he’s played in major films from his stunning portrayal of the homeless man in ‘Spiderman 4’ that gets hit by falling debris in the final battle scene and the pizza tray to the left of the shot where Adam Sandler recites a mother’s day card in the movie Mr. Deeds.
Tom is now on hiatus from Hollywood searching for a larger challenge on stage, where, as the evil villain he hopes to make a big enough splash to get the same role in the Broadway Revival of ‘Run to the Round House Nellie’.