Adam Sincell

Adam Sincell is excited to be back for the second season of Theater on the Lake! He has been performing in both Garrett County and Preston County regional theater since he was five years old and is thrilled to be working alongside director Lynn Broderick once again. Favorite roles include Abel in Children of Eden, Agwe in Once on this Island, Ugly in Honk! The Musical, Jonathan in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Archibald in The Secret Garden. Adam is currently a senior at St. Mary's College of Maryland and will be graduating in the fall with a degree in English and Film & Media Studies. He wishes to thank his steadfast family and friends for their love and support.

 
   
 

Sara Sincell

Sara Sincell is a proud graduate of Shenandoah University where she received her BA in Theatre. She has performed across the country for the past few years and just moved home for the summer from Orlando. A Garrett County native, Sara is so grateful for this opportunity to work with TOTL, and to be reunited with so many talented people from her past. She is extremely excited to share the stage with her “baby” brother, Adam! Favorite recent roles include Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sarah Helen Whitman in Poe Evermore, and Angelo in The Comedy of Errors.

 
   
 

Kristina Szilagyi

Kristina Szilagyi is a Theatre Studies major at Wellesley College. Her favorite roles include Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace, Peter Pan in Peter Pan, and Liesl in The Sound of Music. She enjoys making music, especially with the Wellesley College Choir; being outside, particularly when it involves whitewater; traveling, specifically when it entails adventures in multiple languages; dancing, gingerly when at all possible; and of course, consuming chocolate chip cookies. 		 
   
 

Nathan Golden

Nathan Golden descends from the mountains of West Virginia with the lifelong dream of performing. He is eighteen years old and a graduate of Preston High School, in Kingwood, WV. He was very active in theatre in high school as well as the Preston County Summer Theatre program. Favorite roles include; Christ in Godspell, Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street, and Jojo in Seussical. He will be attending Shenandoah Conservatory, pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre, this fall. He is thrilled to once again partake in an amazing season with TOTL Theatre Inc. and sends many thanks to the director and company. 		 
   
 

Haley Metz

Haley Metz is an 18 year old from Preston County, West Virginia. She graduated in 2007 from Preston High School where she completed various courses in the performing arts. She was a member of the Preston High Musical Theatre Ensemble for three years in which she learned invaluable performance skills. She has performed in numerous shows in both the Preston High School extra-curricular theatre program and the Preston High Summer Theatre program. Her favorite roles in Preston productions include Gladys in ‘42nd Street’, Sister Margaretta in ‘The Sound of Music’, and Mary Jane Wilkes in ‘Big River’. Haley plans to attend West Virginia University double-majoring in psychology and theatre. She would like to thank her family and friends for being supportive and loving no matter what crazy goal she decides to pursue. She is very proud to be included in the company of TOTL this year, and looks forward to a successful season.

 
   
 

Meghan Broderick

Meghan Broderick is a Senior at Shepherd University studying Music Theatre and Music Education. She is originally from Columbia, Md. but she spent most of her adolescence years in Aurora, Wv. In the Spring and Fall semesters of 2006, Meghan was the assistant conductor of the Shepherd University Chamber Singers. She has also conducted the Shepherd University Masterworks Chorale and the Master Singers of Virginia. At Shepherd University she has been an active part in the Music Theatre department, acquiring significant roles such as, Marta in Company (Feb. 2005), Kate in Pirates of Penzance (Feb. 2006), Second Lady in The Magic Flute (Nov. 2006), and Mary in The Secret Garden (Feb. 2007). She has been a part of the Preston County Summer Theatre since 2000. In the Preston County Summer Theatre some of Meghan’s favorite roles are The Artful Dodger in Oliver, The Sour Kangaroo in Seussical, Martha in The Secret Garden. This is her second season with TOTL Theatre Company. In the last season of TOTL Theatre Company Meghan performed 6 roles in 3 plays. Some of her favorites from these six were Martha in Arsenic and Old Lace, Queenie in Honk!, and Mrs. Brightly in The Adventures of Fledgly.

 
   
 

Leah Broderick

Leah Broderick is a 2004 graduate of Shenandoah University with a BFA in Music Theatre. She did an additional year of study at West Virginia University in music composition. Leah's training began early on as a vocalist with the Peabody Conservatory Youth Choir in Baltimore. During high school she studied voice with Emily Keene of WVU. While at Shenandoah she was a vocal student of Lori Horne. Since completing her undergraduate work, Leah has been Music Director for Guys and Dolls, Pippin, School House Rock, and the groundbreaking production of Big River. She is the current choreographer for the Music Theatre Ensemble at Preston High School and has had the privledge of choreographing seven productions for the Preston High Theatre and the Preston County Summer Theatre including George M!, 42 Street, Crazy For You and Seussical. Favorite roles include Dorothy in The Wiz, Timoune in Once on this Island, Nancy in Oliver and Mayzie in Seussical. Leah is looking forward to her second summer with the TOTL Theatre Company and working with such a talented group of performers. She currently teaches voice and piano at her home in Aurora, West Virginia and in Oakland, Maryland.

 
   
 

Elizabeth Wotring-Nelson

This is Nelson's second season with TOTL after joining the company last year as Martha in The Secret Garden. Her background includes a B.A. Degree in Church Music from Greenville College and a Master's Degree in Musical Theatre Performance from The Boston Conservatory, and years of traveling with musical ensembles, doing theatre, and working with youth arts programs. She is now in McHenry and teaching private voice lessons while beginning her own Kindermusik studio in conjunction with Landon's Library. Some of her favorite past roles have been Luisa in The Fantastiks, Little Red in Into the Woods, Lyuba Ranevsky in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and The Millworker in Working. Elizabeth is married to Andrew Nelson, has a 2 1/2 year old daughter Ingrid Jane who plans on joining the company as soon as her mom and Lynn will let her, and welcomed Rowan Erik last September after he debuted in his Mama's tummy last summer in The Secret Garden. beth is very happy to be not (actually) pregnant as Meg in this year's production of Little Women!

 
   
 

Rebecca Speakman

Rebecca Speakman is making her TOTL acting debut as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her professional and semi-professional acting experience includes roles such as Annie in Annie and the understudy for Laurie in Brighton Beach Memiors at the Deep Creek Dinner Theatre, and participation in the children's choir in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at West Virginia Public Theatre. She was a member of the Ecumenical Youth Ministry in Garrett County during high school and performed in plays such as Joseph as one of four Narrators, Runaways, and Charlie Brown. Rebecca also performed in plays in high school in Preston County and at the collegiate level at Fairmont State University. Her credits there include Puck, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Aunt Em in The Wiz, and an ensemble member of Godspell and an original play entitled Love Thy Neighbor. Although Rebecca did not choose theatre as a career, she continues to be filled spiritually from her involvement with the arts. All her love goes out to her husband Brian and the new addition into her loving family arriving in November. 		 
   
 

Lynn Broderick, Artistic Director

Lynn Broderick, Artistic Director holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She was a company member of the first Nebraska Theatre Caravan, a professional touring company now in its thirtieth year of production. In 1977 Lynn and her husband, Michael and their new son Aaron relocated to Columbia, Maryland. In the eighteen years there, Lynn performed and designed professionally from 1978 to 1986. Lynn was in the inaugural company of Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, designed for the Wax Museum (Washington, D.C), the University of Maryland, and the Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre (Woodbridge, VA). She was the director of the Columbia School of Theatrical Arts and the Slayton House camp of the Arts during the 1980’s. In 1995 Lynn and her family relocated to rural West Virginia where she directed the Ecumenical Youth Ministry of Oakland and where she met some of the performers in the TOTL Theatre Company. Lynn is currently the director of theatre programs at Preston High School in Kingwood, West Virginia. Since arriving at PHS in 1998, Lynn has directed 32 musicals and eight dramas with her students. In 2000 she began the Preston County Summer Theatre, a community theatre, and in 2001 the Preston County Camp of the Arts. Most of Lynn's career has been spent in educational theatre both on the collegiate and secondary levels. She has taught on the faculties of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Howard Community College (Columbia, MD), Mount St. Mary’s College (Emmitsburg, PA) and Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD). In 2006 Lynn was nominated as a Disney Exemplary Teacher from Preston High and subsequently to Who's Who In American Women for 2006. She is the author of six theatre-for-youth plays under the title of the Adventures of Fledgly. She is currently at work on a musical based on the life of one of her students at Preston High School who, at the age of fourteen, was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. The musical will be presented as part of the 2007-2208 season of the Preston High Theatre program.