Production Staff
Wayne Kischer
Main Stage Musical Production Manager
Wayne Kischer has lived in Iowa for the last four years after living the previous 21 years in Hawaii. In Honolulu, Wayne free-lanced with local theatre groups while pursuing his day job teaching drama and helping establish a K-12 theatre department at a private school. In addition to over 250 directing, performing, designing, and technical direction stage credits, Wayne is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and has appeared in several Hawaii-based television series. He also has been a featured performer in opera and theatres throughout Oahu. In 1996 he appeared off-off Broadway in a limited engagement at New York’s famed LaMama, ETC as Professor Swann in Dark is the Night. Additionally, Wayne served as theatre consultant for the successful renovation of three theatres in Honolulu, as past officer for the Hawaii State Theatre Council, and as Board Trustee for both Kumu Kahua Theatre and Honolulu Theatre for Youth.
Wayne’s previous Trollwood experiences date back to 1987. They include directing Leader of the Pack and the Broadway Jr. World premiere pilot production of Once on This Island; he also served as scenic artist/properties master for The Wiz. For the Mainstage productions, he was the Lighting Designer for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, and Fiddler on the Roof. He was the Production Manager for Kiss Me Kate, Foot Loose, and Peter Pan; Technical Director for The Music Man, and Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Scenic Co-Designer, Co-Technical Director and Tour Technical Director for Trollwood’s International tour of Imagine’s Who Are You?. He also served as Special Projects Designer for Beauty and the Beast.
After one season as Resident Designer for The Des Moines Playhouse, Wayne signed on with the fast-growing Waukee School District, where he is the Auditorium/Theatre Manager. This past school year he directed The Crucible and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Rebecca Barrett
Mainstage Musical Electronics Director
Rebecca is excited to be back for her eighth summer at TPAS. Since working on last year’s TPAS production of Beauty and the Beast, she has been busy freelancing as a lighting designer in Chicago, IL and working as Northwestern University’s Assistant Lighting and Sound Supervisor. Her favorite lighting designs include Chicago for Pheasant Run Dinner Theatre, New Anatomies with Foreground Theatre Company and Cyber Serenade with Stage Left Theatre Company (all Chicago-land). Rebecca received her BFA in Theatrical Production Arts from Ithaca College in New York.