Cast Bios
Dewey Finn.......Viktor Sweeney
Rosalie Mullins ..........Julie Bowser
Summer Hathaway............. Sophia Tann
Tomika Williams................... Bella Poompana
Zack Mooneyham ................Bruno Chagas
Billy Sandford.................. Walker Schmidt
Freddie Hamilton.............. Dylan Alvarez
Lawrence Turner.............. Kavi Roff
Katie Travis..................... Alice Rollins
Mason Ward.................. Levi Simpson
James ...................Jacob Culbertson
Antonio ....................Lorenzo Beltran-Velez
Eddie .........................Will Downey
Madison ....................Isla Gatesman
Sophie .................Grayce Nelson
Marcy.............. Claire Leonard
Shonelle .................Mia Santore
Sarah.............. Nixyn Fridh
Cassandra ................Brynn Barnstead
Maisee ...............Shannon Simone
Karla ............Sydney McMasters
Laura ..........Sayler Greenberg
Nia .......................Isabella Calixte
Ned Schneebly (and others).............. Jacob Kazor
Patty DiMarco (and others) .................Zandrea Wiley
ENSEMBLE
Adrianna Merricks
Dylan Dopico Perez
Gabriel Chavez
Lauren Cruz
Layla Butterworth
Marnie Flores
Phybee Whiteleather
Sara Aristizabal
Sophia Robinson
Suvanee Wood
Taylor Arnber
Creative Team Bios
Monique Caldwell (Director)
Monique is the Education Director for Florida Repertory Theatre, who has worked with children and youth in the arts for over 25 years. She hails from the Washington Metropolitan area and currently resides in Fort Myers, Florida. Monique is a performer, arts advocate, director, and acting coach. Her passion is exposing young people to the world of the performing arts while helping to build their character – on and off the stage. She is also a licensed theater educator with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Howard University and an MA in Theatre Education from Catholic University. Her Florida Repertory directing credits include Fame, Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, Once on This Island Jr., Aladdin Jr., Dr. Seuss Jr., Frozen Jr., and Hairspray - and Sweeney Todd!
Megan Leonard (Choreographer)
Megan Jimenez Leonard is the current Asst. Director of Education at Florida Repertory Theatre! She has loved working with children in various theatre education programs and community theatres here in SW Florida! Since 2016, Mrs. Leonard has been choreographing Florida Repertory's Education Conservatory productions, including Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, Heathers the musical, Fame, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and last season’s Hairspray! Her professional musical performance credits include the first national tours of The Addams Family, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and 42nd Street. She has also performed at Walt Disney’s MGM Studios, Tokyo Disneyland, and as a Radio City Rockette at the iconic Rockefeller Center. Leonard’s favorite regional theatre credits include musical productions from John F. Kennedy Center, North Shore Music Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Walnut Street Theatre, Theatre Zone, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied in the conservatory programs of Collaborative Arts Project 21, the Classical Studio, and the Aquila Theatre Company’s summer program in New York City. She is a current proud member of Actors Equity Association.
Jennie Rimes (Music Director)
Miranda White (Set Designer)
MK Doherty (Lightning Designer) is excited to return for their second season here at Florida Rep. Outside of their Master Electrician work here, they have also been the lighting designer for the Conservatories, Shrek The Musical and Sweeney Todd. Favorite past designs include, Carrie, The Lightning Thief, (Ghostlight ETC), The Wiz, Everybody (Kent State University). MK also holds a BFA in Theatre Design, Technology, and Production from Kent State University, Go Flashes!
Amanda Miller (Costume Designer) is Florida Rep’s Costume Shop Manager. Much of her work has been seen in opera at the Brevard Music Center and with the Floridian company Wardrobe Witchery. She recently graduated from Boston University with a master’s degree in Costume Technology. Her design credits include films and plays such as Mrs. Packard, Bearing Our Soles, Bash, and the Florida Rep Conservatory productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Shrek: The Musical, Jr.
Jack Drinan (Sound Designer)
Sylvia Preston (Stage Manager)
Corbin Cox (Asst. Stage Manager) is an early career stage manager and 2025 Eastern Illinois University graduate, and is excited to lend his skills to his first show with Florida Rep! Some previous credits: Ain’t Too Proud, Radio Recall, Mamma Mia! (Transcendence Theatre Company), Ride the Cyclone, Lizzie: the Musical (Station Theatre), Xanadu, She Loves Me, A Doll’s House, and Children of Eden (Eastern Illinois University). Would not be here without the constant guidance and kind words from Mom, Dad, Aly, Larry, Sophia, Trish, and everyone else who believed in him before he believed in himself.
