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Janet Lynn O'Hare Executive Director /Playwright
Janet
O'Hare is an Actor, Director, Playwright and Teacher and in 2007 earned her Master's Degree in Theatre Education at
Emerson College in Boston. She graduated from St. Michael's College in Vermont in 2002, where she received her B.A. in
Theatre-Fine Arts with a concentration in Musical Theatre and Directing. She then spent four years professionally touring
as an Actor/Director with the Missoula Children's Theatre giving her the opportunity to perform and work with children
all over the United States and parts of Canada. Some of her performance credits include roles in, Seussical, Working,
Once on this Island, The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould, Godspell, CAUTION! Our Children at Work,
also And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, in which she received an Irene Ryan Nomination
for Best Actor/Performance for her role as Mutti. She has directed over 45 productions to date including, Working,
The Wiz and Once on this Island, Raisin in the Sun and most recently West Side Story and Crimes
of the Heart and Beauty and the Beast. Her play I Am Not My Breasts has been produced several times in the New
England area and just recently at the Mill River Theater in RI. It will be produced in Western Australia this October and
at Dana Farber Cancer Institute this September. Recently, you may have seen Janet on the Mill River Theater stage, playing
the lead role of Anne Weston, in the musical, The Rented Christmas in which she received a nomination for Best Leading
Female by Motif Magazine or perhaps as Sonia in Godspell. Janet is currently performing a leading role in the musical
revue "Are We There Yet?" in Rhode Island. Janet teaches Musical Theatre with the Arlington Children's Theatre
and worked as a teaching artist with the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. She has headed various youth theatre programs
in New England, and has taught and directed with the Boston Arts Academy, Boston College High School and Codman Academy.
She was recently named the Director of Education at the Harborside Playhouse in Bristol, RI. This summer Janet served as the
head of the SMARTS Collaborative Senior Drama program in Attleboro, MA. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. You can visit
Janet's website at www.onestrongvoice.com for more information on her original play and production company, One Strong Voice Productions.
TRACY SAITOW-CRONIN Executive Assistant to the Director Staff Photographer
Tracy has come to One
Strong Voice Productions with strong backgrounds in both finance and communications. Tracy spent 12 years in the world of
commercial banking starting as a teller and working her way up, spending more than half of her career as a branch manager
for Fleet bank of Massachusetts and then Bank of America in Martin county, Florida. After the birth of her child, Tracy switched to a career
that afforded her more time with her baby and entered the communications arena, working as a public safety dispatcher for
the towns of Amesbury and Merrimac, Massachusetts for more than 7 years. Tracy is now following her personal career dreams by joining One Strong Voice Productions
and embarking on a career in photography. She is proud to be part of the company and honored to be executive assistant to
Ms. O'Hare as well as staff photographer. Her photographic training comes from the New England School of Photography.
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BRENDAN KENNEDY Production
Stage Manager
Brendan
Kennedy is senior stage manager with the Dever Players in Boston. His credits include one-acts such as Bang, Bang, You’re
Dead; which traveled to semi-finals in the 2005 Massachusetts Drama Guild Festival and for which he and his team won
the Best Crew Award. He has managed plays such as Fires in the Mirror and the musical Working. I Am
Not My Breasts is his first professional production and is looking forward to the future of the show. This spring Brendan
will be managing West Side Story along side Janet at the Gregory E. Bulger Performing Arts Center. Brendan plans
to study political science and philosophy in hopes to earn a degree in both fields. He is thrilled to be a part of One Strong
Voice Productions.
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