Meet the Orrville Community Theater Board of Directors for the 2024 season!

President: Tracy Bryan Lemus Santos

Tracy absolutely enjoys everything about theatre! She has been involved in various aspects (both onstage and offstage) for over 35 years and has been a part of over 55 productions. She is a proud member of the Orrville Community Theater Board of Directors and currently serves as the President. She is in her 27th year of teaching for Fairless Local Schools and was the Director of the Falcon Playhouse for 13 years. She lives in Canton with her husband, Melvin, and her three children – Isabelle, Winnie, and Bobby. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling – she has been to the 48 continental states and plans to visit the other 2 and the other 5 inhabited continents before she retires!

Vice President: Chelsea Alleman

Secretary: Angela Gilbert

Angela joined the Orrville Community Theater board in early 2023. She is currently serving as the board secretary. Angela realized her love for theater when her young children became interested in performing in shows many years ago. In her free time, Angela enjoys watching her children perform in the school band, going to church, camping, thrift shopping, and event planning. Angela currently handles theater social media and has recently learned of her love for directing kids shows.

Treasurer: Kara Seiler

Kara realized she loved theater at a very young age and enjoyed acting in school plays and some community theater. The love came back when her own children both decided to love theater too! Once they became involved with Orrville Community Theater, it was a pretty easy fit for her to help out with shows and then join the Board. This is her second year with the Board and first as Treasurer.

In her free time, she enjoys camping, being outside, and spending time with her husband, two kids and their loving cavalier, Gracie. She loves helping with the kids shows and being involved with the theater.

Board Member: Holly CowgarHolly is a homeschooling mom of four girls, part-time retail worker, Girl Scout Leader, wannabe author, and a lover of travel, forensics, astronomy, geology, paleontology, and archaeology. In her nonexistent free time, she is in the ongoing process of renovating her farmhouse, helping her husband Lucas study for his private pilot’s license, and writing a book. She has co-directed two shows for the Orrville Community Theater and handles website updates, lights and sounds inventory, and newsletters. She has served on the board since January, 2022.

Board Member: Glenn Gregory

Glenn has been a lover of all things art and theater related, since a young age watching musicals and classic movies on TCM with family. toattending his first musical, Guys and Dolls, at the late Carousel Dinner-Theater. Acting and singing has been a lifelong passion and while not always able to personally perform, he is an avid theater goer to Playhouse Square productions and the occasional trips to NYC, more specifically broadway! He is glad to be part of the Orrville Community Theater as a fellow thespian and since January 2023 a board member with OCT.

“All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.” — Stephen Sondheim

Board Member: Tara Martens

Board Member: Danielle Sobczyk

Board Member: Annie DiScipio Ketler

Rachel “Annie” DiScipio Ketler is a born-and-raised Ohioan who loves art, education, and theater. She has a passion for teaching and creativity, and loves working with children. She is the founder and CEO of Queen Anne’s Lace Publishing, and loves supporting her community. Annie currently lives in Orrville, and is so excited to see the theater, the community, and all their participants grow and thrive.