Pete has worked on over 200 different productions. Pete has also directed for the Salem Foot Lighters and for Glens Falls Community Theater, where he directed Last Call at Chez Moret. Pete is taking Improv Lessons with MOPCO in Schenectady, and just finished the first section of classes at Second City Toronto. Pete has also been a part of many other local theater companies, including: Glens Falls Community Theater (retired Board of Directors Member) Schuylerville Community Theater (stage manager for Once on this Island, receiving a TANYS award) tech for Hubbard Hall for 7 seasons, under the direction of Kevin McGuire and a summer with Lake George Dinner theater. From 1995 to 2000, Pete worked as Tech Director, handling all technical issues for the numerous summer productions, while also appearing in a few. Over the years, Pete spent many summer nights working for Quentin Beaver (former owner of FST), both on and off stage. He made many lifelong friends in that production, working backstage as a stagehand, moving sets. The first play that Pete worked on at Fort Salem was the Pajama Game in 1979. Kraler/Lighting Designer) has been part of the local theater scene for 42 years.
She teaches voice, piano, and music theory through Lighthouse Lyrical Studios. In addition to performing, Kyra directed the Cambridge Central School Drama Club for four years, conducted the Hubbard Hall Youth Chorale for three years, and organized many fundraiser cabarets, producing a dozen concerts and four full-length musicals. Roles include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), Into the Woods (Lucinda), Othello (Emilia), Peter and the Starcatcher (Molly Aster), The Crucible (Ann Putnam), Love's Labour's Lost (Holofernes), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive), Romeo & Juliet (Lady Montague), a virtual reading of Twelfth Night (Olivia), and the opera L'elisir d'amore (Chorus). Since graduating, she has performed at theatres across the region including Hubbard Hall, Schenectady Light Opera Company, Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park, and Bennington Community Theatre. Kyra Fitzgerald (Miep Gies) is thrilled to join the Fort Salem Theater family! A Cambridge native, she has always loved performing and creating with others, and followed that passion to a degree in Music Education from the College of Saint Rose. Last, but never least, thank you to his partner, Anna, for her constant encouragement and teaching him to talk about himself in the third person. He would also like to thank his friends, family, and work family for their support.
Matt would like to thank the entire cast and crew for making this experience the best part of his day, and always politely laughing at his middle-drawer humor. Matt needs to acknowledge Kyle and Jared for making him feel safe and protected enough to return to the theater during these uncertain times, and David for always challenging and believing in him. By day, Matt can be found working as an optician’s apprentice. Matt is also a regular performer with Mystery Dinner Players of Albany. Other favorite roles include Moon in The Real Inspector Hound, King Sextimus the Silent in Once Upon a Mattress, and the title role in Chasing Charles at Local Actors Guild of Saratoga.
He most recently appeared in one of his favorite roles as Alan Stein in Our Time, also directed by David Braucher.
Van Daan) is pleased to be returning to Fort Salem after too long an absence. I want to go on living even after my death!” This is a new adaptation for a new generation. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through: “When I write I shake off all my cares. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence-their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. ? NOTE: MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION (for guests over 12) REQUIRED FOR ENTRY ?Ī Play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackettīased upon "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"