Jack Neary, Artistic Director

Jack is an established playwright, with productions of his work staged all over the world. The Peterborough Players' production of his latest play, AULD LANG SYNE, recently won 5 New Hampshire Theater Awards, and featured NYPD BLUE's Gordon Clapp. He has directed professionally for 30 years, and is co-founder of New Century Theatre, Smith College, Northampton. He is also an actor, appearing in hundreds of plays and, most recently, in Ben Affleck's THE TOWN. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity and the Dramatists Guild. He can be reached at jack.neary@glmt.org

Leon Grande, Musical Director

Leon is the former Supervisor of Fine and Performing Arts for the Dracut Public Schools, and produced and served as musical director of the highly regarded musicals at DHS for fifteen years. He currently sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops. He holds a Masters of Music Education from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he was also an undergrad in Music Education. He can be reached at leon.grande@glmt.org

Phyllis George, Choreographer

Phyllis, a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette (!), has been a respected teacher of dance and movement in the area for many, many years. She is Founder and Director of the New England Civic Ballet Company and School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her studio's acclaimed ballets are performed annually, and she has worked as choreographer with Jack Neary and Lee Grande on the Dracut High School musicals since 1998.