A performing Board member of the Vail Valley Theatre Company having joined in 2006 for the wildly popular and successful An Evening on Broadway productions which played at the Vilar Performing Arts Center each winter season for many years. You may have most recently seen her as Columbia in VVTC’s October production of The Rocky Horror Show, dancing while Judy Collins sang her infamous tune, Both Sides Now during The Youth Foundation’s 2010 Star Dancing Gala, or in the 2009 production of Godspell with The Porchlight Players. During daylight hours she is a REALTOR® /co-owner of Vail Property Brokerage, Inc. and has proudly served on the Board of Education with Eagle County Schools for ten years. Dancing and performing since the age of three; beginning her professional career at age sixteen, Connie is reliving her first career and true passion. Hailing from Los Angeles, she can be seen in the films, Grease 2 and Pennies From Heaven, as well as touring with Columbia Artists and the Danny Daniels Dance America Tap Dance Company. In fact, if you come across any of those tour videos – let her know, as tap dancing on Pointe is truly a lost vaudevillian art! She would like to extend a special thanks to her family for accepting the “theatre life” and understanding how important dancing, performing, and entertaining is to living for her.

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Shiloh Liska grew up on the Front Range and graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Communication Studies major and a Theatre minor in 2016. After moving to Eagle for their job at the local animal shelter, they joined VVTC in 2022 for the first “Rocky Halloween” show. They fell in love with this wacky, wonderful group of people and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else! Though their main passion is performing - especially dancing - they enjoy helping wherever they can and are excited to be involved with the board and spend even more time with their theatre family.

John has had a soft spot for theater since he was cast as Romeo in his 5th-grade play. A local theater “addict”, John’s been performing locally since 2004, when he was Captain Hook, with his daughter in the cast. He’s performed in shows annually with the Vail Valley Theatre Company and Porchlight Players. John heads up the Marketing Committee, applying skills from his 38-year career as an executive with a global advertising agency. He’s been happily married for 37 years with 3 adult children and an energetic dog named Bo.

Charis has been a performer since a child, whether singing in the bathrooms of local restaurants (great acoustics), in high school and college, or during her stints with the Missoula Community Theater and American Cabaret Theater. Charis has performed with the Vail Valley Theatre Company for ten years now, performing most recently in The Rocky Horror Show (Janet), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum (Geminie), Man of La Mancha (Dulcinea/Aldonza) and Annie Get Your Gun (Annie).  Charis is also an active member of the Board of Directors of the Vail Valley Theatre Company, in case you need someone with whom to direct your complaints about the content of this show. Charis would like to express her thanks and love to her wonderful children for happily living without her for the past few weeks, her father for watching them, and also to her amazing husband for his support and for wearing a blindfold during the show.  Please LIKE us at Facebook.com/VailTheatre.

Heather has lived in the Vail Valley since 1994 after 9 years in Hong Kong. She raised three children here who were all active in speech and theatre on the local stages including Evening on Broadway productions. Now that the kids have flown the nest, it is her turn to enjoy her passion. Active in theatre during high school and college, she acted in commercials during her Hong Kong days. Now a local Realtor for Slifer Smith and Frampton Real Estate, she practices law in her free time and serves on the theatre BoardShe manages to squeeze in skiing, hiking and travel and enjoying the Vail Valley.

Beth has performed in the Broadway, National, and International companies of CATS, A CHORUS LINE, JEROME ROBBINS BROADWAY, and many others. After a successful career, the mountains called me back.  For the past 25 years plus, Beth has been performing here in the Vail Valley, around the country, and around the world as a solo artist, and with The Vail Valley Band, and The Fabulous Femmes. She has also sung at the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, been a soloist with the Colorado Symphony, sung television theme songs, and performed from Budapest to Baton Rouge and everywhere in between.

Bart was raised in the Vail Valley, moved to Aspen while in high school, and grew to love theater and film production during those years. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University for no apparent reason save for a love of math and lack of any serious film options. He started Garton Video Productions in 1988 and continues to produce television and web-based programs both locally and nationally. He’s passionate about theater in the valley and joined the board in 2009 in hopes of helping to create more awareness, accessibility, and quality of local productions. Married with three children, Bart can usually be found on a mountain bike trail or competing in the latest stupid adventure race. He’ll ski and snowboard in the winter too- if pushed.

Sandy originally hails from Wisconsin, where her parents provided her with every performing arts opportunity they could on their incredibly modest family budget.  That appreciation of her childhood experience and her daughter Libby’s interest in theater fueled a passion to become involved with local public school theater programs for eleven years.  This passion eventually led her to VVTC in 2022, where she was thrilled to begin her journey working with adults.  Sandy has experience producing, directing, stage managing, costuming, and set design; however, her passion is providing inclusive performing arts opportunities to Eagle County residents through community theater.  Whether through VVTC Adult Theatrical Dance, VVTC Adult Theatrical Chorus, VVTC Improv, a musical, play, or review, Sandy is always happiest watching her dear theater family (and dear husband Jeff) perform!

Lauren moved to Vail from the East Coast in 2018 and is a double board-certified dermatologist at Mountain Dermatology Specialists in Edwards. She holds a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition from UPenn, focusing on classical voice and piano. She has been an avid musical theatre fan and performer since age 5! She is thrilled to be performing again with VVTC and got hooked after performing the role of Christine from Phantom in their first post-COVID hit! As a board member, Lauren helps create social media marketing and assists in the musical direction of shows!

Jennifer moved to Avon in 2022 and is a Business Consultant. She became passionate about the theatre after volunteering as a backstage assistant for VVTC’s A Rocky Halloween in 2022.  Now, she’s fully immersed herself in the wide variety of the VVTC’s offerings, from improv, choir, and dance classes to playing a supporting role in Tony and Tina’s Wedding and a Kit Kat Club girl in Cabaret.  I want nothing more than to share the gift of theatre with our community, and I love the friends and family I’ve made along the way.

Susan has been involved in the Vail Valley Theatre Company for 30 years, both on stage and beyond the footlights. She has acted, directed, stage managed, and almost everything else at one time or another. A confirmed introvert, she was terrified of the stage in her younger years. Only after a friend convinced her to audition for Come to the River she found her home. She was hooked and joined the board shortly after. After many years on the board, she took a hiatus to raise her son. She is a self-employed bookkeeper in her spare time and fosters kittens for the Eagle Valley Humane Society.

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