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One Act Casts

We have assembled a great group of people for our 2nd Annual One Act Play Competition.  Nearly all of the cast members are in multiple roles.  Here's all the information about them!

John Christian is retired. Previous careers (in reverse order): Database administrator, computer programmer, social worker, carpenter. He now does a lot of reading and writing. He leads singing for a nursing home worship service every Sunday, and preaches there twice a month. While this is his second Destination Theatre show (having appeared earlier this year in Tilly), other acting experience includes high school plays his junior and senior years (many years ago) and a couple plays at West County Assembly of God. He sang a solo as Marcus in Who Will Call Him King of Kings three different years. Most recently he was Jude in the Living Last Supper.

John has 7-year-old twin grandsons who live with his older son and daughter-in-law in the Seattle area. His younger son works for Google and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Lauren Gathman is 12 years old.  She enjoys cats, riding her scooter and reading.  She has been in DTC's Tilly, Charlotte's Web-the Musical and Broadway on the Driveway's productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and The Four Freedoms.

 

Michael Gilbreth--Bio Coming Soon!

Lauren Harris is a 7th grader at Victory Christian School.  She has been in several church and school productions including Joy Story as Raggedy Ann and The Tale of Three Trees as Happy Tree.  This is her 4th show with DTC after being the title character in Tilly, Wilbur in Charlotte's Web the Musical and Owl in this season's Winnie the Pooh.  She is excited to work with DTC again.  In her free time, Lauren enjoys singing, acting and playing volleyball.
  Zakhira James--Bio Coming Soon!
  Mark Jobson--Bio Coming Soon!
 
Sebastian Jobson--Bio Coming soon!
  Meg Johnson--Bio Coming Soon!

Andrew Lafferty has been home-schooled all 16 years of his life but will be starting college this summer.  He attends Grace Baptist Church n St. Charles with his family and he is a leader in the youth group there.  His hobbies include playing any sport that allows him to tackle someone and/or pitching for his church softball team, paintball and his amazing ability to own most people, some of the time, once in a while, at video games.

His experience includes working backstage or doing spotlighting for over 30 shows at Dayspring School of the Arts and his church.  For DTC, he was the stage manager for If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, directed Judgment Call at the 2007 One-Act Competition, Assistant Directed and Stage Managed for last summer's Charlotte's Web and worked backstage for Tilly earlier this year.

Brad Lafferty is from Saint Louis, Missouri, and now lives in Saint Charles with his wife and two children.  He works for General Motors where he is a Chaplain for UAW Local 2250.  He is also a member of Grace Baptist Church where he sings in the choir and speaks in the Nursing Home Ministry and is currently seeking a Master's degree in Church Ministry from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO.

Brad would love to tell you that he has had a lifelong passion for the theatre (because that would make for riveting reading), but, truth be told, prior to his DTC experience, he's been in three plays and, at best, a half-dozen youth group skits in his whole life.  In fact, if his daughter wasn't studying theatre, he probably wouldn't go to too many plays, either.  He's not here to be a part of the sales department.  What he is here for is this...anytime anyone is willing to commit themselves to engaging our culture in the name of Christ, he's behind them.  He says, for too long we Christians have sat idly by while others have taken the arts away from their original purpose...to praise and glorify God.  He believes this world needs, more than ever, people willing to step out, in faith, and proclaim the goodness and majesty of God to a lost and dying world, and that the theatre is a very good place to start.  Our God is a creator...let us also be creative as we worship Him.  His DTC production experience consists of playing Doc  in If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, directing The Conference in the 2007 One-Act Competition, playing the doctor in Samuel and Dinah also in the 2007 One-Act Competition, playing the doctor in last summer's Charlotte's Web and working backstage on Tilly earlier this year.

Jenna Lafferty is a 15-year-old sophomore in high school this year, and is taking some classes at Missouri Baptist University.  She has been studying Musical Theatre and dance for over 10 years.  She has been involved with DTC for nearly three years now.  Her first show with DTC was If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise.  She has also choreographed two shows with DTC so far and was the featured dancer in the production of Tilly earlier this year.  Her favorite roles have been Doreen in ...Good Lord's Willing... with DTC, Lucy in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown with Dayspring School of the Arts, Chave in Fiddler on the Roof and the Cuban dancer in Guys and Dolls with Alton Little Theatre to name a few.  Her dream is to grow up and act and dance on Broadway and teach performing arts classes.  She loves being with her friends, family and Mike, shopping and spending time on the computer.  She loes singing and is now in Encounter in Alton, Illinois.  She thanks God for her talents and for many opportunities to use them.
Stacey Lafferty participated in a few high school and college skits but has been involved in theater mostly as a "mom" helping out backstage, props, costumes and scenery. She has just recently been bitten by the acting bug. She played Anita in DTC's production of Tilly and "Janet"-the crazy lady with the rake, in Autumn Leaves for Destination’s 2007 One Act Play Competition (for which she won best actress). She worked behind the scenes at Alton Little Theater last summer where she learned a lot about what to do, and not to do in the theater world.

She is a graduate of UM-St. Louis, with a degree in Elementary Education. Her family lives in St. Charles where they attend Grace Baptist Church. She and her husband home-school their two wonderful children, Andrew, 17 and Jenna, 15. She also teaches enrichment classes to groups of home-school students. Much of her time is spent just being a mom, something she enjoys immeasurably.

The arts are one of the ways she sees God's creativity, and that is why she wants to be involved with this group of talented people and their pursuit to place God back where He belongs...in the middle of the theatre as well as all areas of life.

Audrey Lipsmire is in her fourth DTC production having also appeared in Tilly, Charlotte's Web the Musical and Winnie the Pooh.  She's very excited to be with them again. She was also in a few school plays and have been an extra in two movies.  She is 12 years old and in the 7th grade in the Northwest R-1 school district.  In her free time, Audrey enjoys playing the drums, soccer and hanging out with her friends.
Ray Martin has been doing dinner theatre and other plays at his church for ten years.  The last 8 years, he has also been doing community theatre, mainly in Crestwood.  He has been in over a dozen shows, many performing beside his son or daughter and occasionally his wife.  Each part has been great but some of his favorites were Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jerry in George M! and the mysterious man in Into the Woods.  Ray got his DTC debut as Mr. Bendix in Tilly earlier this year.  He has enjoyed working with DTC because of the spiritual bond between he and the other actors.  In real life, Ray has his own actuarial consulting practice and his hobbies include Scuba diving and raising seahorses.  He gives thanks to the Lord for we can do all things through Him.  He especially wants to thank his wife, Leah, for putting up with the crazy rehearsal schedules.

Isaac Moore is the 9-year-old son of Allen and Kristy Moore.  He is home-schooled and in the third grade.  Isaac is in his third DTC production having been in Tilly and Charlotte's Web The Musical. He has also been on stage in church productions of The Christmas Soccer Team, Sure Foundations, The Joy Story, The Tale of Three Trees, the premier performance of What's Your Favorite Part..., Kid's Praise: An Explosion of Happiness and the Missouri Baptist University production of Oklahoma!.

Allen Moore is the president and founder of Destination Theatre Company.  He got involved in theatre in high school (well, actually, in church, it was MUCH younger), playing Winthrop in The Music Man, Admiral von Schreiber in The Sound of Music, Mr. Kirby in You Can't Take it With You, roles in several one acts and playing viola for Mame and Fiddler on the Roof.  In college, he continued with on-stage roles as Mendel in Fiddler on the Roof, Andrew age 64 in Why Do We Laugh?, and Gonzalo in The Tempest as well as back stage roles in The Lion in Winter, Doll's House, A View From the Bridge, Charley's Aunt and several other plays, one acts and studio scenes.

Since graduating from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, he's done much more directorial and performance work through teaching at the middle school level and through church.  Some of those plays include This is a Test, Mame, The Fantasticks Rumors, Happy Daze, The Music Man Jr., Fools, The Living Last Supper, Who Will Call Him King of Kings, The Sounds of Christmas, What's Your Favorite Part which he wrote and many, many more.

He is married to Kristy (Kathy) and has three kids:  Isaac, 9; Rebekah, 6 and Rachel, 3 1/2.  At West County Assembly of God he is involved in the adult choir, the sound booth ministry and helping Kristy with the kid's choir.  His hobbies include reading (mostly plays), music and, of course, drama. 

Kristy Moore is married to Allen and a home-schooling mother of three: Isaac, 9; Rebekah, 6; and Rachel, 3 1/2.  Growing up in Springfield IL, she was involved in several productions at school and church in elementary and high school, including The Music Man, where she was a gymnast and dancer.  Since college at Evangel University, she has been in a lot of productions at church including Bethlehem Inn, A Christmas Carol, Putting the Christ Back in Easter, The Sounds of Christmas, and the direction of Sure Foundations, The Joy Story and The Tale of Three Trees.  Additional  DTC roles have included Mr. Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Maxine McAllister in If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, Sadie in Charlotte's Web-the Musical, Director of Winnie the Pooh, Kathy Ross in Tilly and director and performance roles in the 2007 One Act Competition.

At church she directs the kid's choir and leads the Missionettes Prims club.  Her hobbies include kids, music, kids, reading and kids.  

  Rachel Moore is the 3 1/2 (almost 4) year old daughter or Allen and Kristy Moore.  She is excited to be in another production and is starting to build quite a long list of past productions including her role as the rotten egg in last summer's production of Charlotte's Web-The Musical.
Rebekah Moore is the six-year-old daughter of Allen and Kristy Moore.  She is home-schooled in kindergarten. This marks Rebekah's fourth DTC production having also been in Tilly, Charlotte's Web the Musical and Winnie the Pooh.  She has also been in church children's choir productions of Sure Foundations, The Joy Story, The Tale of Three Trees and Kid's Praise: An Explosion of Happiness.
 
David Stamps--Bio Coming Soon!
Abraham Ward is 10 years old and in the fifth grade at Blevins Elementary school in Eureka.  He really likes acting and performing.  He has done several musicals at school and is very excited to be a part of this, his second DTC production, having appeared in last summer's Charlotte's Web-The Musical.  He appeared in Completing Kaden, a Christian 30-minute drama/comedy that airs on Trinity Broadcast Network.  He is currently taking an acting class at COCA with plans for more.  He has also been studying the drums and percussion for the last year.  He gets the privilege to play every Sunday with his dad in the Living Water Worship Team at church.  He has a brown belt in Tae-Kwon-Do and loves to play basketball.  Oh, and most important, in his own words, "I LOVE JESUS!"
  Dale Ward--Bio Coming Soon!

 

Sheryl Watts--Bio Coming Soon!


 
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