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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!
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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. |
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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.
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Michael
Gilbreth--Bio Coming Soon!
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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.
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Zakhira James--Bio Coming Soon!
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Mark Jobson--Bio Coming Soon!
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Sebastian Jobson--Bio Coming soon!
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| Meg Johnson--Bio
Coming Soon!
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| 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
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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.
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 | 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. |
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| 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!. |
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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David Stamps--Bio Coming Soon!
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| 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!"
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Dale Ward--Bio Coming Soon!
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| Sheryl
Watts--Bio Coming Soon! |

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