Laura Wade
Director
Laura Wade is a native Floridian and a Dramatist Guild of America member. She has participated in over 150 productions in community, professional, and academic Theatre. Her greatest passions are teaching, directing, and playwriting. At HLT she has directed Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Girl Blou, The Million Dollar Quartet, Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Charlie Brown, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Dancing at Lughnasa. She is one of the directors of the HLT Summer Theatre Institute and has directed over 30 youth productions. She is the proud mother of two adult daughters, Elise & Harley, and wife of her husband of twenty years, Eric. She is grateful for the opportunity to share her love of theatre with her family and friends at HLT.
Tracy Schuknecht
Director
Tracy has grown up at Highlands Little Theatre and has been involved for 37 years. She has directed To Kill a Mockingbird, Matilda and Grumpy Old Men. She also directed music for many productions including Les Miserables, Grease, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Freaky Friday. She has performed as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, as Grandmama Addams in The Addams Family, Miss Shingle in The Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder and Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar. She helped direct the Summer Theatre Institute at HLT for ten years. She is a theatre teacher at Sebring Middle School and dedicates her work to her husband Dave and children.