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Derek Woods - Director
Derek and wife Becky Lillie Woods founded The Riverdale Children's Theatre in 2010. Since then RCT has produced over 40 full stage productions, touching the lives of hundreds of families in the Bronx and beyond. Among his other credits, he received an Emmy nomination in 2010 as the writer and director of the acclaimed documentary “Memory Brings Us Back: Irish Stories of Farewells and Fortunes.”
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Becky Lillie Woods - Artistic Director
Becky is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of RCT. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching Music from Lehman College and a BFA in Musical Theatre from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Among her Directing credits: Beauty and the Beast,You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Dear Edwina, Seussical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Les Miserables.
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Eric Johnston - Music Direction
With RCT: Oliver!, Joseph, Snoopy, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Peter Pan, Annie, 13. Off-Broadway: Evil Dead the Musical; How to Save the World & Find True Love in 90 Minutes. Regional: Les Miserables & Hello, Dolly at Arkansas Rep, The Gifts of the Magi & The Fantasticks with The Human Race, assisting on The Producers & Light in the Piazza at Pioneer Theatre, & Les Miserables at North Shore.
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Alex Acevedo - Choreographer
originally from the California Bay Area where he studied with ACTSF and Alonzo King's Lines Ballet. Directing/Choreography credits; Oklahoma! (Narrows Theater) Theater Boys, Irving Berlin Ragtime Review, Yaki Yim Bamboo(13th street rep) Can do Duck(Lynn Redgrave Theater) Meeting Matt Damon(Thespian Prod) and Eternal Flame, Peter/Wendy(theAlphaNYC). This summer he tackles The Who's Tommy(Phoenix).
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Dale Smallwood - Production Coordinator
Dale is excited to once again be working with RTC. Stage management credits include over 30 productions with The Pearl Theatre Company, NYC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Stage Door (The New School for Drama, NYC); Hannah, Follow Me to Nellie’s, Rabbit Hole, Regrets Only (Premiere Stages, NJ), The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Sound, CT).
