Welcome to the second show of our fabulous season - Disney Pixar's Finding Nemo Jr. We are so excited to bring you our first Middle School Musical. This process has been such an amazing, insipring, and incredible experience. Our production truly is student driven from our High School Mentors to our student designers and the cast and crew of our show. It is remarkable that the product you see tonight is created by these young artists!
Our story speaks of trust and letting go, overcoming fear, resilience and determination, embracing differences, and importance of community. We hope our show will remind you to be brave, compassionate, and accepting of one's self and trusting in others in the face of adversity. Overall, we hope you walk away with joy in your heart at what can be a stressful time of year for so many of us. The spark of imagination is alive and well in our incredible performance of Finding Nemo!
Please enjoy yourselves and we will see you again in the spring with our production of Cinderella!
-Your Creative Team
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Welcome to Light of the Moon Theatre Company Mrs. Wolff!
Tami Wolff - Director: English Teacher at TMHS, Tami Wolff started her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Solomon Islands with her husband, Mark Barry. After 10 years of traveling and teaching abroad and domestically, life brought her back to her home town of Fort Collins, Colorado. For the past 10 years she has co-directed musicals at Preston Middle School before teaching at TMHS. She's been involved with school and community theater since her teens, attending UNC for a Major in English and a second Minor in Theater. Tami has two Bachelor degrees (English Language Arts from UNC and Teaching Secondary Education from CSU) as well as two Masters degrees from CSU (English Education and Educational Leadership graduating with honors). Her own twins, Fawn and Clark Barry, are seniors at FRHS and are also deeply in love with and involved in choir, their acapella group "10th Bass," and the theater program at FRHS. This is Mrs. Wolff's first year directing at TMHS. "Theater is in my blood," says Tami, "and working along side Mr. Forman and Mr.Ecker has been a highlight to my year! They know how to bring a show together with professionalism and joy- bringing out the best in our student directors, crew, and cast. Thank you for bringing me on board!"
William Ecker - Vocal Director:
William Ecker is in his 17th year teaching choir around the state of Colorado, most recently at Timnath Middle High School where he is currently starting a new choir program. Prior to Timnath, Mr. Ecker’s choirs have consistently received the highest ratings at CHSAA competitions across the state through his work at Fort Collins High School. His students were frequently accepted to the Colorado All-State Choir record high numbers. Mr. Ecker completed his Bachelors of Music Education Degree with a Vocal emphasis from the University of Northern Colorado in 2008 and completed his master's in choral conducting in 2016 at the University of Northern Colorado under Dr. Galen Darrough and Dr. Jill Burgett.
Prior to teaching at Fort Collins High School, Mr. Ecker held a music position at Weld Central Middle School, building the program from 35 students to 225 over 6 years. In 2013, he became a founding board member of the Colorado Middle School All-State Choir. William Ecker has served many roles in the Colorado All-State Choirs, namely as co-chair of the Colorado Middle School All State Board as well as Onsite coordinator for both the High school and Middle School All state Choirs for many years.
