John Tindall (Stage Director) Originally from Richmond, VA, John moved to the Valley in 1991 and has since worked as a full-time Director of Christian Education and Youth Ministries for area churches. He currently works at Westminster Presbyterian in Waynesboro. John has been involved in community, church, and school theater for many years, most recently having directed the previous 4 musicals at Wilson, as well as performing as Father Frollo in ShenanArts’ production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and as Harold Hill in Waynesboro Players’ “The Music Man”. Since 1995, he has performed and recorded with the local a cappella group, Sound Direction. John is married to Waynesboro native, Bettie, and his children, Mattie and Sam, are in college.
John is so grateful to have the opportunity to direct at Wilson. “I thoroughly enjoy working with these students, sharing the thrill of live theater with them, and watching them grow into their parts over the months. I look forward to every rehearsal, never knowing what special moment in the script we’ll discover as we work together to create this wonderful musical. It’s a daunting task to perform such
famous, beloved characters, but these young actors have met the challenge and have found a way to make each part their own, while also respecting the classic work of Louisa May Alcott. I hope that you, like myself, will find their production ‘Astonishing.’”
Sarah Wendtlandt (Choreographer) Sarah Wendtlandt grew up dancing and traveling throughout Europe with her parents’ International Folk Dance group. From a young age, she studied ballet, tap, Irish step dance, and ballroom. In 2005 she received her associate's degree in Austin, Texas in modern dance and choreography. Sarah toured throughout Texas with the Hungarian Folk Dance Performance group 'Csardas' for a few years before relocating to Virginia in 2018. Sarah is a massage therapist and esthetician and specializes in Ashiatsu where she ‘dances’ on the massage table using her feet to massage clients. She has taught dance and choreography for Shenanarts and Blue Ridge College in the last few years. It has been her pleasure working with the cast and crew of Little Women and she is excited to continue spreading her love and joy to the Shenandoah Valley through dance.
