Matt Andrews (Producing Director) holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in Theatre from Oklahoma State and is a graduate of The National Shakespears Conservatory in NYC. Various professional and academic directing credits include Angels in America,The Little Foxes, The Laramie Project, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and Broadway Bound. Acting credits span the classical canon, including Shakespeare's Pericles, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Moliere's The Miser, Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, and Sheridan's The School for Scandal. Matt directed the first production of RVR's 2010 season, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.
In addition to serving as Producing Director, Matt is an Associate Professor and Director of the Theatre Program at Marist College.
Nancy Auffarth (Co-Artistic Director) Nancy has appeared on Broadway and in National Tours ofAnnie, On the Twentieth Century, Back Country, and Barnum directed by such greats as Hal Prince, Martin Charmin, Jacques Levy, and Bick Goss. She has performed at the prestigious Papermill Playhouse, St. Louis Muni Opera, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Vineyard Theatre, Pennsylvania Stage Co., Royal Palm, and Carousel Dinner Theatre as well as other Off Broafway venues.
Nancy is currently the musical director for the Admiral Players at Arlington High School. She maintains a private voice and acting studio where she has trained singers and actors for twenty years. Nancy recieved training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the University of Maryland, and graduate of Yale Drama School (summer intensive directing program) and Westminster Choir College.
Jim Steinmeyer (Co-Artistic Director) holds a Masters Degree in Theatre and directing from Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he studied under Broadway artists such as Kevin Rigdon and Patricia Ziprodt. An active member of the Hudson Valley theatre community for years, Jim has directed shows for The Queen City Stage Co. such as, Steel Magnolias, Greater Tuna, and Ruthless. His professional work also includes productions with a children's theatre company in Rochester, NY as well as an acclaimed production ofLost in Yonkers at the Rochester J.C.C. Jim also directed The Foreigner, The Crucible, and The Glass Menagerie for the SUNY Brockport Theatre Department and Brighton Beach Memoirs, House of Blue Leaves, Fools, 45 Seconds from Broadway, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at Marist College.
Jim's teaching credentials include thirty-four years in public secondary schools as well as courses at both Marist and Dutchess Community College. Over the years, Jim has also directed for theatre companies in both the Hudson Valley and Rochester.
Bo List (Managing Director) is a native of Lexington, KY and a graduate of the University of
Memphis, TN with an
MFA in Directing. As an administrator, he has served as Associate
Artistic Director of Chicago's Bailiwick Repertory (now Bailiwick
Chicago), Executive Producer of Germantown Community Theatre in TN and
as co-founder of the Kentucky Classical Theatre Conservatory whose
annual summer season of outdoor plays and musicals - Summerfest - will
produce his adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 2011. As director, his work has been
seen in Chicago IL, Kentucky (with the Lexington Shakespeare Festival,
Paragon Music Theatre and Actors Guild of Lexington), Tennessee (Theatre
Memphis, Circuit Playhouse), California (California State
University-Chico) and New York (including Romeo and Juliet and Little
Shop of Horrors at Stagedoor Manor and Into the Woods for Marist College.) As playwright, his work includes Dracula...a variation, which
premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland, and will include
an outdoor musical comedy based on the life of Kentucky's most famous
citizen: The Colonel Sanders Story: A
Finger-Lickin' Good Musical! An Associate Member of the Society
of Directors and Choreographers, he appreciates the opportunity to
spread his wings in beautiful Poughkeepsie again.
