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New Directions for Highlands-Cashiers Players
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2018/01 - Winter
Highlands Cashiers Players will be showcasing four new directors at their Dinner Theater March 15–17 and March 22–24. These community members have agreed to take on this challenging role and bring with them exciting perspectives.
Paul Herron is a retired marketing executive and a tennis pro. He volunteers teaching tennis in the community. He also starred in plays at the Unicorn Experimental Theater in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Craig Eister went to Duke University and the University of North Carolina for graduate school. He works in Atlanta, where he also acted and received rave revues for his comedy role in “Don’t Dress for Dinner.” He is on the HCP board and manages the website. Craig lives in Scaly Mountain.
Lee Lyons is a long-time actor, volunteer, and former board member for HCP. Her favorite role was as Vernadette in “The Dixie Swim Club.” She is in two writing groups, is a member of the Asheville Storytelling Circle, and an active storyteller at festivals in the Southeast.
No stranger to the stage, Megan McLean has performed in numerous productions at HCP, as well as Theater Macon and Warner Robins Little Theater in Georgia where she was born. Megan currently lives in Sapphire with her two fantastic teenagers, Jackson and Mayellen. She is battling stage IV breast cancer, but helps clients find or sell their mountain homes as a real estate broker at Silver Creek Real Estate Group in Cashiers.
“HCP’s 2018 goal is to find new directors and actors,” says Donna Cochran, HCP board member and dinner theater producer. “Our dinner theater gives those who have perhaps never been in a play or those who haven’t auditioned in a long time, the chance to appear in a short 10-minute play and see how they like it.”
Auditions will be held at Hudson Library on Sunday, January 7, from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. and Monday, January 8, from 5:30 until 7:00 P.M. at PAC.
Cochran says, “I invite novices as well as seasoned actors to audition for us. These new directors would love to work with fledgling actors in a collaborative effort.”
