

She has also Music Directed at Sarasota Players, Manatee Players, Charlotte Players and the Dingbat Theatre Project. Her productions have included Hair, Mamma Mia, Cabaret, Toxic Avenger and Dreamgirls to name a few. Since 2000 Michelle has performed and music directed at Venice Theatre. In 2014, she was selected as Charlotte County’s Teacher of the Year. Since moving down to Florida in 1998, Michelle has taught chorus, drama and dual enrollment music classes. While in New York she music directed many off-Broadway productions which included Always, Patsy Cline and has performed all over the world in Europe, Japan and Korea. Michelle is originally from New York and spent most of her life on Long Island. Post Long Island University and an Education Leadership Specialist degree from Nova Southeastern University. cum laude from Dowling College, a Master of Science in Music Education from C. Michelle received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston and studied jazz piano there as well as classical at Boston University. Michelle Kasanofsky has been playing piano for almost 56 years and is a professional musician as well as a music educator. Onstage, Luke has appeared in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shrek the Musical, Brian & Luke’s Live Holiday Jamboree, Head Over Heels, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Drowsy Chaperone, Urinetown, and a one-man production of The Call of the Wild, which he adapted from the Jack London novel. His directing credits include Shrek the Musical, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon with Keirston Murphy, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Gift of the Magi, A Seussified Christmas Carol, and the upcoming The Great American Trailer Park Musical at VT and The SpongeBob Musical with Dingbat. In addition to his dramatic endeavors, Luke is an MBA candidate at the University of Central Arkansas, a podcast co-host, a singer/musician, a curly hair grower, and the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Dingbat Theatre Project in Sarasota. By day, he is the Digital Development Associate at Venice Theatre, where he also is an instructor and directs the teen improv troupe. Luke Manual McFatrich has directed, written, and performed in many productions across the Southeast.
