Sean Brennan, Vice Principal Douglas Panch

For Allswell: Drowsy Chaperone - Robert Martin. Elsewhere: Beauty Underneath - Orin the Dentist (MTP); Joseph - Potiphar (MTP); Wedding Singer – Robbie Hart (MTP); Finding Hyde - Playwright, Herbert (PTAC); Beauty and the Beast - Cogsworth (PTAC); Trials of Robin Hood - Robin Hood (PTAC); Get Away – Josh (Banished); Creetin Christmas! - Freddy (Banished). Sean is happy to share the stage with such a wonderful cast and crew! Love to Cass who is strength and love and warmth and courage. Big hugs and kisses to Jack, Nora and Connor!

Tameka Brown, Michelle Mahoney

For MTP: Witch – Big Fish, Mama – Children of Eden, Soloist – The Beauty Underneath, Trix - The Drowsy Chaperone (Co-Pro w/Allswell Productions), Ensemble – Cinderella (Co-Pro w/LCP) Other Theatre: Trish – Kinky Boots (LCP), Daria Chase – The Game’s Afoot (LCP)

She thanks her husband, sons, family, and friends for all of their love and constant support. And to the Allswell Dream Team, Goodbyeee!

Keirah Buckley, Olive Ostrovsky

Keirah is so happy to be a part of Allswell’s Bee! As a senior member of London Youth Theatre Education, Keirah has performed in many of their shows including SpongeBob (2025) and Disaster! (2024). She has also participated in local productions around London such as Arts For All Kid’s Broadway With A Twist (2022-2024) and MTP’s The Beauty Underneath (2023). Keirah is so grateful to have such a talented cast and crew they’ve grown so close with. They would like to thank their friends and family for all their love, support and of course, the rides. She hopes you enjoy the show!

Jennifer Cahill, Reeds

Jennifer Cahill (Woodwinds; BMus, MMus; she/her) is a dedicated, passionate musician and educator. As both a woodwinds specialist and music director, Jenni has been a part of over 40 musical productions! Hilariously, this is her first time playing a musical with Allswell Productions. Jenni was a part of the band for the original team’s King’s Players production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2016, playing only flute. She’s ecstatic to be here as part of the Putnam County High School Concert Band, playing the entire Reeds book this time!

Lisa Cardinal, Lighting Designer

Lisa is D-E-L-I-G-H-T-E-D to be working on Spelling Bee, a personal favourite. She recently co-founded Infuse Productions and invites you to participate in our inaugural production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Palace Theatre in October 2025. Recent lighting credits include LYTE's 2024 and 2025 Season, Pointe Tango's Tango in the Dark, and MTP’s The Beauty Underneath. Education: Theatre at York University. She thanks her husband, Adam, for all his support.

Zo Collins, William Barfée

Zo Collins is a barista and occasional artist with a passion for the arts in all forms. Zo has been performing since he was old enough to audition for his middle school’s Christmas play. Some of his previous (more recent) credits include an ancestor in The Addams Family, ensemble in Oliver!, the Sour Kangaroo in Seussical (LYTE), and a pirate in The Pirates of Penzance (LCP). He is looking forward to finally sharing the magic of Spelling Bee with audiences. Zo would like to thank the creative team for the opportunity and trust and the cast for their love, playfulness, and friendship and the entire company for their endless kindness and joy. He would also like to thank his friends and family for their support (and for tolerating his never-ending chatter about the show). And finally, a special shout-out to his girlfriend, Cierra, who continues to be his biggest cheerleader.

Aidan Coutts, Chip Tolentino

Aidan (he/him) is an actor, singer and composer who recently moved to London after finishing his acting degree across the pond in Ireland! Some previous acting credits include Vampire Zombies... From Space! (The Dot Film Company), The Laramie Project (Rabbits Riot TC), Singing in the Rain (Sligo MS), The Only Jealousy of Emer (ATU Sligo), Pélagie (St. Clair College), and more that would make this bio a bit too long. When he isn't on stage performing, he is in his living room composing, having written a fantasy musical titled, The Forgotten Baroness, that saw a workshop at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto. You can also hear some of his music in Odesa's upcoming Shakespeare's Oz. Aidan is thrilled to be making his first appearance on the London theatre stage with Allswell!

Kate Deman, Leaf’s Mom & Olive’s Mom

Kate is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful production. Selected credits include: Company (Amy), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), Sweeney Todd, Dogfight (Rose), Anne of Green Gables (Diana), The Little Mermaid, Rent (Maureen), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), and Bat Boy (Shelly).

When she isn’t performing, Kate spends her days as a Hearing Care provider and runs Locally Made Marketplace in Wortley Village.

Christine Gruenbauer, Stage Manager

Christine is an arts manager, Producer for the Grand Theatre, and Mamma Mia enthusiast. She feels so grateful to be returning to Putnam County as stage manager after producing/stage managing this production with King's Players Theatre Company (2016). She has jumped back and forth between producing and stage managing for many productions across London including all seven Allswell productions, The Woolgatherer (Scooter Productions), The Laramie Project (Theatre Aezir) and Cravings (Curveball Creative). Christine wishes to thank her business partners, forever collaborators, and best friends - Ben, Regine and Hailey - for this perfect send-off to her most favourite creative endeavor. It was a very nice beginning.

Sue Harrington, Costume Designer

Sue is an Early Childhood Educator, actor, body positivity activist, and a full time hugger. Sue loves meeting new people and trying new art forms. She is thrilled to be costume designing for Allswell’s final show. She is excited to bring her love for fashion and theatre together!! Sue’s recent acting credits include Amos Calloway in Big Fish (Musical Theatre Productions), Ross in The Elephant Man (Odesa Company), Iris in The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Scooter Productions), and Plugra in Civil Dawn (Banished by the King). You can see Sue as The Witch in Odesa Company’s world premier of Shakespeare’s Oz here at the Auburn stage this July 24th-27th. She would like to thank Chris for being a wonderful partner and her favourite supporter!

Hailey Hill, Director

Hailey is a director and proud Artistic Director of Allswell Productions. She directed all of Allswell’s shows over the past 7 years, including 4 musicals: Dogfight (2018), Sweeney Todd (2019, co-production with MTP), The Drowsy Chaperone (2023, co-production with MTP), and The Last Five Years (2024). Other notable directing credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (King's Players, 2016), Chicago (Blue Canoe Productions, 2016), The Laramie Project (Theatre Aezir, 2019), and a few credits with Original Kids Theatre Company. Working on this show once more after directing it 9 years ago has been such a full-circle moment, and it feels all too appropriate as Allswell's final production. She would like to thank the cast, crew, and band for bringing something new and special to the world of Putnam. Special shout-outs to her partners in crime, theatre and life; you’re all the best.

Jesslyn Hodgson, Set Coordinator

This is Jesslyn's first time working backstage with Allswell Productions, having previously performed in their productions of Dogfight, Sweeney Todd and The Drowsy Chaperone. She is excited to help bring Spelling Bee to life, getting to bring together a few of her favourite pastimes, crafting & theatre. Thanks to the Allswell team for trusting her with this project and for all of the theatre joy they've created over the years.

Ben Leibovitz, Music Director & Keys

Ben is the Director of Music and a co-founder of Allswell Productions, and is a conductor, keyboardist, French horn player, and composer. For Allswell: The Last Five Years, The Drowsy Chaperone (co-production with MTP), The Romeo Initiative (original music), Patchface (original music), Sweeney Todd (co-production with MTP), and Dogfight. Selected Music Direction credits: Amélie, The Prom, Tommy, Curtains, Newsies (Original Kids), Children of Eden, Hello, Dolly! (MTP), Seussical (LYTE), A Chorus Line (Theatre Western), and plenty more. He is excited to return to Putnam County after a nine-year “spiritual quest” (King’s Players). Love and gratitude as always to friends and family for their tireless support, and to his Allswell compatriots, Christine, Hailey, and Regine, for sharing this creative space for the last seven years. Allswell that ends well!

Regine Li, Producer & Synthesizer

Regine is the Production Coordinator for Allswell Productions and is a pianist, saxophonist, video game producer and collector of fidget toys. For Allswell: The Drowsy Chaperone (co-pro w/ MTP) - Producer & Keys 2; The Last 5 Years, The Romeo Initiative, Patchface, Sweeney Todd (co-pro w/ MTP) - Stage Manager; Dogfight - Crew. Select musician credits: The Prom, White Christmas, Newsies (Original Kids); A Chorus Line (Theatre Western); Hello, Dolly!, The Beauty Underneath, Company (MTP); First Date, Reefer Madness, Spelling Bee (King’s Players). Thank you to her friends and family for their support. Thank you to this cast, crew & band for all your hard work, joy, and dedication. Thank you to Heather for her endless patience and generous love. To Christine, Hailey & Ben, thank you for taking that chance on me. With our brains combined, we built something great. Allswell that ends well, why yes, of course.

Brittney-Lee Lowey, Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre

Brittney-Lee is very excited to be in the cast for Spelling Bee, one of her favourite shows! Recent notable credits include Pat (Kinky Boots, LCP), Puck (Midsummer Night’s Dream, WSS), Soloist; Ensemble; Aunt March (Godspell; Carrie; Little Women, Kings Players), and Jacob (Joseph, MTP). She is a graduate of Canadore College’s Acting for Stage and Screen program, and also recently earned her BA in Theatre Studies at Western University. Brittney-Lee wants to shoutout this incredibly talented team, and thanks all of her loved ones for their support! Go Porcupines!

George McCleary, Dan Dad & Olive’s Dad

This is George’s Allswell Productions debut. George is so excited to be a part of this production of Spelling Bee.
Other shows: Finding Black Joy & LGC Concert Series (Grand Theatre); Hairspray (Drayton Entertainment); Sound of Music (Stratford); Hello, Dolly!, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Seussical (MTP); Cinderella, We Are Monsters, Finding Nemo, Oliver and Trevor the Musical (Choreographer, OKTC).
George is grateful to work with such an amazing team and wants to thank you for coming! Enjoy the show!

Courtney Murray, Marcy Park

Courtney Murray is a passionate performer and theatre lover currently working as the Artistic Director at London Performing Arts Academy (LPAA). She also works as a director and choreographer with Original Kids Theatre Company (OKTC), Theatre Western, Kings Community Players, and LPAA. Onstage, Courtney recently played Lauren in Kinky Boots (Palace Theatre Arts Commons) and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (LPAA Community Players). Behind the scenes, she’s directed and choreographed productions such as 13, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, and Beauty and the Beast. Courtney is currently pursuing her BFA in Theatre at the University of Western Ontario and continues to train in voice, dance, and performance. She sends endless love and gratitude to her theatre family for their constant support, laughter, and late-night tech week snacks—this journey wouldn’t be the same without you!

Lauren Nicolaas, Assistant Stage Manager

Lauren is an accounting professor at Western University and a lifelong musical theatre devotee. For over ten years, she has worked behind the scenes with this creative team, making sure everything and everyone stays show-ready and (mostly) sane. She’s grateful to Christine, Ben, Hailey, and Regine for a decade of safety pins, duct tape, hot glue guns, and incredible memories—and for the chance to return to the Putnam Bee once again. Lauren also sends love to her friends and her mom for supporting her from the audience, even though if all goes according to plan, you’ll forget anyone was running things backstage at all.

Barbara Rand, Props Designer

This is Barbara’s sixth production with Allswell. Previously she worked as Props Designer for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and The Drowsy Chaperone and as Props and Costume Designer for Patchface, The Romeo Initiative, and The Last Five Years.  Other select credits include Production Assistant, A Permanent Image and Associate Producer, The Laramie Project (Theatre Æzir); Props Designer, On a First Name Basis and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (LCP), and Willy Wonka and SpongeBob SquarePants The Musical (LYTE).  She is eternally grateful to the creative team at Allswell for inviting her along for the ride and igniting her passion for props.

Dylan Rock, Leaf Coneybear

Previous credits for Allswell: The Drowsy Chaperone (2023 w/ MTP), Sweeney Todd (2019 w/ MTP), Dogfight (2018). Dylan would like to extend his heartfelt thanks and congratulations to everyone involved with this production. It has been such a treat to create with the Allswell team one last time before the deserved ride off into the sunset. Dylan would like to dedicate this performance to his niece and nephews, who were a massive influence on his portrayal of Leaf. Dylan would also like to dedicate this performance to his late grandmother Patricia, who passed away during the rehearsal process; her love and dedication to the performing arts has, and always will be, a cherished memory and influence.

Samantha Sendas, Choreographer

Samantha Sendas is a choreographer and dance educator passionate about storytelling through movement. She is honoured to be working alongside the Allswell crew again after much success from our co-production with MTP of The Drowsy Chaperone. Other recent choreography credits include The Spongebob Musical (LYTE), Amelie and Ride the Cyclone (OKTC), Grease (Silver Spotlight Theatre Company) and Guest Choreography for Beal Dance. When she's not choreographing shows , Sam works as faculty at O.N.E Dance Centre and O’Neill Academy of Dance teaching dance classes ranging across all ages! Next up you can catch Sam's choreo in the upcoming OKTC Alumni Production of The Rocky Horror Show running June 19th - 28th at the Spriet Theatre. Hope you enjoy the show! S-L-A-Y! @samsendas

Henry Truong, Leaf’s Dad, Carl Dad & Jesus

WORD: "Henry Truong."
DEFINITION: "An enthusiastic community theatre participant of the past 17 years, supported by a loving and talented partner (Margot) and two furry, recidivistic children (Freddie and Roger)."
USED IN A SENTENCE: "Henry Truong spends too much money on vinyl records.”

Cameron Tubbs, Cello

Cameron continues our tradition of cellists with short bios.

Heather Williams, Percussion

Heather is a drummer and percussionist who has been an enthusiastic member of many pit bands since 2012. Recent performances include The Prom, Tommy, SpongeBob SquarePants The New Musical, White Christmas (Original Kids Theatre Company), Blood Brothers, Company, The Beauty Underneath, Hello, Dolly! (Musical Theatre Productions), Damn Yankees (London Community Players), The Drowsy Chaperone (MTP & Allswell Productions) and Dogfight, The Last Five Years (Allswell Productions). Heather was the Assistant Stage Manager for Allswell's production of The Romeo Initiative. Heather also provided additional orchestrations for Allswell’s production of The Last Five Years. Many thanks to Ben and her wife Regine for all their technical know-how and MainStage wizardry.

Renae Wolfesberger, Rona Lisa Peretti

New to the London area, Renae is excited to be making her Allswell (and London!) debut in such a fun show! Having completed her BMus in voice performance at the University of Toronto, Renae has gone on to perform in choirs and shows around the GTA, before translating her love of language and voice into a career as a Speech-Language Pathologist. Past musical theatre performances include Rent (Maureen), Joseph/Dreamcoat (Narrator) and Mamma Mia (Sophie). She has additionally music directed a multitude of youth shows in her hometown of Uxbridge, Ontario, including Legally Blonde, Freaky Friday, Finding Nemo jr, School of Rock, and many more. She would like to thank her friends and family for their ongoing support, and extra love to Brett for his endless patience and encouragement throughout all of her artistic endeavors!

William Finn, Composer & Lyricist

Mr. Finn was the writer and composer of Falsettos, for which he received two Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical (with James Lapine) and Best Original Score. He also wrote and composed In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, two Los Angeles Drama Critic's Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Composition). Mr. Finn wrote the lyrics to Graciela Daniele's Tango Apasionado (music by the great Astor Piazzolla) and, with Michael Starobin, the music to Lapine's version of The Winter's Tale. His musical, Romance in Hard Times, was presented at the Public Theater. He wrote Painting You for Love's Fire, a piece commissioned and performed bye the Acting Company, based on Shakepeare's sonnets. For television, Mr. Finn provided the music and lyrics for the Ace Award-winning HBO cartoon "Ira Sleeps Over," "Tom Thumb and Thumbelina," "Pokey Little Puppy's First Christmas," and, with Ellen Fitzhugh, two "Brave little Toaster" cartoons. Mr. Finn wrote for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker. A graduate of Williams College where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship for Musical Composition, Finn taught a weekly master class at the NYU Tisch Graduate Program in Musical Theatre Writing. Other projects include Elegies, A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee which ran on Broadway and has been produced nationally and internationally, as well.

Mr. Finn passed away on April 7th, 2025.

Rachel Sheinkin, Writer

Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Tony, Drama Desk awards); Off Broadway: Striking 12 (Lucille Lortel nomination), Off-Off: Serenade. Regional: Guthrie, Little House on the Prairie; Center Theater Group, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Los Angeles Ovation Award); London: Blood Drive. Residencies, fellowships, commissions include: Eugene O'Neill National Theater Center, Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Manhattan Theatre Club, Deaf West, McCarter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons. Rachel is a volunteer mentor for TDF's Open Doors program, a visiting instructor at Yale School of Drama, and adjunct faculty member of NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program.

Rebecca Feldman, Conceiver

Rebecca Feldman is the conceiver of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk and Tony Nomination for Best Musical. She directed its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in the summer of 2004. Rebecca is Associate Producer on TRANSPARENT, the MUSICAL FINALE and served as Staff Writer on the finale as well. She is currently developing an episodic drama with Big Kid Pictures, called LA COYOTE, which has been selected to the WeForShe’s 2019 Writeher List.She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab as well as the AFI Directing Workshop for Women where she won the Jean Firstenburg Award for Best Short. Her short films include, MY FIRST TIME DRIVING (AFI Jean Firstenburg Award, Best Short at Lake Arrowhead Film Fest, Best of Shorts at Outfest), A/V CLUB (TV Pilot, NYTVF), UBER ALICE (Woodstock Film Fest), DEAD CAT (Producer, Tribeca Film Fest) and IRVING (Official Selection Rhode Island Film Fest, Official Selection USA Film Fest, Ft. Lauderdale Film Fest, Atlanta Jewish Film Fest).

The Farm, Creative Collective

The Farm was founded in 2000 by Rebecca Feldman, Artistic Director.  It is a collective of writers and performers, including Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg.  The Farm’s interest is in the role of improvisation in creating new work for the theatre.  The Farm initially designates a two-week intensive period in which to discover, develop, and rehearse a play from the impulses borne mainly out of the pressure of a deadline.  Previous projects include “Super” (at Atlantic Theatre Studios), “Why I Hate Florida” (workshop at White Wave in DUMBO) and “C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E” (at the Present Company Theatorium in October 2002), on which “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is based.  The character and original dialogue of “Beth Marguiles,” “Vice President Douglas Panch,” “Mr. Barfee,” and “Logan Schwarzengrubenierre” were created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg, respectively.

When we first did Spelling Bee nine years ago with Kings Players, the reed book was split across three musicians. Rae Cunningham was our clarinetist. It was our first time playing a show with Rae, and for some of us, it was our first time meeting our Rae of Sunshine. We quickly learned how Rae's vibrant personality and quick wit were a perfect match for this show. Rae sadly passed away in 2019, but their spirit endures, and we're so pleased for Jenni to be playing this show with Rae's clarinet so their music can live on. The Putnam County High School Concert Band proudly dedicates this run in Rae's memory.

Allswell Executive Board:

Executive Producer - Christine Gruenbauer
Artistic Director - Hailey Hill
Director of Music - Ben Leibovitz
Production Coordinator - Regine Li