Director
Miss Valerie is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in Speech/Theatre Education and has spent over 30 years involved in theatre: performing or directing. She finished her ninth year as Troupe Director of Amherst Steele High School where she also teaches Freshman English. In 2006 she took the play RNJ:PDQ to perform at the International Festival as the only play to represent Ohio, and in 2007 she took The Crucible as a featured play at the Ohio Educational Theatre Association’s State Conference. This is Miss Valerie’s fourth year with PYT, she directed Honk, Jr (2006), Seussical (2007), and Willy Wonka Jr. (2008). She thanks: her talented and dedicated production staff, the awesome PYT parent volunteers, John & Suzanne and the rest of the wonderful Palace staff, her husband Fred, and the beautiful and talented students in this year’s production. You all worked hard and put your heart and soul into this year’s project! Don’t forget that you are “...youth... joy... and freedom!”