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​​​​​​​​​​​​More Bios of our amazing cast & crew!

 

Colton Anselment is a 3rd grader at Orchard Lake Elementary School. This is Colton’s second musical at North (Mary Poppins). Recently, Colton played Alexei Romanov in Anastasia at Eagan Summer Community Theatre. He also had the privilege to make appearances in Kenwood Trail's productions of Newsies and Descendants. Colton loves acting, singing, dancing and dinosaurs. He is thrilled to be in this production of Oliver with his older brother and sister.  Colton would like to thank all of the directors for letting him be a part of this experience. 

 

Cameron Baldeshwiler is a freshman at LNHS and is very excited to do her first play with Lakeville North drama!  She has been in previous CastleCo productions as various ensemble members. When she’s not on the stage, you can catch her cheerleading, riding horses, and spending time with her family. She would like to thank her family for encouraging and supporting her all throughout this adventure! Cameron hopes you enjoy the show! 

 

Jo Barlow is a freshman and is very excited to participate in Lakeville North’s production of Oliver. She is performing as a member of the ensemble. In the past she performed in Century Middle School's Matilda in ensemble, Willy Wonka in ensemble, and The Little Mermaid as Arista. She really enjoys theatre and hopes to participate again next year.

 

Madelyn Beyer is a junior and she is very grateful to be in the ensemble of Oliver!  Previously, she has been in cast in SpongeBob and tech for Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, and half-tech, half-ensemble in Pride and Prejudice. One of her favorite memories of theater is doing tech ab circles before shows on stage right (the best stage side)—though it’s closely followed by monster runs and watching Jackson Steele run backstage to get doused with water to prep for the rain scene in Pride and Prejudice. She’d like to thank her family and friends for the constant joy they bring to her life and to performances and her fellow cast and crew members who worked so hard to put on such a brilliant show. 

 

Shannon Cole is a Freshman at LNHS. She is eagerly anticipating the performances for Oliver!, as it is her first time doing tech. In the past, she was ensemble in the CMS productions of Matilda, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and The Little Mermaid. She has also been in various productions at her old school, and was assigned the lead role in “Doo Wop Little Red Riding Hood” before lockdown began. Shannon can’t wait for the next few performances!

 

Logan Ewart is a freshman and he is very excited to be part of his first ever show, Oliver! He is looking forward to being in future shows. 

 

Jackie Ewart is a junior at Lakeville North High school. The LNHS productions she has done in the past includes SpongeBob the Musical (runner), Sherlock (runner), Radium Girls (runner), Coraline (Assistant Stage Manager), Little Shop Of Horrors (Assistant Right Stage Lead), Mary Poppins (Right Stage Lead), Yellow Wallpaper (Assistant Stage Manager), Monty Python (Stage Right Lead), Sorry Wrong Number (runner), Pride and Prejudice (Assistant Stage Manager and Right Stage Lead), and now Oliver! as the Stage Manager. She is super thankful for the support of directors, friends, and family. She is very excited for her future in theatre at LNHS!

 

Aricelli Fetzek is a freshman and excited to be a part of the tech crew for Oliver!  Aricelli has been involved in theater since 6th grade and has had roles in Little Mermaid, Newsies, Descendants, and Shrek Jr.  This will be Aricelli’s first year being a part of the tech crew. Aricelli is enjoying painting sets and getting to help with all the behind the scenes stuff that goes into creating a show. Aricelli’s favorite part of theater is meeting new friends and learning new things. Aricelli is looking forward to being a part of the Lakeville North theater department throughout her High School years.

 

Farrah Field is a freshman and is excited to be the Dance Captain in her second LNHS production and fifteenth theater production over all. You might have seen Farrah this summer as Sven in Frozen with CCT. Some of her other favorite roles include Descendants (Mal), Newsies (Race) and Beetlejuice (Lydia). Farrah would like to thank everyone in this production from the fabulous directors to all the friends in the cast and crew. She would also like to thank James, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Tinebra and everyone at CCT who believed in her and gave her the love and passion for theater. The stage is her happy place and she is so proud of her sister, Summer, for bringing Nancy to life and killing it on the Oliver! stage together. Thanks to all the people who have come to support Oliver! today and enjoy the show!

 

Adele Hamer is a Freshman and she is very happy to be a part of Lakeville North’s production of Oliver! Adele is playing the role of “Nipper,” the youngest boy in Fagin's gang, along with a couple other ensemble roles, such as workhouse boy. Adele’s previous role at Lakeville North has been as an ensemble member in Mary Poppins. Her past roles at Kenwood Trail were Lady Macduff's son in an abridged version of Macbeth, Hans from the 3 Snake Leaves, and the prince in The House In The Woods, two of the stories in The 12 Huntsmen, and she was part of the tech team for The Little Mermaid. Adele’s favorite thing about theater is embodying a character and figuring out how they would act in a scene. Adele will be a sophomore next year and is excited to participate in future performances. 

 

Lilia Hendrickson is a freshman at Lakeville North high school and this is her first year in tech crew. She has participated in some of Century Middle School’s past musicals. She was part of the ensemble of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory jr. and she took the role of a mersister in The Little Mermaid jr. Lilia is excited to be a part of the crew for Oliver and is looking forward to helping out in the future musicals.

 

Tiara Hoque is a Junior at Lakeville North High School. This is her fifth show with Lakeville North Drama, and she is very excited to be a part of this show! Some previous musicals she was a part of were Mary Poppins, Little Shop of Horrors, and Spongebob! Along with theatre, she takes voice lessons at MacPhail, participates in choir and is involved with the Minnesota Opera. Tiara's favorite thing about theatre is being able to sing and to help bring a show to life. She'd like to thank her loving friends and supportive family!

 

Lexie Jeziorski is a junior at Lakeville North and she is excited to be a part of this production of Oliver. She has been a crew runner for Little Shop of Horrors and Pride & Prejudice. For Oliver, she will be the right stage lead. She is thankful for her family, friends, theater directors, and Kate Bakke. She is excited to participate in future shows at Lakeville North. 

 

Kaelee Johnson is a sophomore and she is very excited to help in the production of Oliver! Kaelee is a part of the tech crew as a runner. She has done one other show, Pride and Prejudice, in which she was also a runner. One of Kaelee’s favorite parts about theater is seeing the shows start to come together on stage. She would like to thank her friends, family, and all of the directors for their continued support.

 

Tristha Koner is a sophomore at LNHS and this is her first year doing tech, though she was a chimney sweep and a statue in Mary Poppins last year. Hanging out with Sophia is one of Tristha’s favorite activities ever. (And I mean ever). She loves artistic activities like sketching, singing, and dancing. Tristha’s favorite thing about theater is spending time with her friends and getting to create!! She’d like to thank her family and friends and all the past music, dance, and theater directors she has had the pleasure to work with, including her mother <3.

 

Larry Korman is a junior at Lakeville North High School and he is very excited to be in this production of Oliver! His past involvement in theater at North includes being a technician in Little Shop of Horrors, an ensemble member in Mary Poppins, and Sir Robin in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail one act. His favorite theater memory is watching movies with his friends backstage during queue-to-queues. He’d like to thank his fellow cast members, the tech crew, and all of the amazing directors for making this show an incredibly fun experience.

 

Harper Larson is in 7th grade at Century middle school. She is super excited to be in a high school production. Harper is in the chorus and is a workhouse boy/orphan. Some of the previous musicals that she has done are a sea creature in Century middle school’s production of the little mermaid. She was a troll in Castle Cos  production of frozen. Harper's favorite thing about theater is being on stage and performing. Finally, Harper would like to thank the amazing directors for inviting her to be apart of this year’s musical at LNHS

 

Nora Lumpkin is a 9th grader at LNHS who is excited for her first year of tech crew! She is looking forward to seeing the full production, from watching the musical Marry Poppins and the One Acts from last year she is excited to be able to be part of this amazing show!

 

Nora Marsolek is a sophomore at Lakeville North High School and is super excited to be a part of the ensemble in Oliver! Nora has recently been ensemble in Mary Poppins and Pride and Prejudice and can’t wait for more acting opportunities in the future! Nora would like to thank her family (especially her sister) for supporting her in her acting endeavors and never complaining about late night rides home, and her friends who may not know everything about theater but are always at the shows to show support!

 

Aviendha McGinley is a Junior participating in her 7th High School Drama production. Aviendha has spent time in drama bouncing back and forth from Crew to Cast throughout the years but this year she aims to Act all year. She is so happy she gets to spend this years’ musical with her close friends.

 

Michael Morton is in 8th grade at Century and is very excited to be in Oliver! He is a Fagin kid, a workhouse kid, and First Man/Man.  He has previously performed in The Little Mermaid as Grimsby and Willy Wonka as Mr. Salt. He is so grateful to the directors and all his family for all they do!

 

Lily Nelsen is a freshman and she is so excited to be in Lakeville North's production of Oliver. Lily plays the role of a Fagin kid and member of the ensemble. Lily’s previous roles at Century Middle School included Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka, and Flotsam in The Little Mermaid. Lily enjoys theater as an outlet to express herself and make new friends. Her favourite part of this show was meeting all the amazing people! Lily is very excited to continue to do shows with North and find new opportunities these upcoming years.

 

Madi Pinard is a sophomore and is very excited to be in Oliver this year! Her roles in Oliver are workhouse boy, bartender/barmaid, and a street sweeper. After this musical she will proceed to do theater in the upcoming years. Madi’s theatre performances before this include ensemble for Mary Poppins, and Tommy Boy from Newsies jr. at Kenwood middle school. Madi is looking forward to continuing on her musical journey and has had so much fun doing theatre!

 

Emma Pittman is a sophomore at Lakeville North High School. This year she is part of the tech crew and is excited to have a new role behind the scenes. This is her first year in tech, in the past she was in Mary Poppins with Lakeville North and in musicals with Century Middle School.

 

Dawn Rierson is a 10th grader this year at Lakeville north High School. They are ecstatic about being a part of another great performance and having it be a musical they’re unfamiliar with, they’ve come to love it! Dawn’s a part of lots of ensemble, but they’re mainly a Fagin kid in most scenes, though they do have a hustle on the side; delivering books. In past performances they have played Violet Beauregard in Willy Wonka Jr. & a paperboy in the ensemble cast of Mary Poppins! Dawn’s favorite thing about theater is the community & people that you get to know & become almost a family with. Next year, Dawn will be a Junior at LNHS & is hoping to shoot for some bigger roles in the next shows.

 

Toby Saenz is a sophomore at Lakeville North High School and is super excited to join Ensemble. He's got some experience in performing arts as a techie and was the stage manager for Newsies Jr. Plus, he acted in Macbeth at Kenwood Trail Middle School. He’s really thankful to his mom for helping him juggle his busy schedule.

 

Stella Sorbo is a third grader at Nova Classical Academy. She has taken theater classes at the Children’s Theater Company. She enjoys playing with her sister, her friends, drawing, music, and her family. 

 

Audra Stern is a Junior and is thrilled to be working the spotlight in LNHS’s production of Oliver! Her other jobs in tech include spotlight operator for “Mary Poppins” and “Little Shop of Horrors”, runner and light board operator for the One Acts, and a runner in “SpongeBob: the Musical” and “Pride and Prejudice”. In her free time, Audra enjoys hanging out with friends and binge watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She’d like to thank all her friends, who make the whole theatre experience worth it!

 

Georgia Svestka is a sophomore and a captain and is very excited to be in this production of Oliver! She is an ensemble member and matron in this production. Georgia has been in past productions of Mary Poppins as an ensemble member, and Pride & Prejudice as a member of the tech team. She is very happy to have been a part of this musical because of all the fun dances and songs. One of her favorite dances in this musical is “Food Glorious Food!” Because of all of the acting involved in the number and the dance. She would like to thank her sister and LNHS alumni Scarlett Svestka for always supporting her and coming to all of her shows and theater performances she’s been in.

 

Lila Tesh is a freshman at LNHS this year, and she is so excited to be a part of this year’s production of “Oliver!” Lila has multiple roles this year that include Girl, Workhouse Boy, and she is a part of the chorus. In the past Lila has been in “Mary Poppins” as a London goer, Maleficent in “Descendants,” Muriel in “Newsies,” Gull 3 in “The Little Mermaid,” and Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Lila’s favorite attribute of theatre is the feeling of being a part of something bigger than herself, and singing of course! Finally, Lila would like to thank the amazing directors for inviting/giving her the opportunity to be a part of this year’s fabulous show!

 

Shaelyn Thomas is a Sophomore at LNHS and she is thrilled to get the chance to be in Oliver with this talented group of singers and dancers! She is in the Chorus/Ensemble, and she loves dancing and singing with her friends on stage! Shaelyn’s favorite thing about theater is trying new voices and songs. In the past, Shaelyn had played Witch #1 in an abridged version of Macbeth at Kendall’s Trail Middle School when she was 13, she also played the role of “Nancy” in the newsies Jr. when she was 13. She is looking forward to being a part of future performances at LNHS!

 

Claire Vinovich is very excited to be a part of the crew for Oliver. During her other shows such as Mary Poppins, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Yellow WallPaper, Sorry Wrong Number and Pride and Prejudice where she was a runner. She would like to thank her family, friends, and directors for their continuous support.