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Board of TrusteesAdvisory BoardFull-time StaffAward Winning!2008 Awarded an Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for a production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird from the National Endowment for the Arts2007 Awarded an Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for a production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire from the National Endowment for the Arts2007 Awarded the Living the Dream Service Organization Honor Roll from the Martin Luther King, Jr., West Virginia Holiday Commission 2006 Awarded an Access to Artistic Excellence Grant for a production of The Diary of Anne Frank from theNational Endowment for the Arts2006 Cathey Sawyer, Artistic Director, awarded Governor's Arts Award for "Artistic Excellence"2006 Designated the State's Official Year Round Professional Theatre by the West Virginia Legislature2005 Awarded a Creativity Grant for the creation of an historical play, Stories of Mountain Railroads, from the National Endowment for the Arts2002 Awarded a Creativity Grant for the creation of an historical play, The Greenbrier Martyr, from the National Endowment for the Arts2001 Designated West Virginia "Jewel of the Hills" by Governor Joe Manchin, IIIBoard of TrusteesBoard of Trustees

Cam Harkness Chairperson

Kirsten LaFollette President

Judi Kenaston Vice President

Amy Criddle Secretary

Debbie Ballard

John Barnes

Ann Benedict

Peggy Brown

Betsy Conte

Mary Cowan

Kim Cooper

Ann Day

Sandra Desbrow

Jerry Galyean

Claude Gaujot

William Haslam

Monika Hussell

Mary Ann Mann

Lana Martindale

Sandra Neely

Beverly White

Advisory BoardAdvisory Board

Bill Baker - Beckley, WV

Ralph Ballard - Charleston, WV

L. Thomas Bulla - Charleston, WV

Katharine B. Becker - Charleston, WV

John Benjamin - Shelbyville, KY

Allen Carson - Lewisburg, WV

Roger Cerasoli - White Sulphur Springs, WV

Brad Dourif - Tarzana, CA

Warren Hammack - Nelson, NH

Jim Justice - Lewisburg, WV

Stephen King - White Sulphur Springs, WV

Robert Kiss - Beckley, WV

First Lady Gayle Manchin - Charleston, WV

Ellis Marsalis - New Orleans, LA

Barbara Nissman - Lewisburg, WV

Bill Raney - Charleston, WV

Sharon Rowe - Lewisburg, WV

Chris Sarandon - Beverly Hills, CA

James Straw - Philadelphia, PA

Kate Udall - Morgantown, WV

Rick Whiting - St. Louis, MO

Full-time StaffFull-Time Staff

Cathey Crowell Sawyer Artistic Director

Jaime Adams Box Office Manager/Stage Manager

Jason Adams Technical Director

Jeff Bray Business Manager

Kate Brittingham Tech Generalist

Jenna Brown Costume Shop Manager

Joe Buttram (Volunteer) General Manager/ Development/Music Director

Kurtis Donnelly Education Director

Meredith Donnelly Development Associate

Jo Holland Assistant Box Office Manager

Waylon Lemasters Building Manager/

AssistantTechnical Director

Jane Matheny House Manager/Volunteer Director

Philip McLaughlin, Jr. Marketing Director

Michael Sharp Artistic Associate

Greenbrier Valley TheatreA Brief HistoryGreenbrier Valley Theatre is a live-performance theatre and much more. GVT is involved in all aspects of the arts and humanities, with people of all ages. Here is a brief history of our amazing journey: From its 1966 productions in a tent alongside the Greenbrier River to Actor's Equity affiliation in a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Lewisburg, the Greenbrier Valley Theatre has adhered to the founders' concept: quality live theatre centered around a core of professional actors and directors with opportunities for members of the community to learn stagecraft.For our first three years, we performed in a tent beside the Greenbrier River. After performing in various borrowed spaces, in 1976 a temporary structure was erected on property loaned to us by the Greenbrier Valley Airport Authority. The facility, known as The Barn, was funded by the Benedum Foundation and built by dedicated volunteers. It served as our home for the next 21 years. During this time, through thick and thin, GVT pushed ahead, developing the framework of a regional cultural institution by hiring a full-time Artistic Director and Managing Director and a seasonal company of professional actors and technical staff. We began to blend a trained cadre of community-based actors into the resident company and orchestrate vigorous intern (college-age) and apprentice (high school) programs. Our programming also began embracing a full season of plays including experimental new works, a very successful after-school drama program, a summer camp for youngsters, classes, literary readings, special events performances, art appreciation activities, lectures, discussions, and workshops.Knowing that our temporary facility would not last forever, we searched for a permanent home, and in 1994, purchased the vacant Leggett's Department Store in downtown Lewisburg - a vital step in providing year-round live theatre and classes in a safe, comfortable and accessible setting. We began renovations in 1999, and in 2000 we moved into our new home. We raised a section of the roof to create flexible theatre space eliminating support columns to provide an unobstructed view. We also: created a spacious, attractive lobby for our patrons; created classroom/studio space; upgraded existing building systems to accommodate the demands of live theatre; and met all federal, state and local codes including accommodations under the American Disabilities Act as well as the expectationsof theatre professionals.Greenbrier Valley Theatre has enjoyed the support of a loyal community whose nurturing has developed a vigorous, professional organization with a vision to establish GVT as a significant regional performing theatre. In March 2006 GVT became West Virginia's Official Year-Round Professional Theatre.2009

New Voices Original Short Play Festival

Guys & Dolls

The Bridgroom of Blowing Rock

The Greenbrier Ghost

All the Great Books (abridged)

Sherlock Holmes, The Final Adventure

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

SUDS

Macbeth

Sweet and Hot

A Christmas Carol

2008

5th Annual Festival of Community Plays

Oklahoma!

A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage

The Underpants

The Spitfire Grill

Bach at Leipzig

Hansel and Gretel

Route 66

To Kill A Mockingbird

Home For Christmas

A Broadway Christmas Carol

2007

4th Annual Festival of Community Plays

42nd Street

The Guys

Urinetown, the Musical

I'll Never Be Hungry Again

Moonlight and Magnolias

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Thursday's Child

Always . . . Patsy Cline

A Streetcar Named Desire

Plaid Tidings

A Christmas Carol

2006

3rd Annual Festival of Community Plays

The Boy Friend

Pete 'n' Keely

Something's Afoot

Sly Fox

Lying in State

Sing Down The Moon

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Moving of Lilla Barton

Forever Plaid

Nutcracker

2005

2nd Annual Festival of Community Plays

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

God's Man In Texas

Free Mel Greenberg!

The Sugar Bean Sisters

The Drawer Boy

Noises Off

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

2004

A Festival of Community Plays

The Sound of Music

Side by Side by Sondheim

The Greenbrier Ghost

The Cripple of Inishmaan

The Complete History of America (Abridged)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

The Subject Tonight Is Love

The Honky Tonk Angels

A Tuna Christmas

A Christmas Carol

2003

Footloose

Grace & Glorie

The Gin Game

The Greenbrier Ghost

Fully Committed

The Exact Center of the Universe

Old Wicked Songs

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Always . . . Patsy Cline

Greater Tuna

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

2002

A Christmas Carol

15 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Over the River and Through the Woods

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Always...Patsy Cline

The Weir

Jack and the Beanstalk

Wiley and the Hairy Man

Breaking Legs

Company

The Martyr

Grease

How to Eat Like a Child

A Birthday Surprise

2001

"Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?"

Full Gallop

Gutman's Climb

A Little Night Music

Othello

Over the River and Through the Woods

A Chorus of Disapproval

The Wind and the Willows

The Glass Menagerie

A Christmas Carol

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2000

Greenbrier

The Merry Wives of Windsor

All the King's Men

Tintypes

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged

Miz Rawling's Mess

A Christmas Carol

1999

Free Mel Greenberg

A Flea in Her Ear

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

All My Sons

Confronting Demons

Sleeping Beauty

Ivy Rowe

Tuna Christmas

1998

Zona

Eccentricities

The Mystery of Irma Vep

Light Up the Sky

Stuart Little

1997

Rupert's Birthday and Other Monologues

Smoke on the Mountain

The Learned Ladies

Lost in Yonkers

Talking Pictures

Perfect Women

Aesop's Fables

1996

A...My Name is Alice

A Patchwork Adventure

Pump Boys and Dinettes

Cole

The Cemetery Club

The Pride of East Texas

Calling Wanda

Laundry & Bourbon

Tarheel Tales

1995

How to Eat Like a Child

A Voice of My Own

A Midsummer Night's Dream

You Belong to Me

1940's Radio Hour

Our Town

Forever in Love

1994

A...My Name is Alice

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Lend Me a Tenor

The Voice of the Prairie

Mole Hill

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

1993

Eleemosynary

Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music

The Pirates of Penzance

The Boys Next Door

The Dining Room

Welcome to Four Way

An Evening of One Act Plays

Charlotte's Web

1992

Fiddler on the Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Greater Tuna

The Spot

Talking With...

Alice in Wonderland

The Gift of the Magi

1991

Beauty and the Beast

My Fair Lady

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Mass Appeal

The Feast of Stephen

Peter Pan

The Hobbit

1990

Annie

Educating Rita

The Nerd

The Wizard of Oz

1989

Telling Wild Tales

The Sound of Music

Crimes of the Heart

Sugar

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday

1988

Hello Dolly

The Foreigner

1987

The Curious Savage

Sabrina Fair

Anything Goes; Tribute

1986

Annie Get Your Gun

I Do! I Do!

The Importance of Being Earnest

Arms and the Man

Opal's Million Dollar Duck

The Glass Menagerie

1985

Vanities

6 Rms Riv Vu

110 in the Shade

You Can't Take it With You

1984

Luv

A Streetcar Named Desire

It Had to Be You

The Music Man

The Lion in Winter

Damn Yankees

On Golden Pond

1983

Bus Stop

Oliver

Blithe Spirit

Dark of the Moon

The Fourposter

The Real Inspector Hound

Arsenic and Old Lace

1982

Life With Father

Everybody Loves Opal

The King and I

Stalag 17

1981

Oklahoma

FiddleDeeDee

Where's Charley?

Little Mary Sunshine

The Marriage Go Round

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Laura

The Tender Trap

Pajama Tops

1980

How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

Heaven Can Wait

The Fantastiks

Once Upon a Mattress

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

1979

See How They Run

Ten Little Indians

The Tempest

Guys and Dolls

1978

Kiss Me, Kate

Harvey

The Hobbit

South Pacific

Everybody Loves Opal

Reynard the Fox

Two short GBS plays: Passion, Poison & Petrification & Overruled!

1977

Barefoot in the Park

The New Revue

The Deputy of Broken Bow & The Daniel Jazz

Butterflies Are Free

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Sleuth

Shenandoah

1976

Barefoot in the Park

Godspell

Witness for the Prosecution

Fiddler on the Roof

Love and Marriage, touring revue

An Evening with Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol

Mother Goose and Other Oft-Told Tales

Rumplestiltskin

Cinderella

1975

Down in the Valley

I Do! I Do!

Rose Lee Simpson 1928-1956, originalwork by Innerarity

A Thousand Clowns

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Little Red Riding Hood

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Winnie the Pooh, touring production

1974

You Can't Take it With You

Diary of Anne Frank

Dames at Sea

The Student Review, original production

An Evening with Mark Twain

The Fourposter

1972

Oliver

1971

Othello

Fiddler on the Roof

Look Homeward, Angel

Company

1970

The Odd Couple

Man of La Mancha

The Glass Menagerie

Camelot

1969

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

A Thousand Clowns

The Apple Tree: The Diary of Adam and Eve/The Taming of the Shrew

Charlie's Aunt

Peter Pan

1968

Brigadoon

The Fantastiks

The Little Foxes

My Three Angels

Anything Goes

1967

Bye Bye Birdie

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Diary of Anne Frank

Any Number Can Die

Annie Get Your Gun

1966

Damn Yankees

Dracula

The Mousetrap

The Curious Savage

Little Mary Sunshine

GVT LINKS:WVYourWayGreater Greenbrier Chamber of CommerceCarnegie Hall - West VirginiaNorth House MuseumThe Actors' Center Regional TheatreTrillium Performing Arts CollectiveGreenbrier County LibraryDowntown Lewisburg ShoppingWest Virginia Division of Culture and HistoryWest Virginia Humanities CouncilGreenbrier Valley Convention and Visitor's BureauClay CenterGreenbrier Valley Economic Development CorporationLocal 674, American Federation of MusiciansThe GreenbrierThe Greenbrier Sporting ClubThe General Lewis InnWild, Wonderful West VirginiaTheatre Communications GroupSETCHighland County Arts CouncilGreenbrier Valley ChoraleWest Virginia Cave ConservancyDrama LeagueMighty Thrifty

113 East Washington Street, Lewisburg, WV 24901 1.866.888.1411 toll free 1.304.645.3838 1.304.645.3818

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