SHE/HER | Heath Canfield is thrilled to be making her Fort Salem Theater debut in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She graduated from SUNY Albany with a degree in Linguistics and a minor in Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), Guys and Dolls (Colleen), Mamma Mia (Ensemble), and HONK! (Grace). She was also recently featured in the web series Bacon (Jules). She would like to thank her family for their support.

Matt is excited to be performing at Fort Salem Theater for the third time, having previously appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank (Mr. Van Daan). Playing Linus has been a dream of Matt’s since seeing a production of this show in high school, and he’s elated to finally make that dream a reality. Previous favorite appearances include: Once Upon a Mattress (King Sextimus), The Real Inspector Hound (Moon), Our Time (Alan), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Cheswick). Matt would like to thank Iris, Megan, Kyle, and Peyton for their constant support and believing in his abilities, and his absurdly talented cast mates for never ever making him feel his age. Matt wouldn’t be here without Anna and Kyra’s encouragement and impromptu voice lessons, for which he is forever grateful. Matt would also like to thank his family for their support, and his coworkers for not being too annoyed as Matt shows up to work exhausted and punchy from rehearsals. Fort Salem Theater is Matt’s favorite venue in which he’s ever performed, and is thankful to the Wests for creating such a welcoming, creatively inspiring atmosphere.

Chandler is returning to the Fort Salem Theater stage playing the role of Charlie Brown. Chandler is a graduate of Gordon College where he majored in History and minored in Music. He lives in Easton, NY and in his day job works as a writer/editor for the agriculture news publication Morning Ag Clips. Previous theater experiences include Bright Star (Stanford Adams) and There’s Still No Business Like Snow Business at FST, as well as productions with Greenwich Central School and Schuylerville Community Theater when he was a student.

SHE/HER | Emily is thrilled to be back on the Fort Salem Theater stage! She was last seen at FST playing Ilse in Spring Awakening. She is a proud graduate of the University at Albany where she studied theatre with a minor in fine arts. Previous performance credits include Grease (Jan), Bright Star (Lucy Grant), HAIR (Sheila), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne). In NYC, she performed in Manhattan Concert Production’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 50th Anniversary Concert at Lincoln Center. She would like to thank her friends and family for their constant love and support! IG: @emilykjenkins

HE/HIM | Zach is thrilled to be back on the Fort Salem stage! You may recall seeing him in Spring Awakening (Melchior). Previously, Zach has performed with SLOC in Violet (Flick), Dog Sees God (Van), and First Date (Waiter). Before attending the University of Pittsburgh (H2P!) to obtain his Master's Degree in Higher Education Management, Zach attended Robert Morris University where he studied public relations and minored in theatre. Some of his favorite past credits include West Side Story (Bernardo), Shrek the Musical (Donkey), Love's Labour's Lost the Musical (King), and Avenue Q (Nicky). Zach would like to thank his friends for their unwavering support and encouragement. Enjoy the show!

Luke is honored to return to Fort Salem Theater playing one of his favorite characters of all time: Snoopy! A senior at Castleton University, Luke is graduating in the Spring of 2023 with a major in Media and Communication and a minor in Dance. His recent acting credits include FST’s Spring Awakening (Hänschen), Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (The D’Ysquith Family), Shrek the Musical (Dragon), Dog Sees God (Matt) & The Mousetrap (Trotter). When not in front of the curtain he’s behind it, choreographing a wide variety of shows for both youth and community theater such as Seussical and Beauty and the Beast.

Megan is a local Director, Performer, Artist, Educator, and Professionally Fun woman based out of Saratoga, NY. After receiving degrees in New Media and Theatre and Performance (with a concentration in Directing) from Purchase College, she has taken her love for digital arts and performance across the creative fields, and the country. From serving as the Artist in Residence at the Billings Public Library in Montana, to helping develop new curriculum as a Theatre Instructor at SPAC, to devising immersive and site-specific performances at Historic Huguenot Street as the Arts and Interpretation Manager, she has found a way to foster creative communities wherever she can- and she is delighted to be part of the wonderful community here at the Fort Salem Theater! Previous directorial efforts include: She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, The Skriker by Caryl Churchill, No Strings by Richard Rogers, True West by Sam Shepard, and Macbeth (by the Bard). This list does not include the wide world of original works she has assisted in developing and staging, including her original devised children's musical: A Robot Wrote This! Authored entirely by the GPT3. You may have caught her onstage in March as Martha in Spring Awakening at the Fort Salem Theater, or at venues such as Dixon Place in NYC, the Park Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, Spa City, as well as your favorite bars with her duo act Pat and Meg Live! She is delighted to be making her directorial debut here in Fort Salem, and feels beyond lucky to be a part of the ever-growing community of incredible artists and wonderful friends that call this theatre Home. Oh, and she would like to thank her parents, because she always forgets to.

Iris is a graduate of Purchase College Conservatory (2017) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music with a focus in Operatic Studies and Vocal Performance. She has previously performed on the Fort Salem Theater stage in the productions of The Marvelous Wonderettes (Cindy Lou), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Spring Awakening (Thea), and There is No Business Like Snow Business. In her time at Purchase, she performed the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, and double cast as Arnalta and Nutrice in L'incoronazione di Poppea. In December of 2022, Iris musically directed her first show, Legally Blonde, quickly followed by The Lion King Junior. She also owns a local business in Hebron, (Homestead Hemp 1787) and is well known on TikTok for sharing mysterious stories about her family farm.

HE/HIM | Kyle has three decades of creating award-winning theatre under his belt, working as a producer, director, choreographer, designer, and performer. His work has been seen all across the US, from Cape Cod, to Boston, Arizona and Dallas, to New York and has been recognized by the AriZoni Awards of Excellence, BroadwayWorld Awards, Column Awards, Annie Award, MET Awards, and MHSDG Awards, among others.

At Fort Salem Theater, he has directed and choreographed Salem Under The Stars, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Next to Normal, There’s No Business Like Snow Business, and Grease, and has designed costumes for FST’s Pride & Prejudice and Bright Star. Up next, he will choreograph FST’s You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Kyle is humbled to be the executive and artistic director of Fort Salem Theater.

SHE/HER | Peyton has been performing for over a decade in many Cabaret shows, plays, and musicals in the Albany area. Performance credits include: Bright Star (Florence), Into the Woods (Granny), Grease (u/s perf. Marty), Footloose (Vi Moore), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ms. Flannery), Sister Act (Featured Nun/Dancer), My Fair Lady (Lady Boxington), amongst various others. Last year, she began working on the other side of the production table with directing, choreographing, set design, and lighting. This year, Peyton expanded into producing, stage managing, costuming, and hair/makeup design. Production credits include: Dig, Spring Awakening, The Addams Family, The Agony & The Agony, Disney’s Frozen Jr., I Love You, Because, and Disney’s Newsies. Peyton’s upcoming works include The Nether (Stage Manager/Asst. Director) at Ghent Playhouse, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mitch Mahoney) at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center, and Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. (Choreographer) at Fort Salem Theater! In her free time, Peyton works on even more theatre by writing for BroadwayWorld, and taking Tap/Jazz classes with Freddy Ramirez. She is grateful to her FST family, and hopes you enjoy the show!

Charles/Chuck is a well-rounded artist with experience in creative writing, HDR photography, graphic design and 3D rendering, improvisational piano, original song composition and scenic design for theater. While attending Southern Vermont College 2001-2005 (bachelor’s in liberal arts) he worked summers at Old Castle Theater in Bennington, VT (2000 to 2005) where he learned, by observation, the creative nuances of set design as he worked as a stagehand. Charles is currently the Resident Scenic Designer and an Artistic Associate for Fort Salem Theater where, in October 2021, he debuted a design for The Diary of Anne Frank. In the 2022 season, he went on to design: Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias, Pride and Prejudice, Grease, The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition, Bright Star, I Love You Because, and most recently Spring Awakening, along with designing Grant’s Ghost for Hubbard Hall on the side. Charles has also directed Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus in 2004 at his then-former High School, and The Glass Menagerie at Southern Vermont College in 2009.

Prior to his work at Fort Salem Theater, Charles has over eight years of set design experience, artistic/stage directing, assistant directing and serving as a theatrical creative-solutions consultant (for a local high school drama club). Shows he has designed there include: The Diary of Anne Frank (2007), Once Upon a Mattress, Rumors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Twelve Angry Jurors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, And Then There Were None, The Sound of Music, Noises Off, Shrek the Musical, and ended his run there with The Mousetrap (2015).

After taking some time away from theatrical design Charles feels truly thankful and honored to reignite his passion for design at Fort Salem Theater and is very honored to have helped design Grant’s Ghost for Hubbard Hall’s current presentation. Charles is presently looking forward to contributing more in the near future as he gears up for Fort Salem’s 2023 season.

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Sherry has designed and constructed costumes for Home Made Theater, Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall, Lake George Dinner Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, Curtain Call Theatre, Living Room Theatre Group, SUNY Adirondack, Roberts Wesleyan College, Wrightstage Productions, Collaborative Artists, ACT, Schenectady Light Opera, Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre, Saratoga's Children's Theatre, Laughing Giraffe Productions (NYC), Circle in the Square/PW (NYC), and others. Filmwork: NYU Productions/Ft. Apache, Charlie Samuels productions (short), Commercial work: Capital Rep/Proctors. Sherry is so happy to be working with Fort Salem Theater, having costumed The Diary of Anne Frank last season. Break a leg cast and crew!