Staff
Kevin Connors
Executive Artistic Director & Co-Founder
kevin@musictheatreofct.com
Jim Schilling
Managing Director & Co-Founder
jschill246@gmail.com
RJ Romeo
Director of Production
& Resident Lighting Designer
rjromeo@musictheatreofct.com
Alex Mongillo
Administrative Manager
& Box Office Manager
alex@musictheatreofct.com
Diane Vanderkroef
Resident Costume Designer
Joe Landry
Marketing & PR Consultant
Faculty
Rudd Anderson
Shannon Colfer
Kevin Connors
Elissa Demaria
AnnaMaria Fernandez
Alexandra Fortin
Deborah Levy
Tracey Marble
Rachel MacIsaac
Alex Mongillo
Christopher Myers
Jim Schilling
Caitlin Witty
Board of Directors
Dan Aron
Nancy Brown
Greg Cole
Kevin Connors
Mark Corpron
John Hamlin
Wendy Gerbier
Dan Guller
Richard Roll
Jim Schilling
Chris Spielgelman
Greg Sweeney
Meet the Co-Founders
Kevin Connors
(Executive Artistic Director & Co-Founder) Off-Broadway: Play Like a Winner (NYMF award-winner), Prime Time Prophet, Jukebox Saturday Night, The Abandoned Loves of Frederick R., Life Anonymous, Lover: The Valentino Musical, Babes Off Broadway, Saloon and Suzy Q. Selected regional productions: The Fantasticks, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Babes in Toyland, A Christmas Carol and Baby; with such stars as Joan Rivers, James Naughton, and Johnny Mathis. He has directed over 150 MTC Equity MainStage productions including Next to Normal, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Falsettoland, Ragtime, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, Evita, Doubt, Master Class, Gypsy, (all Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award Nominations/Winners), and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, (Moss Hart Award Winner). BroadwayWorld Award Winner as Best Director for MTC’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Multiple Connecticut Critics’ Circle Best Director winner including MTC’s Ragtime and Falsettoland, and 2-time recipient of the Tom Killen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Connecticut Professional Theatre. As a composer he has penned the score for numerous musicals including It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play and The Great Gatsby: A Live Radio Play (all published by Playscripts, Inc.), and served on the faculties of The Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, Sacred Heart University, the University of Bridgeport and Musical Theatre Works in NYC.
Jim Schilling
co-founded Music Theatre of CT in 1987 and is currently MTC’s Managing Director and Director of the School of Performing Arts. MTC acting credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Yours, Anne, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Doubt, Almost, Maine, God of Carnage, The Fantasticks, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The 39 Steps and most recently Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was nominated for a CT Critics Circle award for Herr Shultz in Cabaret and winner of the BroadwayWorld award for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He continues as a Blue Ribbon Panelist for the Daytime Emmy Awards, and is on the voting committee for the SAG awards, and a member of “Who’s Who in the American Theatre” from 1991-present. Jim was also an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University (Advanced Acting, Advanced Scene Study, Script Analysis and Directing) where he was recently nominated Best Director of a musical for his work on Godspell.