-- About Us --

    The Hanover Theater is being restored through a collaboration of theater technicians, engineers, carpenters, electricians, costumers, directors, designers, actors and even a ballet dancer who are pooling their talents to create a unique performing arts venue.  In all there are over 20 people involved with the project and each member of the team averages at least 15 years of experience in Professional Theatre.

    Some of the key members of the organization include:

	Robin Armstrong
	Robin has worked in professional theatre as a Director and Actor (Boston, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Dallas, and more), as a Fight Director (TheatreVirginia, The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Dallas Theater Center), and as a playwright. She has served on the faculties of Collin College, the University of Texas at Dallas and the Interlochen Arts Academy, a nationally renowned arts academy in Michigan. As a Director in Dallas a few of Robin’s critical successes include productions at Theatre Britain such as Macbeth, Communicating Doors, Betrayal, The Day After the Fair and No Sex, Please, We're British.  Other Dallas hits include Eleemosynary and the regional premieres of 52 Pick-Up and Toothpaste & Cigars all produced by Act I Productions.  In 2006 Robin traveled to Petersburg, Virginia to give a new twist to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, staging the show with 4 actors and over a dozen puppets which she made for the production! (click here for more)      Robin holds a BS in Directing from Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, LA), and an MFA in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA).
	Stacie Johnson
	Raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Stacie knew from childhood that she wanted to work in the performing arts.  She pursued a career as a ballerina and at the age of 15 she was training at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Traverse City, Michigan. When Stacie stopped dancing, she stayed in the performing arts, changing her focus to lighting design and technical theater. Stacie received her BFA in lighting design from North Carolina School of the Arts and has worked for over 15 years in theatre and dance. She has worked with the New Mexico Repertory Theater, the Horse Cave Theater, the Richmond Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company among others.
	Dave Leske
	Dave has been active in the Performing Arts since childhood and was very active in his high school's Drama club.  He chose Mechanical Engineering as his major at Cornell University but spent most of his time in the theatre department, graduating with a BA in Archaeology. He has been working in Professional Theatre for over 20 years and finds his engineering background to be a great asset in finding solutions for unique technical challenges. Before moving to Hanover to oversee the restoration, Dave lived in Richmond, Virginia where he worked with many Performing Arts organizations in the region including TheatreVirginia, the Richmond Ballet, and Heritage Reparatory Theater, holding a variety of positions from scenery painter to props builder to Master Electrician.  Passing on the art of Technical Theater is important to Dave and while living in Richmond he taught students as a guest artist at the Appomattox Regional Governors School (a magnet school for the performing arts).