STAFF
Artistic Director
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Andrew has been a professional actor, vocalist, and musician going on two decades, performing around the globe. During his career in Los Angeles and New York, he performed Off-Broadway, with National and International Tours, throughout Europe and regionally across the US, completing 70+ distinct shows along the way. Following the birth of his beautiful daughters, Andrew now teaches acting and directs productions at Clayton High Schools.
Notable credits include Off-Broadway: The Office: A Musical Parody (Jim Halpert/Andy Bernard); National/International Tours: The Simon and Garfunkel Story (Art Garfunkle), Rudolph (Santa), Jersey Boys; Regional: West Side Story (BroadwayWorld Best Actor), Little Women (ITL Founders Award Recipient), Great Comet (Anatole), Forever Plaid (Sparky), The Story of My Life (Alvin Kelby), RENT (Mark Cohen), Ghost (Carl), Smoke on the Mountain (Dennis Sanders), and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear), as well as a plethora of theme park and cruise ship productions.
Andrew Wade
Ann Meigs
Music Director/Educator
Recently retired as the Choral Director and Performing Arts Club Advisor at Clayton High School, Ann has served as music director at CHS for more than a decade, working on shows such as Chicago (Triangle Rising Stars Finalist-Best Ensemble), Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls (TRS Finalist-Best Actor and Musical), The Drowsy Chaperone (TRS Finalist-Best Actor and Actress and Best Ensemble), Catch Me If You Can (TRS winner-Best Actor), Once on This Island, Seussical (TRS Finalist-Best Ensemble 2015) The Pajama Game, Honk! (TRSFinalist-Best Musical 2013). She also previously directed several stage productions, including Fools, The Curious Savage, and Pygmalion. In addition to her work at CHS, Ann has served as assistant director and music director for Carolina Youth Theater for over a decade, producing a multitude of quality productions alongside Nikki Dyke.
Ann and her husband, Bob, moved to Clayton in 2003 from Syracuse, NY. While in Syracuse, Ann performed and worked with the Syracuse Civic and Children's Theatre, where she music directed for Little Mermaid, Annie, and Aladdin, and co-directed Alice In Wonderland for the Children's Theatre. Favorite roles include The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sister Berta in The Sound of Music, and her most exciting part to date was playing the role of Peter in Peter Pan.
Assistant Director/Teaching Artist
Emily Snow is a professional actor and vocalist focusing on musical theatrical. Having studied under both Andrew Wade and Ann Meigs, she was one of the first members of Clayton Theatricals and has been involved ever since. Emily has assistant directed summer intensives for this wonderful company over the past two years. She has worked as both a theatre and dance coach and is also currently working as an actor for an party entertainment company. Emily is passionate about youth theatre and blessed to be continuing working in the education field.
Previous credits include: Sister Act and Cinderella at Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Annie at The Temple Theatre, Seussical (Gertrude McFuzz) with Clayton Theatricals, and Freaky Friday (Katherine Blake), Peter and the Starcatcher (Molly Aster) with the CHS Players.
