Staff
Troy Arnold Fisher, Interim Artistic Director / Music Director
Troy moved to Olympia in the fall of 1988 to begin work for Capital Playhouse. Since that time he has music directed and/or directed over 100 musicals for Capital Playhouse, four musicals for The Abbey Players, seven productions for Harlequin, four All-City high school musicals, three musicals for The Timberline Theatre Company, six musicals for Capital High School, two productions for the Nova School, two musicals for the Griffin School District, and two productions of Babes With Big Hair for UCAN. In addition to his theatre work in Olympia, Troy is also the founding music director for Olympia’s premier youth choir, Kids in Koncert, which recently returned from a concert tour to Disneyland. He is the music director for the Olympia Unitarian Universalists Congregation and also has a private voice studio that turns out some of Olympia’s finest young singers. Outside of Olympia, Troy’s work has been seen and heard at Utah Musical Theatre in Ogden, Utah, The Toledo Rep in Toledo, Ohio, Iron Rod Family Productions in Portland, Oregon, The Post Playhouse at Ft. Robinson, Nebraska, The Black Hills Playhouse in South Dakota, The Lyceum in Columbia, Missouri, Project For The Arts in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Music Arts Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Joe Sartori, Program Manager
Since joining the Capital Playhouse staff, Joe has proven to be a very useful jack-of-all-trades — adding his expertise in a variety of areas including marketing, technical support, sound design and piano playing! He is excited to work on staff at Capital Playhouse. Joe worked as sound designer last year for Season in a Box and KIDS AT PLAY. He also played piano and conducted Spelling Bee last season. Joe is a 2009 graduate of Washington State University where he earned his Bachelor of Music in piano performance. Since moving to Olympia, Joe and his wife enjoy performing with the playhouse, Olympia Schools and the Olympia Symphony.
Heidi Fredericks, Students On Stage Artistic Director
Heidi has been on staff for years as acting coach and director of KIDS AT PLAY 2010’sSeussical, and returns this year to direct Honk! and Godspell. She starred in the first KAP production, Guys and Dolls, as Miss Adelaide and later was among the first KAP graduates. She recently directed Capital Playhouse's The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee and is the Artisic Director of CP's Students On Stage program, for which she is currently directing Snow White Goes West at St. Michael's School and Griffin. Heidi studied at The Boston Conservatory, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She has performed with Capital Playhouse’s Season in a Box, Utah Musical Theatre, University of Minnesota graduate program, Theater in the Round, Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, Northwest Playwright’s Alliance, and Masterworks Choral Ensemble, and choreographed for Theater Artists Olympia and Olymia Family Theater. She has taught at many local schools, and is an instructor of the Alexander Technique. Favorite roles include Little Red in Into the Woods, Lizzie in Baby, Amy in Company, Ophelia in Hamlet, Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Peter in Peter Pan, Genevieve in The Baker’s Wife, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and Janet and Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show. She most recently appeared in Capital Playhouse’s Nunsense as Sister Robert Anne. Special thanks to her family, Doug, little Oscar and Porter!
Dennis Kurtz, Technical Director
Dennis is pleased to be on staff with his family at the Capital Playhouse as Technical Director. Dennis got involved at Capital Playhouse at the age of 14 after working for several years as a props and technical artisan for the renowned Haunted Yard near Olympia High School. For the Playhouse he has served as a carpenter, props master, sound technician, lighting technician, and has even appeared on stage as Juan in Man of La Mancha, Stanley the sound guy in The 1940's Radio Hour, and the gifted violin playing waiter in She Loves Me.
Bruce Haasl, Set Designer in Residence
Bruce has been designing, building and painting sets for more than 10 years. His work has been seen at The Black Hills Playhouse, The Black Hills Community Theater (both in South Dakota), The Virginia Stage Company, several high schools, and in more than 30 productions at Capital Playhouse. His favorite designs include Free to Be You and Me, Smokey Joe's Café and Man of La Mancha. He has spent a considerable amount of time in front of the curtain as well. Capital Playhouse audiences may remember him as Roger in Rent, Judas inJesus Christ Superstar, Terry in Side Show, and Cain in Children of Eden.