Meet Our Staff

Sharon Hilton

Artistic Director
Director, "Cinderella"

Sharon has been around the barn for over 45 years. She remembers following Carleton out to the barn to milk the cows, long before anyone thought it might be a theatre. Carleton also brought her to see her first play. Some of her other roles over Hackmatack's thirty year history have been actor, stage manager, and director. In 1980 she founded Renaissance Stage Company that performed at Beaver Dam Grange for over 5 years. In 1989 she established InterPlay Production A theatre in education touring company. Her theatre journey has been influenced by actors, directors, producers, family and friends to numerous to mention but whom without their influence and support would not have been possible. Sharon has also directed Rumors (2008) and Annie Get Your Gun (2008).

Mary Tarochione

Director, "Hello Dolly"

Mary Tarochione has directed: The Pirates of Penzance, The Secret Garden, The Mikado, Into The Woods, Wait Until Dark (Hackmatack Playhouse); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Why We Have a Body, Avatar, Macbeth, Uncle Vanye (Part One, Toward, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Best Boyfriend, a staged reading of A Loss Of Color (NativeAliens Theatre Collective, New York, NY); Another Country, Monologue and Alice in Wonderland (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN). Costumes for Pillow Talk, Furious, Civilized and Southern Reckonings. Scene Design for Pillow Talk. As a writer: The Velocity of Light and Native Aliens. She is a founding member of NativeAliens Theatre Collective in New York.

Jeff Seabaugh

Director, "Carousel"

Jeff is happy to return to Hackmatack as a director. Last season he portrayed "Roger" in "The Producers". Last year he also completed a successful run of his solo play, "How to Make an American Family" as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York. As an actor, his credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest; Young Stowaways In Space; Ticket to Ride; Butch It Up 1, 2, & 3; Telephone (Short Stories 2); Uncle Vanya; Blue (NativeAliens Theatre Collective-NATC); The Cenci; Enrico IV (Jean Cocteau Rep); 1919: A Baseball Opera (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (National Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Son of PacMan (American Globe); Romeo and Juliet; Little Shop of Horrors; Deathtrap; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Kiss Me Kate; The Foreigner; A Flea in Her Ear; Outward Bound (Hackmatack Playhouse). As a director: In My Dreams; A Loss of Color; Vieux Carr; Furious; Vessels; My Father's Son; Swing Out Bernadette; The Velocity of Light; Southern Reckonings; Pillow Talk (OOBR Award); Civilized; Songs From The Third Floor; Native Aliens (NATC); Witch Hunt; Strawberries; Prom Girls (Waterfront Ensemble); Bye, Bye, Birdie; The Music Man; Seussical; Oliver!; All Shook Up (Hackmatack Playhouse); A Lie of the Mind; The Boyfriend; Agnes of God; Two Frogs Choking On Sand (University of Memphis). As a playwright: In My Dreams; founding member of NativeAliens Theatre Collective. www.jeffseabaugh.com.

Jerard-James Craven

Director, "Leading Ladies"

Jerard-James Craven will return to Hackmatack this summer as Director of "Leading Ladies". Some of Jerard's directing credits include: Jack and the Beanstalk and the Two-Headed Ogre, The Fisherman and his Wife (The Little Red Wagon), The Magic Flute (UNH Opera Dept.), Hard Candy, Check Please! (UNH Mask & Dagger). Acting credits include: Anything Goes, Our Town, The Producers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Hackmatack Playhouse), Celebration! (New Hampshire Theatre Project), Urinetown (Seacoast Repertory Theatre). Jerard received his Bachelor's in Musical Theatre Performance from the University of New Hampshire, and has spent the past year working in Midland, TX at the internationally recognized Midland Community Theatre as an Assistant Director and Props Master.

Katie Rodgers

Children's Theatre Camp Director

After six years as choreographer/counselor/assistant director of the Hackmatack Children's Theatre Camp, Katie is thrilled to return this summer as Director! Katie graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Music in Education. She currently teaches in an alternative school in Methuen, MA, where she also runs the after-school Drama Club. She is working towards her Masters in Special Education at Fitchburg State, and in her "spare time", has founded a small production company in Lowell, MA with her husband, Jay.