Music Director Dr. Angela Batey	Dr. Angela L. Batey (Music Director) is Associate Dean in the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences. She is Director of Graduate Studies of the School of Music, as well as Director of Choral Activities. Dr. Batey is recognized as a prominent conductor, clinician, adjudicator and teacher whose wide variety of experience encompasses professional, university, high school, community and church choruses. She conducts the UT Chamber Singers, and teaches conducting courses at the graduate level. Additionally, she is Director of Music at Farragut Presbyterian Church. In June of 2007, she made her conducting debut at Carnegie Hall to a rare standing ovation. In July 2012 and again in 2018 she led the UT Chamber Singers on an invited Cathedral Choral Residency to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and in 2015 did the same in London and Canterbury, England. In May, 2017 the Chamber Singers sang an invited Choral Evensong at Washington National Cathedral. Dr. Batey holds two degrees from Birmingham-Southern College in music education and musical theatre; a master's degree from The Florida State University in music education and the doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of South Carolina.
	Producer Edmund Bolt	Edmund Bolt has moved from the role of stage director to the role of producer of Something Rotten!. He and his wife Susan have been active in the Knoxville theatre scene for fifty years starting with the Clarence Brown production of the musical 'Oliver!' in 1972. In 1980, he was involved in the re-establishment of Tennessee Valley Players which has specialized in the production of musicals. Since 2004, TVP has worked in partnership with Dr. Angela Batey, Director of Choral Activities at the University of Tennessee School of Music to provide the community the summer musical each year. Since 2011, TVP has been performing summers at the historic Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre. Sadly, this will be the last show to be performed in this lovely old theatre before being reborn as the Jenny Boyd Carousel Theatre in a couple of years.
	Director Kate Laciak	After attending Marymount Manhattan College and the Actors and Singers Academy at Carnegie Hall, Kate combined extensive training with her passion for the performing arts and began a career embracing every element of the stage. Credits include Swing!, Lucky Stiff, Tuxedo Junction, Damn Yankees, Smokey Joe's Cafe', Cabaret, Anything Goes, Funny Girl, The Fantasticks, Bye Bye Birdie, The Who's Tommy, Crazy For You, Chicago, West Side Story, The Pirates of Penzance, Sweet Charity, Follies, Mame, Hello Dolly, Evita, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Children's Theatre credits include The Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Heidi and Schoolhouse Rock Live. Kate appears in national commercials, independent films, major motion pictures, music videos, TV shows and numerous Broadway revues. Direction/Choreography credits include Swingtime, Romeo & Juliet Redefined, Nunsense, Bugsy Malone, Jr., She Loves Me, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Rock Around the Block, Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver!, Judy & Liza Together Again, Sleeping Beauty, The Villains' Voice, Flashback to the 50's and other theatrical productions. Kate has had the pleasure of working with Dolly Parton, Tommy Tune, Mia Michaels, Jack Lee and Paul Phillips.
	Primary Accompanist Tami Newsom	Tami Newsom is an accomplished musician and choral director and is proficient on a variety of instruments including the piano, organ, flute, and mountain dulcimer. She is a Past-Dean of the Knoxville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She first began her musical career at the age of 6, learning to play piano. At age 13, under the guidance and tutelage of her music instructors, Robbie Roseberry and Peter Picerno, she began playing the organ at First Cumberland Presbyterian in Memphis, where she remained for 25 years. As an accomplished singer, Ms. Newsom was a member of a Memphis-based auditioned ensemble, The Wolf River Singers. Simultaneously, she was part of their elite Ensemble Singer program. She has sat in as a juried member in the euphonium section of many music students' final exams. She is the accompanist for the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers as well as collaborative artist for conducting classes at UT. She is Associate Director of Music at Farragut Presbyterian Church and pursuing her second career as a double major in sacred music and religious studies at the University of Tennessee.
	Producer Kevin Smathers	Kevin Smathers (Director) is the Senior Naval Science (Navy Junior ROTC) teacher at Farragut High School and a retired Navy Commander. Having been a part of Tennessee Valley Players since his debut as Sky Masterson in the 2006 production of Guys and Dolls, Mr. Smathers has served on the Board of Directors and appeared in most of TVP’s summer musicals and gala fundraisers and been the director since 2019. Aside from directing, he was also seen as Maurice in last Summer’s Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia (Sam Carmichael), and Curtains (Frank Cioffe), He has also performed locally with Tennessee Stage Company, Foothills Community Players, Oak Ridge Playhouse and Pellissippi State Community College. As he leaves Knoxville for New Orleans in early summer, a special shout-out to TVP’s founding and sustaining member, Edmund Bolt, Dr. Angie Batey for her incredible music direction for almost 20 shows, Tami Newsom who has accompanied and rehearsed every show and Gayle Greene for her beautiful choreography. It has been an amazing collaboration and I will miss each of you and your creative energy!
	Stage Manager Logan Williams	Logan Williams is thankful to be a part of her third show with the Tennessee Valley Players. She previously stage managed, as well as played the Grandmother, in the 2018 production of Into the Woods, and participated in the ensemble of Mamma Mia in the summer of 2019. She graduated from Central High School in 2017, and is attending the University of Tennessee as a vocal performance major and a proud member of Chamber Singers. She would like to thank her voice teachers, friends, family, the wonderful cast and crew of this show, and her faith in God for getting her this far.

CAST MEMBERS

	Snow White Kirstine Andersen	Kirstine Andersen (Ensemble) is excited to perform in her third show with Tennessee Valley Players! She previously participated in Anything Goes and Into the Woods with TVP, and Marley's Ghost and Smile, in her hometown of Ocala, FL. Kirstine is a rising senior at the University of Tennessee, where she studies vocal music education and is a proud member of Chamber Singers and reVOLution. Ms. Andersen would like to thank her family and friends for their support.
	Witch Chevy Anz	Chevy Anz (Missy) is in her fifth show with Tennessee Valley Players going back to 1987. She was Rizzo in Grease, Reno in Anything Goes, Witch in Into the Woods, and Donna in Mamma Mia! Locally she has performed with Knoxville Shakespeare, Oak Ridge Playhouse, and Encore Theatrical.
	Cinderella's Mother/Giantess Susan Bolt	Susan Bolt has performed in the Knoxville area for many years and is happy to say she has loved and enjoyed every moment of it. Favorite performances over the years are ZoZo in The Merry Widow with Mary Costa, Domina (multiple times) in Forum, Mona Kent in Dames at Sea, Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Lady Thiang in The King and I, Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Miss Hannigan in Annie, Widow Corney (several times) in Oliver!, Bloody Mary in South Pacific, Carmen in Curtains, Evangeline Harcourt in Anything Goes, Ruth in Pirates of Penzance and of course, the wicked Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables! She still enjoys the joys of performance. Much love always to Dr. Angela Batey and Tami Newsom-thanks for all you do! She is also deeply grateful for her family who so kindly put up with her-much love and thanks to Bayless, Brandon, Alex, Taylor, Patrick, Michelle, William, Laura, and Edmund!
	Narrator William Bolt	William Bolt has been in far too many Tennessee Valley Player shows to count, starting from 1996 in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Since then, he has appeared in UT's Oklahoma! (2002), TVP's Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, and most recently Into The Woods, most of these shows at the lovely Carousel Theater. He is excited to be in Something Rotten! and be the swan song for this theater!
	Mysterious Man William Bolt	William Bolt has been in far too many Tennessee Valley Player shows to count, starting from 1996 in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Since then, he has appeared in UT's Oklahoma! (2002), TVP's Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, and most recently Into The Woods, most of these shows at the lovely Carousel Theater. He is excited to be in Something Rotten! and be the swan song for this theater!
	Baker's Wife Hannah Brown	Hannah Brown is thrilled to be returning for her fourth Tennessee Valley Players production. Her previous TVP roles include Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, and Cosette in Les Miserables. Hannah is a soon-to-be graduate of the University of Tennessee pursuing majors in both music education and vocal performance, studying under Marjorie Bennett Stephens. She has competed and placed in various local and regional vocal competitions, including regional and national rounds of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. During her time at UT, she has participated in VolOpera and the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre program, performing both on the stage and off through stage management. Hannah is also a proud member of the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers and the Sequoyah Hills Chancel Choir. Additionally, Hannah spent three years as a School of Music student ambassador, assisting potential students as they transition into college. After student teaching this fall, she plans to attend graduate school to obtain her master's degree. Hannah would like to thank her friends and family for their unending support, as well as the directors for this opportunity.
	Lucinda Laura Buckner	Laura Buckner (Ensemble) is ecstatic to be returning for her third consecutive season with Tennessee Valley Players. Her previous TVP credits include Lucinda (Into the Woods), and Passenger (Anything Goes). Laura, a senior at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, is majoring in vocal music education. This year, she performed the role of Marcellina in VolOpera's production of Le Nozze di Figaro and is a member C-NAfME, NSCS, and the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers. Laura would like to thank her friends and family for their support, and Dr. Batey, Mr. Bolt, and Mr. Hall for the opportunity to be involved in this production.
	Little Red Ridinghood Roxanne Cabrera-Blaine	Roxanne Cabrera-Blaine (Roz) is a graduate of UT's music education and graduate choral conducting programs where she was a graduate teaching assistant and a member of UT Chamber Singers. Ms. Cabrera-Blaine is a music teacher at Knox County Virtual School, the choir director at Luminary Church in Ten Mile, and a TVP board member. Previous TVP credits include Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Rosie (Mamma Mia!), Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods), Erma (Anything Goes), Eponine (Les Miserables), and Anita (West Side Story). In her spare time, you can find her with her family, eating junk food, or underwater. Huge thanks go to her incredibly supportive husband Seth, parents, friends, and the most incredible daughter Rosie Posie.
	Jack's Mother Ryan Colbert	Ryan Colbert has been praised for 'rendering text with a touching tenderness' (Berkshire Fine Arts) and making 'a feast of quirky dramatic contrasts...while smoothing it with a velvety vocal line' (ArtsKnoxville). Last summer, she made her New York City debut with OperaRox Productions at the historic Stonewall Inn as Mrs. Webster in Griffin Candey's Sweets by Kate; a role she also performed with Marble City Opera and in the world premiere at the Midwest Institute of Opera. Other credits include Lady with a Cake Box (Postcard from Morocco) with Marble City Opera; Alcina (Alcina) with the Classics at Cokesbury Festival; Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with the Oak Ridge Philharmonia; Sarah Good (The Crucible), Fortuna (Ulysses), and Erste Dame (Die Zauberflote) with the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre. She recently graduated with her bachelors degree in vocal performance at the University of Tennessee, where she was a proud member of the UT Chamber Singers. In the fall, Ryan will attend the University of Delaware to pursue a masters degree in vocal performance and will serve as the graduate assistant for opera theatre.
	Bird Master Paul Davis	Paul Davis III is excited to perform in his third Tennessee Valley Players production. Previous credits include Captain's Purser in Anything Goes and as a bumbling policeman in TVP's 2016 production of Pirates of Penzance. Paul is a junior at the University of Tennessee pursuing a degree in vocal music education. He is a proud member of the UT Chamber Singers and UT Singers. Paul would like to thank his family and friends for always being there and helping him achieve his goals.
	Jack Jack Francis	Jack Francis is excited to perform in his fourth Tennessee Valley Players production. Jack is a senior at the University of Tennessee and is pursuing a degree in vocal music education. He has been a member of the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers, and performed in TVP's production of West Side Story as a Jet, Pirates of Penzance as Frederic and Moonface Martin in Anything Goes. He has also performed in several University of Tennessee Opera Theater productions including Don Giovanni, Medea, and The Magic Flute, as well as Ezekiel Cheever in UTOT's production of The Crucible. Jack would like to thank his friends, family, and colleagues for all of their support.
	Rapunzel's Prince Michael Hines	Michael Hines is ecstatic to be in his seventh production with Tennessee Valley Players. Most recently, you might have seen him in the role of Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods. Some of his previous credits with TVP include South Pacific (Yeoman Herbert Quale), West Side Story (Action), Les Miserables (Joly), Pirates of Penzance (Pirate), and the illustrious Sailor #1 of the Sailor Quartet in Anything Goes. Michael is a alum of UT with a degree in Nuclear Engineering, and was a ong-time member of the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers. In his day-job, Michael is proud to be one tiny cog in the Y-12 machine. Special thanks to his wife Claire for all of her support and patience during the rehearsal process, as well as to Dr. Batey for putting up with him for yet another summer.
	Cinderella Hilary Hohl	Hilary Hohl is thrilled to be a part of her second TVP production! Past musical and operatic credits include Le Nozze di Figaro, L'Elisir d'Amore, The Crucible, TVP's Anything Goes, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Once Upon a Mattress, and others. Hilary is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with degrees in music education and vocal performance. She is an elementary music teacher in Knox County. Hilary also performs as various princess characters with Princess Events of Knoxville. She would like to thank her husband, family, and friends for their love and support.
	Wolf Brett Hopper	Brett Hopper is excited to be a part of his fifth Tennessee Valley Players production! Mr. Hopper is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where he earned his bachelor's degree in music education and his master's degree in choral conducting. During his matriculation, he was a proud member of the UT Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Men's Chorale, and director of VOLume. He is the music teacher at Shannondale Elementary School. Mr. Hopper would like to thank his family, friends, and mentors for always supporting him and pushing him to be a better musician!
	Cinderella's Prince Brett Hopper	Brett Hopper is excited to be a part of his fifth Tennessee Valley Players production! Mr. Hopper is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where he earned his bachelor's degree in music education and his master's degree in choral conducting. During his matriculation, he was a proud member of the UT Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Men's Chorale, and director of VOLume. He is the music teacher at Shannondale Elementary School. Mr. Hopper would like to thank his family, friends, and mentors for always supporting him and pushing him to be a better musician!
	Cinderella's Stepmother Julie Howard	Julie Howard has appeared in numerous TVP productions over the years - Cole, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Curtains, Jerry's Girls, Les Mis to name a few. She has especially enjoyed her many performances in various Nunsense productions, appearing as Sister Leo and more recently as Sister Amnesia. Retired from life as a trial attorney, Julie finds her days full of many different adventures.
	Steward Collin Kasefang	Collin Kasefang (Ensemble) is ecstatic about performing his fourth show with Tennessee Valley players. Mr. Kasefang is a junior at the University of Tennessee studying vocal music education and a proud member of UT Chamber Singers. Previous credits include West Side Story as a Jet, Rev. Henry T. Dobson in Anything Goes and as the Steward in Into the Woods. He would like to thank everyone who put in the hard work to make this show a possibility. It is a fun show, with a great crew, and an unbelievable cast. Thanks for making this ride an enjoyable one. Alright, Mamma Mia, here we go again!
	Rapunzel Zoee Lyle	Zoee Lyle (Ensemble) is from Knoxville and currently studying music at Pellissippi State Community College under the direction of Jami Anderson. Most recently, Zoee starred as Wednesday Addams in Creative Theater's production of The Addams Family and previously played Rapunzel in Tennessee Valley Player's production of Into the Woods. You can also hear her as the female vocalist and playing ukulele and kazoo in the band Night Sabers. Ms. Lyle would like to thank her family, friends, teachers, and everyone who has been a part of her musical journey.
	Cinderella's Father Wade McGarity	Wade McGarity is excited to perform in his third show with Tennessee Valley Players. He was previously seen on the TVP stage in Anything Goes (2017) and Into the Woods (2018). Wade also sings with the Knoxville Gay Men's Chorus (celebrating their 10th year!). He is a graduate of Halls High School, where he was member of the Madrigal Ensemble, and at the University of Tennessee was as a member of the Pride of the Southland Band. Wade would like to thank his family & friends for their support.
	Florinda Rachel Metzger	Rachel Metzger (Ensemble) is in her fifth season with the Tennessee Valley Players and is very excited to be a part of Mamma Mia! Her most recent appearance was in Into the Woods as Florinda. Other credits include Peggy (Godspell), Evil Stepmother (Into the Woods), Ensemble (Anything Goes), Policewoman (The Pirates of Penzance), and Ensemble (Les Miserables). Rachel studies voice under the direction of Deanna Surber. She would like to thank her friends and family for their continuing love and support.
	Baker Tyler Padgett	Tyler Padgett is feeling very humbled and nostalgic as he begins his 9th production with Tennessee Valley Players. Tyler is a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee's School of Music and is beginning a master's of vocal performance program at the University of Colorado Boulder this fall. Tyler has had the pleasure of performing in TVP's past productions of Curtains (Bobby Pepper - 2010), Girl Crazy (Ensemble - 2011), Of Thee I Sing (French Ambassador - 2012), South Pacific (Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey - 2013), West Side Story (Bernardo - 2014), Les Miserables (Javert - 2015), Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King - 2016), and Anything Goes (Billy - 2017). Tyler has also had the privilege of performing with the University of Tennessee Opera Theater. His credits with UTOT include The Consul (Mr. Kofner), Don Giovanni (Masetto), Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) and The Crucible (John Proctor). With Tyler's imminent departure from Knoxville, he would like to thank his friends, colleagues, and teachers who have enriched his life and influenced his development as a performer so much over the years. Tyler would like to give special thanks to Dr. Batey, Andrew Skoog, and Judith Bible. Their dedication to being incredible educators will always be a blessing. Tyler would also like to thank his parents for being his first, and always best, teachers and supporters.
	Sleeping Beauty Ellen Sudarshan	Ellen Sudarshan (Ensemble) is thrilled to be in her third Tennessee Valley Players production! A recent graduate with a bachelor's degree in vocal performance (with a minor in Italian) from UT, studying with professor Andrew Wentzel and as a proud member of Chamber Singers, Sudarshan performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra as Gretel from Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. She has also performed in four operas with Knoxville Opera and four with the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, including covering the role of Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen. Later this summer, she will be attending Spotlight on Opera, a vocal program in Shreveport, Louisiana. This fall, she is looking forward to auditioning for her master's degree in vocal performance.
	Grandmother Logan Williams	Logan Williams is thankful to be a part of her third show with the Tennessee Valley Players. She previously stage managed, as well as played the Grandmother, in the 2018 production of Into the Woods, and participated in the ensemble of Mamma Mia in the summer of 2019. She graduated from Central High School in 2017, and is attending the University of Tennessee as a vocal performance major and a proud member of Chamber Singers. She would like to thank her voice teachers, friends, family, the wonderful cast and crew of this show, and her faith in God for getting her this far.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

	Assistant Music Director Roxanne Cabrera-Blaine	Roxanne Cabrera-Blaine (Roz) is a graduate of UT's music education and graduate choral conducting programs where she was a graduate teaching assistant and a member of UT Chamber Singers. Ms. Cabrera-Blaine is a music teacher at Knox County Virtual School, the choir director at Luminary Church in Ten Mile, and a TVP board member. Previous TVP credits include Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Rosie (Mamma Mia!), Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods), Erma (Anything Goes), Eponine (Les Miserables), and Anita (West Side Story). In her spare time, you can find her with her family, eating junk food, or underwater. Huge thanks go to her incredibly supportive husband Seth, parents, friends, and the most incredible daughter Rosie Posie.
	Lighting/Sound Designer Matt Cogburn	Matthew Cogburn (Lighting/Sound Designer) is enjoying his 20th season with TVP. Previous works with TVP include Beauty and the Beast, Something Rotten!, Les Miserables, West Side Story, South Pacific, Curtains, Anything Goes, Mama Mia, and many more wonderful shows done by the talented group that TVP always attracts. This year he had the privilege of lighting Shrek at Heritage High School and Chicago at Farragut High School and dance recitals for Creative Edge Studios in Oak Ridge. He would like to thank his wife Jill, twelve-year-old daughter Lilly, and nine-year-old son James as well as the cast and crew. When he is not in the booth Matthew works 9 to 5 as a Senior Retail Technology Engineer at Pilot Flying J and is a Cub Master for Pack 12 in Farragut.
	Stage Manager Amanda Cunningham	Amanda Cunningham (Stage Manager) joined the Tennessee Valley Players Board in 2018. She has lived in the Knoxville area for the past sixteen years with her husband and three boys. Ms. Cunningham enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, volunteering in various organizations in the Knoxville community and contributing to this great organization. She is very much looking forward to Mamma Mia!
	Stage Manager Susan Davis	Susan Davis is a retired Knox County School principal. She has performed many years with the Tennessee Valley Players. Her favorite roles have included both Sister Leo and Sister Hubert in the hilarious Nunsense musicals, as well as Georgia in Curtains. She thoroughly enjoys the musical reviews, as well. Currently, her favorite role is 'Mimi' to Anna Kate and Sheridan. 'Thank you for the music', TVP!
	Percussionist Hunter Deacon	Hunter Deacon (Percussionist) originally from Memphis, is a drummer based in Knoxville. He attended the University of Tennessee, where he earned a Bachelor of Music in Studio Music and Jazz in 2012. A year after finishing school, he spent six months performing at a jazz club in Hangzhou, China. In 2018, he joined the group, The Jon Stickley Trio and has toured full time with them since then. His first show with TVP was Anything Goes in 2008 and is excited to get back to work 9 To 5 this summer!
	Keyboard Andrea Markowitz	Andrea Markowitz (Keyboard) is a former recipient of the Grace Moore scholarship from the University of Tennessee, graduating magna cum laude and Outstanding Senior in 2015. Since graduating, Ms. Markowitz has worked across East Tennessee as a piano accompanist, assistant choral director, and performer. In 2017 she was offered the graduate assistantship for music education at UT and graduated in May with her master's degree in music. Ms. Markowitz is thrilled to be a part of this TVP production and is blessed to have the opportunity to make music with her friends, colleagues, and community.
	Stage Manager Nancy Pevey	Nancy Pevey has worked in multiple TVP productions over the years, starting with No, No, Nanette long, long ago. She is the former Dean of Mathematics at Pellissippi State Community College and QEP Director for the college. Pevey is currently serving on the TVP Board of Directors (having previoiusly served a term as President).
	Bassist Daniel Shifflett	Daniel Shifflett is a professional string and electric bassist. This is his tenth consecutive season with the Tennessee Valley Players. Mr. Shifflett has toured nationally, with Broken Bow Records artist, Jackie Lee, along with touring internationally to countries including India and Canada, with rock band, Gone in April. He has performed with country music star, Easton Corbin. Mr. Shifflett is an active clinician and teacher of the electric bass and string bass. He performs regularly with the Chattanooga Symphony and Brevard Philharmonic, Symphony of the Mountains and Marble City Opera. Currently, Mr. Shifflett serves as the Technical Director of Concord United Methodist Church.
	Set Construction Ron Pevey	Ron Pevey is a retired professor from the Nuclear Engineering Department of UT. He got into theatrical performances after moving to Knoxville at the age of 40 and appearing with the Farragut Performing Arts Theater (FPAT, under Victoria Bolen) since he had to be at the rehearsals anyway with his daughters. He met the Bolts while performing with Susan in FPAT's 42nd Street, and was coerced to be in the chorus of Lady Be Good, and the rest is history. (He finds it amusing he started out as a king in Cinderella and has ended up as a queen in this production.)
	Set Design and Construction Edmund Bolt	Edmund Bolt has moved from the role of stage director to the role of producer of Something Rotten!. He and his wife Susan have been active in the Knoxville theatre scene for fifty years starting with the Clarence Brown production of the musical 'Oliver!' in 1972. In 1980, he was involved in the re-establishment of Tennessee Valley Players which has specialized in the production of musicals. Since 2004, TVP has worked in partnership with Dr. Angela Batey, Director of Choral Activities at the University of Tennessee School of Music to provide the community the summer musical each year. Since 2011, TVP has been performing summers at the historic Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre. Sadly, this will be the last show to be performed in this lovely old theatre before being reborn as the Jenny Boyd Carousel Theatre in a couple of years.
	Set Design and Construction William Bolt	William Bolt has been in far too many Tennessee Valley Player shows to count, starting from 1996 in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Since then, he has appeared in UT's Oklahoma! (2002), TVP's Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, and most recently Into The Woods, most of these shows at the lovely Carousel Theater. He is excited to be in Something Rotten! and be the swan song for this theater!