Joy Sharp 
President
My name is Joy Sharp and am honored to be the ACT President for 2006/2007. I have had many jobs and been on numerous committees on the ACT Board including 2nd VP, Treasurer, Secretary, Awards, and an emergency 1st VP one year. In 1992, 1995 and 2002, I was recipient of the President Award and received the Art Rouse Award in the year 2000. I have attended ACT meetings for 25 years by replacing GHCT's ACT rep, Flo Fracker, in 1982.

I actually started my love of community theater in 1975 when I was encouraged to audition for The Music Man” in Hamilton. I caught the bug! Now entering my 31st year in theater and over 60 productions, I’ve performed with Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre, Middletown Lyric Theatre, Sunset Players, Stagecrafters, Landen-Deerfield, the Hamilton Rotary Club and LaComedia Dinner Theater. I was grateful to be in the casts of Godspell (1991) and Is There Life After High School (2006), both chosen to represent the Southwest Region at the OCTA State conference.

Through the years, I’m proud to say my daughters, Michelle and Melynda and my granddaughter, Ashley (now majoring in musical theater at NKU), have also found theater as an exciting part of their lives! Presently, I manage and sing in the 100 voice audition group – the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra Chorale, as well as a patriotic group – The Liberty Singers, I am Director of Operations for the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra, serve on the Executive Board of the Butler County Convention and Visitor's Bureau and the Butler County Tourism Council. My first love, however, is community theater where I have found and been blessed with cherished, lifetime friends! I hope to serve you well as President, as my hope is to encourage and promote "Communication and Fairness" among all of us.

Arlene Borock 
First Vice President
Arlene is very excited about being on the ACT Board again and this time as your 1st Vice President. Previously has been an ACT Rep for Acting Up and a secretary for the ACT Board. She has been involved in community theatre since 1987 both on stage and back stage with such groups as Loveland Stage Company, Landen Deerfield, Mason Community Theatre, Wyoming Players, Drama Workshop, Footlighters and most recently Acting Up for which she also serves on their Board. Arlene has also directed and choreographed for high school groups since 1989, predominantly Mason High School where Arlene is going into her 19th year of teaching. Arlene has been lucky enough to have received Orchids for both directing and choreographing for different groups. As far as her education goes, she has a Telecommunications BA from Indiana University; a Secondary Education in Comprehensive Communications degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters degree in Secondary Education specializing in Language Arts from Miami University. Currently, at Mason, she is the Secretary for their teachers' union and is teaching Public Speaking with Technology courses. Arlene is also blessed in her life with a beautiful and talented 13 year old "who keeps me busy and smiling every day."

Pamela Harris 
Recording Secretary
Pam lives in Middletown Ohio and is active with Middletown Lyric Theatre. She is currently the Secretary for MLT, but has also held the positions of President, 1st Vice President (in charge of productions) and 2nd Vice President (in charge of publicity). Most of the time Pam is on stage, but has been known to cross over to the other side and work backstage.  She's not very proficient with cutting, measuring or "visualizing," but she knows her way around a paint brush and is very good at "striking" a set. For her last birthday, her MLT friends donated, to MLT, a large push broom and a step ladder with Pam's name on them. She has used the broom quite a bit, but the ladder remains a stranger to her (something about fear of heights).

Pam has one son, one daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Gabi, Gavin and Georgia are her biggest fans. She works as a Senior Data Analyst for Directions Research, sings in her church choir and likes to read and do cross stitch projects. Pam is also very active at both the local and district level with United Methodist Women.

Dennis Murphy 
Treasurer & Long Range Judging Standing Committee Chair
Dennis has been involved in community theater since the age of 14.  He pursued theatrical studies at Thomas More College and the University of Missouri-Kansas-City. His professional credits include work as a director, assistant director or stage manager for such companies as Cincinnati Opera, The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Starlight Musicals, the Missouri Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Pittsburgh Opera. Locally, Dennis has acted, directed or designed for Showboat Majestic, the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati Children's Theater, Left Bank Productions, Kincaid Regional Theater, La Commedia Dinner Theater, Aurelia Theatricals, Ovation Theater Company and others.  He has acted, directed, designed, produced, and choreographed for Footlighters, Cincinnati Music Theater, Sunset Players, Mariemont Players, Village Players, Mason Community Players, Stagecrafters, Wyoming Players and others. Over the years, he has won orchid awards in Acting, Directing, Set Design, Lighting Design, Costume Design, Set Decor, Lobby Display and Program Art. He has also won OCTA awards in acting, directing, choreography and set design including First Place in the 2001 OCTA set design competition. Dennis has been a member of the ACT board for the past five years serving as Membership Chair, Awards Chair and his present position as Long Range Judging Committee Chair.

Linda Roll 
Librarian/Historian
Linda Roll has been acting since she can remember. Her love for entertaining began as a preschooler when she would entertain her great-grandmother at family reunions. After college, she took time off to raise her family. In 1994, she began the Milford Theatre Guilde, in hopes of bringing quality  theatre to the Milford-Miami Township area. She felt the time was right and  the community was large enough to support community theatre. She was right.  Milford Theatre Guilde is still going strong.

She has been involved with ACT since 1996 and has served as it's librarian/historian and newsletter editor for the last several years. She has also been a regional representative to OCTA and has served on their board for several years. She was the conference chair for the OCTA conference held in Cincinnati in 2003. She is an award winning actress, costumer and director on both the local and state levels.

Arny Stoller 
Publicity Standing Committee Chair
Arny has been involved with community theater since 1989. He started by manning a spotlight and then moved on to other “techie” things. He helped to build sets, worked on lights, sound, and many administrative functions for several years.

When East Side Players was casting You Can’t Take It With You it turned out that Arny was the only group member old enough to be Grandpa and he suddenly found himself learning lines and learning to act. It was an experience he loved and, although he still does a fair amount of “techie” and administrative stuff, he spends most of his community theater time on stage. He has worked with East Side Players, Beechmont Players, Stagecrafters, The Drama Workshop, Mariemont Players, Middletown Lyric Theatre, Village Players, Tri-County Players, Falcon, and Landen Deerfield Players. He is currently on the boards of Stagecrafters and Mariemont Players.

Arny was the Stagecrafters representative to ACT for several years and this is Arny’s second year as ACT Publicity Chairman.

Arny and his wife Stephanie own and operate Covap Inc. a bulk mail service company in Blue Ash. Stephanie is a long term member of Blue Ash City Council.

John Wesseling 
Membership Standing Committee Chair
John has been involved with Community Theater for over 25 years, most of it with the Sunset Players, Inc. and Act Cincinnati, Inc. He is an award winning actor, director and producer. He has served on the board of the Sunset Players for over 20 years, and has served on the ACT board 12 out of the last 16 years; six of them as President.

He is currently the only individual to win both of the Act Cincinnati Inc. major awards, the Mario Pitocco Award for Excellence in Technical Theater, and the Art Rouse Award for Dedication to Community Theater. He is also the creator/ moderator of wesseling@yahoogoups.com – an e-mail list serv to share theater information in the Greater Cincinnati area with over 850 community theater members.

Kathy Roll Unkrich 
Scholarships Standing Committee Chair
Kathy Unkrich is a native of Cincinnati and graduated from Miami Universitywith degrees in Speech Communications and Secondary Education. She is employed at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as Executive Assistant. Kathy is currently serving her second year as Scholarship Chair and previously served a term as Secretary.

Cathy Lutts 
Awards Standing Committee Chair
Cathy has been an ACT member since 1978 when appearing in her first community theatre production, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, with Footlighters Inc. Throughout the years she has acted, sang, produced, worked backstage, ran lights, painted and built sets, cleaned theatres, and house managed over 100 productions. Cathy has worked with Footlighters, Mariemont, Drama Workshop/ShowBiz Players, Greater Hamilton Civic, and Village Players. Over the last 29 years, she has served with the Footlighters' Board of Directors for a span of 20 years.  Two years ago, Cathy was the ACT representative for Footlighters Inc. and now is very glad to be a member-at large for ACT-Cincinnati.