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Salida Theater Project

Quality, sustainable, and inspirational theater for our community.

Quality, sustainable, and inspirational professional theater for our community.

Inspirational Community Theater

Salida Theater Project Board Members

Barb Scheidegger

Barb Scheidegger

Barb Scheidegger moved to Colorado from Wisconsin as a teenager. She landed in Telluride where she ended up managing the historic Sheridan Opera House for 5 years. She found the nuts and bolts of behind the scenes in theater and events management fascinating. Love of theater and a degree in accounting is a good combination to bring to the Salida Theatre Project. Now living in Salida for ~20 years, Barb loves skiing and hiking and mojitos – not necessarily in that order!
Bill Mansheim

Bill Mansheim

I am a 4th generation Salida native. I enjoy all the outdoor recreation Chaffee County has to offer. Back before I had to get a real job, I had a rafting company and spent a couple of decades rafting the Arkansas. Today, my wife Kim and I enjoy hiking, rock hounding, and four wheeling. Our kids are grown and off doing their own thing.

I moved back to Salida in 2020 after retiring from Adams State University, where I was the Vice President of finance and government relations. These days I stay busy working as a residential real estate appraiser.

I was on the founding board of Society Hall in Alamosa. In June of 2015 we created a non-profit foundation. The following August we purchased an old church and converted it into a live music and social event center. The hall has been a great addition to Alamosa as the host site of music concerts, plays, workshops, weddings, and film festivals.
I love the arts and theater. I am excited to be involved with the Salida Theater Project. The expansion of performance art in Salida will further enhance an already strong art community.

Bill Rogers

Bill Rogers

Bill Rogers is thrilled to be a member of the Salida Theatre Project board of directors. Bill has over 30 years of experience in the non-profit sector. He served for 22 years as Executive Director of Washington Regional Medical Foundation. He began his non-profit career in a variety of positions at ALSAC-St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Other organizations for which he has served include the Methodist Hospitals Foundation, Trike Theatre for Youth, the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, as an adjunct theatre professor for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, and as a volunteer for various arts and civic organizations. As an actor, his theatre credits include Native Gardens, All The Way, Amadeus, Superior Donuts, and Sons of the Prophet (TheatreSquared), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Virginia Stage), Much Ado About Nothing (Arkansas Shakespeare), Twelfth Night (North Dakota Shakespeare), and others. Film credits include Banana Triangle Six, Chronic, Sweet Inspirations, and Parker’s Anchor. He received an MFA in Theatre from the University of Arkansas in 2016.
Kim Wilkoxson

Kim Wilcoxson

Hi, my name is Kim Wilcoxson, and I am excited to be a board member for the Salida Theatre Project! My passion for theatre began in the sixth grade when I had the lead role in the Longfellow Elementary production of Ladies First! Now I only prefer to enjoy the magic of theatre performances from the audience as I am somewhat shy when it comes to public speaking. Fun fact, I am a 1986 Salida High School graduate.

Professionally, I am a dedicated Realtor and currently serve as the Treasurer for the Board of Realtors of Central Colorado. I am excited to bring my skills and enthusiasm to the theatre project because I see it as a valuable asset to our sweet community. It adds a distinct level of artistic cultural richness to Salida. I am excited to contribute to the project’s growth and help move forward one of the things I most enjoy.

When I am not working or volunteering, you will often find me with a camera in hand, hiking, biking, or enjoying time in my new, very important role as “MiMi”. I am honored to be a part of the Salida Theatre Project and look forward to enjoying every performance I can!

Leslie Matthews

Leslie Matthews

Leslie Matthews (Helen) has always had a love for live theater. She performed in many plays during high school and college and was a member of a repertory theater company in Houston Texas during her early years as an attorney. After a many year hiatus, she is back on stage again here in Salida and could not be more thrilled. Leslie is also the festival director for the 2024 Salida Theater Festival.
Liz Dunn

Liz Dunn

Liz Dunn is thrilled to be a part of Salida Theater Project’s board. Although this is her first board experience, she comes to the group with a wealth of business and theatre acumen. She received her BFA, in Theater Performing and Directing, from Fort Lewis College and has worked with several companies throughout the state, primarily on the acting side. Her professional career has found her serving organizations primarily in a Human Resources capacity, but she’s also served in higher operational roles and comes to the board with 7+ years worth of business finance experience. She has now participated in 3 STP shows and is excited to continue expanding her impact in a company that she holds near and dear to her heart.
Susan Bavaria

Susan Bavaria

Susan Bavaria’s earliest dramatic activity was improvising dance routines in her living room listening to her parents 33 1/3 long-playing classical records. She acted in high school plays, often playing the mother because she was tall! She believes theater has the power to entertain, excite and offer a fresh perspective on sometimes difficult topics. She has an M.A. in Communication and Theater from the University of Colorado
Susan P. McQuade

Susan P. McQuade

Susan P. McQuade is grateful for the opportunity to serve on the inaugural Salida Theater Project Board and support STP in its growth. She has many years of community theater experience that includes directing, acting, set design, production and as an active theater board member. Susan graduated from Texas Woman’s University with a Master’s degree in Nursing and then a post graduate degree from University of South Carolina as Family Nurse Practitioner. She has been committed to those with catastrophic illness first in treating HIV/AIDS in Greenville, South Carolina and then at St Judes’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.Her career then took her to Austin, Texas in Chronic Pain Management for several years. Most recently she lived in Taos, New Mexico and worked as a Palliative Care Practitioner through home hospice. In Salida, she continues to pursue her passion for the Arts through theater, music, painting and clay. Her other interests include hiking, biking and hanging out with her three grandsons.

Salida Theater Project Sponsors

A Church
Amicas
Bliss Realty
Colorado Mountain Realty
Rebound Physical Therapy
Tenderfoot Health Collective
“Every Brilliant Thing”
Directed by Brade Bradshaw
Starring Kelsey Elyse Rodriquez (from Chicago)
Produced by Salida Theater Project

You're six years old. Mom's in the hospital. Dad says “she’s done something stupid”. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV. 4. The color yellow. These are the first four items on a list of every brilliant thing in the world worth living for. Every Brilliant Thing is a life-affirming story of how to achieve hope through focusing on the smallest miracles of life.

"Every Brilliant Thing" and "2 Across" are one act plays (80-90 minutes each) with an intermission in between.

SHOW DATES: July 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30
LOCATION: A Church

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“2 Across”
By Jerry Mayer
Directed by Allen Lane, Assistant Director Leslie Matthews
Staring Justin Critelli and Devon Jencks (from Salida)
Produced by Salida Theater Project

Two strangers, a man and a woman, board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30am. They're alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword. She's an organized, sensible psychologist. He's a free-spirited, unemployed ad exec. She is a crossword pro, he always quits. When he tosses the puzzle away, she snaps, "Crosswords are a metaphor for life, those who finish, succeed, those who don't fail." now he vows to finish. Described by critics as "Hilarious", "Witty", "Romantic" and "Wonderfully entertaining".

"Every Brilliant Thing" and "2 Across" are one act plays (80-90 minutes each) with an intermission in between.

SHOW DATES: July 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30
LOCATION: A Church

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“A Destination of My Own”
By Mike Broemmel
Directed by Mike Broemmel
Staring Denver actor TGKAFG
Produced by TINTS

Colorado TINTS is proud to present "A Destination of My Own, the story of Richard Durham." A one man show about the life of an African American radio journalist who, in the 1940s, broke through the racial barriers of the "lily white industry of radio." Richard Durham was the creator and writer of Destination Freedom, a weekly radio drama that aired for two years in the 1940s. The radio serial dramatized the lives of important Black American historical figures and is described as “nothing ever before heard on radio.” The radio program strove to defeat commonplace stereotypes routinely attached to Black Americans. Richard Durham’s work has been described as an important precursor to the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements.

SHOW DATES: July 21, 22
LOCATION: Box of Bubbles

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“I'm Harvey Milk”
By Mike Broemmel
Directed by Greg West
Starring Ben Beasely
Produced by TINTS

"I'm Harvey Milk" tells the story of the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. Called "the most famous and most significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the United States,” Harvey Milk was described as a “visionary (who) imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us." Milk battled against anti-gay initiatives and was elected San Francisco city supervisor in 1977, sponsoring bills banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

SHOW DATES: July 20, 27, 28
LOCATION: Box of Bubbles

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“Into the Woods”
By James Lapine
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Kyria Stange
Vocal Director Jordan Gonzalez
Produced by Sventastik Productions

Join Sventastik Productions for the incredible production of “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim! Follow some beloved fairytale characters through the woods and discover that sometimes wishes are not all that they appear to be. Directed by Kyria Stange and Vocal Director Jordan Gonzalez, this all adult cast production promises to be Sventastik’s best show yet!

SHOW DATES: July 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
LOCATION: The SteamPlant Theater and Event Center

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