director’s notes 

Another spring, another Voices! Such a bittersweet time - it’s finally warm, Voices is our favorite, but it’s the last show for the seniors... It’s so exciting to start the process of Voices and have everyone back together again, only to realize as we get close to the show that this will be perhaps the last time I work with some of these amazing humans. Sometimes, though, bittersweet-ness is what makes life so rich. You can recognize and appreciate the highs better because you’ve known the lows.

Speaking of lows, you’ll find there are some serious pieces this year too. There were just some topics that we wanted to address but didn’t feel we could do them justice through a comedy lens. Since this show is designed to give a voice and a stage to what affects teenagers’ lives, we decided that we needed to make room for those stories as well.

Don’t worry though - if you’ve come for poop jokes and the kids making weird animal noises, we have that too. Voices is now 22 years old, but I’m still a baby director of this show (my second year!), so I’m just starting to get my legs under me and toddle around. Thank goodness I have the kids to help teach me, and as always, overwhelming thanks to my personal theater and life guru, Wendy Poole. Who would I even be without you? I’m so glad I don’t have to find out. Love yah.

Karin