Registration is just $65 for the entire nine-week program and includes two tickets to the end-of-workshop showcase at the Memorial.

Content & Instructors

Ages 7-12

Instructors: Aaron & Hannah Paulley.

Combined, Aaron & Hannah have more than 30 years of experience working with and teaching kids. From short skits to full-length plays and musicals, they have been leading children’s groups in churches and communities for the entirety of their adult lives (and many years before that, too!).

This workshop will focus on theatrical basics, creating characters and bringing them to life, reacting to other actors, and more. Over the course of the workshop, the students will work with each other to create their own skits and monologues and will present  them at the end-of-workshop Showcase at the Knox County Memorial Theatre on Saturday, August 17. Each workshop registration includes two tickets to the showcase. Additional tickets may be purchased here.

Ages 13-17

Instructor: Steven Meeker, Jr.

Steven Meeker Jr. is an actor, director, mime, writer, dancer, and producer who is a BFA Acting major at Otterbein University. He has been a part of more than 40 productions and is well-known for his all-youth productions including The Laramie Project, Rebel Without a Cause, Ah, Willderness! and this summer, The Crucible. He is very excited for this opportunity to help young artists discover what they love about theatre!

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The Mount Vernon Players will present A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Love Letters at WineStein in Mount Vernon, Ohio, for five performances in May and June. A different set of actors will bring the two-person play to life each afternoon and evening.

Featuring the talents of JENNIFER CASNER, DOUGLAS GUSTAFSON, DANA KEMMER, DOROTHY MICHALSKI, IRA MOWERY, AARON PAULLEY, TAMMY SOUHRADA, AMY STONER, JIM STONER and CARL YOUNG.

Love Letters revolves around the correspondence of Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. It follows the two characters through their nearly 50-year bittersweet relationship that began in the second grade. Time Magazine called Love Letters ”one of the four or five best American plays of all time.”

The show is directed by Aaron Paulley, a theatre veteran of more than 25 years, primarily in Cambridge, Ohio. Love Letters marks Aaron’s directorial debut with the Mount Vernon Players.

Performance dates are as follows, and will be presented at WineStein in Mount Vernon, Ohio:

Sunday, May 12, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, May 12, 6:00 P.M.

Saturday, June 15, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, June 16, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, June 16, 6:00 P.M.

Sunday, May 12 is Mother’s Day and Sunday, June 16 is Father’s Day.

Tickets are $10 and a limited menu will be available at WineStein.

For ticket information, visit www.mountvernontickets.com or call (740) 233-1616.

LOVE LETTERS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The talented actresses lending their abilities to the eccentric role of Melissa Gardner are: Jennifer Casner, Dana Kemmer, Dorothy Michalski, Tammy Souhrada and Amy Stoner.

Likewise, the actors bringing Andrew Makepeace Ladd III to life are: Douglas Gustafson, Ira Mowery, Aaron Paulley, Jim Stoner and Carl Young.

A different set of actors will portray the roles of Melissa and Andrew  for each performance.

Performance dates:

Sunday, May 12, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, May 12, 6:00 P.M.

Saturday, June 15, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, June 16, 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, June 16, 6:00 P.M.

Tickets are just $10.