Founders and Board
 

Elaine Schatzline-Behr

Co-Founder

  Elaine was born and raised in Detroit's downriver suburbs. She is a product of the Catholic schools and is grateful for the great education she found there, as well as the introduction to theatre. Elaine attended Northwestern University for two years and then transferred to the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She holds a BFA in acting and is Meisner trained. Her graduate degree from Northern Illinois University is an MFA in directing with a secondary emphasis on Meisner teacher training. 
  Elaine taught at Northern Illinois University and Indiana State University in their performance programs. She was the founder and artistic director of Chicago Cooperative Stage and still has days she misses the Chicago city skyline (but not the traffic). Her daughter, Clarisse, is also a Meisner trained actor, and lives in New York City. Tiny Tim, the cat, is Elaine's very best friend. 
  Elaine loves the theatre and has been involved in it nearly every day since the fall of 1974. She is a director and an Equity actor, a teacher and a designer, an arts administrator and union stage manager, and an excellent theatre custodian. Elaine has never worked as master electrician for a production and would not rehire herself as a scenic designer. There are no other jobs in the theatre she has not done (Click here for Elaine's full resume). She believes in the collaborative process of live theatre and all of the magic it makes possible- publicly with the audience, and privately in the lives of all who practice its crafts. 

   Come join us, enter stage right, and never exit.

Regina Spain

Co-Founder, Managing Director, President

  Regina was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, a Performing Arts High school where she majored in Dance. She returned to the theatre 7 years ago, working with Elaine Schatzline-Behr to bring performing arts into St. Clair County and St. Clair County into the performing arts. She has recently received her Associates in Fine Arts at St. Clair County Community College and is currently working toward her BFA in Theatre Design Technology, with a specialty in Scenic Design.

  She realizes that the opportunity to be part of an organization as special as Enter Stage Right, where she gets to play with her kids and her husband while expanding her theatre family is truly unique. The love of theatre as well as being able to see the positive impact on the community and individuals we have worked with is Regina's driving force to make Enter Stage Right a success.

John Alger

Board Treasurer

Board Member

Brian Spain

Board Member

  Brian likes to be in the supporting staff, behind the scenes.  His love for theatre is an extension of his love for his 3 favorite actors, Regina, Marisa, and Wesley.

Stewart Reed

Director of Community Relations

  Stewart Reed is a classically trained, working class actor. He loves Shakespeare and commercials, Chekov and industrial videos. Educated at Wheaton College under the direction of Jim Young, and then at Brandeis University with Master Teacher Ted Kazanoff, Stewart has been trained in voice, movement, makeup, sound, lighting, design, dance, singing, improv and combat.
  Favorite theatrical roles include Does a Tiger Wear A Necktie?, Twelfth Night, Light Sensitive, The Haunting of Will Shakespeare and The Illusion. TV and film credits include America’s Most Wanted, Big Brother Jake, Prison to Praise, several documentary dramatizations for The Learning Channel and numerous industrial videos.
  Behind the scenes Stewart has designed sound, lighting, props and worked in the art department on television and video productions. He has done extensive work in makeup design and tech for ESR and is currently working on a makeup book for school based/childrens’ productions. Stewart is a member of Enter Stage Right and The Thespis Group. (Click here for Stewart's full resume)

Don Grattan

Logistics Director

  Don started acting at the age of 17 with his portrayal of James Leatherbury in Port Huron High School Drama Club's production of Ernest Werth's This Times For Me.  He then worked with Port Huron Little Theatre's production of Jay Christopher's Runaways.  He took a 23 year break from the theatre until his daughter, Kristen, was cast with Enter Stage Right in Liberty Street at Fort Gratiot Middle School in 2007 where he was the Props Master.  He then worked backstage with ESR's original production Wicked/Oz.  In the winter of 2008 he played the Grandfather in the Yalda scene of ESR's original Holiday Lights.  Don was cast as Starveling in The Haunting of Will Shakespeare, then played Hamlet the following summer in ESR's 2009 production of the show.  Don cannot wait until his next opportunity to play the character of someone other than himself.

Secretary

                   
 
Company Members

Frank Bublitz (Frank Stevens)

   Frank has joined the Enter Stage Right family from the CMH Players theater group and Starbrite Productions. He is an actor, vocalist, and has begun to write scripts and treatises for film and stage.   

   He is a recent graduate of the Dramatic Arts Studio Film Acting classes and has taken classes at the Enter Stage Right home base. He looks forward to a long association with the wonderful and talented people here at ESR. Because of the many and varied pronunciations of “Bublitz” Frank normally performs professionally using the name Frank Stevens.  Find out more about Frank at http://www.nextcat.com/frankstevens

Robert Croy

  Robert has been doing theatre since high school where he lettered in drama.  Since then, he has done productions through both the SC4 theatre discipline and the drama club.  Aside from being onstage, he has worked backstage as Assistant Theatre Technician at SC4 for a year on work study.  Robert hopes to continue his theatrical works far into the future working with Enter Stage Right.

Amy Finkel

Jane Finkel

  Jane is married and is a mother of two teenagers. She also is the owner of two lovable, but nutty, Shelties.  She teaches elementary school  in the Port Huron Area School District. She is also very active at Faith Lutheran Church helping at Vacation Bible School and being a member of the choir and the hand bells.  In her free time she enjoys camping, walking the dogs, reading, and just spending time with her family.
  Jane got involved with ESR through her daughter Amy.  She has enjoyed watching and helping behind the scenes for the last few years.  With Amy’s encouragement, she decided to give acting a try.  She has been in two ESR productions so far, Holiday Lights  and The Haunting of Will Shakespeare.  She  plans to do more, as her busy schedule allows. The best thing about this company is the people, and Jane is happy to be  part of a whole new family!

DJ Grattan

  D.J. started acting when he was only 7 years old.  His vast acting experiences range from a pint-size tree to a hen-pecked rooster. At the start of his acting career, he was the Littlest Christmas Tree in Keewahdin Elementary School’s production of The Littlest Christmas Tree.  D.J. worked behind the scenes for Fort Gratiot Middle School’s Liberty Street in the winter of 2007.   In the spring of 2008, he was again behind the scenes forWicked/Oz, an original production with Enter Stage Right and the Girl and Boy Scouts.  That summer, he was the thunder sheet in ESR’s production of The Haunting of Will Shakespeare., then went on to be Child #1 in the Yalda scene of Enter Stage Right’s original Holiday Lights in the winter of 2008. He enjoyed working backstage again in the spring of 2009 for Fort Gratiot Middle School’s production ofThe Big Bad Musical.  Next, in the summer of 2009, he played Starveling in Enter Stage Right’s The Haunting of Will Shakespeare.  Finally, in the spring of 2010, he played Cocky Locky in Fort Gratiot Middle School’s Poultry in Motion/The Ever After- A Musical.

Kristen Grattan

  Kristen Grattan was bit by the acting bug at the age of five when she played the Littlest Goat in the Three Billy Goat’s Gruff in her kindergarten class. She then took a little break, watching her little brother being a little Christmas tree. In sixth grade, she portrayed Ivana, a pickpocket immigrant from Norway in the Fort Gratiot Middle School’s Drama Club production of Liberty Street. This is where she met Elaine and Regina, and has loved working with them since. She was Shen Shen in Wicked/Oz with ESR and the Girl and Boy Scouts. In ESR's 2008 and 2009 productions of The Haunting of Will Shakespeare, Kristen was cast as Phoebe.  Winter of 2008, she was Child #2 in the Yalda scene in Holiday Lights.  In the spring of 2009, Kristen was cast as the Evil Stepmother in The Big Bad Musical’.  Spring 2010 gave Kristen a part as Sam in The Ever After/ Poultry in Motion. She now can’t wait to be haunting the stage as a ghost in the upcoming Will on the Water Shakespeare Festival.

Laura Grattan

  Laura Grattan got involved with Enter Stage Right in the winter of 2007 when her daughter Kristen played Ivana in Liberty Street with Fort Gratiot Middle School’s Drama Club.  Her next adventure was backstage in the spring of 2008 when Kristen did Enter Stage Right’s Wicked/Oz.  Laura was the Actor’s Stage Manager for Enter Stage Right’s Haunting of Will Shakespeare in the summer of 2008.  She played the Mother in the Yalda scene of Holiday Lights by Enter Stage Right in the winter of 2008.  Laura reprised her duties as Stage Manager of The Haunting of Will Shakespeare in the summer of 2009. 

Zach Parkhurst

Nick Reed

 

 

  Nick's theatre career includes the following:

Date	Play	Part	Company - Notes
Summer 2010	Scenes from Romeo & Juliet	Benvolio	Enter Stage Right's Will on the Water Shakespeare Festival
Summer 2010	Scenes from Macbeth	Banquo/Apparition	Enter Stage Right's Will on the Water Shakespeare Festival
Summer 2009	The Haunting of Will Shakespeare	Silvius	Enter Stage Right
Winter 2008	Holiday Lights	Son	Enter Stage Right Original Production
Summer 2008	Historical Vignettes~ Prisoner	Pirate	Enter Stage Right with Acheson Venture’s Great Lakes Maritime Center’s Tall Ships Festival
Winter 2007	Liberty Street	Ed	Enter Stage Right with Fort Gratiot Middle School
Spring 2007	Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls	Freddie Butters	Enter Stage Right with Fort Gratiot Middle School

Nick's other/related experience include:
Percussion, Comedy, Tae Kwon Doh
Port Huron Northern High School - Class of 2012

 

 

Marisa Spain
   Marisa has been doing theatre since she was 7.   She enjoys learning about all the parts of theatre, on stage and backstage.  She likes "becoming someone else” and meeting others through performing.  She likes singing, but has never done a musical.  The thought scares her, but she’d like to have the experience someday. 

 

 

    Marisa has been part of the following productions:

Date	Play	Part	Company - Notes
Winter 2011	Bye Bye Birdie	Crew	Marysville High School
Summer 2010	Scenes from Romeo & Juliet	Juliet	Enter Stage Right's Will on the Water Shakespeare Festival
Summer 2010	Scenes from Macbeth	Hecate	Enter Stage Right's Will on the Water Shakespeare Festival
Winter 2009	A Christmas Carol: A Ghost of Christmas	Fan/ Belinda	SC4 Discipline
Summer 2009	The Haunting of Will Shakespeare	Graymalkin	Enter Stage Right
Winter 2008	Holiday Lights	Mo	Enter Stage Right Original Production
Winter 2008	Miracle on 34th Street	Girl at the Zoo	Port Huron Civic
Fall 2008	Aunt Leaf	Young Woman	Enter Stage Right with Studio 1219’s Women in Music and Verse
Summer 2008	The Haunting of Will Shakespeare	Graymalkin	Enter Stage Right
Summer 2008	Historical Vignettes~ Prisoner	Governor’s Daughter	Enter Stage Right with Acheson Venture’s Great Lakes Maritime Center’s Tall Ships Festival
Summer 2008	Red Witch	playwright, Pan	Enter Stage Right and Girl Scouts Michigan Waterways Council with Dove Self-Esteem’s Behind the Scenes~ Uniquely ME! Theatre Camp
Summer 2008	Historical Vignettes~ A scene from Liberty Street	Lily	Enter Stage Right with Acheson Venture’s Great Lakes Maritime Center’s "Be A Tourist in Your Own Town"
Spring 2008	Wicked/Oz	Lion	Enter Stage Right with Girl Scouts Michigan Waterways Council’s all Boy and Girl Scout production
Winter 2007	Liberty Street	Crew	Enter Stage Right with Fort Gratiot Middle School
Summer 2007	Wicked/Oz	Dorothy	Enter Stage Right Original Production
Spring 2007	Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls	Crew	Enter Stage Right with Fort Gratiot Middle School
Summer 2006	A Midsommer Nights Dreame	Titania’s hand maiden	Marysville Summer Recreation Theatre
Summer 2006	Pan and the Lost Kids	Miss Smee	Marysville Summer Recreation Theatre
Spring 2006	Girl Scouts in Wonderland	Alecia	Werth Productions with Girl Scouts Michigan Waterways Council
Summer 2005	360° of Family	Fairy Godmother	Marysville Summer Recreation Theatre
Summer 2004	Big Not Bad Wolf at the Door	3rd Little Pig, Little Red Squirrel Mother, Wolf that Cried Human Mother	Marysville Summer Recreation Theatre

Wesley Spain

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