Our Staff


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Jody Madaras

Executive Producing Artistic Director
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Valerie-hill

Valerie Hill

Executive Managing Director / Acting Director of Education and Advancement
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Jody Madaras

Brings 30 years of global directing and performing experience to TFA.

BROADWAY:  Finian’s Rainbow (with Lauren Bacall). First National Tour: I Love Lucy Live On Stage, The Drowsy Chaperone, Irving Berlin’s I Love A Piano – Japan Tour.                                                                                                                
OFF-BROADWAY:  Peg O’ My Heart (Irish Repertory), An Evening Of Frank Loesser (92nd ST Y).                                                                              
TELEVISION:  As The World Turns.
REGIONAL:  Music Man (Riverside Theatre), Miracle On 34th Street (Arvada Center, CO), Singin’ In The Rain (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), White Christmas (Actors’ Playhouse, VMT), Crazy For You (First Euro-tour, Modesto Perf Arts, SS Norway, Phoenix Theatre – Zoni Award Best Actor 2008), Godspell (with Rex Smith), Annie (Paper Mill), Red Hot & Blue! (Goodspeed Opera House/Paper Mill), You Can’t Take It With You (Two River Theatre). DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER:  The Drowsy Chaperone (Gateway Playhouse), Crazy For You (Norwegian Cruise Lines). 
Graduate: University of Michigan.

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Valerie Hill

Brings a broad spectrum of performing, teaching, managerial, communications, marketing, and sales expertise from her 30 years in the entertainment industry.

OFF-BROADWAY: Ten Percent Revue, Fairy Tales, Cabaret Shows & Workshops with new composers.
REGIONAL: Les Miserable (Arvada Center for the Performing Arts), Camelot (Park Playhouse), A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline (Main Street Theatre), Do I Hear A Waltz (Arvada Center, CO), She Loves Me (Main Street Theater), Show Boat (Carousel Dinner Theatre), Full Monty (Arvada Center, CO), Nine (Arvada Center, CO), Nunsense (Fort Salem)
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Fame (Main Street Theatre)
Graduate: New York University

Valerie’s heartfelt interest is working with animals in need - “Be part of the solution to stop animal cruelty & remember to spay/neuter!”

Our Board of Directors


Glenda-justus

Glenda Justus, President/Secretary

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John Paul Almon, Director

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JC Clinton, Director

Tom Panepinto, Director