Gianni Palermo - T
Gianni Palermo is a Miami-based actor excited to join the aTIGER family in New Hampshire for 8 months. Passionate about storytelling for young audiences, they’re thrilled to bring joy and imagination to the stage this season.
Michael Stoddard
Managing Artistic Director
Michael returns to New Hampshire after spending the last twenty-five years in New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Miami as an actor, director, and playwright. He holds a BA in Performance and a Masters Degree in Education from Plymouth State University and spent 17 years of his career as the Director of Theatre in two different private high schools. He recently premiered his original comedy Paradise at the New York Theatre Festival as the playwright and director where he received first place in both categories. He is one of the playwrights and content creators for Musicals Made Easy and recently co-created Triggered—the newest TIGER touring show. He also serves as the Interim Artistic Director for Miami Theatre Works. When not doing theatre, Michael has a passion for prevention education where her works for CADY as their marketing specialist. Michael is the co-creator or Triggered and performs this one-man show. He also performs and directs all over the world. michaeldavidstoddard.com
Trish Lindberg
Playwright, Director & Co-Founder
Co-founder of TIGER, Trish Lindberg, recently named the Stevens-Bristow Distinguished Professor, Lindberg seeks, through her work with TIGER, to bring children and the arts together in powerful new ways.
Co-founded in 2003, with Gary Goodnough, Gail Mears, and Kate Mausolf, Theatre Integrating Guidance, Education and Responsibility (TIGER), has performed for over 530,000 children in schools throughout New England.
In addition to recently creating an interactive original e-learning program called Turbo TIGER, in collaboration with PSU graduate students and other professionals, which is now available to schools, TIGER has also produced many original TIGER musical performances exploring difficult social issues children face in schools and in life. In the Fall of 2012, TIGER also created an original television pilot on bullying with NHPTV, winning a regional Emmy for the best produced Children’s/Youth program, a bronze Telly, and a first place for best feature given by the NH Broadcasters Association.
Lindberg teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at Plymouth State University, and is artistic director of the Flying Monkey Family Theatre in Plymouth, NH, the St. Martins Summer Theatre in St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada and the Palestinian-American Children’s Theatre (PACT) in Ramallah, Palestine. Lindberg also founded the Kearsarge Arts Theatre (KAT), a summer arts program that ran for 30 years in the Lake Sunapee Region of New Hampshire, and is currently the producing/artistic director of the Educational Theatre Collaborative (ETC). An Affiliate Faculty member at Emerson College in Boston, Lindberg also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Puppetry and Theatre for Young Audiences and supervises MFA students in Theatre Education. With the help of TIGER’s wonderful Tour Manager, Pam Irish, Lindberg hopes to produce many more inciteful, powerful, and meaningful TIGER performances for countless children in the years to come.
Estee Daniels - Campbell
Tour Manager
Blending theatrical artistry with business acumen, Estée brings a unique perspective to TIGER as a Plymouth State University theatre graduate. After spending over a decade mastering sales and marketing in the corporate world, she has come full circle to return to her first love—the performing arts. As TIGER's Tour Manager, she channels her passion for theatre and expertise in relationship-building to create meaningful connections between schools and educational theatre.
Beyond coordinating performances and crafting communications, you'll find Estée advocating for arts education and mentoring young theatre enthusiasts. Her approach combines professional polish with artistic sensitivity, making her the perfect bridge between TIGER's creative mission and its practical operations.
In her free time, Estée directs local theatre productions, spends time with her three children, and tackles long-postponed sewing projects.
Blending theatrical artistry with business acumen, Estée brings a unique perspective to TIGER as a Plymouth State University theatre graduate. After spending over a decade mastering sales and marketing in the corporate world, she has come full circle to return to her first love—the performing arts. As TIGER's Tour Manager, she channels her passion for theatre and expertise in relationship-building to create meaningful connections between schools and educational theatre.
Beyond coordinating performances and crafting communications, you'll find Estée advocating for arts education and mentoring young theatre enthusiasts. Her approach combines professional polish with artistic sensitivity, making her the perfect bridge between TIGER's creative mission and its practical operations.
In her free time, Estée directs local theatre productions, spends time with her three children, and tackles long-postponed sewing projects.
Rosanna Ferro
Composer - Calm Quest
Rosanna Ferro is a Massachusetts native with a BA in Composition from Berklee College of Music. She composed musical theatre songs in the BMI-Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City. She wrote the book, music and lyrics to the full-length musical, “The Price of Admission” that was performed at The Duplex and The Triad theaters in Manhattan and selected to be in the New York Theatre Festival. She composed a film score for the Staten Island Summer of Shorts. Rosanna has composed and directed for theatre companies including the Actor Singers Theatre of Nashua, NH, the Berklee Theatre Club in Boston, MA, The University of Lowell’s, Durgin Hall and City Lights Youth Theatre in Times Square. Rosanna is thrilled to be writing songs for TIGER!
Elizabeth Troxler
Choreographer
Elizabeth Troxler has directed/choreographed West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Chess, Matilda, Cabaret, Newsies & Bright Star at regional theaters around the country. Elizabeth has performed in many regional theater productions including Brigadoon (Maggie), Mame, Beauty & the Beast, Anything Goes, CATS, An American in Paris, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, as well as in the national tour of Sweet Charity. She has danced numerous classical ballet roles in ballets such as Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, & Les Sylphides. This year marked the world premier of her original ballet of The Snow Queen, with previous full length ballets of Peter Pan, Hansel & Gretel, and Rumpelstiltskin. Her NYC producing/directing credits include Daughter of Society, On This Wondrous Sea, Free To Be, and On The Town. Elizabeth has directed a dance film, Dancing Through…, with The Tank NYC, the lighting design team from American Ballet Theatre, 10 award winning choreographers, and over 100 Broadway performers, dancers & creatives. Elizabeth is the founder and artistic director of both Chronicle Dance Theatre and Allongé Films which has since won many awards at various film festivals. She has taught dance in NYC for the Martha Graham Company and around the world at multiple universities.
Harmony Glynn Markey
Musical Director
Harmony Markey is the Program Coordinator for Music Education and Director of Choral Studies at Plymouth State University where she has earned two student recognition awards for her work advising, mentoring, and supervising of all pre-service music teachers, teaching undergraduate music education and choral conducting courses. She is in her fifth season as Music Director for the Educational Theatre Collaborative and second year involved with TIGER.
Before serving at PSU, Harmony spent more than 20 years teaching general, choral, and instrumental music in K-12 public schools in Vermont, Colorado, and the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, where she earned the 2015 Distinguished Teacher of the Year award.
As a classical vocalist Harmony has performed with the Lakes Region Music Symphony Orchestra, the Carter Mountain Brass Band, the NH Music Festival Chorus, and the New Hampshire Master Chorale and also performs also performs as a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Northern Vermont University, and a Master of Music degree in Music Education from Boston University. She holds certificates in Social Emotional Learning and Trauma-Informed classroom techniques and is a teacher trainer in Modern Band techniques for Music Will.
Emma Justine - I
Emma Justine is thrilled to be making her debut with TIGER! In 2023, she earned a B.F.A. in Acting from Towson University. Her recent work includes Ariel/Miranda in The Tempest (Endangered Species Theatre Project), Alyson in The Confession: The Musical (Blue Gate Musicals), Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky (Towson University Department of Theatre Arts), and Lex in the feature film The Haunted Forest (Sane Lake Pictures), which will be premiering this year at FrightFest in London. She has previously performed as a Scare Actor for Hersheypark DarkNights (RWS Entertainment Group). Emma would like to thank the TIGER team for their dedication, as well as her family and friends for their continuous support!
Kenzie Rowbotham - G
Business Manager / Actor
Kenzie Rowbotham (she/her) is a Plymouth, NH native who is very excited to start her first full year at TIGER! She has a BA in Theatre and Music from Saint Michael’s College, minoring in Spanish and Criminology. She has been involved in theatre since she was five and has participated in over 45 theatrical productions, six of them as an Assistant Choreographer at Stagedoor Manor and three as the Director/Choreographer for the Children’s Theater at Interlakes. Her most notable roles include Hope Cladwell in Urinetown, Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky, Cinderella in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Enchanted Edition, Megan Jones in PUFFS, and was part of the original cast of TIGER TV. Additionally, she has long been involved in various musical ensembles, including chorale, concert band, pep band, acappella, and a classical music quintet. She has been playing the trumpet for 12 years, studying voice for six, and taking dance classes for 17 years in many styles. Kenzie has studied with Nancy Barry, AJ Coppola, John Devlin, Caroline Dorff, Robb Dimmick, Erin Grainger, William Gunn, Peter Harrigan, Nathaniel Lew, Dr. Trish Lindbergh, Dr. Dan Perkins, and Peter Skalar, among many others.
Olivia Etchings- E
Olivia Etchings is a resident of Plymouth, New Hampshire with a BA in Music from Manhattanville College. She is very fortunate to be returning for another season of TIGER! This season is especially meaningful to her, thanks to Michael, Trish, Ben, and the Maki family. The TRIGGERED project is very important to her, and she is very happy that this work is out there. Olivia would like to thank all of her family, and friends, for all of their love. This season is dedicated to her father, Richard, and her Sant Bani School classmate, Joyce.
Matthew J. Murray - R
Matthew J.Murray is excited to rejoin the TIGER family. Obtaining his associates in theater from Prince George’s Community College. Some of his credits are: XTIGONE (PGCC), Twelfth Night (PGCC), The Crucible (Dominion Stage), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Up), Almost Maine (Powerhouse Theater), Fires In The Mirror (Laurel Mill Playhouse), Blues For Alabama Sky (Silver Spring Stage), and Carousel (Flying Monkey). Thanking family and friends for their support.
