HEAD OVER HEELS

Rated PG; ages 12+ for simulated sexual positions and sexual jokes

Welcome to the third production from Shifted Lens Theatre company, HEAD OVER HEELS. We are thrilled that you chose to spend some time at a local theater! Next up is a World Premiere musical, The Legend of Anne Bonny - this August at The People’s Building!

At Shifted Lens, we believe community theater is part of our lost “Third Spaces,” places other than work or home that we gather to find community, and we strive to create a safe space for actors and artists to connect and thrive — all while we build a show to share with local audiences!

If you’ve ever thought you’d like to be involved in some local art, connect with us! Theatre is a team sport — come play!

Head Over Heels

Music & Lyrics by The Go-Go's

Book Conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty;

adapted by James Magruder

Based on The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
by Sir Philip Sidney

Act One

We Got the Beat - Company

Beautiful - Pamela, Ensemble

Vision of Nowness - Pythio, Ensemble

Get Up and Go - Basilius, Company

Mad About You - Musidorus, Male Ensemble

Good Girl - Philoclea, Mopsa, Pamela

Vision of Nowness/Beautiful (Reprise) - Musidorus, Pythio, Female Ensemble

Automatic Rainy Day - Pamela, Mopsa

Cool Jerk - Company

Vacation - Mopsa, Female Ensemble

How Much More - Pamela

Our Lips Are Sealed - Musidorus, Philoclea, Pamela, Mopsa, Pythio, Ensemble

Act Two

Head Over Heels - Musidorus, Philoclea, Mopsa, Pamela, Company

This Old Feeling - Gynecia, Basilius

Turn to You - Mopsa, Pamela, Ensemble

Heaven Is a Place on Earth - Pythio, Gynecia, Basilius, Ensemble

Lust to Love - Basilius, Ensemble

Here You Are - Philoclea, Company

Mad About You (Reprise) - Company

Finale - Company

Cast

BASILIUS — Cole Emarine

GYNECIA — Cooper Rae

PAMELA — Brekken Baker

PHILOCLEA — Sarah Holmes

DAMETAS — Adam Odekirk

MOPSA — Danielle Morris

MUSIDORUS — Jack Icke

PYTHIO — Eli Harvey

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Pamela — Cammie Kolber

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Musidorus — Neil S Isales

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Pythio — Joshua Jackson

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Philoclea & Mopsa — Reanna Rohrer

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Gynecia — Madelynn Guerra

ENSEMBLE & US for Dametas — Jacob Frye

ENSEMBLE & Dance Swing — Tyler Strickland

ENSEMBLE & Dance Swing — Anja Oss

CREATIVE TEAM

Lexie Lazear

DIRECTOR
Lexie (she/her) has been in love with story telling since she could talk. Starting as a performer in childhood, she eventually expanded into designing hair, makeup, and the occasional prop. Almost 10 years ago, she was approached to direct and she’s been pursuing directing since.
Community theatre is a Third Space, and everyone deserves accessible, affordable, exciting theater. It should be a space where everyone feels seen and valued; a space that sparks joy and starts conversations.
This show has been a team effort and a labor of love, and she hopes it sets the vibe for all future Shifted Lens endeavors. Enjoy the show!
Dallas Slankard

CHOREOGRAPHER
Dallas is so thrilled to be sharing this choreography with you all. You might've seen her previous work in Guys and Dolls at Vintage Theatre or with the Ramblers at Regis University. When she isn't making the cast's epsom salt budgets increase, she spends some of her time on stage as well. Some of her favorite performance credits include Billie Bendix in Nice Work If You Can Get It, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde. Dallas could not be more proud of all of the incredible work that this cast has put into this show! We hope you have as much fun as we did putting it together!
Tanner Kelly

MUSIC DIRECTOR
Tanner Kelly (Music Director) is an active director, teacher, and Henry-nominated music director/sound designer around the Denver Metro area. He received two Henry nominations for Outstanding Musical Director (Newsies and Hairspray), two nominations for Outstanding Production of a Musical (Newsies and Spamalot) for PACE/Inspire and one nomination for Outstanding Sound Design (The Wizard of Oz) with PACE/Sasquatch. Tanner music directed and conducted the 2017 Henry’s, is the Artistic Director/Conductor of the Aurora Singers, and has directed, music directed and/or played in the pit with companies such as Breckenridge Backstage, THAC, Vintage, PACE, Performance Now, StageDoor, Ignite, Sasquatch, Evergreen Players, Forge Light Theatre Works and Inspire Theatre Company. Tanner is the Musical Theatre Director at Regis University and is the Performing Arts Coordinator for PASB. He holds a music degree from the Lamont School of Music at DU, teaching degree from MSU Denver and has a Master of Music Education degree from ASU.
Justin Strickett

STAGE MANAGER
Justin Strickett (Stage Manager) is ecstatic to be a part of the creative team of another Shifted Lens production. Prior to this, he was the Assistant Director/Assistant Stage Manager for Shifted Lens’ Production of Cruel Intentions. As an actor, his favorite roles that he’s played include Emmett in Legally Blonde (Jesters Dinner Theatre), the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Jesters Dinner Theatre), Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof (Jesters Dinner Theatre), Slank/Hawking Clam in Peter and the Starcatcher (The Arts Hub), The Giant in Scrooge (Jesters Dinner Theatre) and Tommy in Annie Get Your Gun (Jesters Dinner Theatre). For his next endeavor, Justin will be Stage Managing the Arts Hub upcoming production of Into the Woods.
Mo Schultz

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Mo is a performer, director, writer, lighting designer, technician, DJ, and videographer with an MA in Theatre from the University of York in the U.K. If not at a desk or in a darkened theatre, you will find Mo at a dog park with his wife and three dogs.
Pluto Boll

SOUND DESIGN
Pluto Boll (they/them) is an actor, director, composer, and sound designer hailing from Florida. They enjoy noise and the making of it. Most notably, they co-wrote the music for Shifted Lens’ upcoming production of The Legend of Anne Bonny, and are so excited to finish arranging it for the stage this summer. Make sure to check it out!
Madison Demaris

COSTUME ASSISTANT, WARDROBE, RUN CREW
Production Work: Chapman - The Vagina Monologues (Producer), American Idiot (Costume Designer), Way Deep (Costume Designer & Dresser), Lysistrata (Costume Construction, Dresser), DNA (Costume Design Assistant), NCT - The Little Mermaid (Director), The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (Director). Acting: Shifted Lense- Kid Detective Chapman - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, DNA, Dogfight, Cross the Line - Devised Show, The Wolves NCT - Silent Sky, Peter and The Starcatcher, Addams Family. Theatre & Political Science B.A.s. from Chapman University. Thank you all for coming and enjoy the show!
Erica Caruso

WARDROBE/RUN CREW
Erica Caruso is thrilled to be returning to The Arts Hub. Erica studied theatre at Millikin University in Illinois before returning to Colorado to graduate from CU Boulder. She is currently finishing her MA in Arts and Culture Management at DU. Most recently, she was the Millie U/S in Firehouse’s production of Perfect Arrangement and Vera/Evil Gabbi in Vintage Theatre’s production of She Kills Monsters. Other favorite credits include Nadia in Bare: A Pop Opera, Sherrie Christian in Rock of Ages, and Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical. She is grateful to her family and boyfriend, Jack, for their endless love and support.
Raya Bradeen

SPOTLIGHT OPERATOR
Sarah Tendler

LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR
Sarah is beyond excited to be a part of this incredible production! She’s currently a homeschooled senior in high school. She loves absolutely anything theatre related and hopes to study lighting design or technology in college. When she’s not in the theatre you’ll likely find her listening to music, making art, or hanging out with her cat. She hopes you enjoy the show as much as she loves working on it!
Olivia Buntaine

Intimacy Director
Olivia Buntaine (she/her) believes in theatre, poetry, and prose that brings everyone to the table - starting with those of us who haven't been invited. Her directing, playwriting, and intimacy direction are all rooted deeply in her artistic practice of liberation after violence. As an Intimacy Director, she has trained with Intimacy Directors International and extensively assisted Jessica Steinrock, working in Los Angeles, New York, and as a professor at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting teaching Theatrical Intimacy for Performers. Olivia choreographs unconventional and creative intimacy scenes through a pedagogical lens of intersectionality, trauma-informed care and the investigation of power and privilege. She is especially skilled at navigating scenes of intimate violence, sex and power, and fantastical hyper-stylized moments of intimacy, and Cruel Intentions has been an absolute hoot and a half to work on. For more on Olivia’s work and secret plans for revolution, head to www.oliviabuntaine.com or check out her theatre company at www.projectnongenue.org.
Chrys Duran

Fight Choreographer
Angela Lazear

COSTUME DESIGNER
Angela has been designing costumes for theatrical productions for over three decades. Having volunteered to help make costumes for her children’s performances, she was hooked. In the early 2000s, Angela began a costume mentorship program for young designers with Alameda Civic Light Opera, in order to give them hands on experience in the profession. Some of her favorite credits include Aida, Pippin, Evita, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me Kate, Hair, Sweeney Todd, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cabaret.
My heartfelt thanks to my assistants Madison Demaris & Sabrina Patten
Matthew Rogers

AUDIO TECHNITIAN /LIVE MIC MIXING

SPECIAL MENTIONS

Scenic/Floor Painting - Brian Watson and Bernie Richard

Costume Construction, Detailing & Assistance - Sabrina Patten and Ben Jackson

Thank you to EVERYONE at The Arts Hub for your constant support!

The Cast

Cole Emarine

BASILIUS
Cole Emarine was last seen as the Arbiter in BrightHeart Stages acclaimed production of Chess, Sammy Sparkles in his original show The Hookup and was on the First National Tour of Motones and Jerseys: In Concert. Colorado audiences may remember Cole as Shakespeare in Something Rotten!, Mordred in Camelot, Christopher in Mousetrap, Ted in Holiday Inn, Bert in Mary Poppins and Race in Newsies. A Colorado Native, Cole has performed across the Front Range for Arvada Center, Lone Tree Arts Center, BDT Stage, Littleton Town Hall and OpenStage. Favorites include Angel (RENT), Mark (Altar Boyz), Cosmo (Singin’ in the Rain), Mistofolees in Cats(Denver Post Ovation Nomination) and traveling the world performing for Holland America Line. Cole’s work as a choreographer and award winning costume designer has been seen across the country most recently winning the 2023 Bobby G Award for How to Succeed… and the 2024 Marlowe Award and OSCA for The Legend of Georgia McBride. Upcoming: Franz in Rock of Ages at PACE.
Cooper Rae

GYNECIA
Cooper is delighted to be working with Shifted Lens to bring this quirky love story to life! Some favorite credits are performing a cabaret of her own creation titled 'Awesomely Weird Songs', paying tribute to the strange. Letting loose her inner diva for the role of Dee Dee Allen in The Prom (The Arts Hub). Running amuck as Corine in Triumph Of Love (WheatridgeTheater), singing off key in her understudy role of Marie Dindon in La Cage Aux Faux (Town Hall Arts Center), the disco diva Levora Verona in Disaster, The Musical (Platte Valley Players). Beyond the theater, she has danced around the world competing in Ballroom and Latin dancing. Cooper is grateful everyday for her wife and her enduring support, her two absurd dogs, her strange cat, and all their constant entertainment.
Brekken Baker

PAMELA
Brekken Baker is super excited to be a part of her first Shifted Lens production! A graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and world traveler through the organization Up with People, she’s found a home in the Colorado theater community and her favorite role as “mom of two.” Credits include Mayzie in Seussical! (Performance Now!), Tammy in Escape to Margaritaville (Give 5 Productions), Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Town Hall Arts Center), and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Sasquatch Productions). Thanks to her cute babies, her awesome siblings, and her amazing husband Cole for supporting her and her love for theater. She’s so glad she can always turn to them. And for her late and great mom- Beautiful…was all she saw when she looked at her.
Sarah Holmes

PHILOCLEA
Sarah is ecstatic to be making her Shifted Lens debut! She just earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology with a minor in international studies at The University of Colorado Denver and will begin graduate school in the fall of 2026. Outside of performing and school, Sarah enjoys pottery, podcasts, and spending time with her husband, Riley. She would like to thank her family, friends, Riley, and cat Caboose for their constant love and support!
Adam Odekirk

DAMETAS; BASILIUS U/S, FIGHT CAPTAIN
Adam is a Colorado native who has been so happy to come back to performing after almost a 20 year hiatus! He has made a home at the Arts Hub appearing as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Pulitzer in Newsies and Mr. Mooneyham/Ensemble in School of Rock (which he got to do with both of his kids) and is excited for his first role with Shifted Lens to be here as well! Adam would like to thank the directors who took a chance on his comeback (Michael, Jessica, Emily, Melissa and now Lexie) and also all of his current and former castmates whose amazing performances elevated his own! Enjoy the show!
Danielle Morris

MOPSA
Danielle is so thrilled to be in the world of Arcadia telling this story of love, inclusion, and fun. Some of her favorite credits include “Rosie” in Cabaret (Vintage Theatre) and Val in A Chorus Line (Napa Valley Playhouse.) She thanks Lexie, Tanner, and Dallas for believing in her, and the whole team for putting their whole heart into this show. We got the Beat!
Jack Icke

MUSIDORUS
Jack Icke (he/him) is so glad to be a part of this production of Head Over Heels! This is his second show with Shifted Lens: you might remember him as Sebastian in last summer’s production of “Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical” or as Robby Hart in “The Wedding Singer” with Front Range Theatre Company.
Outside of theatre, Jack works as an electrical engineer, and he enjoys playing guitar, running, Kerbal Space Program (if you know, you know).
He’d like to send a shout out to his amazing partner, Erica; his friends and family; and Raul Julia.
Find him on instagram @jack.icke
Eli Harvey

PYTHIO
Eli-Leon Joie Harvey (they/them, he/him) is an African-American, queer teaching artist that lives in Denver, Colorado. Their two main passions are theater and education. Eli-Leon has graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater from the University of Colorado Boulder, and has performed with many different theaters and companies across the central/northern region of the state. Recent past credits include Ensemble (Delta Nu Chorus) in Legally Blonde at Parker Arts, originating two roles inside of two different original works, and Ensemble in Guys & Dolls at Vintage Theater. When they are not performing, you can catch Eli writing, reading, drawing, or prepping for their next lesson. They would like to thank all their loved ones for their continued love and support!
Cammie Kolber

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Pamela
Cammie Kolber is thrilled to make her Shifted Lens debut in Head Over Heels! Previous credits include: Nun in Sound of Music (Sasquatch Productions) Ensemble/Soloist in Godspell (CenterStage Theatre Company), Sister Amnesia in Nuncrackers (Northglenn Players), and Catherine/Senator Martin in Silence! The Musical (Equinox Theatre). Cammie also performed internationally with the group “Up with People”. When she’s not performing, Cammie is an elementary school music teacher. Thank you to her family and friends for all their support!
Neil Soriano Isales Jr

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Musidorus
Neil Soriano Isales, Jr. (He/Him) is very excited to be working with Shifted Lens again! Neil was previously Greg McConnell in Shifted Lens’ Cruel Intentions. He was most recently Fyedka in Fiddler on the Roof with Performance Now and Poseidon in Two Cent Lion’s The Tragedy of Medusa. Neil works in bridge design and construction for CDOT and sings in the Cathedral Basilica Choir. He hopes you fall head over heels for Head Over Heels! Much love and thanks to his friends and family for their support and encouragement.
Joshua Jackson

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Pythio
This is Joshua’s debut with Shifted Lens Theatre Co! Previous credits include Hookman, American Idiot, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Funny as a Crutch, and A Chorus Line. Joshua recently graduated with honors from New Mexico State University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Acting. Joshua is deeply grateful to God, his/her family, and friends for their love and encouragement. Enjoy the show!
Reanna Rohrer

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Philoclea & Mopsa
Reanna is currently a Resident Teaching Artist for Artist Year which is an Americorps organization dedicated to addressing inequities in Arts Education for K-12 students. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Nebraska Wesleyan University, with a focus in Musical Theatre, Playwriting, and Theatre Leadership. Reanna has taught & performed across the midwest with notable roles including Martha in Spring Awakening (Stage Award Nomination), Jo March in Little Women, and Middle Alison in Fun Home. She is grateful for her wonderful support system. @ranae_rohrer
Madelynn Guerra

ENSEMBLE & U/S for Gynecia
Wayne State University BFA graduate, Madge Guerra, is thrilled to be in her second show here in Colorado since moving from Detroit in 2023. Her recent credits include Ensemble in Joseph…Dreamcoat with Performance Now Theatre Company, Nina Rosario in In the Heights, and studies at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia. She thanks her family, friends, mentors, and teachers for their unwavering support and encouragement.
Jacob Frye

ENSEMBLE & US for Dametas
Jacob has been enchanted by theater his whole life. From skits in a digital newspaper to performing at CU Boulder, he's been captivated for years! He nows finds himself beguiled by more and more Denver theater, and he hopes that you can't help but fall for this show!
Tyler Strickland

ENSEMBLE & Dance Swing
Tyler Strickland (Ensemble) is so excited to be part of this production! He was seen most recently as Cliff Bradshaw in Platte Valley Player's production of Cabaret. He first performed in Colorado under the direction of Lexie as Black Stache in "Peter and the Starcathcer" (The Arts HUB) and more recently as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (PVP). Some of his favorite credits from Louisville, KY, to New York City, include Orin Scrivello, DDS in "Little Shop of Horrors" (Mount Carmel Theatre Company), Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horry Picture Show" (Boston University), and the Duke of Cornwall in "King Lear" (Columbia University Bard Hall Players). Thank you to this cast, crew, and creative team for a fantastic experience!
Anja Oss

ENSEMBLE & Dance Swing
Anja is so excited to be making her community theatre debut with this wonderful company! She was recently seen as Liz in this year’s Magic Moments show and was recently hopefully unseen backstage in shows for the Arts Hub, Shifted Lens and Two Cent Lion. Much love to everyone who helped make this happen. Instagram: @anjaoss