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Officers

The PUP board is a small group of Princeton students hopelessly dedicated to bringing you musical theatre! We select each year's season and manage the administrative, business, and production aspects of each show. Want to keep the musicals coming? Run for the PUP board! Elections are held following the final Sex on Broadway performance. Get on the mailing list for updates!

Claire-Marine Sarner - President

Claire-Marine has been involved to some extent in just about every PUP show since Sex on Broadway her freshman year...and has loved every minute of it! If she's not directing, choreographing, stage managing, production managing, costume designing, or set designing, you might actually find her IN a show singing, acting, and/or dancing. When not producing fabulous shows for PUP, Claire-Marine is a Civil Engineering and Architecture major also pursuing a Certificate in Dance.



Stacy Testa - Vice President

Stacy Testa is a member of the class of 2010 and is pursuing a degree in English with a Theater Certificate. She has previously served two terms as Publicity Chair on the PUP Board and, as a result, solemnly vows never to carry or paint the marquee again. She has performed in four PUP shows in addition to directing Sex On Broadway her freshman year. She is looking forward to another year of love and jazz hands with the amazing PUP family.



Gracie Hoerner - Business Manager

Gracie is a Woody Woo major (tool!) in the class of 2011. She really really loves PUP, even when she has to carry heavy things with her very weak arms across campus and deal with lots of strange looks. Since she adores theater but hates acting, she has happily stage managed Sex on Broadway 2011, Clue The Musical, and tick, tick...BOOM! for PUP. After serving as Box Office Manager last year, she is thrilled to now be Business Manager. A question to think about: since money makes the world go round (or so they say), does that mean Gracie makes PUP go round? She doesn't think so, but she likes to pretend.



Andrea Grody - Production Manager

Andrea began her forays into Princeton musical theatre by directing Sex on Broadway 2011, and since then she has directed one show, music directed four, and conducted three. She was previously Music Manager on the board, and as PM she is thrilled to share some of her ridiculousness in a not-strictly-musical way. When not at board meeting or in rehearsal, Andrea can be seen writing for Triangle, occasionally singing with the Glee Club, or in Woolworth earning a music major and theater certificate.



Karen Campion - Publicity Co-chair

Karen Campion (Publicity Co-chair) is a proud member of the spectacular class of 2011. She loves musicals so much that she periodically puts lots of pieces of paper up all around campus to announce that they're happening! In other news, she wants to establish world peace and social justice. The first step? Getting everyone to sing in harmony and dance in a semi-logical fashion. The second step? Studying sociology and the Middle East. Come see what PUP's all about, because once you do, you'll never want to leave!



Vivian DeWoskin - Publicity Co-Chair

Vivian has been a member of the PUP board since her freshman year, and is excited to be Co-Publicity Chair this year! When she's not working on publicity she is usually on stage, and has performed with PUP in Camelot, Sex on Broadway, Footloose, and Orpheus Waking. There was also that short stint as a director too...but she doesn't really like to talk about it.



Amanda Bestor-Siegal - Technical Director

Amanda was basically roped into PUP before ever coming to Princeton, and she is very happy about it. After moving mattresses onstage and operating a broken spotlight, Amanda's love for PUP took off when she co-directed Sex on Broadway 2012 (AKA creating inappropriate warm-ups and sleeping in Forbes Blackbox for a week). Since then, she has been on a mission to try every production position ever (almost there!) and to avoid driving the PAC van at all costs (not so good at this...). Amanda is addicted to Wa mac & cheese, U-Store music, and colorful socks.



Kathy Harwood- Music Manager

Kathy is a member of the Class of 2012. She first became involved with PUP when she co-directed Sex on Broadway '12 with the notorious Amanda Bestor-Siegal. She performed in Assassins that spring and hopes to work on many more PUP shows in the future! Kathy is thrilled to be on board for many reasons, but mostly for the post-board meeting, Murray-Dodge "production meetings" with Robin, Tiffania, and Amanda. In addition to music managing for PUP, Kathy sings with Katzenjammers and the PU Glee Club and tries to find time to keep up violin. Yay music!



Margaret White - Development Director

Margaret, a member of the Class of '11, is really excited to be a part of the PUP board. Over the past year, she been seen acting and singing (and sort of dancing) in Camelot and Sex on Broadway, as well as doing costume design for The Flood and Clue. She is also Co-Chair of the Student Friends of the Library, and hopes to major in Classics.



Robin Yang - Programs Manager

Robin Yang's one interest in life is inventing facts about people and pretending that they're true. Look it up on Facebook. Robin also tells terrible stories and has a tendency to get roped into other people's projects and adventures. When she's not stage managing or teching here and there, she swims and sleeps and lives out her life as a banana. Illiterate throughout high school, Robin is now proud to say that she plans to major in English, so that she has a valid excuse to live like a hobo with her friends after graduation and then write a musical about her experience.



Alana Tornello - Press Coordinator

Fact: Alana Maria Rosaria Tornello the First is the Press Coordinator for the PUP Board.
Fact: Against popular belief, she does not hold the Guiness World Record for most jars of Nutella consumed in one hour. She missed it by just one depressing spoonful.
Fact: She owns the coolest bicycle on campus, a powder blue 1965 Duffy cruiser with basket and bell. The bike is named Gypsy, in honor (or dishonor) of Patti LuPone.
Fact: She is not short, she is fun-sized, with a slight Napoleon Complex.
Fact: She loves to imitate accents, especially those of old women from Staten Island.
Fact: As some members know well, Alana went to an engineering high school and so has secret, mysterious t-square skills which can only be experienced during rare moments of "strike".
Fact: She is allergic to berries, as evident from the cast party for Footloose.
Fact: She writes too much in all PUP related bios.



Zach Ruchman - Graphic Designer

Zach is still in PUP, somehow, amazingly, luckily, thankfully. He's been here ever since freshman fall and has stayed sane by doing all this stuff with the awesome/crazy theater people. He looks forward to being back in the US so that he won't feel like he's taking away much needed jobs from American workers by designing PUP's graphics while he is studying abroad.



Tiffania Willetts - Box Office Manager

Tiffania is part of the class of 2012. Although her involvement in PUP has been limited (choreographing Sex on Broadway 2012), she hopes that being on the PUP board will force her to become more involved in future shows. She was going to reduce her participation in theater and try new things in college, but somehow she can't seem to get away.



Ana Solitto - Social Chair

Ana is a member of the class of 2011 pursuing a degree in Psychology with a certificate in Theater. She had her start in the Princeton theater scene performing in /Footloose/ and fell in love with PUP. You'll usually find her dancing around somewhere in the background of a show, mainly because she can't seem to stand still on stage. She looks forward to fulfilling the extremely important job of Social Chair, since we know it's all about the cast party. When not organizing PUP social events or doing her tech hours, you can find Ana in rehearsal with eXpressions or one of the various theater organizations. Very excited for the 2009-2010 season with such a wonderful board!



Michelle Oresky - Props/Costumes Manager

Michelle joins the PUP board after serving as the accompanist's page-turner in Sex on Broadway '08. Despite an almost complete lack of experience in all things musical theatre, she thoroughly enjoys shows and the people involved. As costumes/props manager, she looks forward to many long walks to the armory and her bed perpetually covered in costumes. Besides PUP, Michelle loves engineering, rugby, reading just for fun, and new sweatpants.



Ryan Serrano - Historian/Archivist

Ryan is totally psyched to be on PUP board as one of the most underrated positions, HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST! He is fully prepared to rock this year and take the H/A position to a new, unprecedented level of power within The Company. Ryan never had anything to do with theater in high school, which is rather surprising considering how much of his time it currently absorbs. Yay!



Dana Hoffman - Webmaster

Dana, a member of the class of 2012, so so excited to be webmaster for PUP, where her mixed interests in music, theater, and computer science somehow all work together quite nicely. She was in Sex On Broadway in the fall and is hoping to get a chance to perform in more PUP shows in the future! When not webmasting for PUP (or wishing that webmasting was a real verb), Dana also sings in Tigerlilies and Glee Club and participates in miscellaneous CJL activities.



Contact us at pup@princeton.edu