Staff

Lauren Cushman

Assistant Technical Director

Lauren Cushman received her BFA in Theatre: Design/Technology in 2006 from the University of Central Florida.  She has worked at theatres such as the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, UT, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, and the UCF Conservatory Theatre.  She now serves as the Assistant Technical Director for the Annie Russell Theatre and the Co-Producer for the Second Stage Series at the Fred Stone.  She is a new addition to the team starting in August 2007 and is thrilled to be working at Rollins College. 

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"The theatre is a school. We shall never have done with studying and learning. In theatre, as in life, we try first of all to free ourselves, as far as we can, from our own limitations."
-Robert Edmund Jones

Kevin Griffin has designed the lighting for dozens of performances at the Annie Russell Theatre including, Equus, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Mousetrap, Annie Get Your Gun, Henry V, Rumors, The Odd Couple, A Street Car named Desire, On the Verge, Steel Magnolias, Into the Woods, the Diary of Anne Frank, Rollins Dance, 1940's Radio Hour and Gross Indecencies: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Other lighting design credits include Opus  for the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Blue’s Clues and Bunnicula for the Orlando Repertory Theatre, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune for Mad Cow Theatre,  The Crucible, After the Fall and Burn This for the Fred Stone Theatre, Peter Pan, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol for the former Civic Theatres of Central Florida, A Cry of Players, Tamer of Horses, and Servant of Two Masters for the Pennsylvania State University and Children of Eden, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown! and Bullshot Crummond for Pennsylvania Centre Stage. Kevin also served as Lighting Designer for the Allegheny Highlands Regional Theatre, The Pennsylvania Dance Theatre and as Lighting Designer / Consultant for the Historical Preservation Museum of Bellefonte, PA. From 1998 to 2001, Kevin served as the Assistant Head of Lighting and Head of Lighting for Cirque du Soleil's La Nouba! at Downtown Disney. He is a former member of the adjunct faculty at Valencia Community College where his design credits include Amadeus, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Dracula. Kevin received his B.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and his M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania State University in Lighting Design.

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An Orlando native, Olivia Horn graduated from Rollins in 2002 with a BA in Theatre Arts. She originally joined the theatre department staff in October 2005 as the Administrative Assistant.  Two years later she moved from the academic to the production side as the Audience Services Coordinator/ Box Office Manager for the Annie Russell. She previously worked as the Marketing/Public Relations Coordinator for the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park.  A dancer with The School of Performing Arts for over 13 years, Olivia participates in the local theatre community both on and off stage, working with MadCow Theatre, Osceola Playhouse, Ice House Theatre, the Orlando International Fringe Festival and Terpsichore Collective Theatre Company.  Olivia (formerly Haine) has been married to Michael Horn, music director and accomplished professional musician/singer, for over 2 years.
They live happily with their dogs, Samuel French Horn (“Sam”) and Eliza Doglittle, and two cats, Pepper and Xavier. 

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Blair Johnson

Administrative Assistant

House Manager

Seth Schrager

Costume Studio Manager

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Robert Miller

Technical Director

Robert previously served as the Technical Director and Sound Designer at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon from 2000-2007.  He has also served as Technical Director for the University of Rochester, Keystone Repertory Theatre and the University of Memphis.  As a designer and technician Robert has worked with the Orlando Opera, Universal Studios Florida, Theatre Memphis and the former Civic Theatre of Central Florida.  He is an active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and served as an officer in the Northwest Section of USITT from 2003-2007.  Robert has an MFA in Technical Direction and Sound Design from the University of Memphis, a BA in Theatre from the University of Central Florida and a BS in Criminology from Florida State University.