Linda Leonard, Performance Director

Linda Leonard has been a professional actor, director, choreographer, teacher, coach, and mentor for over 40 years. She has lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Abroad, and Linda has made her home here in the Metroplex since 1993 after a 5-year Tour of CATS. She has directed and choreographed over 75 productions for the JCC, Adult and Youtheatre, and now for JPAS with our amazing Programs Director, Alise Robinson.   During our Covid “New World” of innovative theatre, Linda recently finished directing a short film titled Hide Your Love Away (a story of Autism, Suicide and Hope) and a streamed version of Application Pending starring B.J. Cleveland for Uptown Players and our JPAS Fall play entitled Perceptions. She is thrilled to be directing both JPAS shows and working with so many talented cast and crew. Linda also does commercial, film, and theatre work as an actor and teaches in the KD Conservatory College program. Linda is dedicated to the process of creativity and the empowerment of young artists (and her husband, actor Bill Jenkins, and their fur children Mocha and Maui).

Elizabeth Loyle Carr, Assistant Director

Elizabeth Loyle Carr is excited to be working with these great young actors and actresses and thrilled to be working with Linda Leonard again. Elizabeth graduated from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with an MA in stage management. She has worked on productions in California, Wales, Scotland, and England before moving to Dallas four years ago.

Adam C Wright, Music Director

Adam C Wright has been music directing theatre in Dallas since 1997, including the US Premieres of Soho Cinders and Closer to Heaven. As a composer and orchestrator, current projects include Isabella’s Treasure and A Taste of Beauty. He has worked as Betty Buckley’s local accompanist and served as MD and copyist for Facing East at the Lyric Theater in London with Harriet Thorpe, Rebecca Lock, and Alasdair Harvey. Recent credits have been at Watertower Theatre, Dallas Children’s Theatre, Imprint Theatreworks, and Uptown Players.

Skylar Duvall, Choreographer 

Skylar Duvall is a graduate of KD Conservatory with a degree in Musical Theatre Performance. She is excited to return for her fifth spring production with JPAS! Even through the pandemic, the JPAS team has strived to bring art and a sense of community to the kids in this program. “I am so thankful to work with these amazing kids! My favorite part of this process is seeing them get off stage after the show with a glow of pride and joy in their eyes. With the knowledge that they are enough, and they are loved.” -Skylar

Osinachi Osuagwu, Stage Manager

Osinachi Osuagwu is a graduate student at UT Dallas, getting her M.A. in Literature while also working at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. She has acted in multiple stage productions at UT Dallas and has stage managed and assistant directed for Mesquite Community Theatre and Mountainview College and is a current Junior Players teaching artist. This will be her third year stage managing for JPAS. When she is not at school or at work, she likes to read, write, and cook. She is excited to come back as a stage manager for Jungle Book Kids and Into the Woods JR. and is grateful for the opportunity to work with such a great director, cast, and crew. She is looking forward to showing off everybody’s hard work.