The Oklahoma Community Theatre Association recently bestowed two more awards on Playmaker volunteers, Judy Bradley and Tonna Zuech, and elected Pam Leptich to their Board of Directors. The Bravo award is given for community theatre volunteer activities above and beyond the norm.
Judy Bradley has been involved in over fifty shows in some capacity, either handling props, decorating a set or the theatre lobby, working at the box office, or performing a role in a Readers’ Theatre play. Over the last eighteen years, she has created and developed her own service role for The Playmakers. It is one of behind the scenes jobs that is critical to business side of The Playmakers as well as its history. She controls the inventory of all the costumes and props, manages all the archival databases (history, Board records & minutes, financials, donations), scans and saves all production files, writes many thank you letters, and coordinates the distribution and mailing of the promotional fliers. She is a former Board member, serving from 1996 until 2009.
Tonna Zuech was elected to the Playmakers’ Board of Directors in 1999 and served as Board Chairperson from then until 2006. A master costumer, she coordinated and created hundreds of costumes for major musicals and youth theatre productions. She volunteered for many of the Playmaker’s outreach projects to the Grove Public Schools. Her leadership in those years was crucial to the development of the depth of major programs, as witnessed by The Playmakers’ award as Oklahoma Community Theatre of the Year in 2006.
Pam Leptich, a Playmaker management team member and now an OCTA Board member, has been in sixteen Playmaker productions as actor, musician, stage manager or technician. Before moving to Grove, Ms. Leptich taught English, speech, drama, history and social studies in South Carolina and in Kansas schools. She was owner and teacher of her on School of Mountain Clogging, and plays guitar, banjo, harmonica, piano and bugle. Most recently she was the Director of Higher Education for the Quapaw Tribe.