Staff Bios

Director and teacher Lori Sanders has a B.A. and teaching certificate in Theater Education from Brigham Young University. She has been directing youth theater shows in Utah Valley for the last 18 years. Some of her credits include: Disney's Little Mermaid, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr., Once On This Island Jr., You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wizard of Oz; Seussical; Music Man; Annie; and Peter Pan. Lori is one of the original founders of Center Stage and has directed CSYP productions since 2002. Previously, Lori was on staff with Pleasant Grove Youth Theater and directed a variety of productions. Lori has taught in several local schools teaching musical theater skills to students after school. She also loves to perform and has most recently been seen on stage as Rose in Bye Bye Birdie. She is currently CSYP’s Performance Company director and acting teacher.

Kristen has been performing since she was 8, and started choreographing for school productions at 12. She has always loved dancing and teaching, so teachings kids to dance is her dream job! This is her 8th year with CSYP. She also spent 5 years teaching youth theater classes at the Scera and the past year assisting with their youth dance program. She has recently been seen in Nunsense (Sister Mary Leo), Peter Pan (Tiger Lily), and The Wizard of Oz (Glinda). Some of her favorite choreography projects have included Joseph and the ATDC, Nunsense, The Little Mermaid Jr., and Seussical Jr. Kristen is CSYP's choreographer and dance teacher.

Corinne Mayberry has been with Center Stage Youth Performers since the very beginning and has loved it. She has had many opportunities to be on the stage all over the community as well as back stage and behind the scenes ever since she could walk. Corinne graduated from Brigham Young University in Recreation Management and Youth Leadership in April 2004. Corinne is currently the Performance Company's assistant choreographer and the producer of Broadway Bound.

Carson has loved all kinds of theater since she was a little girl. She started rounding up the neighborhood kids to direct in plays, and decided she never wanted to stop! She has a BA in Theater Education from Brigham Young University, as well as a minor in music. She currently teaches drama for the elementary classroom at BYU and has also taught creative drama workshops at different elementary schools in Utah Valley. She loves to perform, and some of her favorite roles include Berthe in Pippin, Marcy in Almost Maine, Thaisa in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Narrator in Joseph, and Mrs. Snoring Man in White Christmas. This is Carson's fourth year as the director and musical director for Broadway Bound and she loves it.

McKenna has been doing musical theater since she was 8 years old, but stared in her very own musicals starting at age 3! She took dance all growing up and did choir all through school, as well as private voice lessons for a few years. She also started Center Stage and had been in the program for years. Her favorite shows including Seussical, Wizard of Oz, and Once on This Island. So when they offered her the job as a workshop assistant in the performance company, more specifically to the youngest group she was thrilled to come back. She is coming up on her 3rd year as an assistant and loves to come play with the kiddos every week! She thinks CSYP is the best thing she has ever become involved with!