I am so very glad to be anxiously engaged in a good cause with such a wonderful board, a host of amazing volunteers and some very talented performers!
Joy is the board president and the founding member of Center Place Christian Theatre. Joy is a Speech- Language Pathologist, practicing at KC metro hospitals and rehabilitation programs. Her undergraduate degree was in Elementary Education and she enjoyed teaching 4 th grade at Center Place Restoration School for 11 years.
Joy became interested in theatre when her children were young. Her first onstage experience was as a villager, when her entire family appeared in Raytown Art Council’s 1999 production of Fiddler on the Roof. She also appeared onstage as Mrs. Squires, again with her entire family, in the Blue Springs Community Theatre production of The Music Man. Joy was a theatre mom for many years and learned from many wonderful directors in various community theatre organizations. While at CPRS, Joy & others established the fall musical program, and directed the first 10 musicals there (Annie, Beauty and the Beast, The Music Man, Sound of Music, The King & I, Meet Me in St. Louis, Cinderella, Annie, The Little Mermaid, and Peter Pan).
In 2008, requests came in from alumni of CPRS who graduated before the musical program began, asking if it were possible to have an alumni musical production in the summer. Center Place Christian Theatre was born! CPCT now involves many others from various groups of believers, in addition to CPRS alumni. Joy is so pleased to see CPCT continue to thrive and grow in unity of purpose, using God-given talents to serve the community. She is thankful for the wonderful people throughout the years who have worked tirelessly, volunteering their time to make CPCT what it is today!
Recent Experience
- local_activity Mary Poppins with Center Place Christian Theater August 2017
- local_activity Little Women with Center Place Christian Theater Summer 2015
- local_activity OKLAHOMA! with Center Place Christian Theater Summer 2012
- local_activity Fiddler on the Roof with Center Place Christian Theater Summer 2009
- local_activity Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with Center Place Christian Theater Summer 2008
- local_activity Disney's Peter Pan, Jr with Center Place Restoration School 2015
- local_activity Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jr with Center Place Restoration School 2014
- local_activity Annie with Center Place Restoration School 2013
- local_activity Cinderella with Center Place Restoration School 2012
- local_activity Meet Me in St. Louis with Center Place Restoration School 2011
- local_activity The King & I with Center Place Restoration School 2010
- local_activity The Sound of Music with Center Place Restoration School 2009
- local_activity The Music Man with Center Place Restoration School 2008
- local_activity Disney's Beauty & the Beast with Center Place Restoration School 2007
- local_activity Annie with Center Place Restoration School 2006
- local_activity Fish Tales with Center Place Restoration School 2005