Holds a BA in Theatre Education from Concordia University, Chicago and a MAH in Theatre and English from SUNY at Buffalo. As an actor, Don has appeared with the Ghostlight, TOY, UB Theatre & Shakespeare in the Park. Artistic and Executive Director of Starry Night/Ghostlight since 1982, Don has published over 20 plays that have been produced in 47 States, Guam, Canada and British Columbia. His original titles include All Through The Night, Noodles, Here We Sit, Final Notice, Halloween Dreams, Halloween Screams, The Birds That Stay, The Forest of the Dead, The Silver Lady, Danse Macabre to name a few. His adaptations include: A Christmas Carol, Little Women, The Monkey's Paw, Tales From the Enchanted City, The Edgar Allan Poe Show, and Nosferatu: The Legend of Dracula. Don has directed over 130 plays and has appeared in almost as many. Don enjoys noisy evenings at home with Debby, Emily, Rosemary, DJ, Michael and a cat named Ellard.

A professional actor and member of Actors Equity, Jesse has appeared with Studio Arena and The Alleyway Theatre in downtown Buffalo. Jesse has been featured in GTC productions for nearly 20 years, as well as serving as Technical Director and Designer. Jesse is also honored to be the recipient of the 2005 Stephen Holesko Memorial Achievment Award.

Debby has a BS in Elementary Education with an extension in English from Buffalo State College. She received her MA in Theatre and English from the the University of Buffalo. She has been involved in theatre since 1975. She works in all facets of the theatre arts. She is most known for her work as Dean of Starry Night Acting School, an actress, director of our annual musical, art director, and costumer. Her favorite acting roles include Bernice of the Lottie & Bernice duo, the dead grandmother in Birds That Stay, Violet in All Through the Night, Autumn in Halloween Dreams, Mrs. Hanson in Silver Lady, Dot Ott in Final Notice (aka Night We Knocked the Critic Dead), & Lulu in Noodles (all L. Don originals). Favorites to direct have been, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oliver! & Big River. Costuming favorites include Little Women, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, & Joseph. Debby loves working with her wonderful husband, L. Don. When not working in theatre, Debby is a third grade teacher at Ohio Elementary School in North Tonawanda. She enjoys spending quiet evenings at home with Don, Emily, Rosemary, D.J., Michael, & Ellard the cat. DJ Swartz is one of the youngest actors in our group. He has been seen on stage as Tiny Tim in our 2007 Christmas Carol, a child in Oliver! and a newspaper boy in Hello, Dolly! DJ loves working on shows with his parents and brother and sisters. He has been involved in Starry Night's Drama School for the past five semesters. In his spare time he loves drawing, playing with Playmobiles and watching Super Hero movies with his dad. He looks forward to many more years at the Ghostlight Theatre.

MAH in Theatre and Music from SUNY at Buffalo and a music and drama teacher at Frontier Middle School. Joann has been featured as an actress, singer and music director in GTC productions for over 20 years.

Julie holds an AS degree from NCCC and has been a featured actress and singer with the Ghostlight for over 15 years as well as a lighting and set designer and set builder.

Little is known about the person known to most as Paul. Some say he is the offspring of the North Wind and a burnt out street light. Others say he came to North Tonawanda seeking truth and justice. Still others say he is just some schmoe from Cheektowaga. Quite honestly, no one has bothered to ask. He just kind of hangs around. What is known is that Paul has a degree in the Liberal Arts and has spent a good amount of time on the stage as a stand up comic. Since joining, some of his favorite roles include Jonathon Brewster from Arsenic and Old Lace, Billy Bigelow in Carousel, Wendell Boothe in Final Notice, and Norman Bulansky in Boys Next Door. On top of acting, he has some directing and writing credit with the company. He hopes to continue to grow as an actor and someday publish some of his writing. And ladies, he's single... wink wink, nudge nudge (he made us write that).

Mollie McDermott has been with Starry Night since the 1998 production of Oklahoma. Favorite roles since then have included Juanita in Dearly Departed, Sr. Agatha and the mortician in Nosferatu, Lucilla in Anne of Green Gables, Marmee in Little Women, and a Theatre Member in Here We Sit. She spends her days teaching math at St. Francis High School, as well as assisting with the Student Government and theatre departments there. Mollie is one of the instructors in the Starry Night Theatre School, and directed the one act play Ladies in Waiting at the Ghostlight Theatre in June 2004.

Justine made her debut in 1992 as a snow child in Carousel. Her favorite roles include Helen Keller in Miracle Worker, Jo March in Little Women, Mabel in All Through The Night, Ellie in Step On A Crack and Cassie in Halloween Screams. Justine is studying theatre and english at Niagara University. She plans to go on and get her MA in elementary education.

Meagan is a 9th grader at N.T.H.S. She enjoys acting, and singing at any time. She has been in Carousel, A Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Night of the Living Dead. She has also had many solos and parts in school plays.

Greg first appeared on stage at the Ghostlight Theatre in an acting class recital in 2004. Any success he has enjoyed since then, and any he may achieve in the future, he owes to Don, Debby and Jesse Swartz and the amazing group of actors (friends) he has met at GTC. His roles at the Ghostlight include Ronald Adams in Orson Welles' original role for the radio drama The Hitchhiker; he has also appeared in the classic comedies Hay Fever by Noel Coward, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. His favorite role remains George Bailey in the Ghostlight's 2005 production of It's a Wonderful Life. In 2006, he appeared as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Justice Wargrave in Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. He resides in Tonawanda with his lovely wife Beth and has two beautiful daughters, Ashlee and Megan.

Vanessa is a graduate of Alfred University with a BA in Theatre. She has been involved in productions at the Kenan Center's Taylor Theatre, Alfred University and here at Starry Night. Some past roles include, Nurse Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner; Miss Giddens in The Innocents, Mary Hatch Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life; Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest; Elaine in Noodles and recently appeared as Candy in The Lottie and Bernice Show. She is very honored and delighted to be starting another great season with the Ghostlight family.

Jim is the webmaster and designer of the Starry Night Theatre web site. He has also worked on technical crews many times running lights and sound, creating special effects and helping out whenever and wherever possible. Jim likes spending time writing software and developing web sites, spending time with his girlfriend Justine and his 3 reptilian friends.

Joy has been an actor for over 20 years with many local companies. She has been a featured player with GTC/Starry Night since 1998. She was honoured with a Meritorius Director award from the Theatre Association of New York State in 2003 for her directorial debut, "The Bald Soprano" on the Ghostlight stage. Joy has also been a teacher for the Starry Night Theatre School. Some of her favourite roles include Dearest in Angels in Love, Lee in Marvin's Room, Pam in The Uninvited and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes!.

Sarah majored in Acting at NCCC and received her B.A. in theatre and English education at SUNY Fredonia. Some of her favourite roles at GTC/Starry Night include Raven in "The Silver Lady," the Narrator in "This Is Not A Pipe Dream," and Mrs. Something-stuffy-and-British-but-she-can't-remember-the-name in "The Bald Soprano." She most recently appeared as Stella in "The Uninvited," and also served as an instructor for the Theatre School. Right now she is an embittered and disillusioned teacher of high school English.

Although Mark has only been with the Ghostlight Theatre Group for a short time he feels he has found a home. He first graced the stage here as Harry Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life." He followed that up with playing Ernest/Jack in "The Importance of Being Earnest" and as brother Levi in the summer musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat." Recently he was faced with one of the most challenging roles as Dr. Armstrong in "Ten Little Indians." He is no stranger to the stage, having appeared as Bob Cratchett in A Christmas Carol, Brother Dan in Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat as well as roles in Up The Down Staircase, Mame!, Anything Goes and Starring in Handel's Young Messiah. In the "off season" Mark runs his own Home Improvement Company.

Jayson joined the company in August 2005 as Ben/Hank in Big River. Since then, he has grown to love every aspect of theater, from acting to the technical side of things. His favorite role has been Hank in Marvin's Room, but other favorites include The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Zebulun in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Tom in Night of the Living Dead, McArdle in Child's Play, and John in All Through the Night. He has also served as a Technical Director on several shows. He ultimately plans on running a production company designing lights and sound for plays and bands. While not at the theatre, Jayson is a Freshman at Niagara University. He is a starving muscian and plays many instruments. He is one-third of a local classic rock band called Achilles Revival, and also performs as a solo acoustic act.

Amanda joined the Ghostlight family in February 2006 and is so thankful that she did. She is a senior at THS and has appeared in the 2005- 2006 seasonal one acts as Joan in The Children's Story, a member of the female ensemble in Joseph ... Dreamcoat, 2006 and 2007's Night of the Living Dead as Judy, Bet in this summer's Oliver!, and she will now being appearing as Madge in this winter's Picnic. Love and thanks to her mom, dad, brother and her Ghostlight family! LOVE & PEACE!!!!!

Holds an MBA degree from SUNY Buffalo and a Master's degree in Education from Niagara University. Kathy is a full-time instructor and the Coordinator of the teacher prep program at Erie Community College. She has been an active member of Ghostlight for the past 10 years. She enjoys being in shows as well as ushering, fund raising and bringing in groups to see the shows.

Stefan Brundage joined the Starry Night Theatre gang in the summer of 2006 and hopes to never leave. He's landed supporting roles in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Child's Play" and "Oliver!" Outside of the Ghostlight Theatre, Stef has portrayed such roles as Kenicke in "Grease!," Jeffrey in "Godspell," Sir Danvers Carew in "Jekyll & Hyde," and Linus in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." By day, he is a student at the New York Institute of Massage; By night he pursues a career in music (and fights crime of course). He is also a model with Exxcel talent agency in Buffalo.

Megan joined the company in August 2005 as a “tart” in Big River and has since grown to love her ‘theater family’. She has since appeared in "It’s A Wonderful Life" (2005), "The Children’s Story" (2006), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (2006), and was honored to be cast as Kathryn in "All Through the Night" (2006) and as Krystal in "Noodles" (2007) .. two L. Don Swartz originals. Her most recent role was as Charlotte in "Oliver" (2007) and her most infamous role was playing Barbara in "Night of the Living Dead" (2006, 2007). She is currently a junior at Mount St. Mary’s Academy and looks forward to being a part of the cast in the upcoming "A Christmas Carol!"

Daniel, a vegan, and a beneficiary of the Starry Night Theatre Company's Acting School, first found himself on the Ghostlight stage in 2004. Favorite roles include "Lucien P Smith" in "The Boys Next Door"(2004), "Ben" in "Night of the Living Dead"(2006/2007), "Fred" in "A Christmas Carol"(2004/2007), and most recently as "Hal" in "Picnic"(2008). Besides playing on stage, he's been involved with set construction, and has taken turns running lights and sound. Daniel is very pleased to be part of "The Lottie & Bernice Show"!