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 25 plays that have been produced in 47 States, Ireland, Guam, Canada and British Columbia. His original titles include All Through The Night, Noodles, The Lottie & Bernice Show, 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 and Michael.

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 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,& Mama Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow (all L. Don originals). Favorites to direct have been, The Sound of Music '10, Joseph& the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oliver!, Big River,& Pippin. Costuming favorites include Little Women, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, Joseph,& Pippin. She loves working with her wonderful husband, L. Don. She enjoys spending quiet evenings at home with Don, Emily, Rosemary, D.J.,& Michael. Debby is a fourth grade teacher at Drake Elementary School in North Tonawanda.

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, currently a sophomore at North Tonawanda High School, made her debut in the 2002 production of Carousel as a snow child. Since then she has played various roles in many shows with the company. Some of her favorites include Chorus of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Holly in A Christmas Carol and a zombie in Night of the Living Dead. Meagan is also a student in the Starry Night Theatre drama class. She plans on continuing her hobbies of acting and singing with the company.

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.

Mark has been with the Ghostlight Theatre Group since November of '05 and he feels he has found a home. There are no people better in the world than "Ghostlight" people. 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", as brother Levi in the summer musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat," Dr. Armstrong in "Ten Little Indians," and was pleased to help create the role of Stu Boodle in L.Don's "Noodles". "Reeeeaaaaallllllly. . .I thought we were having meatloaf!" He was also seen in "Child's Play" and "Picnic," which he was able to interact with his daughter for the first time on stage, Mr. Cooper in "the Night of the Living Dead," Uncle Billy in "It's a Wonderful Life" ('08), Mr Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank," and Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," another L. Don original. 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 and is happily allowed to build the many projects that you enjoy around the theatre (seen and unseen).

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 sophomore at SUNY Oswego 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, Judy in 2006 and 2007's Night of the Living Dead, Bet in Oliver!, Madge in Picnic, and she recently portrayed Catherine in the summer's musical, Pippin. 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 appeared in "It’s A Wonderful Life" (2005), "The Children’s Story" (2006), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (2006), "Oliver" (2007), "Christmas Carol" (2007) 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. To date, her favorite role was playing Millie in Picnic (2008). Megan is currently a senior at Mount St. Mary’s Academy and looks forward to playing Barbara for the third consecutive year in "Night of the Living Dead" !

Daniel first appeared on the Ghostlight stage in 2004, after attending the Theatre's adult acting classes. Besides playing on stage, he's been involved with set construction, and has run lights and sound. Outside of the theatre, he can often be found rock climbing, snowboarding, and riding sportbikes. Favorite roles include "Lucien P Smith" in "The Boys Next Door"(2004), "Ben" in "Night of the Living Dead"(2006/2007/2008), "Fred" in "A Christmas Carol"(2004/2007), "Hal" in "Picnic"(2008), "Male Voices" in the World Premiere of "The Lottie & Bernice Show"(2008), "Brom Bones" in the World Premiere of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"(2009), "George" in "All Through The Night"(2009), and Dracula in "Nosferatu: Legend of Dracula"(2010)

Colleen has been a member of Ghostlight since taking acting class in January 2007. In the fall of 2009, she taught a Shakespearean advanced adult acting class with 13 talented actors. Favorite Ghostlight roles include Miranda in "A Night of Dark Intent", Mrs. Doodah-Doodah in “Noodles”, Edith Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank", Mrs. Potts in “Picnic”, Berte in "Pippin", Violet Venable in "Suddenly Last Summer" and Mother Zombie in "Night of the Living Dead". In spring 2008, she directed “The Simple Truth” for the One Acts. She's also worked as a stage manager for "Time Out for Ginger" and sound technician for ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Colleen has a degree in theatre from the University of Southern Maine, studied Shakespeare at King Alfred’s College in Winchester England, and toured over 12 years with the Children’s Theatre of Maine. From 1989 to 1991, she was a performer and Artistic Director for Shoestring Radio Theatre in San Francisco, CA. In the S.F. Bay Area, she also worked for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, Oakland Civic Theatre, Eureka Theatre and The Pickle Family Circus. Currently, Colleen works as an occupational therapist at Ohio School in NT, and is a published writer of fantasy fiction. Yes, I'm Gabe and Caitlin's Mom.

Also known as The Goon, Gabe is currently a Senior at Kenmore West High School and hopes to major in film study at UB. Gabe was first exposed to the theatre through his mom and sister. His favorite roles so far are Tommy Green in "Time Out for Ginger," Nicholas in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," The Executioner in "Pippin," and The Goon in "It's a Wonderful Life." Gabe recently ran lights for the for the One Acts and will be attempting to run sound for "All Through the Night." He can also be seen out in the seats on occasion selling 50-50 tickets. Remember to buy them at every show, 1 for 1 dollar, 3 for 2 dollars or 8 for 5 dollars.

Caitlin is currently a student at Kenmore West Senior High School, working hard towards her dream to become an actress. She first appeared on the Ghostlight stage in an acting class recital in early 2006. Since then she has appeared in various Ghostlight shows on and off the stage. You may have seen her as the 1st sister in "Noseferatu: Legend of Dracula", Kathryn in "All Through the Night", Margot in "Diary of Anne Frank", Mrs. Thompson/Mr. Potter's Secretary in It's A Wonderful Life", and other roles in musicals, originals and special events. Besides being on stage, she loves working behind it too, whether it be hefty fog machines or painting massive doorways. She is very glad to have found her theatre family, and is glad that she can share the stage with her multi-talented mother. Oh, yeah...and brother.

Drew made his début on the Ghostlight Theatre stage in 2008 as the Dr. Zombie in "Night of the Living Dead." Other roles include Mr. Martini in "It's A Wonderful Life" 2008, Mr. Kraler in "The Diary of Anne Frank" 2009, Principal Wilson in "Time Out for Ginger" 2009, Agent Ritter in the World Premier of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" an original adaptation by L.Don Swartz. Jeremy in the 20 Year Anniversary of "All Through the Night" 2009, Jonathan Harker in "Nosferatu: The Legend of Dracula" an original adaptation from the Bram Stoker novel by L.Don Swartz. Drew has made cast as Franz in "The Sound of Music" and couldn't be happier.