Our Staff

Calliope is an interdisciplinary artist creating collaboratively on-and-off stages, screens, and studios, in Brooklyn, Cape Cod, and Austin. They hold a BA in Alternative Performance Practice and Art History from SUNY Purchase. Calliope is jazzed to return to their roots at CCTC in collaboration with life-long friend, playmate, and collaborator KJ.

Mike Devine is an actor, and improviser and can be seen in the 2021 film Free Guy. Mike has trained and performed at places such as The Second City and IO in Chicago. He has been performing in plays and improv all over Boston.

Bob began enjoying the piano at an early age, soon the flute which he studied in college, as well as the harpsichord. He began theatre music direction during grad school, accompanied instrumentalists and vocalists, also. This continued during his NYC years while assistant music director/synth player and ballet accompanist. He has collaborated with many of the Cape’s theatres while living here for 25 years.

James has directed, designed, produced, taught, and acted in theatres from Boston to New Orleans, and from New York to Los Angeles. Regionally, Jim works extensively as a teacher, director, and designer for the award-winning sister theatres: Wheelock Family Theatre and CCTC. He also is the director and designer of The Gold Dust Orphans, winner of the 2004 Elliot Norton Award for Best Fringe Theatre.

Tess O’Leary grew up taking classes, acting, and eventually interning at the CCTC/HJT, and has been delighted to continue by teaching and directing here! In recent years, Tess has taught classes such as Junior Players, Shakespeare Shake-Up, and Imagination Stage, and has directed productions of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and the children’s show Dragons Love Tacos.

Nina retired in Spring 2022 as the Producing Artistic Director of Cape Cod Theatre Company/ Harwich Junior Theatre, Inc. having served for 25 years. She has been a driving force in Cape theatre for 45 years as a teacher, actor, and director. Nina is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre’s Lifetime in the Arts Award, and the Emerson College Teacher Award. At CCTC/HJT Nina supervised the production of over 260 plays and musicals including many world premieres by Cape and National Playwrights. Nina first performed on this stage as Katrin in I Remember Mama in 1975. Nina’s performed many favorite roles such as Jadis, The White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; Martha in The Unexpected Man; Desdemona in Othello and the title role in Medea at CCTC/HJT; Bananas in House of Blue Leaves at APA; Kate Keller in All My Sons at Cape Rep; Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Denise in Savior of the Universe at WHAT to name a few.

Katie Graves (she/her) is a professional Equity Union Stage Manager with over 10 years of Union experience. She attended FGCU and was offered a union contract upon graduation. After finishing up her first season as an Equity Stage Manager, she decided to move to Boston to find more opportunities. Katie was able to work full time as a freelance theatrical technician and as a stage manager, working all over the New England Area. Katie worked several touring shows that passed through Boston as well as several IATSE contracts. She began working her summers on Cape Cod and in the off season, would travel back to Boston or to Atlanta for work. Some of her favorite Stage-Managing Credits include Murder for Two (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), Lenin’s Embalmers (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Theatrical Outfit), Peter and the Starcatcher (HJT/CCTC).

Terry has appeared in productions from New York City to South America.  Broadway and National tours include Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, No No Nanette, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun, Roberta, Anything Goes, and Babes in Arms.  She was a featured dancer with the Jerry Ames Tap Company at Lincoln Center and assisted Jacques d’Amboise at The National Dance Institute.  Terry directed and choreographed more than 30 shows regionally including the Off- Broadway musical The Black Monk, The Love Note, Little Women the Broadway Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, Harry Connick Jr’s The Happy Elf, A Year with Frog and Toad, Celebrate Broadway, HJT’s Broaday Kids, Freckle Face Strawberry, The Full Monty, Urinetown, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Wiz and In The Heights. Terry has taught dance for over 40 years and is currently teaching and Cape Cod Theatre Company. During the summer she can be found at The Ice Cream Cafe in Orleans., which she and her husband have owned for 30 years.

Suzette Hutchinson has a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography. She has been teaching modern dance on Cape Cod for 25 years – currently at the Cape Cod Ballet Theatre and the Reaching Heart School of Ballet (she also taught at the Academy of Performing Arts and the Cape Cod Community College for 20 years). Prior to moving to the Cape, Suzette taught dance in the RI public schools for the Chance To Dance program. She has been on the faculty at CCTC/HJT since 2000, teaching musical theatre and she has choreographed numerous productions here and at many other Cape Cod theatres, including the Academy of Performing Arts, Chatham Drama Guild, Cotuit Center for the Arts and Cape Rep.

Chelsey has been performing professionally in for over 12 years but found her true passion in teaching theatre! She has been teaching theatre and dance classes for 6 years in both California and Massachusetts. She has been a director, musical director and choreographer for Bay Area Children's Theatre, LaMorinda Performing Academy and Musical Theatre Works in California and works at both HJT/CCTC and Cape Rep Theatre on Cape Cod. She lives in Brewster with her amazing husband, daughter, and two greyhounds. Chelsey holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University.

Seamus has been an active member of the Harwich Junior Theatre/Cape CodTheatre Company since he was 18 years old, and has continued to hone his craft with a little dash of everything: from building the sets to assisting with classes, to acting in shows and managing the stage, he has slowly been learning every aspect that he can, heavily inspired by his mentor, Matthew Kohler, so as to be able to productively react to whatever the theatre needs at all times. Having gone from an apprentice to an over hire, to an Assistant Technical Director in recent years, Seamus has gained quite a lot of traction in the theatre community all over Cape and is wildly excited to continue his journey with his wonderful team at CCTC.

Xevi Pina Parker is a sophomore at Monomoy Regional High School and has been doing plays at CCTC/HJT since she was 4. She has grown up taking (and now teaching) the CD and tech classes with Emily Murray and Matt Kohler.

Gianna is a senior at Nauset Regional High School and lives in Brewster. She has performed in many shows at the theater as well as run crew and stage managing! She is grateful for all her mentors at the theater!

Trenton Hatch is from Fishers, Indiana, and grew up spending his summers at the Cape Cod Theatre Company. He was a technical, teaching, and grounds intern during the 2022 and 2023 summer seasons and received the Doane Award in 2022 for his work in reimagining the third floor. Trenton is passionate about keeping the invaluable tradition of the Harwich Junior Theatre alive and contributing to the vibrant community found on Cape Cod.”