Tri-School PRODUCTION TEAM
Lawrence Long - Artistic Director, Fall Play Director
Lawrence Long holds a B.A. in Theater from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television where he majored in acting with emphases in vocal performance and playwriting. While working as an actor in Los Angeles, he taught on-camera audition technique at The SAG/AFTRA Conservatory at the American Film Institute as well as beginning acting at the Will Wallace Acting Company and About the Work Actor’s Studio. He worked as a script reader and analyst for The Screenwriter’s Room and contributed to the writer’s workshop Deadline Junkies as an actor and writer for over 5 years. He has appeared on multiple stages in Northern and Southern California, and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. He currently teaches the Tri-School Drama classes at Serra.
Gennine Harrington - Spring Musical Director, Choreographer
Gennine Harrington considers the Serra stage her home away from home. Her favorite past productions include Aida, Tommy, Grease, and Les Miserables. Being part of a Tri-School Productions has been a dream come true and she feels blessed to have such an amazing cast of talented students. When Gennine isn’t working on a Tri-School show, she enjoys doing choreography and costume design for Hillbarn Theatre as well as her full time job as eighth grade teacher at Saint Gregory School.
Joe Murphy - Music Director
Joe is happy to take the reins as the music director for Tri-School Productions. Joe is no stranger to the theater. He has musically directed many musicals in the area including “Elf,” “Cabaret,” “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Funny Girl” at Hillbarn along with “Singin in the Rain” with Broadway by the Bay and “Hair” with Coastal Rep. Joe also loves taking the stage as an actor and has most recently played the roles of the UPS Guy and Dewey in “Legally Blond,” Houdini in “Ragtime” and Lancelot in “Spamalot. ” Joe is currently the music director at Serra High School and works a great deal at St. Charles as well. Joe would like to thank his kids En and Sean, his father Ken and wonderful wife Sara for their love and support through all the year.
Greet Jaspaert - Production Manager, Props Mistress
Greet Jaspaert has been an avid theater patron her whole life but actively involved with community theater in the capacity of producer, stage manager, set builder, actor, prop designer, painter, theater administrator etc. since 2006. Greet got involved with Tri-School in 2016 as a parent volunteer when her daughter, Klara was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the fall of her freshman year at Mercy High School. She is meanwhile also a proud Serra parent of junior, Finn. Greet hopes that you enjoy each show you see here and encourages you to see live theater all over the Bay Area.
Yusuke Soi - Technical Director, Scenic Designer
Yusuke Soi is a Japanese native theatre designer living in the Bay Area. He studied set design at San Francisco State University and has been designing in the Bay Area since 2013. He has been working with Tri-School Productions since the fall of 2016 with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent designs are for Tri-School Productions’ The Wedding Singer, Sense and Sensibility, and Lord of the Flies, W, Bay Area Children’s Theatre’s Willy Wonka and Judy Moody and Stink.
Aya Matsutomo - Lighting Designer
Aya Matsutomo started working with Tri-School Production in 2017 as the Lighting Designer for Oklahoma! Other credits include, Deal with the Dragon (NCTC), Seussical Jr. Little Princess, Peter Pan Jr. (LAYT), Mary Poppins, Aladdin Jr. (Bancroft Middle School.) Additionally, she enjoys working as Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, and Lighting Designer at theaters across the Bay Area, among them: San Jose Stage Company, Palo Alto Players, Peninsula Youth Theatre, Los Altos Youth Theatre. During the day Aya works as Production Manager and Master Electrician at Hillbarn Theatre.
Valerie Louie - Costume Designer
Valerie Louie holds a BA in Apparel Design and Merchandising from San Francisco State University and is an active member for the Theatrical Wardrobe Union, IATSE 784, here in San Francisco. For the last 15 years she has worked extensively as a costumer for various movies, television shows, commercials, and theatre productions. Some of her recent projects have included: Showtime’s Super Pumped, Apple TV’s The Sky is Everywhere, STARZ Blindspotting Season 1 and 2, and Marvel’s Venom 2.