PRODUCTION TEAM
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 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.
Matthew Jon Mattei played keyboards his first Tri-School show in 2003 (Little Shop of Horrors) and hasn’t left since! Matt works closely with the Hillbarn Youth Conservatory as a Musical Director and whatever else they need him to do. In 2010, he directed the regional premiere of Sunset Blvd for Palo Alto Players. Matt has worked with numerous Bay Area theatre companies and schools including Broadway by the Bay, Bowditch Middle School, and Abbott Middle School. By day, Matt is the Technology Coordinator/Music Teacher at Our Lady of Angels School and is Director of Music Ministry at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Matt is the proud Papa of Ben and Leo, his two miniature Schnauzers.
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 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 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.
Y. Sharon Peng freelances in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas in stage, film, and fashion. Other recent costuming works include The Book of Mountains and Seas (New Conservatory Theatre Center), Little Shop of Horrors (Hillbarn Theatre), and She Loves Me (South Bay Musical Theatre). She is a member of IATSE Local 706. For more of her work, visit Sharon’s portfolio at ysharonpeng.net.