Leadership

Board of Directors

Legacy Guild

  • Alan Corcoran
  • Wayne Lemon
  • Norbert Tan

Artistic Staff

 

 

 
  

John Karczynski (Board Member: Chairman)

John R. Karczynski is a third generation Anaheim resident (both sides of his family).  He grew up in West Anaheim and recently moved to the Anaheim Hills.  He is the past owner / operator of Anaheim First Financial, a mortgage company in West Anaheim for four years. Mr. Karczynski is currently a Sr. Loan Consultant for Washington Mutual Bank where he has been employed for the last six years

Affiliations:
West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council - Member
Anaheim Rotary Club - Foundation Chair, Board of Directors
Leadership Anaheim - Vice Chairman, Board of Directors
California Republican Party - Member
Log Cabin Republicans of Orange County - Chairman, Board of Directors
Log Cabin Republicans of California - Treasurer, Board of Directors
Anaheim Chamber of Commerce - Ambassador (1998-2005)
Canyon Hills Community Council - 1st Vice Chair (2003-2005)
Magnolia Manor Estates Neighborhood Advisory Council - Chairman (1999-2003)
Anaheim Community Block Grant Board - General Member (1997-2000)
Anaheim Redevelopment and Housing Commission - Chairman (1997-2000)
Anaheim Ballet - President and Chairman (1998-2000)

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Guy Marr (Board Member: Vice-Chairman)

Guy W. Marr is a native Californian who was born in Los Angeles and raised in Orange County. Guy is a graduate of the University of Redlands where he was awarded a Bachelors of Science in Business and Management. Guy has worked for AT&T for over 30 years and has held various positions within the company including Marketing, Sales Planning, Training, Network Operations, Project Management, and Finance. Guy's current position is an Area Manager in the Human Resources Department in Orange County.

Guy is a very proud singing member of Men Alive, the Orange County Gay Men's Chorus, since its second season. He has volunteered for AIDS Walk Orange County for over a decade and is currently on the Fund Development Team for AIDS Services Foundation. Guy is also the President of AT&T TelecomPioneers, the largest nationwide corporate community services organization, which is involved with numerous local, national, and international nonprofit organizations. Guy currently lives in Tustin Ranch.

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Lewis R. Crouse II (Board Member)

Lewis has been associated with live theater and live entertainment in Southern California for over 30 years.  He has appeared on stage and worked backstage on just about every type of entertainment conceivable - large and small.  He has volunteered for every position connected with a production, including, but not limited to, carrying the director's briefcase.  He obtained his theatre training at Cal Poly Pomona - where the men are men, the women are few, and the sheep are nervous. Along with his sainted wife, Marty, Lewis operates Showcase Benefit Productions with the mission to mount musical theatre and donate the money to nonprofit arts organization.  He is currently an active member of the State Bar of California.  Lewis has practiced Criminal Defense and Family Law as a sole practitioner in Central Santa Ana for 18 years.  In the past, he has claimed the title of Licensed Private Investigator (owning a detective agency for 8 years), Repossessor (cars, boats, airplanes, and people), and Oil Rig Roughneck.  At one point in time, Lewis sold insurance for Prudential, and he has even held jobs as a dancer for both Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm (but that was 35 years and 120 pounds ago).  He is a proud veteran of the United States Air Force.  Lewis has been married for 30 years.  He and his wife Marty have 5 children and live in Orange.

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Mary Kay Fyda-Mar (Board Member)

Mary Kay Fyda-Mar is a program manager for Boeing, where she has worked for over 25 years. Her positions within the company have included business operations, resource management, strategic planning, project management, systems engineering, and software engineering. She was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Ohio, and moved to Orange County in 1977. Mary Kay obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Michigan State University and held a National Science Foundation Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mary Kay serves as a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program. She is an active member of Altrusa International of Anaheim, where she has served on the Board and is currently chairperson of the literacy committee. She is also a proud quilter for Project Linus, an organization that provides handmade security blankets to children in trauma. Mary Kay is a widow with one grown daughter and currently lives in Yorba Linda.

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Camille Goulet (Board Member)

Camille A. Goulet is an attorney who specializes in issues of education, nonprofits and labor and employment law. She was raised in Whittier, California, to have a passion for the performing arts. In her teenage years, she was an active docent with the Whittier Historical Society at a local state historic monument. She obtained a Bachelor's Degree from U.C. Berkeley in 1983, and her law degree with honors from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1986. She began residing in Orange County 12 years ago with her late husband. In that time, she has served as the chief legal counsel for nine community colleges in Los Angeles. In addition to a vigorous practice addressing community educational needs, she is an active member of Kiwanis, in which she has served as Club President, Lt. Governor, and an advisor to sponsored high school and college programs. She has been repeatedly honored with recognitions for her service, particularly by Kiwanis-sponsored students. She is currently serving as the District Administrator for the California-Nevada-Hawaii District of Circle K International, providing leadership education and counseling to student community service leaders.

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Oanh Nguyen (Founder, Board Member, Producing Artistic Director)

Oanh co-founded the Chance Theater in 1999, where he is currently Artistic Director. He was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by Arts Orange County and is a recipient of the TCG Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of Color fellowship. He was also recently inducted into Anaheim High School’s Hall of Fame. Oanh is on the board of the Network of Ensemble Theaters and on the advisory board of the Anaheim High School Performing Arts Conservatory and the Arts Advantage Program for the Anaheim Union High School District. He’s a proud member of SDC, SAG and AFTRA. Nguyen recently directed the West Coast premiere of Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin at the nation’s premiere Asian theater company, East West Players. He was also the associate director of the world premiere of The Happy Ones by Julie Marie Myatt at South Coast Repertory (recently nominated for 2 LADCC Awards, including Best Production). Other directing credits include: world premiere of The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat by Tony Award-winner Mark Hollmann, Three Days of Rain (O.C. Register’s Top Ten of 2002 and Best Directors of 2002), Bash, Lee Miller: The Angel and The Fiend (commissioned by the Getty Museum), Goodnight Children Everywhere, Tape, Closer Than Ever (L.A. Times Critic’s Choice), Porcelain (2006 GLAAD Media Award Nomination, Back Stage Critic’s Pick, O.C. Register’s Top Ten of 2005), Cabaret (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), Into The Woods (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), The Laramie Project, Jesus Hates Me (soon to be remounted at South Coast Repertory), Inventing Van Gogh, Frozen, The Last Five Years, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Rabbit Hole (Back Stage Critic’s Pick) and Hair (LA Weekly Critic’s Pick, 5 Ovation Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Musical, and 6 LADCC Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Revival).

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Casey Long (Founder, Board Member: Secretary, Managing Director)

Casey has been a part of The Chance Theater since 1999, where he first appeared onstage in the world premiere of Memories on the Wind. Casey founded the Incarnation Theatre Company and has directed The Odd Couple, as well as the world premieres of I am Santa Clause and Ripe Peach, OC Premiere of Anne of Green Gables (the original 2007 staging and the remounting in 2008 at The Heritage Forum), and the 2009 holiday presentation of Little Women - The Broadway Musical. Casey's Chance acting credits include Porcelain (2006 GLAAD Media Award Nomination - Outstanding Los Angeles Theater, Back Stage West Critic's Pick, OC Weekly Theater Award Nominee - Best Production), Cabaret (Back Stage West Critic's Pick), Stephen Belber's Tape (OC Weekly Theater Award Nominee - Best Actor), The Laramie Project (OC Register's Noteworthy Ensembles of 2005), with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero (LA Times Critic's Choice), Coyote On A Fence (Back Stage West Critic's Pick, Chancie Award for Best Supporting Actor), Inventing Van Gogh, five years (and counting) as Dasher in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (2005 OC Weekly Award Winner - Best Ensemble and Nominee for Best Production, Chancie Award for Best Supporting Actor), and Talk About The Passion (Chancie Award - Best Actor). Casey is a proud Company Member of the Chance Theater, as well as its resident Sound Designer. Previous sound design credits include with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero (Back Stage West Critic's Pick), Never In My Lifetime (Back Stage West Critic's Pick), Coyote On A Fence (Back Stage West Critic's Pick, Chancie Award for Best Sound Design), The Lying Kind (Garland Award Honorable Mention), Evita (Chancie Award - Best Sound Design), and the upcoming Little Women - The Broadway Musical. Casey is married to fellow company member, Alex Bueno, and has lived in Anaheim since 2000.

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Erika C. Miller (Founder, Development Director)

Erika Ceporius Miller is a proud member and co-founder of The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills alongside her talented husband, actor/director Oanh Nguyen. She has studied with Anne Reinking at The Broadway Theatre Project, the Boston Conservatory, the University of Southern California, and in London with the British American Dramatic Academy and the Royal Shakespeare Company through Skidmore College in New York. At an early age she was a professional singer with The Los Angeles Children's Chorus where she was privileged to perform with such talents as Peabo Bryson, Barry Manilow, Andre Previn, Yo-yo Ma, Doc Severinsen and Luther Vandross to name a few. She can be heard singing on the soundtracks of "Hero", "The Dark Half" and "Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Orchestra". Her opera credits include "Die Frau Ohnne Schatten" and "El Gato Montez" with Placido Domingo at The Music Center, "Carmina Burana" at the Hollywood Bowl, and "The Magic Flute" at UCLA's Royce Hall. In recent years she has started performing Ragtime locally with Eric Marchese and has performed at Steamers Jazz Club in Fullerton, Old Town Music Hall in Long Beach and at "RagFest" in Fullerton. Her favorite theater roles include (starting with most recent) Rodger's & Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing, Cabaret (Garland Award Honorable Mention- Best Actress and Back Stage West Critic's Pick), Closer than Ever (LA Times Critic's Pick), Goodnight Children Everywhere (OC Weekly Award Nominee - Best Ensemble and Best Production), Company (OC Weekly Award Nominee - Best Musical and Best Ensemble), The Fantasticks, Lee Miller: The Angel and the Fiend (OC Weekly Award winner), and As You Like It (OC Register Best Performances of 2002). Erika would like to send her love to her family and to her husband for their unending support and love. [top]

 

 

Tanae Beyer (Education Director)

Tanae is glad to have found such an artistic, collaborative and fun group of people here at The Chance where she is a proud Staff and Company member. A graduate of Concordia University, Irvine with a double major in Theater and Communications, she was bit by the theater bug at the tender age of seven. Various elementary, high school and community theater projects led her to college where she participated in over 24 productions in her four years there. Whether it was on stage, stage-managing, building sets, or just teaching what she knows, Tanae could always be found in the theater. Some of her favorite productions at Concordia include, Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret, Medea (a Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Nominee and Regional Participant), Suddenly Last Summer, and her directorial debut, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She was roped into The Chance Theater (after swearing off theater for a while), by an old roommate. A while turned out to be only four months as she became the Stage Manager for A Christmas Story. Tanae went on to run lights for Last Five Years, assistant stage-manage Into the Woods, stage-manage Biloxi Blues and run lights and projections for Sunday in the Park with George. During the day, she works for a lawyer in Santa Ana and is also the Production Associate at The Chance. Tanae is currently pursuing her MA in Theater at California State University, San Bernardino. [top]

  

 
  

Masako Tobaru (Technical Director and House Manager)

Masako received her BA in Theater and Communications from Concordia University, Irvine in 2005.  While a student at Concordia she worked on over 23 productions including Cabaret, Medea, Seussical, Ruthless, Patient A, and The Last Night of Ballyhoo.  After graduation in 2005 Masako was hired as the Assistant Technical Director and Administrative Assistant for the Theater Department. 

Masako became involved with the Chance when she was the Stage Manager for the First Chance Fest in 2003.  After taking a year away from the Chance she returned in 2004 to design lighting for The Second Annual First Chance Fest and A Grand Night for Singing and she hasn't left since.  Masako was thrilled when she was approached to join the staff as the Technical Director in late 2005.  In her time with the Chance Masako has designed lighting for A Christmas Story, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Closer Than Ever, The Rover, and It's a Wonderful Life.  She has also Stage Managed Cabaret, The Eight, and The Last Five Years.  She is grateful for the encouragement and support she finds everyday with The Chance.

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   Jeff Hellebrand (Founder, Associate Box Office Manager)

Jeff is a founding member of The Chance Theater and previously Spare Change Productions, the artistic think tank that merged into the The Chance. He received his degree from Cal State Fullerton and additional training at California State University at Chico, and The Professional Actors Conservatory. He has worked on both sides of the curtain in venues throughout California. Chance Theater acting credits include Ten Little Indians, The Stroop Report, Therese Raquin, The Pirates of Penzance, and Memories on the Wind. He has also been seen locally in Skin of our Teeth, West Side Story, 1776, Uncle Vanya, Little Shop of Horrors, in addition to the original productions of The Pier, and Undeclared. Script writing credits dear to his heart are Is Pepperoni a Vegetable? And Other Mysteries of Love, But I Don't Feel Grown up, and The Beach... Without Leo. [top]

 

 
  

Courtny Greenough (Associate Education Director)

Courtny is a recent graduate of Concordia University Irvine, with a B.A. in Business Administration Management and Theater minor. She is trhilled to be a part of the Chance Company. Past shows include: Anaheim Home Companion (Stage Manager) at The Chance Theater, Skin of Our Teeth (Kennedy Center's Meritorious Achievement Award Stage Management, American College Theater Festival), Seussical the Musical (Stage Manager), The Good Doctor (Dramaturge) at Concordia, and Brigadoon (Production Stage Manager), with Christian Arts and Theatre, Corona. Courtny has also interned at the Tony Award winning La Jolla Playhouse in General and Production Management and currently works for the Education Department at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. [top]

 

 
  

Jocelyn A. Brown (Artistic Associate)

Dedicated to the Chance since 2001, Jocelyn is thoroughly fulfilled and challenged collaborating with artists of such vision, integrity, talent, and drive. She earned a double major with a BA in Theatre and a BS in General Biology from the UC San Diego with Provost's Honors. She pursued further theatre studies in England at the University of East Anglia and then her directing skills assisting on several productions at South Coast Repertory and Laguna Playhouse. As well as being Artistic Associate at the Chance, Jocelyn teaches at Laguna Hills High School. In the past couple years, Jocelyn's free time has been snatched up by her two sons, Kyden and Torin. Recent highlights include portraying Blitzen in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, directing Evita, portraying the Witch in Into The Woods (Back Stage West Critic's Pick, Best Female Actor Chancie Award), Cathy in The Last 5 Years (Back Stage West Garland Award Honorable Mention for Best Actor), and directing Never In My Lifetime (Back Stage West Critic's Pick). Jocelyn received the OC Weekly award for "Best Female Lead Performance" for her portrayal of Ann in Goodnight Children Everywhere, a nomination for "Outstanding Individual Artist" for 2003 by Arts Orange County, and a nomination for "Best Direction" by the OC Weekly for The Cherry Orchard. Other acting credits include Closer Than Ever (Nancy), That Which Remains (Woman 2), Bash (Woman), Little Women (Jo), The Hostage (Teresa), and The Affected Ladies (Cathos). Other directing credits include 365 Days / 365 Plays: Week 7, Never In My Lifetime, A Christmas Story, Big Love, The Cherry Orchard, The Fantasticks, Spring's Awakening, The Worthy Master of the Law, As You Like It, Confirmation, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, and Facing East.

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