Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater
The Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater Company is a nonprofit theater organization for children and teenagers. The organization, based in Yorba Linda, California, provides education and performance opportunities to the youth of Orange County.
The theater produces full-scale musical productions, with professional technical elements, and performers all under the age of 19. The theater also works in conjunction with Encore Academy of Performing Arts. Year-round after-school classes are offered in the Performing Arts to those interested in pursuing the arts, or for cultural enrichment. The Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater also leads a group of local teenagers in year-round activities and community service projects and performances.[1][2]
The Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater employs staff members who specialize in various performing arts aspects. Members of the Advisory Board are:
- Andrea Tibbs-Fouts, Artistic Direction
- Elise Jackson, Financial Direction and Costume Design
- Derick Fouts, Technical Direction
- Sarah Weinzetl, Music Education
- Melissa Staab, Choreography
The Spotlight Advisory Board works with young members of the theater who desire to learn the craft of technical theater.