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Inspecting Carol

By Daniel Sullivan

Its A Christmas Carol meets The Inspector General! Most non-profit theaters know the necessity of producing the annual holiday show to pay the bills for the rest of the season, and the theater company in this raucous play is no different! While preparing simultaneously for their annual production of A Christmas Carol and a visit from the National Endowment for the Arts granting representative, hilarity ensues with set malfunctions, casting snafus and mistaken identities. If we weren't laughing, we'd be crying! Ring in the holidays with us as we look at the outrageously funny behind-the-scenes experiences of a non-profit theater company!

Inspecting Carol is being directed by Michelle Schwantes. Michelle is Artistic Director of Poetry Alive!, an educational theatre company that tours internationally and is currently celebrating its 30th Season. She has worked as a Director, Producer, Playwright, Actor and Choreographer for over twenty years at numerous theatres, including: Children's Theatre Company, The Jungle Theater, The Walker Art Center "Out There" Performance Series, Boston Repertory Theatre, SteppingStone Theatre, Stages Theatre and many others. She regularly works as an international Artist-in-Residence and has most recently directed and performed in Zurich and Lausanne, Switzerland, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Rio De Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil, Caracas, Venezuela and Lima, Peru. Most recently, she directed Rogers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" for Young Artists Initiative in St. Paul, MN.