P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525
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P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525 |
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Deanna Pollard - A New Face on the Board of Directors By: Roy Riedy |
Deanna Pollard was still Deanna Minard when she and the new millennium joined forces to bring us a new face and a new century at Highlands Little Theatre. Frank Oberhausen's Annie Get Your Gun was the play that brought Deanna to the chorus of that musical and to the attention of The Lakeside Playhouse's audiences. The Irving Berlin classic was the first of 8 shows that Deanna has been in since she came to HLT in late 1999.
Deanna's next appearance at HLT was as one of the Royal Wives in Frank Oberhausen's January, 2001 production of his record breaking, multi Zenon winning, Rogers and Hammerstein delight, The King and I.
Deanna's roles as Ginger and Angelette in Jim McCollum's Lone Star State romp, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas got her picture in the HLT program which is always a sign of having moving up in the theatrical world.
Deanna moved from Texas to Buffalo for her next appearance in Steve McDaniel's June presentation of Ken Ludwig witty comedy Moon over Buffalo in which she played Rosaline Hay, fittingly, the daughter of two actors.
Deanna rounded out the Twenty-seventh Season at the Little Theatre as Francisca, one of the Shark Girls, in Tammie Pollard's outstanding August, 2001 production of Bernstein and Sondheim's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
Deanna's name appeared in the program of the Sixteenth Annual Zenon Awards as a nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her part as Rosalyn Hay in Moon Over Buffalo.
In November, 2001, the Twenty-eighth Season of Highlands Little Theatre opened with Frank Oberhausen's production of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. Deanna danced and sang her way through that show as one of the gum-chewing, mink shedding Hot Box Girls who gave everyone who saw them a bushel and a peck of fun and laughter.
In February, Deanna and fellow actor Jerry Pollard's, engagement picture appeared in the various local papers and in April Ms. Minard was elected to the Board of Directors of Highlands Little Theatre. Deanna and Jerry were married at the First United Methodist Church at Sebring on June 29, 2002.
In August Deanna and Jerry appeared as a longer married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Darling in Melanie Boulay's delightful musical production of James M. Barrie's classic children's play, Peter Pan in which Jerry also played the nefarious Captain Hook. Peter Pan was huge hit and amassed 8 Zenons at the Seventeenth Annual Zenon Awards in October, 2002, putting the play in second place for the most Zenons ever awarded to a play at HLT. Both of the Pollards were presenters of awards at those Ceremonies.
Congratulations Deanna on your many successes and accomplishments at Highlands Little Theatre in a relatively short period of time. We shall follow your career with interest and great delight.
