Mission Statement

The interaction between music and theatre is our foundation and inspiration.

Red Branch Theatre Company, based in Columbia, MD, is dedicated to fostering a love of theatre in its audience that is life-long. We create theatre experiences that will challenge, educate, and entertain all ages. From its earliest inception in Ancient Greece, theatre began as a community gathering, a communication of our humanity. With this inspiration we strive to bring together artist and audience in our Baltimore/Washington community and beyond by providing theatrical work that is exciting, affordable, powerful and thought provoking.

Jennifer Spieler
Artistic Director

Jennifer Spieler has worked as a theatre director for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read Program, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Center Stage's Young Playwrights Festival, the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival, Baltimore's Children's Theatre Association, and internationally as part of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, Romania. Her production, entitled A Beckett Trio (three short pieces by Samuel Beckett), was presented to a global audience. Jennifer served as a 2007 fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's highly selective National Critics Institute, and for nine years she taught classes in theatre criticism, beginning and advanced acting, beginning and advanced directing, television drama, stage dialects, unarmed stage violence, and both the Senior Project workshop and freshmen Frontiers in Theatre seminar as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Goucher College. Prior to becoming a theatre director, Jennifer worked in stage management at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Axis Theatre, and Theatre Project; in props design and multimedia work for Action Theatre Company; and costume construction for the Troika Organization. Outside of theatre, Jennifer served for eight years as the senior copy editor and writer for The Net Music Countdown with David Lawrence, a weekly, three genre formatted music and music technology program for radio, which was broadcast nationally and internationally on a weekly basis. She holds an M.F.A. degree in directing from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Stephanie Lynn Williams
Co-Founder, Executive Producer, Director

Prior to becoming the owner of Drama Learning Center in December 2006, Stephanie performed and directed in the DC/MD/VA area. Favorite past directing credits include Hecuba, Cradle Will Rock, and The Emergence of Gus (selected as a participating production in the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival) as well as DLC's productions of Seussical, Once on This Island, The Wiz, and Godspell. In 2008 she founded Red Branch Theatre Company with Aaron Broderick and has performed in RBTC's productions of Puff the Magic Dragon (Auntie), Urinetown (Fipp- and occasionally Hope), and Seussical (Gertrude McFuzz). She is proud to be the director of Teaching Young Actors- DLC's teen professional company. She is a graduate of Goucher College with a degree in Theatre Performance and Directing.

410-997-9352
stephquest@yahoo.com

Aaron Michael Broderick
Co-Founder, Founding Artistic Director,
Resident Music Director

Aaron Broderick has over 150 regional music director and/or pianist credits at venues such as Keegan Theatre (Rent - Helen Hayes nomination for Best Musical Direction), Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Rep Stage, Toby's Dinner Theatre, American University, Maryland Ensemble Theatre, The Student Arts Collective at Howard Community College, and Winter's Lane Productions. In 2008 he co-founded the Red Branch Theatre Company with Stephanie Williams, and served as Artistic Director and Production Manager for its first season during which he music directed Secret Garden, Bunnicula, Spitfire Grill, Puff the Magic Dragon, and Urinetown. As an educator Aaron music directed for Drama Learning Center, Slayton House Camp of the Arts, Olney Theatre Center 's collaborative theatre making camp and as the vocal coach for the Cappies Gala at the Hippodrome. Aaron holds a BS in Music Education from Towson University.

443-538-7284
aaronbroderickpiano@yahoo.com

Jenny Male
Resident Dance & Fight Choreographer

Jenny is thrilled to be a part of the artistic team at Red Branch Theatre Company. Previous RBTC credits include Urinetown (Director, Choreographer), The Secret Garden (Director, Choreographer), and A Spell of Cold Weather (Choreographer). She is very excited about her next RBTC project: directing and choreographing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Jenny is Asst. Professor of Theatre and Dance at Howard Community College and also serves as the Coordinator of Musical Theatre and Stage Movement. Previous dance choreography credits include A Chorus Line, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anything Goes, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Company, and Oklahoma! Jenny is an Advanced Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. She serves as the Fight Director and Dance Choreographer for the epic outdoor drama Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio. Other fight choreography credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dracula, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Lie of the Mind, and The Hobbit. Jenny holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Movement and Fight Direction from Virginia Commonwealth University.