Judi Parrish, Senior Board Member & Sound and Lighting Design

Judi has more than 50 years in community theatre, with credits as a director, musical director, producer, stage manager, set designer, lighting designer, sound designer and actress. She has a total of 18 Perry nominations, including nominations for set design, sound design, lighting design, directing, and acting. She is a multiple Perry award winner, winning for her role as the Superintendent in the MPO production of The Drowsy Chaperone; Sound Design for The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Villagers Theatre; and Set Design for the MPO production of NOISES OFF.

Judi keeps very busy with projects at Kelsey Theatre and other theaters in the central New Jersey/Bucks County area. As an actress, Judi has appeared in over 20 plays, musicals, and operas. Favorite roles include Lady Cravenshire in Calendar Girls, Henrietta Iscariot in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Helsa in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Clea in Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy, Musetta in La Boheme, Ethel Tofflemeier in The Music Man, and Superintendent in The Drowsy Chaperone. As a director, she has staged plays, musicals, and operas including John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, Stephen Shwartz’s Godspell, Gounod’s Faust, as well as Agnes of God, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and Proof.

As a vocalist she has sung in venues throughout the Greater Delaware Valley, in Romania, Germany, and Italy, as well as in Carnegie Hall, and with the Pittsburgh Pops Orchestra under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch. She taught music in Hamilton Township, NJ, technical theatre at Mercer County Community College, and is a member of US Institute of Theatre Technology. Judi holds a BA in Music Education from Trenton State College.