Cinderella

CO-DIRECTOR

Sara founded Happily Ever After Productions Amsterdam in 2019. Growing up in a musical theater family, she performed in over 200 musicals by the time she was 18. Although she still will occasionally get on stage, she has discovered that her passion is directing and producing musicals in this beautiful country. She hopes to build HEA Productions across the Netherlands providing opportunities to perform in and attend English speaking musical theater to everyone.

CO-DIRECTOR

Ties Jansen is a Dutch-American actor, director, producer, voice and speech coach, and writer. Recent on-stage credits include "Smiley & Endless Second" (QETC), "Chicago" (HEAP), "Cabaret" (QETC), "…Spelling Bee" (Cauldron Performing Arts), and "Be More Chill" (HEAP), for which he also served as Assistant Director. Ties is also currently on tour with "Zin in Zappelin Live" (BazarMedia Productions). Off-stage credits include "Judas" (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, dir. Robert Icke) and "The Mousetrap" (REP Entertainment). Alma Mater: Pace University School of Performing Arts (NYC, BFA Acting). Ties is a proud member of the core team of Ensemble Nieuwe Theaterwerkers. www.tiesjansen.com.

VOCAL DIRECTOR

In addition to being a singer and performer himself, Wesley is excited to put on the vocal director hat for this production. His past credits include directing various church and college chamber choirs, and conducting an orchestra for Catawba College in North Carolina. He spent five years directing a dancing pop show choir for the same college, and has now vocal directed for multiple HEA shows, including Be More Chill and Chicago.

BAND DIRECTOR

Lori has been playing piano and music directing musicals everywhere she has lived, she just loves them so much. That includes Utah, WV, and the DC area in the US and now the Amsterdam area. Recent projects include QETC’s Cabaret, Cauldron’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Next Thing You Know, HEAP’s Ordinary Days, and a concert performance of West Side Story with the Amsterdamse Tramharmonie. Lori now resides in Haarlem, where she teaches piano and drama classes. Her newest musical adventure - playing keytar with her husband, Andy, in the synthpop group Birmingham Electric.

CHOREOGRAPHER

Annick Huizinga is a professional dancer educated at HBO Lucia Marthas Dansacademie Institute for Performing Arts in Amsterdam. She is an all-around dancer with a versatile background and an ability to dance in all styles. Annick has 10+ years of professional experience performing in many different productions worldwide, both as a dancer and as a Dance Captain Assistant, including Dinnershows in Studio 21 at Hilversum, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Mariner of the Seas and shows abroad. Annick has also performed in many televised performance events and TV shows such as Dancing With The Stars, Belgium’s Got Talent, Gouden Televisier-Ring Gala, X-Factor, 3FM Awards and dancing for Fedde Le Grand’s shows. Annick has multiple years of freelance experience dancing in numerous gigs throughout Europe and Asia, as well as dancing for various music videos and commercials. Since 2021 Annick is in charge of the choreography for the Bootcamps of Happily Ever After Production's .

CHOREOGRAPHER

Yaël Sarioa, professional educated at Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts HBO. Trained to be an all-round dancer. He has been performing in (live TV) shows as Eurovision Song Contest, The Voice of Finland, X-Factor, Gouden Televizier-Ring, Grand Prix the Netherlands and Belgium with Armin van Buuren. Live performances for Nike, Tomorrowland, Hans Klok and dinner show Vegas. Yaël is experienced as dancer, dance-captain and choreographer in Europe and Asia.

STAGE MANAGER

Mats is a big musical theatre fan and has been wanting to be an actor since he was 4 and saw his first show! From then on he’s had the chance to play some beautiful shows and roles, including: Pinocchio - Shrek, Jake - Be More Chill and Lurch - Addams Family. Now he’s diving into the backstage world and he couldn't be more excited! This year he’s also gonna be on stage in roles such as: ‘Billy Nolan in Carrie (IPA producties) and Collins in RENT (Maniacs Theaterproducties) and his first professional show: ensemble in 40-45 de spektakel musical!

LIGHTING DESIGN / TECH

Yann has been involved in the Amsterdam theater community since 2014, and he has worked both onstage and backstage for English (Into the Woods, Contractions, Avenue Q, Monstersongs) and French (Les sept jours de Simon Labrosse, Le crime de l'Orient Express) productions since then. After working in the lighting booth for HEA's Little Shop of Horrors in 2021, he fell in love with light operation and design, and most recently designed and ran lights for HEA’s Chicago.

SOUND DESIGN AND TECH

Originally from the UK, Stuart discovered audio engineering while in high school working as a musician on various theatre productions for both school and independent companies. This new found passion led him on a wild journey, working on shows in the UK, including the Edinburgh Fringe, then moving to Australia, Canada and now the Netherlands. Stuart re-connected with his passion for theatre last year playing drums in Monstersongs and now bringing his audio skills to the Happily Ever After family.

SET DESIGNER

Marc is an animator and illustrator who started doing set design for HEAP a few years ago with their production of Into The Woods. He kept going ever since, designing sets for productions such as Little Shop of Horrors, Ordinary Days and Avenue Q, in which he also played Trekkie Monster. He also combines his love for theatre and animation in his very own YouTube series, @wolfgangluvsyou.

COSTUMES

Viivi Valpuri is a costume designer, puppet maker, and creator extraordinaire based in Amsterdam. Viivi has a master’s degree in theatre science at the University of Helsinki with a focus on immersive theatre and costume design. In the past decade, Viivi has had her hands full from running a film company to hosting tours in theatre history and from teaching embroidery to designing and making costumes and puppets. Viivi has been working with English language theatre in Amsterdam since her arrival in 2019 and has been with Happily Ever After since their production of Little Shop of Horrors. Viivi’s most recent activities have been with Happily Ever After as the mother of the Avenue Q puppets, with Orange Theatre Company as costume designer for A Christmas Carol, and HEA’s Chicago.