

LEAH DELAUDER

Leah Broderick DeLauder so excited to be back for her 14th season as an actor, director, and Artistic Director! She has been the music director and choreographer for over 48 shows in the area including 18 for TOTL. She was thrilled to write the vocal music and orchestrations for Mabel's Story in the 2011 season and the adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the 2014 season. She will be directing the musical, The Hunting of the Snark, for the current season. She had the wonderful opportunity to music direct the production of She Loves Me at the Our Town Theatre this spring. Some of her favorite TOTL roles include Ruth in People at the Edge of Town, Elizabeth Procter in The Crucible, Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, Jo in Little Women, Kaa in the Jungle Book and Eve in Children of Eden, Spiker in James and the Giant Peach, Vern in Bingo! The Musical, the Witch in Into the Woods and Gwendolyn, one of the Pigeon sisters, with her real sister in The Odd Couple. She has her voice studio, DeLauder Studio of Music, in Kingwood, WV and music direcs and choreographing or the Preston High School theater program. She would like to thank her husband AJ and sons, Miles and Oliver, for their love, the TOTL actors for the laughs, and extended family for the babysitting.