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Directors' Bios<br />
SUSAN JUNG<br />
ARTISTIC THEATRE DIRECTOR GR 4-12,<br />
THEATRE DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER GR 9-12<br />
Susan is in her 15th year as the Director, 20th year as Choreographer for the Cincinnati<br />
Hills Christian Academy Theatre Department, and 19th year as Director of the CHCA improv<br />
team, Off the Cuff. With over 25 years in the business, she taught musical theatre dance<br />
and acting for CCM prep and Playhouse in the Park, has led or taught over 30 musical theatre<br />
camps, and is one of the stage directors for the Christmas show “Awaited.” As a writer, she<br />
has written several plays and musicals that have been performed in Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona,<br />
and Utah. This is her first full length musical for young adults. She has won an Acclaim Award, as well as several local<br />
acting and choreography awards, and was an Overture Finalist for Theatre Education. Susan maintains her professional<br />
acting career with regional and national commercials, print ads, voice-overs, as well as performing nationally and<br />
internationally with Friends of the Groom, Acts of Renewal, and Murder and Merriment. Susan has also performed<br />
professionally with local theatres, TCTC and WFIT, and holds a B.A. in theatre from Northern Kentucky University<br />
where she met her husband Jim, with whom she has three sons.<br />
JIM JUNG<br />
THEATER MANAGER/TECHNICAL DIRECTOR/SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER<br />
Jim is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University with a BFA in musical theater performance.<br />
He occasionally performs with Friends of the Groom Theater Company and has performed for<br />
churches and conferences in 16 different states. Jim served as the CHCA Technical Director<br />
from January of 2001 – August of 2005, and then took the role back in May of 2016. In the<br />
interim, Jim spent many years on corporate audio-visual projects, worked for Crossroads<br />
as Environments Director, for At Home Integrations as a systems installer, and for Milford<br />
schools in IT. In his early years as the TD, he not only did the sets, lights, and sound, but also<br />
had the privilege of directing several shows – specifically Steel Magnolias and The Diary of Anne Frank. Since then, he<br />
has been designing and leading volunteers to build sets for CHCA’s Grade 6-8 musicals and running sound at ArtBeat<br />
Avenue Theater. He is thrilled to be at CHCA, where he gets to work alongside his wife, be closer to his kids throughout<br />
the day, and build into others. He would like to thank God for being his inspiration and his family for putting up with the<br />
crazy schedule.<br />
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