Chris Brindley
Producing Artistic Director
Chris Brindley will be returning for his 22nd season with Weston Drama Workshop after serving as Executive Producer for eight years and nine years serving as Producer. Chris began his involvement with WDW as a sophomore in high school as a performer and started on staff as stage manager of the morning show. Chris is an active director, producer, and performer in the Boston area. He received his B.A. in Theatre Education and Acting from Emerson College where he received the Howard Waldman Award for excellence in Performing Arts and his M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University. Chris is currently the Department Head of Fine and Performing Arts at Framingham High School and is on staff as drama teacher and director for the award-winning Framingham High School Drama Company. Chris is also an affiliated faculty member of Emerson College Dept. of Performing Arts and previous President of the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild High School Division and current President of the Musical Theatre Division. Previously Chris worked as the Theatre Director at Belmont High School. WDW Directing Credits include: The Phantom of the Opera, Mean Girls, Something Rotten!, The Spongebob Musical, Spring Awakening, Disney’s Newsies, West Side Story, Evita, The Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Blood Brothers, James and the Giant Peach, Les Miserables, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Children of Eden, and the inaugural TYA Afternoon show, Charlotte’s Web. Much love to Ari, Aidan Tristan, Kyle, Judi, Sue, Lynn, the whole staff, and team Les Mis for making his fifth time to the barricade so special! He would especially like to thank Chris Holownia, S.J. and Meghan Rose for their incredible dedication, heart, and talent. Chris dedicates this and every show to his late mother and father, Linda and Doug, who were his biggest fans and supporters and whose favorite musical was Les Mis!
Aidan O’Hara
Producer
Aidan O’Hara is returning for his 19th summer at WDW, with this year being 9th year as a Producer. He has directed 17 productions at WDW, with last summer’s Alice By Heart as the most recent. Aidan is the Drama Teacher and Director at Wayland High School. Previous to his 8 years there, he was a Drama Teacher at Weston Middle School for 15 years. He holds an MFA in Theatre Education and Applied Theatre from Emerson College. He is a recipient of the Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award from Facing History and Ourselves, as well as the Excellence in Education Award from the Goldin Foundation. He would like to thank Chris, Ari, Sue, Lynn, the entire staff, for their commitment and camaraderie. Love to his incredibly supportive family – Beth, Dermot, Róisín, Maeve and Gracie.