The Matchgirl's Gift: A Christmas Story Creative

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Co-Director
Sarah Cadieux Pacheco
Sarah Cadieux Pacheco (Director) Mrs. Cadieux Pacheco is a proud member of the NBHS faculty and works as a theatre teacher in the Fine Arts Department. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Education from Emerson College in Boston, MA and will soon complete her M.Ed in Curriculum and Teaching from Boston University. Previously she worked as an adjunct faculty member at RIC in the department of Music, Theatre and Dance, and as the Director of Education for the Center for Dynamic Learning. Past NBHS Productions include Lend Me a Tenor, Seussical, Arsenic & Old Lace, Into the Woods, Almost, Maine, Fiddler on the Roof , Romeo & Juliet, Sweeney Todd, It's a Wonderful Life, The Secret Garden, Letters to Sala, Freaky Friday and 10 Ways to Survive Life in a Quaratine. Mrs. Cadieux Pacheco is on the Board of Directors at New Bedford Festival Theatre and Your Theatre, Inc. and has worked as the Summer Academy Coordinator for NBFT since 2015.
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Co-Director
Stephanie Donnelly
Stephanie Donnelly is a Theater Teacher at New Bedford High School. This is her first year!! Mrs. Donnelly is also currently Secretary/Board Member for Emerson Theater Collaborative (not affiliated with Emerson College) where she stage manages, directs, and often runs the Summer Youth Theater Program. Before NBHS, Mrs. Donnelly taught Theater at Kennedy Middle School in Springfield, MA, and at Beacon Charter High School for the Arts in Woonsocket, RI. She also spent six years as Drama Director at Saint Bernard High School in Uncasville CT. She holds a B.S. in Communication and B.A. in Theater from Eastern CT State University and an M.A. in Theater Education from Emerson College. Some of her favorite shows she has directed are: The Wizard of Oz, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Seussical Jr, Barrio Grrrl!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and As You Like It. Theater is her favorite thing and she is so excited to help share it with the NBHS community!
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Assistant Director
Ricardo Aguiar
Ricardo Aguiar (Assistant Director) is a World Language - Portuguese Teacher at New Bedford High School and a proud alumni of the NBHS Drama Club having been a member from 2004-2008. This is his 2nd season with the NBHS Drama Club in a directorial role as he assisted in co-directing 10 Ways to Survive Life in a Quarantine last spring during his first year teaching at the high school. He received his MBA and Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from UMass Dartmouth where he was a member of the UMass Dartmouth Theatre Company from 2008-2013 and held the position of Marketing Manager his senior year. Mr. Aguiar is currently a member of The Collective NB where he has performed and directed in various productions locally continuing to be involved in the theatre community which he loves so dearly since 2015.
Technical Director
Teressa L'Heureux

Original Creative Team

THE MATCH GIRL'S GIFT: A Christmas Story

An original play inspired by
Hans Christian Andersen's 
lyric fairy tale.

By
LAURIE BROOKS

"Now the Wintertime is Nigh" music and lyrics by Steve Wheaton
"Just Four Walls" music by Steve Wheaton, lyrics by Laurie Brooks and Steve Wheaton
Incidental Score composed by Steve Wheaton


The Matchgirl's Gift: A Christmas Story was commissioned and premiered by Nashville Children's Theatre in November 1998.
Directed by Scot Copeland
Scenic and Lighting Designs by Christa Phillips
Costume Design and Construction by Ida
Tracey Howard Signers for hearing impaired by Karla Kelso


Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois