The Children Cast

Sheri Williams Pannell is a native Milwaukeean who has performed, directed or written for a number of Milwaukee’s theater and arts organizations including Bronzeville Arts Ensemble, First Stage, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Milwaukee Fringe Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Arts Museum, Present Music and Skylight Music Theatre. Beyond Milwaukee, Pannell has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah’s Old Lyric Theatre, Children’s Theater of Madison, University Opera and University Theater at UW Madison. Pannell was selected to direct a production as part of the United Nations Conference on Genocide, hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2017, Pannell was honored as an Artist of the Year by the City of Milwaukee. A founding member and artistic director at Bronzeville Arts Ensemble, Pannell is also a director/teaching artist at Black Arts MKE and co-director of the drama ministry at Calvary Baptist Church.

ALAN KOPISCHKE is directing Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 for UW-Green Bay, where he teaches acting. Alan’s many TAP credits include The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Oleanna, and A Walk in the Woods. He has also acted with Steppenwolf, Milwaukee Rep, Peninsula Players, Theatre Z, and regional theatres across the country, including the American Conservatory Theater where he earned his MFA. He has been smacked around by the Chuck Norris family and a real highway patrolman on primetime television and in feature films. He produces the Door Kinetic Arts Festival every June at Björklunden and has created new arts programs in communities around Wisconsin. He is also directing the May 7 reading of Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy.

Carrie is delighted to be reconnected to friends at Third Avenue Playhouse! A native of Wisconsin and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, her recent theater credits include Professor Willard in Our Town with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Miss Hannigan in Annie with The Skylight Theatre, Williamina Fleming in Silent Sky with Forward Theatre, Aoife in Outside Mullingar with Next Act Theatre, Masha in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Irina Botvinnik in A Walk in the Woods with Third Avenue Playhouse. Carrie is also a film, commercial and voice actor and has appeared in the Independent films, Expecting Mercy, Wishtaker, Tomah, Wisconsin and Last Will.