Youth Theater

Extraordinary Theater Experiences for Young People
Upcoming

Hadestown Cast List:

Hadestown: Teen Edition

Presented by The Franke Center for the Arts and the Marshall Academy 

Cast of Characters

Orpheus – Miles Rinckey

Eurydice – Kaya Oswald

Hermes – Andrew Root

Persephone – Alivia Parham

Hades – Orehn Hutchinson

Fates

Whitney Ivey

Reegan Lehman

Asrael Lila McCarthy

Brooklyn Schoch

Samantha Stults

Aubrey Tarkiewicz

Workers in the Ensemble

Katharina Biber

Ollie Bladen

Theo Colclasure

Alaina Dysinger

Nery Figueredo

Faye Grupke

Owen Hanson

Lilia Huggett

Micah Hutchinson

Ian Klepper

Hannan Lehman

Kat Lucas

Robin Lynn

Calli Palik

George Pyatt

Elena Reed

Max Stults

Anna Vincent

2025-2026 Season

Finding Nemo Jr. | October 16 – 19

Hadestown | February 12 – 15

Beetlejuice Jr. | May 14 – 17

About

Since 2004, The Franke Center Youth Theater has been providing extraordinary theater experiences for young people!  The Youth Theater stages plays, offers performance workshops, and performs educational outreach throughout Calhoun County. Director Allison Ebner, along with many devoted artistic staff members and volunteers, are committed to promoting education, creativity, imagination through the performing arts.

Our staff and performers recently won 13 National Youth Arts awards! Click here to learn more.

Get involved!

We announce our upcoming auditions, plays, and workshops in the newspaper, on social media, and on our email list. To stay up to date with upcoming opportunities:

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  • Scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your email address to get on our email list

Youth Theater Supporters

  • Battle Creek Community Foundation
  • Marshall Community Foundation
  • Binda Foundation
  • United Way
  • The Miner Barber Fund

Past Shows

The Franke Center Youth Theater is a place where magical memories are made! Take a tour of some of our past shows.