Erika Patrick: Chairman

Karen Albrethsen: Vice-Chairman

Stacey Sawyer: Treasurer

Stacey Sawyer has been a resident of Elko County since 1994 after moving to Elko from her native Las Vegas. She is the mother of 19-year old Trent Thompson and wife to husband Frank L. Sawyer. She loves being active in the Elko community. Stacey is a member of the Silver Stage Players, Elko’s local community threatre group and is preparing to co-direct this summer's children's theater workshop production. Stacey is the past president of the Nevada and Elko Jr. Chamber of Commerce, a member and past board member of Soroptimist International of Elko and served as President for the local Domestic Violence Shelter C.A.D.V. Her hobbies include dance, theatre, scrapbooking, and photography. Stacey is currently the Marketing Director for the Holder Hospitality Group (Stockmens, Commercial and Scoreboard casinos) and an on-air personality for KRJC/KTSN Radio. This is Stacey's second stint as SSP Treasurer as she also served in this capacity in the 1990's.

Bailey Billington: Secretary

Russ Smith: Public Relations Director

I've always thought that I could act, at least that is what all of my friends kept telling me in the seventh grade. So when the opportunity came to take drama in school I went for it. I was so exited to have a chance to show what I could do that I really got into it. It was the best thing that I could have done.

I landed a role in Ten Little Indians not a big role but I was on stage. What an experience. Then I was in the play The Diary of Adam and Eve. We took that one to state competition. I went through high school and then was introduced to the real world.

I was side-tracked with life but never lost the desire to act. I helped out a lot backstage but never got up the nerve to go on stage. Then later on in life I ended up in Elko, Nevada where my wife thought that it would be a good idea to pursue some of my long time desires. That is when I was introduced to the Silver Stage Players. In the spring of 2005, I auditioned for the play Much Ado About Nothing. I was hoping that I would be able to get just something to be able to experience the thrill of being on stage again. As it ended up, I was cast as the Friar. It was such a thrill to be on stage again. Then I was in the Reluctant Doctor put on by Great Basin College. I have even been able to do some backstage tech work for The recent "Artzilla" production that was put on here in Elko. My latest endeavor was the radio broadcast that was put on by KELK. I have hopes of being on stage more and more. I have currently been elected to the board of SSP as a member at large and look forward to being able to work with all of the talent that is associated with SSP and the art groups here in Elko.

Don Jones: Historian

Tony Piper: Member at Large

Mr. Piper was born in Salinas, California in 1984. A resident of the Reno/ Sparks area for nearly 13 years, Tony moved to Spring Creek in 1998 and graduated from Spring Creek High School in 2002. He made his collegiate theater debut in GBC Theater’s 2004 West Side Story. Later that same year, Mr. Piper performed for the first time with the Silver Stage Players in the part of Borrachio in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Anthony’s local credits include; Greater Tuna, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Waiting for Godot, Anything Goes, The Reluctant Doctor, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all for You. Mr. Piper enjoys drawing, painting, reading, cooking and hanging out with family and friends. Tony is currently a member of the SSP Board of Directors. Glengarry Glen Ross was his sixth Silver Stage production.

Scott Roberts: Member at Large

Scott Roberts made his local acting and directing debut in this summer’s SSP comedy Greater Tuna. An actor, director and technician, Mr. Roberts cut his teeth on theater in Texas and appeared in the Lone Star state’s 1998 premier of It’s a Wonderful Life with FCT in Dallas. His directing credits include Agatha Christie’s award-winning Unexpected Guest and Tennessee William’s Glass Menagerie among others. Currently a member of the Players’ Board of Directors, Scott made his second appearance with the local theater company in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Frank L. Sawyer: Member at Large

A twelve year veteran of the Silver Stage Players' Board of Directors, Mr. Sawyer was born in Orange, California in 1966 and moved to Elko, Nevada in 1979. Frank graduated from Elko High School in 1984 where he was involved in music, theater, creative writing, forensics, and other activities. He was awarded academic, music, and drama scholarships earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater from the University of Nevada, Reno. While in college, Frank continued to earn accolades in music, writing, and theater. He was a member of the national honorary theater fraternity Alpha Psi Omega Upsilon chapter at the University of Nevada, and was a published poet in the University Press' annual literary and arts magazine Brushfire three times. Mr. Sawyer returned to Elko in 1992 and has been involved in music, theater, composition, and community service ever since.

He has been a member and an officer of several service organizations including; the Elko Junior Chamber of Commerce, Toastmasters, the Thomas Scott Foundation, Silver Stage Players, the Elko Community Orchestra, Great Basin College Theater Foundation, among others. As a member, past chapter President, and past State Vice-President of the Jaycees, Frank excelled in community service projects, and the organization's business competitions most notably public speaking and persuasive writing. In 1998, as the Nevada Speaker and Writer of the Year, Frank represented the state at the Jaycee National Convention in Niagara Falls, New York. Competing against the nation's finest, Frank finished number two in the nation in Public Speaking.

A veteran of over 100 productions, Frank has performed, directed, and been a technician with such groups as; the Nevada Repertory Company, Nevada Children’s Theater, Pioneer Laboratory Theater, Dr. Morpheus’ Theater of the Dead, Great Basin College Theater, Area 52 Productions, the Ruby Mountain Symphony, CCE Little Theater, and the Silver Stage Players. Frank's credits include; Ash, The Trial, Antigone, Escape from Tonopah, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, Count Dracula, Talk Radio, The Zoo Story, Damn Yankees, The Music Man, The War of the Worlds, I Do! I Do!, Love Sex and the I.R.S., Much Ado About Nothing, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, Bringing it All Back Home, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Dracula the Musical?, The Reluctant Doctor and Glengarry Glen Ross among others.

A four year past Chairman, Mr. Sawyer has several upcoming projects including his seventeenth directing project with the Players, the 2400 year old Greek comedy, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, staging Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and a retelling of the American dramatic classic The Crucible by Arthur Miller.