The artists behind The Porch on Windy Hill bring together storytelling, music, and performance to create a powerful theatrical experience. Meet the performers and creators who bring the production to life.
The artists behind The Porch on Windy Hill bring together storytelling, music, and performance to create a powerful theatrical experience. Meet the performers and creators who bring the production to life.
Sherry Stregack Lutken (Co-Writer/Director) directed the premiere of The Porch onWindy Hill at The Ivoryton Playhouse. Off-Broadway and Regional directing and choreography credits include:The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Million Dollar Quartet, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Stand By Your Man, Stars in Your Eyes, Almost Heaven, Hopscotch and
Anything Goes. In 2009 she directed the first Regional production of Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash at North Carolina’s Flat Rock Playhouse.
She has directed many subsequent productions around the US, as well as internationally — at Vienna’s English Theatre and The Deutsches Theater in Munich. As Associate Director of the critically acclaimed Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, Sherry has set productions of the musical in Chicago (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination: Best Musical Revue), Washington D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nomination: Best Musical), Florida,Pennsylvania, and its first National UK Tour.
Lisa Helmi Johanson she/her (Co-Writer, Actor) is a multi-hyphenate who has a passion for developing new works, authentic storytelling, and intentionality in representation as a means to further the work of racial justice and social equity. Broadway: Potus, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive; Tours: Into the Woods, Avenue Q; Off Broadway: Avenue Q, Einstein’s Dreams (OG), Rescue Rue (OG), Three Sisters, Women Beware Women, Soft Butter (Ars Nova AntFest). Select Regional: The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Rep; Best Actress in a Play, Broadwayworld), Anything Goes (Arena Stage), Vietgone (Denver Center), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage), The Drowning Girls (Drama League, NYC). TV/Film: Law and Order: SVU, A Holiday Spectacular (Hallmark); Her first co-written piece, Kim Loo Gets a Redo, was selected for the 2021 Ice Factory Festival at the New Ohio Theater who subsequently produced The Porch on Windy Hill as part of their Now In Process series. Lisa and her husband are close to launching a sitcom podcast called Preschool in which she co-directs, acts, and sound designs. Her greatest joy is her Junho and Jake. May I tirelessly strive to better the world, that it may be worthy of your light.
For the lives lost in Atlanta and the ones that continue with more fear than before.
Lisa is repped by The Katz Company and HCKR. More at www.lisahelmijohanson.com and on IG: @hurricanehelmi
Morgan Morse (Co-writer/Performer) is an actor, musician, and writer originally from Ansonia, Connecticut. Selected credits include: Southern Comfort at the Public Theater in NYC, The Porch on Windy Hill, Once, Godspell, South Pacific and Stand By Your Man at the Ivoryton Playhouse, Once at the Cape Playhouse, Hootenanny the Musicale at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Ring of Fire everywhere from Houston, TX to Vienna, Austria. During the eventful year that was 2020, he started making comedy and music videos online, and developed a following on TikTok and Instagram. He also writes and performs original music, and you can find links to his various endeavors here: linktr.ee/themorsecoda
David M. Lutken (Co-writer/Performer/Music Director) is an award-winning actor. Credits include — Broadway: Inherit the Wind; Ring of Fire; The Civil War, and The WillRogers Follies. He sang the role of The Balladeer in Benjamin Britten’s opera Paul Bunyan at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway: Woody Sez; Southern Comfort; Stars in Your Eyes; Winter Man; The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Cooper Union, The 92nd St. Y, and The Ryman Auditorium, on NPR, VOA, the BBC, ORF (Austria), Polskie Radio Troika (Warsaw), and The Louisiana Hayride.
David is the creator of the critically acclaimed Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie, (Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Pick, Brighton Festival Argus Angel Award, London Evening Standard Best Musical nominee, Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes, NY Outer Critics’ Circle, Off-Broadway Alliance, and NY Drama League Best Musical nominations) He and his company have toured Great Britain, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and across the US.
Lisa Dozier Shacket (Executive Producer) founded the theatrical general management firm LDK Productions in 2007. Select current/recent projects include Pen Pals, Mama I’m A Big Girl Now! (Drama Desk Nom), The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Anthony Rapp’s Without You (Outer Critics Circle Nom; Off Broadway, US Tour, Japan Tour), Be More Chill (Broadway, Off Broadway, West End, Japan), Not Ready for Prime Time, A Guide for the Homesick, Cellino v. Barnes, The Night of the Iguana (2023 revival), Eisenhower, Little Girl Blue, Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo. Lisa served as the general manager of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals for 11 years and was the founding producing director of the regional theatre, Miami New Drama. She is currently a professor of theatre management at the University of Florida. www.LDKProductions.com
Joe Trentacosta (Producer) is a New York–based producer and public relations executive with more than 25 years in the theatre industry. He is the founder of JT Public Relations and has produced and co-produced numerous Off-Broadway productions, including Pen Pals, Mama, I’m A Big Girl Now (Drama Desk Award nominee), and the upcoming musical Six Triple Eight. He serves as Executive Producer of Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo, which has played New York and London. His projects have included The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers and Anthony Rapp’s Without You. Recent Projects include: The Gazillion Bubble Show, The House of McQueen. Theatre Companies include LaFemme Theatre Productions, Houses on the Moon, Urban Stages, NJ Rep. Argyle Theatre and Royal Family Theatre.