Marilyn Perry
| Marilyn Perry | |
|---|---|
| Theatre producer · Arts educator | |
| Personal information | |
| Birth name | Marilyn Irene Perry |
| Based in | Boca Raton, Florida |
| Career | |
| Occupation | Executive director and producer |
| Years active | c. 2006–2020 |
| Known for | Founding and running Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |
| Performance | |
| Productions | Heathers (2019, producer) Rent (2019) Children's Broadway seasons (2007–2020) |
| Companies | Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |
| Recognition & links | |
| Awards | Kids Crown Award (South Florida Parenting), 2015, 2016 (for Showtime) |
Marilyn Irene Perry is an American theatre producer and arts educator. She founded Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida, and was its executive director and producer for its whole history, from the mid-2000s until it closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2]
Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
Perry ran Showtime, first called SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre, from a studio and theatre complex at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton. The school taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music from age three to adult, and the theatre staged a season of children's musicals every year as well as teen and adult productions.[3] According to the theatre's staff page, Perry "with her talented staff, has created a successful school and theatre for all ages". Its teachers offered training in the "true Triple Threat – Singing, Acting and Dancing", and it was "her pleasure to produce and bring award winning Children's Theatre to South Florida".[1]
Under her leadership, Showtime received the South Florida Parenting Kids Crown Award (2015 and 2016) and "Best of Boca" readers' choice awards from the Sun-Sentinel.[1][4]
In 2019 Showtime presented Rent and Heathers with teen and adult casts. Perry produced Heathers, which a local reviewer called "Off-Broadway at its very best in downtown Boca". Writing about the cast chemistry in Rent, the same reviewer said "it seems to happen a lot at the downtown off-broadway theatre Showtime run by Marilyn Perry".[5][6] The theatre's 2020 productions of 13 and The Sound of Music were postponed because of the pandemic, and Showtime did not reopen.[7]
Students
Perry's students and performers included Luanda de Hilster, who played Heather McNamara in Showtime's Heathers. Her biography names Perry among her early mentors, and Perry came to see her play Sebastian in her middle school's The Little Mermaid (2019).[2][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Staff". Showtime Performing Arts Theatre.Archived2017-02-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bio". luanda.dehilster.com.Retrieved 2026-11-07.
- ↑ "About Us". Showtime Performing Arts Theatre.Archived2014-03-21.
- ↑ "Awards & Articles". Showtime Performing Arts Theatre.Archived2017-02-03.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 David de Hilster.""Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca". luanda.dehilster.com(2019-12-24).
- ↑ David de Hilster."Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast". luanda.dehilster.com(2018-10-22).
- ↑ "Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page)".Archived2023-05-29.
External links
- Showtime staff page (archived, 2017)