Ben Rowley is a composer, actor, and singer-songwriter from Glens Falls, NY. As a composer, Ben’s work has been heard on stages across the Northeast, at venues including Boston Symphony Hall, the Provincetown Playhouse, the Green Room 42, and locally at the Strand Theatre and St. Mary’s Church in Glens Falls— where he has been the music director for three years. A graduate of NYU’s Steinhardt School in Music, Ben was selected by Alan Menken as a recipient of the Menken Scholarship in Composition in 2017. A staged reading of Ben’s debut musical Solstice premiered at the Wood Theater in Glens Falls in 2023. As an actor, Ben has been seen in over 30 community productions locally, and most recently in Million Dollar Quartet (Jerry Lee Lewis) in Glens Falls. As a songwriter, Ben’s debut release “Rain” premiered with over two million streams worldwide after its release in 2018. As a music director, recent shows include Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Rent, Descendants, and American Idiot. Ben is a founding member of the Arts Academy at St. Mary’s - a new Arts Academy for students of all ages that emphasizes cross-discipline education and engagement in music, theatre, and dance.
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SHE/HER | Courtnie is thrilled to be part of this show with this cast and crew! Courtnie is a Washington County native and proud graduate of Greenwich High School. She trained at The Institute for American Musical Theater in NYC, where she also designed hair for Hudson Classical Theater’s Pride and Prejudice (Lydia Bennet) and Sense and Sensibility (Charlotte Palmer). Recent performance credits include Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch, Hubbard Hall), Songs for a New World (Woman 2, SLOC), Bright Star (Alice Murphy), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince), and The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet Van De Graff), all at Fort Salem Theater. Courtnie also originated the role of Kayla Charter in Solstice: A New Musical with Company of Curiosities.
Behind the scenes, Courtnie has worn many hats—Stage Manager (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, iTheatre Saratoga), Director (Footloose, Godspell), Lighting Designer (Corn!, Pirates of Penzance), and Producer/Tech Director (Macbethany), Producer/Wig Designer (Kinky Boots) among others at Fort Salem Theater.
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HE/HIM | Ryan is thrilled to making his debut with Fort Salem Theater with Tick Tick Boom. He was most recently seen as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Schenectady Light Opera Company, and as Matt in Xanadu with Spa City Theatre. Ryan has also spent much of his time directing youth productions with Saratoga Children's Theatre -- mostly recently Six: Teen Edition. Ryan is a career counselor by day and a musical theatre nerd by night -- he prefers his (newly) 30's sung, not stressed.

SHE/HER | Brittany Martel is an NYC based director, actor and intimacy director. Originally from the Capital Region, Brittany is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz and alumna of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2016 Apprentice Program. Director Credits: ICU: A Play That Is Also A Musical (Fort Salem), The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams (The Tank), Into the Woods (River Valley Waldorf Theater), Associate Director Credits: Noises Off (Cape Playhouse), An American in Paris (MTWichita), and Resilience: The Donner Party (710 Main) all under Jeffry Denman. Intimacy Director Credits: Dream Play, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Penelopiad  (SISTC), Resilience: The Donner Party (DTDC). Brittany is a co-founder of Shakespeareholics Anonymous. 

SHE/THEY | Mel is a playwright, songwriter, and published poet who recently worked on Fort Salem Theater productions of “Into the Woods” (Assistant Stage Manager), “ICU” (Stage Manager),  “Macbethany” (Stage Manager), “Sweeney Todd” (Stage Manager), and “Kiinky Boots” (Stage Manager). She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Music Business from Five Towns College where she graduated valedictorian of her class, and has worked in many facets of the arts both on and off stage.

Jared has been both onstage as a performer and behind the scenes as a music director or pianist. Onstage, he was most recently seen in Footloose (Rev. Shaw Moore), Bright Star (Daddy Murphy), Pride and Prejudice (Wickham/Collins), and The Diary of Anne Frank (Otto Frank) here at Fort Salem, A New Brain (Roger) at OhLook Theatre and A Man of No Importance (Sully O’Hara) at Brick Road Theatre. Other favorite roles are Ragtime (Younger Brother), Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson) and Cabaret (Cliff). Jared has recently appeared behind the keys for Drowsy Chaperone, Rocky Horror, Grease, and Little Shop of Horrors at Fort Salem, Ebenezer Scrooge at Pocket Sandwich Theatre and White Christmas, AIDA and Gypsy at Firehouse Theatre. Love to Kyle.