Artistic Team

Meet the Artistic Team

Laura Little-Barnes (Producer) recently produced All Is Calm off-Broadway and is co-producing the
Tony Award winning Come From Away on Broadway, Toronto, London, Dublin, and on national tour.
Her other Broadway credits include: co-producer of the five time Tony award winning, Peter and the Starcatcher and First Date starring Zachary Levi. This is her ninth year producing Traditions of Christmas in Coeur d'Alene. Laura’s other local productions include the reading of The Giver featuring Patty Duke, and concerts featuring Doug Webster, pianist/vocalist Kevin Cole, and singer Cami Bradley. Laura is the past Executive Director of Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre and Executive/Artistic Director of CYT Spokane and founder of LLL Talent Agency (now MAM). She is the past president for Coeur d'Alene Sunrise Rotary and is currently a proud member of the Coeur d'Alene Noon Rotary. She was honored to be a Soroptomist Woman of Distinction recipient in 2015 and the Hayden Awards for the arts this year. Laura has served on many theatre boards as well as the Kroc Center’s Advisory Board.
She is also currently an executive board member of Friends of Idaho Public Television. Laura is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute Producers Program, and a graduate of Coeur d’Alene
and Post Falls leadership programs. She is married to Jim Barnes, has three grown children, and two beautiful grandsons.

To meet the Artistic Team, click on their photograph below!

Marie Hunt (Director) loves all things theater. She has been acting, writing, directing, and producing for theater for the past twenty years, and is the president of the Northwest Theater Arts and Education Foundation. Her greatest joy is in her family: her husband and best friend, Daniel, and children Juliet, Scarlet, Titus, and Estelle. She is delighted by Traditions of Christmas and is honored to be co-producing and directing this year's performances.

Deborah Rambo Sinn (Music Director) is equally at home on the concert stage and working in musical theater. In addition to having played in over 600 professional musicals, she has also performed all five Beethoven concertos. She has written a book, has taught music at a number of universities, and is currently sorting out what she wants to be when she grows up. www.DeborahRamboSinn.com

Brianna White (Choreographer) has trained, danced, and taught at Expressions School of Performing Arts for a total of sixteen years. She is currently a physics and chemistry teacher at Coeur d’Alene High School. After taking some time off to start her school career, Brianna rediscovered her passion for performing through her involvement with Traditions of Christmas as a kickline dancer. Now that she has performed with the kickline for three consecutive years, she is honored and excited to work with the creative team as the Kickline Choreographer!

Annie Stillar (Christmas Couples Choreographer) has been a dance teacher and choreographer for fifteen years, serving on artistic teams for CYT Spokane/North Idaho, Northwest Christian Schools, Spokane Children's Theater, Lake City Playhouse, and more. She's helmed a number of musical theater summer camps and speciality dance workshops, and has been on the faculty for Artistry in Motion since 2016. She's excited to return to the production circuit again for her second year on the Traditions of Christmas team!

Mary Basta (Lead Costumer) This is Mary's second year on the Traditions of Christmas artistic team! Mary has enjoyed working in theater for many years. Since her children were always involved in dramas, she saw an area in which she could use her seamstress and costuming skills to get a quality end product. She has been a costumer for three years, working with the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, Stage Left, Lake City Playhouse, and Out of the Shadows Theater groups. Some of her favorite shows to costume have been Beauty and the Beast and Mary Poppins, as well as many others. In her spare time she enjoys reading, working puzzles and spending time with her family.