B.A., Art, Douglass College, Rutgers University. Matina has taught at the Bancroft School. She has 30 years of clay experience and has exhibited at Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood May Fair and Head House Square in Philadelphia.

Holly graduated from the University of Delaware with a BFA. Her concentration was in metals while she minored in printmaking. Holly trained with experienced jewelers to learn repair work and has been making jewelry for the past thirteen years. She works with everything from beads to precious metals and stones. Holly also uses a wide variety of techniques including enameling and precious metal clay. She likes to experiment with many other materials and techniques depending on the project and what she’s trying to achieve. Holly recently opened a studio in Smyrna and also works out of her shop at home.

Jim McGuigan was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He and his family moved to Smyrna when he was a young boy. Jim has been performing from the moment he first learned to speak, and he has had a love for the theatre ever since he saw his first Broadway show at the age of 13. He has performed in many productions over the years, both professionally and in community work. He got his first chance at directing in 1987 with the play Crimes of the Heart and his passion for theatre took a new path. Since then he has directed 12 different plays and musicals including Carnival, Anything Goes, Oliver, and A Christmas Carol right here at the Opera House. Jim also serves as the director of the Children’s Summer Theatre Camp. Jim has a 12-year old son named Matthew, and has been a fifth grade teacher at John Bassett Moore Intermediate School in Smyrna for the last 9 years.

Vera began her career teaching middle school music in New Haven, Connecticut, after receiving her BA from Smith College and MAT from Yale University. Currently she is organist and choir director at the First Presbyterian Church of Smyrna, and director of the Modern Maturity Center Glee Club in Dover, a volunteer group which performs for nursing homes in the area. She also teaches piano to seniors at MMC, as well as to juniors privately. In addition to playing the piano for various functions, she sings with the Delaware Choral Society and continues a passion that began in the 1980s with the New York Oratorio Society. Most recently Vera served as a judge for “Smyrna’s Got Voice – Round 1.”