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About Us
Wild Horse Productions, a non-profit organization, was formed to enhance and enrich our community through performing arts classes, high quality live theater, Outreach programs in the community, and other educational programs in the theatrical arts.
We believe that theater arts, fun, and education must work hand-in-hand to cultivate young minds.
See you on stage!
Mailing Address:
3955 Golden Eagle Lane
Carson City, NV 89701
(775) 887-0438 or (775) 882-3497
Performance Address:
Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
813 N. Carson Street, Carson City
Carol Scott, Executive Director:
Carol has founded and been Artistic Director of three successful children’s theater companies both in the United States and Canada. Carol founded BAC Stage Kids in Carson City in 1991 and worked with the Brewery Arts Center as Program Director and Artistic Director until her move to Canada in 2001. While living in Canada, she founded Little Tomato Children’s Theater, the first children’s theater company in Southern Ontario. Her return to Carson City brought with it another opportunity to expand the arts in this area, and Wild Horse Productions became an reality.
Beyond acting in, directing, producing, and managing theatrical productions, Carol has been involved in many other aspects of the entertainment industry for the past 25 years. Carol holds a BA degree in Arts Management and has been Program Director for WCSH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine. She produced many documentary programs including two programs on AIDS and worked with Christopher Reeves, John Bon Jovi, and Jud Nelson. Carol was also owner of C.S. Casting Agency, casting talent for television programs, commercials, and feature films, working with Mel Gibson, Macaulay Culkin, and Elijah Wood.
Carol also has one other credential that enables her to work closely and empathetically with parents of children in “the business”. For twenty years she has been “stage mother” to a successful, working musical theater actress…who started her career at age 5. Carol knows the ups and downs and ins and outs of the business both professionally and personally!
Pat Josten, Executive Producer:
Pat first began working in the theatre world in earnest in 1979. Her husband was a speech/theatre major and very involved in all aspects of performing arts. She began working backstage at his college productions, community productions in Sioux Falls, SD and Tea, SD, and even consented to being on stage once. Upon moving to Carson City, Pat began working with Proscenium Players, Inc doing technical & producing aspects of many productions. She also began volunteering with the Carson High School Performing Arts department assisting in doing press releases, coordinating volunteers for shows and fundraisers, managing the financial end of the CPA budget, and carrying-out producer responsibilities for up to 5 high school productions per year.
In 1997, Pat became involved with BAC Stage Kids. She was “Drama Mama Supreme” and assistant to the Artistic Director, Carol Scott. From 2001-2006, Pat held the position of volunteer Program Director for the BAC Stage Kids coordinating all aspects of the BAC Stage Kids program including producing the shows and coordinating workshops and community outreach programs. Pat is excited to reunite with her good friend, Carol Scott, in Wild Horse Children's Theater and also assist in productions for Wild Horse Theater.
Pat has received numerous awards, including the National Jefferson Award, from local and national sources for her continued efforts to bring the joy and magic of performing arts to the community.
Jeffrey Scott, Director:
Bio coming soon.
Tara Burke, Marketing Director/ Photographer/Workshop Instructor:
Tara has a BA in Advertising with a specialty in Photography from the University of Nevada, Reno and has worked behind the scenes in community theater for over 15 years. Tara has recently relocated back to the area after spending 8 years living on the east coast and working as Marketing Coordinator and Graphic Designer for Anheuser-Busch and FOX 51. Tara has also been a professional photographer for 13 years specializing in portrait photography. Tara is the owner and graphic designer for Computer Artistry Graphic Design in Carson City.
Tara and her husband, Don, have two boys, Hunter age 6 and Phoenix age 3. After Hunter was born in 2003 Tara became a certified Baby Signs instructor. She teaches parents and caregivers how to use American Sign Language to bridge the communication gap during a baby's first years. Visit www.babysignsnv.com!
Robin Erika Kato, Choreographer:
Robin is a trained dancer, singer, and actress. Starting at a very young age, Robin took to the stage mainly performing in musical theatre productions but also in modeling and print ads. Robin Kato started dancing at the age of 7 in Southern California. There she performed for Starlight Bowl, Moonlight Amphitheater, and Sesame Street. She moved to Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 1989 where she continued performing and dancing. Her favorite roles include: Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, Bonnie Jean in Brigadoon, Louis in Carousel, and Anita in West Side Story. Robin has been a dance instructor and choreographer in Carson City for 7 years teaching ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acrobat, and musical theatre at danceSpirit. She also adjudicates for Broadway Magic and Miss Carson City.
Aside from performing, Robin has a B.S. from UNR and a masters from Grand Canyon University and is a teacher for the Carson City School District.
Contact Us:
(775) 887-0438 or (775) 882-3497
Mailing Address:
3955 Golden Eagle Lane
Carson City, NV 89701
Performance Address:
Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
813 N. Carson Street, Carson City
Alisha Giurlani, Instructor:
Alisha received her degree in Musical Theater from a private liberal arts college in Missouri. She has received extensive training in vocal technique and musicianship from years of private voice lessons and performances in choir and musical theater productions. Alisha is mostly versed in musical theater style, but can also teach classical and folk as well.
Diane Handzel, Instructor:
Diane has been an actress, teacher, director, choreographer, in the performing arts for over 30 years. Her training includes a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College in Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Michigan. She has trained with distinguished Chicago professionals in: Alexander Technique - movement for actors; Stanislavski's acting technique; Spolin's improvisation; and Lessac vocal training. Diane has taught at all levels of education from colleges, community and youth theaters, K-12, public and private schools. She has directed and produced 45 theatrical productions from Shakespeare to Musical Theater.
Alan Catron, Musical Director:
Alan grew up in Reno and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Nevada-Reno. After graduation, Alan moved to Idaho where he spent the next 18 years. During that time he completed Graduate work at the University of Idaho before making his way to Bonners Ferry, ID where he spent 12 years teaching instrumental music in the Boundary County School District and participating in community theater and music groups. While there, Alan received the NISTAR award two different years, Boundary County Teacher of the Year and Who’s Who Among American Teachers. Alan and his family moved back to Northern Nevada in 2003, settling in the Carson City area where he now teaches elementary music in the Carson City School District. In his spare time Alan can be found participating with local community theater groups such as Proscenium Players and Western Nevada Musical Theater Company. Alan has sung with the Carson Chamber Singers and is an active member of the Carson City Symphony and the Capitol City Community Band, playing trumpet in both groups. For relaxation you may find him volunteering with the Boy Scouts or the Tahoe Rim Trail, or trying something new like Telemark Skiing.
Jonathon Josten is from Carson City, Nevada and has been working in theatre in Nevada and South Dakota. Last summer he traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the Summer Literary Seminar completing workshops with Peter Cole and Mac Wellman. He is completing a double major in English and Theatre at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He has co-managed Augustana’s improvisation house troupe, Brand Name Improv, for the past three years. He has also performed at Lake Tahoe with the Tahoe Improv Players at the Valhalla Boathouse. While at Augustana College he started a two person improv group called The Fuzzy Mulligan and a sketch comedy group called Oliver’s Army. His interests include improv, writing, directing, script development, and sketch comedy. He has completed a chapbook for a collection of poetry entitled Bipolar Musings of a Failed College Dropout. He also has completed two full-length screenplays and several short stage plays. He will attend Academy of Art University in San Francisco as part of the MFA in Screenwriting. He looks forward to returning to Nevada and working with Wild Horse Children’s Theatre again. He directed All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and The Emperor’s New Clothes in the Summer of 2008.
