The Story

SUPER EXCITED to announce new guest, Wally Calderon, to The Story!

Originally from Green Bay, WI, Wally Calderon earned his BFA in Music Theatre Performance and Direction from Ohio Northern University. For over 15 years, Wally traveled the country as a freelance performer, director, and choreographer. Notable stays include the Miracle Theatre in Pigeon Forge, TN, The Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH, Hershey Park, and the highly credited Stagedoor Manor in upstate New York. Wally moved to Lancaster in 2012 where he spent five amazing years holding multiple positions at Sight & Sound Theatres.

He considers it an honor and a blessing to be in his fifth year as Artistic Director of Servant Stage Company, and to be a part of a community that is so supportive of the arts in Lancaster. “Special thanks to my wonderful wife Andrea and my two sweetest daughters, Joyanna and Juliet. All the glory to God for the amazing gifts and opportunities He has given me!” Psalms 149:3

SUPER EXCITED to announce new guest, Wally Calderon, to The Story!

Originally from Green Bay, WI, Wally Calderon earned his BFA in Music Theatre Performance and Direction from Ohio Northern University. For over 15 years, Wally traveled the country as a freelance performer, director, and choreographer. Notable stays include the Miracle Theatre in Pigeon Forge, TN, The Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH, Hershey Park, and the highly credited Stagedoor Manor in upstate New York. Wally moved to Lancaster in 2012 where he spent five amazing years holding multiple positions at Sight & Sound Theatres.

He considers it an honor and a blessing to be in his fifth year as Artistic Director of Servant Stage Company, and to be a part of a community that is so supportive of the arts in Lancaster. “Special thanks to my wonderful wife Andrea and my two sweetest daughters, Joyanna and Juliet. All the glory to God for the amazing gifts and opportunities He has given me!” Psalms 149:3

SUPER EXCITED to announce a new guest, Leslie Talley to The Story!

Leslie is an actor with over fifteen years of professional theatre and onscreen experience. She starred in Sight and Sound Theatres productions, reprising leading roles for seven years, as well as starring in many local theatres. She works steadily onscreen shooting commercials, feature films, short films, print, and voiceover.

Leslie is a Pennsylvania native who studied music and social work at Millersville University. She also teaches, specializing in onscreen audition prep, commercial/tv, and film acting.

SUPER EXCITED to announce a new guest, Leslie Talley to The Story!

Leslie is an actor with over fifteen years of professional theatre and onscreen experience. She starred in Sight and Sound Theatres productions, reprising leading roles for seven years, as well as starring in many local theatres. She works steadily onscreen shooting commercials, feature films, short films, print, and voiceover.

Leslie is a Pennsylvania native who studied music and social work at Millersville University. She also teaches, specializing in onscreen audition prep, commercial/tv, and film acting.

Super excited to announce new guest, Andrew Russell to The Story!

Andrew got his start with music at an early age. Andrew started making mix tapes by grabbing snips from the radio of the tunes he loved as a child and would then learn to play his first drum kit along with the tracks. As Andrew grew up, he started to learn other instruments and found that he could quickly pick up the basics of most instruments he put his hands on. In his teenage years, Andrew watched as digital technology started to develop in the industry and became hooked on sampling, sequencing, and mixing beats and songs of his own -behind a computer or a mixer felt more at home for him.

Andrew soon found himself mixing FOH for some of the best Cabaret singers on the NYC circuit while still in high school. The road from there took a few twists and turns (literally) but after some time he found himself back behind a mixer doing what he truly loves, bringing quality sound music to the masses. Andrew now works as the lead music engineer at Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse in Lancaster, PA.

Super excited to announce new guest, Andrew Russell to The Story!

Andrew got his start with music at an early age. Andrew started making mix tapes by grabbing snips from the radio of the tunes he loved as a child and would then learn to play his first drum kit along with the tracks. As Andrew grew up, he started to learn other instruments and found that he could quickly pick up the basics of most instruments he put his hands on. In his teenage years, Andrew watched as digital technology started to develop in the industry and became hooked on sampling, sequencing, and mixing beats and songs of his own -behind a computer or a mixer felt more at home for him.

Andrew soon found himself mixing FOH for some of the best Cabaret singers on the NYC circuit while still in high school. The road from there took a few twists and turns (literally) but after some time he found himself back behind a mixer doing what he truly loves, bringing quality sound music to the masses. Andrew now works as the lead music engineer at Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse in Lancaster, PA.

Super stoked to announce a new guest, John Terlazzo, to The Story!

John Terlazzo gave his first public poetry reading at Martin Memorial Library (York, PA) when he was eighteen years old. With virtually no publicity, he read his early poems to an audience numbering eighty-five that night. Out of that reading, and in the two years that followed, Terlazzo co-founded the York Poets Union, a loosely - knit group of some 300 poets & writers who presented public readings and writing workshops. A truly egalitarian group, each member had the right to call himself (or herself) "president" of the York Poets Union if that would in some way serve them.

Since that time, Terlazzo has given hundreds of poetry readings and concerts of his original songs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and other areas of the U.S. as well as in Mexico, Canada & Europe. He has facilitated countless writing workshops for children and adults, served as poet-in -residence in the York (PA) city schools, has publicly read from, and discussed banned books for the American Library Association, has organized and hosted public readings for other poets and writers, has led poetry camping retreats, has brought his workshops to high schools, to former and present mental patients (In Vancouver, British Columbia & elsewhere), to psychologists, psychotherapists, and other helping professionals and to the general public as well. He taught his workshop, The Secret Tells Itself: Writing as a Contemplative Act at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center every Monday night for five years, and as part of the Crispus Attucks YouthBuild Program twice a week for three years. His popular weekend Retreat, The Flame in Every Hand: Writing as a Contemplative Act happens several times a year in various parts of the country.

John has performed with various musical groups including The Widowed Horse Folk Revue, A Band of Beggars, and The New Transcendentalists, and for over 25 years now has been leader and songwriter for the ensemble Voices In The Hall. "Voices" offers up a rich array of strong vocal harmonies combined with old world instrumentation - acoustic guitars, accordion, flute, cello, mandolin, recorders & tin whistles, upright & fretless bass, percussion, piano & Hammond B3 organ. The result is a kind of Modern Surrealist Gypsy Music ( a phrase coined by an audience member after seeing the band perform in Lenox, MA) - a music that is both timeless & centering. John Terlazzo's songs and poems take us through a surreal other-worldly village terrain peopled by strange and glorious creatures - luminous antelopes, an angel with a broken trumpet, a dancing man balancing his dagger on the bridge of his nose, a blindfolded heroine on horseback whose burning hand illuminates the night, the veiled face of the Eternal. These are both love songs & mystical teaching tales, at once - and all too human, "like Marc Chagall gone aural."

Terlazzo's first album, Honor Among Thieves (1983) has recently become a kind of international curiosity when a writer in Sweden reviewed the album in a book about "folk & psychedelic music from 1965 through 1985". As a result, the album - as well as Terlazzo's more recent works - have been selling throughout Europe, Canada and Asia (& even some in the U.S.!). Honor Among Thieves has recently been re-released for the first time on CD (& streaming) along with an additional 30 minutes of (previously unreleased) songs recorded Live in Concert in the 1970s, under the title Honor Among Thieves: A Retrospective.

John Terlazzo speaks and howls, dances, whispers and raves when he reads poetry, sings or teaches in a classroom or retreat center. He laughs, invites us into our Wonder and our Grief, discusses ideas with his audience then and there, "sermonizes" and apologizes, and then takes it back and laughs some more, and he invites us into thirty-some odd years of his poetry and the great works of his teachers - Yeats and Whitman, Pablo Neruda and William Blake, Rimbaud and Baudelaire, Emerson and Thoreau, Machado and Vallejo, The Beat Poets, Robert Bly and Gary Snyder, The Persian Poets - Kabir, Mirabai, Rumi, Hafez and on and on. He tells endless folk tales from the Sufis and Buddhists, the Gnostics and Hindus and Gypsies and more - and has sometimes performed those tales in surreal ritual theatre style with his Eternal Yes Theatre. He states clearly that the ability to make Art is a human birthright and that it involves primarily - "opening a place in the chest - allowing the River to flow forth."

Super excited to announce our next guest, Britt Jarkowsky, to The Story!

Britt Jarkowsky is a local singer, actress, voice teacher, and music director from Lancaster, PA, who has a love for every aspect of theatre. Britt earned her BFA in Musical Theatre with a focus on voice from Lancaster Bible College in 2021.

She began her own ever-growing private vocal studio in 2019, and found a love for teaching. She has been blessed to work with companies such as Servant Stage as a music director and camp staff (Bye Bye Birdie, Seussical Jr., Once Upon A Mattress, Moana Jr., Highschool Musical 2) and on stage (Old-TIme Gospel Radio Hour 2016, 2017, 2021; Titanic, Prodigal); Red Accordion Studios (Three Little Pigs), Lancaster Academy, Piercing Word, Creative Pursuits Studio, Revival Productions (Spongebob The Musical), Lancaster Bible College; and Ephrata Performing Arts Center (Les Miserables, Rudolph Jr.) as ASM-vocal coach and orchestra conductor.

She is currently playing U/S Sandy Cheeks and Ensemble with Revival Productions in Spongebob The Musical! She is excited to be on The Story to talk all things theatre, education, and the arts!

Super excited to announce our next guest, Britt Jarkowsky, to The Story!

Britt Jarkowsky is a local singer, actress, voice teacher, and music director from Lancaster, PA, who has a love for every aspect of theatre. Britt earned her BFA in Musical Theatre with a focus on voice from Lancaster Bible College in 2021.

She began her own ever-growing private vocal studio in 2019, and found a love for teaching. She has been blessed to work with companies such as Servant Stage as a music director and camp staff (Bye Bye Birdie, Seussical Jr., Once Upon A Mattress, Moana Jr., Highschool Musical 2) and on stage (Old-TIme Gospel Radio Hour 2016, 2017, 2021; Titanic, Prodigal); Red Accordion Studios (Three Little Pigs), Lancaster Academy, Piercing Word, Creative Pursuits Studio, Revival Productions (Spongebob The Musical), Lancaster Bible College; and Ephrata Performing Arts Center (Les Miserables, Rudolph Jr.) as ASM-vocal coach and orchestra conductor.

She is currently playing U/S Sandy Cheeks and Ensemble with Revival Productions in Spongebob The Musical! She is excited to be on The Story to talk all things theatre, education, and the arts!

Super excited to announce new guest, Chad Hogg, to The Story!

Chad Hogg is a Lancaster County native who has also lived in Bethlehem and Williamsport before returning home four years ago. He played woodwinds and handbells as a child but was mostly uninterested in popular music until he was introduced to the third wave of ska in 1997, and dove from it into an appreciation for punk rock and heavy metal. He first picked up a bass guitar in 2001 while a student at Ursinus College majoring in computer science and minoring in music and mathematics. After completing a doctoral degree in computer science he has taught at Mansfield University, Ursinus College, King's College, and now Millersville University. He has performed in school and college ensembles, various church-related teams, and several short-lived bands over the years.

In 2019 he was delighted to find three like-minded strangers in the Lancaster area to form Ford The River, a local "dad-punk" band, and to be able to do music as a serious hobby while maintaining a career in another field. Ford The RIver released its debut album, Adult Thoughts, in early 2021, and has been releasing a single each month of 2022. They have upcoming shows at Pilgur Ruh Brewing in Pottsville on May 21, Tellus 360 in Lancaster on May 25, Shovel Head Tavern in Altoon on June 18, the Skid Row Garage Benefit Show at Central Market in York on July 23, Stage On Herr in Harrisburg on August 11, and the Carnival of Chaos 2 at The Church in Lebanon on August 13.