Shooting Star Productions
Shooting Star Productions, founded in 2003 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a non-profit theater company performing theatrical productions featuring youth ages five to nineteen.

• Provide a positive theatrical experience for young performers.
• Provide quality entertainment for the community.
• Balance the recognition of talent with the opportunity to participate in a theatrical experience when casting young performers.
• Provide an environment where families can work together.

Shooting Star Productions is proud to be celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. In June, 2003, Shooting Star Productions produced the musical Annie with a cast of 55 youth from the St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri area. In June of 2004, a cast of 61 youth performed the Missouri premiere of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – The Broadway Musical.

In June 2005, Shooting Star staged a huge production of The Wizard of Oz. This extravaganza featured 80 performers, a 9-foot talking Oz head with light-up eyes, pyrotechnic effects, and a lighted rainbow that spanned the proscenium of the stage.  Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden was performed against an African background in June 2006.  This show featured 57 youth, often singing five-part harmony.  African masks, a five-tiered set, and some of the best teenage voices in St. Louis made Children of Eden a powerful and moving rendition of the story of Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark.  In June 2007, Shooting Star transported the audience to turn-of-the-century Russia when they produced the traditional favorite Fiddler on the Roof.  The town of Anatevka came to life with the voices and dancing of 61 youth from the St. Louis area. The show opened with a talented young fiddler playing live, and the wedding scene featured four teenage male dancers balancing glass bottles on their heads while performing the traditional Fiddler on the Roof bottle dance. The maturity of the teenage performers created believable on-stage relationships which added to the emotional intensity of the show.

In December 2005, Shooting Star Productions added a second show to their theatrical season. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever featured youth in first through eighth grade. The 2006 winter show, The Hobbit, brought a fantasy forest featuring Bilbo, Gandoph, Gollum and other familiar J.R.R. Tolkein characters to the stage. The 2007 winter show was a traditional holiday favorite A Christmas Carol. The non-musical format of the winter show provides those elementary and middle school age actors who may not feel comfortable singing and dancing the opportunity to experience the magic of participating in live theater.

Board Members

• Michele Stokes – President
• Debbie Enright – Vice President
• Anne Blind – Secretary
• Beth Lenke – Treasurer
• Marty Strohmeyer – Artistic Director
• Tim Prosser – Compliance Officer
• Katie Postal – Public Relations Committee Chair
• Marilyn Freundlich - Special Events Committee Chair
• Mary Sawyer – Sponsorship Committee Chair