2024-2025
Executive Board
President
Lucy Colwell ‘27
Lucy Colwell is a prospective English major with potential minors in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre. Hailing from Los Angeles, Lucy has been performing her whole life, acting in Shakespeare plays since she was 6 years old. After seeing the seductive dancing eggs in Something Rotten, Lucy just had to play a bigger role in PUP. She’s loved the welcoming community and cannot wait to help contribute!
Vice President
Jared Smith ’28
Jared Smith is a prospective Molecular Biology major with a potential minor in Musical Theatre. In addition to theatre at PUP, he performs with the Footnotes and plays soccer on campus. He loves to ski, and he is always down for a game of Spikeball on Poe Field.
Production Manager
John Heitz ’28
John Heitz is a prospective Psych major (planning on getting a minor in Theatre). He lives, breathes, and sleeps musical theater. He has been excited getting involved in PUP, and is hyped to help it develop. He is also the Props Manager for Theatre Intime, a member of NCW College Council, and is currently writing an original musical.
Business Manager
Mindy Sim ’27
Mindy Sim is a Molecular Biology major and pursuing a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is from Carmel, Indiana, which is the roundabout capital of the US—she cannot tolerate waiting at stoplights anymore! Outside of PUP, Mindy can be found working with fruit flies in lab, conferencing with students at the Writing Center, and looking for the best matcha in Princeton. After stage managing two PUP shows and sending out countless whenisgoods, Mindy was sold when Lauren (the outgoing BM) said that this position does not require sending “bumping this whenisgood!” emails. She’s excited to be a part of PUP and to work on many more shows!
Publicity Chair / Social Media Chair
David Getz ’28
David Getz is currently unsure of his major, so if you figure it out before him, please let him know! On campus, you can essentially always find David singing, whether it be in a PUP Production, with the Princeton Nassoons, or with the Princeton Glee Club. If you see him in the wild, he is bound to have headphones in, rushing from one activity to another. Ask him about his Magic Foot and capacity to Do Favors when asked.
Technical Director
Rowan Johnson ’27
Rowan Johnson is a philosophy major from the central (yes, central) NJ coast who loves parentheses. In their “free time,” one might find them playing in the theatre (shocker), playing on the cello (goodnight), or playing sad music and weeping over the Revolution that Never Was (✊😔) but trying to do something anyway. Rowan’s new favorite word is “poochon” (sorry, schnoodle) and his favorite color is still mallard’s head green (he swears it’s not the same as emerald). Please forgive him for plagiarizing his Intime bio without professorial consent.
Special Projects Coordinator
Adam Bathurst ’27
Adam is a sophomore student majoring in Civil Engineering and pursue a minor in Vocal Performance. He once accidentally turned on Elvis radio instead of the Broadway channel and didn’t listen to anything else for the entire year.
EDI Board Chair
Tal Naider ’28
Tal Naider is a prospective music major and computer science minor who loves being in musicals almost as much as writing them. You can most likely find her at the piano in Effron or studying with friends in the Yeh common room. She is incredibly excited to work with such a talented and diverse group of artists as part of the PUP Board.
Managing Board
Music Manager
Morgan Taylor ’27
Morgan is a prospective Music major from Scottsdale, Arizona. When he is not serving as PUP’s Music Manager, you can find Morgan music directing the Princeton Footnotes and singing with the Glee Club. He can also be found trying and failing to avoid low hanging trees.
Assistant Technical Director / Costumes & Props Manager
Annalise Schuck ’26
Annalise Schuck is disappointed by the lack of puppies at PUP, and she firmly believes that this name is false advertising. She likes assisting, tech, and directing, so this role is really a dream come true. Outside of PUP, you can find Annalise fulfilling this exact same role at Theatre Intime or tap dancing with the Princeton TapCats. She’s so excited to Play with the Princeton University Players!
Box Office Manager
Elena Milliken ’26
Elena Milliken is a Philly native studying Anthropology with minors in Theater and Spanish. She is also an RCA for New College West and a coach with Trenton Youth Theater. On campus, she is mostly a lighting designer and producer, although she dabbles in set occasionally. You will find her wishing she was at the ceramics studio but still never actually going.
Historian
Drew Comstock ’26
Drew is from Aberdeen, South Dakota, and is pursuing a degree in Math with minors in Classics and Linguistics. Away from class or the stage, Drew is involved with Princeton Christian Fellowship, and is currently serving as President of Playhouse Choir and Business Manager for Kindred Spirit Acapella.
Webmaster / Graphics Designer
Emily Yang ’26
Emily Yang is an Electrical & Computer Engineering major with a minor in Theater from the mountains of western North Carolina. In student theater, she is mostly a stage manager, sometimes dabbling in lighting design and production management. Other hobbies include designing pins for TigerTale, coordinating outreach with the Princeton University Robotics Club, writing poetry in Songline Slam, and organizing events on Theatre Intime board. Emily enjoys em dashes, wearing bucket hats, and the color blue.
Co-Social Chair
Layla Williams ’25
Layla Williams is a African American Studies major with a minor in Theater and Music Theater. In theater productions on campus, you’ll find her directing, performing, and occasionally costume designing! Outside of theater, she’s an Orange Key tour guide, Writing Center Fellow, and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. On an average day, you’re likely to find her eating an Olive’s #6, drinking a Tower coffee, listening to the “Little Shop” cast album on repeat, and wearing sunglasses on her head on a cloudy day.
Co-Social Chair
Chloe Webster ’25
Chloe Webster is a senior concentrating in Music with minors in Vocal Performance and Music Theater. She enjoys spending quality time with Jerry Seinfeld.
Co-Social Chair
Lauren Owens ’25
Lauren Owens is a Geosciences major with certificates in Geoengineering and Linguistics. In addition to being on PUP board, she is on the club swim team, is an Outdoor Action leader, and once in a while writes humor articles for The Daily Princetonian. Some of her favorite activities include trying to find good running trails in suburban New Jersey, making an irrational obsession with Shrek part of her personality, and maximizing her two swipes a week at the dining hall, courtesy of a large number of tupperwares and ziploc bags.
Co-Social Chair
Jenia Marquez ’25
Jenia is a senior from New York City concentrating in Linguistics with minors in French and Choral/Musical Theatre Conducting. When not frantically waving her hands in the pit of a PUP show, she can be found performing with the Tigerlilies, the Glee Club, and Trenton Youth Singers, as well as contemplating if anyone really needs a motive or thesis anyway as a Writing Center Fellow. You can usually find her in her natural habitat relishing over the fact she is currently employed so she can feed her growing bubble tea and stuffed animal addictions.