Kathryn Poen (Director & Choral Director) was born in Decorah, Iowa and has over forty years of public school choral music teaching experience. She received her Master of Music Degree from the University of Arizona, and began her doctoral studies there as well. In her professional career, Kay has directed and produced numerous major musicals including "Amahl and the Night Visitors", "You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Mary Sunshine", "My Fair Lady", "The Pirates of Penzance", "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The King and I", "South Pacific", "Trial by Jury", and "The Mikado". She has also directed community choruses for Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Handel’s Messiah as well as appearing in and directing productions for Theatrikos.  Currently, Kay teaches private studio lessons, composes, and, in her free time, she keeps track of her numerous children and grandchildren and entertains frequently.

Sean Paul Mills, D.M.A. (Music Director & Conductor) is a native of northern California, and attended the University of Oregon for both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees and the University of Iowa for his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Cello Performance and Pedagogy.  Sean has performed as cellist with the Humboldt String Quartet, Sequoia Piano Trio, Humboldt Chamber Players, Oregon Mozart Players, Oregon Bach Festival, the Quad City Symphony, and the Manzanita Piano Trio, among others. He has performed as cellist and conductor in California, Oregon, Iowa, Arizona, Germany, France, and Switzerland. He has also taught on the faculties of Kirkwood Community College, Grinnell College, and Coconino Community College. Sean has served as Music Director and Conductor for many of the FLOC’s productions, and is currently employed as Music Director at Sedona's Church of the Red Rocks, as an associate faculty member in the Music Department at Coconino Community College, as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Coconino Community Orchestra, and as Chief Instructor of the Northern Arizona Karate Association (www.japankarate.org). 

Michael Casey (Producing Director) was born and raised in Wales in the United Kingdom before relocating to Flagstaff in 1988. An accountant by profession, Mike also teaches accounting at Coconino Community College when not involved with the FLOC, Master Chorale, and the Celtic Heritage Society. Mike's family consists of his wife, Ilean (the FLOC's Treasurer) and daughters Rachel and Sarah.  No stranger to the stage, Mike has appeared in and directed shows as diverse as "Carousel", "Oklahoma!", "The King and I", "West Side Story", "The Merry Widow", and "The Pirates of Penzance", to name but a few.

Charles Spining (Rehearsal Accompanist & Program Notes) holds the distinction of being the only native Arizonan on the FLOC Founding Board! His community theater experience includes roles as musical director, actor, and accompanist for theater groups in Taiwan (while stationed there in the U.S. Navy) and Arizona. Charly’s informative and interesting program notes are well know to audiences of the Sedona Chamber Music Festival, Flagstaff Symphony, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, and FLOC. Charly, like Mike, is an accountant by trade as well as the organist at Flagstaff’s Church of the Epiphany.

Susana Rivera-Mills, Ph.D. (Founding Board Member) is a native of El Salvador, and currently is an Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics in the Modern Languages Department at NAU. Her no-nonsense, tell-it-as-it-is approach coupled with her theatrical experience (beginning during her High School education and continuing to the present) made her the obvious choice for the FLOC’s first Company Manager. Susana made her directorial debut with the FLOC in its 1997 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado" and is directing this summer's production of Sherman Edwards' "1776".  Her skills as an efficiency expert and at putting out the raging fires that occur during productions (not to mention keeping the Music Director’s feet out of his mouth) are priceless. In her copious spare time, Susana serves as the Co-Chief Instructor of the Northern Arizona Karate Association as well as on the boards of several community organizations and at the First Congregational Church of Flagstaff.