About Us

Corey Jackson (Founder/Producing Managing Director)

Co-founder of Arts After Hours and Artistic Director for AAH's Stage Productions, Corey Jackson has run several programs including the Downtown Cabaret Series featuring Carolyn Cole and Jan Peters, the Downtown Jazz Series with Rusty Scott, Patrice Williamson, and Elephant Wrecking Ball, and directed this January's I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and last June's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Other directing credits include Last Five Years (Tortoise and Finch); The Scarlet Pimpernel and She Loves Me (Concord Players); The Full Monty and The Music Man (Theatre III); The Shape of Things (SAMM Entertainment); The Boys Next Door (Sudbury Savoyards); Camelot and The Secret Garden (SLOC). Corey was Assistant to the Director for Stoneham Theatre’s Sisters of Swing where he will be seen this Spring as Dave in The Full Monty.

Jane Kelley (Producer / House Manager / Audience Services)

Jane Kelley is thrilled to be branching out beyond The Friends of Lynn Woods Presidency and wife and motherdom. Her husband, Dan Small and daughters, Lauren and Lindsey Walsh are happy she is embracing a new passion, DOWNTOWN LYNN, and not micromanaging them so much! A lifelong Lynner, she got her BA in history from Lesley University (it was Lesley College then), after a transfer from Providence College. She is trilled to be a part of Arts After Hours.

Nicholas V. Raponi (Technical Director)

Nick has been seen as Tom Collins in RENT, Sammy in The Wedding Singer, Johnny Casino in Grease, The Pharaoh and Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Gladhand in West Side Story, The Mysterious Man in Into the Woods, Sister Hubert in Nunsense A- men, and General Genghis Kahn Schmitz in Seussical the Musical all with the Winthrop Playmakers. Other credits include Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, the role(s) of, Officer Pitman, The Major, and Joseph Bell Titanic the Musical with Needham Community Theater (Winner: Dash Award for Best Musical), the Voice of Audrey II (plant) in Little Shop of Horrors with Wakefield Repertory Theater, Joe Josephson in Merrily We Roll Along, Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Pappa Ge in Once on this Island, with F.U.D.G.E Theater Company.

Kevin Parker (Production Manager)

Having grown up in nearby Burlington, Kevin has become well acquainted with Downtown Lynn, and enjoys the positive small-city atmosphere.  He has worked with Arts After Hours since its first theatrical production in June 2011, stage managing The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee .  Aside from his work with AAH, Kevin’s credits include production work with companies in Boston (Bad Habit Productions) and the Greater Boston area (Newton Country Players, Burlington Players).   Also the Production Manager for Burlington Educational Summer Theatre, run by Burlington Public Schools, Kevin coordinates logistical and technical elements for a program educating close to 100 students each season.  www.burlingtontheatre.com.  Kevin got his first theatre exposure at Burlington High School, studying under designer Peter Waldron, stage managing for Titanic, The Wizard of Oz, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and starting a student group whose members receive academic credit for technical work on theatrical productions.  Kevin has served in various stage management and production roles with the Theatre Department at Northeastern University, studying under Jonathan Carr, Nancy Kindelan, and Eric Kelley.  Kevin also has worked with New Repertory Theatre as a General Management intern.  He studies Industrial Engineering and Theatre at Northeastern.