About Us

 Paulina Staab  

 Kris Fry  

 Kristi Bell

I spent my career in Financial Management, as a Congressional Aide, Office Management as

well as a number of part time positions while raising my two daughters. My community

involvement includes coaching for Special Olympics where I met my husband, Jeff; creating,

producing and hosting a children’s television reading program entitled “Let’s Read”, and serving

in a variety of volunteer capacities in PTA and in my church. Becoming an empty nester allowed

me to pursue my love of community theater first as ‘Clairee’ in “Steel Magnolias”, in the musical

“Annie”, “The Dixie Swim Club”, and as a Director in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, a

number of One Act Plays for the Festival and New Play Workshop productions as the

Director/Facilitator. I currently serve on the POPA Board of Directors as the Treasurer/Secretary

and volunteer in a number of other areas at the playhouse including Grant Writing. Seeing the

Community come together to bring live theater to the stage and all that it takes to make a

production happen is a beautiful thing! I am grateful to be a part of POPA.

 Amy Schoedel 

Amy Schoedel grew up in Chattaroy and has always loved performing with various community theatre groups in the Spokane area. Her first appearance at the   

I spent my career in Financial Management, as a Congressional Aide, Office Management as well as a number of part time positions while raising my two daughters. My community involvement includes coaching for Special Olympics where I met my husband, Jeff; creating, producing and hosting a children’s television reading program entitled “Let’s Read”, and serving in a variety of volunteer capacities in PTA and in my church. Becoming an empty nester allowed me to pursue my love of community theater first as ‘Clairee’ in “Steel Magnolias”, in the musical “Annie”, “The Dixie Swim Club”, and as a Director in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, a number of One Act Plays for the Festival and New Play Workshop productions as the Director/Facilitator. I currently serve on the POPA Board of Directors as the Treasurer/Secretary and volunteer in a number of other areas at the playhouse including Grant Writing. Seeing the Community come together to bring live theater to the stage and all that it takes to make a production happen is a beautiful thing! I am grateful to be a part of POPA.

 Lori Soleibe-Lianglais 

I am retired from a 40 year career in Architecture/Engineering and Construction Management. I am a board member with the theater. I have drawn the “as-built” drawings for the theater and have helped with the new look of the exterior of the theater and painting the interior. In the future, I will be supporting the theater with continuing upgrades and fundraisers as needed. 

Brian  Lianglais  

  I am retired and have about 30 years’ experience in Facility Management. I have been involved with Capital projects and Project Management. I plan to be the Project Manager for the upcoming building renewal project. I have acted in a few productions and directed a ONE ACT play. I believe my background will help the Pend Oreille Player as I have worked with people to achieve results most of my working career, and I look forward to working with everyone at POPA.

   Danny litowitz

Norm Smith

Racine Balow

Darlene Mossman, Ph.D.

I relocated to Diamond Lake from CA after retiring in 2018 from a career in education and just love this area! In addition to taking on the duties of Executive Director for POPA, I am also the group leader for Welcome Home Veterans Quilts of Valor and 1st VP (Programs) at Washington State Quilters. I have been in bands (singing and playing bass guitar) for over 30 years and my first toe dip into acting was in Coming to America in 2019 at the playhouse. I was very impressed with the kindness, patience, and willingness to help a newbie, displayed by the other actors, and knew that I wanted to be more involved. I have been part of a grant writing team that has secured multiple successful grants for POPA, which has been very rewarding. As a person with a Ph.D. in psychology, I find theater people most interesting!