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Board of Directors

Board members are nominated each fall and are elected at our December board meeting. Board member serve for a term of one year, at which time they may choose to run again for the same - or a different - board position.

President
Nicole Zalak
Vice President
Nicole Zeak
Secretary
Greg Pegher
Treasurer
Cheryl Gloeckl
Box Office Manager
Adam Winter
Publicity Director
Nuela Zalak
Fundraising Director
Cherie Salazar Brunetti
General Members
Krista Pratley
Jason Stiteler
Sydney Turnwald
Member Emeritus
Jay Breckenridge

Our Heritage

The Heritage Players is a community theater group based in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA.

In the mid-1990s, the Bethel Park Historical Society began considering resurrecting live theater. A board of directors was formed, and the performance group was dubbed "The Heritage Players" to reflect its connection to and endorsement by the Historical Society. Performances would be held in the Schoolhouse Arts Center. In October, 1997, The Heritage Players performed for the first time. The shows came together quickly, reflecting a commitment by the local community to jump head-first into the waters of live theater. Two full-length productions were undertaken the following spring.

In 1998 the Heritage Players began contributing to the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Three more full-length productions, including a successful fundraiser at Independence Middle School, proved that The Heritage Players were here to stay.

The IMS experience also proved that Heritage was outgrowing its small theater space at the Schoolhouse Arts Center. When Bethel Park was building the B.P. Community Center, The Heritage Players were asked to move their performances to the brand new building and become Bethel Park’s community theater. In 1999 The Heritage Players began their first season at the Community Center, presenting a set schedule of shows and theater classes. The Heritage Players operated under the umbrella of the Bethel Park Recreation Department until 2011, when they became an independent 501(c)3 certified non-profit organization.

Starting 2013, due to economic concerns, The Heritage Players moved their performance venue to the Seton Center in Brookline.

The Heritage Players are run completely by volunteers, and are always looking for ways to enhance the cultural enrichment of the local community.

Past Productions

Main Stage

2023
A Wrinkle in Time
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2022
Around the World in Eighty Days
Songs for a New World

2021
A Midsummer Night's Dream

2019
Fahrenheit 451
James & the Giant Peach
The Music Man

2018
The Great Gatsby
Wizard of Oz Jr.
Dracula
Jesus Christ Superstar

2017
50 Shades of Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility
Lost in Yonkers
Into the Woods

2016
The Importance of Being Earnest
Picnic
Alice in Wonderland
The Christmas Show

2015
Electra
To Kill a Mockingbird
Disney's Peter Pan Jr.
The Secret Garden: The Musical
Christmas Cards: The Musical

2014
Hay Fever
The Crucible
Little Women: The Muscial
HP Holiday Spectacular

2013
Anybody Out There?
Nunsense
Oliver!

2012
Bedroom Farce
Night Watch
The Sound of Music

2011
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
Once Upon a Mattress

2010
Fools
Arsenic and Old Lace
Barnum

2009
Twelve Angry Jurors
Hello Dolly!
110 in the Shade

2008
Jabberwock
Steel Magnolias
Copacabana

2007
The Dining Room
The Mousetrap
Gypsy

2006
Servants of Many Masters
An Evening of One Acts: Tennessee, Touching Aurora, The Ugly Duckling
Bye Bye Birdie

2005
Harvey
Catch Me If You Can
Annie

2004
Bus Stop
West Side Story
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

2003
The Curious Savage
Rumors
Jesus Christ Superstar

2002
Our Town
Fiddler On The Roof
Twelfth Night

2001
Lettuce and Lovage
Working
You Can't Take It With You

2000
The Birds
Godspell
Barefoot In The Park
The Golden Age: A Reading

1999
The Good Doctor
A Bad Year For Tomatoes
Crimes Of The Heart

1998
The Foreigner
The Boys Next Door
Little Women

1997
An Evening of One Acts: Tennessee, Touching Aurora, The Ugly Duckling
A Merry Little Christmas

Pittsburgh New Works Festival

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2022
The Clumps
2021
Fade
2019
Oedipus, but Better
2018
Malum
2017
Exit Strategy
2016
Influence
2015
Grim Tidings
2014
Crisis on Infinite Earths
2013
Whistleblower
2012
The Promise
2011
The Tragedy of John Wilkes Booth
2010
The Joy of Theft
2009
The Perfect Circle
2008
The Funeral
2007
The Spiral Stair
2006
Touching Aurora
2005
Doctor Chekov Makes a House Call
2004
The Mark
2003
Shaft (or The Tortoisiad)
2002
The World's Longest Kiss
2001
Freesias in Whiskey
2000
Vivienne
1999
The Last Gooseman
1998
Visitors

Children's Theatre

2017
Folk Tales from Around the World

2014
Teen Broadway Revue

2013
Teen Cabaret

2012
Children's Summer Show
Teen Cabaret
Christmas Variety Show

2011
Children's Summer Show
Teen Cabaret
Christmas Show

2010
Children's Summer Show
Teen Cabaret
Christmas Show

2009
Forgetful Santa, Santa Gets Hip & The Missing List

2008
The Littlest Elf, Forty Winks Till Christmas & The Villain and the Toy Shop

2007
Christmas Variety Show

2006
Christmas Variety Show

2005
Christmas Variety Show

2004
Christmas Variety Show

2003
Christmas Variety Show

2002
Christmas Variety Show

2001
Christmas Variety Show

Dinner Theatre

2013
A Tuna Christmas
2011
A Night on Broadway
2010
Melodrama
2008
A Lethal Luau
2007
A Cajun Killing
2003
Brewing Trouble