Pierre-Jacques Brault - Artistic Director

Pierre is a 2001 graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College's Music Theatre Dept. and is the co-Founder of Mercury Summer Stock, which enters its tenth season this summer at Parma Little Theatre. He has directed countless shows, ranging from full-scale musicals such as Evita and Annie to lesser-known plays including Never the Sinner. His favorite directing credit was putting together the critically acclaimed musical Honk!. As an actor, Pierre has worked with Broadway legends Donna McKechnie and Pamela Myers and has assisted some of today's top directors and choreographers, including Cleveland's own Victoria Bussert. Pierre’s work has been seen at Willoughby Fine Arts, Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, Geauga Lyric Theatre Guild, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Virginia Musical Theatre and Stagedoor Manor, a theatrical camp in upstate New York. He directed the Cleveland theatre premiere of High School Musical, the highest grossing production ever staged at Heights Youth Theatre. The summer will bring him directing The Wiz at Cain Park. www.mercurysummerstock.com

Brian Marshall - Managing Artistic Director

Brian holds a degree in musical theatre from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and is the co-Founder of Mercury Summer Stock. He also serves as the Associate Producing Director at Virginia Musical Theatre, where he directed such shows as Cabaret and Yours, Anne, and 2008's critically acclaimed Titanic. As Managing Artistic Director and co-Founder of MSS, Brian has directed numerous musicals for the company including Jane Eyre, A Class Act and Really Rosie. He is a veteran of 7 national tours including Titanic, Tintypes and A Christmas Carol. Regionally he has performed the roles of Danny in Baby, Nick in Fame, Dickon in The Secret Garden and Eddie Lyons in Blood Brothers. His most recent MSS assignments were Huck in Big River, Older Patrick in Mame, Mayor Who in Seussical the Musical, Val in Babes In Arms, Skellig in Skellig and The Elephant's Child in Just So. Brian also performed at The Cleveland Play House in the Children's Season productions of The Nutcracker (title role) and The Jungle Book (Mowgli), in the combined Cleveland Play House/Actors Theatre of Louisville production of My Fair Lady last year, and performed in Forbidden Broadway SVU as part of The Playhouse Square 2007-2008 Broadway Series.