John D. Roberts - Producer

Mr. Roberts is the former Principal of Valley Forge High School and Managing Director of the Cassidy Theatre. He is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College and Kent State University. In 1975, Mr. Roberts founded the Greenbrier Youth Theatre and has directed or musically directed over 125 shows. In 1979, he wrote the music and the lyrics for EBENEZER, a Christmas Musical with Mr. David Jecmen. In 1981, he partnered with Mr. Bruce Michalski and wrote Tom Sawyer’s World. Mr. Roberts retired from the Parma Schools in 1999 and went on to become an assistant professor of Education at Baldwin –Wallace where he was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award in May of 2003. He then went to work for Constellation Schools and was an elementary principal and coordinator of curriculum until 2010 when he and his wife retired to Florida.

In 2021, Mr. Roberts returned from Florida and recently directed the music for The Wizard of Oz at Valley Forge and will be doing the musical direction for Grease this coming April.