HEXAGON

Artistic Team

Eleanor Dicks, Artistic Director

Important to Eleanor is the Hexagon’s mission of supporting deserving beneficiaries in the Washington, DC area for 70 years all while poking fun at politicians and political institutions through song, dance, and edgy comedic punches. Over the past 30 years, she has been a Director, Costumer, Board Member, and proud recipient of the President’s Award. Eleanor’s work has been seen on stages throughout the DMV with the Catholic University of America, Toby’s Dinner Theater, the Washington Savoyards, Alexandria Harmonizers, Imagination Stage, Kensington Theatre Arts, Rockville Musical Theatre, and The Arlington Players. She is pleased to be collaborating again with Thomas Pedersen and thrilled to have Carlos Barillo joining the creative team.

Eleanor Dicks, Artistic Director

Carlos Barillo, Stage Director and Choreographer

Hexagon welcomes Carlos Barillo as Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer. Carlos’s broad career includes Director of Educational and Community Outreach and Show Producer for the Barbershop Harmony Society. Previously, serving as Choral Director at Winston Churchill High School and Adjunct Professor at James Madison University where he directed the widely acclaimed musical recruitment ensemble, The Madisonians. Mr. Barillo’s performing credits include the US/Canadian tour of Anything Goes, national television commercials, theme parks, international cruise ships, and Las Vegas/Atlantic City. He has choreographed and musically coached high school show choirs, the Dallas Mavericks dance team, university dance squads, and both U.S. and European barbershop choruses. A graduate of James Madison University, Mr. Barillo has recently served as visual director and resident choreographer for the award-winning Alexandria Harmonizers.

Carlos Barillo, Stage Director and Choreographer

N. Thomas Pedersen, Music Director

Tom has pursued a finely integrated career as a singer, conductor, producer, and teacher and has been seen in Mame, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Hello Dolly, Oklahoma, Carousel, The Pirates of Penzance, and She Loves Me with numerous stock, regional, and national companies. In 1982, he made his operatic debut with the Michigan Opera Theater, and in ten years sang with the Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Toledo Opera, The June Opera Festival, and The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He has been a soloist with conductors Maurice Abravanel, Leonard Bernstein, Antal Dorati, and Robert Shaw. As Artistic Director of Theatre Ten Ten, New York’s oldest off-Broadway theater, he produced and music directed over 20 shows, and has been Music Director at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera, The Library Theater in Warren, Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan Opera Theater. He has been praised by Bruce Feld of the Los Angeles Times for his “zesty and innovative conducting” for Man of La Mancha and the Washington Post for his “expert and stylishly conducted” performances of The Music Man. Mr. Pedersen was conductor for The Shakespeare Theatre Fall Gala with Broadway Star Rebecca Luker. Tom recently retired as Head of the Music Theatre Division at The Catholic University of America, and the Director of Music at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Kensington, Maryland.

N. Thomas Pedersen, Music Director