Biography

Gordon McLachlan

Gordon “Gordo” McLachlan is a San Diego native and former Junior Theatre student with a love of all things performing arts. He holds a BA in theater from UCLA where he studied puppetry, immersive storytelling, theatrical design and film production. He is a maker/crafter, writer, performer, puppeteer, and a Teaching Artist with the SD Guild of Puppetry, the OB Adventure Club, and now, Junior Theatre! He currently serves as a production consultant working alongside Isaac Vermilye. Together they are responsible for building all of the scenic elements for JT’s 76th season! Gordo also designed the set for JT’s production of Puffs and will be designing the set for Season 77’s The Addams Family as well as assistant directing.

The Addams Family

Directed by Joey Price
Music Direction by Michael Tyree
Choreography by Theresa Maigue Bendorf
Assistant Directed by Gordon McLachlan

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Orchestrations by Larry Hochman
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams

The Addams Family is a comical feast that embraces the kooky elements in every family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. If that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a “very normal” dinner for Wednesday’s “very normal” boyfriend and his parents.