Blue Gate Musicals

Blue Gate Musicals Blue Gate Musicals(BGM)was formed in 2010 to create original, meaningful, and entertaining musicals.

Blue Gate Musicals, LLC (BGM) was formed in 2010 to create original, meaningful, and entertaining musicals. Founding Partner Mel Riegsecker and President and Dove-Award winning producer Dan Posthuma oversee the operations of BGM, which includes three hugely successful Broadway-style musicals, from Amish Country: The Confession, Half-Stitched, and Josiah for President. Blue Gate Musicals is proud

to have three partners presenting these musicals. Shipshewana IN led the way in 2010, followed by Bird-In-Hand, PA and Sugarcreek, OH in 2012. The Confession, BGM’s first musical based on Beverly Lewis’s Confession Trilogy has sold well over 150,000 tickets since its premiere. Due to the overwhelming popularity of this musical, BGM opened Half-Stitched, based on the novel The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda Brunstetter. Half-Stitched launched a second successful run in the three venues in 2014 with almost 1,000 performances to date. That year also saw the world premiere of Josiah for President, based on a novel by Martha Bolton, which resulted in a long running series of sold-out shows in all three theatres. With no signs of slowing down, BGM premiered their new Christmas musical, Our Christmas Dinner, last holiday season to rave reviews, and opened its next full-length musical, The Home Game, in Shipshewana, IN in the Spring of this year. In addition to their growing repertoire of musicals, BGM recently launched The Blue Gate Comedy Series, with their first one-act comedy, Mennonite Girls Can Cook, which opens Fall 2016 in Shipshewana and Sugarcreek.

Jordan is excited to make his Blue Gate debut and thrilled to be close to home. Originally hailing from Southwest Michig...
06/11/2026

Jordan is excited to make his Blue Gate debut and thrilled to be close to home. Originally hailing from Southwest Michigan, he currently lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he moved to attend the Sight and Sound Conservatory, from which he graduated in 2024. Recently, he performed in a concert production of Carousel with the Hershey Symphony Orchestra after “sailing aboard” Titanic: the Musical. Last year, he performed at the Strasburg Railroad in all sorts of shows on and off the real moving trains. More recent credits include A Tale of Two Cities, John Brooke in Little Women, The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Malcolm in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When not on stage, he enjoys spending time with friends, overanalyzing theatre, and trying to find time to write. Psalm 92:1-2

Kristin is so excited to be joining the Blue Gate community! As a Mansfield, Ohio, native, she grew up performing in Man...
06/09/2026

Kristin is so excited to be joining the Blue Gate community! As a Mansfield, Ohio, native, she grew up performing in Mansfield and surrounding areas, as well as training in several dance styles alongside the Ashland Regional Ballet. She recently graduated from Northern Kentucky University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. Some of her most recent roles include Ensemble (She Loves Me) and Dance Ensemble (Jesus Christ Superstar), but some of her favorite credits include Reno Sweeney (Anything Goes), Jan (Grease), and Lost Island Theme Park, where she played many different characters! Enjoy the show!
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Adam is an actor born in Maryland. This is his third year with Blue Gate Musicals. He has a Music degree from Virginia ...
06/05/2026

Adam is an actor born in Maryland. This is his third year with Blue Gate Musicals. He has a Music degree from Virginia Wesleyan University. Some of Adam’s favorite productions include Blue Gate’s own Josiah for President, Matilda the Musical, White Christmas, and Legally Blonde. Adam would like to thank his family and friends for their overwhelming support. He is very excited to be part of this show and to perform for you!

Sean is ecstatic to be returning to the Blue Gate Musicals stage in Simple Sanctuary! Making his Shipshewana debut, Sean...
06/03/2026

Sean is ecstatic to be returning to the Blue Gate Musicals stage in Simple Sanctuary! Making his Shipshewana debut, Sean is from Stony Brook, Long Island, NY, and is a graduate of SUNY Cortland’s Musical Theatre program. Past stage credits include Flinders/male-swing in Of a Lifetime (The Actors Temple: Off-Broadway), Phil in Soulmate (The Actors Temple: Off-Broadway), Fred Halliwell in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Three), Paul Wilson in Half-Stitched (Blue Gate Musicals), Phil Davis in White Christmas (Pines Dinner Theatre), The 5 stages of an Italian Goodbye (Allegro Dance Company 2025 Tour) and Beautiful Life:4 of 4 (Teatro LATEA/Manes Studio Theatre) an original play which he wrote, co-directed, and performed in. Film credits include Tomas DeVito in Extortion Thugs (Supporting, Feature Film), Jerry in Almost Blue (Supporting, Feature Film), and Angelo in Dimitri. Grazie mille e tanti auguri!

Kevin has so much fun playing the true villain Ivanov, last playing him 7 years ago! Last year, you may have seen him pl...
06/01/2026

Kevin has so much fun playing the true villain Ivanov, last playing him 7 years ago! Last year, you may have seen him play 7 different roles in Ned and Nancy See America and Foster Bates in The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits. Having done around 2500 performances for Blue Gate, roles include: Harley Phillips in Josiah for President, Captain Santa in Christmas Tree Ship, Joshua in Dear Soldier Boy, Dylan in The Confession, Phil in The Home Game, Uncle Ollie in Our Christmas Dinner, Stuart in Half-Stitched, and Father/Mountie Commissioner in When Calls The Heart. Regional credits include Forever Plaid, Shear Madness, 1776, My Fair Lady, Little Women, Can-Can, Dollywood’s Babes in Toyland, and Busch Gardens’ Entwined. Kevin hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, but is now a local resident! In his free time, he’s gotten into gardening and houseplants! Kevin holds a BA in musical theatre from Ball State University. As always, he sends his love to Mom and Thony!

Meredith is delighted to be back for her sixth season with Blue Gate Musicals! She is a Nashville, TN native who graduat...
05/29/2026

Meredith is delighted to be back for her sixth season with Blue Gate Musicals! She is a Nashville, TN native who graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a major in theatre and a minor in musical theatre. You may have seen her in other Blue Gate Musicals as Ginny Meyers in Stolen the Musical, Sally/Mrs. Blake in When Calls the Heart, Harper Davidson in Our Christmas Dinner, and the Female Swing in The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits. Her other recent credits include Into the Woods (Cinderella), Carousel (Ensemble), Anastasia: The Musical (Ensemble), and Godspell (Uzo). She would like to thank her friends and family for their endless support and love along this wild journey! 🤣😂😇

Nathaniel is originally from Austin, Texas. He is a huge fan of all Texas sports from UT football to the Houston Rockets...
05/25/2026

Nathaniel is originally from Austin, Texas. He is a huge fan of all Texas sports from UT football to the Houston Rockets. Nathaniel graduated with a B.F.A in Acting from Shenandoah Conservatory. This is his sixth Blue Gate musical and he's excited to return. Credits include The Christmas Candy Caper as Elwood, The Confession as a swing, 12 Angry Jurors as Juror 12, and And Then There Were None as Mr. Rogers. Nathaniel has always been a bit of a nerd, with some of his favorite things, aside from theatre, being D&D, Magic: The Gathering, and Poker. He wants to thank his family for their endless support and love.

Nydia is thrilled to return to Blue Gate Theatre after previously appearing as Alice in The Christmas Candy Caper, as Fe...
05/22/2026

Nydia is thrilled to return to Blue Gate Theatre after previously appearing as Alice in The Christmas Candy Caper, as Featured Dancer in Ned & Nancy, and as Sara Rodríguez in Josiah for President, as well as in r***e productions including Shipshe Gospel Jubilee, Classic Country Countdown, and Songs of the Season. She holds a B.F.A. in Humanities with a major in Drama from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and a minor in Classical Singing from the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. Her credits include Singin’ in the Rain (Kathy Selden), La Carreta: The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hercules (Megara), and Mamma Mia! (Donna), as well as classical works such as Blood Wedding and Platero and I. She is trained in ballet, jazz, and ballroom dance at Centro Danza. With endless gratitude, Nydia thanks her mom, dad, Jean Carlos, and Guillermo for always being one phone call away. Los amo.

Be sure to reserve your seats now!😄🤣
05/22/2026

Be sure to reserve your seats now!😄🤣

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