Welcome to Log Art Theatre
Log Art Theatre (LAT) is the Community Arts Center of Cambria County's creative performance division, providing an opportunity for novice, amateur, experienced, and semi-professional performers of the Cambria County region to come together through theatrical productions.
Join us for a wide variety of theatre performances, including plays for audiences of all ages, as well as vocal performances. Log Art Theatre celebrates all things performing arts! Check out what we've got coming up; you won't want to miss a show!
LOG ART THEATRE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM:
Log Art Theatre (LAT) internship applications are open now! LAT Productions will be comprised of community-based volunteers of all performance levels: novice, amateur, experienced, and semi-professional. Internships are interconnected with LAT Productions and provide opportunities for anyone interested in directing, stage managing, lighting design, sound design, set design, stage crew, makeup design, and costume design, for those 18 years of age or older. Interns accepted will work with one of the Center’s professionals in their area of choice for a minimum of two full-length productions and two LAT Performance Workshops. For internships, progress evaluations will be completed by the assigned Center professional(s).
Click here to learn more about internship opportunities and apply today.
What's Happening...
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Log Art Theatre Academy
LAT's youth division, Log Art Theatre Academy, offers opportunities for children and youth to participate in their own theatre productions!
Little Shop of Horrors
June 2026: A deviously delicous Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. Featuring a meek floral assistant, his coworker crush, and a foul-mouthed R&B singing carnivorous plant intent on global domination.
Une Belle Fleur
August 2026: (Log Art Theatre Shortwave) This historical fiction imagines the mystique and courtly drama surrounding the creation of the world's first authentic ballet in the late 1500's France.
Who Dunit?
September & October 2026: When a mystery writer is murdered, he is given the chance to relive his last day to find his killer, and in the process realizes almost everyone he knows has a motive to kill him.
Tinker, Tailor, Baker, and the Cinnamon Roll Maker
November 2026: (Log Art Theatre Shortwave) In a land of epic tales, heroic quests, and mysterious adventures filled with vast dungeons, dangerous dragons, mighty magic, and monstrous mayhem, we follow the journey of a small band of heroes on a quest to find a great recipe.
Log Art Theatre Listen
We've partnered with our friends at The Show Must Go On...Line to bring you LAT Listen, a series of audio plays on our YouTube channel, free to enjoy any time!
The Log Art Theatre Flex Pass provides our members with a great way of experiencing what Log Art Theatre has to offer! FLEX PASS will offer you great flexibility and reserved premium seating when you redeem your tickets. Whether it's a play or a dinner theatre, you can be as close to the actions on stage as possible! Explore the different packages and find what fits you best. All Log Art Theatre tickets and Flex Passes are nonrefundable. Flex Passes are offered with two options, one for CACCC MEMBERS and CACCC NON-MEMBERS. Please note, all online Flex Pass & ticket purchases include a small surcharge. Flex Passes & tickets will be mailed to your address as provided by PayPal or in-person.
*To redeem Flex Pass tickets, ticket holders must call (814) 255-6515 and speak with a member of the Community Arts Center staff. Flex Pass tickets must be redeemed by the Monday before the performance you wish to attend - no Flex Passes will be accepted at the door. If a performance is already sold out, CAC will not be able to accommodate Flex Pass ticket redemptions, and the Pass holder will have to choose a different performance date – Pass holders can switch tickets for shows that are the same tickets price. For example, if the Pass holder cannot attend a Shortwave production, they can transfer their two tickets to another Shortwave show and receive four tickets to a different Shortwave production.
All Log Art Theatre tickets and Flex Passes are nonrefundable. Please note, all online Flex Pass & ticket purchases include a small surcharge. Flex Passes & Tickets will be mailed to your address as provided by PayPal.
Meet Our Directors!
Angela R. Godin
Angela R. Godin (Director, Log Art Theatre)- Angela is the Executive Director of the Community Arts Center of Cambria County, where she develops and navigates the Center’s programming, special events, fundraising campaigns, marketing, and grant writing initiatives. Angela is a Cum Laude graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts. She worked as an independent contractor in art related fields for over eleven years. This experience included directing over twenty plays and musicals, performing in close to forty productions, as well as vast experience in choreography, dance instruction, stage-managing, lighting design, sound design and production management/administration. Her repertoire comprises of directing theatre festivals, studio theatre projects, acting camps, training seminars and teaching theatre courses to all ages. Angela has over twenty years of dance training and/or instructing. She is a member of Life Church in Windber, PA. She’s thrilled to be bringing her directing skills to the Center by expanding the Log Art Theatre division. In In 2018, Angela was accepted into the National Arts Marketing Project Cohort 2, a two-year program through Americans for the Arts, and was the honoree in Arts & Letters for the 2019 Tribute to Women.
Matthew Harris
Matthew Harris (Music Director, Log Art Theatre) -
Matt Harris, or Matty as most call him, is a native of Johnstown. Matty has previously been seen at Log Art Theatre as Charlie Brown in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Willum Cubbert in The Nerd, and John Utterson in Jekyll & Hyde. He has worked as Music Director for both Log Art Theatre and Log Art Theatre Academy. Matty has appeared in other local musical productions including The Addams Family (Gomez) and Jekyll & Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde), just to name a few.
Dr. Lance Mekeel
Dr. Lance Mekeel (Director, Log Art Theatre) -
Dr. Lance Mekeel is a theatre professor, maker, and scholar. Currently Assistant Professor of Theatre at Saint Francis University, Lance teaches a generalist curriculum in theatre, including courses in the history and theory of theatre, courses in theatrical design and technical production, and courses in acting and directing theatre. For as long as Lance has been a student/teacher/scholar of theatre, he’s been a working professional in theatre. He has worked as a professional designer, technical director, production manager, electrician, and carpenter, as well as director. He is a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique of acting through the National Michael Chekhov Association. Lance has worked in theatre education not just in post-secondary institutions, but in the primary, secondary, and community theatre setting as well. Lance has taught children and provided workshops and consulting for school districts and community theatres across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Tim Jacobs
Tim Jacobs (Director, Log Art Theatre Shortwave) -
Tim is proud to be directing the comedy The 39 Steps for Community Arts Center. Previously, he directed the true story of Hands on a Hardbody. After three successful musicals at Northern Cambria withThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dracula…the Musical? and She Loves Me, plus, the comedy of The Play That Goes Wrong. He is proud that the cast of both Putnam and She Loves Me also got to experience theater outside the school by talking the shows to Johnstown’s Community Arts Center during the last two summers. We were so fortunate to have this wonderful opportunity. Tim has been involved in theater for over 45 years. Some of his favorite shows he has directed have included Peter Pan, Into the Wood, Nunsense Amen, Noises Off, Neil Simon’s Rumors and Gypsy. In addition, some of his favorite roles have been Jack in Into the Woods, Luther Billis in South Pacific, Sancho in Man of La Mancha, and Bernardo in West Side Story(where he met his wife, Anita, 30 years ago). As a director, Tim is so excited to be working with a group of talented, hard-working area performers at CCAC. This is Tim’s seventh year at the High School teaching Social Studies and English. He would like to dedicate this production to the brilliant cast and crew for all their hard work and support, and to remind them to “Have Fun and show off your amazing talent!”
Allenna Shellenberger
Allenna Shellenberger (Director, Log Art Theatre Shortwave) -
Allenna has taken part in numerous shows at the Arts Center. When Allenna is not doing theatre, she works as the Executive Assistant at the Community Arts Center of Cambria County, spends time with her friends and family, hangs out with her Siamese cat Maizey, runs the Art Center's writing and children’s theatre clubs, teaches a class at the Art Center, sings in the Log Art Music: Show Choir and teaches dance through Log Art Dance. Allenna has nearly 8 years of experience in theatre, nearly 17 years of dance experience (in ballet, jazz, contemporary, ballroom and hip hop, musical theatre, etc.), and nearly 4 years of dance choreography experience!.