Meet the Board of Directors
Luke Janchenko - Executive Director
Luke began his theatrical history his freshmen year at Argo High School, acting as a last minute fill in for an ensemble pirate in Peter Pan. Since then he has been part of more than 60 productions between Argo, Moraine Valley Theatre, The Gumball Players, Illinois State University and Limestone Stage.
After living in Lockport for five years, he and his wife, Alissa, founded the Limestone Stage in an effort to bring the arts to a community that sorely needed a creative outlet for the wonderfully talented people in Lockport and the surrounding communities. He is exceedingly happy to see how the company has grown from a one-off group of 12 people to an active membership of over 100 since 2014.
Luke has directed Good Humor I (2014), A Christmas Carol (2014), Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe (2015), Miracle on 34th Street (2016), It’s a Wonderful Life (2017), Humbug (2018), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021), co-directed The Holiday Channel Christmas Wonderthon (2025) and produced or tech directed for The Taming of the Shrew (2016), Beyond the Grave (2018), I Hate Shakespeare (2019), The Fall of the House of Usher (2019), Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (2019), The Local Playwright Festival (2022), Clue (2022), A Christmas Story (2022) Much Ado About Nothing (2023), Treasure Island (2024), Puffs (2025), Miracle on 34th Street (2024), Good Humor III (2025), Harvey (2026)
Luke attended Illinois State University on a partial theatre scholarship and holds a BS with a minor in Theatre.
Alissa Raschke-Janchenko - Managing Director
Alissa Raschke-Janchenko has been actively involved in theatrical pursuits for almost 20 years. She’s done everything from acting in a lead to sorting screws in the workshop. By day a children’s librarian, her passion for performing arts was apparent as a child, when she insisted on putting on one-woman shows for her parents (sorry, Mom and Dad).
Alissa laid the foundation for Limestone Stage in 2012, when she penned and directed Murder Mystery on State for the White Oak Library. Prior to Limestone, she’d worked with high school and college theatre, as well as the Gumball Players in Summit and Moraine Valley summer productions.
Onstage, she has been seen in Limestone’s Taming of the Shrew (2016) and The Importance of Being Earnest (2017), I Hate Shakespeare (2019), The Local Playwright Festival (2022), Clue (2022) as well as with Limestone’s improv group, Quarried Away. She prefers the off-stage fun of managing/producing and working with actors. She is never allowed to run tech, but she did design much of the stage for 2022's Clue. Her goal is to create a fun, safe space for people of every skill level to enjoy theatre.
Callie Clanton- Sergeant At Arms
Callie has been working in stage production, acting, dance and choreography for more than 20 years, starting at Argo Community High School, earning multiple International Thespian Association honor bars in her time there. During and after high school, she worked with The Gumball Players (Summit, IL) and was elected as their treasurer.
Callie was one of the driving forces in the development of Limestone Stage, having been involved as head stage manager for 19 of the company's productions as of 2022. She was the assistant director for 2018's Humbug. In total, Callie has been involved with more than 40 productions and brings an insane wealth of knowledge and leadership to the Limestone Stage board. In 2022, Callie made her directorial debut, presenting the much acclaimed Clue to five sold out houses. She later went on to co-direct Puffs (2025) and has acted as producer and/or stage manager for just about every Limestone production dating back to 2014.
Annemarie Pedraza- Board Member
Annemarie Pedraza has been an active part of Limestone Stage since 2016, when she was cast in a production of It’s a Wonderful Life with her daughter Gabriella. She has since been involved in Limestone productions every season and has been a board member at large since 2022. Some of her favorite roles have included Mrs. White, Madeline Usher, and Zombie #3. Annemarie is passionate about arts in our community and the way Limestone builds a welcoming environment for growth and learning in the theater arts. She is thrilled to bring her leadership and organizational development skills to the mission of continuing to enrich Lockport and the surrounding communities through quality theater productions and a strong sense of community.
Erik has been involved with Limestone since the age of 14 when he took the stage as young Ebeneezer Scrooge in Limestone's first full production, A Christmas Carol. Since then, he has gone on to become one of of the company's most established actors and directors, having held major roles in more than 20 Limestone Stage productions including leading roles in The Seagull (2018), Miracle on 34th Street (2016), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) and Harvey (2026) among others. He has performed outside of Limestone at Curtain Call Theatre as part of the cast of And Then There Were None (2023).
He has directed As part of the 2022 Local Playwright One-Act Festival and took on major productions with Blithe Spirit (2023), Treasure Island (2024) and as director of the 2025 Good Humor IV Festival.
Eric is also a leader of the Quarried Away improv team and has been helping grow and develop young improv talent for the last half decade.
Erik Lindblom- Board Member
Sabrina Mangan- Board Member
Sabrina is proud to be a member of the Limestone board. She started acting with Limestone in 2016 staring in roles such as Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (2016), Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Ernest (2017), and Unhappy Person in I Hate Shakespeare (2019). In 2017 Limestone moved from the Gaylord Building to the Township Building, and an opportunity opened up to start designing large stage sets. Sabrina designed her first stage set for our first production at the township, It’s a Wonderful Life, and has gone on to design stages for Humbug, I Hate Shakespeare, Blithe Spirit, Clue, A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street, Puffs, The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon and Harvey She has been designing ever since and loves learning new concepts and tricks! Most of all she loves working with newcomers and seeing old friends with every production that we produce. At the heart of it all she loves working with people to create something awesome.
Sabrina recently stepped into directing with 2025's Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon, which performed to incredible reviews.
She has been a Fine Arts Teacher for over ten years at a Fine and Performing Arts magnet school.
Sabrina has never seen a Kevin Costner movie.