Leona Harrison is honored to be serving as PLT's Education Manager! She has extensive hands-on experience in Theatre Education. She enjoys cultivating a love for theatre in people of all ages. She was the Education Director at the Pearl Theater for 8 years. But she has also, worked with multiple productions and theaters as stage manager, prop-master, director and even as costumer. Her favorite role on stage was as Nana in The Velveteen Rabbit. Her next exciting theatre project will be Directing PLT's Christmas Production, Have yourself a Crazy Little Christmas!
Leona has been married to her husband, Steven Harrison, for 32 years, raising 3 amazing daughters. While being a SAHM, she served her community as a Girl Scout Troop Leader, PTA Volunteer, and on a variety of Non-Profit Boards earning her awards such as "Girl Scout Leader of the Year" and "PTA Volunteer of the Year". Since then, she has been a substitute teacher and worked with students and families with special needs.

JULIE OWEN is an actor, director and serves the PLT Board as President. A native Texan originally from White Deer, in the Texas Panhandle, she has lived in the Houston area for many years. PLT is her home theatre. She has appeared onstage in over 100 productions. Favorite roles include those in Mom’s Gift, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Gypsy; Ann and all Four Old Broad Plays. Other performance venues include Clear Creek Community Theater, The Pearl Theater, Franca's Dinner Theatre, Harbour Playhouse, College of the Mainland and Coneman Running Productions. She also has directed many times at PLT with the last being Greater Tuna which was the opening show of our 72nd season. She is retired after working her entire career in the industrial valve industry. She was proud to be honored as the 2019 Pasadena Chamber of Commerce Artist of the Year. Julie and her husband, Ken, have three grown children, four Grandchildren and a dachshund named Kip.