October’s YP of the Month is…

Parker Painchaud!!!

Parker has been trapped in the world of theatre since 2021, when he signed up for a winter semester of CYPT acting classes. He then did a second semester of classes in spring of 2022, during which he learned of something called the cannonball festival. Intrigued, Parker auditioned, and, somehow, he miraculously got a role in the festival, playing Leo in Dreamer. At this point, Parker realized that there was no escape. He went on to play roles in various main stage shows at CYPT such as the mafia boss Cesare in Real Boi, a divorced father and singing hallucination zombie as Walter/Thing in Poison Squad, and a child as well as another middle aged man in Someday as Nicky/Mr. Weston. Parker has also acted in another cannonball festival as the villain Powerkeeper in MAGIC, which was a part of cannonball 2023. He then kept up his cannonball streak, when he made his directorial debut in Cannonball 2024, writing and directing The Ghost of Who Knows What. Parker is also excited to currently be in The Frozen Deep, where he will get to freeze and starve in the arctic live on stage!

Parker is extremely happy that he found CYPT and that he met so many great people within it, and he would like to thank everyone that has helped and influenced him during his time of getting sucked into the insane world of love theatre. He would also like to thank his mother for literally driving him everywhere. He is super excited for what’s to come, and will remember CYPT very fondly for the rest of his mortal days