Grinnell Greenroom 2026

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Karie Miller (she/they) is a theatre kid all grown up. Having participated in community theatre since age 12, Karie is always thrilled to share the magic of theatre and camp! She camper-ed in Central Kentucky with the Girl Scouts for several years, and as an adult worked as the Creative Arts counselor with CampfireUSA on the banks of Kenai Lake in Cooper’s Landing, Alaska for four years. Working with kids of all ages is a joyful and crucial part of how and why she does what she does. When not wearing her campfuntime hat, Karie is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator specializing in belonging, and the content, behavior, and containers that promote it, primarily through acts of care, play, and hospitality in the theatre. Prior to Grinnell, she performed and directed in Chicago IL as an ensemble member with Sideshow Theatre Company, specializing in new work. Credits include The Burden of Not Having a Tail, Idomeneus, and Everything Freezes.  She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. MFA: University of Virginia, PhD: Ohio State University. http://www.kariemiller.com

 Libby Albright's middle name is "Theatre Camp." Not really, but it should be. This August, Libby (she/her) will spend her fifth summer at Grinnell Greenroom, but her first summer as Grinnell School of Music's Director of Summer Programming.  Libby's early days as a Greenroom counselor inspired her to channel her musical and theatrical passions into creating and directing a musical theatre camp in her hometown of Tama, Iowa and in Summer 2024, she worked as a Teaching Intern at Des Moines Performing Arts' Musical Theatre Camp program.  When not in theatre camp mode, Libby is singing, acting, and student-ing all over the Grinnell College campus. She is a rising fourth year Music and Theatre major concentrating in Education Studies. 

Having directed musicals, written original work, and memorized every word of most Original Broadway Cast albums she's come across, Libby is confident that theatre will forever be part of her life. While she adores spending time on the stage, the true joy of performing, for her, comes from sharing music and theatre with children and getting to watch them unabashedly explore the worlds they create!

For more than 20 years, Juli Bey has been a professional musician and educator. She received her degree in music from Central College and since has specialized in sacred music and choral accompanying, playing for churches, choirs, and musical theater productions across the Midwest. In addition, she has taught junior and senior high school and music lessons to people of all ages. Juli has been an accompanist for Grinnell-Newburg Community Schools since 2013 and is currently Organist and Handbell Choir Director for Westminster Prebyterian Church in Des Moines, where she was recently a featured performer on KCCI and Iowa Public Television.