The Team
Who We Are
Mishelle McPherson
President
Mishelle has been a member of the Panhandle Players since 2017.
During her tenure, she has served on the board as both treasurer and secretary, and now President. She has remained a highly active board member, contributing to major projects such as the installation of new theater seating and theatre restoration projects.
Her multifaceted involvement also includes directing, acting, set design and building, managing community relations, and working in front-of-house operations.
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Nick Avossa
Vice President
Nick has been an equity member of PHP since 2021. He has served as technical
director, lighting and sound designer for nearly every show since then. Nick has
worked with more than a dozen different theatre companies over the past 50
years accumulating over 100 acting, directing and technical credits. In 2022,
Nick was appointed to the Board to fill a vacancy and has been a Board
Member ever since. Nick continues to act as the Technical Director for the
Panhandle Players and the Chapman Theatre. This year, Nick will be directing
“Escape to Margaritaville”.\
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Jerry Hurley
Secretary
Actor/Playwright Jerry L. Hurley was born in Cleveland, Ohio and
raised in West Virginia. Earning a B.A. and M.A. from Marshall
University, Jerry enjoyed a career in public education as a teacher
and principal until his retirement in 2008. Married to wife Charlotte
in 1974, they moved to Apalachicola from Hurricane, West Virginia
in 2013. Both of their children, Emma and Ethan also live close to
our small village by the sea. Since coming to Apalachicola, Jerry
has acted in a number of Panhandle Players’ productions. Having
penned four plays presented on the Chapman theatre stage (Secrets
and Sweet Tea, Sweet Tea on the Front Porch, Sweet Tea at the B &
B and Trailer Park). Jerry’s latest comedy, AREA 52, will open the
2026/27 season for the Panhandle Players in October of this year.
Since wife Charlotte’s passing in 2021, Jerry continues to write
plays, short stories and poetry while working several days a week as
a reader and librarian at the Apalachicola Bay Charter School and
serving on the Citizens’ Advisory Board at the Margaret Key
Library.
