Board of Directors
Heather Bottom
Director
Heather grew up dancing and singing in Phoenix, Arizona. In high school, she started performing professionally, and for college, moved to New York City to attend Columbia University. While getting her BA in Astrophysics, she took time off to perform as a Radio City Rockette and in the Broadway National Tour of A Chorus Line (Judy). Heather also has a Master's degree in Space Engineering. She now lives in Hilo with her husband and daughter and works remotely for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's worked on the Perseverance Mars rover, NISAR Earth-observation mission, and SPHEREx astrophysics observatory. Heather has performed in Biloxi Blues (Rowena) here in Hilo and still loves taking dance class and singing at home with family. Heather is thrilled to be a part of HEART with such an amazing team.
Larry Reitzer
Director
Larry has directed many box office hits like Avenue Q & Beauty and the Beast since arriving on the Big Island in 2017. Right out of High School, Larry served as directory, Arthur Laurents’ production assistant on the original Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles. Larry went on to assist such Broadway directors as Tommy Tune, Michael Blakemore and Herb Ross. After attending NYU, Larry switched his sights from directing to arts administration/producing and went on to become a company manager on the Broadway, First National and Los Angeles companies of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. While in Los Angeles, Larry switched careers again, to television writing and production, working on such shows as Spin City, Just Shoot Me, Melissa and Joey, and Ugly Betty. Larry has developed pilots for Disney Channel, ABC, NBC, Universal, Warner Brothers, YouTube Originals and ABC Family. Larry is founder of HEART and lives in Hilo with his husband of twenty five years, Matthew.