The last time Dahlonega’s Ryan Conarro was on a local stage was in 1998. At the time, he was a student at North Hall High School and he performed with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance in “Our Town” and “West Side Story.” Since then, Conarro graduated from New York University, moved to Juneau, Alaska, to join the Perseverance Theatre as a company member and worked with middle and high school students as a teaching artist.