Artists

Elizabeth Bunch has appeared in more than 90 productions at Alley Theatre including Theresa Rebeck’s world premiere of Fool. She was also in Ms. Rebeck’s plays The Scene, Mauritius, and the workshops of Enlightened and Dig. Elizabeth was also directed by Ms. Re­beck in All My Sons. Other favorite Alley performances include Noises Off, Little Comedies, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Constellations, Grounded, The Humans, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The 39 Steps, Dracula, Other Desert Cit­ies, Clybourne Park, Our Town, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Doubt, Proof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NYC and Region­al- Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie, Den­ver Center, Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, Keen Company, and The Flea. NYU Tisch. @Its_Elizabeth_Bunch.

Michelle Elaine is a Resident Acting Company member. Michelle origi­nated the role of Miss Scarlet in the First National Tour of Clue: A New Comedy. Favorite Alley Theatre credits: Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sense and Sensibility, Sweat, Quack, and All The Way. Michelle was awarded the Houston Press Awards Best Supporting Actress for her role as the title character in Clyde’s at The Ensemble Theatre. Stages: POTUS. Check out Michelle’s web series @castmedammit on YouTube! michelleelaineofficial.com.

Dylan Godwin is a Resi­dent Acting Company member and recently appeared in the Alley The­atre’s Noises Off (Garry Lejeune), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (Philip Lombard), Dial M for Murder (Lesgate), Little Comedies (Aplombov), Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Ralph Paton), The Servant of Two Masters (Silvio), Clue (Wadsworth), Born with Teeth (Will), and Fully Committed (Sam). National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: Born with Teeth (Guthrie The­atre and Asolo Rep); Miller, Mississippi (Dallas Theatre Center); Beauty and the Beast, 110 in the  Shade, Reefer Madness, The Music Man, First Date, Bonnie and Clyde, Oliver, Sweet Potato Queens (Theatre Under the Stars); Life Could Be A Dream, AltarBoyz (Stages).

Chris Hutchison This past season was one of Chris’s favorites in his 19 years as a member of the Resident Acting Company. He appeared in Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and Chekov’s Little Comedies. Past favorites include: Quack, Constellations, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. A 30-year career has taken him from Los Angeles to NYC to Houston and many points between. BA Lafayette College, MFA University of Washington. Proud member of Actors’ Eq­uity and SAG-AFTRA.

Melissa Molano is a Resident Acting Company mem­ber. Previous Alley shows include Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Jane Eyre, Little Comedies, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Servant of Two Masters, A Christmas Carol, Clue, and 72 miles to go… Other previous roles include: The River Bride (Belmira), Man of La Mancha (Antonia), I and You (Caro­line), The Book of Maggie (Maggie). She’s also a voice and film actor featured on streaming plat­forms HiDive, Netflix and Prime. Instagram/X: @melissacmolano.

David Rainey is in his 24th season as a Resident Acting Com­pany member recently appearing in Noises Off. He has also per­formed with The National Actors Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, among others. He received the Juilliard Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize. And he is the owner of Studio for Actors Houston.

Christopher Salazar is a Res­ident Acting Company mem­ber. Alley audiences may re­member him from Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, The Nerd, and Little Comedies. Select credits include: Three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the world premieres of The Copper Children, The Way the Mountain Moved, and Off the Rails; eleven productions at The Old Globe; and the award-winning Ameryka with Crit­ical Mass Performance Group. TV: Robert Torres on “Jane, The Virgin.” MFA: Old Globe Theatre/ USD, BA: UNC-Chapel Hill.

Todd Waite is in his 24th season as a Resident Acting Company member. Recently seen in Al­ley Theatre’s Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Dial M for Murder, Jane Eyre, Pictures from Home, Lit­tle Comedies, and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. He has appeared in over 130 Alley productions including five appearances as Sherlock Holmes and eight in the one-man show The Santaland Diaries. He spent six seasons with the Shaw Theatre Festival and was the resident di­rector for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘O’ in Las Vegas, and guest starred on ABC, NBC, and CBS. Mr. Waite received the Presidential Young Arts Award for Acting Teachers. Education: BFA (Acting), MFA (Directing).

Adam Gibbs has appeared in five world premieres with Alley Theatre. He’s an avid woodworker, musician, and cook. His greatest blessings
are B,M, & R. He’s prominently known as a voice actor for countless anime and video game titles. For booking information and more visit iamadamgibbs.com.

Orlando Arriaga American Mariachi, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, 72 miles to go…, Quixote Nuevo (Alley Theatre). Regional: Twenty50 (TheatreSquared); Romeo Y Juliet (Cal Shakes); The River Bride (Pennsylvania Shakespeare). Film: The Long Game. Orlando is a recipient of the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.

Donna Bella Litton returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in last season’s A Christmas Carol. Previous credits include Chopin’s Letters (Mercury Chamber Or­chestra); Sensitive Guys, NSFW (Stages Repertory Theatre); Pulsate: A Vampire Musical (Prohibition Theater); Side Show, Elf the Musical (Queensbury Theater). BFA Musical Theatre 2018, Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Brandon Hearnsberger Alley Theatre: 21 pro­ductions including Dial M for Murder (co-production with Cin­cinnati Playhouse in the Park), Agatha Chris­tie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily, Cow­boy Bob, and Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Sopra­no. 4th Wall: The Thanksgiving Play, Gloria. Voiceover for video games and anime. More at brandonhearnsberger.com.

Chris Hury is pleased to return to Alley Theatre after acting in last year’s Alley All New Festival and playing George Wallace and Richard Nixon in Great Society in 2018. He works regularly on stage and screen, appearing in Revolution, Chase, and The Good Guys. BFA Acting, Southern Methodist University.

Christian Tannous is the recipient of the 2023 Houston Press Best Breakthrough Actor award and Audience Favorite at the SparkFest ‘23 Acting Competition. Christian has appeared in The Sound Inside (Christopher Dunn) at 4th Wall Theatre Co., Kingdom Undone (Jesus of Nazareth) at A.D. Players, and Appropriate (Franz) at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

Alric Davis B.F.A. Howard University. Favorite acting credits include Phe­nomenal Woman, Trouble in Mind, Anything Goes and The Legend of Georgia McBride. Founding Artistic Director of theatre organization The Sankofa Collective. Directing credits include The Color Purple, The Bodyguard, Next to Normal, Twelfth Night, Ju­lius Caesar, Plumshuga (Asst.), Miss Evers Boys, You’re Cordially Invited to Sit In (Asst.) and The Wiz. His original play Bashful and the Noize was performed at the Kennedy Center in 2021. IG: @GodisGodandIamNot.

John Ryan Del Bosque is excited to be spreading Christ­mas cheer for another holiday sea­son at Alley Theatre! Other credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Ensemble/Seymour & Mushnik US), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble/Pirelli US), Hands on a Hard­body (Jesus Peña) at TUTS. Pageant The Musical (Miss Bible Belt), The Rocky Horror Show (Riff Raff), By Any Other Name (Agnus) at Forest­burgh Playhouse. Pedro Pan (Ensemble) at NYC Fringe. Drag Wonderettes (Missy), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chip), La Llorona (Self) at Stages Theatre. Proud Teaching Artist with Alley Education! Much love to family, friends, Arturo, & Chicobaby! @johnryandel.

Derrick Moore is a Houston-based filmmaker and actor known for The Brother’s Size, A Raisin in the Sun at American Players Theater, and his de­but film In Contrast. He has also performed in Choir Boy at the National Black Theatre Festi­val and at Virginia Stage Company. Follow him @derrickd.moore.

Diana Irais Alcaraz-Villa is thrilled to return to Alley Theatre! Alley Theatre: American Mariachi (Isabel); Stages: Panto: Alicia in Wonderland (Dina, Tweedledum, March Hare), Sin Muros: A Latinx Theatre Festival ’23 (Tia Carolina), ’24 (Mayor), current commit­tee member, Main Street Theatre: Cinderella (Grace); Latiniduh! (Choreographer), Sexo y Tor­tillas (Eli). BFA- Sam Houston State University. @dianaalcarazvilla

Elissa Cuellar (she/her/ hers) is thrilled to be returning to Alley Theatre. Elissa has a great soft spot for the people of Houston and the wonderful, complex art that they create, and she cannot wait to continue producing and making magic with the creative community here.

Jeremy Gee is a Houston-based actor and is happy to be working at Alley Theatre this holiday season. Jeremy has worked regionally in Houston, Atlanta, GA and South Carolina. He is also a voice actor and can be heard in many English dubs of popular an­ime. Huge thank you to Annie for all of her love and support.

Brittany Halen is ec­static to return to Alley Theatre! Previously at the Alley: A Christ­mas Carol and Around the World in 80 Days! Regional Theatre: Escape to Margaritaville, Once, Spitfire Grill, The Good­bye Girl, Bright Star, Me and My Girl, George M!, The Rocky Horror Show, Reefer Madness, Yan­kee Doodle Dandy, White Christmas, Guys and Dolls, Urban Cowboy, Mack and Mabel, Failure; A Love Story. BrittanyHalen.com.

Shawn Hamilton recently appeared at Alley Theatre in Thorton Wilder’s The Emporium, The Nerd, Little Comedies, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Servant of Two Masters, The Odyssey, Clue, Amerikin, Sweat, and 1984. He has recently done voice work on Rick and Morty and is currently appearing as Mike on Ninja Kamui both on HBO Max. He is a graduate of HSPVA, Circle In The Square, The University of North Texas, and the Yale School of Drama and is a proud member of Actors Equity.

Brock Hatton returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in last season’s A Christmas Carol. He has most recently been seen in Main Street Theater’s production of Sher­lock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel (Sherlock Holmes) and Thunderclap Production’s Melville and Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne). Other credits include Main Street Theater: Pres­ent Laughter (Roland Maule), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Caractacus Potts), Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arthur de Bourgh). Brock is a grad­uate from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences.

Jenn Harris is an award-winning actress, writer, and director who originated roles such as Clarice in Silence! The Musical, Rosalind in Christopher Durang’s Turning off the Morning News, and Ailene in the Oscar winning film American Fiction. Her recently released short film She’s Clean won Best Director and Best Actress on the film festival circuit. She is an alumni of the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Directing Program. Jennharris.me

Leandro Salazar is a Cuban actor and UH Acting BFA graduate. He is grateful to be part of a world premiere for his Alley  Theatre debut. He would like to thank his partner Adriana for their unwavering faith in his work and being the most inspiring person he knows.

Lindsay Ehrhardt Alley Theatre debut! Select credits include: Classical Theatre Company (Artistic Company Member) – The Taming of the Shrew, The School for Scandal, Medea, Lysistrata; Main Street Theater – Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Best of Everything, Relatively Speaking; Catastrophic Theatre – Fefu and Her Friends. BFA from Baylor University. @raptorlindsay.

Luis Vega Theater: Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater); The Gett (Rattlestick Theater); The Underlying Chris (Second Stage); Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater); Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); The Humans (Broadway National Tour). Film/TV: Elsbeth (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Good Fight (Paramount+). MFA: UCSD.

Maggie Bofill Actor, Playwright. Member LAByrinth Theater Company. Ensemble Studio Theater (EST). Theater: Tracy, Judgement Day (Opposite Jason Alexander, Chicago Shakes); Estella, Laughs in Spanish (World Premiere, Denver Center); Elena, All of Me (Barrington Stage); Lorena, Bai Pas (George St. Playhouse). TV: Elsbeth, FBI: Most Wanted, The Path; High Town, Law & Order: SVU.

Amanda Martinez Alley Theatre: A Christ­mas Carol, Dial M for Murder, American Mariachi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Off-Broadway: It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play, Six Corners, Esther. Regional: Laughs in Spanish, Present Laughter, The Best of Everything, Aunt Julia & the Script­writer, Camelot, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lysistra­ta. Love to Chris! AmandaMartinezActor.com. @mandimartinez.

David Matranga is thrilled to return to Alley Theatre where he was last seen as Jeff Browning in Chisa Hutchinson’s World Premiere Amerikin. David participated in the Alley All New Festival 2023 reading of The Janeiad and is thrilled to be a part of this fully realized production. Training: Yale School of Drama.

Miriam A. Laube Broadway: Bombay Dreams. Off-Broadway: Monsoon Wedding (St Ann’s Warehouse) Pericles (Public Theater). Film: Anything’s Possible (Amazon). In 17 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival she has played Cleopatra, Olivia, Hermione, Rosalind and Julia, The Witch in Into the Woods, Vasantasena in The Clay Cart, Gynecia in Head Over Heels, among others. She has worked regionally at Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, and The Denver Center. She is honored to be both a Fox Fellow and a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Nicole Rodenburg is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre where she previously appeared in Venus in Fur and As You Like It. NYC Theatre: Watch Me (Clubbed Thumb), Usual Girls (Roundabout), The Winter’s Tale (TFANA), The Antipodes (Signature), The Flick (Barrow Street). Select Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Westport), The Whale (world premiere, Denver Center), Bus Stop (Huntington), Slasher (Humana), three seasons with the Great River Shakespeare Festival. TV: Fleishman is in Trouble, The Shivering Truth, Amish Witches, The Girls Guide to Depravity, Inside Amy Schumer. FILM: Dream Team (Rotterdam 2024), Twin Snakes (upcoming), The Long Run (upcoming), Glob Lessons (directorial debut, Tribeca 2021), What Children Do, Tenderly, Tic, Good News for Modern Man.

Patricia Duran is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre, having performed in several Alley All New Festivals and productions of Our Lady of 121st Street and A Christmas Carol. Locally, Duran has worked with 4th Wall, A.D. Players, Catastrophic Theatre, Classical Theatre Company, Main Street Theater, Mildred’s Umbrella, and Stages. She has also voiced anime and video games. PatriciaDuran.net.

Melissa Pritchett recently appeared in the Alley Theatre’s The Nerd, Jane Eyre, Little Come­dies, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Servant of Two Masters, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and Sense and Sensibility. She has done movement direction for several Alley productions: Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sense and Sensibility, Doris Baizley’s A Christmas Carol, and The Winter’s Tale. She also choreographed several shows for Bayou City Concert Musicals including Promises, Promises, Bells are Ringing, and The Pajama Game.

Kory LaQuess Pullam was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He has been blessed to work on stage across the nation, includ­ing the Guthrie, Alley Theatre, Mixed Blood, Park Square, Stages Repertory, Penumbra, Ensemble, and many more. Catch Kory next in Death of a Salesman at Rec Room Arts and keep up with him on social media by following @laquess.

Luis Quintero is thrilled to return to the Alley for the holiday season. Re­cently he debuted as a Playwright, Lyricist and Composer Off-Broadway. His Hip- Hop/Rage against the Machine adaptation Medea Re-Versed was co-produced with Red Bull The­ater, Bedlam, and Hudson Valley Shakespeare. Original Cast Album available everywhere. Alley Theatre credits include: American Mariachi, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Sweat. Regional: Henry V, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Mr. Burns, Macbeth, Cyrano, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, The River Bride, Around the World in 80 Days, and Sanctuary City.

Daniel Regojo is a Houston native with a BFA from the University of Houston main campus. Some of his past credits include Ken in Waitin’ for Gato (Sin Muros 2024), a performed understudy role as Jason in Clyde’s, Erik in Massacre: Sing to your Children, and several Oskar tours with Alley The­atre. He also does voice overs for anime with Sen­tai Filmworks, a current cast member of Dinner Detective, and is a TA with Alley ECE!

Gabriel Regojo is excited to be back at Alley Theatre. Previous Alley credits include: Jane Eyre (St. John Rivers), Sense and Sensibility (Male Swing). Additional credits include: Classical Theatre (Company Member): War of The Worlds (George), R.U.R. (Alquist), Nevermore (Actor 1), Lysistrata (Cinesias); Catastrophic Theatre (Core Ensemble): Eddie goes to Poetry City (Eddie), The Blackest Shore (Stuart), Bootycandy (Actor 5); Stages Repertory Theatre: My Mañana Comes (Jorge), Water by the Spoonful (Elliot); Rec Room: Sender (Jordan), Exit Strategy (Luce); Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company: Dry Land (Victor). Gabriel is also a current Teaching Artist with Alley ECE and Voice Actor with over 40 credits in anime and video games.

Briana J. Resa is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre. Alley credits: American Mariachi, What-A-Christmas!, 72 Miles to Go…, Sense and Sensibility, Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol. Regional: Wolf at the Door, Much Ado About Nothing (American Players Theatre), Private Lives (Arizona Theatre Company). Locally she has performed with Stages, Main Street Theatre, 4th Wall, TUTS. Briana is recipient of the 2020 Houston Press Theatre Award, Best Solo Show: Empanada Loca. BFA Musical Theatre SHSU. Instagram: @brianaresa

Spencer Plachy is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre after 15 years! Houston Grand Opera: The Sound of Music. Main Street Theater: Darcy in Christmas at Pemberly (All Three). National Tour: Scar in Disney’s The Lion King. Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Antony in Julius Caesar. TV: Shades of Blue (NBC).

Susan Koozin returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in Jane Eyre, Pictures from Home, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (world premiere), Cowboy Bob (world premiere), Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano (world premiere), Clue, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Recent Houston performances include Sunrise Coven (world premiere, Stages Theatre); Mary Poppins, Sister Act (TUTS).

Raven Justine Troupe is excited to be participating in another produc­tion with the Alley Theatre! Previ­ous Alley credits include: Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium (Lauren­cia); Seascape (Sarah); Amerikin (Chris); Doris Baizley’s A Christmas Carol (Belle/Mrs. Fred), Sophia (Xerxes), Alley All New Festival 2019; Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol (Resto­ration Apparition/ Wendy/ Martha Cratchit), and Skeleton Crew (Assistant Director). Other credits: Sanctuary City (4th Wall Theatre Co); Rent, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, Elf the Musical, Spring Awakening, Seussical the Musi­cal, Mamma Mia, The Wiz (TUTS); Little Shop Of Horrors (Stages); For Colored Girls… (Obsidian); and Funny Girl (Art Factory).

Afsaneh Aayani Select credits: Regional: English (The Old Globe and Alliance Theatre); Alley All New Festival, A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre); Birthday Can­dles (Chautauqua Theater); Disgraced (American Stage); Romeo and Juliet (Two River Theater); The Ugly Christmas Sweater (TUTS); Alabaster (Trinity Rep). Other credits: Extinctionist (Heart­beat Opera), Turn of the Screw, Innominate, Cleansed, Waiting for Godot (Catastrophic The­atre); Roe, Black Superhero Magic Mama (Stag­es); Frida, Sunday in the Park With George (El Paso Opera); Big Swim (Houston Grand Opera); King Lear (Houston Shakespeare); Finding Nemo the Musical (Theatre of the Republic); Blueberry’s Clubhouse (PBS Arkansas); Little Shop of Hor­rors (Moores School Of Music); Education: BFA, Puppetry, Tehran University of Art; MFA, Scenic Design, University of Houston.

Adam Noble has over 25 years of pro­fessional experience augmenting physical storytelling in the performing arts. Certified by both the Society of American Fight Di­rectors and by Intimacy Directors & Coordi­nators, Adam teaches acting and movement both nationally and internationally. Serving across artistic disciplines, he’s created nu­anced choreography for well over 250 pro­ductions. Adam is Head of the newly-creat­ed University of Houston + Alley Theatre MFA Professional Actor Training Program.

Agatha Christie Born in Torquay, England in 1890, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. With over one billion books sold in English and another billion in over 100 languages, she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She wrote 80 crime novels and collections of short stories, over 25 plays (including The Mousetrap, the world’s longest running play), and six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the world to the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, followed a decade later by the shrewd and often-underestimated Miss Marple.

Aja M. Jackson is thrilled to return to Alley Theatre! Previous Alley: The Nerd. Broadway: Fat Ham*, Lempicka*. Off-Broadway: A Commer­cial Jingle for Regina Comet, Rock and Roll Man, Monsoon Wedding*. Regional: American Repertory Theatre, The Hunting­ton, Hartford Stage, Everyman Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Olney Theatre. Dance: Modern Connections, HoldTight, Ailey 2, and Hubbard Street Dance Chica­go. Awards: OEAA Outstanding Lighting Design for Kinky Boots (2022). *Associ­ate/Assistant. Proud member of USA 829. ajajacksonlighting.com @ajamjackson

Alan C. Edwards Off-Broadway: Sally & Tom (Public); The Hot Wing King, Fires In The Mirror [Lortel Nom.], Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Signature NYC); Harry Clarke [Lortel Award] (Vineyard); Kill Move Paradise [Drama Desk nom] (National Black Theatre). Regional: Gatsby: An American Myth; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (A.R.T.); Sally & Tom (Guthrie); Lights Out: Nat King Cole, Paradise Blue, (Geffen Playhouse). West End: Harry Clarke. Broadway: The Testament of Mary (Assoc. to Jennifer Tipton). Education/Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Amanda Roberge is a New York-based costume designer for theater, opera, film and television. She is invested in pursuing sustainable design practices. Recent works include the Climate Change Operas, (BAM, world premier), Pamela Palmer (Williamstown, world premier), and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Berkshire Theater Group). MFA NYU Tisch School of Design for Stage and Film.

Amy Ramsdell National tours: To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamilton, Hello, Dolly!, A Christmas Car­ol, Les Misérables, Elf, Dreamgirls, Once. Past credits include: Frozen, Little Shop of Horrors, Hamilton (Chicago), Marvin’s Room, God Looked Away (with Al Pacino), Choir Boy, Billy Elliot, First Date, Bad Jews, Barcelona, The Country House. TUTS, Gef­fen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, Pas­adena Playhouse, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre. Always for Chris and Mom & Papa.

André Pluess Broadway credits include Goonight Oscar (Belasco); The Minutes (Cort/Studio 54); 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neill Theatre); I Am My Own Wife (Lyceum Theatre); and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway credits include The Clean House (Lincoln Center); Milk Like Sugar and BFE (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Berkeley Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory.

Anna Ziegler Plays include Photograph 51, which starred Nicole Kidman in an acclaimed West End run (WhatsOnStage Award, Best New Play), is on Audible and in Bloomsbury’s Modern Classics series; The Last Match (Roundabout, Old Globe); Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown, Geffen Playhouse, London’s Trafalgar Studios, L.A. Ovation Award for Playwriting); BOY (Outer Critics Circle Gassner Award nominee); The Wanderers (Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Play); and A Delicate Ship (NY Times Critic’s Pick). Anna Ziegler: Plays One and Plays Two are published by Bloomsbury. TV/film projects are in development at CBS Studios, Defiant by Nature and Leviathan Productions.

 Raquel Barreto is pleased to be back at Alley Theatre after design­ing Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, A Christ­mas Carol, 1984, The Winter’s Tale, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Recent credits: Cebollas (Denver Center) and Art (Guth­rie Theater). Oregon Shakespeare Festival (six seasons); Maker Taper Forum; Chicago Shake­speare Theater; St. Louis Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville; California Shakespeare Theater; Arena Stage; Berkeley Rep; Syracuse Stage; Corner­stone Theater; Latino Theater Company. Raquel is from Brazil and lives in Austin, where she heads the MFA in Costume Design at the University of Texas. raquelbarreto.com.

Brandon Clark is in his 3rd season with Alley Theatre. Previous credits include Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, Thornton Wild­er’s The Emporium, Cowboy Bob, Torera, and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Texas Shakespeare Festival (SM): Romeo and Juliet, The Book of Will, (ASM): Othello, Into the Woods. BA, Theatre: Uni­versity of Northern Iowa. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. @brandont­clark

Brenda Abbandandolo Broadway: Mary Jane, The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window (2023 Hewes Design Award). Off Broadway: Scene Partners (Vineyard), The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window (Bam), Camp Siegfried (Second Stage), A Case For The Existence Of God (Signature), Russian Troll Farm (Virtual: Obie Award), Moby Dick (A.R.T), Octet (Signature), Continuity (MTC), Enemy Of The People (The Guthrie), I’ll Get You Back Again (Roundhouse), The Team’s Mission Drift (National Theatre of London). Film/ TV: The Quiz Lady, Coda (Academy Award Best Picture), An American Pickle, The Disaster Artist, Saturday Night Live (Associate CD). Other: MFA/NYU TSOA, The Team, bnadesigner.com.

Isabella Byrd is a Houston-born, Brooklyn-based designer working in live performance. Notable credits: Broadway: Cabaret and An Enemy of the People (both 2024 Tony-nominated). Off- Broadway premiers: Infinite Life (Annie Baker), Primary Trust (Eboni Booth), Epiphany (Brian Watkins), Sanctuary City (Martyna Majok), The Good John Proctor (Talene Monahon), and many by Will Arbery: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Corsicana, and Plano. Awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortels, Henry Hewes, Obies, Tony nominations. Proud USA829 member, pay equity and sustainability advocate. www.isabellabyrd.design.

Carolina Ortiz Herrera is a Mexican-born and New York-based Lighting Designer for theater, opera, and dance. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar. Regional: American Mariachi and Born with Teeth (Alley Theatre); Native Gardens (Dallas Theatre Center); Medea Re-versed and By The Queen (Hudson Valley Shakespeare); Yellowman, an Audelco Awards Best Lighting Design nominee (Billie Holiday Theatre); Cruzar (Minneapolis Opera); Romeo & Juliet (Opera Idaho); and Florencia en el Amazonas (Shubert Theatre).

Cliff Caruthers is a San Francisco-based sound designer and composer with over 300 production cred­its, including Pictures from Home, Born with Teeth for Alley Theatre, Frankenstein for Guthrie Theater, Caucasian Chalk Circle for ACT, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Rep, Sweat for Center Rep, Man in Love for KC Rep, and Fun Home for TheatreWorks, where he was Resident Sound Designer for seven years. He is co-curator of the SF Tape Music Festival, a proud member of United Scenic Artists, and teaches sound design at SFSU. cliffcaruthers.com.

John L. Cornelius II is a member of ASCAP and the American Federation of Musicians (Local 65-699). He has written sev­eral works for the lyric theater including Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude, Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds, Mirandy and Brother Wind, and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings. Dr. Cornelius is a native of Jackson, Mis­sissippi and is Professor of Music at Prairie View A&M University.

David Arevalo is a Texas born costume designer whose work is grounded in collaboration, slow process, and the transformation of materials. He is excited to make his Alley Theatre debut. Upcoming: What the Constitution Means to Me – OKC Rep; Noël Coward’s Private Lives – Alley Theatre; Aztlan – Magic Theatre; Previous (Selected): Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind – Pregones; Selling Kabul – Northlight Theatre; Don’t Let the Pigeon Sing Up Late! – The Kennedy Center. www.darevalo.com

David R. Molina Recent Credits: Memnon (Getty Villa); The XIXTH, El Borracho (The Old Globe); Hotter Than Egypt (DCPA); Twelfth Night, King Lear (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth (Next Chapter Podcasts); Quixote Nuevo (national tours, Alley Theatre). Resident Artist: NAKA, La Lengua, La Mezcla. Awards: LA Ovation, Creative Capital, St. Louis Theater Circle, Colorado Henry Award, MAP Fund, Intermusic SF MGP, SF Arts Commission. Multimedia: SFMOMA, The Broad, OMCA. Bands: Impuritan, Ghosts and Strings, Transient. drmsound.com

Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was born into a lower-middle class family in Portsmouth, England. When Dickens was 12, his father was imprisoned for debt and Dick­ens was forced to work in a boot factory. He never forgot this humiliation and fictionalized it in some of his novels. Inspired to write a Christmas story to encourage people to help those in need and to lessen his own financial woes, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks. The book was an instant best-seller that not only introduced a new Christmas story genre, but also, according to some scholars, invented the modern form of the Christ­mas holiday in England and America. A prolific novelist once described as “a writer who could re­veal the very pulse of life,” Dickens’ most famous works include The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pick­wick Papers, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times: For These Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among others.

Elizabeth Williamson (she/her/hers) is an OBIE Award-winning director, dramaturg, and adapter. Alley Theatre: Jane Eyre. Broadway/West End: The Inheritance (Tony, Olivier, Critics Circle, Evening Standard, GLAAD, and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Honoree), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award for Best Musical), Anastasia, Some Like It Hot. Off-Broadway/ Regional: About Face, ACT, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Court Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre, Primary Stages, Steppenwolf, Theatre de La Jeune Lune, The Vineyard, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Young Vic in London. Williamson’s adaptation of Jane Eyre is published by TRW, she received a 2007 NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation and is a member of SDC and LMDA. Education: M.St., Oxford University; B.A., Bennington College; trained at the École Internationale de Théàtre Jacques Lecoq. Williamson currently serves as Artistic Director of Geva Theatre in Rochester NY.

Ethan Mitchell is ecstatic to return to Alley Theatre! Previously: The Bleeding Class (Alley All New Festival 2023), Cowboy Bob, High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest. Seven seasons and over 20 productions at Theatre Under the Stars. Houston Ballet: Coppélia, The Merry Widow, Marie, and The Nutcracker (2019-2022). ZACH Theatre: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Ethan has a BFA in Theatre from Texas State University, and is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Frederick Kennedy is a Canadian-American sound de­signer, musician, and composer. Recent projects include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Primary Trust (Signature The­atre), The Folks at Home (Baltimore Center Stage), and The Forbidden City (audio play; Lincoln Center Theatre). In addition to the­ater, he has worked for more than two de­cades as a touring and recording jazz drum­mer. Faculty, University of Minnesota, The­atre Arts & Dance; United Scenic Artists, Local 829; MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.fredkennedy.org

Madolyn Friedman is thrilled to return to Alley Theatre after stage managing in the DC area for the last two years. Alley credits: Sweat, Doris Baizley’s A Christmas Carol, Amerikin, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Born with Teeth. Off-Broadway credits: A Strange Loop, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons) Regional Credits: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth The­atre Company, Arena Stage, Stages, Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet.

Isaac Gómez (they/them) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, and many others. They are currently under commission with Steppenwolf, Lincoln Center, South Coast Rep, and Denver Center. They are the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, and an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. Their television credits include the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me, Paramount Plus’s Joe Pickett, among others. They have had television series and features developed by FX, Focus Features, and others and recently sold a pilot to MRC Entertainment in a bidding war between multiple studios. A proud member of the Writers Guild of America West, Isaac is also a WGA Captain, served as a Strike Captain during the historic 2023 Writers Guild Strike, and was nominated by the union to run for Vice President in 2023. Isaac strives to tell stories that often go untold across all mediums of writing.

Amber D. Gray is a theatre Producer, Director, Performer, and Administrator. She received a BFA in Musical Theater at Rockford University. Her first major performances began at a very young age performing around Houston including the Opening of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Superbowl XXXVIII Pre-game show with Josh Groban, for previous Presidents, and much more. Amber previously performed in the Chicago area receiving her Equity Membership Candidacy. Amber then returned to Houston and began directing, choreographing, teaching Musical Theatre, and later becoming a Dance Studio Director. Amber’s career led her to Washington DC where she was the Company Manager at Arena Stage Theater. Following DC, Amber found herself in NYC as the Assistant Line Producer at The Public Theater. She has now returned to Houston Assistant Directing (Alley Theatre’s High School Play, A Nostalgia Fest; Stages Repertory Theatre: upcoming, cullud wattah) and recently performed in Stages Repertory Theatre’s Putnam County Spelling Bee as Marcy. She is currently the Associate Artistic Director for New York’s Reading Series BlackBoard Plays, Artistic Producer for the national Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival, General Manager for Detroit’s Obsidian Theatre Festival, and the Senior Producer for GhostLight Productions, Inc. For more information about Amber, please visit her website at amberdgray.com.

Erica Griese Cos­tume design credits at Alley Theatre include Sweat, Fully Committed, Grounded. Other costume design credits include The Father (4th Wall), As You Like It (Houston Shake­speare), And Then There Were None, Blithe Spirit (Unity Theater), How I Learned to Drive (Landing Theatre), Hot ‘N’ Throbbing (Interrobang Theatre), Impenetrable (Stage Left), Bachelorette, Sweet and Sad, Assist­ed Living (Profiles Theatre), A Little Night Music, Clean House, An Ideal Husband, The Wild Party, Metamorphoses (Indiana University).

H. Russ Brown is a nationally recognized Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. His work on the Alley Theatre stage has included The Three Musketeers (2019 Houston Press Award), The Servant of Two Masters, and Cleo. He currently serves as the Head of Theatre / Artistic Director at College of the Mainland. His greatest source of pride, however, is his beautiful family, whom he loves more than swords.

Helen Huang is an award-winning costume designer whose credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, Classic Stage Company, Disney Entertainment, and The Washington Ballet. International credits include set and costume design for National Opera House of China and the Central Television of China. Awards: Helen Hayes Award and Ivey Award. Helen is a professor of Costume Design at University of Maryland, College Park. Publication: Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers. helenqhuang.com.

Jack Beetle began his professional career as an actor specializing in Shakespeare and musical theatre. This is Jack’s tenth collaboration with the Alley Theatre. Additionally, he has worked locally with the Houston Ballet, Theatre Under the Stars, Stages Repertory Theatre, and Generations: A Theatre Company. An active voice teacher, he maintains a private studio in Houston’s Heights neighborhood and is on faculty at Rice University.

Jade Devault is a professional dancer and teaching artist. Her journey is anchored by a BFA in Performance and Choreography from Texas State University. Over the years, she has collaborated with various dance companies and choreographers, enriching the Houston dance landscape. Off stage, she has served as an associate choreographer at notable venues like Alley Theatre and Theatre Under The Stars. Jade is thrilled to return for another year of A Christmas Carol.

Jessica Pabst Inherit the Wind, Roe (Goodman Theatre), Little Bear Ridge Road (Steppenwolf Theatre). Broadway: Cost of Living, Marvin’s Room, The Heidi Chronicles. Off Broadway: World premiers with Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theatre, and Lincoln Center. Regional: Premiers with Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Theater Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Humana Festival of New Plays. Lucille Lortel Award for The Whale (Playwrights Horizons). Multiple Henry Hewes Design award and Drama Desk nominations. jessicapabst.com.

Carolyn Johnson is a Dialect & Acting Coach, Equity Ac­tress, Director, and Singer with more than 30 years of experience. Most recently, she coached Jane Eyre for Alley Theatre. She has coached for Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real Opera (Madrid), The Barbican (London), Prague Shake­speare Company, and Stages Houston, among others. Carolyn regularly teach­es voice and text for Prague Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare training intensive in Prague and works with the online dialect resource, AccentHelp.com.

Justin Yu is a na­tive Houstonian and Chef and Partner of Thorough Fare Hospitality which owns and operates some of Houston’s most beloved independent restaurants and bars includ­ing Theodore Rex, Better Luck Tomor­row, Squable, Anvil, Refuge and Catbirds. A graduate of Memorial High School and the Culinary Institute of America, his work in the kitchen has been recognized by the Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Bon Appetit, and Food and Wine Magazines. He was a Food and Wine Best New Chef in 2014 and was the recipient of a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest in 2017. Recently, Theodore Rex was recognized as a Michelin Bib Gourmand by the Michelin guide.

Kaylee Sarton McCray Selected previous Alley Theatre credits include: The Janeiad, Jane Eyre, Little Comedies, Sherlock Holmes…Jersey Lily, Cowboy Bob, and more. Recently, Kaylee was the Stage Manager for A.D. Players’ production of Fiddler on the Roof. She has also stage managed at other organizations in Houston and beyond including Queensbury Theatre, Main Street Theatre for Youth, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and more. BFA from Sam Houston State University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Kristen Larson is in her 12th season with the Alley Theatre. Favorite Alley credits: Little Comedies; Clue; Sense and Sensibility; Sweat; 1984; The Humans; Twelfth Night; Holmes and Watson; Lover, Beloved (world premiere); Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol; The 39 Steps; and Syncing Ink (AANF workshop and world premiere). Locally she has worked with Stages Theatre and TUTS and out of town in Chicago and Juneau, Alaska. Krissy is currently the Alley’s Production Stage Manager.

Laura Pilar Gutierrez (she/her) is honored to be working with Alley Theatre again! Thank you to my friends and family for always supporting me. Love y’all and enjoy the show! Past credits: ASM: Girl from the North Country Tour; Torera, Pictures From Home, The World is Not Silent, Dial M for Murder (Alley Theatre); Shrek the Musical (Slow Burn Theatre Company).

Michael Locher is Alley Theatre’s Director of Design and made his Alley debut with Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Recent regional credits include productions for the Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Yale Repertory Theatre, and more. Michael’s designs have been seen Off-Broadway and at venues throughout New York and the Northeast. Michael served as a professor at San Jose State University for six years. Graduate: University of California San Diego, Yale School of Drama.

Marcela Lorca Her directing and choreography has been seen in venues like the Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Mixed Blood Theater, Goodman Theater, Washington Shakespeare, as well as community venues that range from Correctional Facilities to Shelters through her work at Ten Thousand Things Theater. Directing credits include Helen, The Spitfire Grill, Stir, Emilia, Stones in His Pockets, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Comedy of Errors, Thunder Knocking on the Door, The Sins of Sor Juana, The Winter’s Tale, Into The Woods, Caroline; Or Change, and Disgraced, among others. Numerous original plays include Macondo, Confluence, and Incurable: A Fool’s Tale. She served as Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Things from 2018-24. Before then she worked at the Guthrie Theater where she directed movement for over 150 plays and choreographed over 20. She is a founding member of the University of Minnesota BFA Actor Training Program and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. In 2019 she received the prestigious Zelda Fichandler award.

Marisela Treviño Orta has an MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. She is a Playwrights’ Center Affiliated Writer and member of the Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas. Marisela’s award-winning work has been produced at theatres across the country, including American Players Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Nashville Children’s Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This year she had her first international production in Mexico City. Marisela’s plays The River Bride and Wolf at the Door are available via the publisher Samuel French. And her Audible commission play Nightfall is available on their platform.

Melanie Chen Cole is a San Diego-based sound designer. Alley Theatre: Jane Eyre, The World is Not Silent, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily, High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest. Regional theatre credits: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Northern Stage, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UC San Diego. melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole on Instagram.

Rob Melrose is the Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre where he has directed productions of Pictures from Home, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium (world premiere), The Servant of Two Masters, Born with Teeth (world premiere), Sweat, The Winter’s Tale, 1984, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and adapted and directed A Christmas Carol. He was formerly the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. He has directed at The Public Theater, The Guthrie Theater, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Rep, Magic Theatre, The Old Globe, and PlayMakers Rep among others. He has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, USF, the University of Rhode Island, and Marin Academy. He has a BA in English and Theater from Princeton University and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Rob directed Strindberg’s Svarta Handsken (The Black Glove) in Stockholm, Sweden at Strindberg’s Intimate Theater. His translations of Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, and Pelleas & Melisande have been published by EXIT Press and his adaptations of The Servant of Two Masters and A Christmas Carol have been published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. He has written a number of plays including: Helen of Troy, The Flat Earth, Divorsosaurus, When Human Voices Wake Us, Asylum, and Serpentyne and has written a rock musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz.

Micha Espinosa is an internationally recognized voice specialist and teaching artist renowned for her work in culturally inclusive pedagogies. Professor at Arizona State University, she has taught across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Espinosa is the inaugural Artistic Director for the Fitzmaurice Voice Institute and the award-winning editor of Monologues for Latino Actors: A Resource Guide to the Contemporary Latino/a Playwrights and co-editor for the award-winning Scenes for Latinx Actors and Latinx Actor Training.

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933. He began his career as a reporter for The Guardian and later The Observer. After leaving the Observer he continued to write as a columnist as well as publishing novels and plays for television and stage. His plays for stage include Copenhagen, After Life, The Two of Us, Alphabetical Order, Donkeys’ Years, Clouds, Balmoral (Liberty Hall), Make and Break, Noises Off, Benefactors, Alarms and Excursions, Look Look, Here and Make and Break. Other translations include four full-length Chekhov plays (The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya) and four one-act plays (The Evils of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Bear, and The Proposal). Mr. Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.

Molly Wetzelis a professional voice and dialect coach and actor. She’s an Assistant Professor of Voice and Speech at the University of Houston and teaches clients from around the world through her private business, “molly does dialects.” She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Houston.

Nia Sciarretta is excited to work with the team at Alley Theatre. Previous­ly, she served as resident Production Stage Man­ager at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL, stage managing more than 40 productions in her time there. Nia has also worked with the Sig­nature Theatre (NYC), the Clarence Brown The­atre, Creede Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Flea Theatre, and more. Ithaca College graduate. Love to Matthew, for everything.

Nick Vaughan is a Houston-based interdisciplinary artist who generally collaborates with his husband Jake Margolin. Solo exhibitions include: McClain Gallery, Blaffer Art Museum, DiverseWorks, OSUMA, The Invisible Dog, Art League Houston, Aurora Picture Show, Devin Borden Gallery, and non-traditional community-facing venues. Theater: Off-Broadway: The Royale; Roosevelvis; Mission Drift; Architecting. Regional: Newtown; Jane Eyre; Henry V; Seder; Cloud 9. Dance [with Jake Margolin]: Weathering; Calving; Thank You For Coming: Space; Thank You For Coming: Play; Thank You For Coming: Attendance.

Debs Ramser Previous Alley Theatre productions include The Janeiad, Dial M for Murder, Pictures from Home, The Servant of Two Masters, What-A-Christmas!, and several Alley All New Festival works. Debs has stage managed professional theater, musical theater, opera, dance, and concerts for over 25 years, working with Theatre Under The Stars, Main Street Theater, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Prague Shakespeare Company, and Houston Grand Opera, among many others. She is a graduate of Rice University and a proud member of Equity.

Regina García is a Chicago-based scenic designer from Puerto Rico. She has had long standing relationships with the Latinx Theatre’s renowned Teatros including Repertorio Español, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Teatro Vista and Pregones Theater. Recently completed projects include Steppenwolf and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Regina is a Fellow of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and the Princess Grace Awards, USA; a Regional Associate member of the League of Professional Theatre Women; and company member with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago; and Boundless Theatre Company (San Juan/ NYC). She is the Head of the Scenic Design at The Theatre School, DePaul University, and a founding organizational member of La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Production Network.

Kevin Rigdon has created designs for more than 108 productions for the Alley Theatre. He has designed the Broadway productions of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Grapes of Wrath, A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Town, and many more. He has designed around the world including The West End, off-Broadway, The National Theatre, and regional theatres. He is the recipient of two Tony Award nominations, two American Theatre Wing Design awards, and seven Joseph Jefferson awards among many others.

Riw Rakkulchon Riw (pronounced Ree-you) is a Set and Cos­tume Designer, Animator, and Chef from Bangkok, Thailand. He/They has worked at Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep, Edinburgh Fringe, Primary Stages, Hartford Stage, The Public Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Mu­sic, amongst others. Broadway Associate Set Design: Pass Over, &Juliet, Parade. Member of United Scenic Artist 829. Board member of WithAll, a non-profit organiza­tion on a fight to end eating disorders. IG: @riwrdesign

Kathy Ruvuna The Janeiad, What-A-Christmas!, Sweat (Alley Theatre); Hot Wing King, Trouble in Mind (Hartford Stage); Lion in Winter, Pipeline, Cry It Out, Radio Golf (Everyman Theatre); Bernarda’s Daughters (New Group); Self-Portraits (Deluxe); Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr); Ni Mi Madre, In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Circle Jerk, This American Wife (Fake Friends); Clyde’s, The Great Leap, I and You, Read to Me (Portland Stage); M.F.A. in Sound Design – Yale School of Drama.

Victoria Beauray Sagady returns to Alley Theatre after designing projections for The World is Not Silent, Pictures from Home, Torera, and Vietgone. She is also the Director of Video Production at Alley Theatre. Broadway Credits: All the Way (Drama Desk Nomination), The Great Society, Leap of Faith, and Memphis. Off -Broadway: Stop.Reset, Mound Builders, Emotional Creature (Signature Theater), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2nd Stage). Her designs have been seen across the country and internationally in China and Europe.

KJ Sanchez has directed three previous productions at Alley Theatre: American Mariachi by José Cruz González, Quixote Nuevo by Octavio Solis, and What-A-Christmas! by Isaac Gómez. She is the founder and CEO of American Records, making theatre that chronicles our time and serves as a bridge between people. KJ has directed across the country, including Off-Broadway at Urban Stages, The Gene Frankel Theatre, and HERE Arts Center. Regionally, she has directed at (select list) Chicago’s The Goodman Theatre, Studio Theatre in DC, The Huntington in Boston, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Round House Theatre in Bethesda, and Milwaukee Rep. As a playwright, KJ has been produced across the country and internationally. She is the voice of many characters on the cartoons Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. KJ is a Fox Fellow, Douglass Wallop Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and a recipient of the 2014 Rella Lossy Playwright Award. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the MFA Directing programs at the University of Texas at Austin and has a new book out, The Radical Act of Listening, Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre.

Sarita Fellows was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Huntington: Joy and Pandemic, Our Daughters Like Pillars. Broadway: Death of a Salesman. Off Broadway: Elyria (Atlantic Theater Company); The Ally, A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theater). Regional: Theater of the Mind (Denver Center of Performing Arts); Blues for An Alabama Sky and Sweat (Guthrie); Drinking in America (Minetta Lane Theater); Seize the King (Alliance Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (American Conservatory Theater). Education: MFA in design from Tisch School of Design. Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (The National Black Theater Festival 2022) and Lily Award (2020).

Cat Tate Starmer Recent designs at Alley Theatre include Thorn­ton Wilder’s The Emporium, A Christmas Car­ol, The Servant of Two Masters, 1984, A Win­ter’s Tale, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Off-Broadway: Dirty Laundry (WP Theatre); Georgia Mertching is Dead (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Hold These Truths (Epic Theatre Ensemble); Regional Credits: A Thousand Maids, Living and Breathing (Two River Theatre); Hurricane Diane, They Prom­ised Her the Moon (Old Globe Theatre); Steel Magnolias, Frankenstein (Guthrie Theater); Hold These Truths (TheatreWorks: Silicon Valley, ACT Theatre, PlayMakers Rep). Cat has been a guest designer at Princeton, Juil­liard, Yale, Brown, and Barnard College, an adjunct professor at Fordham University, and is currently a lecturer at Rutgers University. MFA: David Geffen School of Drama.

Theresa Rebeck is an Award-win­ning playwright whose work has been staged across the globe. Broadway: I Need That; Bernhardt/Hamlet; Dead Accounts; Seminar; Mauritius. Other notable work includes Dig; Mad House; Seared; Downstairs; The Scene; The Water’s Edge; Loose Knit; The Family of Mann; Spike Heels; Bad Dates; The Butterfly Col­lection; Our House; The Understudy; View of the Dome; What We’re Up Against; Om­nium Gatherum (Pulitzer Prize finalist). As a director, her work has been seen at The Al­ley Theatre, the REP Company, Dorset The­atre Festival, the Orchard Project and the Folger Theatre. Film and TV credits: Trou­ble (writer and director), “NYPD Blue,” NBC’s “Smash” (creator) and many more. Books: Three Girls and Their Brother and I’m Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwrit­ing Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, and a Lilly Award.

Thom Weaver Off-Broadway: Sandra (Vineyard); The Total Bent (Public); Kingdom Come (Roundabout); Exit Strategy (Primary Stages); King Hedley II, How I Learned What I Learned, The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre Company); Teller’s Play Dead (The Players Theater). Regional: Alliance, Huntington, Arden, Wilma (Associate Artist), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, Chicago Shakespeare, Getty, Children’s Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Portland Center Stage, Folger Theatre, Asolo Rep, Round House, Hangar, CenterStage, California Shakespeare Theater, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Spoleto, Lincoln Center Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as numerous designs with Pilobolus. Awards: 2 Jeff Awards, 6 Barrymore Awards, a Helen Hayes Award, and 2 AUDELCO Awards. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

Tim Mackabee Alley Theatre: The Nerd, Clue, Describe The Night. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Poor Yella Rednecks, Vietgone, Important Hats… (MTC), Heathers The Musical, The Last Match (Roundabout), The Penitent, Our New Girl, Guards At The Taj (Atlantic), Luce (Lincoln Center Theatre), Gigantic (Vineyard.) Regional: Oh yes, lots. Music Video: Carly Ray Jepsen’s, “Surrender My Heart” TV: Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. @timmackabeedesign.

Brandon Weinbrenner is the Alley’s Associate Artistic Direc­tor. At the Alley he has directed Noises Off, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily, The Nerd, Doris Baizely’s A Christmas Car­ol, Fully Committed, The Humans, Venus in Fur, and several workshops and readings as part of Alley All New. Around town he has directed The Children and The Royale at Rec Room Arts, Fool for Love at The Land­ing Theatre Co, Stage Kiss at 4th Wall The­atre Company, Buyer & Cellar and Native Gardens at Main Street Theater, and mul­tiple shows at the University of Houston. Brandon is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater BFA Acting Training Program.

Christopher Windom choreographed the feature film Respect for MGM, starring Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin. Off-Broadway: Choreographer, Kid Victory (The Vineyard Theatre). Alley Theatre: Choreographer, A Christmas Carol. Regional Theaters: Director, Fairview; Choreographer, Melancholy Play; Director/Choreographer, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); Director/ Choreographer, Light It Up! (Cleveland Play House); Director, Annie (Alabama Shake­speare Festival); Choreographer, Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center); Choreographer, Frozen: Live at the Hyperion for Disney Resorts. Chris­topher has performed on Broadway and in Na­tional Tours of Fosse and Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis.

James Black An actor and occasional director, he has been involved in over 100 productions. Recent appearances include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), All My Sons (Joe Keller), As You Like It (Jacques), Dracula (Van Helsing), Communicating Doors (Julian), Freud’s Last Session (Sigmund Freud), You Can’t Take It With You (Martin Vanderhof), The Hollow (Sir Henry Angkatell), Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club (Mr. Richards/ Mycroft Holmes), The Elephant Man(Man/Conductor/Snork), A Few Good Men (Capt. Matthew A. Markinson), Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot), Noises Off (Lloyd Dallas), The Seafarer (James “Sharky” Harkin), The Seagull (Trigorin), Dividing the Estate (Lewis Gordon), Pygmalion (Colonel Pickering), Amadeus (Count Orsini-Rosenberg), August: Osage County (Steve Heidebrecht), Peter Pan (Captain Hook/Mr. Darling), St. Nicholas, Boeing-Boeing (Bernard), Harvey (Elwood P. Dowd), Mrs. Mannerly (Jeffrey), and Our Town (Stage Manager) among others. He has also directed Good People, Clybourne Park, A Behanding in Spokane, Doubt, Death on the Nile, Glengarry Glen Ross, Deathtrap, Dial “M” for Murder, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Foreigner, Of Mice and Men, and As Bees in Honey Drown. His film and television credits include Olympia, The Man with the Perfect Swing, Houston: The Legend of Texas, Fire and Rain, Challenger, Night Game, and Killing in a Small Town. He received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actor for Not About Nightingales and a BackStage West Garland Award for his appearance as Eddie Carbone in the Alley’s production of A View from the Bridge.

Paul Hope is a native Houstonian and a Resident Acting Company Member Emeritus, who has appeared on the Alley stages for 28 seasons in a wide range of roles, recently including Henry Hailsham-Brown in Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web; Rep. Howard “Judge” Smith, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, Sen. Everett Dirksen, and Gov. Carl Sanders in All The Way; Harry Dangle in One Man, Two Guvnors; Sergeant “Froggy” Le Sueur in The Foreigner; Mr. Kirby in You Can’t Take it With You; Edward Raynor in Black Coffee; Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries; and Beverly Carlton in The Man Who Came to Dinner; among many others. His musical theatre roles include Rohna in Grand Hotel and Col. Lockert in Dodsworth, both at Casa Mañana in Fort Worth; and Beauregard in Mame, Bienstock in Sugar and M. Renaud in La Cage all at Theater Under the Stars. He took over for John Lithgow as the narrator of Carnival of the Animals for Houston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and Tulsa Ballet. He is the Artistic Director for Bayou City Concert Musicals, which has presented concert stagings of Follies, Falsettos; A Little Night Music; She Loves Me; 70 Girls 70; Assassins; Fiorello; The Secret Garden; Pal Joey; On the Town; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Finian’s Rainbow; One Touch of Venus; The Pajama Game; New Girl in Town; Bells are Ringing; and Promises, Promises. He recently directed Cabaret at Obsidian Theater.

Charles Krohnhas appeared in August: Osage County, Our Town, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Othello, Treasure Island, Subject to Fits, Much Ado About Nothing, Witness for the Prosecution, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Twelfth Night, among others. Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, an Alley collaboration with the University of Houston. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas. Locally, title role in Barrymorefor Theatre LaB. All Over, A Kind of Alaska, The Collection, A Delicate Balance, and A Man from Nebraska for Stages Repertory Theatre. Firs in The Cherry Orchard for Classical Theatre Company. Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House for Main Street Theatre. Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Claudius in Hamlet, and the title role in King Lear for Houston Shakespeare Festival. Over forty productions for Theatre Under the Stars, including Oliver!, Camelot, A Little Night Music, and Beauty and the Beast. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.