Artists

Elizabeth Bunch has appeared in more than 90 productions at Alley Theatre including four other Sherlock Homes stories. Plus, she got to be a villain three times! Other favorite shows include Seared, Noises Off, Little Comedies, Clue, Sweat, Medea, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Constellations, Grounded, The Humans, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, Grounded, Pygmalion, The 39 Steps, Dracula, Clybourne Park, August: Osage County, Our Town, 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. @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 Alley Theatre’s The Glass Menagerie (Tom), Noises Off (Garry Lejeune), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (Philip Lombard), Dial M for Murder (Lesgate), Little Comedies (Aplombov), 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 is in his 19th year as a member of the Resident Acting Com­pany. Recent: Seared, Noises Off, Jane Eyre, The Nerd. 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 The Glass Menagerie, 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 and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. 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 Seared, 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.

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 A Christmas Carol, 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 has done twenty-two Alley Theatre productions, including Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily (Professor Moriarty), Dial M for Murder, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Cowboy Bob, The Servant of Two Masters, and Lend Me A Soprano. 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.

Gabriel Mullen AD Players at the George Theater: The Foreigner (Ellard), The Garden Theater: Assassins (John Wilkes Booth) AD Players at the George Theater: Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka), Stages: Othello the Remix (Iago/GQ), AD Players at Carolina Creek: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Male Swing) BFA: Sam Houston State University.

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.

Hugo E. Carbajal 25+ years experience. Last seen at Alley Theatre as Mino Avila/Padre Flores/Ensemble in American Mariachi and Papa Calaca in Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo. Theatrical journey: Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, PCPA, SF Mime Troupe, Su Teatro, and Cutting Ball Theatre. TV appearances in SWAT, Bosch, Good Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and more. Follow @hugoecarbajal for a remarkable journey!

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

Kiya Green is a recent graduate from Stephen F. Austin State University, where she earned her BFA in Theatre with an emphasis on acting and directing. Her acting credits include Flex, Cinderella, Fade to Black, The Piano Lesson, Everybody, and The Yellow Boat.

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.

Lizzy Cooper got her BFA in Musical Theatre in 2024! Since then, she’s been in Esther (A.D Players), Sleeping Beauty (Main Street), Romeo & Juliet (Classical Theatre Company), and has been the Program Coordinator for TUTS Education. She’s excited to be having her Alley Theatre Tour debut! All glory to God!

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.

Mayra Monsivais is a local Houston Actor. She studied acting at the University of Houston. Credits include, Stories of Us (TEATRX), Oskar  vs. Thingamabob Tour (Alley Theatre), Oskar and the Last Straw Tour ( Alley Theatre), Inner View (Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Festival. Stages), Sonia Flew (TEATRX), El Huracán (Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company). Oskars Not So Simple Comeback Tour (Alley Theatre), La Vida Es Cortos/Life Is Shorts (TEATRX), O: A Rhapsody In Divorce! ( Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company). She also Directed Cafe Deluxeee (TEATRX). Mayra is also a working actor in TV and film, including commercials, TV roles, and music videos. She has also been a Teaching Artist for Alley Theatre since 2019.

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! Alley Credits: A Christmas Carol, American Mariachi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Sweat. Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare, DCPA, Old Globe, Stages, Two River Theater, Fourth Wall, AD Players. Playwright and Off Broadway: Medea Re-versed co-produced by Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Red Bull, and Bedlam.

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 starred in Alley Theatre’s world premiere one-woman show The Night Shift Before Christmas. Additional Alley Credit: American Mariachi, What-A-Christmas!, 72 miles to go…, Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol. Regional: Wolf at the Door, Much Ado About Nothing (American Players Theatre), Private Lives (Arizona Theatre Company). Local credits with: Stages, Main Street, Classical, 4th Wall, TUTS. Briana is recipient of the 2020 Houston Press Theatre Award, Best Solo Show. BFA Musical Theatre SHSU. @brianaresa

Sally Wingert returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in the world premiere of Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium. Sally is home-based in the Twin Cities where she works extensively. She has been a company member at the Guthrie, seen in over 90 productions, most recently The Importance of Being Earnest as Lady Bracknell and as Helen Hubbard in Murder On the Orient Express. She has performed for Theater Latte Da, Ten Thousand Things, Six Points, Mixed Blood, The Moving Company and many others. Across the country she has worked at the Arena Stage, ART, the McCarter, Yale Rep and Asolo Repertory Theatre among others.

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).

Stanley Andrew Jackson is excited to return to Alley Theatre, last seen as D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers. Off-Broadway: The Refuge Plays (Roundabout Theater). Regional: Toni Stone (Huntington Theatre Company), Book of Will, Much Ado About Nothing, Animal Farm (A Noise Within Theatre Company); King Lear (The Wallis Annenberg PAC); Wine in the Wilderness (Portland Center Stage); Battle Cry (Cleveland Playhouse); The Three Musketeers (Alley Theatre); A Wonder In My Soul, (Baltimore Center); NSFW, Swimming While Drowning (Stages Theatre Company); And in this Corner Cassius Clay (The Ensemble Theatre); Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (Source Theatre Company); Insurrection: Holding History, (Al Freeman Theatre); Thoughts of a Colored Man (Gala Hispanic)  International: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V, As You Like It (Pop-up Globe Theatre Company).TV: Power Rangers Ninja Steel. Education: Howard University. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Instagram:@stanleyaj3. stanleyandrewjackson.com.

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).

Todd Waite Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery marks Todd’s retirement from the full-time Resident Acting Company after 25 seasons, 135 Productions, and six plays as Sherlock Holmes. Favorites include: eight seasons of The Santaland Diaries, Pictures from Home, Little Comedies, The Goat, Seafarer, The Invention of Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The 39 Steps, and Intelligence Slave. Television: Guest-starred in over a dozen series and many national commercials. Directing: 16 productions including Sr. Resident Director for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘O’. Education: Awarded the Presidential “Most Influental Teacher” Award. Todd also teaches private classes. Graduate of Lester B. Pearson International College (I.B.), University of Alberta BFA (Acting), MFA (Directing).

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.

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.

Alberto Segarra Alley Theatre: Jane Eyre. Recent credits include: The Lehman Trilogy at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Camelot at Village Theatre, Romeo & Juliet at Folger Theatre, Business Ideas at Alliance Theatre, The Scenarios at Studio Theatre, The Honey Trap (Helen Hayes Award) at Solas Nua, The Joy That Carries You (Helen Hayes nomination) at Olney Theatre Center, Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award) at Theatre Alliance, and Look Both Ways Kennedy Center/Theatre Alliance TYA (Helen Hayes nomination).

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 premiere), Pamela Palmer (Williamstown, world premiere), 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 Seared, 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: December: a love years in the making, American Mariachi, and Born with Teeth (Alley Theatre); Vos! (Two River Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Playmakers Rep); 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.

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.

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. Alley Theatre: The Night Shift Before Christmas. Upcoming: Aztlan – Magic Theatre. Previous (Selected): What the Constitution Means to Me – OKC Rep; 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

Denise Cardarelli Broadway: Eureka Day. Selected Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Red Bull/Fiasco Theaters). Other New York: Lincoln Center Education; HERE Arts Center; and The LAByrinth Theater Company. Selected Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Two River Theater, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

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.

Dominique Fawn Hill Dominique’s designs include Broadway: Fat Ham (Tony Award-nomi­nation); Off-Broadway: Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizon-Lucille Lortel nomina­tion), Fat Ham (Public Theatre-Obie Award), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhat­tan Theatre Club), Hang Time (The Flea), The Dark Girl Chronicles (The Shed), and 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre). Her regional theatre credits range from Derecho (The La Jolla Playhouse); Bust (Alliance The­atre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Choir Boy, and Rent (Portland Center Stage). You can find her work at DominiqueFHill.com.

Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Circle Critics Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater, John Gassner Award). For television, she has written for Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max’s Julia. As an actor, Eboni has appeared in productions at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep., Clubbed Thumb, and more. Eboni is current­ly the Judith Champion Playwriting Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. She is the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, and a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program and the University of Vermont.

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.

Emily Stovall is the Associate Costume Director at the Alley and is excited to dip her toe back into costume design with The Brainstormers and Their Cosmic Mission! Previous Costume Design work includes: Carmen (Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Kanas City Actors Theatre), Casa Valentina (Spinning Tree Theatre). MFA UMKC Conservatory.

Ethan Mitchell Previously at Alley Theatre: The Alley, Wolfie (Alley All New Festival 2024), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Bleeding Class (Alley All New Festival 2023), Cowboy Bob, High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest. Regional: Theatre Under the Stars (8 seasons), Houston Ballet, ZACH Theatre. 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. He most recently served as the 2024-2025 season’s fight director for the Houston Grand Opera on shows like West Side Story and Il Trovatore. His work on the Alley Theatre stage has included Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Servant of Two Masters, The Three Musketeers (2019 Houston Press Award), 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.

Eleanor Holdridge Previously she directed Jane Eyre and Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano at the Alley Theatre and is thrilled to be back. Off-Broadway productions include world premieres of Selma ’65 (LaMaMa), Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), and Cycling Past The Matterhorn (Clurman Theatre). Regional world premieres include David Grimm’s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists (Cincinnati Playhouse), NNPN Rolling World Premieres of Lauren Gunderson’s Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley and I and You, Meg Maroshnik’s Fickle: A Fancy French Farce, and Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl in the World (Theatre J). She has directed twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays, some of them multiple times including her most recent Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. She currently Chairs the Drama Department at The Catholic University of America, but will soon Chair the Drama Department at Syracuse University.

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.

J. Salazar holds a BFA in Theatre from SHSU. She believes in the power of storytelling and advocates for accessible opportunities for young artists seeking involvement in the arts. J. is currently the Theatre Manager and TD at Duchesne Academy. Some design credits include: Panto Pinocchio, Othello: The Remix, POTUS, ROE, Dream: The Music of the Everly Brothers, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Prom, and Mother of the Maid. (EQT)

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.

Jake Rodriguez is a sound designer and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent theatrical credits include Don’t Eat the Mangos (Huntington Theatre); Private Lives (American Conservatory Theater); Between Two Knees (Perelman Performing Arts Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Frankenstein Revived (Stratford Festival); and Mother Road (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Rodriguez is the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Award and received an honorary M.F.A. from A.C.T. in 2021. soundcrack.net

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.

John Coyne has designed stage sets for numerous companies across the U.S., including Alley Theatre (Jane Eyre), The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Alliance Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, The Public Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Olney Theatre Center, Triad Stage, Ford’s Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, and Portland Center Stage.

Carolyn Johnson is a Dialect & Acting Coach, Equity Actress, Director, and Singer with more than 30 years of experience. Most recently, she coached The Glass Menagerie for the Alley. 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 This is her eleventh production with Alley Theatre. Selected previous productions include: The Night Shift Before Christmas, The Janeiad,  Jane Eyre, Little Comedies, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily. Kaylee has also stage managed at other organizations in Houston and beyond including A.D. Players, 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.

Elizabeth A. M. Keel is a Houstonian playwright, actor, director, producer and theatermaker. Her writing celebrates science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and magical realism on stage. Her scripts have been read or produced at 14 Pews, Bootown, Cone Man Running, Flexible Grey, Fresh Produce’d (NYC), The Growing Stage: Children’s Theatre of New Jersey, Haven Arts Theatre, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Landing Theatre Company, METdance, Mildred’s Umbrella, Nova Arts Project, Otherworld Theatre Company, Shattered Globe Theatre, Squeaky Bicycle, Stages, The Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol, T.E.T.A., This Is Water Theatre, Tokyo International Players, Voxfest, and Wordsmyth, among others. She has been published by Smith & Kraus and Stage Partners, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the New Play Exchange. Elizabeth serves as the Resident Playwright and Literary Manager for Mildred’s Umbrella, and is a proud double alumna of the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance. She has worked as a teaching artist with many local companies, including Stages’ Young Artists Conservatory, the Alley Theatre’s education department, and Grackle & Grackle. She holds the honor of having served as the first administrator for the Houston Theatre Training Coalition. Upcoming projects may be found at www.elizabethamkeel.com

Kristen Larson is in her 12th season with Alley Theatre. Favorite Alley credits: Noises Off; 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 a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For M.

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.

Ken Ludwig has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You is currently running on London’s West End. It was previously on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Sherwood, Twentieth Century, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, A Fox on the Fairway, A Comedy of Tenors, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood and Murder on the Orient Express. They have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Kristen Bell, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins and Henry Goodman. His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays on theatre are published in the Yale Review. He gives the Annual Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and he served on the Board of Governors for the Folger Shakespeare Library for ten years. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened at the Glimmerglass Festival in July 2022. His most recent world premieres were Lend Me A Soprano and Moriarty, and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. His plays include commissions from the Agatha Christie Estate, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic. For more information visit kenludwig.com.

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.

Meagan Rachelle Smallwood received her BFA in Stage Management at the University of Houston. She is in her third season at Al­ley Theatre with previous credits in Seared, The Night Shift Before Christmas, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, Little Comedies, and The Servant of Two Masters. Further credits include Houston Shakespeare Festival (ASM): Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; Houston Broadway Theatre (ASM): MATCH (PM): Cloud Tectonics; Rec Room (SM): The Moon­lit Princess.

Megan Culley Selected Design: Antigone (Cleveland Play House); The Loophole (The Public Theater); Holmes & Watson Apt. 2B (KCRep); Grounded, Hurricane Diane, Stew (Dobama Theater); Terminus (New York Theatre Workshop); Stranger Sings! (Off-Broadway); Inanimate (The Flea Theater); The Last Match (B Street Theatre); Roan @ the Gates (Luna Stage); The Color Purple (Theatre Horizon). Broad­way Associate Design: McNeal; Uncle Vanya; A Christmas Carol (2022); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Flying Over Sunset; Eureka Day; Purpose; Floyd Collins. Other Selected Associate Design: The Secret Garden (Center Theatre Group); The Preacher’s Wife (Alli­ance Theatre); King James (MTC).

Melanie Chen Cole Alley Theatre: Noises Off, The World is Not Silent, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily, High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest. Regional: 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, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UCSD. melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole on Instagram.

Rob Melrose is the Artistic Director of Alley Theatre where he has directed productions of The Janeiad, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, Pictures from Home, The Servant of Two Masters, Born with Teeth, 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, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, Black Box Theatre, as well as Actors’ Collective, The Gamm Theatre, and Crowded Fire, 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. 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.

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Micha Espinosa is an internationally recognized voice specialist and teaching artist renowned for her work in culturally inclusive pedagogies. Professor at University of Madison-Wisconsin, 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.

Niegel Smith is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre after helming 2017’s Syncing Ink. Life Dance IV (Whitney Mu­seum), The Bark of Millions (Sydney Opera House, BAM, Berliner Festspiele), Plays for The Plague Year (The Public), The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist (Lincoln Center, Hopkins Center, Stanford Live), Arden: But, Not Without You (The Flea), The Hang (HERE Arts Center, Drama League nomination for Best Director), The Fre (The Flea), Southern Promises (The Flea), How To Catch Creation (The Goodman), Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce (Town Hall, World Tour), Scraps (The Flea), Father Comes Home From The Wars… (The Goodman, BTAA Award for Best Direction), Syncing Ink (Alley Theatre, The Flea), A 24 Decade History of Popular Music… (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Barbican, World Tour – Kennedy Prize & Pulitzer Prize finalist), Take Care (The Flea), Hir (Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood, Playwrights Horizons), Dream State of Affairs (The Invisible Dog), Marisol (Luna Stage), The Perils of Obedience (Abrons Arts Center), Seed (Classical Theatre of Harlem, Hip Hop Theatre Festival), Neighbors (The Public Theater), Limbs: A Pageant (HERE Arts Center). A Bessie Award-winning di­rector and performance artist, Niegel is the Artistic Director of The Flea Theater; board member of A.R.T./New York; and co-creator of The Climate Sing. niegelsmith.com.

Trinity A. Nobles Selected credits include 2024 Alley All New Festival: Uhuru and Zero Hour; Stages: the ripple, the wave, that carried me home (SM), Miss Rhythm: The Legend Of Ruth Brown (SM), Othello: The Remix (SM), Always… Patsy Cline (SM)., Drag Wonderettes (SM), You Are Cordially Invited to Sit-In (SM), MacGyver: The Musical (SM); Theatre Under The Stars: Frozen (ASM), Cinderella (ASM), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (ASM); Queensbury Theatre: The Wizard of Oz (SM). BFA: Stage Management, University of Houston.

Noël Coward Born in 1899, Noël Coward was raised as a working class boy in the London suburb of Teddington. His father was an unsuccessful piano salesman with little personal ambition, often resulting in poor family finances. From a young age Coward possessed a natural intelligence; he was an avid reader and instinctive performer with an insatiable ambition to learn and succeed. Encouraged by his mother to attend a dance academy in London, Coward entered into the professional world of theatre at the age of 12. From this point on, his writing and acting career swiftly flourished and he gradually became acquainted with a different class of people. Coward’s presence in the public eye turned him into a celebrity in his own right across both the UK and USA. The media avidly followed and reported on Coward’s plays and public appearances, elevating his celebrity status significantly as his career continued to develop. Despite his high-profile persona and arguably lavish lifestyle, Coward was fundamentally a man who loved all artistic forms and possessed a work ethic like no other. He immersed himself in work from the age of 10. Consequently, he was hugely prolific; his final verse was written only days before he died. For further information on Noël Coward’s life and work, visit www.noelcoward.com.

Jen Onopa (Primary Programs Co-Manager) is a director and educator who is passionate about innovative approaches to theater making, community engagement, and teaching and learning. She has directed and produced numerous devised performances, contemporary plays, and works of puppetry in New York City, Chicago, and Massachusetts, and has toured work to the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, South Africa. She is a co-founder of the Massachusetts-based Re/Emergence Collective, which makes performances centering community healing. An educator for 25 years, she has taught for the New York City Department of Education, Mount Holyoke College, UMass Amherst, Redmoon Theater, and the Creative Arts Team in NYC.

Rachel Piero is in her 7th year at the Alley, having held roles in both the Stage Management and Production Management departments. An avid joy seeker and theatre kid-turned-adult, she also delights in mentoring storytellers and aspiring theatre makers of all ages. BFA: Carnegie Mellon University. Other Credits: Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Walnut Street Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Lincoln Center Theatre, Fabbrica Europa (Firenze), NYC Fringe Festival, Florida Grand Opera. For family, for joy.

Debs Ramser Previous Alley Theatre productions include December: a love years in the making, 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 four previous productions at Alley Theatre: The Night Shift Before Christmas, American Mariachi, Quixote Nuevo, and What-A-Christmas!. 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.

Sarah Cubbage Off Broadway: The Big Gay Jamboree; Disney Creative Entertainment/Disney Cruise Lines: The Tale Of Moana, Beauty & The Beast; DC: Arena Stage, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Mosaic Theater Company, Theatre J. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage. Favorite designs include: Crazy for You, directed by Susan Stroman, David Geffen Hall. Dance: Dark Lark (BAM, Kate Weare Company); The Radio Show (Bessie Award, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion). Member USA 829.

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).

Scott Groh is a Houston based Properties Manager and Scenic Designer with experience as both a freelance artist and a production team member. He is currently the resident Properties Director at the Alley Theatre. Scott’s background is as a properties artist, creating properties and special effects for Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia), ZACH Theatre (Austin, TX), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Tuacahn Amphitheatre (Utah), Seaside Music Theatre (Florida), and others.

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.

Susan Hilferty has designed costumes and scenery for over 400 productions worldwide. Alley: Little Comedies, Wonderland, and The General from America. Best known for Wicked (Tony Award) still running after 20 years. Other notable: Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour, Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, Something Wicked | Susan Hilferty Costumes at McNay Museum in San Antonio, Aida Metropolitan Opera. Her many honors and awards include: Three Lifetime Achievement Awards (Alley Theatre, USITT. and Irene Sharaff). Faculty: NYU/Tisch Graduate/Design (25 years as chair). susanhilferty.com.

Susana Collins is a passionate instructor and choreographer from the novice to the advanced. She started her tango studies with her father, the first Argentine Tango instructor in Houston and was quickly inspired to travel to her hometown in Buenos Aires to fully immerse herself in the tango and expand her knowledge with the top maestros. Through Luna Tango and The Houston Tango School, Susana continues to be a dedicated promoter of Argentine culture and tango.

Tanya Orellana designs performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. This is her fourth collaboration with KJ Sanchez. Select credits: What Became of Us (Atlantic Stage 2); Mexico Premiere: Angels in America; Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse); Mother Road (Berkeley Rep); Fefu and her Friends, Big Data (ACT); For The People (Guthrie Theatre); Stew (Pasadena Playhouse). MFA (CalArts). 2017 Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. tanyaorellana.com

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “the catastrophe of success,” a success capped by A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most influential works of modern American literature. An extraordinary series of masterpieces followed, including Vieux Carre, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, and the classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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.

Chaney Tullos serves as Alley’s Director of Education Programs. Previously, he served as Associate Artistic Director of The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival and was an adjunct faculty member at Tulane University where he taught courses in Acting, Shakespeare, and Stage Management. He has taken shows and programming into countless schools, community centers, and prisons. He holds an MFA in Acting from LSU and is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. www.chaneytullos.com

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.

Xavier Pierce is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Design Stage and Film. Chicago credits include Step­penwolf Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. New York credits include Public Theatre and Syracuse Stage. National credits include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and other works across the country in Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, Missouri, Washington, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Florida, Geor­gia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Arizona and Washington, D.C.

Yuki Nakase Link Previously with Alley Theatre: Torera and Dial M for Murder. Recent: Così fan tutte (Detroit Opera); Madame Butterfly (Cincinnati Opera, Detroit Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Utah Opera); Fidelio (Canadian Opera Company and Lyric Opera of Chicago); EUROPERAS: 3 & 4 (The Gem Theatre with Detroit Opera); L’Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera); Angel Island (BAM Harvey), In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera and La MaMa); Orpheus and Eurydice (San Francisco Opera); I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan (Atlantic Theater Company). https://yukinlink.com.

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.

Todd Waite Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery marks Todd’s retirement from the full-time Resident Acting Company after 25 seasons, 135 Productions, and six plays as Sherlock Holmes. Favorites include: eight seasons of The Santaland Diaries, Pictures from Home, Little Comedies, The Goat, Seafarer, The Invention of Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The 39 Steps, and Intelligence Slave. Television: Guest-starred in over a dozen series and many national commercials. Directing: 16 productions including Sr. Resident Director for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘O’. Education: Awarded the Presidential “Most Influental Teacher” Award. Todd also teaches private classes. Graduate of Lester B. Pearson International College (I.B.), University of Alberta BFA (Acting), MFA (Directing).