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2025-26 Season Actors

Alexandra Szeto-Joe

Alexandra Szeto-Joe Alley Theatre debut! Credits include: Classical Theatre Company: Three Sisters; Stages: The Heart Sellers, POTUS; Catskill Mountain Shakespeare: As You Like It; Tapestry Players: The Summer’s Tale, Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies; Main Street Theater: Christmas at Pemberley series (2021-2023). BFA from NYU Tisch. Big love to Mommy & Chris! www.alexandraszeto-joe.com

Alyssa Marek

Alyssa Marek Alley Theatre debut! Last fall, Alyssa was seen at Yale Repertory Theatre working on the world premiere of Hilary Bettis’ Falcon Girls where she originated her role in the Alley All New Festival in 2023. Selected Houston credits: The Foreigner, The Play That Goes Wrong, Present Laughter, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Crimes of the Heart, and the Alley Character Education Series Oskar’s Not So Simple Comeback. Education: BFA, University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance.

Ashlyn Evans

Ashlyn Evans holds a BA in Theatre from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi and is new to the Houston area. She is thrilled to be working with Alley Theatre for the first time and deeply grateful to her family for their unwavering support and to Jesus Christ for opening this incredible door.

Brandon Hearnsberger

Brandon Hearnsberger is in his 25th Alley Theatre production. Others include Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Dial M for Murder, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Cowboy Bob, The Servant of Two Masters, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, Othello, The Farnsworth Invention, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. More at brandonhearnsberger.com.

Elizabeth Bunch

Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d is Elizabeth’s 100th Alley Theatre production. She feels so lucky and so grateful. Thank you to all the brilliant Alley Artists that built and maintain this theater and its reputation. And thanks to you for valuing live theater.

Michelle Elaine

Michelle Elaineis 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: Primary Trust, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sense and Sensibility, Sweat, and Quack. Michelle was awarded the Houston Press Award Best Supporting Actress for her role as the title character in Clyde’s at The Ensemble Theatre. Stages: POTUS. Follow @michelleelaineofficial on Instagram. Check out Michelle’s web series @castmedammit on YouTube!

Dylan Godwin

Dylan Godwin is a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d (Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Actor 2), The Glass Menagerie (Tom). 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

Chris Hutchison The Da Vinci Code marks my 100th Alley production since appearing in Proof in 2004. Here is to all the artists past and present I have had the good fortune to work with. Thanks to the Board and Artistic Director Rob Melrose for believing in me and the idea of a Resident Company. Love to Elizabeth Bunch, my partner on- and off stage. My greatest thanks though, are to YOU-our Alley audience-that has so warmly welcomed me for all these years. I am so grateful.

Jamie Rezanour

Jamie Rezanour is making her Alley Theatre debut! Select Credits: The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote Play (Stages); Real Women Have Curves (Dallas Theater Center); Henry V, Queens For A Year (Hartford Stage); Our Town (Milwaukee Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Television Credits: Blue Bloods, Matlock, The Blacklist, The Equalizer. Training: MFA at SMU. www.JamieRezanour.com

Carolyn Johnson

Carolyn Johnson is an Equity Actress, Dialect & Acting Coach, Director, and Singer. Most recently, she performed Falstaff in Henry IV: Part 1 and Emilia in Othello in Prague and Venice for Prague Shakespeare Company, as well as Fricka in Das Barbecü for Stages Houston. She has often coached Alley productions; most recently Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Other coaching includes Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real Opera (Madrid), The Barbican (London), Prague Shakespeare Company, and Stages Houston, among others. Carolyn regularly teaches voice and text and directs for Prague Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare training intensive in Prague and works with the online dialect resource, AccentHelp.com.

Julia Krohn

Julia Krohn Original Las Vegas company of Jersey Boys (Lorraine); NYC Credits: ABBA’s Kristina (pre-Broadway workshop), Joy (Off-Broadway); Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Mack and Mable; TUTS: Ugly X-MAS Sweater Musical, A Chorus Line, Sweet Potato Queens, All Shook Up, Camelot, Spamalot; Alley Theatre: Cowboy Bob, Ken Ludwig’s Three Musketeers, Quack, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, Freaky Friday; Main Street Theatre: Memoriam; 4th Wall: The Father.

Kevin Cooney

Kevin Cooney returned to Houston after more than 30 years in New York and Los Angeles, where he worked on Broadway and in movies and television. If his face looks familiar, look him up on IMDb.com. He recently starred in The Father at 4th Wall, and is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

Melissa Molano

Melissa Molano is a Resident Acting Company Member. Recent Alley shows include Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Noël Coward’s Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. 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

David Rainey is in his 25th season as a Resident Acting Company Member recently appearing in Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d and Primary Trust. 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. He is also the owner of Studio for Actors Houston.

Rolando Chusan

Rolando Chusan is an Ecuadorian actor who grew up in the South Bronx. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school, Hunter College, and Maggie Flanigan studios in New York. Chusan has performed theater in NYC and Regionally, as well as TV and film. He is a Disney Discovers Showcase alum and was a series regular on ABC’s/ Hulu’s Promised Land. Two films he starred in, CRAM and On the Line were official selections at the Austin Film Festival. Chusan’s last credit was Toros at the Rec Room theater in Houston. He’s absolutely thrilled to be making his Alley Theatre debut, and continue his Texas theater journey.

Christopher Salazar

Christopher Salazar is a Resident Acting Company Member. Alley Theatre credits include Seared, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, and The Servant of Two Masters. Select regional 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; 11 productions at The Old Globe. On TV: Robert Torres on Jane, The Virgin. MFA: Old Globe Theatre/ USD, BA: UNC-Chapel Hill. Love always to Amy.

Sophia Marcelle

Sophia Marcelle Alley Theatre Debut! Sophia is grateful to her family who loves and supports her everyday. Regional Credits: Falcon Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre), Dance Nation and Put Your House In Order (Rec Room Arts), Romeo and Juliet (Houston Shakespeare Festival), Daddy Long Legs (Theatre at Monmouth). Instagram: @sophiaa.marcellee Website: sophiamarcelle.com.

Susan Koozin

Susan Koozinreturns to Alley Theatre after appearing as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Jane Eyre, Pictures from Home, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Cowboy Bob, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, Clue, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Recent Houston performances include The Foreigner (A.D. Players), Winter Solstice (Rec Room), and Mary Poppins (TUTS).

Victor J. Flores

Victor J. Flores just recently moved back home to Houston, TX after graduating with his MFA from the University of California San Diego (BFA from San Houston State). He’s thrilled to be making his Alley Theatre debut. He’d like to dedicate this performance to his family and mentors right here in Houston.

Todd Waite

Todd Waite after 25 years and 135 production as a company member, Mr. Waite is delighted to return as a Company member Emeritus, Favorites include: six Sherlock Holmes productions, 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.Awarded the Presidential “Most Influental Teacher” Award, Mr. Waite currently teaches private students. Graduate of Lester B. Pearson International College (I.B.), University of Alberta BFA (Acting), MFA (Directing).

Zack Fine

Zack Fine is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre, where he most recently appeared in Pictures from Home, The Servant of Two Masters, and Edward Albee’s Seascape. Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino, Off-Broadway/Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare, The Acting Company, Mint, Fiasco, Red Bull, TFANA, Pearl, Bedlam, Guthrie, McCarter, Arizona Theatre Company, Folger (Helen Hayes Award), Shakespeare Theater DC, Asolo, Playmakers. As a playwright, his play Bewilderness was a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Nominee. He is an assistant professor of Acting at the University of Texas at Austin and is a founding faculty member of Fiasco Theater’s Conservatory.

Teresa Zimmermann

Teresa ZimmermannAlley Theatre: Dial M for Murder (Margot Wendice), Amerikin (Michelle), A Christmas Carol (Belle, Ensemble, Swing), Survivors: an Alamo Play (Susanna Dickinson). Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Dial M for Murder (Margot Wendice). Theatre Under The Stars: Rent (Maureen Johnson), Rock of Ages (Regina), Jerome Robbins Broadway (Ma, Golde, Elektra), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble, U/S Lovett). Stages: Roe (Norma McCorvey/Jane Roe). Great American Trailer Park Musical (Pickles), Veronica’s Room (Girl).

2025-2026 Creative Team

Adam Noble

Adam Noblehas over 30 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.

Liz Duffy Adams

Liz Duffy Adams’ play Or, premiered Off Broadway at WP Theater and has been produced over 75 times, including at Magic Theater, Seattle Rep, and Roundhouse Theatre. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music-Theater Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and the Will Glickman Award. Her Artistic Stamp virtual “play” in letters, Wild Thyme, was nominated for a Drama League Award in 2021.

Her work has also been produced or developed at the Alley Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana Festival, Bay Area Theater Festival, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, Greater Boston Stage Company, and Crowded Fire, among others. Other plays include Born with Teeth; Dog Act; The Salonnières; Dear Alien; Wonders of the Invisible World; Buccaneers; Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitude; The Listener; The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, The Train Play; and One Big Lie.

Publications include Or, in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Plays Of 2010;” Dog Act in “Geek Theater,” Underwords Press 2014; Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause’s “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001;” and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. Adams’ portrait appears in Sally Davies’ collection, New Yorkers (Ammonite Press 2021).

Adams has an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University and was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University. She has dual Irish and American citizenship and lives in New York City, on land that once belonged to the Lanape, and in Western Mass on unceded Pocumtuc and Nipmuc land.

Amy Ramsdell

Amy Ramsdell National tours: To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamilton, Hello, Dolly!, A Christmas Carol, Les Misérables, Elf, Dreamgirls, Once. Past credits include: In the Heights, 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.

Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Ásta Bennie Hostetter designed costumes for the world premieres of Infinite Life, Usual Girls, Dance Nation, The Wolves, Men on Boats, Porto, John, You Got Older, and 10 out of 12. She returns to the Alley Theater after designing Clue in 2023. Other favorite projects include Gnit (TFANA), Dom Juan (Bard), and Miles for Mary. Her 2022 directing debut, Marie It’s Time, was a NY Times Critics Pick. USA829 member.

Alan Brincks

Alan Brincks is delighted to be working with this fantastic team on Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. Alan has also helped to stage violence/intimacy at 4th Wall Theatre, Main Street Theater, Rec Room Arts, Classical Theatre Company, Rice University, and Lamar University among others. Alan is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, a voice and stage actor, and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lamar University.

Agatha Christie

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.

Dan Brown

Dan Brown has written numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the bestselling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels have been published worldwide in 56 languages with over 200 million copies in print. In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise. The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. Brown is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing. He lives in New England with his yellow lab, Winston.

Charles Dickens

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.

Duncan Abel

Duncan Abel is a writer of plays, radio plays and short stories. He has written for BBC Radio 4 and his co-adaptation of The Girl on the Train transferred to the West End following a successful UK tour in 2019. In 2010 Duncan was shortlisted for the Luke Bitmead Award for his novel The Way Home.

Ethan Mitchell

Ethan Mitchell Previously at Alley Theatre: Noël Coward’s, Private Lives; 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.

Amber D. Gray

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.

Helen Huang

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.

John Gromada

John Gromada Alley: Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers, many more. 40+ Broadway productions, including Birthday Candles, All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful (Tony nomination), The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Proof, Twelve Angry Men, A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte), The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE Award), and many more. His television and film credits include a score for the Emmy-nominated The Trip to Bountiful.

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Katie Forgette

Katie Forgette spent half of her professional life as an actor. At the Seattle Repertory Theatre she was privileged to work with such directors and playwrights as: Doug Hughes, Bill Irwin, Pamela Berlin, Dan Sullivan, John Patrick Shanley, Liviu Ciulei, Lillian Garrett-Groag, and Jon Robin Baitz. Her plays include: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Murder at the Vicarage, Mrs. Loman is Leaving, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, A Facility for Living, Evidence of Things Unseen, The O’Conner Girls, and Welcome to Vital Vista Village. Her plays have been produced at ACT Theatre, North Coast Rep, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Barter Theatre, Penguin Rep, Dorset Theater Festival, Vertigo Theatre, and Park Square Theatre. She lives in Seattle with her favorite husband, R. Hamilton Wright.

Kaylee Sarton Mccray

Kaylee Sarton McCray This is her twelfth production with Alley Theatre. Selected previous productions include: The Glass Menagerie, 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

Kristen Larson

Kristen LarsonFavorite Alley credits: The Glass Menagerie; Noises Off; Little Comedies; Clue; Sense and Sensibility; Sweat; 1984; The Humans; Twelfth Night; Holmes and Watson; Lover, Beloved (world premiere); The 39 Steps; and Syncing Ink (Alley All new Festival workshop and world premiere). Locally she has worked with Stages and TUTS and out of town in Chicago and Juneau, Alaska. Krissy is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For T.

Michael Locher

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.

Matt Starritt

Matt Starritt is a Seattle-based freelance sound designer for theater and dance. Nationally, he has designed for ACT Theatre, Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Preston Singletary, and the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theatre. He is the sound supervisor for the University of Washington’s Meany Center for the Performing Arts and was a founding member of Washington Ensemble Theatre.

Meagan Rachelle Smallwood

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

Rob Melrose

Rob Melrose is the Artistic Director of Alley Theatre where he has directed productions of The Glass Menagerie, 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.

Molly Wetzel

Molly Wetzel is 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. She is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.

Eileen J. Morris

Eileen J. Morris is the Artistic Director of The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, one of the largest African American theatres in the world that owns its facility. She has directed over 89 productions which include 9 world premieres and in January 2021 was awarded Broadway World Houston’s Best Director of the Decade for August Wilson’s Fences. Eileen performed at The Alley Theatre in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and was the first African American woman to play Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol for several years. Eileen currently serves as Vice President on the board of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Chair of the Midtown Management District, consultant for the Black Theatre Network, and advisory board member of the Houston Cinema Arts Society. Eileen is among seven female artistic leaders awarded $250K annually with support from The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation and Northern Stage in support of women artistic directors of professional theaters across the United States. Notably, Eileen holds the distinction of being the ONLY woman in the world to direct eight of the August Wilson Ten Play Cycle. She is thrilled to collaborate with The Alley Theatre with this production of Lynn Nottage’s Sweat.

Nicole Jescinth Smith

Nicole Jescinth Smith is beyond excited for her debut at Alley Theatre. Nicole has both a Master’s of Fine Arts ( Univ. of Tennessee) and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts ( Univ. of Miami)in Theatrical Costume Design. Ms Smith has worked on everything from America’s Got Talent to the Metropolitan Opera. Her recent theatre credits include A Room in The Castle ( Folger Theatre/CSC), Gem of the Ocean (Two River Theatre), Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe). Ms. Smith was also the costume designer on the new HBO Original series The Chair Company starring Tim Robinson. This tv series is a highlight for this multi disciplinary costume designer. Nicole’s work has been featured as lead stylist for brands such as Adidas and Zillow. Her upcoming collaboration with Oscar nominated director and writer RaMell Ross will prove to be one that draws from her love and passion for theatre, film and dance.

Trinity A. Nobles

Trinity A. Nobles Selected credits include Alley Theatre: Primary Trust, Alley All New Festival 2024: Uhuru and Zero Hour (SM); 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); BFA: Stage Management, University of Houston.

Pablo Santiago

Pablo Santiago is an award-winning lighting designer celebrated for his evocative and powerful work in live performance and film. He has received numerous honors, including the LA Drama Critics Circle Lighting Award, the Henry Award, the Richard Sherwood Award, and multiple Ovation Award nominations. His designs have illuminated productions at The Kennedy Center, LA Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and more, consistently earning acclaim for their emotional depth and visual storytelling across theater, opera, and symphonic stages.

Paige Hathaway

Paige Hathaway is a DC-based scenic designer and is making her Alley Theatre debut! Regionally, she has designed at Arden Theatre Co, Village Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Writer’s Theatre, and Santa Fe Playhouse. In the DC area, she has designed at Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theater J, Woolly Mammoth, and Studio Theatre. Education: University of Maryland, College Park: MFA; University of Oklahoma: BFA. Website: paigehathawaydesign.com Instagram: @paigehathawaydesign

Victoria Beauray Sagady

Victoria Beauray Sagady Recent designs include Pictures from Home, The Janeiad, The World Is Not Silent, and Torera at Alley Theatre. Broadway credits: All the Way (Drama Desk Nomination), The Great Society at Lincoln Center, Leap of Faith, and Memphis. Off-Broadway: Stop.Reset, Mound Builders, and Emotional Creature at Signature Theatre; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Second Stage. Additional credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theater, and Goodman Theatre. Her work has been seen across the country and internationally in China and Europe.

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg is a San Diego based director whose work has been celebrated for its boldness, creativity, and commitment to diverse storytelling. She is a founder and former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, which she helmed for 12 acclaimed seasons receiving The Des McAnuff New Visions Award for “Risk Taking Leadership” from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. Delicia has directed plays for The Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Utah Sakespeare, Theatre Squared, Island City Stage, San Diego REP, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Calgary, Roundhouse Theatre, Center Rep, and Two River Theatre among others.

Cat Tate Starmer

Cat Tate Starmer 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, Born with Teeth (Epic Theatre Ensemble); Regional: Kansas City Rep, Two River Theatre, the Old Globe, the Guthrie, TheatreWorks, ACT Theatre, and PlayMakers Rep. Cat has designed at Princeton, Juilliard, Yale, Brown, and Barnard College, lectured at Fordham University, and is currently the Interim Head of Lighting at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Thom Weaver

Thom Weaver For the Alley: The Janeiad. 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, Helen Hayes Award, and 2 AUDELCO Awards. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

Jocelyn A. Thompson

Jocelyn A. Thompson Alley Theatre: Thorton Wilder’s The Emporium, Pictures from Home, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Born with Teeth; North Carolina Theatre: The Color Purple; American Shakespeare Center: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Dracula: Comedy of Terrors; Merry Wives of Windsor; Passover, Much Ado About Nothing; Virginia Repertory Theatre: Once, The Wiz, West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast; Cutting Ball Theater: Ubu Roi, The Chairs; Training: B.F.A Howard University. Member of AEA.

Vivian Majkowski

Vivian Majkowski just completed her first year as Associate Professor in Voice & Speech at UH. Prior to this she was at UCF and was resident Voice, Text & Accent Director at Orlando Shakes for five years. She has also coached at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, American Players Theatre, A.R.T. & TheatreWorks. Vivian earned her MFA in Voice & Speech Pedagogy from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Rachel Wagstaff

Rachel Wagstaff wrote the book for Flowers for Mrs Harris which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Daniel Evans, after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible. The original production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical and the London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production. Her critically acclaimed adaptation of Birdsong opened in the West End, and will be revived for a record-breaking fifth UK tour with Original Theatre in autumn 2024. With Duncan Abel she adapted Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code which toured the UK and made its US premiere at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 2023 and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which had a record-breaking UK tour and West End run in 2019 and is now performed across the UK and beyond. Her adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d has enjoyed two UK tours and toured India. She has multiple TV and feature film adaptations in development.

Brandon Weinbrenner

Brandon Weinbrenner is the Alley’s Associate Artistic Director. At the Alley he has directed Seared, 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

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.

Yu Shibagaki

Yu Shibagaki (she/her) is a NYC-based set designer whose greatest joy is collaborating on new works. Originally from Nagoya, Japan, she moved to the U.S. alone 20 years ago and has since designed over 40 productions nationwide, including Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Studio Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera and more. MFA: Northwestern University. yushibagaki.com