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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

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 has appeared in 23 Alley Theatre productions, including 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, Journey’s End, 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 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: 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 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

Dylan Godwin

Dylan Godwin is a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Actor 2), The Glass Menagerie (Tom), Noises Off (Garry Lejeune). 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 is in his 20th year as a member of the Resident Acting Company. Recent: Primary Trust, 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.

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

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.

Melissa Molano

Melissa Molano is a Resident Acting Company Member. Recent Alley shows include Noël Coward’s Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and Jane Eyre. 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 Primary Trust and Noises Off. He has also performed with The National Actors Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, among others. He received the Juilliard Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize. He is also the owner of Studio for Actors Houston.

Christopher Salazar

Christopher Salazar is a Resident Acting Company Member. Alley Theatre credits include Seared, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, The Servant of Two Masters, and Little Comedies. 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.

Susan Koozin

Susan Koozin returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in 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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Gromada

John Gromada Alley: 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.

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: Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, A Facility for Living, Evidence of Things Unseen, The O’Conner Girls, The Body Snatcher, and Welcome to Vital Vista Village. Her plays have been produced at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, and Park Square Theatre.

Rob Melrose

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.

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.

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

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.

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 the multi-award winning musical Flowers for Mrs Harris (Best Musical, UK Theatre Awards 2016), which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Daniel Evans, in September 2018 after a run at the Sheffield Crucible. Her critically acclaimed adaptation of Birdsong opened in the West End, directed by Trevor Nunn, and enjoyed four UK tours with the Original Theatre Company and Birdsong Productions. With Duncan Abel, she adapted Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which had a record-breaking UK tour and West End run in 2019 and her new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d toured the UK produced by the Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative. For radio, Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’ novel The Girl at the Lion d’Or for a five part series for Woman’s Hour on Radio Four, transmitted in 2009. Her Afternoon Play When I Lost You, also co-written with Duncan Abel, was transmitted on Radio Four in July 2013. Moonshadow, the musical she co-wrote with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), opened at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010, and then was produced at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne in June 2012. That Girl was produced by DryWrite at the Soho Theatre in June 2012. Rachel also wrote the book for the original musical Only the Brave, which opened at the Wales Millennium Centre in March 2016, with music composed by Matthew Brind.

Brandon Weinbrenner

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

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.

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