Matthew Amendt
Matthew Amendt Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet Off-Broadway: Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Red Bull), Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine, Much Ado About Nothing (TFANA) Henry V, (The Acting Company/Guthrie) Regional: Guthrie, La Jolla, Shakespeare Theatre Co., Seattle Rep., HVSF, Westport, and others. Film/TV: shorts, series, and independent films Awards: Presidential Scholar, Ivey, Emery Battis Award.
Orlando Arriaga
Orlando Arriaga Romeo and Juliet, Noël Coward’s Private Lives, 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: The Lehman Trilogy (Stages); Romeo Y Juliet (Cal Shakes); The Smoker (CATF); The Counter (4th Wall Theatre) Recipient of the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.
Kedrick Brown
Kedrick Brown (Citizen Barlow) attended the University of North Texas and the University of Houston’s MFA Program. Theatre credits: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Dr. John Prentice), Miracle on 34th Street (Fred Gayley); Sassy Mamas (Ladonte), Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Tony), Fly (Tap Griot). TV appearances include The Rookie, The Chosen, The Game, Black Lightning, and New Amsterdam. Follow him at www.kedrickbrown.com.
Elizabeth Bunch
Elizabeth Bunch is the Karen and Arthur Rogers Resident Company Artist. She has appeared in over 100 productions at Alley Theatre. Favorites include Misery, Seared, Noises Off, Little Comedies, Servant of Two Masters, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, 1984, Constellations, As You Like It, Grounded, Othello, The 39 Steps, Hand to God, Pygmalion, August: Osage County, Clybourne Park, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Doubt, Proof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. NYC and Regional: Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie, Denver Center, Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, Keen Company, and The Flea. @Its_Elizabeth_Bunch
Jason E. Carmichael
Jason E. Carmichael (Eli) is an award winning actor (United Solo Fest-Best Actor 2025 for Tied: A One Man Play) with a BFA in Theatre from Howard University. Some credits include Twelfth Night (Alley Theatre), Fences (Ensemble Theatre), Black Superhero Magic Mama (STAGES). Jason can soon be seen in the Regional Premiere of Purpose.
Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter (Caesar Wilkes) Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Rec Room Arts, Classical Theatre Company, Virginia Rep, and Off-Broadway’s Classical Theatre of Harlem and National Black Theatre. A former American Shakespeare Center Artistic Director, Carter holds an MFA from Penn State and joins Alley Theatre’s A Christmas Carol this winter.
Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Rec Room Arts, 4th Wall Theatre, Classical Theatre Company, Virginia Repertory Theatre, and seven seasons as a resident acting company member with American Shakespeare Center. Off-Broadway: Classical Theatre of Harlem (5 seasons), National Black Theatre, Apollo Theater. MFA, Penn State. Rep: Pastorini-Bosby.
@mistercart3rJEREMY
Mason Dowd
Mason Dowd is originally from Pittsburgh, and has been seen performing with various regional theatres, such as West Virginia Public Theatre, Lincoln Park PAC, City Theatre Company, PICT, New Hazlett Theatre, and Pittsburgh Opera. BFA Acting: Point Park University, current MFA Acting candidate at the Alley Theatre/University of Houston.
Michelle Elaine
Michelle Elaine is a Resident Acting Company Member. She originated the role of Miss Scarlet in the First National Tour of Clue: A New Comedy. Favorite Alley Theatre credits: Romeo and Juliet, August Wilson’s Fences, The Girl on the Train, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, 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 Theater Award for Best Actress for her performance as Rose in August Wilson’s Fences at Alley Theatre.
Oghenero Gbaje
Oghenero Gbaje is an Obie-award winning multi-hyphenate artist, proudly born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He’s an alumni of LaGuardia High School and Ithaca College(B.F.A Acting).He’s a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, recording artist and music producer. You can a find his music under “Oghie” on all platforms.
Jeremy Gee
Jeremy Geeis 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.
Adam Gibbs
Dylan Godwin
Dylan Godwin is a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), The Girl on the Train (Scott Hipwell), Dear Alien, The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrieff), 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).
David Gow
David Gow is a Houston native/NYC based actor who has always wanted to work at the Alley. This year he won the Helen Hayes Award for The Inheritance, played Hamlet at Shakespeare & Company, and is directing Are the Bennet Girls Ok? at 4th Wall Theatre. TV/Film: Girls on the Bus (HBO), The Good Fight (CBS), Madam Secretary (CBS), Chrissy Judy (Amazon), Jon Glaser Loves Gear (truTV), The Intruder (Apple TV), The Savant (Apple TV), Candice (Austin Film Festival). BFA from UNCSA. Love to K.
Brittany Halen
Brittany Halen is ecstatic to return to Alley Theatre! Previously at Alley: A Christmas Carol, Around the World in 80 Days and Peer Gynt (Workshop). Regional Theatre: Oliver!, Cabaret, Escape to Margaritaville, Once, Spitfire Grill, The Goodbye Girl, Bright Star, Me and My Girl, George M!, Rocky Horror, Reefer Madness, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Christmas, Guys and Dolls, Urban Cowboy, Mack and Mabel, Failure: A Love Story. BrittanyHalen.com.
Shawn Hamilton
Shawn Hamilton most recently appeared in Come From Away as Claude at Stages Houston and completed a short film on the life of Rod Page . He will appear next at the Alley as Yasha in The Cherry Orchard directed by Richard Nelson . He is a proud member of Actors Equity and the proud father of HSPVA Senior Shelby Brown!
Michele Harrell
Michele Harrell (Aunt Ester Tyler) has appeared in theater, film, and television in New York and Los Angeles, as well as with several local theaters. She currently serves on the advisory board for Lionwoman Productions TX. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Brown University and earned a Master of Arts from the University of Southern California.
Brock Hatton
Brock Hatton returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in last season’s A Christmas Carol. He has most recently been seen in Stage’s Come From Away (Track 8/ Kevin T./ Garth) and Houston Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest (Trinculo) and The Comedy of Errors (Angelo). Other credits include Rec Room Arts: Death of a Salesman (Howard Wagner) and Main Street Theater: Present Laughter (Roland Maule), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Caractacus Potts), Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arthur de Bourgh); and as a company member of Strange Bird Immersive. Brock graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences.
Brandon Hearnsberger
Brandon Hearnsberger An Alief native in his 30th Alley Theatre production, including Romeo and Juliet, The Body Snatcher, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Dial M for Murder, The Farnsworth Invention, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Performances at Cincinnati Playhouse, A Noise Within, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Dallas Theatre Center. Voice-over for video games and animation. More at brandonhearnsberger.com.
Troy Anthony Hogan
Troy Anthony Hogan (Solly Two Kings) is an accomplished stage actor, recently in Houston’s Ensemble Theatre Coconut Cake. Transitioning seamlessly to the screen, his notable television credits include Queen Sugar and The Righteous Gemstones. His feature film work includes acclaimed historical dramas like The Highwaymen and Free State of Jones.
Chris Hury
Chris Hury (Rutherford Selig) is a veteran actor who was last seen on stage as Clarence in Richard III at the Prague Shakespeare Company. In addition to countless stage productions, he has been seen in numerous television shows and commercials, voiced an array of characters in anime, and works in MoCap in video games.
Chris Hutchison
Chris Hutchison is in his 21st year as a member of the Resident Acting Company. Recent credits incluide: Romeo and Juliet, The Girl on the Train, Misery, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Da Vinci Code, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. 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.
Bryan Jahnke
Bryan Jahnke is originally from New Jersey and has worked as an Actor in New York and various Regional Theaters in the Northeast. BA Acting: Rider University. Current MFA Acting Candidate at the University of Houston. Recent Credits: Beltsville/Rockville (Bart/Bryan), Three Musketeers (D’Artagnan), Comedy of Errors (Antipholus S.)
Rob B. Kellogg
Rob B. Kellogg is an actor & writer whose work explores American myth. He has appeared Off-Broadway and at The McCarter, Berkeley Rep, The Huntington, and Williamstown. On screen: The Bride! (2026), No Later Light (2026), Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, among others. He received his BFA from Boston University. Love is foundational. likethecereal.com
Paige Klase
Paige Klase is delighted to be making her Alley Theatre debut in A Christmas Carol! Raised on Houston soccer fields, she now shoots her shot with her BFA in Musical Theatre from Sam Houston State University. Her most recent credits include A.D. Players: Brother Andrew (Ensemble), Narnia: The Musical (Susan).
Amanda Martinez
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 my family, friends, and Chris for all of your support! IG: @mandimartinez.
Robby Matlock
Robby Matlock is thrilled to make his Alley Theatre Debut! Previous Credits: Stages: Mayer (The Lehman Trilogy), Main Street: TJ (Coast Starlight) Henry (Georgiana and Kitty), A.D. Players: Sid (Holly Street). Training: MFA in Acting from University of Houston. Much love to family, friends, and wonderful wife Jill. ig: @robbymatlock, robbymatlock.com.
Claire Metusalem
Claire Metusalem is an actor and teaching artist from Houston. Alley debut! Acting credits include: A.D. Players: The Play That Goes Wrong (Swing), Nebraska Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), Garden Theatre: Midsummer (Helena), Prague Shakespeare: The Tempest (Miranda), All’s Well (Rinalda). Claire is an MFA Acting candidate at the University of Houston.
Callee Miles
Callee Miles makes her Alley debut! Off Broadway/NYC: Hamlet, Million Dollar Quartet. Regional: Merchant of Venice, Antony & Cleopatra, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evil Dead, Hotter Than Egypt, Les Misérables. UH: The Moors, Frankenstein. She’s also an advanced actor combatant and martial artist. Thanks to friends, mentors, and my sun and Skye. 4:13.
Woody Minshew
Woody Minshew is a 3rd year MFA graduate candidate with the Alley Theater/University of Houston. A New York based actor who has performed regionally and on national tours. He wants to thank his friends, family, The Bards, and Sarah for their love and support. @woodman1129 or @Bardsofnewyork
Melissa Molano
Melissa Molano Resident Acting Company Member. Past Alley shows include Romeo and Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Noël Coward’s Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, Jane Eyre, The Da Vinci Code, Noises Off, Clue, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and the world premieres of Dear Alien, Little Comedies, and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Outside of Alley she’s a voice/film actor with projects featured on streaming platforms HiDive, Netflix and Prime. Instagram/X: @melissacmolano.
Emily Neves
Emily Neves is elated to return to the Alley stage! Highlights from her years in the Resident Acting Company include: Clybourne Park, A Few Good Men, A Behanding in Spokane, Rock n’ Roll, Boeing-Boeing, and scores more! Emily is a renowned voice actor, and has played hundreds of characters in anime and video games.
Michael Oloyede
Michael Oloyede is thrilled to make his Alley Theatre debut. He made his Broadway debut in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, originating the roles of James/Franklin/Olu/Eric, and reprised the production at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. Off-Broadway: Scraps, Inanimate (The Flea Theater), Eco Village (Theater at St. Clements). Film/TV: Both Eyes Open (STARZ), Maniac (Netflix), Lemonade Blessing (Tribeca), Soul Patrol (Sundance). Michael is also the founder of Scene & Heard, a creative community supporting artists through space, opportunity, and storytelling.
@michaeloloyede
Allysia Peine
Allysia Peine is an actor, and teaching artist from Utah. Most recently she was seen in Cats, Guys and Dolls, and Anything Goes (UFOMT) She is also a proud recipient of a Distinguished Performance Award from The Kennedy Center. BA. Idaho State University, MFA Acting Candidate: University of Houston/Alley Theatre.
Allison Pistorius
Allison Pistorius last appeared at Alley Theatre in The Smoker (2025 AANF) and has worked at Prague Shakespeare Company, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theater Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Theatre Works Hartford, and others. On camera: Dutton Ranch, Tempest (Official Selection – Dances With Films Los Angeles), and “Mom” in a handful of national commercials. Two-time Jeopardy! contestant, Head of BFA Acting at the University of Houston. MFA in Acting, National Theatre Conservatory. Love to Austen, Birdie, Charlie, and Chris.
Spencer Plachy
Spencer Plachy Alley Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Recently: South Pacific at Totem Pole Playhouse. Houston Grand Opera, Stages, A.D. Players, Main Street Theater, Classical Theatre Company… Tour: Disney’s The Lion King (Scar). Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. TV: Shades of Blue.
Delali Potakey
Delali Potakey (Black Mary) is honored to return to the stage in the reading of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean after taking a brief bow to earn her M.A. in Arts Leadership from the University of Houston. Some credits include Pretty Fire, Freeda Peoples, Sistas, All Shook Up, and Doubt. The journey continues.
Kory LaQuess Pullam
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. Keep up with him on social media by following @laquess.
Luis Quintero
Luis Quintero is a Houston-based Actor, Playwright, and Composer, and he is thrilled to return to the Alley once again! Alley credits: The Body Snatcher. The Glass Menagerie, American Mariachi, A Christmas Carol, Sweat, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Select Regional credits: Octet, Mr. Burns, Into the Woods, Romeo and Juliet. Plays: Medea: Re-Versed, (Lucille Lortel Award Nominated Best Musical, Drama Desk Nominations; Best Adaptation and Best Lyrics). He has two more installations in his Greek Grunge Trilogy. The Minotaur, commissioned by Hudson Valley Shakespeare with developmental support from The O’Neill, The Guggenheim and Under the Radar. And Hippolytus/Phedra commissioned by Red Bull Theater and developed by Alley Theater and UNCSA and the Kenan institute for the arts . Luis would like to thank the Alley, his friends and family and you the reader of this bio for supporting live theater!
David Rainey
David Rainey is in his 26th season as a Resident Acting Company Member and performed over 100 productions for the Alley. He’s also performed on Broadway with The National Actors Theatre, and nationally with the Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, 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 also owns Studio for Actors Houston.
Gabriel Regojo
Gabriel Regojo is excited to be back at Alley Theatre. Previous Alley credits include: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (Marston/Naracott), Jane Eyre (St. John Rivers). Additional credits include: Theatre Squared: A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit); Classical Theatre (Company Member): War of The Worlds (George), R.U.R. (Alquist); Catastrophic Theatre (Core Ensemble): Eddie goes to Poetry City (Eddie), The Blackest Shore (Stuart), Bootycandy (Actor 5); Stages Repertory Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things (Letter Writer 1), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Harry Jazzbo Heywood), 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 Voice Actor with over 40 credits in anime and video games.
Briana J Resa
Briana J. Resais thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre. Alley: Noël Coward’s Private Lives, American Mariachi, What-A-Christmas!, 72 Miles To Go, 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 received the 2020 Houston Press Theatre Award, Best Solo Show. BFA SHSU. @brianaresa
Christopher Salazar
Christopher Salazar is a Resident Acting Company Member. Alley Theatre credits include Seared, The Importance of Being Earnest, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, 72 miles to go…, 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.
Skyler Sinclair
Skyler Sinclair is thrilled to be back at the Alley Theatre! Past Houston credits include Lend Me a Soprano, Crimes of the Heart, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Alley); Our Town, Sense and Sensibility, Gloria (4th Wall); Let. Her. Rip. (Stages); Appropriate (Dirtdogs); Around the World in 80 Days, Harvey (AD Players); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickham’s, The Best of Everything (Main Street). BFA University of Houston. Instagram: @skyssinclair
Forrest Stringfellow
Forrest Stringfellow is a 3rd-Year in the University of Houston’s MFA Acting Program. He was last seen in Houston as Dromio of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors and Sebastian in Tempest at the Houston Shakespeare Festival. Love and special thanks to his wife, Shayna, for her unwavering support.
Alexandra Szeto-Joe
Alexandra Szeto-Joe Alley Credits: Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. Select Regional Credits: The Chinese Lady (Stages); Becky Nurse of Salem (Capital Repertory Theatre); Three Sisters (Classical Theatre Company); As You Like It (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare); Emojiland: The Musical (Tapestry Players); The Heart Sellers (Stages). BFA from NYU Tisch. Love to Mommy & Chris! alexandraszeto-joe.com.
Braden Tanner
Braden Tanner is a Houston based singer, actor, and musician. He recently performed in Ben Chavez’s Last Day, County Fair as Daddy. TUTS: Beautiful (Lou Adler), White Christmas (Sheldrake), Frozen (Oaken), Little Shop of Horrors (Ensemble, Dentist u/s), Newsies (Gov. Roosevelt). Stages: Das Barbecü, (Siegfried) A.D. Players: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Reuben). All my love to Jessica and Harper. @bradenltanner
Jessica Tanner
Jessica Tanner is a Houston-based singer, actress, teaching artist, and content creator. Select Regional Credits: Ben Chavez’s Last Day, County Fair (Mama), 9 to 5 (Missy US/ Doralee), Singin’ in the Rain (Dora Bailey), The Secret Garden (Martha). BFA in Music Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University. Love to Braden and Harper Lee. @jessicartanner JessicaRTanner.com.
Raven Justine Troup
Raven Justine Troupe in another production with the Alley Theatre! Previous Alley credits include: Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium (Laurencia); Seascape (Sarah); Amerikin (Chris); A Christmas Carol (Belle/Mrs. Fred), Sophia (Xerxes, Alley All New Festival 2019), and Skeleton Crew (Assistant Director). Other credits: Sanctuary City (4th Wall Theatre Co); Beautiful, 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).
Micah Weese
Micah Weese is an actor and musician originally from Oklahoma. Recent appearances include Houston Shakespeare Festival, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, and Florida Repertory Theatre. He has a BFA in Acting from the University of Oklahoma and is currently a third-year MFA candidate at the University of Houston/Alley Theatre.
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.
Teresa Zimmermann
Teresa Zimmermann Alley Theatre: Dial M for Murder (Margot Wendice), Amerikin (Michelle). TUTS: Beautiful (Cynthia Weil), Rent (Maureen), Million Dollar Quartet (U/S Dyanne), Frozen (Ens, U/S Elsa), Rock of Ages (Regina), Jerome Robbins Broadway, Sweeney Todd (Ens, U/S Lovett). Live at the Founders Club (Self). Queensbury Theatre: Mean Girls (Janis). Cincinnati Playhouse: Dial M for Murder. Stages: Roe (Norma McCorvey/Jane Roe), Veronica’s Room (Girl). All my love to Will, the kitties, the fam & the fram. TeresaZ.net @tereereeree
Afsaneh Aayani
Afsaneh Aayani Select Credits: Denver Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Old Globe: English; Alley Theatre: English, A Christmas Carol; Alliance Theatre: English, The great Ant Sleepover; Chautauqua Theater: Birthday Candles; Princeton University: A Moment of Silence: American Stage: Disgraced; Two River Theater: Romeo and Juliet; Theatre Under the Stars, Papermill Playhouse: Frozen; Trinity Rep: Alabaster; Meow Wolf Houston; Catastrophic Theatre: Turn of the Screw, Innominate, Cleansed; Stages: Lehman Trilogy, Black Superhero Magic Mama, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson; El Paso Opera: Frida, Sunday in the Park With George; Houston Grand Opera: Big Swim; Theatre of the Republic: Finding Nemo; Moores School of Music: Little Shop of Horrors. afsanehaayani.com
Duncan Abel
Duncan Abel is a writer of plays, radio plays and short stories. He lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire from 2014 to 2015. Duncan was shortlisted for the 2010 Luke Bitmead Award for his novel The Way Home. He also wrote, with co-writer Rachel Wagstaff, a monologue for Sing London, based on the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, performed by Hugh Bonneville, recorded in 2014.
Shariffa Ali
Shariffa Ali is a Kenyan-Ethiopian, New York-based director, filmmaker, and educator who believes theatre is a rehearsal for humanity. Rooted in futurity, her work transforms memory, migration, and resistance into collective possibility. Directing credits include Mies Julie, minor.ity, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Copper Children, and Mlima’s Tale. Her films Atomu and You Go Girl! premiered at Sundance. She has been an artist-in-residence at Brown University and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A Sundance New Frontier Fellow and Hermitage Major Theater Award recipient, Shariffa teaches at Princeton University and works with UNDP’s timbuktoo initiative, advancing African innovation and becoming.
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David Arevalo
David Arevalo is a Texas-born costume designer whose work is grounded in collaboration and the transformation of materials. Alley Theatre: The Night Shift Before Christmas, Noël Coward’s Private Lives. Upcoming: Furlough’s Paradise – Geva Theatre; Zapata – Zach Theatre; Previous (Selected): Aztlan – Magic Theatre; 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. darevalo.com
Raquel Barreto
Raquel Barreto is pleased to be back at Alley after designing Real Women Have Curves, The Emporium, A Christmas Carol, 1984, The Winter’s Tale, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Recent credits: Destiny of Desire (Denver Center/Mark Taper Forum) and The Winter’s Tale (American Players Theatre). She has designed extensively at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Guthrie Theater, as well as at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; St. Louis Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Arena Stage; Berkeley Rep; Syracuse Stage; Pasadena Playhouse; Cornerstone Theater; and others. Raquel is from Brazil and lives between Los Angeles and Austin, where she heads the MFA in Costume Design at the University of Texas.
Jack Beetle
Jack Beetlebegan his professional career as an actor specializing in Shakespeare and musical theatre. This is Jack’s twelfth 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.
Karishma Bhagani
Karishma Bhagani is a producer and dramaturg from Mombasa, Kenya. Karishma is the program director of the Bridges Fellowship Program, a training program for African producers. Select credits: Mal Aria (Premier Stages), Shakespeare in the Park: Twelfth Night (NYC), Goddess: The Musical (Berkeley Rep and The Public Theater), produced The Manic Monologues, Theatre for One: Nairobi Edition. PhD candidate, Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, B.F.A Drama and B.A. History, NYU.
@karishmabhagani
Trevor Bowen
Trevor Bowen (Costume Design) My Name is Florence, La Boheme, Fellow Travelers,(MN Opera); Bluebeard’s Castle,Champion (Boston Lyric Opera); A Doll’s House, Nacirema Society, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet, (Guthrie Theatre);Corduroy, Three Little Birds (Children’s Theatre Company); Shane (OSF); The Color Purple (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage); Dracula (KCRep); Appropriate (Seattle Rep). 2026 Special Olympics Opening Ceremony Creative Segment. M.F.A. Costume Design West Virginia University, 2021 Playwright’s Center McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow.
Alan Brincks
Alan Brincks Previous Alley credits: The Mirror Crack’d, Clue, Alley All New. Previous Fight Direction/ Intimacy Consulting: 4th Wall Theatre, Main Street Theater, Rec Room Arts, Classical Theatre Company, Rice University, Lamar University, and others. Alan is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, an actor, director, and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lamar University.
Cliff Caruthers
Cliff Caruthers is a San Francisco-based sound designer and composer with 300+ production credits, including The Glass Menagerie, Pictures from Home, and Born with Teeth for Alley Theatre, Frankenstein: Playing with Fire for Guthrie Theater, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Rep, Sweat for Center Rep, and Fun Home for TheatreWorks, where he was Resident Sound Designer for seven years. American Theatre named him one of “6 Designers You Should Know” (2026). He co-curates the SF Tape Music Festival, is a member of United Scenic Artists, and teaches at Stanford. Cliffcaruthers.com.
You-Shin Chen
You-Shin Chen Taiwanese-American scenic designer. You-Shin centers the human experience in the process of creating an environment. Recent credits include: How to Defend Yourself (NYTW); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (ArsNova); Wolf Play (MCC & SohoRep); A View From the Bridge (Long Wharf); Red Velvet (STC); Walden (Theaterworks Hartford); The Ruins (Guthrie); The Witnesses (Chautauqua Theater Company); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse); The Dragon King’s Daughter; Finn (The Kennedy Center). Lucille Lortel Awards, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. USA 829.
Brandon Clark
Brandon Clark Five seasons with Alley Theatre including Romeo and Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Seared, Noises Off, and three years of A Christmas Carol. Other credits include: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (TUTS), ¡VOS! (CATF), Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival. BA, Theatre: University of Northern Iowa. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Many thanks to the incredible group of SMs I have alongside me and to Nia and Becky who paved the way – this show wouldn’t happen without them!
John L. Cornelius II
John L. Cornelius II a member of ASCAP, the AFofM and The Recording Academy, has written several shows 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. His most recent concert works include chamber opera, chamber works, The River (MFA-Boston), Colored Carnegie (Urban Souls Dance Company) and PAX, (Apollo Chamber Players). Dr. Cornelius is Professor of Music at PVAMU
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.
Lacey Erb
Lacey Erb is a projection & media designer whose design work spans live performance, multimedia art exhibitions, and film and video animation. Selected credits: Small Mouth Sounds (Alliance Theatre), Sondheim on Love (Norfolk Chamber Music Festival), This Beautiful Future (Off-Broadway), Very Fine People, and Chasing the New White Whale (La Mama), Sondheim on Love (Norfolk Chamber Music Festival), Reflective Impulse (SXSW Interactive), and multiple shows with Norwegian Cruise Line. Lacey is a member of USA 829.
Micha Espinosa
Micha Espinosa is an internationally recognized voice specialist and teaching artist renowned for her work in culturally inclusive pedagogies. Professor at University of Wisconsin- Madison, 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.
Madolyn Friedman-Logue
Madolyn Friedman-Logue Alley: Misery, Real Women Have Curves, Doris Baizley’s A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol, Sweat, Amerikin, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Born with Teeth. Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, If Pretty Hurts…, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons) Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet. Education: BFA Stage & Production Management, Emerson College. Much love to my wife, Megan.
Amber D. Gray
Amber D. Gray is the Associate Artistic Director of Producing here at the Alley. Houston credits include: Assistant Director for High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest, A Christmas Carol (Assistant Director 2022/Associate Director 2023/Remount Director 2024-2025), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Noises Off, The Glass Menagerie, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Primary Trust, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, The Da Vinci Code, The Importance of Being Earnest and August Wilson’s Fences at Alley Theatre and cullud wattah (Assistant Director) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marcy) at Stages Repertory Theatre. She is also currently the Associate Artistic Director for the Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival and Associate Artistic Director for Detroit’s Obsidian Theatre Festival.
Lydia Hance
Lydia Hance is a choreographer and curator whose work moves across dance, theater, and film. Dance Magazine has called her “a master of making dances in concert with a specific environment.” She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Frame Dance, chief curator of the Frame x Frame Film Festival, and co-creator of Frame Dance Classrooms, a professional development program bringing movement-based tools into early childhood classrooms. A champion of new music, she has premiered scores by over 24 living composers with her choreography. SMU, BFA Dance Performance, BA English Literature.
Elizabeth Harper
Elizabeth Harper Broadway: Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center, with Lap Chi Chu). Off-Broadway: Between Two Knees (The Perelman Center for the Performing Arts); When Playwrights Kill (Signature Theatre); Conversations with Mother (Theatre 555). Regional: Indecent; Rattlesnake Kate (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (The Geffen Playhouse); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Blues for an Alabama Sky (The Mark Taper Forum). Associate professor of lighting design at the University of Southern California.
Carolina Ortiz Herrera
Carolina Ortiz Herrerais a Mexican-born and New York-based Lighting Designer for theater, opera, and dance. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar. Regional: Private Lives, December: a love years in the making, American Mariachi, and Born with Teeth (Alley Theatre); her work has been seen in numerous theaters across the US, including: La Jolla Playhouse, Guthrie Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Denver Center for the Arts, Playmakers Repertory, Westport Country Playhouse, Minneapolis Opera, Florentine Opera, Opera Idaho, and others.
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Celeste Jennings
Celeste Jennings an Arkansas born, New York based playwright and costume designer. Recent designs include: Fun Home, Purpose, To Kill a Mockingbird (Huntington Theatre), The Monsters (Berkeley Rep), Memnon (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and Appropriate (The Old Globe). She developed her play Potliqka with The Public Theatre Spotlight Series and Rattlestick Theatre where she’s a Terrence McNally Fellow. Jennings holds an MFA in costume design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Ashton Jones
Ashton Jones is a conductor, music director, educator, and vocalist based in Houston. He serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Texas Southern University. Jones holds degrees in voice from Texas Southern University, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts. His work spans choral, operatic, theatrical, sacred, and concert music throughout Houston and beyond.
Frederick Kennedy
Frederick Kennedy is a Canadian-American sound designer, musician, and composer. Previously at the Alley: Seared. Other recent projects: Othello, Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Unexpected 3rd (New York Theatre Workshop), Primary Trust (Signature Theatre), 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
Kristen Larson
Kristen Larson (she/hers) has been lucky enough to work with the Alley on over 40 productions since 2013, most recently on the world premiere of The Body Snatcher. Endless gratitude to Casey for having her on this team! Local credits with Stages and TUTS and out of town in New York, Florida, Chicago and Alaska. Krissy is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For T & M, always.
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.
Gloria Majule
Gloria Majule is a storyteller from Dodoma, Tanzania. She seeks to tell stories that bring multiple black voices together from across the world, and are accessible to black audiences no matter where they are. She writes for and about Africans and the African diaspora.
Gloria has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and Artist Trust; commissions from Audible, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, and Princeton University/The Civilians; and residencies at Yaddo, Art Omi, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The New Harmony Project, and New York Stage and Film. A four-time O’Neill Finalist and six-time Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, Gloria’s work includes UHURU (Upcoming World Premiere at the Alley Theatre), MALA ARIA (Upcoming New Play Production at Premiere Stages), MY FATHER WAS SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD (Relentless Award Finalist), POSSESSED (OR, “THE CRAZY AFRICAN GIRL PLAY) (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Selection), CULTURE SHOCK (Leah Ryan Prize Winner), and FIFTEEN HUNDRED (Blue Ink Award Finalist). Her work has been developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Union Arts Center, The American Playwriting Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration, Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, American Blues Theater, The New Group, The Alliance Theatre, and Great Plains Theatre Commons, among others. Gloria graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish, and was the first African woman to receive an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.
Kaylee Sarton Mccray
Kaylee Sarton McCray is delighted to return to The Night Shift Before Christmas after stage managing the world premiere in 2024 and subsequent production in 2025. A selection of other Alley Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet, Dear Alien, English, The Da Vinci Code, The Glass Menagerie, The Janeiad, Jane Eyre, Little Comedies. Kaylee has also stage managed at other organizations in Houston and beyond. BFA from Sam Houston State University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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.
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Ethan Mitchell
Ethan MitchellPreviously at Alley Theatre: August Wilson’s Fences, The Da Vinci Code, 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 (9 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.
Eileen J. Morris
Eileen J. Morris (Director) is the Artistic Director of The Ensemble Theatre-Houston. Recent Ensemble Theatre directing credits: The Bluest Eye and Akeelah and the Bee. Alley Theatre directing credits: Fences (2026), associate director for Sweat (2021), and the Alley Theatre’s “All New” Festival. She also preformed as the first Black Ms. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and appeared in the 1990 production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Eileen was named 2023’s Best Artistic Director by the Houston Press Awards. She holds the distinction of being the ONLY woman in the world to have directed nine out of the ten plays in the August Wilson Century Cycle.
Adam Noble
Adam Noble has over 30 years of professional experience augmenting physical storytelling in the performing arts. Certified by the Society of American Fight Directors and a recognized specialist in the field of intimacy direction, Adam teaches acting and movement nationally and internationally. Serving across artistic disciplines, he’s created movement choreography for over 250 productions. Adam is Head of the University of Houston + Alley Theatre MFA Professional Actor Training Program.
Trinity A. Nobles
Trinity A. Nobles (Stage Manager) Favorites include Alley Theatre: August Wilson’s Fences, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Primary Trust, Alley All New Festival 2024: Uhuru and Zero Hour; TUTS: Million Dollar Quartet, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Disney’s Frozen, Cinderella, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Stages: the ripple, the wave, that carried me home, Miss Rhythm: The Legend Of Ruth Brown, Othello: The Remix, You Are Cordially Invited to Sit-In; BFA: Stage Management, University of Houston. Always, Nate, Cashew, and Pistachio.
Brenda Palestina
Brenda Palestina (she/her) is a Houston based director, actor, and teaching artist with a BFA in Acting from the University of Houston. Brenda is a co-founder of Happy Hour Readings, a play reading series at Rec Room Arts that elevates emerging Houston artists and fosters community among them. Acting credits include: Stages: Panto Alicia in Wonderland (Hortensia); Teatrx: Sexo y Tortillas (Marcia), Don’t Quit (Kendall); The Garden Theatre: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snout, Cobweb). Directing credits include: ConcertiaHTX: Cloud Tectonics; Teatrx: The Hummingbird’s Wedding; Octarine Accord: Advance Man (Assistant Director); Happy Hour Readings: Atacama, Override.
Kevin Rigdon
Kevin Rigdonhas 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.
Chrissy Roy
Chrissy Roy Select credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet (SM, ASM, Oak Park Festival Theatre – Chicago.) Million Dollar Quartet, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (ASM, TUTS.) August Wilson’s Fences, Real Women Have Curves, A Christmas Carol, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Noël Coward Private Lives, Seared, Noises Off, Jane Eyre, American Mariachi (PA, Alley Theatre.) As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SM, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare.) BFA: University of Houston. Endless gratitude to her friends, family, and Leo.
Kathy Ruvuna
Kathy Ruvuna Uhuru, 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.
KJ Sanchez
KJ Sanchez has directed five previous productions at Alley Theatre: Noël Coward’s Private Lives, 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 a Professor and Head of the MFA Directing programs at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, he later moved to London, where he became a key member and part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later the King’s Men). Shakespeare penned timeless masterpieces, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He became a part owner of the Globe Theatre, where many of his greatest plays were performed. Later, his company became the King’s Men under King James I. Shakespeare retired to Stratford before his death in 1616. His plays were collected in the First Folio in 1623.
Meagan Rachelle Smallwood
Meagan Rachelle Smallwood Previous credits include TUTS’ (ASM): Beautiful -The Carole King Musical, White Christmas; Alley Theatre’s (ASM): English, The Body Snatcher, Primary Trust, (PA): Seared, The Night Shift Before Christmas, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, and Little Comedies. Houston Shakespeare Festival (ASM): Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; MATCH (PM): Cloud Tectonics; Rec Room (SM): The Moonlit Princess. Smalls received her BFA in Stage Management from the University of Houston.
Casey Stangl
Casey Stangl is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles. Recent projects include: a SJ Hodges’ Already Here premiered in Los Angeles in May 2026 and will perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August; Alabaster at the Fountain Theater, the world premiere of John Ross Bowie’s Brushstroke at the Odyssey Theater, A Few Good Men at La Mirada Theater, the world premiere of Josh Kornbluth’s Citizen Brain at Shotgun Players in Berkeley, and Bekah Brunstetter’s short playGentle Parenting for the 24 Hour Plays. In 2019 Casey was named Director of the Year by StageScene Los Angeles. Casey’s work has been seen at theaters across the country including South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Everyman Theater, Arizona Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Denver Center, Portland Stage and Cleveland Playhouse. Casey has developed work with numerous emerging and established playwrights and directed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Playlabs, PlayPenn, In the Works-In the Woods Festival, and from 2105-22 was Associate Artistic Director for Ojai Playwrights Conference. A proud member of SDC, the national labor union for stage directors and choreographers, Casey served three terms on SDC’s Executive Board and was a voter for the Tony Awards. In addition to her work for the stage Casey does script adaptation and directs foreign language dubbing projects for Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ and Amazon.
Cat Tate Starmer
Cat Tate Starmer Designs at Alley Theatre include Agathja Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, 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: The Emporium (Classical Stage Company), Dirty Laundry (WP Theatre); Georgia Mertching is Dead, (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Hold These Truths, (Epic Theatre Ensemble); Regional: PlayMakers Rep, Kansas City Rep, Two River Theatre, the Old Globe, the Guthrie, TheatreWorks, Barrington Theater Co, George Street Playhouse, and ACT Theatre. Cat has designed and lectured at Fordham, Princeton, Juilliard, Yale, Brown, and Barnard College. She is currently the Head of Lighting at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. MFA Yale School of Drama. Local 829.
Jocelyn A. Thompson
Jocelyn A. Thompson Returns for her 5th season here and her first Romeo and Juliet. Previous Alley productions: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Da Vinci Code, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, Born with Teeth, Seascape, and Pictures from Home. Select regional work: American Shakespeare Center, Virginia Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Berkeley Rep, and Asolo Rep. When not stage managing she teaches master classes and workshops in stage management at universities across Virginia. BFA Howard University
Alejo Vietti
Alejo Vietti Alley Theatre: 28 productions! New York: Broadway: Titanique, Smash, Allegiance, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End, Japan, Australia, U.S. tour), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn. Works for Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theatre, Second Stage, Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, New Group, and more. Also, Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany and Austria), West Side Story World Tour. Recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award, Olivier Award and Drama Desk nominations. TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design (IG).
Andrew Wade
Andrew Wade Alley Theatre: The Winter’s Tale (directed by Rob Melrose). Royal Shakespeare Company: Head of Voice. Broadway: Giant with John Lithgow (Voice and Dialect), Harry Potter (U.S. Head of Voice and Dialect), Matilda (Director of Voice), A Christmas Carol (Voice and Dialect Director). The Public Theater: (Director of Voice). TFANA: (Resident Voice and Text Director). Film: Shakespeare in Love. Teaching: Juilliard (Adjunct Faculty Drama), Stella Adler (Master Teacher Voice and Speech. Fellow: Rose Bruford College. Masterclasses: Worldwide
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.
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.
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, Where The Mountain Meets The Sea (Ancram Arts); Director, Confederates; Movement Director, The Royale (Playmakers Repertory Company); Director, Fences, Fairview; Choreographer, Melancholy Play; (Trinity Repertory Company); Director/Choreographer, Light It Up! (Cleveland Play House); Director, Annie; Choreographer, Cabaret (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Choreographer, Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center); Choreographer, Frozen (Disneyland). Christopher has performed on Broadway and in National Tours of Fosse and Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis.
Yuki Nakase Link
Yuki Nakase Link is an accomplished lighting designer for the performing arts, with a career spanning opera, theater, dance, art, and fashion. She has and continues to design lighting for notable companies, including Alley Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, Canadian Opera Company, Detroit Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Playwrights Horizons, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Steppenwolf Theater. For more information about Yuki’s designs, please visit: https://8m20s.link/.
Klara Zieglerova
Klara Zieglerova At the Alley Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Klara has designed extensively for theatre performances in the United States, Europe and Asia. Broadway credits: Sister Act, The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Awards: Lumen Award (Interior design of New World Stages in NYC), Tony Award nomination, Green Room Award Australia, Best Set Design of the Theatregoers’ Choice Award London (for Jersey Boys); Drammy Award; Carbonell Award; sets for the Best Touring Production, L.A. Ovation Award