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Elizabeth Bunch has appeared in more than 90 productions at Alley Theatre including four other Sherlock Homes stories. Plus, she got to be a villain three times! Other favorite shows include Seared, Noises Off, Little Comedies, Clue, Sweat, Medea, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Constellations, Grounded, The Humans, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, Grounded, Pygmalion, The 39 Steps, Dracula, Clybourne Park, August: Osage County, Our Town, Doubt, Proof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NYC and Regional- Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie, Denver Center, Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, Keen Company, and The Flea. @Its_Elizabeth_Bunch.

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

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

Chris Hutchison is in his 19th year as a member of the Resident Acting Com­pany. Recent: Seared, Noises Off, Jane Eyre, The Nerd. Past favorites include: Quack, Constellations, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. A 30-year career has taken him from Los Angeles to NYC to Houston and many points between. BA Lafayette College, MFA University of Wash­ington. Proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

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

David Rainey is in his 24th season as a Resident Acting Company member recently appearing in Noises Off and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. He has also performed with The National Actors Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, among others. He received the Juilliard Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize. And he is the owner of Studio for Actors Houston.

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

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

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

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

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