September 19 - October 19, 2025
Join the thrilling adventure as symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu race to solve a deadly puzzle that could change history. Following the clues hidden in ancient symbols and imagery, they uncover secrets that lead them on a dangerous quest. Based on the smash hit novel by Dan Brown, embark on a journey across Europe to the Louvre, Westminster Abbey, and Rosslyn Chapel.
The run time is 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
Join us for a night where theatre and pride take center stage!
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the design process.
Join us for post-show Alley Chats with the cast and Alley Theatre Artistic Staff.
Elizabeth Bunch
Vernet/ Volunteer
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
Colett
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
Rémy
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
Silas
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.
Kevin Cooney
Jacques Saunière
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
Sophie Neveu
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.
Christopher Salazar
Bezu Fache
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.
Susan Koozin
Sister Sandrine/ Marie/ Docent
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
Bank Clerk/ Philip
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
Sir Leigh Teabing
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
Robert Langdon
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.
Adam Noble
Fight Director & Intimacy Specialist
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.
Dan Brown
Author
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.
Duncan Abel
Adaptor
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
Assistant Stage Manager
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.
Helen Huang
Costume Design
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
Original Music & Sound Design
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.
Kaylee Sarton Mccray
Assistant Stage Manager
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
Michael Locher
Scenic Design
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.
Rob Melrose
Director
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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Molly Wetzel
Dialect Coach
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.
Victoria Beauray Sagady
Projection Design
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.
Thom Weaver
Lighting Design
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
Stage Manager
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.
Rachel Wagstaff
Adaptor
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.