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2025-26 Season Actors

Diana Alcaraz-Villa

Diana Alcaraz-Villais excited to debut her VO journey with Alley Theatre! You may remember her from- Alley Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Female Principal US), American Mariachi (Isabel); Stages: Panto: Alicia in Wonderland (Dina, Tweedledum, March Hare), Sin Muros- Los Pecados de Iberia (Carlota), Escobar’s Hippo (Mayor), 619 Hendricks (Tía Carolina); ZACH Theatre: Zapata (Albondiga/ Amparo), TEATRX: La Panchada (La Planchada), Sexo y Tortilla (Eli); Main Street Theatre: Cinderella (Grace); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Little Old Lady), Pete the Cat (Mom). You may also recognize her from her commercial endeavors with Walmart, HCC, Paysend, METRO and others! BFA- Sam Houston State University. Find more at: dianaalcaraz.com @dianaalcarazvilla Gracias por estar aquí!

Orlando Arriaga

Orlando Arriaga 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 River Bride (Pennsylvania Shakespeare). Film: The Long Game. Recipient of the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.

Vaneh Assadourian

Vaneh Assadourian is excited to be making her Alley Theatre debut. Some regional credits include: The Da Vinci Code (Drury Lane Theatre); Noises Off (Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Wish You Were Here (Yale Repertory Theatre); A Distinct Society (Pioneer Theater Company and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); Happiest Song Plays Last (LATC). Education: B.A., UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Assadourian is an award-winning audiobook narrator, voice actor, and dialect coach and is fluent in Farsi and Armenian, and conversational in German. Represented by Stewart Talent Chicago and Sandy Joseph, SLJ Management. IG: @vaneh_33

Gloria Vivica Benavides

Gloria Vivica Benavides Regional: The Tempest Trinity Repertory Company; Somewhere Over the Border, People’s Light and Theatre Co, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center; Man Cave, Kitchen Dog Theatre; American Mariachi, Goodman Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center; Real Women Have Curves, Dallas Theater Center; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Dallas Theater Center. Education: BFA, University of North Texas. Instagram @gloriavivica

Melinna Bobadilla

Melinna Bobadilla is a Chicana born and based in Los Angeles, California. Selected Credits: Stage: Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum); Fuente Ovejuna (NYC); Sonia Flew (NYC); La Virgen del Tepeyac, La Pastorela, La Carpa de los Rasquachis (El Teatro Campesino). Television: Orange is The New Black (Netflix), Gentefied, Little America (Apple TV+), Primo (Amazon), American Gigolo (Showtime). Film: For Rosa, The Laundromat, Three Years Gone. B.A. UC Berkeley, M.A. NYU.

Austin Brady

Austin Matthew Brady is a Houston based actor and teaching artist. The Emerald Theatre (Drunk Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Dracula), Alley Theatre (The Servant of Two Masters, Oskar), AD Players (The Christmas Play That Goes Wrong), Creative Movement Practices (Gideon: And the Blundersnorp) Mildred’s Umbrella (The Last Yiddish Speaker)

Kendrick “KayB” Brown

Kendrick “KayB” Brown is a resident of Houston, TX. He has a degree in Drama from PVAMU and after graduating started teaching in HISD. Currently teaching at Thurgood Marshall High School (FBISD) for his 4th year but has been in education for the last 18 years. Most recent credits: Johnnie B. Good (Duce); Death of a Salesman (Happy); Camp Logan (Moses); Seven Guitars (Floyd); Wolf Play (Ryan); The Piano Lesson (Lymon); Fences (Lyons); Pipeline (Dunn); I Too, Am America (Multiple roles); Lilies of the Field (Homer Smith); Too Heavy For Your Pockets (Bowzie) and many others.

Candy Buckley

Candy Buckley Broadway: Scandalous, Thoroughly Modern Millie, After the Fall, Cabaret, Ring Round the Moon. Off-Broadway and regionally: Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Company, Sweeney Todd, A Delicate Balance. TV and film: The Kill Room, Rare Objects, WeCrashed, Treme, The Americans, Blue Bloods. Recipient: Princess Grace Statuette for Outstanding Achievement in Theater.

Emily Buesing

Emily Buesing is thrilled to join Alley Theatre for The Midnight Shakespeare Club! A Teaching Artist holding a degree in Theatre & Dance from Lamar University, she believes “What, you egg!” is one of The Bards’ best lines. Some of her favorite performance credits include: The Grown-Ups (Becca), A Doll’s House (Nora), Steel Magnolias (Shelby), Doubt: A Parable (Sister James). To my loved ones, thanks for always being in my corner!

Elizabeth Bunch

Elizabeth Bunch 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

Kevin Cooney

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

Sydney Deone Cooper

Sydney Deone Cooper made her Houston theatrical debut with The Ensemble Theatre in FLEX as Donna Cunningham. A graduate of the Texas State University BFA Acting Program, her favorite educational credits include Antigone (Antigone), Three Sisters (Olga), and a devised production titled DeMaskUs aka Running (CC). Most recently, Sydney spent the fall as a company member in the Texas Shakespeare Festival’s Roadshow Tour, playing roles in Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits (Helena/Celia) and Hamlet (Horatio/Rosencrantz/Player Queen). Website: syddeone.com IG: @syd.deone Rep: Acclaim Talent

Elissa Cuellar

Elissa Cuellar is thrilled to be returning to Alley Theatre. Elissa has a great soft spot for the people of Houston and the wonderful, complex art that they create, and she cannot wait to continue producing and making magic with the creative community here.

Alric Davis

Alric Davis is the Founding Artistic Director of The Sankofa Collective. B.F.A. Howard University Acting credits: The Three Musketeers, The Color Purple, Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou, Trouble in Mind, Alley Theatre’s Guardian of the Gods in Turkiye and America with Unga Klara. Directing credits include Lotus and the Unlikely Crew (Off-Broadway at A.R.T.), Sister Act, The Light in The Piazza. His play Bashful and the Noize for the Kennedy Center. Upcoming: Grand Horizons for Mildred’s Umbrella. IG: @GodisGodandIamNot

John Ryan Del Bosque

John Ryan Del Bosque is thrilled to return to Alley Theatre this holiday season! Other credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Hands on a Hardbody (TUTS); Pageant, Rocky Horror (Forestburgh Playhouse); Das Barbecü, Drag Wonderettes, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Stages). Proud Alley Senior Teaching Artist. Love to Arturo & Chicobaby! @johnryandel

Michelle Elaine

Michelle Elaineis a Resident Acting Company Member. Michelle originated the role of Miss Scarlet in the First National Tour of Clue: A New Comedy. Favorite Alley Theatre credits: 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 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

Timothy Eric

Timothy Eric was the Houston Press Awards Best Actor of the 202 3–24 theatre season for his performance in Main Street Theatre’s world premiere of Stagolee & the Funeral of a Dangerous Word by Thomas Meloncon. In 2024–25, he shared the honor with Brandon Morgan for 4th Wall Theatre’s Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, which won Best Play.

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.

Zack Fine

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

Victor J. Flores

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

Jeremy Gee

Jeremy Gee is 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

Adam Gibbs has appeared in five world premieres with Alley Theatre. He’s an avid woodworker, musician, and cook. His greatest blessings are B,M,R, & M. He’s prominently known as a voice actor for countless anime and video game titles. For booking information and more visit iamadamgibbs.com.

Mila Glenn

Mila Glenn is delighted to be in this production! Performing since age three, she has appeared in commercials, music videos, and theatre. She has trained with Alley PlayMakers, Ensemble Theatre, TUTS, HITS Theatre, and Page Parkes in acting, voiceover, and dance. She thanks her family and mentors for their support.

Dylan Godwin

Dylan Godwinis a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Dear Alien, The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrieff), The Da Vinci Code (Rémy), 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).

Brittany Halen

Brittany Halen is ecstatic to return to the Alley Theatre! Previously at Alley: A Christmas Carol and Around the World in 80 Days! Regional Theatre: 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 has recently starred as Bert Williams at The Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis. He has recently done voice work on Rick and Morty and as Mike on Ninja Kamui both on HBO Max. His movie Trap Door At The Edge Of The Universe can be found on YouTube. He is a proud member of Actors Equity.

Brock Hatton

Brock Hatton returns to Alley Theatre after appearing in last season’s A Christmas Carol. He has most recently been seen in Rec Room Art’s Death of a Salesman (Howard Wagner) and Thunderclap Production’s Melville and Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne). Other credits include 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 is a graduate from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences.

Brandon Hearnsberger

Brandon Hearnsberger 27 Alley Theatre productions, including Dear Alien, The Body Snatcher, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Dial M for Murder, Cowboy Bob, The Servant of Two Masters, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, Othello, The Farnsworth Invention, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. More at brandonhearnsberger.com.

Chris Hutchison

Chris Hutchison His time at the Alley stretches back to 2004 when he appeared opposite Elizabeth Bunch in Proof. They have shared the stage countless times since then. Some of the highlights at Alley: Constellations, Good People, Lieutenant of Inishmore, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Orson’s Shadow, Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Dracula, All My Sons, 1984, Medea (Video). Elsewhere they have appeared together in Big Love, Museum, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arcadia, Romeo & Juliet, and as Stanley and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Susan Koozin

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

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: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ugly X-MAS Sweater Musical, A Chorus Line, Sweet Potato Queens, All Shook Up, Camelot, Spamalot; Alley Theatre: Cowboy Bob, Three Musketeers, Quack, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, Freaky Friday; Main Street Theater: Memoriam; 4th Wall: The Father.

Angela Lanza

Angela Lanza Alley Theatre debut. Selected credits include A.R. Gurney’s Overtime at The Old Globe, Arts and Leisure at Playwrights Horizons, and The Man That Could See Through Time with Richard Dreyfuss. Film work includes Fools Rush In, The Perez Family, Desperado, and several independent features. She is a two-time Best Actress winner for Cold Dark Hollow.

Sophia Marcelle

Sophia Marcelle was recently seen at the Alley as A Young Girl in The Body Snatcher, Falcon Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre), Dance Nation and Put Your House In Order (Rec Room Arts), Romeo and Juliet (Houston Shakespeare Festival), Daddy Long Legs (Theatre at Monmouth). Website: sophiamarcelle.com Instagram: @sophia.marcelle

Alyssa Marek

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

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 Chris! AmandaMartinezActor.com. @mandimartinez.

Melissa Molano

Melissa Molano is a Resident Acting Company Member. Recent Alley shows include The Importance of Being Earnest, The Da Vinci Code, 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.

Mayra Monsivais

Mayra Monsivais is a Houstonian who studied acting at the University of Houston. Credits include Stories of Us (TEATRX), Oskar vs. Thingamabob (Alley Theatre), Oskar and the Last Straw Tour (Alley Theatre), Inner View (Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Festival. Stages), Sonia Flew (TEATRX), El Huracán (Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company). Oskars Not So Simple Comeback (Alley Theatre), La Vida Es Cortos/Life Is Shorts (TEATRX), O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE! (Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company). The Brainstomers and Their Cosmic Mission (Alley Theatre). Mayra is also a working actor in TV and film, including commercials, TV roles, and music videos. She had been with the Alley as a Teaching Artist since 2019 and looks forward to many more.

Derrick Moore

Derrick Moore is a filmmaker/actor from St. Louis known for The Brother’s Size, A Raisin in the Sun at American Players Theater, and his debut film In Contrast, streaming on Amazon. Most recently, he premiered Carlyle Brown’s Nobody, No Time at Illusion Theatre in Minnesota. Follow him @derrickd.moore.

Alex Morris

Alex Morris Alley return. Selected credits: The entire August Wilson cannon, American Son, Coconut Cake, Two Old Black Guys… (Ensemble Theatre). English Theater Frankfurt Germany, Resident Artist at A Noise Within (Pasadena, CA). Five-time NAACP theatre award winner and three-time Ovation Award winner. Emmy Nomination for FX’s BASKETS and soon to be seen in Disney’s Malcolm in the Middle reboot.

Gabriel Mullen

Gabriel Mullen AD Players at the George Theater: The Foreigner (Ellard), The Garden Theater: Assassins (John Wilkes Booth) AD Players at the George Theater: Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka), Stages: Othello the Remix (Iago/GQ), AD Players at Carolina Creek: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Male Swing) BFA: Sam Houston State University.

Camryn Nunley

Camryn Nunley Stages: Black Superhero Magic Mama (Corey Brackett), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mitch/Olive’s Dad/Dan Dad). We Are Proud to Present…(Actor 4); Alley Theater: Oskar’s Not So Simple Comeback: Frank, The Christians (Choir Ensemble) Camryn would like to once again thank his Mom for quite literally everything.

Pantea Ommi

Pantea Ommi studied theater at UCLA and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.She was recently seen as Roya in TheaterWorks Hartford’s production of English, and Mother in the World Premier of The Life You Gave Me at Boise Contemporary Theatre. Pantea has also written and performed her own one-woman show, Everything in Exile.

Brenda Palestina

Brenda Palestina Alley Theatre Debut! Brenda is an actor, director, and teaching artist from Houston, Texas. Acting credits include: Alley Theatre/Unga Klara: Guardians of the Gods (A), Stages: Panto Alicia in Wonderland (Hortensia/El Sol), Prague Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Maria). Thank you to her family and friends for their immense love and support. brendapalestina.com

Aramie Payton

Aramie Payton Broadway: The Outsiders, MJ the Musical (OBC; original MJ Standby). West End: MJ the Musical (MJ Alternate). Tours: Dreamgirls, Flashdance and Cruel Intentions. NYC: Bat Out of Hell (City Center). Regional: MUNY, Paper Mill, Signature DC (Helen Hayes Award), Starlight & Marriott. Film/TV: Run the World, The Equalizer & more. @mynameisaramie

Amelia Pedlow

Amelia Pedlow A Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window (BAM); The Metromaniacs,’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull); Pride & Prejudice (Primary Stages); The Liar, The Heir Apparent (CSC); You Never Can Tell (The Pearl). Regional (select): A Doll’s House, Frankenstein, Emma (The Guthrie); Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Arena Stage); POTUS (City Theatre); Scarlet Letter (Two River); Private Lives (St. Louis Rep); Red Velvet (The Old Globe); Ether Dome (La Jolla, Hartford Stage, The Huntington); 39 Steps, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet (The Denver Center). TV: The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Shades of Blue, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted. Training: Juilliard.

Spencer Plachy

Spencer Plachy Alley Theatre: Agathe Christie’s And Then There Were None. Stages: The Lehman Trilogy. Houston Grand Opera: West Side Story. Appearances at A.D. Players, Main Street Theater, Classical Theatre Company. National Tour: Disney’s The Lion King. Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. TV: Shades of Blue. Love to Laura!

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: Dave Malloy’s Octet, Mr. Burns, Into the Woods, Romeo and Juliet. As a Playwright his debut adaptation, Medea: Re-Versed, earned four Lucille Lortel Award Nominations, including Best Musical, and two Drama Desk Nominations; Best Adaptation and Best Lyrics. His next piece, The Minotaur, is currently being commissioned by Hudson Valley Shakespeare.

David Rainey

David Rainey is in his 25th season as a Resident Acting Company Member and his 106th production 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.

Nima Rakhshanifar

Nima Rakhshanifar recently appeared in Georgiana and Kitty; TheatreWorks SV and Noises Off; SF Playhouse. Credits include the world premieres of Bald Sisters; Steppenwolf and Andy Warhol in Iran; Barrington Stage. They were also in Twelfth Night and Sanctuary City; TheatreSquared. Rakhshanifar can also be seen in the short film Arman, currently in festivals. nimarakhshanifar.com

Daniel Regojo

Daniel Regojo is a Houston native with a BFA from the University of Houston main campus. Some of his past credits include Ken in Waitin’ for Gato (Sin Muros 2024), performed understudy role as Jason in Clyde’s, has been a part of several OSKAR tours with Alley Theatre, and is currently touring with Books Alive! He also does voice overs for anime with Sentai Filmworks, a current cast member of Dinner Detective, and is a TA with Alley Education and Community Engagement!

Briana J Resa

Briana J. Resa is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre. Alley: Noël Coward’s Private Lives, American Mariachi, What-A-Christmas!, 72 miles to go…, Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol. Regional: Wolf at the Door, Much Ado About Nothing (American Players Theatre), Noël Coward’s 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

Jamie Rezanour

Jamie Rezanour is delighted to be back at the Alley. Alley Theatre: Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. Select credits: The Twelve Dates of Christmas, The Hispanic Vote Play (Stages); Real Women Have Curves (Dallas Theater Center); Henry V (Hartford Stage); Our Town (Milwaukee Rep); Native Gardens (Vermont Stage). TV Credits: Blue Bloods, Matlock, The Blacklist. Training: MFA at SMU. @jamierezanour

Paisley Rayne Richmond

Paisley Rayne Richmond is a young performer who first found her voice at Houston’s The Ensemble Theatre. Over 4 summers at The Ensemble, she has appeared in multiple productions and most recently starred in Kisa Naki Princess of the Sea. As a student of acting, voice and dance, she conveys her love of the arts, genuine heart and joyful spirit to every stage. Paisley lovingly dedicates this performance to her mother Raven, for steadfast encouragement and unwavering support.

Christopher Salazar

Christopher Salazaris 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.

Alexandra Szeto-Joe

Alexandra Szeto-Joe Alley Theater: Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. Other Credits: Capital Repertory Theatre: Becky Nurse of Salem; Classical Theatre Company: Three Sisters; Stages: The Heart Sellers, POTUS; Catskill Mountain Shakespeare: As You Like It; Tapestry Players: The Summer’s Tale; Main Street Theater: Christmas at Pemberley series (2021-2023). BFA from NYU Tisch. Love to Mommy & Chris! alexandraszeto-joe.com

Clairey Townsend

Raven Justine Troup

Raven Justine Troupe is excited to be participating 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); 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).

Shadee Vossoughi

Shadee Vossoughi Alley Theatre debut. Select theatre credits include Broadway: English (Roundabout Theatre, u/s). Regional: English (Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre); Wish You Were Here (Yale Rep, Remy Bumppo); Selling Kabul (Northlight Theatre). Education: BFA, Southern Oregon University; NBCUniversal Bob Curry Fellowship, The Second City. Represented by Stewart Talent Chicago. Instagram: @shadeev

Todd Waite

Todd Waite after 25 years and 135 productions 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).

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

Afsaneh Aayani

Afsaneh Aayani Select Credits: Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, The Old Globe: English; Alley Theatre: Alley All New Festival, A Christmas Carol; Chautauqua Theater: Birthday Candles; Princeton University: A Moment of Silence: American Stage: Disgraced; Two River Theater, Gulfshore Playhouse: Romeo and Juliet; Theatre Under the Stars: Frozen, The Ugly Christmas Sweater; La Mirada Theatre, Papermill Playhouse: Frozen; Trinity Rep: Alabaster; Meow Wolf Houston; Catastrophic Theatre: Turn of the Screw, Innominate, Cleansed; Queensbury: The Last 5 Years, Wizard Of Oz; Stages: Lehman Trilogy, Roe, Black Superhero Magic Mama, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson; El Paso Opera: Frida, Sunday in the Park With George; Houston Grand Opera: Big Swim; Houston Shakespeare Festival: King Lear; Theatre of the Republic: Finding Nemo; PBS Arkansas: Blueberry’s Clubhouse Seasons 2&3; 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.

Liz Duffy Adams

Liz Duffy Adams’ work includes Born with Teeth (UK premiere: Royal Shakespeare Company on London’s West End, 2025. World premiere: Alley Theater, 2022, a production which moved to the Guthrie Theater, Asolo Rep, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Or, (over 80 productions including Off Broadway at WP Theater); and Dog Act (over 30 productions; Will Glickman Award for Best New Play). Adams is a New Dramatists alumna and has received two Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards, Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.

James Ard

James Ard is a noisemaker specializing in new works. His designs include collaborations with Under the Radar at The Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Portland Center Stage. Internationally, his designs have appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe and Sibiu International Festival. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s worked with A.C.T., TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, San Francisco Playhouse, and is a Resident Artist with Golden Thread and Crowded Fire Theater.

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. www.darevalo.com

Raquel Barreto

Raquel Barreto is pleased to be back at Alley Theatre after designing Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, A Christmas Carol, 1984, The Winter’s Tale, and Murder on the Orient Express. Recent credits: VOS! (Two River Theater) 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 Denver Center; the Taper; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; St. Louis Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Arena Stage; Berkeley Rep; Syracuse Stage; Cornerstone Theater; Latino Theater Company. Raquel is from Brazil and lives in Austin, where she heads the MFA in Costume Design at the University of Texas. raquelbarreto.com.

Ana Bayat

Ana Bayat is an award-winning theatre artist and multilingual, multidisciplinary creator whose work spans over three decades across stage, screen, and languages. She is the creator of the critically acclaimed Mimi’s Suitcase, recipient of the Neda Nobari Foundation Grant for Innovative Arts and an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award nominee. Trained in the Stanislavski tradition in Tehran and later in Speech and Dramatic Arts in England, Ana is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California and an internationally sought-after language and dialect coach. Her recent credits include coaching Glenn Close on Apple TV’s Tehran and performers on Paramount+’s The Agency. She is currently completing a documentary on language, culture, and memory. Ana’s recent theatre projects as dialect coach include English by Sanaz Toossi at Melbourne Theatre Co., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Barrington Stage, The Old Globe, Studio Theatre (also as cultural and casting consultant), and Wish You Were Here at South Coast Repertory (also as casting consultant and cultural dramaturg) and A Distinct Society at Human Race Theatre. http://www.anabayat.com/

Jack Beetle

Jack Beetle began his professional career as an actor specializing in Shakespeare and musical theatre. This is Jack’s tenth 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.

Curmira A. Bill

Curmira A. BillStage management credits include: Main Street Theater for Youth: (Stage Manager) Elephant and Piggie’s “We’re In A Play”, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Cinderella, Last Stop on Market Street, Dragons Love Tacos, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, A Little House Christmas; Ensemble Theatre/Alley Theatre: (Stage Manager) Radio Golf (Staged Reading); Ensemble Theatre: (Stage Manager) Pullman Porter Blues, Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou (Houston Premiere); Lionwoman Productions TX: (Stage Manager) Playhouse Creatures.

Casey Boriskie

Casey Boriskie Selected credits: ZACH Theatre: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Head Over Heels, Noises Off, Cinderella, Waitress, The Thin Place, and ROE; Summer Stock Austin: Guys & Dolls, 20 Season’s Spectacular; Hangar Theatre: Dragons Love Tacos, School Girls or, The African Mean Girls Play, The FutureNow Festival; Portland Stage: Senior Living; UT Spring Commencements 2025; The Heller Awards for Young Artists; Alley All New Festival 2025: Dating Comprehension. BFA: Texas State University. Proud member of AEA.

Brendan Bourque-Sheil

Brendan Bourque-Sheil plays include Sunrise Coven, Dogrose Patrol, The Book of Maggie, Between Two Caves, Secret Menu, and The Sparkle Wars. In Houston, where he’s based, his plays have been produced at Stages Theatre, The Landing Theatre, San Jacinto College South and, coming next season, Main Street Theatre. He’s also been produced in New York City, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Ann Arbor, among other places. For eleven years, he has worked as a teaching artist for Alley Theatre and Houston’s High School of Performing and Visual Arts. He enjoys long walks in graveyards.

Scott Bradley

Scott Bradley assisted the set designers of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in 1983 and Fences in 1984. He designed the set for the Broadway premieres of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone in 1986, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination, and Seven Guitars in 1996 receiving a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Nomination for Best Set Design. Recently he designed Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at The Signature Theater in NYC and Mary Zimmerman’s The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington DC, earning the 2023 Helen Hayes Award for Best Set Design.

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.

Dan Brown

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

Shelley Butler

Shelley Butler has over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits to date working extensively with writers on new plays and musicals at theaters across the country. Notable productions include the world premieres of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 at South Coast Repertory, Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir in a Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theater and Denver Center co-production, along with The Reservoir’s off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic Theater, and Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter for Two River Theater. She currently serves as Artistic Director for the newly created South Carolina New Play Festival. Learn more at: shelleybutler.com & SCNPF.org

Cliff Caruthers

Cliff Caruthers is a San Francisco-based sound designer and composer with over 300 production credits, including The Glass Menagerie, Pictures from Home, and Born with Teeth for Alley Theatre, Frankenstein for Guthrie Theater, Caucasian Chalk Circle for ACT, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Rep, Sweat for Center Rep, Man in Love for KC Rep, and Fun Home for TheatreWorks, where he was Resident Sound Designer for seven years. He is co-curator of the SF Tape Music Festival, a proud member of United Scenic Artists, and teaches sound design at Stanford University. cliffcaruthers.com.

Jiyoun Chang

Jiyoun Chang is honored to return to Alley Theatre, where she previously designed Pictures From Home. Broadway credits include Stereophonic (Broadway, West End, National Tour; Tony Award nomination), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Cottage, KPOP, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Tony Award nomination), and Slave Play (Tony, Drama Desk, and Henry Hewes Award nominations). Opera credits include Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Primero Sueño, and The Factotum.

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.

Brandon Clark

Brandon Clark Previous Alley credits include: A Christmas Carol, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Seared, Noises Off and the world premieres of Torera, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Cowboy Bob. Other credits include: The Tempest, Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Romeo and Juliet, Into the Woods (Texas Shakespeare Festival). BA, Theatre: University of Northern Iowa. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Sara Ryung Clement

Sara Ryung Clement Off-Broadway: The Reservoir (Atlantic Theatre Company) Golden Shield (Manhattan Theatre Club), Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage Uptown), Fruiting Bodies (Ma-Yi Theater Company). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Center Theatre Group, Arena Stage, Children’s Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Folger Theatre, Seattle Rep, East West Players, and others. Set design faculty, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Education: M.F.A. Yale School of Drama; A.B. Princeton University. sararyungclement.com @sararyung

Melanie Chen Cole

Melanie Chen Cole Alley Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, Jane Eyre, The World is Not Silent, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Jersey Lily, High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest. Regional theatre credits: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, the McCarter, Milwaukee Rep, Northern Stage, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UC San Diego. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UC San Diego. melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole on Instagram.

John L. Cornelius II

John L. Cornelius II is a member of ASCAP and the American Federation of Musicians (Local 65-699). He has written several works for the lyric theater 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. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut. Dr. Cornelius is a native of Jackson, Mississippi and is Professor of Music at Prairie View A&M University.

Mextly Couzin

Mextly Couzin credits include Broadway: JOB. Off-Broadway: MEXODUS, N/A, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, A Good Day to Me Not To You, Here We Are (ALD), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe, Seattle Opera, Woolly Mammoth, Centro de Bellas Artes Puerto Rico. International: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Les Nuits de Fourvière. 2023 recipient of The 1/52 Project grant. MFA University of California, San Diego ’20. mextlycouzin.com

Curtis Craig

Curtis Craig is a sound designer/composer for musicals, plays, and immersive experiences spanning Regional & Off-Broadway theatre, theme parks, and haunted attractions (and even an episode of The Simpsons with Billie Eilish). He has designed shows at the Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Signature Theater, People’s Light, Guthrie, Denver Center, Dallas Theater Center, Centerstage, Philadelphia Theater Company, Lantern, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, & Cleveland Playhouse. Classical music producer and engineer for Neuma, Parma, Ravello, CRI, Albany, Gasparo, and Chandos. World Stage Design Gold Medal, Frankenstein, Calgary. Barrymore Award – Sound Design & Original Music for Bonez. AUDELCO, Confederates. Global Music Award 2023 – Percussion Concerti, Ravello Records. Professor of Sound Design, School of Theater, Penn State University. curtiscraig.com

Cynthia Santos Decure

Cynthia Santos Decure is a bilingual voice and dialect coach and associate professor of acting at Yale. Some theatre coaching credits: Quixote Nuevo (OSF); Notes on Killing…; Wish You Were Here, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, El Huracán, (Yale Rep); Espejos/Clean (Milwaukee Rep); La Tempestad, La Broa’ (Trinity Rep); Laughs in Spanish, Two Trains Running, The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage); The Hot Wing King (Baltimore Center Stage); Mascogos (L.T.C.) Quixote Nuevo, Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); Quixote Nuevo (Roundhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Stage); Cymbeline (NY Classical); In The Heights (Marriott Theater, Phoenix Theatre). cynthiadecure.com

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.

Alan C. Edwards

Alan C. Edwards Off-Broadway: My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW); Sally & Tom (Public); Monte Cristo (York), Fires In The Mirror [Lortel Nom.], Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature NYC); Harry Clarke [Lortel Award] (Vineyard); Kill Move Paradise [Drama Desk nom] (National Black Theatre). Regional: Gatsby: An American Myth [Norton Award]; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (A.R.T.); Sally & Tom (Guthrie); Appropriate (The Old Globe); Paradise Blue, (Geffen Playhouse). West End: Harry Clarke. Education/Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. alancedwards.com

Aaron Elgart

Aaron Elgart Alley Theatre debut. Broadway: Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Paramour, Disaster!, Newsies, Shatner’s World…, Wit, Bonnie and Clyde, Wonderland, La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway: I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, The New York Idea (Atlantic Theater), Himself and Nora (Minetta Lane). New York: Ragtime (NYCC), Kristina (Carnegie Hall). National Tours: Wicked, Once, The Addams Family, 9 to 5. Regional: Gatsby (A.R.T), Lempicka (LJP), Cutman (Goodspeed). Love to my family and Grant. @aaronelgart

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.

Katie Forgette

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

Madolyn Friedman

Madolyn Friedman Alley credits: Real Women Have Curves, Doris Baizley’s A Christmas Carol, Rob Melrose’s A Christmas Carol, Sweat, Amerikin, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Born with Teeth. Off-Broadway credits: A Strange Loop, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, If Pretty Hurts…, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons) Regional Credits: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Stages, Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet. Education: BFA Stage & Production Management, Emerson College.

Isaac Gómez

Isaac Gómez (they/them) is an award-winning Los Angeles based playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Lincoln Center, Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, and many others. They are the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. They have two plays published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals, and have two more being published by Samuel French in 2025 and 2026. They are a certified facilitator of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process, mentored by Liz Lerman herself. In the television & film space: credits include writing for the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me, Paramount Plus’s Joe Pickett, among others. They have had television series and features developed by FX, MRC Entertainment, Focus Features, and others. A proud member of the Writers Guild of America West, Isaac also served as a Strike Captain during the historic 2023 Writers Guild Strike, and was nominated by the union to run for Vice President in 2023. Isaac strives to tell stories that often go untold across all mediums of writing.

Amber D. Gray

Amber D. Gray Amber’s prior credits are the Company Manager at Washington DC’s Arena Stage Theater and the Assistant Line Producer at NY’s Public Theater. Houston credits include: Assistant Director for High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest, A Christmas Carol (Assistant Director 2022/ Associate Director 2023), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Noises Off, The Glass Menagerie, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and Primary Trust 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/General Manager for the Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival and Associate Artistic Director/General Manager for Detroit’s Obsidian Theatre Festival. BFA: Rockford University. amberdgray.com.

Scott Groh

Scott Groh is a Properties Manager and Scenic Designer based in Houston, Texas. He is currently the resident Properties Director at the Alley Theatre. Scott has designed scenery, properties, puppets and pyrotechnic special effects for the Alley Theatre (Houston), Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia), Baskerville International Tour, ZACH Theatre (Austin), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Tuacahn Amphitheatre (Utah), Seaside Music Theatre (Florida), Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Boulder), and others. Scott is from Northeast Ohio and attended Kent State University.

John Gromada

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

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

Ásta Bennie Hostetter

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

Helen Huang

Helen Huang is an award-winning costume designer whose credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, Classic Stage Company, Disney Entertainment, and The Washington Ballet. International credits include set and costume design for National Opera House of China and the Central Television of China. Awards: Helen Hayes Award and Ivey Award. Helen is a professor of Costume Design at University of Maryland, College Park. Publication: Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers. helenqhuang.com.

Carolyn Johnson

Carolyn Johnson is an Equity Actress, Dialect & Acting Coach, Director, and Singer. Most recently, she served as Dialect Coach for, as well as being seen onstage (as Mrs. Keene) in, The Body Snatcher. Last season, she also coached Seared, The Glass Menagerie and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Other coaching includes Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real Opera (Madrid), The Barbican (London) and Stages Houston, among others. Carolyn teaches voice and text, directs and acts for Prague Shakespeare Company in Prague, and works with the online dialect resource, AccentHelp.com.

Elizabeth Keel

Elizabeth A. M. Keel is a Houstonian playwright, actor, director, producer and theatermaker. Her writing celebrates science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and magical realism on stage. Her scripts have been read or produced at 14 Pews, Bootown, Cone Man Running, Flexible Grey, Fresh Produce’d (NYC), The Growing Stage: Children’s Theatre of New Jersey, Haven Arts Theatre, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Landing Theatre Company, METdance, Mildred’s Umbrella, Nova Arts Project, Otherworld Theatre Company, Shattered Globe Theatre, Squeaky Bicycle, Stages, The Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol, T.E.T.A., This Is Water Theatre, Tokyo International Players, Voxfest, and Wordsmyth, among others. She has been published by Smith & Kraus and Stage Partners, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the New Play Exchange. Elizabeth serves as the Resident Playwright and Literary Manager for Mildred’s Umbrella, and is a proud double alumna of the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance. She has worked as a teaching artist with many local companies, including Stages’ Young Artists Conservatory, the Alley Theatre’s education department, and Grackle & Grackle. She holds the honor of having served as the first administrator for the Houston Theatre Training Coalition. Upcoming projects may be found at www.elizabethamkeel.com

Kristen Larson

Kristen Larson has worked with the Alley since 2013. Favorite Alley credits: The Glass Menagerie; Noises Off; Little Comedies; Clue; Sense and Sensibility; Sweat; 1984; The Humans; Twelfth Night; Holmes and Watson; Lover, Beloved (world premiere); The 39 Steps; and Syncing Ink (Alley All new Festival workshop and world premiere). Locally she has worked with Stages and TUTS and out of town in Chicago and Juneau, Alaska. Krissy is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For T.

Matthew Lawrence

Matthew Lawrence serves as Primary Programs Co-Manager at Alley Theatre. He has worked regionally as an actor and choreographer in California, Washington State, Utah, Oregon, and Texas. His work has been seen with the following companies: PCPA Theatrefest, The 5^th Avenue Theatre, The Village Theatre, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Utah Festival Opera, The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, Mainstreet Theatre, and Santa Clarita Regional Theatre. As an educator, he has taught for Village Theatre and various private schools in Seattle Washington. Before joining Alley Theatre’s ECE team, Matthew was the Fine Arts Consultant for the United Way Greater Houston’s Bright Beginnings. His work in the educational field has resulted in four publications in the NAEYC Teaching Young Children Magazine. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in child development and family studies from the University of Washington where he was awarded with a certificate of high scholarship. In addition, he holds an artist diploma from PCPA: Pacific Conservatory Theatre.

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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.

Josefina López

Josefina López is best known for authoring the 1988 play and co-authoring the 2002 Sundance Film Festival Audience and Jury Award-winning film Real Women Have Curves that were the source materials for the 2025 Broadway production of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, which garnered critical acclaim and 12 award nominations, including two from the Tony Awards and others from The Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics’ Circle. López started her writing career at 17 years old and has had productions of her many plays throughout the country. López’s first short play, Simply Maria, or the American Dream, was filmed as a PBS special and won a Gold Award from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and an Emmy Award. Other works include: Confessions of Women From East L.A.; Boyle Heights; Remembering Boyle Heights, parts 1 and 2; Hungry Woman in Paris; Detained in the Desert, also made into a feature film; Trío Los Machos, currently in development as a musical; A Cat Named Mercy; Piñata Dreams; Drunk Girl; Lola Goes to Roma; Hysteria; A Woman Named Gloria; An Enemy of the Pueblo; Queen of the Rumba; Electrico; and the 2025 award-winning film 20 Pounds to Happiness (Eat. Love. Joy.), which López executive produced and wrote. López has been working as a professional screenwriter for more than 30 years with many established producers like Norman Lear and Jaime Paglia to bring Latinos to television. She has been the recipient of dozens of awards and accolades and has penned seven books as an author. López is the founding artistic director of CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.

Ashley Love

Ashley Love is thrilled to step into the role of Education and Community Engagement Programs Manager. In this role, Ashley will be supporting our ECE programs and will focus on expanding our Alley Articulated program. A theatre artist, educator, and mental health coordinator for the performing arts, Ashley is passionate about building creative, inclusive spaces where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to tell their stories. They bring a blend of artistic experience, community-centered leadership, and a deep commitment to accessibility and wellbeing in the arts. With a background in program management, directing, and arts education, they are passionate about expanding access to theatre and cultivating meaningful partnerships between artists, students, and the wider community.

Tim Mackabee

Tim Mackabee Alley Theatre: Noises Off, The Nerd, Clue, Describe the Night. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Poor Yella Rednecks, Vietgone, Important Hats… (MTC), Heathers The Musical, The Last Match (Roundabout), The Penitent, Our New Girl, Guards at the Taj (Atlantic), Luce (Lincoln Center Theatre), Gigantic (Vineyard.) Regional: Oh yes, lots. Music Video: Carly Ray Jepsen’s, “Surrender My Heart” TV: Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. @timmackabeedesign.

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.

Shahrzad Mazaheri

Shahrzad Mazaheri is a DC based costume designer and lecturer. She is delighted to make her Alley Theatre debut. Recent works: In Clay (Signature Theatre); English (Goodman Theatre/Guthrie Theater co-production, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Wish You Were Here (South Coast Repertory); Someone Will Remember Us; POTUS; Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B (Trinity Rep). Upcoming: Sleuth (Guthrie Theater), Safety Not Guaranteed (Signature Theatre). More at shahrzadmazaheri.com.

Kaylee Sarton Mccray

Kaylee Sarton McCray returns to Alley Theatre after many other productions, a selection of which include: Dear Alien, English, The Night Shift Before Christmas, The Da Vinci Code, The Glass Menagerie, The Janeiad, Jane Eyre, and Little Comedies. Kaylee has also stage managed at other organizations in Houston such as Houston Symphony, A.D. Players Theatre, and Queensbury Theatre. BFA from Sam Houston State University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Gregory D. McDaniel

Gregory D. McDaniel is a dynamic conductor known for his artistry in both symphonic and operatic realms. He currently holds the Colton Conducting Fellowship with the New Jersey Symphony and serves as the Artistic Director for the Houston Ebony Opera Guild. Gregory has collaborated on various projects with numerous organizations, including the Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Fort Worth Opera, and Orchestre Métropolitain. He holds advanced degrees in music from the University of North Texas and the University of Houston.

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.

Bradley Michalakis

Bradley Michalakis is currently Head of Dramaturgy at the Alley Theatre, where he produces the annual Alley All New Festival. Before relocating to Houston Bradley worked as Director of Literary Development at the Foxboro Company, the producing office behind the recent Broadway productions of for colored girls… by Ntozake Shange, and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. His work has been seen at Alley Theatre, Rec Room Arts, Catastrophic Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, The Acting Company, Resident Ensemble Players, and Delaware Shakespeare Festival. Bradley has also produced live music and comedy events in NYC since 2014.

Ethan Mitchell

Ethan Mitchell Previously at Alley Theatre: 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.

Sherrice Mojgani

Sherrice Mojgani recently designed The Comedy of Errors and All’s Well that Ends Well (The Old Globe); Derecho and The Garden (La Jolla Playhouse); Bulrusher and Blues for an Alabama Sky (McCarter Theatre Center); The Mountaintop and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theater); Tiny Beautiful Things and The Folks at Home (Baltimore Center Stage); The High Ground, The Heiress, and Two Trains Running (Arena Stage). Sherrice is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from UC San Diego. smojgani.com

David R. Molina

David R. Molina Recent Credits: December: a love years in the making, Quixote Nuevo (Alley Theatre); Memnon (Getty Villa); The XIXTH, El Borracho (The Old Globe); Hotter Than Egypt (DCPA); Twelfth Night, King Lear (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth, Richard III (Next Chapter Podcasts); Quixote Nuevo (national productions). Resident Artist: NAKA, La Lengua, La Mezcla. Awards: LA Ovation, Creative Capital, Colorado Henry Award, MAP Fund, Intermusic SF, SF Arts Commission. Multimedia: SFMOMA, The Broad, OMCA. Bands: Impuritan, Ghosts and Strings, Transient. drmsound.com

Eileen J. Morris

Eileen J. Morris is the Artistic Director of The Ensemble Theatre-Houston. Recent Ensemble Theatre directing credits include: The Bluest Eye and Akeelah and the Bee. Eileen was named 2023 Best Artistic Director by the Houston Press Awards. She has enjoyed working with Alley Theatre over the years in several capacities—in 2021, as associate director for the play Sweat; directing for the Alley All New Festival; performing as the first Black Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; and performing in the 1991 production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Eileen holds the distinction of being the ONLY woman in the world to have directed nine out of the ten plays in the August Wilson The American Century Cycle.

Bill Muñoz

Bill Muñoz For over 36 years, Bill has worked professionally as a Stage Manager, Actor, and Fight Choreographer. Working mainly in the Southeastern part of the US, and a couple of jobs in the Midwest, this is his first venture in the Southwest! Originally from Bogota, Colombia, he could not be more thrilled to be working on this project. Many thanks to all the Alley Theatre family for welcoming him aboard.

Adam Noble

Adam Noble has 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.

Trinity A. Nobles

Trinity A. Nobles Favorites include Alley Theatre: 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, Always… Patsy Cline, You Are Cordially Invited to Sit-In; BFA: Stage Management, University of Houston. Always, Nate, Cashew, and Pistachio.