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Each year, more than 100 professional artists contribute their immense talents to every aspect you see on Arizona Theatre Company’s stages. As the only League of Resident Theatres (LORT) company in Arizona, ATC joins with 75 theatres in 29 states and the District of Columbia to make up the largest professional theatre association of its kind in the United States. ATC draws from the country’s most accomplished Actors, Stage Managers, Directors and Choreographers — not to mention Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound, and Projection Designers — for every show you see.
2023-2024 Season
Alumni
Chris Will
is thrilled to be making his Arizona Theatre Company debut with Scrooge! Will spent two years in New York City chasing the Broadway dream. While living in NYC, he performed in two shows: as Joop in the Off Broadway musical Time Being and as the wolf in the musical The Three Little Pigs with the […]
Madelyn Whitehead
is delighted to be making her ATC debut! She is currently a senior Musical Theatre major at the University of Arizona. Recent credits include Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Ensemble in Legally Blonde, and Liz in High Fidelity (Arizona Repertory Theatre). She would like to extend her gratitude to her family, friends, and teachers for […]
Alison Thomas-Visgar
is making her ATC debut. She performed in the National Tour of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer; and regionally at The Gaslight Theater, as Rumpleteazer in Cats, in Shrek the Musical, and in A Chorus Line. She also performed at Disneyland in Red Car Newsboys, Disney Junior Live on Stage, Frozen Live at the Hyperion, and […]
Gemma Pedersen
is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major at the University of Arizona and is thrilled to be making her ATC debut! Recent theatrical credits include Dance/Fight Captain, Dancer in Head Over Heels and U/S Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods (Arizona Repertory Theatre); Alexi Darling, Ensemble in RENT (Chance Theatre); and Ethel, Swing in 42nd […]
Lillie Langston
is a senior BFA Musical Theatre Major at the University of Arizona. She is thrilled to be making her ATC debut! Recent local and regional credits include Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Ensemble in Head Over Heels, and Cinderella’s Mother/Granny/Giant in Into the Woods (Arizona Repertory Theatre); Sharpay Evans in High School Musical and Ensemble […]
Stewart Gregory
is making his ATC debut. For more than 40 years, this versatile singer-actor-musician has performed locally, nationally, and internationally in roles ranging from Voldaar, the Unclean in the Gaslight’s Buzz Corey and the Red Planet of Doom to Bert Hines in Neil Simon’s Proposals at North Carolina’s Flat Rock Playhouse and a guitar-slinging Pharoah in […]
Brenda Jean Foley
is returning to ATC, where she performed in The Diary of Anne Frank and The Music Man. NYC/regional credits include Almost, Maine (Access Theatre); Emma (NYMF); The Secret Garden (Fulton); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (iTheatre Collaborative); Orange Flower Water (TCA-canceled 2020); Now.Here.This. (ACTC); Carousel, The Full Monty (Zoni nom), and August: Osage County […]
Tony Castellanos
originally from Phoenix and an alumni of the UofA, is making his ATC debut! He performed in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar with Ted Neeley. Select regional credits include Sister Act at Walnut Street Theatre, Riverside Theatre, and Arkansas Rep; In the Heights at Speak Easy Stage and Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston; […]
Geoff Belliston
is over the moon excited to be making his ATC debut. Favorite credits include Hair (European tour), Foolerie (New York Musical Festival), Shrek in Shrek, Dave in The Full Monty, the Governor/Innkeeper in Man of La Mancha, Bill Sykes in Oliver, and Joe Quigley in Denali National Park (Alaska Cabin Nite). He has also done […]
Danny Bass
is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major at the University of Arizona. This is Bass’ first show at ATC, and he is so grateful for the opportunity to tell such a timeless story! Recent credits include Musidorus in Head Over Heels and Jack in Into the Woods (Arizona Repertory Theatre) and Buck in Bonnie and […]
Karmine Alers
is so excited to be making her debut with ATC. Broadway credits include Mimi in Rent, Gloria Fajardo in On Your Feet, and recently as Juno/Maxine in Beetlejuice. Other favorite roles are Aida in Aida, Camilla in In The Heights, and Pattie in Smokey Joe’s Café. TV credits include a guest star role in the series […]
JZ CASTING - Geoff Josselson, CSA and Katja Zarolinski, CSA
are returning to ATC, where they cast Cabaret, Chapter Two, and Man of La Mancha. New York casting projects include The Civilians, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Irish Repertory Theatre. They have provided casting for regional theatres including Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cape Playhouse, City Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory […]
Jakob W. Plummer
is making his ATC debut. Originally from Galion, Ohio, his Broadway credits include Oslo (Tony Award Best Play), Sunday in the Park with George, A View from the Bridge (Tony Award Best Revival of a Play), The Crucible, and Pretty Woman. Additional credits include The MET Gala, Tiffany & Co., The GRAMMY Awards, The Kennedy […]
Robert J. Aguilar
(LatinX) is making his debut at ATC. Credits include designs for Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, ACT, The 5th Avenue Theater, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep and Village Theatre, and others. Film credits include The Jinkx […]
Tim Mackabee
Broadway: The Elephant Man, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Heathers, Darling Grenadine, The Last Match (Roundabout), Poor Yella Rednecks, Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Guards at the Taj, Describe The Night, The Penitent, Our New Girl (Atlantic), Luce (LCT), Gigantic (Vineyard). Regional: oh yeah lots. Music Video: […]
Joe Jones
is making his ATC debut. Select credits include Pierre in Piaff (West End/Peter Hall Co.) and Bernard in Death of a Salesman (Janet Suzzman Co.). TV/Film credits include Felix Manning in Daredevil (Disney+), Oppenheimer in Nuclear Secret (BBC), Jimmy Conway in Locked Up Abroad (Nat Geo), and Virgil Earp in OK Corral (BBC). He won […]
Gretchen Wirges
has appeared on many Tucson stages and directed for several of Tucson’s theatre companies. Some of her favorite roles include Margery in Hand to God (Arizona Onstage Productions) and Rumpet (Scrooge) in Sonoran Desert Carol and Annabella in Ada and the Engine (Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre). As an accomplished playwright, her plays have been produced […]
Tyler Lansing Weaks
is making his ATC debut. New York credits include Jason Chenier in Take Me Out (Second Stage, Schoenfeld; won Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), The New Yorkers (Encores!), and Macbeth (Lincoln Center). Select regional credits include Spike in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Old Globe, Huntington), Syracuse in Comedy of […]
Michael Berresse
is making his ATC debut. Berresse is a Tony and Olivier Award-nominated actor and OBIE award-winning director. He has appeared in more than 6,000 performances in a dozen Broadway shows including Kiss Me, Kate, The Light in the Piazza, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Guys & Dolls, Damn Yankees, Carousel, and most recently as Bob Mackie in The Cher Show. As Director/Choreographer, Berresse’s credits […]
Haiden Pederson
is a Junior BFA Musical Theatre major at the University of Arizona making her ATC debut. Select previous theatrical credits include Rusty in Footloose, Abigail in The Crucible, Wednesday in The Addams Family, and Tanya in Mamma Mia! She recently made her producer/performance debut at the popular New York City venue 54 Below. She is […]
Mathew Zimmerer
last performed with ATC many years ago as Gilley in I’m Not Rappaport. This past year, he appeared as Niels Bohr in Copenhagen with Actors Studio 66 in Albuquerque, as several British villains in The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective at The Public Theatre of Maine and as Pompey, et al. in Antony & Cleopatra with […]
Gayton Scott
ATC debut. Broadway: Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters director Sam Mendes, The Women starring Cynthia Nixon, Present Laughter starring Frank Langella. National Tours: My Fair Lady Lincoln Center Theater production director Bartlett Sher, An American in Paris director Christopher Wheeldon. European tour of King Lear. Off-Broadway: Bunty Berman Presents, Abigail’s Party both at The New Group […]
Kyra Kennedy
is making her ATC debut. A New York City-based actress and musician, she most recently originated the role of Monica Lewinsky in the world premiere play When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama). She originated the role of Kat Arujo in the World Premiere of Mystic Pizza the Musical and played Francine/Jenna and Dawn u/s […]
Harry Bouvy
is making his ATC debut. He most recently appeared on Broadway in Parade, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. National tour roles include Dr. Dillamond in Wicked, Carmen Ghia in The Producers, and Sir Robin in the Las Vegas production of Spamalot. Off-Broadway credits include Dr. Chilton and Hannibal Lecter in Silence! […]
Aaron Ford
is happy to be making his ATC debut. Previous regional credits include Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Color Purple, and Kinky Boots. After a recent move to the Chicago area, Ford will be returning to the Phoenix stage later this summer in The Phoenix Theater Company’s production of Dreamgirls. Other theatrical credits include Sweeney Todd, […]
Racquel Mckenzie
is excited to join the ATC team. A Jamaican native, Chicago actor, and Arizona transplant, Mckenzie received her BA in performance from SIUC. Upon graduating, she toured Barbados, England, and Nigeria with ZMirage Co. as Aysatu in Preemptive and Cora in Seven. Upon returning stateside, she became a resident burlesque dancer with Gorilla Tango Theater […]
Dennis Tamblyn
returns to ATC; he was the U/S for Eddie in last season’s The Legend of Georgia McBride. Tamblyn recently has been seen with The Rogue Theatre as Papin in Babette’s Feast and with Invisible Theatre as Ned in Small Mouth Sounds. He is also a classically trained singer and has appeared with Arizona Opera for […]
David Roman
returns to the creative team of Georgia McBride to bring this tale of self-discovery to Arizona audiences. Since last at ATC, he has worked on more than two dozen review, ice, aerial, and Broadway shows with Royal Caribbean Production including Saturday Night Fever. Most recently, his choreography could be seen in Beehive at Milwaukee Rep […]
Marshall Glass
most recently appeared in ATC’s The Legend of Georgia McBride in the Ensemble and as Casey U/S. Glass is an Arizona native who has been acting since he was 10 years old. His theatrical credits include The Rainmaker, Tribes, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Airness, Much Ado About Nothing, Wittenberg, Romeo and Juliet, and Two Gentlemen of […]
James Pickering
is most grateful to Arizona Theatre Company for inviting the actors back to complete the run of Georgia McBride, which we opened so joyously and closed so unceremoniously on Friday the 13 of March 2020. Pickering was a member of Milwaukee Rep’s Resident Acting Company from 1974-2013. Among his favorite roles for the Rep are […]
Mathew DeVore
is thrilled to be working on this hoot of a production. His most recent Sound Design was here at ATC with The Glass Menagerie. He is no stranger to the company, as he first began working with ATC in Phoenix in 2006 when he was part of the Herberger Theater Center staff. DeVore moved to […]
Lindsay Jones
has worked on Broadway with Slave Play (Tony nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill. Off-Broadway projects include Privacy (The Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), and many others. He has worked […]
Victoria Bain
hails from Chicago and now splits her time working between Chicago and NYC. Victoria’s designs include Newsies and Cinderella at Paramount Theater Aurora, The Commons at 59e59, The White Dress at Access Theater, Orson Rehearsed at Roosevelt University, La Canción at Repertorio Español, and A Woman in Morocco with Kentucky Opera. Bain spent a year […]
Paul Toben
is making his ATC debut. Credits at Actors Theatre of Louisville include Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, and many others, and he provided lighting design for five seasons of the Humana Festival including Evocation to Visible Appearance, Airness, The Grown-Up, and The Roommate. Other credits include Electra (Court); Cry It Out (Northlight); The […]
David Shocket
is a Lighting Designer, Associate, and Educator for theatre, dance, and event production. Recent projects include The Telling (Waterfire Arts Center, RI); Ballroom with a Twist, Motown with a Twist, and Dance to the Movies (National Tour); Legally Blonde (Hofstra); Eat the Devil (The Tank); Lured (TNC); Suds (ART Cambridge); Spin Off (Riverside Theater); Grand […]
Patrick Holt
has done costume work with the Public Theater, Guthrie Theater, Kansas City Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, HBO, CBS, Playmakers Repertory, the International Dance Festival, and World of Wonder Productions. He is a resident designer at the Arizona Repertory Theatre and a professor at the University of Arizona’s […]
Collette Pollard
is Chicago based and thrilled to return to Arizona Theatre Company. Recent and upcoming regional credits include Little Women (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Fannie (Seattle Repertory Theatre); What the Constitution Means to Me, Steel Magnolias, Eclipsed, and The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); and The Cake (The Asolo Repertory Theatre). Recent and upcoming Chicago credits include Gypsy, Big Fish […]
Meredith McDonough
previously directed ATC’s 2020 production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. She was the associate artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where favorite directing includes both parts of Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, and The Last Five Years, as well as the premieres of Colman Domingo’s Dot, brownsville song (b-side for trey), […]
Matthew López
is an American playwright and screenwriter. His play The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, is the most honored American play in a generation, sweeping the “Best Play” awards in both London and New York, including the Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Evening Standard Award, London Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Honors, Drama […]
Max Murray
is a rising senior BFA acting major at the University of Arizona. He is incredibly excited to be making his on-stage debut with Arizona Theatre Company in his second production here! Recent local roles include Women in Jeopardy! (Trenner U/S) with ATC; Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Polaroid Stories (SKINHEADboy), and Into the Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man) […]
Courter Simmons
performs internationally as an actor, singer, and drag queen. Broadway credits include Jersey Boys (Bob Crewe, Frankie Valli Standby [Final Company]). Off-Broadway credits include Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli). National tours include Jersey Boys, Beauty & the Beast, and High School Musical. Favorite regional theatre roles include Chicago (Mary Sunshine), A Chorus Line (Mike), Rocky Horror […]
Kevin Kantor
(they/them) is a trans nonbinary actor and performance poet, thrilled to return to ATC. They previously performed in ATC’s Things I Know To Be True. Selected regional theatre credits include All’s Well That Ends Well and The Tempest (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Things I Know To Be True, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and A Christmas […]
Armand Fields
(they/them) is beyond excited and thankful to be returning to ATC for this show! Some of their favorite theatre credits include the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Awarded The Hot Wing King, Balm in Gilead, Ragtime, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and Philip Dawkins’ Charm (World and West Coast Premiere). A graduate of The School at Steppenwolf […]
Renea S. Brown
is making her ATC debut. Regional and other theatre credits include Viola in Our Verse in Time to Come and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Folger Shakespeare Theatre; Dede in Nollywood Dreams at Roundhouse Theatre; #00 in The Wolves at McCarter Theatre; Change Agent at Arena Stage; The Tempest and Macbeth at Shakespeare […]
Ashley Malafronte
a Brooklyn-based director and dramaturg, is making her ATC debut. Off-Broadway credits include Mac Beth (SDCF Observer). Off-off Broadway credits include [app]arition (Plaxall Gallery), And the Trees Fall Down (The Center at West Park), and The Last Blueberry on Earth (WOW Café Theatre). Malafronte has created site-specific work at the Pier House (Inis Mór, Ireland), […]
Christine Lomaka
ATC debut. Chris is thrilled to work on this inspired production of a delightful classic. Companies where she has worked include Trinity Rep (House & Garden); Actors Theatre of Louisville (Death Tax, Ti Jean Blues); Geva Theatre (The Price); Syracuse Stage (Radio Golf, A Christmas Story); Shakespeare Theatre Co. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona); American […]
Dave Maier
is a prolific fight director who has choreographed violence for more than 300 professional and collegiate productions. He is recognized as a Master Fight Director and Master Instructor with Dueling Arts International and is currently the resident fight director at San Francisco Opera and Oakland Theatre Project. He was in residence at California Shakespeare Theatre […]
Kate Rosalik and Levi Anthony
are making their ATC debut. Rosalik started dancing Tango in 1997. Her hobby quickly turned into an obsession and after two years of training, she started teaching group classes in 1999. She continued her Tango journey by attending festivals and teacher trainings around the United States, learning all styles of Tango. In 2005, she joined […]
David Arevalo
is a Texas born, Queer, Mexican costume maker, designer, art-ist, and educator. His work centers on personal authenticity and the languages of bodies, materials, and storytelling, and translates these elements into three dimensions. His practice is grounded in collaboration, slow process, and the transfor-mation of ideas, objects, and expectations. The costume design for Private Lives […]
KJ Sanchez
is the founder and CEO of American Records, making theatre that chronicles our time and serves as a bridge between people. Sanchez has directed across the country, including Off-Broadway at Urban Stages, The Gene Frankel Theatre, and HERE Arts Center. Regionally, she has directed at (select list) Chicago’s The Goodman Theatre, Studio Theatre in DC, […]
Sarita Ocón
is thrilled to return to ATC as Amanda Prynne in Private Lives (2023) after having performed in The River Bride. Ocón was recently seen as Romeo in the world premiere bilingual adaptation Romeo y Juliet by Karen Zacarías, directed by KJ Sanchez (California Shakespeare Theater). Regional theatrical credits include American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, […]
Briana J. Resa
is thrilled to be making her ATC debut as Sybil Chase in Private Lives (2023). Credits include the world premiere one-woman show What-A-Christmas!, 72 Miles To Go, Sense and Sensibility, and Michael Wilson’s A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre); A Wonderful Life and Dreamgirls (TUTS); ROE, Alma En Venta, and Baby: A Musical (Stages Theatre); Between Riverside […]
Brady Morales-Woolery
is making his ATC debut as Victor Prynne in Private Lives (2023). Trained at the University of California at Berkeley, Morales-Woolery’s theatre credits include Clue (Center Rep), Romeo y Juliet and Twelfth Night (Cal Shakes), Once (42nd Street Moon), The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Shotgun Players), Retablos (Word for Word), Bright Shining Sea […]
Hugo E. Carbajal
has been a theatre artist for more than 20 years as an actor, director, and educator. He was last seen at ATC as Moises in Marisela Orta’s The River Bride. Carbajal recently returned to The River Bride at Pacific Conservatory Theatre playing Sr. Costa. He has also worked with great companies such as Hartford Stage, […]
Tristan Turner
is thrilled to be making his ATC debut as Thomas Payne in Pru Payne (2023) alongside such a powerful cast and crew. Past credits include Lucas in The Addams Family (5 Star Theatricals), Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespeare Festival), and he had a spot in the CW’s All-American in 2022. He’d like to thank his friends and family for their […]
Gordon Clapp
is making his ATC debut as Gus Cudahy in Pru Payne (2023). An Emmy and SAG Award winner, Clapp is a theatre, television, and film actor widely known for his role as Det. Greg Medavoy for all 12 seasons of NYPD Blue. Broadway credits include Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award), The Great Society (Lincoln Center), and To Kill a […]
Eisenberg/Beans Casting: Daryl Eisenberg, CSA & Ally Beans, CSA
Broadway credits include Gettin’ The Band Back Together. and New York Theatre credits include Bedlam, Love & Science In The Time of HIV, Baghdaddy, and SuperHero (Cherry Lane’s Mentor Project), the WP Pipeline Festival, and more. Regional/Other credits include May We All and Heartbreak Hotel (Broadway in Chicago), His Story (Dallas Theater Center), Folger Theatre, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Norwegian Cruise […]
Steven Drukman
is a playwright and journalist whose play Going to See the Kid recently had its world premiere at Merrimack Rep. Death of the Author received its world premiere at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse (published by Dramatists Play Service); Variety called it,“Hands down, one of the best plays of the year.” Other world premieres include The Prince […]
Mimi Kennedy
is an American actress whose acting career spans multiple decades of television, theater, and film. Born in Rochester, NY, Kennedy first fell in love with acting while performing as a child with The Rochester Community Players. She ignited her professional acting career on stage opposite TV legend Sid Caesar in Neil Simon’s Last Of The Red […]
Greg Maraio
is thrilled to be making his debut with ATC. A Boston native, his regional theatre credits include Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage); The Inheritance, Significant Other (IRNE nomination), Casa Valentina (IRNE and Elliot Norton nominations), and Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage); The Arboretum Experience (The American Repertory Theater); Finish Line (Citi Performing Arts); The Book Club Play, Brawler (IRNE nomination), and Faithless (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Nora Theatre Company); Wolf Play, Colossal, Splendor, The Good […]
James Fenton
is making his ATC debut as the Scenic Designer of Pru Payne (2023). Off-Broadway/New York credits include Southern Comfort, The Musical (World Premiere, GLAADAward – Best Musical) at Public Theater; Switzerland (NY Premiere), Fall to Earth (NY Premiere), and Small World (NYCPremiere) at 59E59; Momento Mori and Midnight Madness at Third Rail Projects; Drop DeadPerfect […]
Tina McCartney
is a Trinidadian American costume designer based in New York City making her ATC debut as the Costume Designer of Pru Payne (2023). McCartney’s theatrical designs include Joy (George Street Playhouse), The Griswold’s Broadway Vacation (Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre), Bruce (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Death Cruise (Access Theater), The Goree All-Girl String Band (NYMF), and Julius […]
Leon Rothenberg
was last at ATC as sound designer for Cabaret (2019) and Pru Payne (2023). Broadway credits include Hillary and Clinton, The Waverly Gallery, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2, and others. Regional credits include work at The Old Globe, Barrington Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Arena […]
Rio Finnegan
couldn’t be more happy to be making his debut at ATC as the Accessibility Coach of The Glass Menagerie (2023). He graduated in Film from Santa Fe University of Art & Design, to which he was awarded the Robert Redford Milagro Initiative Scholarship. In his time there, he worked on many projects including Hello World […]
Cassie Chilton
is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that daylights as a 7th grade science teacher. Select theatre credits include Always… Patsy Cline, Once, and Ring of Fire (Phoenix Theatre Company); Lizzie and Murder Ballad (A/CTC); Silence! The Musical (Stray Cat Theatre); and Toxic Avenger (MET). In addition to theatre, Cassie performs with country tribute band Rhinestone Country […]
Paul Deo Jr.
is quite excited to be making his ATC Debut as Jim O’Connor in The Glass Menagerie (2023)! Theatre credits include Troilus & Cressida (The Public Theater); Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Dangerous Liaisons (Baltimore Center Stage); Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theater). […]
Victor Vasquez, CSA
is the founder and lead Casting Director of X Casting in New York City (xcastingnyc.com). He has cast projects for Broadway (upcoming: Soul Train), Off-Broadway, London’s West End, TV (upcoming: Genius: MLK/X for 20th TV, Nat Geo, Disney+), and Film. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrants.
Masha Tsimring
is a New York City-based designer for live performance making her ATC debut as the Lighting Designer of The Glass Menagerie (2023). Recent projects include Montag (Soho Rep), Vietgone (Guthrie), Tick Tick…Boom! (Portland Center Stage), Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera), Private (Mosaic), Cunning Little Vixen & Salome (Bard), Puppet Lab (St. Ann’s Warehouse), and To the […]
Alex J. Alegria
is a Freelance Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer for Winding Road Theater Ensemble, based in his hometown of Tucson. He is currently a senior BFA Theatre Design and Technology: Lighting Emphasis candidate at the University of Arizona. His Lighting Design of The Big Meal with Winding Road in 2019 received a 2019/2020 Carmen […]
Mathew DeVore
Mathew is thrilled to be making his ATC Debut as the Sound Designer of The Glass Menagerie (2023). He is no stranger to the company, as he first began working with ATC in Phoenix in 2006 when he was part of the Herberger Theater Center staff. Matt moved to Tucson in 2011 to become ATC’s […]
Josafath Reynoso
is making his ATC debut as the Scenic Designer of The Glass Menagerie (2023). Regional credits include Once at Berkshire Theatre Group; Need Your Love at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; The Ripple, The Wave That Carried Me Home at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; The Glass Menagerie at Arizona Theatre Company; and Mamma Mia at […]
Terence Orleans Alexander
is making his ATC debut as the Stage Manager of The Glass Menagerie (2023). Broadway credits include Mary Poppins, Wicked, and Newsies. Regional credits include Utah Shakespeare Festival (twenty seasons), Washington National Opera (seven seasons), Triad Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Theater. Graduate of the Professional Theatre Training […]
Lillie Richardson
is happy to return to the Arizona Theatre Company stages as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (2023). She has spent the past 30 years performing with many theatrical companies such as Black Theatre Troupe, Childsplay, the Fulton, Actors Theatre, Fusion, and Phoenix Theatre. Richardson appeared recently at Tempe Center for the Arts as Chelle […]
Aaron Cammack
is over the moon to be back at ATC. You may recognize him from last season when he played Tom Wingfield in ATC’s The Glass Menagerie. Cammack trained with the illustrious Kathryn Gately and studied acting as an undergraduate at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and as a graduate student at the University of Washington. […]
Monica Sampson
is making her debut with Arizona Theatre Company. An award-winning actor, director, and intimacy coordinator, she holds a double degree in Broadcast Journalism and Theater. Her experience spans internationally to the West End and Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London, where she trained in a production of Hamlet. Sampson’s credits include Off-Broadway work, films, and commercials. She directs […]
Maya Encila
is a Tucson native who is thrilled to be making her ATC debut as Lydia Wickham in The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (2022). She was twice nominated for Best Actress in a Musical (Aliw Awards) with Philippine Stagers Foundation (Lara in Katips: AngMga Bagong Katipunero) and Repertory Philippines (Beauty in Beauty and the Beast), and she was […]
Emily Mohney
is proud and grateful to be making her ATC debut as Cassie in The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (2022). Theater credits include Singin’ In The Rain, Steel Magnolias, and Baskerville (Phoenix Theatre Company); Trouble In Mind (Black Theatre Troupe); American Psycho! The Musical! (Stray Cat Theatre); and The Three Musketeers, As You Like It, King […]
Andrea Syglowski
is making her ATC debut. Select theatre credits include Pass Over on Broadway and Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Labyrinth/Atlantic Theatre) and queens (LCT3) Off-Broadway. Regional theatre credits include Lost in Yonkers (Hartford Stage/Connecticut Critics Circle Award nom), DIG (Dorset), Theo (Two River Theatre), Cry It Out (Humana/Dorset), Dolls House (Huntington), The May Queen […]
Cecil Washington Jr.
is thrilled to make The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley his debut performance at Arizona Theatre Company. Some of his Off-Broadway and recent regional credits include James in Henry Box Brown (Off-Broadway), Lola in Kinky Boots (Red Mountain Theatre), Porgy in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess (Aurora Theatre), Mister in The Color Purple (Westcoast Black Theatre […]
Amelia White
is thrilled to return to ATC, where she played Williamina Fleming in Silent Sky in 2019. Most recently, White made her third appearance at New York’s Mint Theater in Chains by Elizabeth Baker. Broadway credits include Crazy for You and The Heiress. She performed in the National Tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog […]
Emily Paige Ballou
is excited to be working with everyone at ATC for the first time! Based in NYC for the last 18 years, her previous regional and Off-Broadway credits as Stage Manager include Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack Theatre Festival), The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater Company), and Hannah Senesh (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene), as well as […]
Ursula Kwong-Brown
is thrilled to make her debut at Arizona Theatre Company. Previous designs include Holiday at Arena Stage, King Lear at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, Head Over Heels at Pasadena Playhouse, Native Gardens at Merrimack, and the world premiere of Stonewall with NYC Opera. As a composer, her work has been performed at […]
Lauren T. Roark
is thrilled to be making her debut with Arizona Theatre Company. Select regional credits include the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Roark holds an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Missouri–Kansas […]
Andrew Johnson
has spent 20 years working in sound and the last 17 years working in professional theatre . He won the Broadway World Fans Choice Award for Best Sound Design for The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway and has also been shortlisted for Best Sound Design for Grand Hotel, Mack & Mabel, and Titanic in the UK. Recent theatre includes Gypsy (Buxton Opera Festival); The […]
MyKel Marie Hall
Assistant Stage Manager for The Lion (2022), The Glass Menagerie (2023), Private Lives (2023) is excited to be returning for her second season here at the Arizona Theatre Company. Her favorite credits include ASM for Pirates of Penzance and PA for The Conclusion of Henry VI Parts 2 and 3 (Utah Shakespeare Festival), and PSM for […]
Danielle Tarento
is a London-based freelance producer and casting director. She won Best Producer at the Off West End Awards 2012, was nominated Producer of the Year at the Stage Awards 2015, and was listed as one of the top 10 producers of Musical Theatre in 2016 in The Stage. She is co-founder of the Menier Chocolate […]
Benjamin Scheuer
is an American songwriter. He is the recipient of the 2021 Kleban Prize for Lyrics. Scheuer gave more than 500 performances of The Lion across the United States and the UK, winning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and an Off-West End Award for Best New Musical. Filmed at the Geffen Playhouse in […]
Emma Chapman
Theatre credits include Beauty And The Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Rosenbaum’s Rescue (Park Theatre); The Mountaintop (Theatre 503 & Trafalgar Studio); The Painter (Arcola Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Theatre du Chatelet, Paris; Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg, Oper Graz); Utility (Orange […]
Simon Kenny
is making his ATC Debut. Off-Broadway credits include the multi-award-winning Sweeney Todd in a purpose-built pie shop (Barrow Street Theatre – Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Musical). UK and international credits include Whistle Down The Wind and Assassins (Watermill); The Wiz (Hope Mill); Blue/Orange (Northampton Royal); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard); Noughts & […]
Alex Stenhouse
is making his ATC debut as Co-Director of The Lion (2022). Training: University of Exeter, Young Vic Director’s Programme, National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT). Theatre directing credits include The Lion (Southwark Playhouse, London w/ Sean Daniels); The Trees of Nature (Canal Cafe Theatre, London); The One (OSO, London); Conversations (OSO, London); Love Among the Penguins (Mardon Hall, Exeter); and [Title of Show] (Thornlea Studios, Exeter). He was Associate Director for Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park) […]
Max Alexander-Taylor
made his ATC debut at Ben in The Lion (2022). Max trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Theatre credits include The Lion (Southwark Playhouse), Shift+Alt+Right (ALP Musicals), Stages (VAULTS), We Need to Talk About Norman (Toulouse-Lautrec), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Iris Theatre), Jones’ Diary (Studio 88), and Jeannie (Finborough Theatre). Workshops include Longitude […]
christopher oscar peña
is a story-teller originally from California, now splitting his time between New York and LA. In 2019, with Sean Daniels’ he co-directed the world premiere of Daniels’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “lost novel” The Haunted Life at Merrimack Rep. The production marked the first time the Kerouac Estate had ever sanctioned an official theatrical adaptation […]
Micha Espinosa
previously worked with Arizona Theatre Company for Man of La Mancha. Other credits include Dallas Theatre Center: Our Town (Bilingual); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Peter and the Starcatcher, The Copper Children, Hairspray, Mother Road, and La Comedia of Errors; Children Theatre Company: Spamtown; Milwaukee Repertory: Four Hands-Two Pianos, West Side Story, and In the Heights; Southwest […]
Alex J. Gould
is an actor/fight and intimacy director in New York City and is making his ATC onstage debut. Previously, Gould worked as the intimacy director for ATC’s how to make an American Son. Off-Broadway credits include The Woodsman (New World Stages, 59E59), Midsummer: A Banquet (Third Rail Projects/Food of Love Productions), BALLS (59E59), and The Radicalization of Rolfe (2016 NYC Fringe Fest Best Overall Play). Other credits […]
Cricket S. Myers
earned a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Off-Broadway, her designs include The Marvelous Wonderettes. She has also designed regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, The Geffen Playhouse, The Ahmanson, The Mark Taper Forum, Kansas City Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company of DC, South Coast […]
Kimberly Senior
is making her ATC debut. She directed Disgraced on Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include Harvey Fierstein’s Bella Bella (Manhattan Theatre Club); Aasif Mandvi’s Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible Theatre); Discord (Primary Stages); and Engagements (Second Stage). Regional theatre credits include Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Sweat, and The Niceties (Huntington Theatre Company); Support Group for Men and Rapture, Blister, […]
Patrick Weber
is extremely excited to be making his ATC debut in how to make an American Son. Weber is from the great city of Chicago, where he was born and raised. He graduated from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a BFA in acting. He has been seen on television in Chicago Fire and Power Book: […]
Gabriel Marin
is excited to make his Arizona Theatre Company debut. Marin has most recently been seen in the National Tour of What the Constitution Means to Me and Off-Broadway in Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR). Marin has appeared regionally with American Conservatory Theater, Center Theater Group, Kansas City Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, […]
Francisco Javier González
is thrilled to be making his ATC debut. He won the Broadway World 2019 Award “Best Actor in a Musical” for Matt in The Fantasticks, and he wrapped a run in Lauren Gunderson’s reimagined Peter Pan & Wendy at the Shakespeare Theatre Co. He was recently cast in 20th Television/Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building […]
Alexander Flores
is a Puerto Rican actor born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Flores started acting at a young age, studying theater for most of his life. He has performed at The Public Theater with The LAByrinth Theatre Company and The Cherry Lane Theater to critical acclaim. Flores moved his focus from theater to film/TV […]
Eddie Boroevich
Is making his ATC debut. Off-Broadway productions include The American Clock (HB, dir. Austin Pendleton); Five By Tenn (MTC); and a workshop of Five Very Pretty Girls (NYTW, dir. Michael Greif). Regionally, Eddie originated the role of Woodson Bull III in the first staging of Wendy Wasserstein’s Third (Theater J), and has also performed at […]
Cristela Alonzo
made history in 2014 when she became the first Latina to create, produce, and star in her own network sitcom, Cristela for ABC. In 2017, Alonzo made history again when she became the first Latina lead in a Disney Pixar film, for which she voiced the part of Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3. Her first […]
Brett Ryback
is an actor, composer/lyricist, and writer. He is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award. His musical podcast “In Strange Woods” hit #1 on Apple’s fiction chart and was a 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Award nominee for “Best Fiction Podcast.” His stage comedy Free Speech Zone was a Semifinalist for the Austin Film Festival. Other works […]
Dana Haynes
is a musician and music programmer from Brooklyn, NY, and is excited to work on his first show at ATC and his third show with Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk. Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Waitress, Be More Chill, and Kong. Off-Broadway credits include The Mad Ones and We’re Gonna Die. Regional credits incldue […]
Lisa Marie Rollins
is a freelance director, writer, and new work developer. Justice is her ATC debut. She is a Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow (Directing) and Associate Member of SDC. Select directing and dramaturg credits include Berkeley Repertory Theater, Denver Center Performing Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, Hedgebrook Women’s Play Festival, Crowded Fire […]
Michelle Chin
is humbled to be making her ATC acting debut as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (2023). Notable acting credits include: Steel Magnolias (Annelle; Shelby), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), Hand to God (Jessica), Airness (Nina), and John (Jenny). Chin is also a multi-instrumentalist and select actor musician credits include: Once (Girl/Piano), The Hello Girls (Helen/Guitar), Ring of Fire (Player 1/Guitar/Percussion), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Shlatko/Drum Set) and Wonderland (Alice/Piano/Drum Set). Chin is also a teaching […]
Mike Pettry
is a New York City-based composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and musician. Broadway musician credits include A Strange Loop (Associate Conductor); The Lightning Thief; Gettin’ The Band Back Together; SpongeBob Squarepants; Bandstand; Finding Neverland; and Godspell. Other Off-Broadway/NYC credits include Faust with Randy Newman; Trevor; The View Upstairs; FOUND; Rooms; and Clinton. His musical The Light Princess […]
Chanel Bragg
is a proud Arizonan who is ecstatic to make her ATC directorial debut with The Glass Menagerie (2023). Appointed in 2020 as ATC’s Associate Artistic Director, she is thrilled to premiere at her home theatre post guest directing at St. Louis Repertory Theatre, garnering her an “A-List Editor’s Choice Award” in 2022 from St. Louis […]
Joan Ryan
recently performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Hollywood Bowl. She originated the role of Judy Denmark/Ginger Del Marco in Ruthless! Leading roles include Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Footloose, Les Miserables, Suds, The Mass, and Anyone Can Whistle. Television and voice credits include Criminal Minds, NCIS, Grace and Frankie, […]
Judy Bowman, CSA
is returning to ATC; her recent credits with the company include Justice and Nina Simone: Four Women. Current projects include A Christmas Carol (McCarter), The Great Leap(Cleveland Play House), Incendiary(Woolly Mammoth), Down Home (feature film), and Province (short film). FILM/TV credits include Hurricane Bianca, One Moment, Separation, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star, Copenhagen, Redemption in Cherry Springs (Hallmark), & Big Dogs (Amazon). Recent theater projects include Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong(tour), …Chad […]
Lisa Renkel
is an award-winning projection designer based in New York. Her passion for collaborative design has allowed her the opportunities to work on a wide variety of productions ranging from Broadway to music world tours. Select video designs include Off-Broadway Emojiland The Musical (The Duke, New 42) (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Award); The […]
Twi McCallum
is debuting at Arizona Theatre Company with Justice. Select credits include Broadway credits include Chicken & Biscuits and Company (assistant designer). Off-Broadway credits include The Last (Atlantic Theater Company); Little Girl Blue (New World Stages); and A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Daryl Roth Theater). Regional credits include The Sound of Music (Dallas Theater Center); […]
William C. Kirkham
is thrilled to be working with Arizona Theatre Company again. Previous credits include Justice, Outside Mullingar (Associate), and Man of La Mancha (Associate). Regional credits include work with Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, ArtsWest Playhouse, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Childsplay, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Contemporary American Theater Festival, The Hypocrites, Lookingglass Theatre Company, […]
Kish Finnegan
happily calls Tucson her home of 35 years, where she is the resident costume designer for ATC. Her recent design credits include The Glass Menagerie, Justice, Silent Sky, American Mariachi, Outside Mullingar, Low Down Dirty Blues, King Charles III, The Origins of Happiness in Latin, Hair, and Romeo and Juliet. Other credits include Million Dollar […]
Tanya Orellana
designs performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. Collaborations include Fefu and her Friends directed by Pam MacKinnon at ACT’s Strand Theatre; Oedipus directed by Jenny Koons at The Getty Villa; We the Peoples Before directed by Roberta Uno at The Kennedy Center; The Industry’s Sweet Land, an immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon […]
Annbritt duChateau
is very excited to be making her debut at ATC as a part of the Justice team! A Chicago native, her Broadway credits as Music Director/Conductor/Keyboards include Kiss Me, Kate; Into the Woods (both Broadway and Shakespeare in the Park); Oklahoma!; Frogs; Billy Elliot; Les Miserables; Pal Joey; Mary Poppins; Aladdin; and Frozen. National Tours […]
Melissa Crespo
is a director of new plays, musicals, and opera. She is thrilled to make her ATC debut. Upcoming projects include Yoga Play by Dipika Guha (Geva Theatre Center) and Sheepdog by Kevin Artigue at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. As a playwright, her play Egress, co-written with Sarah Saltwick, recently had a rolling world premiere […]
Kait Kerrigan
is thrilled to be making her ATC debut, with heaping thanks to Lauren Gunderson and Sean Daniels for their crazy ideas that just might work, and to the whole ATC staff for shepherding an original musical amid a pandemic. Off-Broadway credits include The Mad Ones and Henry and Mudge, both with longtime collaborator Bree Lowdermilk.Regional […]
Bree Lowdermilk
is debuting at ATC with Justice. Off-Broadway credits include The Mad Ones and Henry and Mudge. Regional credits include Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, and Lincoln Center. Residencies include McDowell and Mercer. Lowdermilk has received the Jonathan Larson, Alan Menken, and Richard Rodgers awards. Albums include Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live, Our First Mistake (#1 Singer/Songwriter chart), and The […]
Nancy Opel
is making her Arizona Theatre Company debut. Broadway credits include15 shows, among them A Christmas Carol Broadway (SF Company); Wicked; Beautiful; Honeymoon in Vegas; Cinderella; Memphis; Gypsy; Fiddler on the Roof; Urinetown: The Musical; Triumph of Love; Anything Goes; Sunday in the Park with George; Evita; andothers. Regional credits include The Suffragist (Uni); Clue (Cape […]
Christina Ham
is a playwright whose works have been developed and produced both nationally and internationally with the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Center Theater Group, The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Goodman Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, with Tony Award-winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover off-Broadway at Theater Row, and the Tokyo International Arts Festival, among many others. […]
Daniel Perelstein Jaquette
is a freelance sound designer, composer, and musical director who has been the professor of sound design for theatre at Arizona State University since 2019. Most recently at ATC, he was the sound designer for Nina Simone: Four Women. Other recent designs and original music projects include Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, […]
Ramona Ward
is a tenured Associate Professor of Theatre and costume designer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Alabama State University. She received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from The Pennsylvania State University and her M.F.A. from Memphis State University in Theatre Arts, Design and Technical Production. Ward has designed costumes for more than 100 […]
Philip S. Rosenberg
has designed lighting throughout the country. Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and It’s Only a Play. Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center Theatre, […]
Arnel Sancianco
is an award-winning set designer and currently is a professor of scenic design at Arizona State University. He has designed all around the United States. Credits include Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie (Kennedy Center); Photograph 51 and The Belle of Amherst (Court); The Lifespan of a Fact (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); A Doll’s House (Writer’s […]
Tiffany Nichole Greene
is incredibly thrilled and honored to make her directing debut at Arizona Theatre Company. Tiffany is a freelance director and Resident Director of Hamilton. She is a leader, a creator, and an aggressive explorer of the human condition as it relates to relationships and the injustices of this world. Tiffany is an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and […]
Danté Harrell
is an American performing artist who grew up in Phoenix and graduated with honors from the Arizona Conservatory for the Arts and Academics. He is making his ATC debut. Harrell’s passion for music led him to continue his education at North Carolina Central University in Durham, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music with a concentration in Performance. While at […]
Kia Dawn Fulton
is delighted to make her ATC debut with this production. Fulton was last seen playing Sylvia in the world premiere of Shoebox Picnic Road Side: Route One at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Many thanks to casting as well as our insightful director of expression, Tiffany Nichole Greene. “Step out and be blessed!”
Katya Collazo
is making her ATC debut. Her Off-Broadway credits include Mrs. Warren/Vivie Warren (understudy) in Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Regional Theater roles include Harriet Powell in Possessing Harriet (Franklin Stage); Nurse Flinn/Sandra in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Playhouse on Park); Grace in The Resolutes (Wyoming Theater Festival); and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (South Dakota Shakespeare). Other Theater Credits include […]
Deidra Grace
is thrilled to be making her ATC debut. Grace is a graduate of AMDA in Los Angeles. Her show credits include the National Tour of The Color Purple (Sofia), National Tour of The Drowsy Chaperone (Trix), God’s Trombone (Minister), Disaster The Musical (Levora), Shrek (Voice of Dragon), Chicago (Mama Morton), Big River (Alice), Spunk (Blues Speak Woman), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Nell), Ragtime (Ensemble), Showboat (Queenie), Kiss Me Kate (Hattie), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (BJ), Hairspray (Motormouth), All Shook Up (Sylvia), and Hair (Dionne). She would like to thank ATC for this opportunity. Grace would […]
Candace Thomas
is honored to be making her Arizona Theater Company debut. Some of her regional theater credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Nunsense; Man of La Mancha), The Wallis Annenberg (Unmasked), Forward Theater (Skeleton Crew), andBristol Riverside Theater (Little Shop of Horrors; Barrymore Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical). Television credits include NBC Universal (Chicago Fire), Netflix (Easy), and Lifetime (MOW). Candace dedicates this performance to Ms. […]
Olsen Torres
was the Assistant Stage Manager on My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend and Women in Jeopardy! They are a member of Actors’ Equity Association and a Tucson local. Past credits include: Production Stage Manager, La Comedia of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and Assistant Stage Manager, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles; Off the Rails; The Merry Wives of […]
Dom Ruggiero
is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Recent ATC productions as Stage Manager include The Royale, Cabaret, The Legend of Georgia McBride, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, Women in Jeopardy!, and The Lion. Broadway PSM credits include The Gathering starring Hal Linden, Borscht Belt on Broadway starring Bruce Adler and Mal Z. Lawrence, and Ain’t That A Kick In The Head – The Music of Sammy Cahn directed by Chet Walker. 1st National Tours […]
Dave Remedios
is making his ATC debut. Recent work includes The Rise and Fall of Holly Fudge and A Woman of the World (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Sound Inside and The Children (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Berta, Berta (Everyman Theatre); and We All Fall Down (Huntington Theatre Company). Other Regional: American Repertory Theatre (50 productions), Contemporary American Theater Festival, Portland Stage, The City Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, The Studio Theatre, 59E59, Theatre for a New Audience, La […]
Connie Furr
is making her ATC debut. Theatre: The Christians (Playwrights Horizon); The Christians (Mark Taper Forum); Glory to the World (Brooklyn Academy of Music); 14 productions including six Humana Festivals at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Beauty and the Beast, Seussical, and 101 Dalmatians (Premiere) (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte); Othello and Henry the 4th (Georgia Shakespeare Festival); Sun Serpent and Tale of Two Cities (Premieres) (Childsplay); The Nearly True Story of the Mamas and Papas (Premiere), The Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Cookin’s a Drag (Premiere) (Phoenix Theatre); and seven seasons with the Fabulous Palm […]
Michael B. Raiford
is a freelance Set and Costume designer based in Austin, Texas, and is making his ATC debut. Raiford’s theatre designs have been seen at South Coast Repertory, The Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.), New Victory Theatre (New York), Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Lyric Theatre (Oklahoma City), The Antaeus Company (LA), and Actors Theatre of Louisville, […]
Wendy MacLeod
is also the playwright of Slow Food, which was presented digitally by Arizona Theatre Company in 2020, and she is delighted that Women in Jeopardy! is being presented in person. Most recently, her play BASTA! was commissioned by The National Theater of Genoa and just finished its run there. Her play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, and it was produced by The Magic Theater, Soho Rep, The Washington Shakespeare Company, The Maxim […]
Joel Van Liew
was last seen by Arizona Theatre Company audiences as Peter in ATC’s September 2020 digital recording of Wendy MacLeod’s Slow Food. He is thrilled to be working with Sean Daniels and MacLeod again, after having appeared in the world premiere of Slow Food at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, directed by Daniels. Other regional credits include Home of the Brave (Merrimack) and The 39 Steps (Geva Theatre), both directed by Daniels; The Ver**on Play (ATL Humana Festival); Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River); Pride and Prejudice (ATL); Well (ACT); and The Pavilion (City […]
Damian Garcia
He/Him is thrilled to be making his ATC debut. Local credits: Looped, Trumbo: Red White & Blacklisted, Last Train to Nibroc, and Dancing Lessons (MAC Award Best Actor Comedy 2020) (Invisible Theatre); The Big Meal, The Little Foxes, and The Fantasticks (Winding Road Theatre Ensemble); A Chorus Line, West Side Story, and Something Rotten! (Arts Express); Switzerland and Constellations (Something Something Theatre Company). A.F.A.: Pima Community College. College credits include The Mandrake, Fiddler on […]
Ashley Shamoon
is happy to be back in the theatre making her ATC debut as Amanda, a role she originated. Some of her other roles include Junie B. in Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus; Gabrielle in When the Rain Stops Falling; Nora in A Doll’s House; and Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Shamoon can usually be found with multiple books in hand and her two […]
Gail Rastorfer
is making her ATC debut. Regional highlights: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage); The Heidi Chronicles, The Game’s Afoot (Asolo Rep); Ten Chimneys and In the Next Room (Cleveland Playhouse); Noises Off (Clarence Brown Theatre); The Mousetrap (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); and Women in Jeopardy! (Merrimack Rep). Chicago Theatres: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge at Drury Lane Theatre; Romeo and Juliet in the Parks directed by Marti Lyons with […]
Julia Brothers
was in the world premiere of Women in Jeopardy! at GEVA Theatre with Sean Daniels at the helm. She is thrilled to be joining Daniels again at Arizona Theatre Company, where she was last seen opposite Marlo Thomas in Elaine May’s George Is Dead, which subsequently moved to Broadway (dir. John Turturro). During the pandemic, Brothers was commissioned by SF Playhouse to write and perform her first solo […]
Aysan Celik
is making her ATC debut. Off-Broadway: The Civilians’ Gone Missing, “Songs by Michael Friedman” (NY City Center Encores Off Center!); The Undertaking (59E59 Theater/Civilians); co-creator/actor in Juarez: a Documentary Mythology, “Songs by Ada Westfall” (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Theater Mitu); Paris Commune, “Songs adapted by Michael Friedman” (BAM Next Wave Festival/Civilians); The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop); Faust (Classic Stage Company/Target Margin); Pericles (The Culture Project/Red Bull Theater); Dhammashok, “Songs by Todd Almond” (The Public […]
Margot Melcon
is a theater artist, administrator, and writer. She was the Director of New Play Development at Marin Theatre Company for seven years, where she dramaturged more than 30 productions—including six world premieres—and administered the company’s two annual new play prizes and commissioning program. She has developed plays with TheatreWorks, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire […]
Lauren Gunderson
has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list twice including in 2019/2020. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist […]
Kevin Black
is a Professor of Practice in Acting, teaching Acting l and ll, Introduction to Voice and Movement, and Screen Acting. He is a professional actor with more than thirty-five years’ experience, spanning regional and New York theatre and independent and studio film. He has acted at companies such as The New York Shakespeare Festival, The […]
Kiara Johnson
ATC: debut. Recent: Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre: In Just My Underwear (Debut of Original Composition). Arizona Repertory Theatre: Proof, and Reckless. Kiara is currently the Assistant Technical Director for the Fred Fox School of Music at The University of Arizona.
Elizabeth Harper
Theatrical credits include: Between Two Knees (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Immediate Family, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by Phylicia Rashad (Mark Taper Forum), The Cake (La Jolla Playhouse), Office Hour starring Sandra Oh (South Coast Rep), Mysterious Circumstances, shortlisted for the Knights of Illumination Award, Sell/Buy/Date, written and performed by Tony-Award winner Sarah Jones, Wait […]
Lux Haac
is a New York-based costume designer working in theatre, film, opera, and dance. Recent New York credits: Eureka Day (Colt Coeur/Walkerspace), Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry/New Victory Theater), and R+J (Hypokrit Theatre Company/Access Theater). Recent Regional and other theatre credits: I and You, Annapurna (Syracuse Stage), The Thanksgiving Play (Repertory Theatre of St Louis), […]
Apollo Mark Weaver
is thrilled to be returning to ATC after designing last season’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Other credits include Pericles, Richard III, Comedy of Errors, The Book of Will, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Henry VI part 1 at Utah Shakespeare Festival; The Wickhams, Slow Food, The Villains’ Supper […]
Mollie Heil
is so happy to be back for her third season with Arizona Theatre Company! ATC credits include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Nina Simone: Four Women, how to make an American Son, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (ASM), and Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End (SM Intern). Selected regional credits include ASM for State Fair at […]
Glenn Bruner
is in his 24th season at ATC, where he has stage managed more than 70 productions including Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Silent Sky, Outside Mullingar, Chapter Two, and Five Presidents. He has worked at Studio Arena Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Center Stage, Alley Theatre, and Seattle Rep. He was the assistant stage manager for […]
Veronika Duerr
graduated from the Savannah College of Art and design with a BFA in theater. She has been a member of Actors Equity for 15 years and has worked as a freelance actor, director, playwright, and producer in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, and Arizona. Her favorite roles include Henrietta in Silent Sky here at ATC, […]
Elena Lucia Quach
is thrilled to be making her Arizona Theatre Company debut! Elena is a Tucson, Arizona, native, classically trained ballet and modern dancer, and received training from Ballet Arts/Ballet Tucson under the direction of Mary Beth Cabana in Tucson, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. She has recently trained in the American […]
John Gregorio
is pleased to be making his Arizona Theatre Company debut with Miss Bennet. Some of his credits include Off-Broadway: Around the World in 80 Days (The New Theatre @ 45th St), Silent Laughter (The Lamb’s Theatre), The Nuclear Family (founder/performer The Belt Theatre). Regional: The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass Theatre Co.), The Villain Supper Club […]
Shonda Royall
is an actress who hails from the Windy City of Chicago. Shonda studied Theatre at Chicago State University, where she received her BFA. Now an Arizona resident, Shonda has worked with the 24 Hour Plays, performing a newly crafted monologue, Battle Royall. She was also a part of the SAI Production Virtual Theater in All […]
John Patrick Hayden
is thrilled to be part of ATC. Happy holidays, Everyone! Acting credits at many regional theaters including the Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Center Stage and the Denver Center. He was on Broadway with the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Tartuffe. Off-Broadway with the Lincoln Center in FLY. TV Credits: Blindspot, Younger, Law and Order, Blue Bloods, […]
Alexis Bronkovic
Broadway/New York: The Big Broadcast, The Barrow Group Theatre;Tiny Geniuses, Fringe NYC at the Here Arts Center. Regional: Born Yesterday (Billie Dawn), The Guthrie Theatre, Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt), earned Best Actress IRNE nomination, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Elizabeth Darcy), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Elizabeth Darcy), Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Amadeus (Constanze), Maltz Jupiter […]
Seth Tucker
is a proud queer, Latinx, artistic entrepreneur, born and raised in Arizona. Tucker is thrilled to be back at ATC after playing Arthur De Bourgh in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Off-Broadway credits include Miss West Coast in Pageant (Original Cast Recording). Select regional credits include Jacob in La Cage Aux Folles, Harry Witherspoon in Lucky Stiff, and […]
Jessica Jain
is thrilled to be making her Arizona Theatre Company debut and to be playing a beloved Bennet sister. She has spent much of her life manifesting becoming a Jane Austen heroine (She was Charlotte Lucas last time … although I guess she’s technically a Gunderson/Melcon heroine … still counts). Favorite credits include Pitch Perfect, Blue […]
Ed Bell
is a songwriter, author, music educator and entrepreneur. His creative work is mostly in theatre and film, where he co-wrote the 2018 Kleban Award-winning musical My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend and was previously an Artist in Residence at Pearl Studio (Abominable, Over the Moon) in Shanghai, China. His songs have been performed at venues from Brasserie Zédel […]
Christian Duhamel
is an internationally regarded playwright, lyricist, composer, actor, voice teacher, voice coach, and the Founder of Cobalt Phoenix. He is the recipient of the BMI Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Songwriting, the Pearl Studio Songwriting Artist Residency, and the prestigious Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre. His other works include X-MAS: A Merry […]
Ashlee Wasmund
is honored to be joining ATC for the first time after an ill-fated plan to first do so in Spring 2020. She is the Founding Artistic Lead of Calliope Stage Company, which focuses on developing regional new work in its North Carolina community and is a lucky neighbor of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. […]
Danny Erdberg
is thrilled to return to ATC after designing last season’s My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, as well as the pod-play version of The Heath. His work has been heard in New York at The Public Theater, NY City Opera, 92Y, Roundabout, City Center, Atlantic, and 59E59. Regional credits include Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Geva, Milwaukee Rep, The […]
Brian J. Lilienthal
returns to Arizona Theatre Company, where he was lighting designer for The Clean House, Cabaret, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, Women in Jeopardy, and The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley. Off-Broadway credits include Cherry Lane, La Mama, 59E59. He has worked regionally with Actors Theatre of Louisville (60 productions as resident designer), Alley Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Cincinnati […]
Jen Caprio
Broadway: Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Tours: Falsettos, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Lion, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and the rock revues Rockumentary and Kaleidoscope for Celebrity Cruises. West End: The Lion. Over 200 NYC and LORT productions at theatres including the Manhattan Theater Club, Papermill […]
Neil Patel
creates bold and unique worlds for Film, Television, Commercials, Music Videos, and Live Events. Recent projects include Twenty One Pilots Livestream Experience, the Peabody Award-winning Dickinson (Apple TV+), The Path (HULU), Little Boxes (Netflix), Dil Dhadakne Do (Excel Entertainment), Some Velvet Morning (Tribeca Films), the Peabody Award-winning In Treatment (HBO), Time and the Conways (Broadway), […]
Sean Daniels
currently leads the Recovery Project for Florida Studio Theatre, which aims to change the narrative of the public health crisis that is addiction in our country. By being of service to artists – who both need support and create the stories that form our understanding of the world — and the general public, we hope […]
Jose C. Simbulan
is excited and grateful to be a part of this musicalization of a real slice of New York City life. As a music director and pianist, his recent credits include productions for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, National Asian Artists Project (NAAP), […]
Charissa Bertels
is a Broadway actress and champion of new musicals. She has performed on Broadway and at Madison Square Garden in A Christmas Story and toured the country in the first national tour of If/Then, starring Idina Menzel, La Chanze, and Anthony Rapp. As a member of the singing ensemble for New York City Center Encores’ […]