Richardson Theatre Center Funny Little Thing

Felicia Curry
Mrs. Webb

Mrs. Webb

Felicia Curry

STC: Will on the Hill . NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: We Three Lizas , DMLRR: The Brontes , Petite Rouge . TOURS: KC: Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka | Mattel/Live Nation: Barbie Live!, Capitol Steps . REGIONAL: Berkshire Theatre Group, VA Repertory Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse Signature Theatre, Ford's Theatre, Arena Stage, Factory 449, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, Rep Stage, MetroStage. AWARDS: Berkshire Theatre Award nomination (Nina in Nina Simone: Four Women ), RTCC Award (Celie in The Color Purple ), Helen Hayes Award (Lela in Lela & Co. ). OTHER: Company Member: Factory 449, Everyman Theatre | Ford's Theatre Artistic Associate | Host of WETA Arts . PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Training: University of Maryland, College Park | Instagram: @thefeliciacurry.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Elliot Dash
Constable Warren

Constable Warren

Elliot Dash

STC : Kiss Me, Kate ; As You Like It ; Hamlet ; Henry V ; Macbeth ; Volpone ; All's Well That Ends Well. NEW YORK : The Acting Company | Tour '2000. REGIONAL : Arena Stage: The Pajama Game | Folger Theatre: Elizabeth the Queen | Olney Theatre Center: The Little Mermaid | Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Civil War | Wayside Theatre: Othello, Driving Miss Daisy | Northern Lights Playhouse: Show Boat, Little Shop of Horrors , Lend Me a Tenor | Arrow Rock Lyceum: Little Shop of Horrors, Driving Miss Daisy. PERSONAL: Elliot is also a teacher and photographer. | Teaching: Shenandoah University, University of South Carolina, The Sheridan School | Training: MFA in Acting, University of South Carolina, Full season internship: The Shakespeare Theatre Company | Instagram: @elliotdashphoto | Web: ElliotDash.Photograph.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Josh Decker
Sam Craig

Sam Craig

Josh Decker

STC: Academy for Classical Acting: Much Ado About Nothing(Claudio). REGIONAL: Marcus Performing Arts Center: The Comedy of Romeo & Juliet Kinda Sorta|Cooperative Performance: A Piece of My Heart| Forge Theatre: Asuncion. TELEVISION: Paradox Division, Works in Progress, Reading Between the Lines. PERSONAL: he/him/his | Training: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh: BA, STC's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA candidate | Instagram: @josh_t_decker.
Eric Hissom
Dr. Gibbs

Dr. Gibbs

Eric Hissom

NATIONAL TOUR: The 39 Steps. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, JQA | Ford's Theatre: Born Yesterday, Twelve Angry Men | Folger Theatre: Cyrano, Arcadia, The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Love's Labor's Lost | Studio Theatre: The Effect | Theater J: Everything is Illuminated, Life Sucks, Body of an American | Round House Theatre: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Great Leap | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play | La Jolla Playhouse: The 39 Steps | Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Eurydice | Seattle Repertory Theatre: The 39 Steps | Asolo Repertory Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Great Society | Syracuse Stage: Around the World in Eighty Days | Cleveland Play House: The Game's Afoot. FILM: Out of Time (with Denzel Washington, Dir. Carl Franklin) . TELEVISION: One Tree Hill , Xena , Mortal Kombat. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (Bernard in Arcadia at Folger Theatre). PERSONAL: Training: Florida State University's Asolo Conservatory: MFA | Website: EricHissom.com.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Quinn M. Johnson
Ensemble

Ensemble

Quinn M. Johnson

REGIONAL: The Glass Menagerie, RED, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, An Enemy of the People. INTERNATIONAL: Mother Courage and Her Children, The Changeling, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Bacchae, The Revenger's Tragedy. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: George Washington University/Shakespeare Theatre Company: MFA in Classical Acting, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: MA in Acting.
Hudson Koonce
Joe Crowell/Si Crowell

Joe Crowell/Si Crowell

Hudson Koonce

REGIONAL: Axelrod Theatre: A Bronx Tale (Young C), Gypsy (Newsboy). TELEVISION: Disney Fam Jam . PERSONAL: Hudson is a singer and competitive dancer in Hip Hop and Contemporary styles with his dance studio. Rep: AEFH. Management: Linda Townsend Management | Training: Adrenaline Dance Studio, Broadway Artist Alliance | Instagram: @HudsonKoo.
Jake Loewenthal
George Gibbs

George Gibbs

Jake Loewenthal

NEW YORK: NY Fringe & Encores: Bunked! | NYMF: Open the Dark Door. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Rent (Mark Cohen) | Hartford Stage: Macbeth , La Dispute | Trinity Rep: A Christmas Caro l | Quintessence Theatre Group: King Lear | Playhouse on Park: Cabaret | Theater at Monmouth: Henry V, Richard III, Dial M For Murder | Short North Stage: Bad Jews, The Rocky Horror Show, Noises Off (director) | Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre: Young Frankenstein . TRAINING: Brown University/Trinity Rep: MFA | Instagram: @jake_loew | JakeLoewenthal.com.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Sarah C. Marshall
Mrs. Soames

Mrs. Soames

Sarah C. Marshall

STC: The Comedy of Errors (Dr. Pinch), The Government Inspector (Grusha), Macbeth (Witch), Pericles (Ceremon). REGIONAL: Berkshire Theatre Festival: The Book Club Play | Arena Stage: The Glass Menagerie, How I Learned to Drive, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Women, You Can't Take it With You, Briarpatch, The Miser, Blithe Spirit, Execution of Justice | Studio Theatre: Doubt, Admissions , The Apple Family Plays , Golden Dragon, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Margarida's Way, Sylvia, Betty's Summer Vacation | Folger Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Zombie: The American ; Civilization ; In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ; Dead Man's Cell Phone ; Clean House ; The Dead Monkey ; Wanted | Round House Theatre: Angels in America, Camille, The Cherry Orchard, Love and Anger, Escape from Happiness, Criminals in Love, Baby with the Bathwater. TEACHING: Georgetown University, Duke Ellington School of The Arts.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Kate Eastwood Norris
Mrs. Gibbs

Mrs. Gibbs

Kate Eastwood Norris

REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: The Father, Animal| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Company Member; Stupid Fucking Bird, Baby Screams Miracle | Arena Stage: The Book Club Play | Folger Theatre: King John, Mary Stuart, Macbeth | Santa Cruz Shakespeare: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Concerning Strange Devices | Humana Festival: Gnit, Eat Your Heart Out | Portland Center Stage: The North Plan, Bo-nita | Wilma Theater: My Wonderful Day | Florida Stage: Ghost-Writer | Gulfshore Playhouse: Constellations, Body Awareness. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Folger Theatre; Kay/Jayne in She Stoops to Comedy at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company) | Barrymore Award (Eleanor/Esme in Rock & Rollat Wilma Theater). PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Kate is a director and guest educator for Universities across America, specializing in Comic Practice and Theory, Alternative Casting Practices, and Shakespeare. | Training: Pacifica Graduate Institute: MA in Humanities and Creativity, Mary Baldwin University: MFA in Shakespeare & Performance.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Tommy Nelson
Wally Webb

Wally Webb

Tommy Nelson

NATIONAL: On Point National Dance Competition (First Place Overall National Champion Junior Soloist). REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre: Revelations | City Dance: Creating the Magic | Strathmore Music Center | UniverSoul Circus Pre-Show | FILM: Showtime's The Comey Rule (2020) (Child Protestor). PERSONAL: he/him/his. Tommy is an award-winning dancer/performer. Training: Linda Townsend Feature Films/Commercials Workshops.
Chinna Palmer
Emily Webb

Emily Webb

Chinna Palmer

REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: Nollywood Dreams (upcoming) | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Fairview . FILM: Akata Boys , The Zeke Sanders Story, Train, We Find Love . AWARDS: American Black Film Festival: Web Series Official Selection ( Perfect ). OTHER: Perfect (web series); Homebound: We Wear the Mask (Round House Theatre web series) | Washington Post: Throwback Thursday series. PERSONAL: she/her/hers.Chinna is a student of life taking every step "rooted in Love; driven with Purpose; in search of Truth." | Teaching: Young Playwright's Theatre; Howard University (Acting for TV/Film TA) | Training: Howard University: BFA in Acting; British American Drama Academy: Midsummer in Oxford | Instagram: @chinna.palmer.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Maisie Ann Posner
Rebecca Gibbs

Rebecca Gibbs

Maisie Ann Posner

REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: The Story of Walter | American University: The Women | Friends Community School: Red: A Crayon Story. FILM: Lulu & Josie. PERSONAL: Maisie Ann Posner is a fifth-grader at Friends Community School.
Lawrence Redmond
Simon Stimson

Simon Stimson

Lawrence Redmond

STC: A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Government Inspector; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Romeo and Juliet; Richard III; Cyrano; Henry IV, Parts 1and 2; Camino Real; The Beggar's Opera.TOURS: Guys and Dolls. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Great Society, Intelligence, All the Way, Ruined|Signature Theatre: She Loves Me, Assassins, Blackbeard, Grand Hotel, Passion| Round House Theatre: Quixote Nuevo, Permanent Collection | Olney Theatre Center: Miss You Like Hell. AWARDS: Artist Fellowship Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Helen Hayes Award (1997, 1998); seven additional nominations.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Suzanne Richard
Joe Stoddard

Joe Stoddard

Suzanne Richard

REGIONAL: Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol | Studio Theatre: A Clockwork Orange | Folger Theatre: All's Well That Ends Well | Washington Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Longacre Lea: Bald Soprano | Project Y: TheCrackwalker | Imagination Stage: Perfectly Persephone | 1 st Stage: Italian American Reconciliation |Taffety Punk: Julius Caesar . INTERNATIONAL: Liz Lerman's Dance Exchange: Ferocious Beauty-Genome (Tour). FILM: Franmeister (Franmeister), The Snowflake Crusade, Odyssey. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Susie is Artistic Director of Open Circle Theatre where she received Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Direction and Musical in a Regional Production as well as the Theatre Lobby Award for Jesus Christ Superstar . Additionally, she is the recipient of the Montgomery County Executive's Excellence in the Arts Community Award, is a member of The Kennedy Center's Culture Caucus, and directs the annual musical at Farquhar Middle School in Olney. | Teaching:Artstream, Georgetown University | Training: UNC-Chapel Hill: BA in Acting | OpenCircleTheatre.org.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Christopher Michael Richardson
Howie Newsome

Howie Newsome

Christopher Michael Richardson

STC: Macbeth. TOURS: Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play ! , National Players Tour 65 . REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: A Strange Loop | Arts on the Horizon: Jingle Journey (Co-Creator/Composer), Everyday Magic | Signature: Assassins, Gun and Powder | Kennedy Center TYA: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! | Olney Theatre Center: Matilda | Ford's Theatre: The Wiz, Into the Woods | Round House Theatre: The Book of Will | Imagination Stage: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Know Theatre of Cincinnati: Andy's House of [blank] . PERSONAL: he/him/his. Christopher is a director, teaching artist, and proud DCCAH Fellow (FY20 – FY22). | Training: The College of William & Mary: BA in English and Theatre | CMR ich.me .

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Kimberly Schraf
Professor Willard

Professor Willard

Kimberly Schraf

REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Heiress ; Ah, Wilderness! ; The Women | Ford's Theatre: Death of a Salesman, Our Town, The Laramie Project, The Carpetbagger's Children, Sabrina Fair | Studio Theatre: The Apple Family Play Cycle, Hedda Gabler, Frozen,Crestfa l l | Everyman Theatre: Pipeline, You Can't Take It with You, Proof | Folger Theater : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Measure for Pleasure, The Gigli Concert,Watbanaland | Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank | Mosaic Theater Company: Oh, God ; Vicuña & the American Epilogue | Round House Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Prayer for Owen Meany | Theater J: The Sisters Rosensweig, The Admission, Hannah and Martin . INTERNATIONAL: Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You . TELEVISION: Homicide: Life on the Streets . PERSONAL: Teaching: The Theatre Lab, Georgetown University | Training: St. John's College: BA.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Holly Twyford
Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Holly Twyford

STC: Harold Pinter's Old Times (Anna; Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence). REGIONAL: Close to eighty productions in the Washington Metropolitan area, including Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and more. Nationally, Ms. Twyford has appeared in various productions and readings in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Red Bank, NJ, and Santa Cruz, CA. DIRECTING: No Rules Theatre Company: Stop Kiss | Adventure Theatre MTC: A Lump of Coal for Christmas | Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Edgar and Annabel, Mary Kate Olsen is in Love | Theater J: Becoming Dr. Ruth | Signature Theatre: Escaped Alone | Factory 449: The Amish Project (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Director). OTHER: She has appeared on the small screen and in several independent films, most recently the feature film Dakota. Her credits also include numerous commercials, voiceovers, and educational and training films. AWARDS: Multiple Helen Hayes Award nominee and five-time winner for Folger Theatre's Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Studio Theatre's The Shape of Things, Signature Theatre's The Little Dog Laughed, Folger Theatre's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Ford's Theatre's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. PERSONAL: Ms. Twyford is proud to be a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, a member of the Studio Theatre's Cabinet, and a Ford's Theatre Associate Artist. Ms. Twyford is proud to be a resident of Washington, D.C.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Craig Wallace
Mr. Webb

Mr. Webb

Craig Wallace

STC: Affiliated Artist; Numerous productions including Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 ; The Government Inspector ; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Tamburlaine; Edward II . REGIONAL: Ford's Theatre: Death of a Salesman , A Christmas Carol , Fences , The Guard (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Laramie Project , Our Town , Necessary Sacrifices , Sabrina Fair , Jitney | Round House Theatre: A Doll's House, Part 2 ; " Master Harold"...and the Boys ; Permanent Collection ; Tabletop ; The Little Prince | Folger Theatre: District Merchants , Twelfth Night , The Taming of the Shrew , Cyrano , Much Ado About Nothing , Othello (Othello) , As You Like It , Twelfth Night , Romeo and Juliet , Measure for Measure | Arena Stage : All the Way , The Great Society , K2 , All My Sons , The Great White Hope , Hot-n-Throbbing | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Botticelli in the Fire , The Last Orbit of Billy Mars , Tommy J & Sally , Our Lady of 121 st Street , Starving | Everyman Theatre: The Cherry Orchard , The Soul Collector | Signature Theatre: Angels in America, Parts One and Two (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Part Two ) | Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Hangar Theatre. TEACHING: STC's Academy of Classical Acting at The George Washington University, Howard University. TRAINING: Howard University: BFA; Pennsylvania State University: MFA; Royal National Theatre, London.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Summer Wei
Ensemble

Ensemble

Summer Wei

INTERNATIONAL: Beijing, China: Macbeth(Lady Macbeth), The Removalists (Kate), Così (Ruth), Grounded (The Pilot);¥16.5 (The Woman). CHINESE LANGUAGE NATIONAL MUSICAL TOURS: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Rosemary), Man Of La Mancha (Antonia), Avenue Q (Christmas Eve). FILM: Shadows And Lies, The Thing in the Bag, The Jiu Jitsu Girl, Mama, Magic Mirror, Fleeting Time. TELEVISION: Blue Sky, Great Team, Love Is Love. PERSONAL: Summer is a native Chinese who lives in Beijing where she has acted in both English and Chinese on stage and in film and television. Along with performing in many Chinese plays and films, Summer has been an actress in numerous China premieres of western plays. Our Town is her first professional production in America. | Training : STC's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA candidate; The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, China: PhD in Acting and Directing; Yunnan Arts University, Kunming, China: MFA and a BA in Theater and Acting.

Alan Paul
Director

Director

Alan Paul

STC : Associate Artistic Director; All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain ; Peter Pan and Wendy ; The Comedy of Errors (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Best Director); Romeo and Juliet (mainstage and 2018 Free For All); Camelot; Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Best Director); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Helen Hayes Award, Best Director); The Boys from Syracuse; The Winter's Tale (2014 Free For All); Twelfth Night (2010 Free For All); As You Like It (Associate Director); Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Associate Director); numerous galas, readings, and special events; Assistant Director: 13 shows. THEATRE DIRECTING: 5th Avenue Theatre: Kiss Me, Kate | Arena Stage: The Pajama Game | Signature Theatre: I Am My Own Wife | Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Silence! The Musical (Helen Hayes Nomination, Best Director), The Rocky Horror Show | MetroStage: Fully Committed | University of Maryland: The Matchmaker | Apex Theatre Company: Richard II. OPERA DIRECTING: Palm Beach Opera: The Pirates ofPenzance (with Stephanie Blythe) | Portland Opera: Man of La Mancha | Washington National Opera: Penny (premiere) | numerous works for Urban Arias, The In Series, Strathmore Concert Hall, Wolf Trap Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra. PERSONAL: Finalist for the 2013 European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria) | AlanPaulDirector.com.
Wilson Chin
Scenic Designer

Scenic Designer

Wilson Chin

STC: The Way of the World . NEW YORK: Broadway: Pass Over (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Next Fall . Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Cost of Living , By the Water | Ma-Yi Theater Company/The Public Theater: Teenage Dick | DR2 Theatre: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet | MCC Theater: Space Dogs | The Public Theater/La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams | Playwrights Horizons: The Thanksgiving Play | The Playwrights Realm: My Mañana Comes | Roundabout Theatre Company: Too Much, Too Much, Too Many | Atlantic Theater Company: The Jammer | AudibleTheater /Minetta Lane Theatre: Sakina's Restaurant | Second Stage Theater: Engagements | Primary Stages: Informed Consent . OPERA: Lyric Opera of Chicago: Lucia di Lammermoor | Canadian Opera Company: Eine Florentinische Tragödie / Gianni Schicchi (Dora Mavor Moore Award). FILM/TELEVISION: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), NBC's Blindspot . PERSONAL: Eastern Region Board member of Local USA 829. Instagram: @wilsonchindesign.
Sarafina Bush
Costume Designer

Costume Designer

Sarafina Bush

NEW YORK: Broadway: Pass Over . Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Obie Award) | Greenwich House Theater: Broadway Bounty Hunter | LCT3: Plot Points, Pass Over . REGIONAL: Geva Theatre Center: Slow Food | Kitchen Theatre Company: Cry It Out , The Royale | Art House Productions: Not Medea ; Grace, or The Art of Climbing | Araca Project: The White Dress | Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company: One Flea Spare | Rising Circle Theater Collective: This Time | Arena Stage: Good Men Wanted | The Barrow Group: Couriers and Contrabands | NewYorkRep : Why YouBeasting? . OTHER: Associate and assistant costume design credits on and off-Broadway. PERSONAL: Education: Adelphi University, BA.
Philip Rosenberg
Lighting Designer

Lighting Designer

Philip Rosenberg

STC: Measure for Measure , Private Lives , The Government Inspector , The Heir Apparent . NEW YORK: Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman , The Elephant Man, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, It's Only a Play . REGIONAL: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheaterWorks Hartford, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, The Actors Company Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Two River Theater, George Street Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse.
John Gromada
Sound Designer

Sound Designer

John Gromada

STC: Peter Pan and Wendy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing. NEW YORK: Broadway: Composed music and/or designed sound for more than 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, The Elephant Manwith Bradley Cooper, The Trip to Bountifulwith Cicely Tyson (Tony Award nomination), The Best Man(Drama Desk Award), Torch Song, All My Sons, Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Sight Unseen, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, A Few Good Men .Off-Broadway: Delacorte Theater: Measure for Measure| The Young Man from Atlanta, The Cake, Amy and the Orphans, Twelfth Night, Shadowlands, The Incident at Vichy, Ripcord, Old Hats, My Name is Asher Lev, The Orphans' Home Cycle(Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), The Screwtape Letters(including the national tour), Shipwrecked!(Lucille Lortel Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, The Skriker(Drama Desk Award), Machinal(OBIE Award). REGIONAL: More than 300 productions at major regional theatres | Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol(radio drama on WAMU), Born Yesterday, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Fly, et al. TELEVISION: Score for the Emmy Award-nominated film version of The Trip to Bountifuland Showing Roots. AWARDS: NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, Eddy Awards, grants from the NJ State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer. PERSONAL: JohnGromada.net.
Michael John LaChiusa
Composer

Composer

Michael John LaChiusa

STC: As You Like It . NEW YORK: Broadway: The Wild Party (Tony Award nomination), Marie Christine (Tony Award nomination), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: First Daughter Suite, Giant, Queen of the Mist (Outer Critic's Circle Award, Best Musical), Bernarda Alba, See What I Wanna See, Little Fish, Hello Again, First Lady Suite , Four Short Operas: Break, Agnes, EulogyFor Mr. Hamm, Lucky Nurse . REGIONAL: The Old Globe: Rain , The Gardens of Anuncia (World Premiere). COMMISSIONS: Chicago Lyric Opera: Lovers & Friends: The Chautauqua Variations | Houston Grand Opera: Send (who are you? I love you) written for Audra McDonald | South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. REVUES: Joe's Pub: LaLa LaChiusa | Blank Theatre: HotelC'est l'Amour | Jazz at Lincoln Center: Heartbreak Country: Michael JohnLaChiusa's Stories of America . AWARDS: Five Tony Award nominations; Obie, Gillman Gonzalez-Falla, Kleban Foundation, Dramatists Guild, and 2008 and 2009 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Jay Crowder
Music Director

Music Director

Jay Crowder

REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Follies, Ragtime, Gigi, Mame, Company, Passion (Sondheim Festival) | Signature Theatre: Urinetown, Side Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Christmas Carol Rag | Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol, 110 in the Shade, Violet, 1776, Liberty Smith, The Civil War | Studio Theatre: A New Brain | Round House Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad | Metro Stage: Starting Here, Starting Now. PIANIST: The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Bounce, James Joyce's The Dead, Martin Guerre, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Harlem. CABARET PIANIST: Judy Kuhn, Kevin Spacey, Judy Simmons, Michael Rupert, Will Gartshore, Sam Harris. AWARDS: Seven-time Helen Hayes Award nominee and winner for Outstanding Music Direction for Urinetown at Signature Theatre. PERSONAL: Music Director of Music Theater and Television at the John F. Kennedy Center (2008 – Present) | Training: University of Maryland: Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, Northwestern University: Master of Music in Piano Performance.
Mark Jaster
Mime and Movement Director

Mime and Movement Director

Mark Jaster

MIME AND MOVEMENT CONSULTATION: Constellation Theatre: The 39 Steps , Equus , The Marriage of Figaro | Baltimore Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets (with Emma Crane Jaster) | Theater J: Falling Out of Time (with Emma Crane Jaster) | Ford's Theatre: Our Town | Round House Theatre: How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Our Town | Adventure Theatre MTC: The Jungle Book , The Red Balloon , Winnie the Pooh | Imagination Stage: Corduroy | The Kennedy Center: Elephant and Piggie's We Are in a Play!. PERFORMANCE: Round House Theatre: Uncle Vanya | Olney Theatre Center: Fickle: A Fancy French Farce | Happenstance Theater: Cabaret Macabre, BrouHaHa, Barococo, Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville, Bon Voyage | Maryland Renaissance Festival: A Fool Named 'O' (35 seasons) . AWARDS: Helen Hayes/Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor: Impossible! A Happenstance Circus. PERSONAL: Training: École de Mime Corporel Étienne Decroux ; Marcel Marceau Ann Arbor Summer Seminars: Teaching Assistant to Mr. Marceau | Teaching: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Maryland Opera Studio, Round House Theatre, American Academy of Ballet, Imagination Stage, Maryland Youth Ballet. OTHER: Artistic Co-Director of Happenstance Theater | H appenstanceTheater.com.
Emma Crane Jaster
Mime and Movement Director

Mime and Movement Director

Emma Crane Jaster

STC: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski . NEW YORK: Heartbeat Opera (Associate Artist): Fidelio, La Susanna, Butterfly, Dido & Aeneas | Juilliard: Agrippina | Constellation Chor/Marisa Michaelson: Desire/Divinity Project, Sappho Fragments. REGIONAL: Theater J: Our Class | Round House Theatre: I'll Get You Back Again (Associate), Young Robin Hood | Baltimore Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets | Opera Lafayette: Radamisto . FILM: Breathing Free . OTHER: International exchange: Theater Zar Poland, DaLiangShan International Theater Festival China, UTheater Taiwan. OTHER: Artist residencies: NYC: HERE Arts, BAX, Fresh Ground Pepper | San Francisco: ODC, Studio210. Artist Fellowships: DCCAH, Asian Cultural Council, Amherst College. PERSONAL: Teaching: IDEO, MoMA, Cornell Tech, University of Louisville, Georgetown University. Training: Kuttiyattam Sanskrit Theater (India), LaMama Director's Syposium (Italy), Lecoq School for Physical Theater (France), performance from age 6 with mime father, Mark Jaster (Happenstance Theater). | Emma is a core member of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University.
Lorraine Ressegger-Slone
Intimacy and Fight Consultant

Intimacy and Fight Consultant

Lorraine Ressegger-Slone

STC: The Silent Woman. REGIONAL:Baltimore Center Stage:The Garden, How to Catch Creation | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company:Describe the Night; BLKS;Botticelli in the Fire; Oedipus el Rey;Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; House of Gold | Round House Theatre:Spring Awakening | 1st Stage:The Phlebotomist,Secret Things, Three Days of Rain,Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |Taffety Punk:Pram Kicker, Riot Grrrls Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar | Signature Theatre: Pacific Overtures | Imagination Stage:Merlin and the Cave of Dreams,Perseus' Bayou. PERSONAL: Lorraine is an Intimacy, Fight, and Movement Director in the D.C. Metro area. She is the Intimacy & Fight Director for the summer season at The Theatre at Monmouth. | Training: Virginia Commonwealth University: MFA.
Joseph Smelser
Production Stage Manager

Production Stage Manager

Joseph Smelser

STC : Resident Stage Manager; 36 productions including Once Upon a One More Time ; Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski; The Amen Corner (2021 remount); The Oresteia ; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit ; The Comedy of Errors ; Camelot ; Hamlet ; The School for Lies ; The Secret Garden (also at 5th Avenue Theatre and Theater Under the Stars); The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound (also at Guthrie Theater); Kiss Me, Kate ; Man of La Mancha ; The Tempest ; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ; A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Strange Interlude ; All's Well That Ends Well . REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Heiress , Let Me Down Easy | Seattle Repertory Theatre: Eight seasons including An Ideal Husband , Play On! , Golden Child , Don Juan , The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (with Lily Tomlin) | American Conservatory Theater: The Rivals , The Circle , The Government Inspector , Vigil | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Journey to the West , An Almost Holy Picture , Having Our Say | Regional Tour: Let Me Down Easy and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (both with Anna Deavere Smith). TRAINING: Oberlin College: BA.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Anthony O. Bullock
Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Anthony O. Bullock

NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The School for Lies | Project Springboard: Developing Dance Musicals: A Nation Grooves, The Night Falls. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio Theatre, Theater J, Shakespeare & Company, TheatreSquared , Bristol Riverside Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Wuzhen Theatre Festival/Goodman Theatre: The White Snake . OTHER: Resident Production Stage Manager for Theater J. PERSONAL: he/him/his | Training: Oklahoma City University: BFA in Stage Management.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Molly Raven Hopkins
Assistant Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Molly Raven Hopkins

NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Ally, Into the Woods. REGIONAL: Olney Theatre Center: The Price, Dancing Lessons, The Giver | Adventure Theatre MTC: Garfield, Frosty the Snowman, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical | Baltimore Center Stage: Jazz, Shakespeare in Love. PERSONAL: Thanks, Mom!

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Alison R. Simone
Assistant Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Alison R. Simone

STC: Our Town (upcoming). NEW YORK: Architect Theatrical, 321 Theatrical Management, Stuart Thompson Productions, Tectonic Theater Project. Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Mother of the Maid, Under the Radar Festival, Onassis Festival, Othello, Queer & Now Forum, Women of the Public Gala 2019, Curse of the Starving Class, Play On! Shakespeare Festival, Illuminati Lizards from Outer Space, Witness. OTHER: Several events with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Training: Columbia University: MFA in Stage Management. | Instagram: @alisonrsimone.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jossie van Dongen
Assistant Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Jossie van Dongen

STC: The Comedy of Errors , Richard III , The Oresteia (Fellowship). REGIONAL: Stagedoor Manor: Blood Brothers , Singin' in the Rain , The Hunchback of Notre Dame (SM). INTERNATIONAL: Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam: Jephtha , Les Contesd'Hoffman , Rodelinda , Ritratto (ASM) | Opera Zuid, Maastricht: La VoixHumaine/L'heure espagnole (PSM). TOURS: Opera Zuid, The Netherlands: Die Zauberflöte , Roméo et Juliet (PSM). TELEVISION: Eurovision Song Contest 2021 (Assistant Show Producer). PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Training: Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts: Stage Management; Central School of Speech & Drama, London: Stage Management.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.