Disney's Beauty and The Beast

Dylan Arredondo (he/him) (Cogsworth) is thrilled to return to Olney Theatre Center where he was a former National Player, touring The Great Gatsby, Othello, and Alice in Wonderland. Additional DC acting credits include Round House Theatre: Quixote Nuevo; Synetic Theater: Decameron, Phantom of the Opera, Snow Queen; Spooky Action Theater: Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers; Adventure Theatre MTC: Fairy Tales in the Sun; 4615 Theatre Company: Museum 2040; Hub Theatre: American Spies; Constellation Theatre Company: White Snake; Rorschach Theatre: Reykjavik; Longacre Lea: Interstellar Ghost Hour. Education: NYU, RADA. www.DylanArredondo.com

Jessica Lauren Ball (Madame de la Grande Bouche) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Cabaret (Fräulein Kost), South Pacific (Nellie Forbush), Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown) [Helen Hayes Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a resident musical], Cinderella, The Sound of Music (Maria) [Helen Hayes Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a resident musical], Grease (Sandy), 1776 (Martha Jefferson). NATIONAL TOUR: The Pajama Game. REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center: Lost in the Stars; Ford’s Theatre: Freedom's Song; Signature: La Cage Aux Folles, The Fix, Elmer Gantry; Imagination Stage: Davy Copperfield, Anatole Mouse Magnifique, Disney's Beauty and the Beast; Adventure: Miss Nelson is Missing; Totem Pole Playhouse: Leader of the Pack; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Oklahoma [Helen Hayes Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a resident musical] Legally Blonde. EDUCATION: London Dramatic Academy; BM, Catholic University of America.

Jessica Bennett (Ensemble/US: Mrs. Potts) is so incredibly happy to be performing on the Olney stage again! Her previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: Cabaret, Elf, South Pacific. OFF BROADWAY: The Actor's Temple: Honestly Abe. NATIONAL TOUR: We the People. REGIONAL: Millbrook Playhouse: Hairspray, The New Hazlett Theatre: Ragtime. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Me... Jane, Signature Theatre: After Midnight, Blackbeard, Keegan Theatre: Chicago [2019 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical], Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Toby's Dinner Theatre: Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Christmas Story, Artscentric: Smokey Joe's Cafe, Chicago, Stillpointe Theatre: The Last Five Years, Iron Crow Theatre: F***ing A, The Wild Party. EDUCATION: BFA Musical Theatre, Ithaca College.

Iyona Blake (Mrs. Potts) is a Washington, DC based actor, wife, mom, educator, playwright, podcaster, and entrepreneur. Iyona is the 2017 Helen Hayes Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical for her role as Caroline Thibodeaux in Caroline, or Change. Iyona has recently been seen in Crowns (Velma), Sound of Music (The Mother Abbess), Spunk (Blues Speak Woman), Ain't Misbehavin' (Armelia McQueen), Scottsboro Boys (The Lady, understudy/performed), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Lady Day), Titanic (Caroline Neville), Jelly’s Last Jam (Gran Mimi), The Wizard of Oz (Glinda), Blues in the Night (The Lady), Once on This Island (Asaka), and Thunder Knocking on the Door (Good Sister), to name a few. Iyona loves to travel, swim, collect butterflies, and cook. In her spare time, Iyona enjoys spending time with family, watching the Food Network and her favorite game shows. www.iyonablake.com

Michael Burrell (Gaston) is excited to bring back live theater to Olney! This is his Olney Theatre debut. Previous credits include: Henri in An American In Paris (Paris and China International Tour); Beast in Beauty & the Beast (Theatre Under the Stars); Claude in Hair (Geva Theatre Center); Warren in Meet Me In St. Louis (MUNY); and Kenickie in Grease (John W. Engeman Theatre). D.C. area: John Newton in Amazing Grace (1st National Tour). Education: BFA Musical Theatre, Texas State University. www.michaelburrell.com @michaelpburrell

Selena Clyne-Galindo (Ensemble/US: Belle) is thrilled to be making her Olney Theatre Center debut! Previous credits include: Studio Theatre: Pipeline (Jasmine U/S); Constellation Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon); Keegan Theatre: Legally Blonde (Pilar/Ensemble U/S Brooke), Hands on a Hardbody (Swing Norma/Kelli). Many thanks to Olney Theatre for this opportunity and to her friends, family, and fiancé, Karan for their unconditional love and support. BA Musical Theatre from James Madison University. Instagram: @selenaclyne.

Erica Leigh Hansen (Ensemble/US: Wardrobe) is thrilled to be back onstage and making her Olney debut with such a stellar cast and creative team! She has spent the last year in Alabama spending time with her family and working for a veterinary clinic. Other than that, she has spent the last decade working as a professional actor. Credits: BROADWAY: Rocktopia. National Tours: Cats (Jennyanydots, u/s Griz, u/s Jellylorum) Regional: The Wild Party (Queenie), Mary Poppins (Ms. Lark), Spelling Bee (Olive), Oklahoma! (Ado Annie), Legally Blonde (Paulette), and The Secret Garden (Martha). Thank you to her ridiculously incredible family for their support, Josh and Marsha, Flynn, and this incredible cast. Follow her on Instagram @ericaleighhansen to mostly see pictures of her dog.

Hailey Rebecca Ibberson (Babette) is delighted to be back at Olney after previous credits Cabaret and Matilda. DC THEATRE: Spring Awakening (Round House Theatre), Matilda (NextStop). EDUCATION: The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art: BM Music Theatre. London Dramatic Academy: Actor’s Conservatory. Grateful for the creative team, everyone involved in this production, and her supportive family. Enjoy the show! @hailey_rebecca_

Jade Jones (Belle) is happy to return to Olney Theatre. Previous OTC credits include: Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle (staged reading). DC Area: Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner, Macbeth; Theatre Alliance: The Blackest Battle; Round House Theatre: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods, The Wiz, 110 in The Shade, 12 Angry Men (Assistant Director); Rep Stage: Sweeney Todd; Creative Cauldron: Once On This Island (Helen Hayes nomination); Keegan Theatre: As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hair, Solo Cabarets: Jazzed and Jaded, Killin Em Softly. TV: Chicago PD (Stevie). Training: Ferrum College, BFA. Upcoming: A.D. 16 at Olney Theatre Center. Jade would like to thank her loving family for their continued support, and her dear friend MMD for this wonderful opportunity. @LittyOfficial. www.JadeTheCreative.com.

Quynh-My Luu (Ensemble) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Matilda (Acrobat), Children of Eden (Yonah), Sweeney Todd. NYC: New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: The Mikado (Yum-Yum). REGIONAL: Virginia Repertory Theatre: Cinderella (Ella); Fulton Theatre: The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Interlakes Summer Theatre: Miss Saigon (Kim); Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre: The Little Mermaid, Titanic (Marion Thayer), Rock of Ages. DC AREA: Ford's Theatre: Into the Woods (Rapunzel); Signature Theatre: A Little Night Music (Mrs. Nordstrom). EDUCATION: BA in Musical Theatre from James Madison University. www.quynhmyluu.com.

Ariel Messeca (Ensemble/US: Cogsworth) is excited to be back at Olney after swinging Singing in the Rain. Favorite regional credits include: Toby's Dinner Theater in Spamalot, The Little Mermaid, Mamma Mia, Young Frankenstein, Kinky Boots, The Addams Family; D.C.'s The World Stage in Amazing Grace; Columbus Immersive Theater in Spamalot and The Addams Family; and Way Off-Broadway in Into the Woods, Anything Goes, and Spamalot. When not performing, Ariel is busy as a professional contemporary artist, and spending time with his husband and family. @arimesseca

Sasha Olinick (Maurice) is excited to be performing for the first time at Olney Theatre Center. Other DC area credits include: Hub Theatre (company member), Arena Stage, ExPats Theatre, First Stage, Folger Shakespeare Library, Imagination Stage, Kennedy Center, MetroStage, Rep Stage, Round House Theatre, Spooky Action, Solas Nua, Studio Theatre, and Theater J. Regional Credits: American Shakespeare Center, Bald Mountain Theater, Merry Go Round Playhouse, Ocean State Lyric Opera, Trinity Rep Company, and Vermont Stage. Film and Television Credits: Enemy of The Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story, VEEP. Sasha holds an MFA in acting from The Trinity Rep Conservatory and teaches acting at Montgomery College, the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, and through the Educational Theatre Company.

Shiloh Orr (Swing) is excited to be making his first appearance at Olney. Previous credits include Arena Stage’s Newsies! (Albert) and Toby’s Dinner Theater’s Gypsy (Tulsa).

Miranda Pepin (Chip) is excited to be back at Olney Theatre Center after National Players Tour 71. REGIONAL: Nashville Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale; Birmingham Children’s Theatre: Alice in Wonderland. DC AREA: Pan Underground: Red Bike.

Connor James Reilly (Enchantress/Dance Captain) is happy to be back at OLNEY THEATRE CENTER. Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: Matilda (The Escapologist), Cabaret (Bobby) [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Best Musical 2020], Singin’ in the Rain, Elf, On the Town. Regional: White Plains Performing Arts Center: The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Barter Theatre: Mamma Mia and The Music Man. Dollywood: Smoky Mountain Christmas. DC AREA: Avant Bard: Beowulf (Young Beowulf). TV: AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies. History Channel’s Tracking Oswald. DMV Native and JMU graduate. For Gus. @connorjreilly

Graciela Rey (Swing) is thrilled to be swinging this show and very grateful to be working with this team! Recent Credits include: Paper Dreams and The Snow Queen at Imagination Stage; Athena at Gloucester Stage Company; ¡Nails! A Happy, Gay, Latinx Play and Klecksography at Rorschach Theatre. Graciela holds a BA in Musical Theatre from American University.

Evan Ruggiero (Beast) began dancing at the age of five in his hometown studio and by age ten, he was accepted into the famed New Jersey Tap Ensemble. Upon entering his sophomore year at Montclair State University while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, Evan was suddenly diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer of the right leg. Enduring nine surgeries in a six-month period in an effort to save the leg, the cancer returned more aggressively than the original diagnosis. He was faced with the ultimate decision of amputation in order to stop the cancer and save his life, as well as undergoing chemotherapy for sixteen months. Eighteen months after the amputation, and only two days after receiving his “peg-leg”, Evan was tap dancing again. In 2018 he received a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, a Chita Rivera Award Nomination for Best Dancer in a Musical, and was awarded a Clive Barnes Award in Theatre for his portrayal of Tom Jones in NYC’s off-broadway hit Bastard Jones. Recently, he was seen performing at Carnegie Hall and at the 90th Oscars. He has performed for many notable individuals such as Ellen Degeneres, President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Egypt’s sixth and current president, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and most recently performed alongside two-time Grammy winning artist, Jason Mraz. Social media: @Lord_Pegleg

Bobby Smith (Lumiere) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: On the Town, Elf, Little Shop of Horrors; Annie; Sound of Music. He has directed Grease, Forever Plaid, and Cinderella, and choreographed Avenue Q. BROADWAY: Crazy for You. OFF-BROADWAY: Forever Plaid, The World Goes ‘Round, Of Thee I Sing. NATIONAL TOURS: Brigadoon, The World Goes ‘Round. SIGNATURE: 20 Shows, A Little Night Music, Titanic, Simply Sondheim, Company, Midwestern Gothic, Road Show, The Threepenny Opera, Disney's Freaky Friday, La Cage aux Folles (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor), and Spin (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor). STUDIO THEATRE: A Class Act; The Long Christmas Ride Home; Reefer Madness; Jerry Springer: The Opera; FORD'S THEATRE: Elmer Gantry, Liberty Smith, 1776, A Christmas Carol, Violet; METROSTAGE: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Musical of Musicals, Jacques Brel, (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor) ROUND HOUSE THEATRE: A Year With Frog and Toad. KENNEDY CENTER: The Happy Prince, Peter and the Wolf with the National Symphony Orchestra. Recordings: Ben Bagley's Rogers and Hart Revisited and Disney's Freaky Friday.

John Sygar (LeFou) is an actor from Bowie, Maryland. He missed being on stage. He is a proud member of the Only Make Believe Acting Company and he is also in a band called Baseball Hat. You can listen to their album “Send This to Your Crush” wherever music is streamed. He can’t wait for his grandparents to see the show. Follow him @jsyg @baseballhatmusic

Megan Tatum (Ensemble/US: Babette) is excited to return to Olney Theatre Center after making her debut in South Pacific! REGIONAL: Mill Mountain Theatre: A Chorus Line (Judy Turner); Barter Theatre: White Christmas; Swift Creek Mill Theatre: Bright Star (Florence/Choreographer) [Richmond Theatre Critics Circle nomination for Best Choreography]; Virginia Repertory Theatre: Mame, A Christmas Story, Junie B. Jones; Compass Rose Theatre: Brigadoon (Meg Brockie); Virginia Musical Theatre: Little Mermaid, Legally Blonde; Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: West Side Story; Busch Gardens: ChristmasTown. EDUCATION: BA in Integration of Dance, Music, and Theatre Performance and BS in Kinesiology Pre-Physical Therapy from William and Mary.

Rick Westerkamp (Ensemble/US: LeFou) was previously seen at Olney as Herman in Cabaret. DC Area: 1st Stage: A New Brain (concert); Adventure Theatre MTC: Stuart Little, Tiny Tim's Christmas Carol, Oliver! (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Rep Stage: Dorian's Closet, Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Constellation Theatre Company: Urinetown, Keegan Theatre: Big Fish. EDUCATION: BA in Dance and Theatre from The George Washington University. UPCOMING: Rick will be choreographing Dance Nation later this season at Olney. When he is not performing, Rick is the Middle School Drama teacher at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart.

Tyler McKay White (Ensemble) is excited and honored to be performing with this great cast and crew in his first production with Olney Theatre Center. Recent credits include: COMMUNITY: Vagabond Players: Talk Radio (Kent), Tidewater Players: SpongeBob the Musical (Spongebob) Phoenix Festival Theatre: A Chorus Line (Paul). EDUCATION: BA in Theatre from Towson University.

Michael Wood (Ensemble/Monsieur D'Arque/US: Maurice & Lumiere) is beyond grateful to be back on the Olney stage! Previous Olney Theatre credits include: Singin’ in the Rain, Miss You Like Hell, and the Applause Series concert of Dessa Rose. Other DC area credits include Cinderella (Imagination Stage), The 39 Steps (Rep Stage), Twelfth Night (Her Majesty & Sons), Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ACA/Shakespeare Theatre). Michael is also a company member of Only Make Believe (onlymakebelieve.org). Michael has an MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting at STC/GW and an A.B. from Bowdoin College. Michael trained in Paris at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and under Ariane Mnouchkine at the Theatre du Soleil. www.TheMichaelWood.com

Colin K. Bills (he/him) (Lighting Designer) is delighted to light live theater once again! At Olney, he has designed numerous productions; his favorites include Once, The Amateurs, Colossal, Mary Stuart, and Venus. He is a Company Member and Board Member at Woolly Mammoth where he has designed over 50 productions including the recent streaming production of Hi Are You Single and is a member of the company’s EDI Working Group. He was a founding member of the devised theater troupe dog & pony dc, serving as director, writer, actor, and designer for a dozen new works including A Killing Game and Beertown. Colin is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award and three Helen Hayes Awards. He has taught design at Howard University and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Director & Choreographer) is a Tony & Drama Desk Award nominated director & choreographer for her stirring & lovingly staged Broadway/Kennedy Center revival of Ragtime (also a Helen Hayes Award winner for Outstanding Director). For Olney Theatre Center, Dodge directed and choreographed the Helen Hayes Award-nominated musical Once. For television, Dodge appears as herself in Encore! on Disney+ (Episodes 1 "Annie” & 12 "Ragtime”), and choreographed an Emmy Award-winning episode of Sesame Street - The Tango Festival and Elmo’s Wild West video. Some of Dodge’s bold new approaches to classic plays and musicals include Meet Me In St. Louis & Disney’s The Little Mermaid (The Muny); Fiddler On The Roof and The King & I (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, both with new choreography); The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (St. Louis Rep & Cincinnati Playhouse); The Secret Garden (Cincinnati Playhouse and Center Stage); Smokey Joe’s Cafe (The Muny and Drury Lane, Jeff Award for Best Revival). Exciting premieres are Closer Than Ever (Off-Broadway), William Finn’s Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater), and Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror (co-written with Anthony Dodge, Bay Street/Edgar Award nomination). Dodge is also a wife, mother, teacher, and proud member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC). As always, for my family. www.marciamilgromdodge.com. @mmdny

John Keith Hall (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to OTC and live theatre! Previous Olney credits include: Singin’ In The Rain, Cabaret, Matilda, Elf the Musical, On The Town, The Crucible, Annie, Sweeney Todd, Mary Poppins, and The Producers. Other DC area credits: many productions at The Studio Theatre including Bad Jews, Choir Boy, Water By The Spoonful, Tribes, Torch Song Trilogy, 4000 Miles, Sucker Punch, In The Red And Brown Water, The History Boys, Adding Machine: A Musical, The Road To Mecca, Ain’t Misbehavin’, West Side Story, and Soon at Signature Theatre. Where We Belong, Hi, Are You Single, Shipwreck, The Peculiar Patriot, Gloria, Familiar, Hir, An Octoroon, and The Nether at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Regional credits include Virginia Musical Theatre, Shadowland Stages, and over 40 productions as Resident Stage Manager at the Barter Theatre. John is a graduate of Longwood University and a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.

Robb Hunter (Fight Choreographer) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Singin’ in the Rain, The Piano Lesson, Bus Stop, Oliver, The Millionairess, and Carousel. NEW YORK: Theatre Harlem: Love Child (world premiere); Black Spectrum Theatre: A Soldier’s Play; Chekhov Theatre Ensemble: Cyrano. DC: The Shakespeare Theatre: Richard III (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Othello, Salomé, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale; Arena Stage: The Pajama Game, King Hedley II, Ruined, Stick Fly; Woolly Mammoth: Teenage Dick, HIR (Helen Hayes Award), An Octoroon (Helen Hayes nomination), Zombie the American, Botticelli in the Fire; The Studio Theatre: The Effect, Hand to God, Bad Jews, Belleville, Red Speedo (Helen Hayes nomination), The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Invisible Man, The Walworth Farce (Helen Hayes nomination), Superior Donuts; Signature Theatre: Masterpieces of…, 4,138 Nights; Washington National Opera: Carmen, Moby Dick, Hamlet, Don Giovanni. TELEVISION: Spin City (stunt double, Michael J. Fox, 3 years). TEACHING: Combat instructor for The Academy for Classical Acting, Artist in Residence at American University. TRAINING: MFA Theatre Pedagogy (VCU); Fight Master, Society of American Fight Directors. Member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and SDC.

Walter “Bobby” McCoy (Music Director) is so excited to be returning to Olney Theatre after music directing Miss You Like Hell last season. Music Direction credits include: NEW YORK: The World Goes ‘Round (The Mac Haydn Theatre). WASHINGTON, DC: Miss You Like Hell, Annie (Piano Conductor) (Olney Theatre Center); Legally Blonde (2020 HH WINNER, Outstanding Musical Direction) (Keegan Theatre); A New Brain, A Civil War Christmas, Fly By Night (2019 HH Nom), Old Wicked Songs (2016 HH Nom), Bat Boy, Altar Boyz (1st Stage Tyson’s); Little Shop of Horrors (2020 HH Nom), Aida (2019 HH Nom), The Wild Party (2018 HH Nom) (Constellation Theatre); FAME: The Musical, In The Heights (2018 HH WINNER, Outstanding Musical Direction) (GALA Hispanic Theatre); Into the Woods, In The Heights (Montgomery College); Blues in The Night (2018 HH Nom), Ruthless, Caroline or Change (Creative Cauldron); Always Patsy Cline, A Christmas Story, My Fair Lady, Mame (Riverside Center); Urinetown (Monumental Theatre). Bobby is currently on the faculties of The Theatre Lab, Levine Music, and The Madeira School. UPCOMING: A Strange Loop (Music Contractor) (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), On Your Feet! (GALA Hispanic Theatre). Many thanks and love to Chris, Marcia, Josh and the Olney family!

Ali Pohanka (Wig Designer) is excited to return to the Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: My Fair Lady, Annie, On the Town, South Pacific, Labour of Love, Mary Stuart, Matilda, Cabaret, The Royale, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (upcoming, Associate Wig Designer). NATIONAL TOUR: Disney's Frozen (Associate Makeup Designer). REGIONAL: Palm Beach Opera: La boheme, Pagliacci, Die Zauberflöte; Opera Orlando: Carmen (Makeup Designer); Quintessence Theatre: The Skin of Our Teeth; Atlanta Opera: Sweeney Todd (Associate Designer); Annapolis Opera: Faust, South Pacific, Little Women, Barber of Seville; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: Big Fish. DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Caroline, or Change; Signature Theater: Passion (assistant), Billy Elliot (assistant). FILM: The Cosmos Sisters (Key Hair and Makeup Artist). EDUCATION: B.A. in Art History from Oberlin College.

Matt Rowe (Sound Designer) is proud to be back at Olney. Olney Theatre Center: Miss You Like Hell, Cabaret, Once, In The Heights, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line; Kennedy Center: Orphie, And The Book Of Heroes, First You Dream, Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred!), Nobody’s Perfect; MetroStage: The Last Five Years; Signature Theatre: Miss Saigon, Company, The Last Five Years, Shakespeare’s R&J, Dreamgirls, Dying City, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu, God of Carnage, Brother Russia, Really Really, Hairspray (Helen Hayes nomination), A Second Chance, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Side by Side by Sondheim, Art, And the Curtain Rises, Sunset Boulevard, Walter Cronkite is Dead, A Fox on the Fairway, Chess, Sycamore Trees, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb, Dirty Blonde, Giant, The Little Dog Laughed, Les Miserables, Anyone Can Whistle in concert, The Visit, The Happy Time, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Glory Days, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick. Norwegian Cruise Lines: Million Dollar Quartet, Rock Of Ages.

Narelle Sissons (Scenic Designer) BROADWAY: All My Sons at The Roundabout Theatre. OFF BROADWAY: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven at Atlantic Theatre/LAByrinth Theatre, How I Learned To Drive [original production] and Stop Kiss [original production], In The Blood [original production], Kit Marlowe [original production], Julius Caesar, and Little Flower of East Orange [original production] at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre. Also in NYC many productions with: Mabou Mines, LAByrinth Theatre Company [co-member], Playwrights Horizons, WPP, and New York Theatre Workshop. INTERNATIONAL: Jesus Hopped the A Train [director Philip Seymour Hoffman], London and New York; Mabou Mines: Dollhouse [director Lee Breuer], USA and World Tour. Also The Syringa Tree in Vienna Austria and Frankfurt Germany, Sokrates: A Banquet in Prytaneion at VAT Theatre Estonia. GRANTS, NOMINATIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS: Fulbright Specialists, Drama Desk nomination, Helen Hayes nomination, Elliot Norton nomination, Kevin Kline award nomination, amongst others, and exhibitor at Prague Quadrennial, 2007 and 2011.

Ivania Stack (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to Olney Theatre, where she most recently designed Mary Stuart and South Pacific. Her Regional and DC area theatre credits include: Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Everyman Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, The Karski Project, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, The Second City, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre (Resident Artist), The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Studio Theatre, Theatre J, Pointless Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, Metro Stage, and Gala Hispanic Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Josh Walden (Choreographer) was the Associate Director/Associate Choreographer for the Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Ragtime and most recently was a choreographer for Disney+’s Encore. Director/Choreographer credits include A Chorus Line (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Legally Blonde (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), On the Town (Capital City Theatre), and Fallen Angel (New York International Fringe Festival). Other choreographer credits include productions at the Kennedy Center, Drury Lane Theatre, The Muny, Sacramento Music Circus, Signature Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, and Des Moines Metro Opera. As a performer, he was seen on Broadway in 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, A Chorus Line, and Ragtime. Josh graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.thejoshwalden.com @thejoshwalden