2024 Digital Binder – In Person

I have been performing in some way or another for most of my life. I moved from Kentucky where I mostly did stage work to Los Angeles after college.
From there I put my cartoon personality to use, studying clown and improv and storytelling.
Once the pandemic shut Los Angeles down, I moved to Seattle to be with my partner and honestly take a break from the grind.
It has been the best thing. Getting into the theater communuity of Seattle is exactly what I needed.
Other than that, I am a warm, loud, vibrant little monster.
Looking forward to meeting you!

Hello!
My name is Ays Garcia (she/her) and I am a 23 year old Seattle based singer, actor and performer. I am a proud Filipina performer and strive to promote representation in all forms of art. I want to work towards a more equitable and safer space within the Seattle theatre community. I am extremely interested in new works, BIPOC and queer plays/musicals, and diverse theatre spaces. I have done predominately musicals, but have recently found a love for straight play acting.

Mariesa (she/they) is a genderqueer Seattle based actor, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and pasta-lover. They received their BFA in Musical Theatre Performance from Marymount Manhattan College before moving back to the PNW. As a performer she has worked with Dacha Theatre, SecondStory Repertory, Bainbridge Performing Arts, and Reboot Theatre, where she is currently dance captain & ensemble of their production of Anyone Can Whistle. Mariesa is also passionate about education, recently working as a teaching artist and competition performance team coach for Big Star Studios. Her incredible students took home several awards, including the Triple Threat Award and the 2023 Spotlight Outstanding Entertainment Award.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing poetry, testing new crafts, board games, making pasta, and cuddling with her newly adopted kitten, Hiccup.

Hello, I am a.theatre artist who moved to the area from Tucson, Arizona in 2020. I currently am the Front of House Manager at Seattle Children’s Theatre and am looking forward to start performing in the Seattle area. It’s a joy and a pleasure to have this opportunity!

Adriana is a Xicana actress from Denver, CO. Her most recent credits include
Firehouse Theater Company A Mexican Triolgy: Charity (Valentina)
Su Teatro El Espíritu Natural (NeldaRio), Papi, Me and César Chávez (Andrea Teatrista), El Corrido del Barrio (Muerto)
Vintage Theatre You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Swing), Gypsy (Agnes).
Adriana was a part of the 2023 entertainment cast for the grand reopening of Casa Bonita. Her interactive entertainment experience began in 2015 with 13th Floor Entertainment company where she was a stunt coordinator and apart of the lot entertainment team.
She is a producer and co-host on the podcast Tea Amigas. When not on stage, Adriana teaches theatre and dance to youth across Colorado with Denver Public Schools, Jefferson County Public Schools, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance.
Adriana holds a BA in Theatre from MSU Denver and is apart of the Class of 2026 Professional Actor Training cohort at the University of Washington this Fall.

Ziara Greathouse is a mezz-soprano with a bachelor's degree in choral music education from Kennesaw State University. She studied opera performance at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ziara has performed roles, including the title role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas and the role of Bronka in the Russian opera The Passenger. Ziara currently studies voice with Jordyn Day Palmer and acting with Harry Turpin.

Abigail is an Irish Trained, PNW based actor. She is one half of the band Three Day Weekend, and is also a back-up singer for Soul Searching Band, who cover Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, and Elvis classics. Along with a full driver's license, horseback riding experience, and puppetry work, Abbie has a passion for new work, ensemble projects, and devised pieces. She works with Valley Center Stage, where she first started acting with Viola Spolin's improvisation games, under Gary Schwartz, and attributes those years to her playful approach to life.

Anamaria Guerzon (She/They) is a mixed race Filipino-American Theatre Artist based in Seattle. Their work seeks to explore humanness, with an emphasis on marginalization within hierarchy, and the legacy of ongoing colonization. Within this, they center Brown folks, particularly Filipino people, as this reflects their heritage and identity. They believe in the power of specificity. They also believe in the inherent magic of the human experience, and seek to represent this lived reality through the fantastic and strange. They blur the lines between this magic and the mundane, with the understanding that both exist, and life is full of inherent contradictions.
They received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, from Pacific Lutheran University (2021).

Rebecca Gelzer is a Seattle-based actor, classical pianist, singer, accompanist, stage manager, and teaching artist. She specifically loves playing and creating in environments and stories that give voice to and bolster women. New works, devised theatre, and Shakespeare particularly spark her interest.

I did not mean to select the Digital Add On but I can't seem to unselect it. If I am able to get a refund for that, great, and if not, then I will go ahead and upload a video. No worries, I know you all have a LOT to keep track of! 🙂

Thank you for having me, I am so grateful to be here!

I am a giant goofball at heart! A couple fun facts about me: I collect earrings (I have over 500 pairs) and I absolutely love dinosaurs. I view myself as both an artist and a scientist, always honoring my own curiosity and always looking for new ways to grow. I care deeply for the world at large and making a lasting impact is truly meaningful for me. I am a person easily inspired by the warmth and honestly of other people and I thrive when collaborating, laughing and creating art with a diverse, open minded and talented team.

During the day I am a chemical engineer working as the Associate Director of Quality Assurance at Lyell Immunopharma to treat (and hopefully cure) cancer patients. I delight in the challenge of learning new things, and I have found in my biotech and theater careers that I am at my best when I take on enormous challenges and push myself to try something new. I am capable of achieving lofty goals, whether it is troubleshooting a complicated manufacturing process, learning a new language in a month or memorizing 48 pages of monologues for a single role. I love the journey!

To me, getting feedback is a genuine gift and it is the collaboration itself in theater that inspires me the most. As an actor I hope to bring playfulness, curiosity, joy, honesty and compassion to every project. I look forward to my artistic journey and I can't wait to experience the adventures that lie ahead.

Thank you for your consideration!

P.S. I also love "Dad" jokes. What do you call twin dinosaurs?
Pair-odactyls!

Thanks again!

I’m a stage and film actress passionate in comedy. I’m an ensemble member of Jet City Improv and I’m the co-founder of Hawberry Productions, a theatre company that specializes in the Chinese-speaking community.

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Hi! I'm currently performing as Queen Elizabeth 1 and Kate the Bar Wench in Shakespeare in Love in Valley Center Stage's production of Shakespeare in Love in North Bend. Please let me know at brynnepgarman@hotmail.com if you would like comps for our closing (Feb 29, March 1,2 or 3). My goals for 2024 are to continue to play interesting, strong, flawed, fierce females and to work with directors who can push me to keep growing and learning. My favorite playwrights: Annie Baker, Lauren Gunderson or Sarah Ruhl. Favorite roles on my resume: Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Sylvia in Sylvia. "Acting is not finite. You can always improve, discover new things, push boundaries."-Meryl Streep