2024 Digital Binder – In Person

Hi! My name is Caitlin Sarwono and I recently graduated from the University of Washington with a Music Education degree. I spent all of my free time performing in musicals when I was in high school and college but didn't think I was cut out to do it professionally. I auditioned on a whim for 5th Avenue's generals last year and ended up booking The Little Mermaid and realized how much I truly loved theater and how I want to perform as my profession. I currently work as a part-time music teacher at 2 elementary schools in Kirkland, and I work at a childrens theater in Redmond as a voice teacher and music director while I'm in between shows. I hope for the opportunity to work with you, thank you for your time!

Carolyn Scherbinske is a recent graduate from Cornish College of the Arts, with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Her other artistic passions include vioceover, directing, audio design and engineering. Their credits at Cornish include, Head Over Heels (Mopsa), Cabaret (Max), and a workshop reading of a Rich Gray original, It Happened At The World's Fair (Ms. Rebecca/Becky). She is currently in rehearsals for a new musical, Curiosity, premiering in April.

I am disabled queer artist who has interest in projects related to the stories of these communities.

I've just got my start as a working actor in Seattle after graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in the winter of 2022! I'm a friendly collaborator; I consistantly bring new ideas into the room and I'm always willing to try a new perspective.
I am an actor and an artist first. Please consider my craft before you consider my identity. Thank you for your consideration!

My name is Kristofer Simmons. I'm twenty three years old and I went to school at Central Washington University where I received my BFA in Musical Theater. I love to work with others and create art that is captivating and satisfying. Music is and has been my passion for as long as I can remember. It brings me a joy that I cannot put into words.

One of my favorite credits that I've done was playing Melchior in Spring Awakening. It was one of the hardest roles I've ever done and it was so much fun. I was most recently in Pride and Prejudice the Musical as Mr. Bingley at Coeur D'Alene Summer Theater and in Footloose as Cowboy Bob.

My name is Justin Jay Smith, I go by jay! I’m 24 years old originally from Southern California for my day job as of right now I tour shows across the PNW with Taproot Theater! I’m very excited to audition and get the opportunity to perform for you all today! My passions live within the realm of music and playing in fictional universes. Thank you so much for your time!

Thank you! 🙂

I cannot afford additional fees than the monologue fee, although I am a singer, and have been in musicals. I have a recorded song.. Will it cost me more fees to send the Mp3 to the Generals? Regards, Connie S.

Originally from Ventura, CA, Joey received an MFA in Acting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. He studied at Shakespeare’s Globe in London where he played Celia in As You Like It, for which he also wrote and performed original music. He starred in Fully Committed, a one-man show, at Rubicon Theatre Company, playing 40 characters in 70 minutes. For two years, he was a company member at Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Colorado’s premier summer musical company. Other regional credits include: Tartuffe (Cleante), Our Town (Sam Craig), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), As You Like It (Jacques), and Julius Caesar (Lennox). Fresh from New York City, Joey is a recent Seattle transplant, along with his wife Kelly.

I am an actor, dancer and vocalist currently based in Everett. I moved to Washington about 6 months ago for family, the glorious weather, and the phenomenal theatre scene. I'm so exited to engage with the community and continue to share stories!
cheers,
Elijah

Ben graduated from Western Washington University with a Theatre Degree featuring emphases in Acting, Writing, and Directing. He has performed on stages as far north as Bellingham and as far south as Lakewood. At this time, he works primarily in the South Sound and has balanced his time between semi-professional playhouses such as Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way and smaller, independent venues like Dukesbay Productions in downtown Tacoma. With a variety of performances under his belt, Ben is always looking for the next challenge that will expand his range and examine different perspectives to grow the characters he inhabits.

While covid brought me home from New York City, it did not diminish my drive to become a professional actor. I have spent most of my life calling either Seattle or New York City 'home.' However, my family traveled extensively and always made sure I learned about other people and cultures. Having been adopted at the age of 3 from Romania, I feel very blessed to have landed in a family that made sure I could explore every interest I wanted and to keep going in the areas that I showed drive and talent for. My skills are wide and varied and my training is extensive. These things, coupled with my experience working in customer service have made me a team player as well as improved my ability to work alone.
I have attached letters of recommendation from my teachers for when I was looking at a master's program. Due to covid , I decided to hold off on doing my master's work until I had more practical acting experience to take into a program.

I would love to be allowed to change my bread shot photo after my photos are shot this week.

Lisa Stromme Warren
As an actor, I am often cast as comic relief, as I have a knack for physical comedy and good comic timing, with no fear of being silly.

As a singer, I am a powerful belter with a strong classical influence. I think it’s fair to say I have a ‘big voice.’ Singing is my first love, and how I made my way into theatre. I think I am versatile and can sing both modern rock/pop musicals as well as I can the classical/golden age styles. This lands me in ensembles a lot since no matter the show – I can add a lot of uumph to a chorus of voices!

As a participant in a cast, I am a good citizen and I always have a very positive, can-do attitude, with enthusiasm for whatever we’re doing. I am willing to help out whereever asked, and very cooperative.

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Professionally, I have been in communications for 20 years, the first 15 years of my career spent in TV news. Since then I’ve worked in the public sector doing crisis communications, public relations, event planning and more. I also do freelance marketing for theatre entities, and am currently co-chair of the marketing team for Reboot Theatre Company in Seattle, WA.

Dorothy is 11 years old and in 6th grade. She loves performing, but also loves the rehearsal process and collaboration that is required to create really fantastic musical theatre. Dorothy has an excellent memory and work ethic and was chosen as a voice captain for her peers during a recent Teen Select production at Village Everett.

Christopher Sweet is a Idaho born Actor,Dancer,Singer and choreographer who's passion are wide but refined. Currently a dance instructor with the Anna Kaiser Technique and Sings for Seniors all over the greater Seattle area in a Cabaret style for NM Entertainmemt. They are aalways in a Musical or play and will not stop until the day he dies. He loves Seattle and considers it is new home and will do anything he can to be fully immersed in the Arts culture and community here.

Thank you for your time and energy

Hi! I'm Emily, I'm an artist, teacher, and community activist who finds a lot of meaning and purpose in striving to make art that is activism. I'm lucky to be a teaching artist at the Seattle Children’s Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. That theater can be a space for sharing joy, abundance, and truth is what brings me back again and again.

Sailor St. Claire is a curvaceous redhead with learned mind and an A+ anatomy. With her scintillating wit and charm, Sailor channels academic excellence into burlesque bravura as a performer and emcee. Since 2009, The Showgirl Scholar has been putting her knowledge of the literary canon to more-than-scholarly uses, crafting elegant and erudite stripteases that offer audiences an education in the humanitease.
This bookish beauty delights in using her full (and most colorful) vocabulary as an emcee, blending elegant erudition with utter nonsense, often in the same sentence. With poise, elegance, and Hepburn-esque wit, The Showgirl Scholar has kept audiences entertained and informed at the Oregon Burlesque Festival, the Pacific Northwest Burlesque Festival, the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival, and on the grand stage of the Orleans Casino Showroom at the Burlesque Hall of Fame’s Movers, Shakers, & Innovators Showcase.

Most of the time, you’ll find her adapting classic works of literature for the burlesque stage as the co-Artistic Director of Noveltease Theatre, a literary burlesque company she co-founded with writer-choreographer Fosse Jack.

Shelby Schill (she/her) is a Seattle based actor who works on stage and in film. Recent theater roles include 'Arrivals' with Seattle Jewish Theater, 'Born Yesterday' with Theater 9/12, and the immersive experience 'Censored'. She has directed and performed in the annual show, 'The Mamalogues, A Comedy About Motherhood' for five years. Television credits include 'The Wonderland Murders'. She is excited to perform for this wonderful collection of professionals in the artistic community!

Chelsey Sheppard is a Seattle based actor and stage combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. After taking a 3 year hiatus from theatre during the height of the pandemic, Chelsey is so thankful to be back on stage and telling stories once again! Recent credits include understudying for Village Theatre’s ‘Sherwood: Adventures of Robin Hood’, playing Tilly in The Phoenix Theatre's 'The Lady Demands Satisfaction', ensemble in Dacha Theatre’s ‘An Incomplete List’, and Guildenstern in inD Theatre's ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’. Chelsey is a big fan of dogs, swords, and decolonization.

Leah Shannon is an actress, screenwriter, and director based in the PNW.
In April of 2023, Leah was awarded the Irene Ryan Award for acting at the Region 7 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She attended nationals in Washington DC, where she was awarded a full ride scholarship to the Performing Arts Project in North Carolina.

In June of 2023, she graduated Western Washington University with a BA in Theatre Performance. There, she performed in numerous plays, ending her college career as Henry Condell in Lauren Gunderson's Book of Will. It was then she fell in fascination with dialect work and has since studied numerous dialects as well as working towards becoming a working dialect coach.

WWU is also where she starred in majority of the films the university film club would produce each quarter, simultaneously participating in the Seattle film scene. During her time in the Arts Enterprise & Cultural Innovation program, she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in two original shorts, Written Down co-directed by Scout Powell, and Discussions of a Particular Pallet, her first solo directing project.