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Julia is an actress, vocalist and instrumentalist based in Southern Oregon. She was born and raised in the Rogue Valley, home of the world-renown Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Harboring a love from theater at a young age, she performed in musicals at Camelot Theater and trained with their summer children's conservatory in tap, jazz and ballet and vocal technique. She went on to study opera at St. Olaf College and then earned her BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts. In Seattle, she produced, performed in and directed numerous productions including a creative adaptation of Mozart's Don Giovanni at 12th Ave Arts. Her most recent credits include Spotlight on Joni Mitchell (which she also wrote) and Sally Bowles in Cabaret. When she is not onstage, she spends her days teaching and working with youth, practicing guitar and writing and reading new scripts and songs.

Business professional with experience in theater performance for audiences of over 200 people, dancer, terrible singer, and sustainability enthusiast, I've lived on five continents and worked on three. These formative experiences cultivated my inclusive, curious, and creative mindset, which enables steadfastness amid ever-present change and uncertainty across all environments.

I'm driven to create and share interdisciplinary and integrated solutions as both an individual contributor and a dynamic team-player, with the long-term vision to highlight and contribute to social, environmental, and international harmony.

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).

Juliette is in 6th grade at Sacred Heart School and has been involved in theater since she was in 4th grade. She finds so much joy being involved in theater and has had wonderful experiences learning from the talented actors and directors she has worked with. She looks forward to learning more and growing in her craft. Outside of theater, Juliette is an active in club volleyball, track and field and summer swim team.

Youth Audition

I got into theater because of my two daughters. They auditioned for a production of Fiddler on the Roof out at the Kitsap Forest Theater. My wife and I were encouraged to audition as well. We made it a big family thing, all reading plays together and practicing our monologues and songs for each other. The kids got their parts, and somehow I got the part of Lazar Wolf, which was pretty good for a first show. It was a blast. The Forest Theater is a special place, so we kept doing shows out there as a family for many years. Over time, my wife and younger daughter lost interest in performing. My older daughter is still full-on, a BFA student at the University of Minnesota. You may get a video from her. As for me, acting opened up a part of myself that had never had expression before, a way of adventuring into all kinds of human existence. I have tried to get better at it. I wish I'd found it earlier. I've been lucky enough to do some great shows with better actors around Seattle. I took a couple of years off to spend as much time with my kids as possible before they left for college, but now that they are out, I'm eager to see how fart this will take me while I can still do it. I know there's a lot of parts I'm probably too old for, but I try to be fearless, flexible, and fierce as I go along. Thanks for listening.

Sasha Hartanov (they/them) has been a voice actor, burlesque performer, and stage actor in the Seattle area for five years now. They attended the Cornish College of the Arts where they received a BFA in Theater in December of 2020. They have worked as a stage manager with Fat Bottom Productions for the past three years, and have performed with Dacha Theater Company, Noveltease Theatre, and as an online audiobook narrator. In addition to their theater work, they are a culinary artist of nine years and taught at the Seattle Culinary Academy for two years.

AUDREY HEROLD Audrey is a Seattle-based actor, represented by Melissa Baldauf/Big Fish NW Talent, and certified in Unarmed Combat through SAFD/Geof Alm.

Favorite past roles include: Mary Magdalene (Last Days of Judas Iscariot), Beatrice (Much Ado), and Cobalt the A.I. in Dacha Theatre’s Time Out New York-acclaimed :robot_face: She holds a BFA in Acting from Trinity Western University, and Certificate in Catholic Liberal Arts from Catholic Pacific College. A former Taproot Theatre’s Educational Touring Actor, Audrey regularly tours with Taproot’s Improv Team.

She graduated (summa cum laude) with her MFA in Arts Leadership and Graduate Certificate in Fundraising Leadership, from Seattle University (2023) and currently serves on the board of nationwide Catholic Artist Connection, and as the interim Marketing Manager for local Seattle favorite: Dacha Theatre.

Audrey is a huge fan of classic texts– especially Shakespeare and Sophocles– and admires the quirky and poetic playwrighting styles of: Sarah Ruhl, George F. Walker and Tennessee Williams. She adores site-specific theatre, stage combat and any theatre set to music.

Olivia is a local dancer, singer, actress, choreographer and teacher. She is a recent college graduate who explored other performance worlds during her college years and is now fully back in theatre. She has been involved as an actress, dance captain, and choreographer in local companies for most of her life, and is now again expanding from her small Kitsap community. As a performer who opted to go the route of education, she is open to most opportunities that will grow her as a performer and will help show her professional side of performance. She holds a Washington Dance Educator Certification, which she obtained in college, making dance her strong suit while also having years of training in classical vocal performance. She is thankful to have the chance to show her skills, and hopes to work more with a wider area of artists in the future!

Elizabeth has been working as an actor, director, designer, producer, and singer in Portland since 2015. She most recently appeared onstage as understudy to all four tracks in Oregon Children's Theatre's Goodnight Moon. Before that she worked as Klelly in the Children's Revels. And in the summer of 2023 she performed as Ellen Tree in Red Velvet at Bagnbaggage which was an honor and a beautiful experience. She can currently be seen onscreen as Woman in Matt Smith's The Altruist (featured on BloodyDisgustingTV). In addition to the companies previously mentioned, she's been delighted to work with Portland Playhouse, Lakewood Theatre, Imago, NWCTC, Nesting, and Defunkt Theatre. Favorite roles include Cate in Blasted, Halo in Girl in The Red Corner, and The Red Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at Hip Pocket Theatre in her native Texas. She is represented in Portland by Q6 Talent, and in the bay area by MDT's voice-over division. She is currently looking for representation in Seattle.

Kate Jaeger is a Gregory award-winning actor as well as a singer, emcee, theatre educator, and improviser. She has performed with 14/48, Annex Theatre, ArtsWest, Book-It Repertory, Jet City Improv, Macha Theatre Works, New Voices, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, and Teatro Zinzanni.

Tessa “Cricket” James is a local actor in the Seattle area. They have been working professionally on the stage and screen since they were three years old, and have loved every second of it. Some of their recent credits include 110 In the Shade with ReBoot Theatre, Backyard Bard with Greenstage, and on the road with Taproot Theatre as a core member of their educational tour.

I am a Seattle native with a degree in theatre and a minor in psychology from TWU. Storytelling of all kinds is my passion, particularly by embodying characters on stage and stepping into their shoes. From party princessing to immersive theatre to classic stage performance, I hope to engage audiences and that they may experience just a little bit more of what it is to be human.

I am a classically-trained soprano with acting experience in film, sketch comedy, commercial modeling, contemporary and classical theatre. With vocal performance degrees from Linfield University and Arizona State University, I am a versatile, outgoing performer who enjoys acting challenges in collaborative and professional spaces. I am based in Portland, OR and looking to expand my performing pool.