Justin Huertas (he/him) is an award-winning playwright, composer, lyricist, and actor best known for his original musical Lizard Boy, which first premiered at Seattle Rep and recently ran Off-Broadway with Prospect Musicals (3 Drama Desk Nominations). A 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, his other works include The Mortification of Fovea Munson, based on the novel by Mary Winn Heider (The Kennedy Center); Lydia and the Troll, co-created and directed by Ameenah Kaplan (Seattle Rep); and We’ve Battled Monsters Before with Rheanna Atendido (ArtsWest, The Green Room 42). @justinhuertas

Steven Tran (he/him) is a music director, composer, and music producer. Original music for Marvel’s Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show! and California Love: K-Pop Dreaming (The LAist), available on all streaming services. Recent theater credits include music director/music producer for The Mortification of Fovea Munson (The Kennedy Center), music director/orchestrator for And So That Happened… (The 5th Avenue Theatre), music director for Lizard Boy (Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, UK), and several Public Works productions here at Seattle Rep, including the new arrangements/orchestrations for The Winter’s Tale film. His solo show, The Sonata Years, was a semifinalist for the 2021 National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill. Upcoming: Lizard Boy Off-Broadway and Seattle Rep’s Public Works’ The Tempest. @steven_nk_tran

AAU Film School for Directing. NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for acting. Immersive Experience Director: Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser. Resident Director: Disney’s The Lion King. Lydia and the Troll at Seattle Rep. Sister Act at PCLO, ABC’s Encore!, The Wiz at First Stage, Our Country’s Good at American Players, Meet Vera Stark at Purdue U., How to Break at Village Theatre, The Royale at ACT, Bash’d at Celebration Theatre. Shorts: Man with a Movie Camera and The American Failure. Choreography: The Royale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, The Dancing Granny at the Alliance Theatre, ABC’s Encore!, “Dancing with the Stars.” Gregory, Ovation, Sherwood, Queen of Angels, NAACP, and LA Weekly Awards for choreography, fight choreography, and directing.

Previous designs include Grand Horizons on Broadway; 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power at The Public Theater; along with world premieres by John Patrick Shanley, Dael Orlandersmith, Matt Aucoin, Grammy Award winner Steve Mackey; Samsung’s virtual reality television series “Interpretation of Dreams”; Feel The Pride, an AI powered audio-visual installation with St. Vincent; and a virtual reality arcade for Muse’s 2019 World Tour. Co-founder of the political theater collective Third Space, winner of the 2017 USITT Rising Star Award, a 2019 L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Finalist, and his design for The Lady In Red... was selected for international exhibition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where he currently teaches. brycecutler.com

Danielle Nieves (she/her) is thrilled to be back with the incredible artists at Seattle Rep. Her work has been seen at Seattle Rep (Public Works’ The Winter's Tale, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter), The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Cleveland Play House. Off-Broadway credits: Pity in History, No End of Blame, Gertrude The Cry, and Lovesong of the Electric Bear for the PTP NYC at the Atlantic Stage 2. Danielle holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of California Irvine and a curatorial certification for Japanese and Western costumes from the Kyoto Costume Institute. daniellenieves.com

Designs for Seattle Rep: Fat Ham, Lydia and the Troll, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Indecent, In the Heights, MAC BETH, I Am My Own Wife, Lizard Boy, and others. Regional credits include Portland Center Stage, ACT, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, and Village Theatre. Film: The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special, Potato Dreams of America. Robert is the Lighting Director at Seattle Rep and a member of USA829. robertjaguilar.com 

Erin Bednarz works in sound, music, production, and performance. She holds Gregory and Broadway World Awards for Outstanding Sound Design, is founder and resident dramaturg for Cheat Day Collective, and a 14/48 Projects board member. Press Mentions: Wall Street Journal, The New York Times. Noms: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, LA Drama Critics Circle. Residencies: Centrum, Sou'Wester, 2+U Studios, Jack Straw. TV: “Band In Seattle.” Off-Broadway: MAC BETH (Red Bull, Hunter Theater Project, Seattle Rep), The Convent (Rattlestick). Regional: A Few Good Men (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Dragon Cycle (American Rep); Teenage Dick (Seattle Rep); Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Seattle Children's Theatre); The Year of Magical Thinking, The Thin Place (ACT); Choir Boy (ACT/The 5th Avenue Theatre); Wonder Boy (The 5th Avenue Theatre). Teaching: NYU/Atlantic Theater, Cornish College, University of Washington. @play__pranks

Regional: Sweeney Todd (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Party People (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Lear (California Shakespeare Theatre); Mamma Mia (Village Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (TheatreWorks); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Mother Road, Alice in Wonderland, How to Catch Creation, Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Citrus (Northern Stage); In the Heights, Penny Candy (Dallas Theatre Center); School Girls… (Kansas City Repertory); A Wonder in My Soul (Baltimore Center Stage); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in Detroit). ED&I Hair/Wig and Makeup Consultant: Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen (Disney Theatrical Group). cstylezu.com

Seattle Artist Guy Garrison expresses a joy for play and storytelling, manifesting whimsy and humor through his sculptural works. He utilizes digital fabrication technologies like 3D printing and laser cutting to explore new techniques of transforming ideas into physical reality. As a veteran 3D animator/VFX artist, Guy revels in the irony of using advanced technologies to create the earliest forms of character animation and visual effects through shadow puppetry. His aesthetic blends toy-making, engineering, and retro-futurism, playing with dramatic changes in scale, juxtaposing familiar silhouettes with airframe, architecture, and clockwork-inspired structure, creating movement with mechanisms both physical and electronic, and crafting with a rich variety of materials. @guybernetic, guybernetic.com, rzrbeam.com 

Elisa Money (they/she/he) is a musical Swiss Army knife from Vancouver, Canada. They have contributed their talents to productions at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Village Theatre, Theater Mu, The Arsht Center, Seattle Rep, ACT (Seattle), 54 Below, and others across the USA and Canada. They have produced several productions with Michael Brannon Wiles and are published alongside Albert Evans, David Armstrong, and Jason DeBord. They have also been commissioned by The 5th Avenue Theatre as a composer/lyricist. Recently, they had the honor of music directing MISS STEP (Village Theatre) and music directed, arranged, orchestrated, and performed in Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Their recorded music is available on all streaming platforms: Roaring, The Seed EP, and Canadia, PA. Elisamoney.com, @elisamoneymusic

Jessica (she/her) is delighted to be back at Seattle Rep. Regional theater highlights include: Bruce, Teenage Dick, Indecent, Tiny Beautiful Things, MAC BETH, The Great Leap, King Charles III, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, God of Carnage (Seattle Rep); The Secret Garden, Rent, Disney’s Aladdin, and A Christmas Story: The Musical (The 5th Avenue Theatre); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Wizard of Oz (Seattle Children’s Theatre); A Christmas Carol, The Education of Randy Newman (ACT Theatre); Bootycandy, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (Intiman Theatre Festival); As You Like It, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and The Comedy of Errors (Seattle Shakespeare Company).

Production Stage Manager, Seattle Rep. Select stage management credits: The Winter’s Tale, The Odyssey, As You Like It (Seattle Rep’s Public Works); The Servant of Two Masters (Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson); I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shout Sister Shout!, MAC BETH, Here Lies Love, A Raisin in the Sun, All the Way, The Great Society, The Piano Lesson, Boeing Boeing, Fences, Gem of the Ocean (Seattle Rep); Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Angels in America, A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Brooklyn Bridge, Lyle the Crocodile (Seattle Children’s Theatre). 

Malie (she/her) is a Yonsei Japanese American stage manager who prioritizes projects that center Global Majority artists, communities, and abundance. She pronounces her name “muh-LEE-ay foo-JEE-ee” and resides on the lands of the Coast Salish and Lenape peoples. Off-Broadway: Wolf Play (MCC Theater), peerless (Primary Stages). Seattle: And So That Happened…, Beauty and the Beast (The 5th Avenue Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Shout Sister Shout! (Seattle Rep). Malie graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in Drama and Capitalism (A.K.A. Business Administration, an education she is still working to unlearn). Outside of theater, she enjoys choreographing gymnastics routines, playing marching cymbals as loudly as possible, and befriending other peoples’ dogs. 

Janet was born and raised in Washington State and has been dreaming of the day she could come home to a Seattle stage! She is deeply grateful to this team and Seattle Rep. Original Broadway Casts: Bring It On: The Musical (Kylar, u/s Bridget, u/s Nautica played by Ariana Debose), Hands on A Hardbody (Dance Captain, Standby), If/Then (Swing, Elena) with Idina Menzel. She Loves Me (Ilona) at PlayMakers Rep. Rent (Maureen) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. Netflix: GIRLBOSS, David Cross' "Hits," Sundance Film Festival 2014. Winner of LA's Next Great Stage Star 2010 and StageScene LA's Breakout Star of the Year. Best Actress Nomination 2015 Sparrow Filmfest. B.A. in Cinematic Arts - University of Southern California, minors in musical theater and philosophy. Music on Spotify. Janet wrote, directed, produced, and starred in her first feature film last year, Sunset Road, set in Washington wine country.

Sarah Russell is overjoyed to finally share this story with the community. Favorite past credits include Cinderella in Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue Theatre), Judy Bernly in 9 to 5 (Showtunes), and playing herself in A Night with The Russell’s: The Legacy of Us. In real life she is an extroverted Libra Hufflepuff who enjoys gin and tonics, time with loved ones, and naps. A huge thank you to Ameenah, Steven, and the whole cast and crew for their support, love, and leadership. A special thank you to Justin for creating a world where this Black girl can share her magic, be vulnerable, and dream. I’m honored you’ve trusted me with this role for all these years. Finally, to my Lord and Savior, who continues to provide in ways I never imagined. 

Adam Standley (he/him) is honored to be back after making his Seattle Rep debut last November as the inimitable Boz himself in Mr. Dickens and His Carol. Originally from Austin, TX, now a South-Seattleite, Adam is an ACT Core Company Member, a founding member of The Satori Group, and a carpenter with LCM Builders. Favorite productions include Ride the Cyclone, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Tribes (Gregory Award), Stupid F*cking Bird (Gregory Award nomination), and Mr. Burns: a post electric play (ACT Theatre); Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (Intiman); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (The 5th Avenue Theatre); rewilding and Tragedy: a tragedy (Satori Group). Much appreciation to my parents, LCM Builders, my Core Company family, and Shanna.

Seattle Artist Guy Garrison expresses a joy for play and storytelling, manifesting whimsy and humor through his sculptural works. He utilizes digital fabrication technologies like 3D printing and laser cutting to explore new techniques of transforming ideas into physical reality. As a veteran 3D animator/VFX artist, Guy revels in the irony of using advanced technologies to create the earliest forms of character animation and visual effects through shadow puppetry. His aesthetic blends toy-making, engineering, and retro-futurism, playing with dramatic changes in scale, juxtaposing familiar silhouettes with airframe, architecture, and clockwork-inspired structure, creating movement with mechanisms both physical and electronic, and crafting with a rich variety of materials. @guybernetic, guybernetic.com, rzrbeam.com 

Sophia Franzella (she/her) makes her Seattle Rep debut with Lydia and the Troll! She has recently performed with Village Theatre (Lucy and Margaret; Sense & Sensibility), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Bottom; Midsummer), Taproot Theatre Company (Ida; See How They Run), and Pony World Theatre (Emily; Not/Our Town). She teaches acting for private students and for several Seattle educational institutes. She is also a founder and company member of the lab theater Filament A Collab Lab. @filament.collablab 

Esther Okech (she/her) is very happy to be making her Seattle Rep debut! She is an actor and educator from Kenya. She graduated from Cornell University where she pursued a BSc in Environmental Science and she is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. acting program at the University of Washington School of Drama. Esther’s stage credits include: No Exit, The Baltimore Waltz, Father Comes Home from the Wars, and The Oresteia (University of Washington School of Drama); Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Company). She would like to thank Seattle Rep for the opportunity to be here and her family for their unending support.

Ricky Spaulding (he/him) is thrilled to be working with Seattle Rep for the first time! He is an actor, musician, and theater artist currently based in Seattle, WA. After studying drama and English literature at the University of Washington, Ricky trained at Atlantic Acting School in New York City. In Seattle, Ricky has performed with Washington Ensemble Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle Public Theater, Cafe Nordo, Showtunes Theatre Company, and more. He also appeared in Hulu’s “Shrill.” In addition to acting, Ricky has directed productions of The Flick by Annie Baker and True West by Sam Shepard and served as ACT Theatre's literary intern. @ricky.spaulding

Rosemary is a freelance stage manager and producer who's been working in the Seattle scene ever since she stumbled her way into theatre in 2018. She's been dreaming of this apprenticeship for nearly just as long, and is completely thrilled to be working with such an incredible team of stage managers. She's also worked with many other local companies such as Book-It, Sound Theatre Company, UMO Ensemble, Freehold, Dacha, Washington Ensemble Theatre and many other independent projects. She is also the production manager of Seattle Public Theater. As always, she'd like to thank her boyfriend, who's love and support makes all of her work possible.

Daira Rodriguez is a director and dramaturg from the Chicagoland area with a passion for new works, devising, and working with young minds. Daira recently completed the Directing/Artistic Apprenticeship at Seattle Rep after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre and Gender Studies. Recent projects include Elyse and Mae Play the Most Epic Game of Life Ever by Kandace Mack and the world premiere of The Bloody Bricks and Blows of American Dream High by Gabriela Coutinho Furtado. Daira is inspired most by the works of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez.