Seb Cantu

cris

This is Sebs 4th show at SHSU. They will be an upcoming junior and is super excited to be apart of this cast. You may also have seen them in Town Hall by Caridad Svich this past semester. Upon graduation, they intend to pursue a career in directing and later begin to teach!.

Mitchell Bauer

dave

Mitchell is a senior theatre major from Friendswood, Texas. His SHSU credits include York from Richard III. At other institutions he has appeared as Judge Yertle in Seussical, Brother John in Romeo and Juliet, and with Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods. Upon graduation, Mitchell plans to pursue a career in acting.

Victor Medina

diego

Victor is a theatre major from Galena Park Texas. At SHSU he have been in a stage reading of Dust. At other institutions he has been: Victor Velasco in Bare Foot in the Park, Howie Newsome in Our Town, Ensemble member in Mary Poppins the Musical.
After Graduation I plan on pursuing Film acting.

Sharif Goodlette

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Sharif is a junior theatre major from Katy, Texas. His SHSU credits include Assistant Stage Manager for Let Me Down Easy, ensemble for Sonnets for an Old Century, and unrealized Sam Houston's production of 'in a word'. After graduating he hopes to work with in the theatre industry.

Shelby Tuffnell

emily

Shelby is a sophomore musical theatre major from Flower Mound Texas. This is her debut to the SHSU Stage & Screen. After graduation Shelby plans to pursue a career in acting and choreographing.

Sapphire Washington

pearl

Sapphire is a senior theatre major from Houston, Texas. Her SHSU credits include A from Town Hall by Caridad Svich. At other institutions, she has appeared as Normal Jean and Miss Pat in The Colored Museum, The Witch in Dark of The Moon, Angel in Blues for an Alabama Sky, William Henry Brown in The African Company Presents Richard the Third, and Nobody in Do Not Go Gentle. Upon graduation, Sapphire plans to pursue a career in acting, activism, playwrighting and directing.

Dru Wiser

sarah

Dru Wiser is originally from NW Arkansas before moving to Houston with her family. She moved to Houston in 2013 and has been enjoying choreographing and directing at StageWorks for the past 7 years. She started shaking her butt since she was born and has found it equally as fulfilling to help others find the joy in shaking their butt while on stage. Not everyone who walks into an audition has the confidence in labeling themselves as a dancer, but Dru truly believes that we all are performers. Her training comes from the University of Arkansas, Broadway Dance Center of NY, and opportunities she has gained while working professionally on and off stage. Her work includes dancing and choreographing with the NFL Houston Texans Cheerleaders. While living in LA she worked on an extensive amount of music videos, including Jon Bon Jovi. While in NY she was chosen as one of the finalists for MTV’s Legally Blonde: The Search for the New Elle Woods. She is currently working towards her theater teaching degree. While she is not constructing a show at a theater, you can find her pulling off an epic dance party at home with her husband and their four young sons.

Allison Gies

eleanor

Allison is a junior Acting and Directing major from Houston, Texas. This reading is her first SHSU project she has been a part of. At other institutions, she has appeared as the Pip Price in Things I Know to be True, Lydian Emerson from The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker amongst other works. Upon graduation, Allison plans to pursue a career in acting and wants to participate in theatre in any capacity..

Asja Caligone

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Asja is a senior theatre major from Houston, Texas. She has appeared in Let Me Down Easy as Hazel Merritt/Lorraine Coleman. Also, she was assistant manager on Cry It out. Upon Graduation, Asja wants pursue acting and directing.

Joshua McMahan

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This is Joshua McMahan’s second production at Sam Houston State University, his first being Dying City by Christopher Shinn, and is very interested to show the talent that the school has to work with, even through forced unconventional theatre methods due to COVID-19

Kevin Crouch

director

Kevin holds a M.F.A in Acting from New York University, Graduate Acting Program. B.F.A in Theatre from Sam Houston State University. Teaches Beginning Acting, Stage Movement for the Actor, Stage Combat and Acting/Directing Workshop. Member of Actors' Equity Association, Society of American Fight Directors, and National Alliance of Acting Teachers. Kevin has performed all over the nation at Dorset Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre and Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Kevin has also taught in New York City at The Public Theatre, NYU, and Stella Adler School of Acting.

christopher oscar pena

playwright

christopher oscar peña is a story-teller originally from California, now residing in New York and LA.
In 2019 he co-directed the world premiere of Sean Daniels adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “lost novel” The Haunted Life at Merrimack Rep. The production marked the first time the Kerouac Estate had ever sanctioned an official theatrical adaptation of Kerouac’s work. Most recently, as a playwright, the Clarence Brown Theatre commissioned and produced the world premiere of his play The Strangers. In New York, the Flea Theatre produced the world premiere of his play a cautionary tail.
His work has been developed by Playwrights Horizons, the Goodman Theater, Public Theater, Two River Theater, INTAR, Ontological Hysteric Incubator, Playwrights Realm, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Old Vic, Orchard Project, Naked Angels, and New York Theatre Workshop, among many others. This upcoming season, his play how to make an American Son will have its world premiere in a co-production between Arizona Theatre Company and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York.
A two-time Sundance Institute Theater Fellow, he has also held fellowships with the Lark Play Development Center, was a recipient of the Latino Playwrights Award, an Emerging Artist Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and was a part of the US/UK Exchange (Old Vic New Voices).
Recently named an Artistic Associate at Arizona Theatre Company, he’s a proud member of New Dramatists, was named one of “The 1st Annual Future Broadway Power List” by Backstage, and has been published by No Passport Press and Smith and Krauss. This year, with visionary director James Darrah and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ellen Reid, he created and showran the Boston Lyric Opera's first ever digital opera series Desert In, by bringing together some of the countries best writers, composers and directors, to premiere in 2021. He is continuing his partnership with Darrah by creating a piece for the Los Angeles Chamber Opera this year.
In television, he was a writer on the Golden Globe nominated debut season of the CW show Jane the Virgin, and the critically acclaimed HBO show Insecure (also recurred on screen as the character Gary), as well as the Starz show Sweetbitter, and Motherland: Fort Salem on Freeform. He is currently developing an original series for Netflix.
B.A. UC Santa Barbara / M.F.A. NYU-Tisch School of the Arts

Jay Salazar

sound designer

Jay Salazar is a senior theatre major from Pasadena, Texas. SHSU audiences may remember her work as the associate sound designer for Once on This Island, the assistant sound mixer for Richard III, the assistant sound designer for She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, as well as the sound designer for Almost Maine, Cloud Tectonics, Pride & Prejudice, The Mountaintop, Eleemosynary, Actually, and The Wolves. At other institutions, she was the sound designer and engineer for South Pacific, Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Anna in the Tropics. Upon graduation, Jay plans to pursue a career in design.

Tyler Korff

stage manager

Lighting designer “In Women, Too”, Light Board Operator for “Sweat”, Assistant Stage Manager for “She Kills Monsters”

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Carey Chuter

Dramaturg/Intimacy Choreographer

Carey is a senior theatre major from Houston, Texas. At other institutions, she has directed shows such as The Drowsy Chaperone and All My Sons. Carey plans to pursue a career in intimacy direction, directing and dramaturgy.

Sammi Pierce

Dramaturg

Sammi is a senior theatre major from Milano, Texas. Her SHSU credits include Assistant Stage Manager for Everybody, and Assistant Stage Manager for Our Lady on 121st Street. Upon graduation, Sammi plans to pursue a career in Theatre Education."