Chautauqua Theater Company

2019 Conservatory

2019 Conservatory

Actors

Kieran Barry | CTC: First Season

Regional: The Winter's Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (New Swan Theater); She (Counterbalance Theater). Educational: The Importance of Being Earnest, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, A Bright Room Called Day, Chess, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night (UC Irvine); Urinetown, Antigonick, Fuddy Meers, bobrauchenbergamerica, Goldilocks (Brown University); Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Trinity Rep). Film: Funeral Kings.

 

Alex Brightwell | CTC: Second Season

CTC: As You Like It, An Octoroon, Untitled Russia Play. Regional: Death of a Salesman (Yellow Tree Theatre); Gross Indecency (Walking Shadow Theatre); Photograph 51, The History of Invulnerability, New Jerusalem (Minnesota Jewish Theatre); Golden Age (Guthrie Theater); The Seagull, Hay Fever, Fifth of July (Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House). MFA Candidate: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House. BFA: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater.

 

Rishan Dhamija | CTC: First Season

Regional: Life of Galileo, Bewilderness, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Beasts on the Moon, Leaving Eden, Tartuffe, Dot, Sense and Sensibility, My Fair Lady, The May Queen, The Crucible, Real Estate (PlayMakers Repertory Company). MFA Candidate: Dramatic Writing, Tisch NYU. MFA: Acting, UNC Chapel Hill. BA: Economics, Sri Ram College of Commerce,
Delhi University.

 

Kelsey Deroian | CTC: First Season

Regional: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Reasons to be Pretty (Open Book Prod.); Dogfight (StageWorks). Educational: Love's Labour's Lost, A Bright Room Called Day, The Importance of Being Ernest (UC Irvine); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boeing, Boeing, The Glass Menagerie (Fresno State). Film & TV: Recipe for Disaster (Pilot), Bloom, Maudie, Mindhammer Lager, Titanica, Lady Temperance.

 

 

Elizabeth Erb | CTC: First Season

NY: Our Walk Through the World (New Light Theatre Project), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Match: Lit). Regional: Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Candide (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Pride and Prejudice and Death Comes To Us All, Mary Agnes (Hangar Theatre); Coriolanus, Julius Caesar (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Earthquakes in London (Guthrie Theater); Macbeth (Public Theatre of Minnesota). BFA: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. www.elizabetherb.com.

 

Ricardy Fabre | CTC: Second Season

CTC: As You Like It, Untitled Russia Play. Regional: A Raisin in The Sun (Seattle Rep); I And You (People's Light); Our Town, Ain't Misbehavin', Othello (Portland Center Stage); The Convert (Central Square Theatre); Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, Julius Caesar, How We Got On, References...Salvador Dali (Brown/Trinity). MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep.

 

 

María Gabriela Rosado González | CTC: First Season

Regional: Venus in Fur, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Native Gardens, Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). Educational: Good Person of Szechwan, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Civil Sex (Brown/Trinity); Rabbit Hole, The Crucible, La Dama Boba, The Sound of Music (University of Puerto Rico). MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep.

 

 

Amara Granderson | CTC: First Season

Off-Broadway: Romeo N Juliet (Classical Theater of Harlem). Regional: Stick Fly (Intiman Theatre), Fly (La Jolla Playhouse). Awards: 2017 Fulbright John Wood LAMDA Award in Classical Acting Runner-up. MFA: University of California San Diego. BA: Oberlin College.

 

 

Kayla Kearney | CTC: First Season

Regional: S/he and Me (Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner’s Renberg Theatre); SHE, Longitude (Counter-Balance Theatre); The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (New Swan Shakespeare Festival); Parliament Square, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Chess, A Bright Room Called Day (UCI MFA Acting). Kayla also develops new works with her queer and trans community. Recently she directed a devised and ensemble based show We Are. She is currently developing a solo show called The Woman Heart in an Enby Soul. MFA: University of California, Irvine. BA: California State University, Long Beach.

 

Alexander De Vasconcelos Matos | CTC: First Season

Regional: Ragtime (Trinity Rep); La Tempestad/The Tempest (Trinity Rep/RI Latino Arts); A Seat at the Table, Song of a Caged Bird (Rites and Reason). Educational: Love’s Labour’s Lost, import_speech memory, Dry Swallow, Civil Sex, Twelfth Night and miku, and the gods (Brown/Trinity); King Henry IV, Part 1, Cherry Orchard, Aulis (UC Berkeley). MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep. BA: Music (Ethnomusicology and Composition Focus), UC Berkeley; The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.

 

Sofia Bunting Newman | CTC: First Season

NYC: Spring Awakening (Three of Cups), The Wizard of Oz (Alpha NYC). Regional: Mamma Mia! (Spotlight Theatre); Seussical (Little Radical Theatrics), Doost (Neworld Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, The Tempest, Salt-Water Moon, Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, As You Like It (Carousel Theatre); Runaways (Havana Theatre); That Night Follows Day (PuSh Festival/On the Boards). Film: Theresa & Allison, Journey to the Last Christmas Dance, Paper Angels.

  

Madeline Seidman | CTC: First Season

NY: Readings/workshops through New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and New Dramatists. Regional: Lenny’s Fast Food Kids Gang (Yale Cabaret), Good Faith (Yale Rep), The Late-Night Cabaret (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Educational: Pivot (Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama); Measure for Measure, The Tempest (Shakespeare Academy at Stratford); Uncle Vanya, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Hour of Feeling, How Not To Be Alone, a musical (Williams College). MFA Candidate: Yale School of Drama. BA: Art History, Williams College.

Courtney Stennett | CTC: First Season

Regional: Hay Fever, The Seagull, Fifth of July (CWRU/Cleveland Play House); Seminar (Spartan Theatre Company); A Little Princess (Windy City Music Theater); Agnes of God (Aleatoric Theatre Company). International: Call of the Void (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). MFA Candidate: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House.

 

 

Titus VanHook | CTC: First Season

Regional: Winter’s Tale (African American Shakespeare Company). Educational: Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Topdog/Underdog, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, The Escape (Columbia). MFA Candidate: Columbia University.

 

 

 

Design and Directing Fellows

Stori Ayers | Directing Fellow/Equity Guest Artist | CTC: Third Season

CTC: Acting: Detroit ‘67; Asst. Directing: An Octoroon, Into the Breeches!, The Amish Project. Acting: Off-Broadway: Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Travisville (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre). Regional: Gem of the Ocean, Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3 (Round House Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage); Foster Mom (Premiere Stages); Barbecue, Doubt, Love's Labours Lost, In the Red and Brown Water (Pennsylvania Centre Stage); Jitney (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Yellowman (Anacostia Playhouse); Blood at the Root (Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Grahamstown Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival); An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, Voodoo, Sex, & Magic (Horizon Theatre). TV: The Last O. G. (TBS). Directing: Regional: Skeleton Crew (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Blood at the Root (University of Michigan); Single Black Female (Penn State School of Theatre); Hip Hoperella, Here I Go, Boys. Wish Me Luck; Fires In the Mirror (Fletcher Collins Theatre); You Can't Take It With You (Waynesboro High School).

Zackery A. Bennett | Sound Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

Regional: This is Our Youth, Around the World in 80 Days (associate), South Pacific (asst.) (Clarence Brown Theatre). Educational: She Kills Monsters, Next to Normal, Clybourne Park (Purdue University). Corporate: 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree, 2018 National Order of the Arrow Conference. MFA Candidate: Purdue University. BA: Theatre, University of Tennessee.

 

 

Baxter Carlisle Chambers | Lighting Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

Regional: Doe Paoro, Carsie Blanton, Jonatha Brooke, Birds of Chicago (Marathon Center for the Performing Arts). Educational: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Purdue Theatre), Fall/Springworks 2018-19 (Purdue Contemporary Dance Company), The Penelopiad (Bowling Green State University Theatre and Film). MFA Candidate: Purdue University. BA: Bowling Green State University.

 

 

 

Sasha Schwartz | Scenic Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

Off-Broadway: pato, pato, maricón (Ars Nova ANT Fest); The Trouble with Dead Boyfriends (SheNYC Fest). Regional: Young Playwrights Festival 2019 (City Theatre). Educational: The Comedy of Errors, Alkestis (CMU School of Drama). Awards: Lloyd Weninger Award for Stage Design, USITT Young Designers and Technicians Forum. BFA: Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. www.sashaschwartzscenic.com

 

   

Dorottya Vincze | Costume Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

International: Costume Supervisor (TUI Cruises, Germany). Educational: Mothers, The Aliens, Mother Courage and Her Children, MIKO: a space between, The Misanthrope, Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! (UC San Diego). Asst. Designer: NY: Candide (New York City Opera). Regional: The Tempest (Los Angeles Philharmonics). Educational: The Green Cockatoo, Othello (UC San Diego). MFA Candidate: UC San Diego.

 

2018 Conservatory

2018 Conservatory

Actors

Alex Brightwell | CTC: First Season

Regional: Death of a Salesman (Yellow Tree Theatre); Gross Indecency (Walking Shadow Theatre); Photograph 51, The History of Invulnerability, New Jerusalem (Minnesota Jewish Theatre); As You Like It, Macbeth (Public Theater of Minnesota); Golden Age (Guthrie Theater); Fifth of July (Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House). MFA Candidate: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House. BFA: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater.

 

Hannah Rose Caton | CTC: First Season

Regional: Twelfth Night (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arts Depot). Film & TV: The Falling, Last Knights, Wizards vs Aliens Season 2, Episode One. Educational: Top Girls, Queens Boulevard, Richard II, Dancing at Lughnasa, Pericles, Our Lady of 121st Street, Hamlet, Once in a Lifetime (Juilliard); Three Sisters, Pornography (BRIT School for Performing Arts); Henry VI Part 2 (RSC The Dell Theatre). BFA: Juilliard.

 

Octavia Chavez-Richmond | CTC: First Season

Regional: Neva, This Wide Night, An Acorn, Othello, Fuente Ovejuna, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, The Children’s Hour, There is No One Between You and Me. Film: Who We Are Now, From Nowhere. Artistic Associate & Playwright in Residence with Houselight Theatre Company.

 

 

Ricardy Fabre | CTC: First Season

NY: The Weekend Cottage, The System (The Flea). Regional: A Raisin in the Sun (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Our Town, Ain't Misbehavin', Othello (Portland Center Stage); I and You (People's Light & Theatre Company); Skeleton Crew (Trinity Repertory Company); The Convert (Central Square Theatre); Cymbeline (Portland Actors Ensemble); Belleville (Third Rail Rep); Jitney (Portland Playhouse); Black Odyssey (Trinity Rep). Educational: Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, Julius Caesar (Brown/Trinity).

 

Janet Fiki | CTC: First Season

Regional: The Rec (NiteStar Theater Company). Film: Porn Without Sex. Educational: A Raisin in the Sun, (w)holeness, What of the Night, Mothers, Taming of the Shrew(d), Angels in America: Perestroika (UC San Diego); Michael Howard Summer Conservatory; The Barrow Group; Peoples Improv Theater.

 

  

Jennifer Holcombe | CTC: First Season

NYC: Purgatory (Judson Memorial Church); I's Twinkle (Pipeline Theatre Co); Freedom Summer (Brecht Forum). Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Theatreworks); Sense & Sensibility (PCPA); The Iliad: Menin (Counter-Balance Theater); Seven Brides... (Flat Rock Playhouse); A Murder Is Announced (Cortland Repertory Theatre); Chicago (Cortland Repertory Theatre); Damn Yankees (3-D Theatricals); Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare In Aldrich Park). MFA: UC Irvine.

 

Jerrie Johnson | CTC: First Season

Regional: Twelfth Night, The Bacchae, The Changeling, Bull In A China Shop (ACT). MFA Candidate: ACT.

 

 

 

 

Elijah Jones | CTC: First Season

Regional: The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield (Humana Festival), Macbeth, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Educational: The Winter's Tale, Pipeline, The Green Bird (Juilliard). MFA Candidate: Juilliard. BA: Pennsylvania State University.

 

 

 

Jenny Latimer | CTC: First Season

National Tours: Les Miserables 25th Anniversary tour. Regional: Into the Woods (Baltimore Center Stage); Into the Woods (Westport Country Playhouse); Les Miserables (PaperMill); Twelfth Night, May Queen, The Cake, Midsummer Night's Dream (Playmakers Rep); Cinderella, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast (Tuacahn Center for the Arts). Film & TV: 85th Academy Awards, America's Got Talent. Awards: Irene Ryan Finalist.

 

Jake Ryan Lozano | CTC: First Season

Regional: Song For A Future Generation, Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline, Dogman’s Last Job (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Macbeth, Henry V (Great River Shakespeare Festival). Educational: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Sweat, In the Palm of a Giant, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Blood Wedding, Othello, Our Lady of 121st Street, Lear, The Meal (Yale); Elliott, A Soldiers Fugue; How We Got On; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (University of Oklahoma). MFA: Yale School of Drama.

 

Johnique Mitchell | CTC: First Season

Regional: Marie and Rosetta (Detroit Public Theatre); Brother Rabbit (The Lark Playwrights Lab). Film & TV: Penn State campaign We Are Not The Same (Pennsylvania), Hello There (Los Angeles). Educational: Argonautica, Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine, Barbeque, Twelfth Night (Penn State Centre Stage). MFA: Penn State.

 

 

Keshav Moodliar | CTC: First Season

Regional: Once Upon A Time in The Berkshires, Fifth Planet (Williamstown Theatre). Film: Sink Sank Sunk. MFA: Juilliard.

 

 

 

 

David Rosenberg | CTC: First Season

Off-Broadway: Lies My Father Told Me, The Awesome 80’s Prom, The Gold. Regional: Mad Forest, June Moon, The Dixon Family Album, Odile’s Ordeal, Song for a Future Generation (Williamstown); Bad Jews (GableStage); Blithe Spirit (Panther Creek). Film: People People. Educational: Richard II, Golden Boy, Hamlet, Three Sisters, Once in a Lifetime, Queens Boulevard, Our Lady of 121 Street, Pericles (Juilliard). MFA Candidate: Juilliard. BFA: NYU.

 

James Smart | CTC: First Season

Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (First Folio Theatre); Haymarket: The Anarchists Songbook (Underscore Theatre Co.); Code Name: Cynthia (SKM Creative); Future Tense (Dark Matter Productions). MFA candidate: Columbia University. BFA: Chicago College of Performing Arts.

 

 

Design and Directing Fellows

Mextly Almeda | Lighting Fellow | CTC: First Season

Regional: Malashock at 30 (Lyceum Theatre), Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat” (San Diego Symphony), Peter Pan and Wendy (Burning Coal Theatre), Into the Woods (PLNU). Educational: Scenes from an Execution, Rocks in her Pocket, War of the Worlds (UC San Diego). Selected Assistant Credits: Black Odyssey, The Glass Menagerie (California Shakespeare Theatre); Beauty and The Beast, The Odyssey, Unison, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, Shakespeare in Love, Julius Caesar (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse).

Stori Ayers | Directing Fellow | CTC: Second Season

Directing: Regional: Blood at the Root (University of Michigan); Single Black Female (Penn State School of Theatre); Hip Hoperella, Here I Go, Boys. Wish Me Luc, Fires In the Mirror (Fletcher Collins Theatre); You Can't Take It With You (Waynesboro High School). Acting: CTC: Detroit '67. Regional: A Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage); Foster Mom (Premiere Stages); Barbecue (Pennsylvania Centre Stage); Jitney (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Yellowman (Anacostia Playhouse); Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Grahamstown Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival); Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3 (Round House Theatre); Doubt, Love's Labours Lost, In the Red and Brown Water (Pennsylvania ​Centre Stage); An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein; Voodoo, Sex, & Magic (Horizon Theatre).

Jennifer Clark | Costume Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

First Season. Assistant Costume Designer: Off Broadway: A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Pearl Theatre Company). Costume Designer: Regional: Lucky Stiff, Once On This Island, Little Shop of Horrors, The Butler Did It ...Singing, I Love You Because, Honk!, Our American Cousin, Titanic: The Musical, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change (City of Kirksville's Theatre); Shrek The Musical (Carousel Theatre). Educational: American Idiot (UC Irvine).

 

Samuel Keamy-Minor | Scenic Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

Educational: SERE, winterWORKS (UC San Diego); The House of Bernarda Alba, Waiting for Godot, BobRauschenbergAmerica (Production Workshop).

 

 

 

 

Jeff Sherwood | Sound Design Fellow | CTC: First Season

Regional: The Foreigner, The Mousetrap, Talley’s Folly, Art, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Cabaret, The Music Man (Cape Playhouse); Take The Car, Zastrozzi The Master of Discipline (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Godspell, Steel Magnolias (Totem Pole Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma). Film: White Noise, Troilus & Cressida, We Are ROM3 (Short). TV: Expats 101 (Pilot). Awards: KCACTF National Finalist 2012, 2014. Educational: By the Way Meet Vera Stark, The Beaux’ Stratagem (Purdue Theatre); MFA Candidate: Purdue University. BFA: Oklahoma City University. www.sherwoodsound.com.

 

2017 Conservatory

2017 Conservatory

Actors

Lavour Addison | CTC: First Season
Lavour Addison graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a double major in Psychology and Theatre. He also holds a certificate from the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory in NYC. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program credits include: Clybourne Park, Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, and a cameo in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. At Cleveland Play House he has performed in The CPH Centennial Plays, the world premier of Quiara Alegria Hudes' The Good Peaches in collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra, and the world premiere reading of FEED by Eric Coble. Other credits include serving as the Acting Captain of the Hawaii Pirate Ship Adventures and working as a full time member of the Professional Acting Company with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. He recently played Macbeth with Oberlin Summer Theatre Festival. Favorite credits include The Wild Party, The Genteel Sabai, and Bug.

 

Jennifer Apple | CTC: First Season
NY: The Calico Buffalo (NYMF – Best of Festival), Something Funny’s Going On (Martin Charnin/54 Below), Factory Girls (MTF). Regional: Good Woman of Setzuan, Cardenio, Merchant of Venice, Love & A Bottle, Suddenly Last Summer, Lungs, Romeo & Juliet (American Conservatory Theater); The Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed); Monty Python’s Spamalot (LMST); Fiddler on the Roof (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Cape Fear Regional). Select Readings/Workshops: The Wolves, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Clickshare, Malicious Animal Magnetism, Scarcity. Jennifer will be entering her final year in the American Conservatory Theater’s MFA Acting Program. www.JenniferApple.net

 

Emily Daly | CTC: First Season
After receiving her B.S. in Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Evansville (Evansville, IN), Emily headed to the University of California, Irvine to earn her MFA in Acting. When she's not focused on acting, she enjoys writing and collaborating with other artists, and watching stand-up comedy and drinking copious amounts of coffee. Her past professional experiences include The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Great River Shakespeare Festival, and PCPA Theatrefest. Emily graduates from UCI in May 2018 and can't wait to dive into the professional world alongside her many talented classmates.

 

Patrick Foley | CTC: First Season
He is entering his third year as an MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. At Yale his credits include: Titus Andronicus, Everything That Never Happened, The Winter's Tale, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Three Sisters, and Our Lady of 121st Street. Other credits include: Lake Kelsey, This American Wife (Yale Cabaret); Alice In Wonderland, and Antarctica, which is to say Nowhere (Yale Summer Cabaret); Change in a Void Moon (Incubator Arts Project); Lake Victory (Judson Memorial Church); All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare on the Sound); Edward II (The Tank); Wallenstein, Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and Shakespeare’s R&J (Signature Theatre). BFA in Drama: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

 

Yonatan Gebeyehu | CTC: First Season
Yonatan just finished his 2nd year at UCSD's MFA acting program. UCSD Credits: Strange Men, Streamers, Native Son, How to Use a Knife, The Venetian Twins. Past credits: Stan, Bobrauchsenburgamerica!, The Lady From the Sea (The Brewing Department); Kassandra and the Wolf, Balm in Gilead (The Juilliard School); Taming of the Shrew (Columbia University). He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia University.

 

  

 

Will Harrison | CTC: First Season
Will Harrison joins us from Pittsburgh, where he is training at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Early on, he discovered a love for Shakespeare, playing parts such as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Ferdinand in The Tempest, and Macbeth in The Scottish Play. His recent film credits include three short films: It’s Perfect Here, Venefica, and In Arms. Will also writes and performs folk and rock music, both as a solo artist as well as with his band, Fake News. He looks forward to returning to CMU where he will be playing Ambrose in The Matchmaker, and Scott in a new feature film from director Grace McCarthy, Teaching Yourself How to Die Fast.

 

Moses Ingram | CTC: First Season
Moses left school at Morgan State University for a place at the Yale School of Drama. She is a rising second year and falling more and more in love with New Haven ice cream every day. Her past professional experience includes In the Red and Brown Water at the Yale Cabaret, Ruined (Everyman Theatre); and Playwrights Arena at Arena Stage.

 

 

 

Kelsey Jenison | CTC: First Season
Kelsey recently completed her MFA in Acting from University of California, Irvine and previously, her BFA from University of Evansville. Regional: As You Like It, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (New Swan Shakespeare Festival); Parade, Love's Labor's Lost, These Shining Lives, The Taming of the Shrew (University of California Irvine); Odyssey, Longitude (Counterbalance Theatre); Mr. Wheeler's, Wild Blue (The New Harmony Project).

 

 

Jules Latimer | CTC: First Season
Jules is currently a second year drama student at the Juilliard School. Her recent credits at Juilliard include: Antony and Cleopatra; A Raisin in the Sun; and Animal Farm. This summer she participated in an outreach program in El Salvador before coming to Chautauqua.

 

 

 

Maggie Mason | CTC: First Season
Maggie was born in London, England but moved to California after she was accepted to Stanford. She then attended the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program in acting, and has just graduated this year. Past professional credits include: Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Aurora Theatre, Center Rep, and San Jose Stage.

 

 

 

Adrianna Mitchell | CTC: Second Season
Adrianna is thrilled to return to Chautauqua for a second season. Last summer she played the trickster Tranio in CTC's gender-swapped Taming of the Shrew. Regional: Las Meninas, Topdog/Underdog, Every 28 Hours One-Min. Play Festival, Romeo & Juliet, Love and a Bottle, Black Orpheus, Merchant of Venice, Lungs (American Conservatory Theater); Measure for Measure (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Our Town (Central Square Theater). New York: Day of the Feast (J&S Young Artists Project). Adrianna will be entering her third year at the American Conservatory Theater and can be seen on A.C.T.'s Geary stage in Hamlet played by John Douglas Thompson this fall! Spelman College Alumna, 2013.

 

Isabel Pask | CTC: First Season
Isabel Pask is a recent graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she graduated with a major in Acting and a minor in Creative Writing. Her favorite CMU role was Celestina del Sol in Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics, and she has spent the last two summers working professionally at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Quantum Theatre. After CTC she plans to move to NYC to help tell stories worth telling.

 

 

 

Micah Peoples | CTC: First Season
Micah received his B.A in English at Arizona State University in Phoenix. This fall he will be entering his second year as a MFA candidate at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Some of his past productions include 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog (A Public Fit Theater); Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams and Las Meninas by Lynn Nottage (A.C.T. - MFA).

 

 

 

Siddiq Saunderson | CTC: First Season
Siddiq recently received his BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University. The Brooklyn native refers to himself as an "artist," and enjoys filmmaking, choreography, and photography along with performance. Past credits include: D'Artagnan in Three Musketeers (Carnegie Mellon), the title role in Peribañez (Quantum Theatre), and The Royale (City Theatre).

 

 

Design and Directing Fellows

Amelia Bransky | Scenic Fellow | CTC: First Season
Amelia will be going into her third year of Southern Methodist University’s MFA in Stage Design program this fall. Selected designs at SMU include Mary Stuart (scenic design), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (scenic and costume design), Grand Concourse (scenic and costume design), and St. Joan of the Stockyards (scenic design). She is looking forward to designing costumes for Iphigenia at SMU this fall, and in the winter will be scenic designing Frankenstein at Tony Award-winning Dallas Theatre Center. www.ameliabransky.com

 

 

Alex Miller-Long | Lighting Fellow | CTC: First Season
Alex recently completed her MFA in Design from the University of California at San Diego. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In recent years, Alex has worked in both design and production for various companies, including La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Symphony, and Malashock Dance. Her work can be seen at: www.alexmillerlong.com

 

 

 

Jordan Tani | Sound Fellow | CTC: First Season
Jordan received his B.A. in Music Literature and Technology from the University of California, San Diego before pursuing an M.F.A in Sound Design at the University of California, Irvine. Previous experiences include South Coast Repertory and The Geffen Playhouse. He is expected to graduate in 2018 and hopes to someday work in sound for animation studios such as Pixar, Dreamworks, or Laika while still being able to work in the world of theatre.

 

 

 

Mari Taylor | Costume Fellow | CTC: First Season
Recent Costume Designs include: Associate Costume Designer for Shakespeare Dallas' Quixote, L’elisir D’Amore (SMU Meadows Opera), The Hot L Baltimore (Southern Methodist University), The Taming of The Shrew (Junior Players), School of Rock (Dallas Academy of Performing Arts). Recent Assistant Costume Designs include: The Tempest (Dallas Public Works); Gloria, Deferred Action (Dallas Theater Center). Mari's work has also been seen at Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Opera Saratoga, and Actors' Theatre of Columbus. MFA in Stage Design: SMU, BA Theatre: Miami University. MariTaylorDesigns@gmail.com

 

Adin Walker | Directing Fellow | CTC: First Season
Adin graduated from Princeton University with degrees in English, Theater, and Gender & Sexuality Studies. Recent projects as director/choreographer include Pin* and the Blue Fairy (Drama League Artist-in-Residence, Dixon Place); Gruesome Playground Injuries (TheaterLab NYC); Jacqmin Family in the Petrified Forest (Source Festival); Rent, Singin' in the Rain (Princeton/McCarter). As choreographer and movement director, Adin choreographed the NYC premiere of Normativity (dir. Mia Walker) and has collaborated with directors Alexandru Mihail, Ethan Heard, Tracy Bersley, and Whitney Mosery. Adin has assisted directors Shana Cooper, Christopher Liam Moore, Joel Sass, Dustin Wills, and Yehuda Hyman. www.adinwalker.com 

2016 Conservatory

2016 Conservatory

Actors

Allison Altman | Columbia, SC
NY: Personal History (Ensemble Studio Theatre), ANT Fest (Ars Nova), Missed Connections (Theatre Row), Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theater), Young Jean Lee Project (Dixon Place), Mary Brigit (Fringe Encore). Regional: Three Sisters, Seminar, An Enemy of the People, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nicholas Nickleby, Pride and Prejudice (PlayMakers Repertory). Allison is entering her final year at UNC's Graduate Acting Program.

 

 

Brittany Bradford | New York, NY
NY: Readings/workshops through The Lark, Rattlestick, MCC, NY Fringe, and Hybrid Theatre Ensemble; Stop/Kiss, King Lear, Balm in Gilead, The Seagull (Juilliard). Regional: Neighbors, Passing Strange, Next to Normal, Secret Language of Wishes, Avenue Q (Mixed Blood Theatre); Stick Fly, Ragtime (Park Square Theatre); Midsummer Night's Dream (Ten Thousand Things). Brittany is entering her third year as an MFA candidate at The Juilliard School. She is a Juilliard Teaching Artist Fellow.

Juliana Canfield | Washington, D.C.
New York: Fortuna Fantasia (FringeNYC). Regional: Dental Society Midwinter Meeting; Once Five Years Pass; Mille Miglia (Williamstown Theater Festival); Deer and the Lovers; The Skin of Our Teeth; Best Lesbian Erotica 1995; Women Beware Women; A Midsummer Night's Dream; New Domestic Architecture; Roberto Zucco; How We Died of Disease-Related Illness (Yale School of Drama). Juliana is entering her third and final year at the Yale School of Drama.

 

Edmund Donovan | Darien, CT
New York: The Snow Geese (Manhattan Theatre Club), Hot Fun in the Summertime (Cherry Lane). Regional: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Shakespeare & Company). TV/Film: “Orange is the New Black,” “Unforgettable,” Akron. Edmund is entering his third year at Yale School of Drama.

 

 

Leland Fowler | Inglewood, CA
Regional: Our Lady of 121st Street, The Merchant of Venice, This Land Was Made, Fucking A, The Children (Yale School of Drama); Lake Kelsey, Dutch Masters, The Untitled Project, 50:13 (Yale Cabaret); Orlando, love holds a lamp in this little room, Midsummer (Yale Summer Cabaret); Songs to Grown On, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance Theatre). Leland is entering his final year at Yale School of Drama’s MFA Acting Program.

 

Joshua Grosso | Queens, NY
Regional: Man of La Mancha (Palm Beach DramaWorks), The Light in the Piazza (New Hazlett). Awards: Winner of 2012 "Jimmy's" James Nederlander Award. Joshua recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s Undergraduate Acting Program.

 

 

 

Kathryn Metzger | Seattle, WA
London: King Lear (British American Drama Academy). Regional: The Crucible, A Christmas Story, Comedy of Tenors (Cleveland Play House); Violins of Hope (Cleveland Play House/Cleveland Orchestra), Taming of the Shrew (Island Stage Left); Two Gentlemen of Verona, Philadelphia Story, Three Sisters, Too True to be Good.(Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House). Kathryn recently graduated from the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program.

Adrianna Mitchell | Atlanta, GA
Regional: Black Orpheus, Lungs, Merchant of Venice (American Conservatory Theater), Measure for Measure (Actors Shakespeare Project); Yerma (British American Drama Academy); Our Town (Central Square Theater/Underground Railway Theater). New York: Day of the Feast (J&S Young Artists Project) Film: Clean Woman (SAG-AFTRA short), Sympathy, Social Studies (USC shorts). Adrianna will be entering her second year as a MFA Candidate at American Conservatory Theater.


Margaret Odette | New York, NY
NY: Figaro (The Pearl), She Kills Monsters (The Flea/Vampire Cowboys), The Electric Lighthouse (The Flea), Out of Joint (The Lark), Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill! (NY Fringe). Regional: A Raisin in the Sun (Clarence Brown Theatre), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Stage and Film), Good People (Theater Squared), The Bluest Eye (Providence Black Repertory Company). NYU: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Tartuffe, Julius Caesar, The Cherry Orchard. Film: Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People. BA Brown University (Weston Acting Award), MFA New York University ‘17. 

Alex Raby | Indianapolis, IN
Regional: An Enemy of the People, Woyzeck, Boeing Boeing, The Shape of Things, The Taming of the Shrew (University of California Irvine); Elsewhere, Longitude (Counterbalance Theatre); The Two Gentlemen of Verona(Heartland Actors Rep). Alex holds a BFA from the University of Evansville and is entering her third year at University California Irvine's Graduate Acting Program.

 

Andrew Richardson | Siesta Key, FL
Regional: Othello, The 39 Steps, Trojan Women (Interlochen Arts Academy); Euridice, The Rover, The Three Musketeers (Carnegie Mellon University). Education: The Royal Ballet, Interlochen Arts Academy, Carnegie Mellon University. Andrew is entering his fourth year at Carnegie Mellon University’s Undergraduate Acting Program.




David Samuel | Providence, RI
Regional: Ruined (Arena Stage); To Kill A Mockingbird, Blues For Mr. Charlie (Trinity Repertory Company); Unplugged (Flying V Theatre); Far From Heaven, Beyond the Canvas, Time Flies (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: Killing Ruby. David is entering his final year in the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Program in Acting.

 

 

 

Caroline Siewert | Perryton, TX
New York: bobrauschenbergamerica, The Lady from the Sea (The Brewing Dept.). Regional: Hollywood (La Jolla Playhouse); Movers + Shakers, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Three Women in Four Chairs, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (University California San Diego). Caroline holds a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is entering her third and final year as an MFA Acting candidate at University California San Diego.

  

Anna Tullis | Colorado Springs, CO
International: Why Do You Stand There In the Rain? (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Traverse Theatre). Regional: Necessary Targets, Three Days of Rain, Bus Stop, Tartuffe, Kentucky Cycle (Pepperdine University); The Seagull, King Lear, Balm in Gilead (Juilliard). Anna is entering her third year at The Juilliard School.

 

 

 

Design and Directing Fellows

Reza Behjat | Lighting Fellow | Urmia, Iran
Iran: Mother Courage and Her Children, Woyzeck, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Funny Nightmares, The Bear, Strange Creatures, Voice of Mud. New York: Imaginary Invalid, Les Précieuses ridicules, La Dame de Chez Maxim, Le Dindon (4th Street Theater, New York Theatre Workshop), Black Little Fish (Access Theater); Misalliance (New York University). Reza is entering his final year at New York University's MFA Lighting Design program.

Alexis Chaney | Costume Fellow | Pittsburgh, PA
Alexis is a founding member of First Floor Theater in Chicago, IL. Regional: Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, Matt and Ben, Polaroid Stories, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (First Floor Theater); True West, Henry IV Part I (University of Chicago). Alexis is entering her second year in Carnegie Mellon University’s MFA Costume Design program.

Bruno-Pierre Houle | Scenic Fellow | Austin, TX
Regional: UT New Theatre 2016, The Wild Party, President Fenves Inauguration (Texas Theatre and Dance); Wilma (W. Glick); The Islands of Love (Concordia University). Film: Sarah Prefers to Run, My Name is Sandy. Bruno is entering his final year at University of Texas Austin’s Graduate Theatre Design program.

 

Joshua Samuels | Sound Fellow
Regional sound design: I and You (Kitchen Theatre Company); Red (Cider Mill Playhouse); Dogfight,Anon(ymous), Flight of the Heart, Anna in the Tropics (Ithaca College Mainstage); Almost Maine, Far Away, Intimate Apparel (Ithaca College Studio 2). Podcast: Naked Radio Podcast. Film: “A Good Man's Company,” “The Last Note.” Josh has a degree in theatrical design from Ithaca College.

 

Ashley Teague | Directing Fellow | Los Angeles, CA
Creative Content Producer: Alice in Wonderland, For Colored Girls, The Next Three Days, Promised Land. Directing: Side Show (PCPC), The Crucible (Brown University), Bean (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Lyric Theatre), Willful (California State Capitol), Healing Richmond (East Bay Center for Performing Arts), Ajax (Theater of War),The Shadow Box (Collective Studio: Los Angeles), Halfway Home (Blank Theater).

2015 Conservatory

2015 Conservatory

Actors

Matthew Baldiga | Apex, NC
Regional: Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); 3:59am, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playmaker Rep); From Red to Black (San Francisco Playhouse). New York: Einstein and Mileva (Crosshatch Theatre Company); Pratfalls (GroundUp Productions); This Lady’s Not for Burning (Parenthesis). Matthew is entering his third year at ACT.

 

 

John Bambery | Safety Harbor, FL
The Pitts, Loving v. Virginia, June Moon, The Visit (Williamstown Theater Festival); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wild Oats, Coriolanus, Wallenstein (Shakespeare Theater Co.); Adding Machine, The Light in the Piazza(SpeakEasy Stage Co.). American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,  Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall. M.F.A. Candidate, Juilliard; B.F.A., Boston Conservatory; Moscow Art Theater School.

Jack Berenholtz | New York, NY
New York: Henry IV Pt. I (Extant); 3.31.93 (Lynn Redgrave Theater); Progeny (Riverside Theatre); Antigone (Connelly Theatre); Nightmare Dream (FringeNYC). Regional: Beyond Therapy, Next Thing (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Twelfth Night, Ten Unknowns, And Give Us the Shadows (The Schoolhouse Theater); Henry V, Pericles (RADA); Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, Children of the Road (NYU). Film: Bandito (Tribeca, Cannes, Soho International, Beverly Hills Film Festivals). Jack is entering his 2nd year at NYU Grad Acting School.

Myles Bullock | Los Angeles, CA
Myles is entering his second year at UNC Chapel Hill’s MFA Acting Program. Regional: Trouble in Mind, Enemy of the People, Mary’s Wedding (Playmakers Rep). Collegiate: Othello, Sty of the Blind Pig, First Breeze of Summer. Awards: ACTF Irene Ryan’s Regional Winner 2013.

 

 

Audrey Corsa | Santa Monica, CA
Audrey is entering her third and penultimate year as a BFA student at The Juilliard School. Juilliard: Henry IV Pt. I, Fifth of July, Gint, Trelawny of the Wells, Twelfth Night, The George Saunders Project, Uncle Vanya.

 

 

Ricardo Davila | New York, NY
Ricardo is entering his second year at the Yale School of Drama. NY: The Mysteries (The Flea Theater), Mariquitas (Theater for the New City), Othello (Access Theater). Yale: The Children, Leonce and Lena. NYU: Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Our Country’s Good.

 

 

 

Kate Eastman | New York, NY
CTC: Second season. Kate is entering her third year at Juilliard. CTC: The May Queen, The Tempest. Regional: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). NY: Uncle Vanya, The Tempest, Trelawney of the Wells, Fifth of July, Gint, Henry IV Pt. I (Juilliard); Twelfth Night (Smith Street Stage). TV: "Blue Bloods" (CBS).

Jessica Ko | New York, NY
New York: The Shakes (Flea Theater), Much Ado About Nothing (Brooklyn Bridge Park). London: Twelfth Night (RADA). Regional: Troilus and Cressida (Bread Loaf); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Tartuffe (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Hamlet (Brown/Trinity). Commercials: Chase, Yoplait, Lowe’s. Co-Founder of Random Access Theatre, NYC. Jessica is entering her final year at Brown/Trinity’s Graduate Acting Program.


Keren Lugo | Guaynabo, PR
Puerto Rico: Volpone (Francisco Arriví Theater); The Balcony, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (UPR). Regional: DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story (GALA Hispanic Theater). NYU: After The Fall, Love Suicide/Hikikomori, The Playboy of the West Indies. NYU Graduate Acting Class of 2016.

 

Jonathan Majors | Dallas, TX
CTC: Second season. Jonathan is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Cardboard Piano, Paradise Lost, The Seagull and The Children. Some New York and regional credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre);  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences (The Greene Space August Wilson Century Cycle); Fences (Virginia Stage Company); Cry Old Kingdom (Actors Theatre of Louisville); A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest (Chautauqua Theater Company); The Brothers Size, The Defendant, and Touch (Yale Cabaret). Jonathan holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Member of AEA.

 

Kevin Shewey | Merced, CA
Regional: Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (Sierra Rep Theater); Romeo and Juliet, Present Laughter, The Odd Couple (Summer Rep Theater).  Kevin will be completing his MFA in Acting next year at UC Irvine and has a BA in Theater Arts from Azusa Pa.





Kyle Vincent Terry | Chicago, IL
Kyle is entering his final year at the Brown/Trinity Acting Program. Regional: Robin Hood, Babs the Dodo (Williamstown); Three Musketeers (Lifeline); Macbeth, Faust (TheMASSIVE); Hamlet, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Gnit (Brown/Trinity). Kyle was one of The Chicago Tribune’s Top Dancers to Watch in 2007 and an All-American.

 

 

 

Whitney White | New York, NY
Whitney is a recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep. MFA Acting Program. Regional: Love Loss & What I Wore (Broadway Playhouse); In the Next Room, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Twelfth Night, In the Blood (Brown/Trinity); Caroline or Change (Court Theatre); Ruined (U/S, The Goodman); Oliver! (Trinity Rep); Passing Strange (Bailiwick Chicago).  TV: “Louie” (FX), “The Playboy Club” (NBC). Guthrie Experience alum and Black Theatre Alliance nominee for Most Promising Actress.

  

 

 

Design and Directing Fellows

James Dean Palmer | Directing Fellow | Chicago, IL
Endgame; Pullman, WA; The Gingerbread House; Elephant's Graveyard; (Red Tape); Hamlet, Rocket to the Moon (Brown/Trinity MFA).  Selected staged readings at the Goodman Theatre, American Theatre Company, Victory Gardens. 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director for The Love of the Nightingale. Brown/Trinity MFA Director 2016.

 

Charlie Jicha | Scenic Fellow | Saint Simons Island, GA
Charlie is entering his second year at UCSD’s MFA Scenic Design Program. UCSD Designs: Widower, Music and Motion, and Thesis Works: Dominus Novum. ASD: Hamlet, Golden Boy (UCSD).  Disney Scenic Artistry: Test Track Rehab (EPCOT),  Captain Hook Topiary Costume (EPCOT) and Finding Nemo Stage Show Floor (AK).

Dominique Hill | Costume Fellow | Bronx, NY
Dominique is entering her third year at UCSD’s MFA Costume Design Program. UCSD Designs: Death of a Driver, Venus, In the Crowding Darkness. ACD: Come From Away (LJP), Go West! (CTC), A Lie of the Mind (UCSD). Off Broadway: Bullet for Adolf. BA Suny Albany.

 

Megan Turnquist | Lighting Fellow | Seattle, WA
Selected Chicago Designs: Amadeus, Veronica's Room (Bohemian Theatre Ensemble); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Promethean Theatre Ensemble); A Raisin in the Sun (Gwendolyn Brooks HS); Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show (Awkward Pause). Purdue University: Good Kids. Megan is an M.F.A. student at Purdue University.

 

Brandon Reed | Sound Fellow | Indianapolis, IN
Brandon is a sound designer and engineer who is also a graduate from Ball State University. He recently finished his apprenticeship at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he worked on The Herd (US Premiere), Marie Antoinette, Airline Highway (World Premiere) and The Night Alive.