CAST

  Michael is the recipient of six Artios awards, given by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. His theatre credits include shows produced at Pasadena Playhouse, the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Geffen Playhouse, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, International City Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, the Getty Villa, Laguna Playhouse, the Falcon Theatre, the Colony Theatre, The Theatre @ Boston Court, the 24th St. Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, San Francisco Symphony, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Rep, the Totem Pole Playhouse, and the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, as well as several national tours. Michael has cast numerous independent films, more than a dozen TV series, and over 1,000 commercials. Michael is the Co-Artistic Director for Reprise 2.0, and serves on the Board of Directors for both the Foundation for New American Musicals, and Camp Bravo. Michael teaches at various venues throughout the Los Angeles area, including U.C.L.A. 

Lucy Pollak has been providing publicity services to the Los Angeles arts community for the past 25 years for companies including 24th STreet Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, The Echo Theater Company, Fountain Theatre, International City Theatre, L.A. Theatre Works, Latino Theater Company at the LATC, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Padua Playwrights, Theatre Planners, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum; numerous independent theater and dance productions; and large events and festivals such as the annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration at The Music Center. From 1981 to 1990, she was production manager/staff producer at the Odyssey Theatre, where she co-produced over 100 productions with artistic director Ron Sossi. For the 1993 Los Angeles Festival, she line produced Reza Abdoh’s controversial Quotations From A Ruined City. She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award (Master Class), an LA Weekly Award (Mary Barnes), four Drama-Logue Awards (Mary Barnes, Idioglossia, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, It’s A Girl!), and a Women in Theatre Recognition Award. She has served on the boards of directors of the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance (now L.A. Stage Alliance), Women in Theatre and P.A.T.H. (Performing Arts Theatre for the Handicapped).

Headed by Kiff Scholl, AFK Design has a long history of designing original and eye catching graphics for Los Angeles theatre and film productions. Long time theatre clients include the wonderful folks over at The Athena Cats, Theatre Planners, Sierra Madre Playhouse, West Coast Jewish Theatre, Indie Chi, KADM Productions, Sacred Fools, Theatre of NOTE, as well as countless independent companies. In addition to graphics, Kiff is also an award-winning actor, director and filmmaker. Like AFK Design on Facebook and follow Kiff on Twitter @afkiff. www.KiffScholl.com

On Broadway, Cricket earned a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Off Broadway designs include The Marvelous Wonderettes. She has also designed regionally at The Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, The Ahmanson, The Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, The Kirk Douglas Theater, and the Pasadena Playhouse. Other selected L.A.  designs include East West Players, NoHo Arts Center, Ghost Road Theater Company, and The Celebration Theater. She has earned 20 Ovation Nominations, as well as winning The Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievements in Theatrical Design, an LADCC and a Garland Award. www.cricketsmyers.com

Stacy McKenney is a recent Master of Fine Arts graduate in Lighting Design from the University of California, Irvine.  She has also received her Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine in 2008.  She has been cultivating her art and craft for the last several years to become a professional lighting designer and artist.  Over the last 10 years she has enjoyed designing and assisting on numerous stage performances.  She looks forward to continuing her lighting design career in theater, dance, opera, and installation art.  Her love for light is immense and she appreciates its emotional importance not only on the stage but in everyday life, which she diligently observes with keen eyes.Currently Miss McKenney is the Master Electrician at Irvine Barclay Theater, CA.  Her responsibilities include implementing lighting plots, designing, programming (Eos and Ion Light boards), maintenance of lighting equipment, leading the crew on lighting calls and stage management.

 Pete Hickok is a Scenic Designer, Production Designer, and Sculptor based out of Los Angeles. His most recent scenic design projects include Farragut North at the Odyssey Theater, Die, Mommie Die! at Celebration Theater, and Crimes of the Heart at the International City Theater in Long Beach. He was also recently production designer for “Medicare Mermaids” among his other ventures curating and exhibiting in the contemporary art world. He was nominated for a 2016 Ovation Award for his design of Rio Hondo at the Theater of NOTE. 

 Karen Osborne is thrilled to be working on her first production with The Athena Cats, having just completed Richard II with Chase What Flies. She would like to thank Racquel Lehrman at Theatre Planners for the opportunity. Karen has been an Assistant Stage Manager at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum since 2014, and worked on August Osage County (Ovation nominee 2015) As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Other Desert Cities, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, amongst others. She has also stage managed two Seedlings productions and their Intern showcases in 2015/2016. Previously she was the Director of Operations for Tahoe Players whose shows include Annie, 101 Dalmatians, Les Misérables, Willie Wonka, and Shrek the Musical. Karen hails from the outskirts of London, England and has a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Psychology from Brunel University. 

Kate is happy to be working  with Theatre Planners again, having also designed Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally and Transition. Recent credits – Chasing Mem’ries, Next Fall, Yes, Prime Minister (The Geffen Playhouse), Hopscotch, the Mobile Opera (The Industry with Ann Closs-Farley), Daytona, Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine), Twelve Angry Men, The Roger Miller Story, Six Dance Lessons…. (Laguna Playhouse), Tribes (Change Theatre) Broadway Bound (The Odyssey Theatre), For Piano and Harpo (Falcon Theatre), Gigi, Cabaret (Backstage Garland Award) (Reprise Theatre),  Prisoner of Second Avenue (El Portal Theatre),  Side Show, Shrek, the Musical (3D Theatricals – Ovation Nomination), The House in Scarsdale, Creation (Theatre at Boston Court), Amahl and the Night Visitors, Art, Sleepless in Seattle, Casa Valentina (Ovation Nomination, LADCC Award) (Pasadena Playhouse). Kate works in all mediums telling stories with costumes.– theater, opera, dance, film, television, commercials.  

 Nick Santiago has worked for numerous universities and theatre companies including Skylight Theatre (Forever House, Church & State, Obama Ology), Rogue Machine (A Permanent Image, Luka’s Room, Honky), USC (Trojan Women, On the Town), Pasadena Playhouse (Ham), and LA LGBT Center (The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life Revisited). He received an Ovation nomination and a LA Drama Critic’s Circle award for his work on Rogue Machine’s A Permanent Image. www.nsantiagodesign.com 

 Michael Allen Angel is a graduate of the UCLA Department of Theatre, Film, and Television. He has served as Prop Master for The Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen Playhouse, Reprise LA, and the long running interactive theatre experience “Tamara.” He even hired himself to design props for his own short film “Broken Hart.” Recently, he took a break from props to direct The Beauty, The Banshee & Me written and performed by Cathy Lind Hayes. And this summer, he directed Barrage From The Garage (a Festival Directors’ Pick) at the 2017 Short + Sweet Hollywood Play Festival.  

Cindy is a Storyteller & Outreach Nerd from Los Angeles, currently a Write-at-Home-Mom in Orlando for cool reasons that require multiple NDAs to explain. She is Communications Director at 2th STreet Theatre and Staff Writer at NOok Real Estate. Her current project is a re-telling of Hamlet from Horatio’s point of view and The Oresteia from Electra’s. She divides her personality into Twitter accounts such as @CindyMarieJ, @FairyFolkMyth and @ParentingNerd (NSFW). https://cindymariejenkins.com/ 

• Abigail Marks, Dialect Coach
• Salette Corpuz, Costume Assistant
• Patrice Johnson, Dresser
• Estey DeMerchant, Board-Op
• Monazia Smith, Assistant Stage Manager
• Ryan Dohner, Alternate ASM