Actors
Tania Balderas
Tania is an actress, director, dramaturg, and theater scholar. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from NMSU, an MA in Literature from L’université de Lausanne, and a PhD in English Literature from UNM. She has performed in various English and Spanish-language plays in the US-Mexico borderlands, including her roles as Lady Anne in Richard III, La Mujer de Leonardo in Bodas de Sangre, Callie in Stop, Kiss, and Edith in Ballerina.
As a Research Associate at the School for Advanced Research, she is working on a book project, Resistance Narratives: Storytelling of Transnational Insurgencies in Cold War US and Mexico, which explores transnational solidarities through a comparative and relational analysis of Teatro Chicano plays and memoirs, Red Power autobiographies, Mexican Cold War testimonial novels, and oral histories.
Nicholas Ballas
Nico performed in a number of regional repertory companies before moving to Santa Fe where he worked with The New Mexico Repertory Theatre and Shakespeare in Santa Fe. In the 1980s and ’90s he founded and operated the Santa Fe Actors’ Theater. Notable New Mexico appearances include Prospero in The Tempest, Ahab in Mother Road’s production of Moby Dick, Dostoevsky in Jewel in the Manuscript, multiple roles in Sylvia with New Mexico Actors Lab, the world premiere of Cascarones at Teatro Paraguas, and Ben in Ironweed’s production of Death of a Salesman. He also has numerous film and television credits, including the title role of the indie, The Incredible Voyage of Captain Hook. Mr. Ballas holds an MFA from CalArts.
Contact: nico.ictus@gmail.com
Mikie Beatty
Mikie is an actor and producer, based in Santa Fe. He studied Theatre at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was awarded the Acting Internship with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, some classical roles include Edmund in King Lear, Orlando in As You Like It, Sebastian in The Tempest, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Oberon in Midsummer Night's Dream and others.
In Los Angeles he was cast as recurring Host for the television series Disney 365 on the Disney Channel. Other network credits include guest cast for both NCIS, and NCIS: Los Angeles.
On LA stage, his portrayal of Treplev in The Nina Variations earned him the rave "fervently old-school" from Backstage Magazine. Other LA credits include Rev. David Lee in The Foreigner, Moritz in Spring Awakening, Arius in the original play NICAEA, and others. He is the winner of Broadway World Los Angeles' "Best Actor in a Non-Eq Show" for his origination of Musician in ELEVATOR.
Other passions for storytelling include screenwriting, the short film medium, immersive performance and experiential arts. <3
Contact: mikiebeatty@gmail.com
Website: https://www.mikiebeatty.com/
Aaron Black
Aaron Black is a Santa Fe based actor, active since 1997. He is a member of SAG/AFTRA and can be seen on screen in The Cleaning Lady, Duster, and an upcoming Netflix show. In theatre, he has recently played in shows at NMAL and the Vortex (ABQ). In 2025, he played Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge at The Vortex, which received feedback from audience members that the production was the best play produced in ABQ or the Vortex for many years, and/or that it exceeded the Mark Strong/Ivo Van Hove West End/Broadway award-winning production in various aspects. Aaron plays complex, intense, and emotionally charged roles involving flawed, working class men...or criminals. Aaron is a graduate of The Actors Studio Drama School/NSD, and is trained in sensory work, active analysis, improv, dialects, and stage combat. He also writes, is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and is experienced at script analysis.
Contact: aaronblack1@gmail.com, 917-432-7831
Anastasia Blackwell
Anastasia Blackwell is an award winning actress; voice-over artist; and author of novels, screenplays, and podcasts. She began her career in Oregon and worked extensively on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Los Angeles to further her career. She is the recipient of a Dean Goodman Award for Best Actress and Outstanding Achievement in Theater for her performance in Nuts, and Best Supporting Actress in Sight Unseen. She has performed roles ranging from contemporary farce to classical tragedy.
Her work in film, television, and commercials has earned awards. Disillusioned was winner of Best Comedy Shot in the Nice and Amsterdam Film Festivals; and Mariam Graves was winner of Best Thriller and a nominee for Best Film and Audience Favorite at the IFS Los Angeles Film Festival.
Anastasia transitioned to Santa Fe in 2021 and is eager to join the Santa Fe theater and film community.
Click here to view Anastasia’s IMDB page.
Contact: anastasiablackwell@gmail.com
Miles Blitch
Within just a decade, Miles has almost thirty dramatic productions under his belt. He has collaborated with a wide range of companies, from Valley Youth Theatre to the Arizona Opera. Miles has also been thrice recognized by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for his work in stage performance and sound design. Having loved performing and listening to musical scores since childhood, his extensive knowledge now serves him well as a sound designer. His innate verbal skills were honed by his international background and cum laude degree in Asian Studies at ASU, leading to both a deeper understanding of other cultures and a self-produced and -performed noh play.
Miles is equally at home onstage or backstage, and takes great pride in being part of the entire theatrical experience!
Contact: meblitch@hotmail.com
Angela Bond
Angela Bond has spent over 40 years in professional theater as an actress, teacher and director. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2023, she has been in the world premiere of In My Father’s House, played Aunt March in Little Women, and starred as Marie Curie in the New Mexico Actors Lab’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie. In Florida, she performed her own solo show, Tennessee Psalms; Strait of Gibraltar (world premiere); Emma in Annapurna; Eva in Evita, Lilli/Kate in Kiss Me Kate; Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, etc. New York City: Broadway, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Europe: Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera; Film/ TV: Free Ride with Anna Paquin, Revolution, Nashville and Sleepy Hollow. Angela studied with world-renowned acting teachers Eric Morris, Wynn Handman, and Michael Howard in NYC. She was a proud member AEA 1987-2023 and is a current member of SAG-AFTRA.
Contact: www.angelabond.net, or angela@familymarkus.com
Zoe Burke
Zoe is an actress, director, intimacy choreographer, and theatre educator who moved to Santa Fe from Wichita, Kansas in 2018. She directed more than twenty productions in Wichita, including everything from classical pieces such as Antony and Cleopatra and Cyrano de Bergerac to productions of contemporary musicals like Hairspray and Godspell. Favorite Wichita acting credits include Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Rosaline in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Kristine Linde in A Doll’s House, and Evelyn in The Shape of Things.
Santa Fe credits include Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (both with the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society), the International Shakespeare Center 2019 Rep Season, and Phoebe in As You Like It (Santa Fe Classic Theater).
Her intimacy direction work has been seen in Santa Fe with &Sons, Santa Fe Classic Theater, the International Shakespeare Center, Tri-M and Almost Adults; she was recently hired as a teaching artist for Intimacy Directors and Coordinators’ certification program.
Contact: patriciazoeburke@gmail.com
Mallorie Carney
New to the area, Mallorie is a versatile performer with experience in acting, directing, improv, and choreography. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Musical Theatre from Lindenwood University, where she performed as Cinderella in Into The Woods, Aunt Eller US: Laurey in Oklahoma!, and most notably Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical directed by Broadway’s Nikki Snelson. She also has familiarity with Shakespeare, as Diana in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Her awards include The JR Strezlec Musical Theatre Award, Captain of Nick of Time Improv Players, and President of the Theatre Fraternity Alpha Psi Omega, where she was well known for the creation of Lindenwood University’s “24-Hour Play Festival” where she served as Artistic Director for three consecutive years.
Originally from Fort Worth, Mallorie has performed in the Dallas, Fort Worth, and St. Louis areas. She is professionally trained in ballet, tap, and jazz. She is an accomplished roller skater, cheerleading stunt coach, and fitness trainer. She is bilingual, and has great rapport with children.
Contact: mallorie.treehouse@gmail.com
Samantha Christine
Samantha Christine is a SAG-AFTRA actress, stunt performer, narrator and voiceover artist. She’s based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has been cast in a wide variety of roles for network television, major streaming services, commercials, and feature films.
More information: http://www.theesamanthachristine.co
Contact: samantha.v.christine@gmail.com
Isabel Contreras
Isabel Contreras is Mniconjou Lakota from the Cheyenne River Tribe and is also Filipino. Isabel grew up in Sheffield Lake, Ohio and studied theatre at Bowling Green State University. She then transferred and recently graduated from The Institute of American Indian Arts with her B.F.A in Preforming Arts. She has performed in plays such as Twilight Los Angeles 1992, Radio Days, Blue Jay’s Canoe, A Tuna Christmas and has been in multiple short films. Isabel has also won three awards at the 2024 AIHEC in Minneapolis and at the 2025 AIHEC in Rapid City in Speech and the One Act Play competitions. Her art extends into music where she is a singer and can play trombone, saxophone, and guitar. Along with this Isabel performs as a drag queen by the name Natti Lyte and creates performance art through this persona to discuss race, gender, politics, culture, and other various topics.
Contact: isabelrc515@gmail.com
Cindy Coulter
Cindy received her formal theatrical training at the University of Texas in Austin, then moved to Dallas where she performed regularly in local theaters. Favorite roles include Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Elvira in Blithe Spirit. She has also appeared in numerous industrials and radio ads for companies including American Airlines, JC Penney, and Sprint. Cindy is a versatile performer capable of many dialects and is an experienced choreographer. Santa Fe has been home since 2007, and she has performed at Aux Dog Theatre, Teatro Paraguas, and Santa Fe Playhouse. When not acting, Cindy teaches fitness classes at Santa Fe Community College.
Contact: cynergize@hotmail.com
Daniel Cron
Daniel is an actor, writer, mover, and director who was practically raised on the Santa Fe Playhouse stage. He attended the New Mexico School for the Arts for its inaugural year and was in its second graduating class. Recently, he has graduated with a B.F.A. in acting from the California Institute of the Arts.
Some of Daniel’s favorite recent credits include work with The Neo-Futurists (Chicago), acclaimed Polish director Natalia Korczakowska, and he can be seen next performing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He still has family in Santa Fe, and is always looking for a reason to go back home.
Contact: danielcron@alum.calarts.edu
Bronwen Denton-Davis
Bronwen has served Santa Fe as an actor, playwright, director, and producer since 1991. Her acclaimed one-woman productions include Crowned Heads (all wives of Henry 8 on a chessboard) and Mon Coeur Solitaire/A Portrait of Mary Cassatt, a multimedia piece, both of which she wrote, performed, and produced.
Her work as an actor in Santa Fe includes her plays Crowned Heads, Woodrose Productions; Mon Coeur Solitaire, Almost You, The Ferry Back, Clearstory Productions/The Santa Fe Theatre Company; Waiting for Gaia, Clearstory Productions/Santa Fe Playhouse; The Book of Wren, Clearstory Productions/Theaterwork; Full Dress, Clearstory Productions/Women’s Voices Festival; The Terrace, Chamber Theater.
Her acting credits outside of Santa Fe include The Ferry Back, Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Runner Stumbles, The Norman Conquests, La Ronde, Albert’s Bridge, A Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Tartuffe.
Bronwen is a skilled v/o actor with many voice-over commercial and animation credits.
She excels in accents of every kind. She is remembered for her snoring kitten and yawning turtle.
Contact: ollieduff707@gmail.com
Leslie Dillen
Leslie is an award-winning actor, solo performer and playwright. She’s performed in theatre, television and film, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston. Leslie’s full-length, ten-minute plays, and solo plays have had productions around the US and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and New York Fringe Festival. In Santa Fe she acted in productions of her solo play “The Passions of Mabel Dodge Luhan” and her full-length play “Two Wives in India”. Her newest play “Avalanche” was produced by Just Say It Theater in 2021. Leslie has performed with various companies in Santa Fe, and most recently with New Mexico Actors Lab in “Doll’s House Part 2”, “Other Desert Cities”, and “The Children”.
Leslie trained with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse, at The American Conservatory Theater under William Ball, and received her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University. Leslie is a member of Dramatist Guild.
Contact: leslie.dillen@comcast.net
Rae Dobrovolsky
Rae Dobrovolsky is a versatile stage actress with a rich portfolio of roles in musical theater, both in Texas and New York. Key roles include Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly, Miss Lynn Gardner in Carrie the Musical, Ilona Ritter in She Loves Me, Jan in Grease, and Persephone in Jasper in Deadland (Houston Premiere). Rae's background also includes lead performances in The Wedding Singer and Anything Goes. Her awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, along with her work as a costume designer and stage manager, highlight her multifaceted talents in theater production.
Rae has formal training in ballet (MET Dance, Houston) and voice (Khady Gueye and Alex Navarro). Additionally, she serves as the Director of Advancement at HITS Theatre and founded RDDesigns in 2022, showcasing her leadership in both artistic and professional capacities.
More information: http://raedobrovolsky.net/
Contact: raedob84@gmail.com
Catherine Eure
Catherine Eure is new to Santa Fe after working in the film and TV industry in the LA and Southeast Markets for years. She grew up performing in local theatre, and has studied acting all over - including at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Stella Adler Academy, and with Ivanna Chubbuck at the Chubbuck studio in LA. Her recent credits include HBO's Watchmen and you can view credits at imdb.me/catherineeure and www.catherineeure.com. She is looking forward to working on stage and in film here in New Mexico.
Ambrose Ferber
Ambrose got his start in theater as an injured boy in Commedia dell’Arte when he was five and has since performed in Colorado, New Mexico, and North Carolina. Some of his favorite roles are Jack Worthington in The Importance of Being Earnest, John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, John Hancock in 1776, Pablo Picasso in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Barnette Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart, and Miles in The Drawer Boy. He got to sing steel as The Douglas in Henry IV Part 1, and went on to serve as the fight captain, lead fighter, fight trainer, and fight director in a number of shows, including Romeo and Juliet, Les Miserables, Extremities, Cyrano, Macbeth. Ambrose can be seen in the feature film Eyeborgs and in various TV shows (usually playing some kind of cop).
He is a certified Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and a member of Screen Actors Guild.
Contact: Ambrose.Ferber@gmail.com
Day Forgaard
Day Forgaard (they/them) is a local actor, singer, and dancer. Their performance repertoire includes a range of styles, from dramatic to camp. Recent dramatic roles include Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar" and Ruby in "Blue Desert," a new original play at Teatro Paraguas. Day performs with the campy variety show troupe the Atomic Follies, where Day specializes in comedic musical numbers and comedy burlesque. They have performed in several musicals, are skilled in partner dancing, and have experience with improv.
Lisa Foster
Lisa studied acting at St. Edwards University, in NYC at the Gately-Poole Studio, and at HB Studios with Uta Hagen and Carol Rosenfeld. While in NYC, she was head of the Theater in Education program at American Place Theater under the direction of Wynn Handman, and was a dancer with Nina Winthrop and Dancers. She studied Shakespeare with UT’s Shakespeare at Winedale and with Earl Hyman in NYC. In Santa Fe, she has played Heather in Gideon’s Knot, Haikumom in Water by the Spoonful at Teatro Paraguas, and the Countess Olivia in Santa Fe Shakespeare Society’s Twelfth Night. Other favorite roles in regional theater have included Goneril in King Lear, Karen in The Children’s Hour, Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Marion Froude in Biography.
Evan Galpert
Evan Galpert is an actor, voice actor, musician, and comedian who has been performing in New Mexico and Texas for over 20 years. Galpert began performing professionally in grade-school with the Plano Children’s Theatre. In 2008, Galpert graduated from studying stage, camera, voice, and movement at the Kim Dawson Actor’s Conservatory. In his career, Galpert starred as the lead in “Tri-M”s 2023 production of Kinky Boots, presented at the New Mexico Entertainment Awards, has been a radio personality with Hutton Broadcasting, and performed in both the ABQ Funny Fiesta and CloudTop Comedy Festival. He also performed at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Galpert has been producing and performing Standup and Improv shows in and around Santa Fe for the past decade. While he often receives and enjoys comedic roles, he hopes to pursue the occasional villainous and dramatic characters.
Susie George
Susie George studied acting and puppetry at Emerson College in Boston where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies. For many years, she toured regionally and internationally as a resident puppeteer with the Bread and Puppet Theater where she worked closely with founders Peter and Elka Schumann and performed in an abundance of circuses, pageants, stage shows, street shows and operas. In Santa Fe, Susie collaborates with the New Mexico Museum of Art as a member of its marionette theater, Teatro Duende and performs her own original work as the director of the Song of the Soos Theater. She studied with Mirek Trejtnar of Puppets in Prague creating an original work, A Harp of FishBones, a one-woman marionette musical. Learn more about Susie and Song of the Soos at songofthesoos.com. songofthesoos@gmail.com
Sara Gmitter
Sara Gmitter has primarily focused on roles in Shakespeare: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing & Celia in As You Like It for the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society; Olivia in Twelfth Night and Baptista inThe Taming of the Shrew for Threshold Arts Collective; Lady Gonzalo in The Tempest at the Actors Gymnasium, and various roles in Julius Caesar and Cymbeline for Backroom Shakespeare Company in Chicago.
Contact: sgmitter@gmail.com
J. Matthew Gordon
J. Matthew Gordon (Justin Gordon) is a professional actor, director, and theatre educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and has trained at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His work spans regional theatre across the United States and international appearances in film and television. As an educator, he has served as a guest artist at numerous institutions and most recently as a full-time lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, teaching acting and Shakespeare in the B.F.A. program. He is the founding Artistic Director of New Canon Theatre Co. in Monterey, California, and currently serves as Chair of Theatre at the New Mexico School for the Arts. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and SDC.
Darrin Graham
Darrin Graham, painter, musician, and writer, is a desert rat from Albuquerque who has lived in Santa Fe for the past eleven years, working primarily in film as a co-creator and co-star in the long-running web series about his own exploits as an artist in Santa Fe: The Land of Tranquil Light—YouTube channel. He has performed in short films, including his own productions. Trained at Albuquerque Academy under the legendary Micky Prokopiak, Graham is a stage actor, having participated in This is A Test ensemble comedies and various short plays. Most recently he read in the Theatre Lovers Club PlayReading For Playwrights event as Raider in Hounds of Hell.
Contact: dfrance13@hotmail.com. https://youtube.com/@thelandoftranquillight?si=ccUkCIAfpdPGcxp0
John Grabowska
John Grabowska is a SAG-E actor, narrator and voiceover artist, and in Santa Fe struts and frets on stage with Incite Shakespeare Company; roles include Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra and Dukes Frederick and Senior in As You Like It. John is better known as an independent filmmaker, writing and directing natural history films on public lands, the American West and the Alaskan wilderness. His films are broadcast nationally as prime time PBS specials and The Washington Post calls him "one of the virtuoso environmental filmmakers in the country", but what he’s really hoping for is to be cast as Prospero. Or Polonius. Or Lear. He's much too old to play Romeo and far too tall to play Hamlet.
Contact: john@johngrabowska.com
More information: http://www.johngrabowska.com
Jennifer Graves
Jennifer Graves had a 35-year career acting in New York and Regional theater before retiring to Santa Fe in 2011. Since then, she has managed to perform in every theater in town in a wide variety of roles, including the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Playhouse. In 2014, she became a founding member of the Santa Fe Classic Theater and as President of the Board in 2018, she helped produce five years of Shakespeare in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. She is currently on their Advisory Board. Jennifer also Chaired the Theater Lovers Club, which promotes audience attendance for local theaters and guided the organization through the Pandemic and beyond. Currently, she is on the staff of New Mexico Actors Lab and most recently performed with Scott Harrison’s Ironweed Productions in “Grace Stories”.
Contact: jnnfrgraves@yahoo.com
Scott Harrison
Scott Harrison is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Conservatory and also studied at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory in Washington, DC. He has performed locally with NMAL, Santa Fe Playhouse, ISC, Theaterwork, Theater Grottesco, Teatro Paraguas, JSIT, and at the Lensic in productions including The Diary of Anne Frank, Driving Miss Daisy, Wenomadmen, 26 Miles, Constellations, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Sweat, Romeo and Juliet, and JQA. Scott is the founder and Artistic Director of Ironweed Productions and has performed in several of their productions including Fool for Love, True West, Rabbit Hole, Buried Child, and Good People. During the pandemic, in collaboration with the Santa Fe Playhouse, he co-produced and was featured in an original online video series, The Confessions of Clayton Younger, written by Patrick Mehaffy. Most recently with Ironweed, he wrote and directed Grace: Stories. ScottHarrisonNM@gmail.com.
Barbara Hatch
Barbara is an actress, director, teacher, and is currently teaching theatre at the New Mexico School for the Arts. She was the Managing Director for Theater Grottesco for five years. Her recent directing credits include The 39 Steps and The Madwoman of Chaillot and was most recently seen in several productions at the Santa Fe Playhouse, including Sylvia, by A. R. Gurney (directed by Robert Benedetti) and Rosemary Ziebart’s production of The Jewel in the Manuscript as Ana Snitkina; at The Playhouse as Jenny Malone in Chapter Two By Neil Simon; and with Shakespeare in Santa Fe’s All For Your Delight, and more.
She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and lived and worked in France for nine years, earning a Master’s Degree in Art History.
Contact: barbaravhatch@gmail.com
Glenna Hill
Glenna Hill is a native of the UK. She has lived in Santa Fe now for many years on and off. Trained in theatre in London, San Francisco and Santa Fe. She has worked for the Santa Fe Opera, Theatrework, Red Thread Collective, and Santa Fe Playhouse. Most recently seen as Gilberte in Michel Tremblay's play Bonjour La, Bonjour at The Adobe Rose Theatre, directed by Wendy Chapin.
Contact: glennarhill@gmail.com 505.670.2848
Robin Holloway
Robin is a composer, actor, writer, and director who works throughout the United States and Europe. He has composed music and lyrics for several full-length musical shows including Cosmic Jazz Cabaret, which he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival, and After Hours, a one-man musical, recently performed at Rancho La Puerta in Mexico. With Up & Down Theatre, he is co-creator of Winning The Future, a satirical comedy cabaret, with ongoing performances in New Mexico and New York City. Robin is an accomplished jazz and classical musician, having appeared at Chicago Symphony Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. He has shared the stage with Jon Hendricks, Cleo Lane, and Bobby McFerrin.
Robin holds a Bachelor’s degree in jazz piano from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and a Master’s in jazz piano from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also holds an acting diploma from the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC, and a degree in Theater Creation and Performance from the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). Robin works as a music and theater educator at the New Mexico School for the Arts, and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
Vaughn Irving
Vaughn has performed in more than forty professional shows in eight states and the District of Columbia. A former member of Actors Equity, his Santa Fe credits include Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, 1984, Flight Plan, and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Santa Fe Playhouse and Lobby Hero at the Adobe Rose Theatre.
Tim Jebsen
I have a BA in theatre and an MA in theatre and have performed in many shows and directed over 120 shows during my theatrical career. I also have experience in running a theatre company and I am excited to join the Santa Fe theatre community.
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
CJ Jorgensen
Mature, positive, and versatile professional enjoys working with fun, creative people. A young 59 with natural charm. Self-motivated entrepreneur with excellent communication skills. Currently pursuing my passion as fiber artist/clothing designer creating wearable fashions made with hemp, flax, alpaca, and other natural materials.
Love to sing, dance, and act since age 11. Pursued theatre throughout high school (Holly Dolly, Grease, cabarets & short skits). Six years in high school as vocalist in five-part harmonies with 12-female group touring Colorado. Four years in duo act as vocalist & percussionist. Currently work solo gig playing cover tunes for special events. I sing, dance, ride horses, ski, hike, fly fish, Audubon/bird, master crochet. Naturally funny, can imitate characters/celebrities, many accent voices.
CJ Jorgensen • Creative Director • Zen Cowgirl Studios
Contact: cj@creativeheadspace.com • 303.912.4772
Caitlin Kelly
Caitlin Kelly is an actor, voiceover artist, and narrator based in Albuquerque, NM. She obtained her B.A. in Humanities from St John’s College and considers herself a constant student of acting; training and taking classes when and where she can throughout New Mexico. When Caitlin is not on stage she enjoys riding her horse through the bosque, slowly but surely learning to play the cello, and hanging out with her family.
Paul Kerrigan
I've been acting, singing, and dancing on the stage for five decades in the Philadelphia area. I've directed over 30 productions, as well as musically directed a dozen musicals.
Contact: yo4pauly@gmail.com
Kelly Kiernan
Kelly holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and has worked in professional regional theatre and film for more than twenty years. She trained extensively in classical theatre during her tenure as a young company member of the American Stratford Festival Theatre in her home town of Stratford, CT, with artistic director and Broadway producer, Louis Burke. While a company member, she had the privilege to study Shakespeare with John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company as a participant in his Playing Shakespeare USA tour, and also studied Chekhov with Professor Murray Biggs of Yale University.
Kelly has performed numerous Shakespearean roles as well as other classical and contemporary parts.
Hazel King
Hazel is a classically trained actor with a unique presence that has been called ethereal, captivating, timeless. From Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams to experimental short films and commercial music videos, Hazel’s work is a versatile blend of classical and modern. In addition to Stella Adler Technique, Hazel is extensively trained in voice and movement techniques for actors, allowing her to deeply embody character. She brings a depth of focus, dedication, and presence to every project she is involved in.
Contact: hazelhking@gmail.com
Abram Klaassen
Abram is a recent graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2018, he has been involved with theatre companies both on the stage and behind the scenes with a particular focus on classics.
Acting roles include Dionysus in Chrysostomos at St. John's College's production of "The Bacchae", The Sad Coyote in the Santa Fe Playhouse's 3rd Annual 99th Annual Fiesta Melodrama, Abram in Santa Fe Classic Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", and The Clown in the Oasis Theater Company's production of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"
Technical roles include Director of Aristophanes' "The Birds" with Chrysostomos at St. John's College, Stage Manager of Chekov's "The Seagull" with Chrysostomos at St. John's College, Stage Manager of Teatro Paraguas' world premiere production of "Hummingbird", and Assistant Stage Manager for Santa Fe Playhouse's production of "Trevor".
Contact: abram.klaassen@gmail.com
Clara Kundin
Clara Kundin is an actor and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Eastern New Mexico University. She holds an MFA in Theatre for Youth & Community from Arizona State University, a certificate in physical theater from the École Jacques Lecoq, and a BA in Theatre from St. Olaf College. Clara has performed nationally and internationally including Off-Broadway and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Most recently, she performed in the original Phoenix cast of the Off-Broadway hit Drunk Shakespeare. New York Theater: Luna Eclipse (spit&vigor), The Jewish King Lear (Metropolitan Playhouse), Doomocracy (Creative Time), {my lingerie play} (Rattlestick Theater), Helena in The Rover and The Naked Tempest (Torn Out Theater), Lake Victory (GYM at Judson), The Lysistrata Project (Irondale Center). Regional: Nancy in Oliver! (Lawrence Arts Center), The Sunshine Boys (Guthrie Theater). Film: A Matter of Time (Purple Violet Prod.), Centinel (The Swiss Institute). www.clarakundin.com
Theo Kutsko
THEO (they/them/theirs) graduated from New Mexico School for the Arts in 2022. Theo is a vocalist, pianist, actor, theater technician and visual artist. They began their acting career playing Toby in Sweeney Todd (SF Performing Arts), At NMSA they have performed in several productions, favorite roles being Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, Fester in The Addams Family Musical and the title role in The Liar. They have been in the last 3 musicals for Santa Fe Youth Collaborative Theatre (Little Women, In Pieces, It Shoulda Been You) and are currently directing and acting in Falsettos for the company. Theo made their New York cabaret debut at Feinstein’s 54 Below in 2020. They are the 2020 Melissa Engestrom Youth Artist Award Winner for the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts and a finalist for the 2022 Enchantment Awards. They will be going to college in fall 2022 and have been accepted to several conservatory programs. Catch Theo at one of their weekly gigs at Vanessie in Santa Fe! Email at: jackiecamborde@yahoo.com
Suzanne Lederer
Suzanne Lederer has starred both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre and on television opposite such notable personalities as John Lithgow, Frank Langella, and Katharine Hepburn. In Santa Fe, most recently, Suzanne portrayed Daisy Werthan in the much acclaimed New Mexico Actors Lab production of Driving Miss Daisy. She was featured in Robert Benedetti’s Shakescenes, as well as the Ainadamar Festival sponsored by the Santa Fe Opera.
Suzanne originated the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Craig Barnes’ play, Kings Yellow, and appeared with Shakespeare in Santa Fe as well as with the New Mexico Repertory Company.
She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association since 1971.
Suzanne is also a playwright and a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America since 2014.
Aaron Leventman
Aaron Leventman started acting at 8-years-old in the children’s theatre company Freelance Players in Boston, MA where he is from. He moved to Santa Fe from Cape Cod after his involvement as a writer/director/actor with the Provincetown Theatre Company. When living in Santa Fe, he’s performed with most of the local theatre companies in both classics and original plays. Some of his favorite parts include Pantelone in For the Love of Three Oranges, Alonso in The Tempest, Carl in Opus, Snug in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Editor Daily in Cradle Will Rock, and Saul in True West. He’s also appeared in industrials, commercials, short films, and features and was a fan guest host on Turner Classic Movies.
Contact: writingcoachsf@gmail.com.
Hannah Machado Parker
Hannah is a Texas raised, New York City trained, and Santa Fe based actor and writer. She received her bachelors at Marymount Manhattan College in Manhattan, as well as trainings at UCLA and the Denver Center. During her years in New York, she spread herself across the board to learn all elements of theatre and film, from art direction to sound design to Shakespeare to improv so that she could always be a part of production.
As for writing, she has interned for entertainment sites and published articles through them. She used the pause of 2020 to finally start writing the scripts that were running around in her head.
Her work is inspired by the energy of the city and the serenity of the high desert.
Contact: hannahmachado@aol.com
Terrance MacNamara
Santa Fe actor Terrance MacNamara apperared on Broadway with Steppenwolf Theatre in it's Tony award production of The Grapes of Wrath. He was recently seen as Brabantio in the Santa Fe ISC productions of Othello and Nine Moons. Terry was a regular on the Chicago stage before moving to Santa Fe to pursue both acting and his work as a bronze sculptor. I am excited to find work on stage and film in the rapidly expanding Santa Fe scene.
Contact: terrymac@earthlink.net
Jessica Mahoney
Prior to her acting journey, Jess was an intelligence officer in the U.S. intelligence community. She is currently a student at Act Up Studios in Albuquerque and takes every opportunity to learn the craft and the industry. She is looking to build her experience by showcasing her commitment, humor, and love of storytelling.
More information: http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/1702311-4880548
Contact: jessmahoney22@gmail.com
Quinn Mander
Quinn received his MFA in Acting from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Recently he directed the successful and well-received production The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds at The Santa Fe Playhouse. He has acted in New York, Santa Fe, and regionally. Local roles have included Bradley in Buried Child for Ironweed Productions, Bob Cratchit in The Santa Fe Playhouse production of A Christmas Carol (directed by the wonderful and dearly missed Dan Gerrity), and Jaques in As You Like It. Other favorite roles include Robert in Betrayal, Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and King Henry in Henry V.
Debrianna Mansini
Debrianna is a New-York–trained actor with a passion for activism. She trained at the great Circle in the Square before coming to the Land of Enchantment. Shortly after arriving in Santa Fe, Ms. Mansini began producing theatre with a company she founded called Tin Roof Productions that eventually became Santa Fe Performing Arts Company, where she continued to perform and produce theatre. She was a company member for ten years, performing on the main stage and touring children’s theatre throughout northern New Mexico. As a member of For Giving Productions, she recently performed in the wildly popular Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Imagining Brad, and played Margaret in David Lindsay Abaire’s Good People. All three shows toured Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Durango.
Ms. Mansini has trained with such greats as Kim Stanley, Jose Quintero, Edward Albee and, most recently, Alan Arkin. She has worked Off-Broadway in New York City at the Soho Rep.
Jim Melzer
Jim is a very experienced community theater actor, having performed in dramas, comedies, and musicals. He is an accomplished singer and has sung with the Colorado Springs Chorale and the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus. He is a retired advertising professional, and his television and radio commercial writing aids his acting and character-development efforts. Melzer plays the curmudgeon well, on stage and in real life. Roles include officer O'Hara in Arsenic and Old Lace, Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the Lion in The Wizard of Oz and The King in The King and I.
Contact: jmelzer@comcast.net
R L Mirabal
R. L. Mirabal retired in 2023 after 33 years as the Theatre Arts Director at Lake Braddock Secondary in Burke, VA. A native of the Bronx, New York, R. L. received his BA in Drama and Speech from the Catholic University of America in D. C. R. L. has acted and directed over 200 mainstage and one-act high school, community and professional productions. Under his direction, The Lake Braddock Theatre has obtained honors and local and state awards and was invited to perform at the American High School Theatre Festival at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. R. L. directed for the Playworks new scripts program with the International Thespian Society since the program’s inception, and taught creative writing and Shakespeare at the Fairfax County Summer Institute for the Arts. The John F. Kennedy Center, Folger Shakespeare Theatre and The Washington Stage Guild are among the local DC institutions where R. L. has staged productions or acted.
Majid Mubeen
Majid Mubeen is an emotionally grounded screen and theater actor, whose work has been in independent film and professional theater. He excels at emotionally resonant and subtle roles with quiet charisma and cues, as well as physically expressive character work. He is skilled in improv, subtle and mime physicality and previously performed forensics one man shows - taking pieces of literature and interpreting them onstage as all the characters and narrator, particularly myth and folktales.
Contact: majidmubn@gmail.com
Christopher Niland
Multi-octave singer. Actor. Songwriter. Producer. Trained at University of Hartford Children's Division from age 9 to 18. Worked and performed regularly in New York City off-Broadway and in nightclubs from 2003 - 2020. Relocated to New Mexico in 2024.
More information: http://www.christopherniland.com
Contact: christopherniland84@gmail.com
Robert Nott
Robert has lived and worked in Santa Fe for about 25 years and is a staff reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. He is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and also studied theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In Santa Fe he has written, directed, and acted in a number of plays for various companies – some good, some bad, and quite a few falling somewhere in-between. He is the author of four non-fiction books, including He Ran All the Way: The Life of John Garfield and recently contracted with McFarland Press to write a book about the films of the cult film director Budd Boetticher.
Lindsey Hope Pearlman
Lindsey is a writer, director, and performer. Original works include Lucy (Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Rainbow Funk Squad, VIV Is For Vengeance, The Geographical History of America (Critic’s Pick, Backstage Magazine) and Winning the Future. Other favorite directing projects include The Rocky Horror Show (Barn Arts Collective/Criterion Theatre), Slaughterhouse Five (NMTC/O'Neill Theater Center), Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO (The Broadway Theatre of Pitman), No Traveler (Hollywood Fringe), and Elizabeth May’s Old Souls. Associate directing/observership credits include Leap of Faith (Christopher Ashley & Beatrice Terry), All In The Timing (John Rando), and A Sign Of The Times (Gabriel Barre). Performing credits include Lady Macbeth in Drunk Shakespeare, which Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker said she “performed with verve.” Lindsey’s a graduate of the London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA) and received her B.A with honors from Hamilton College.
Geoffrey Pomeroy
Geoffrey has a BS with Honors from Skidmore College where received the Periclean Scholar Award for his performance as Peck in How I Learned To Drive, and is an honors graduate from the British-American Drama Academy in London. His New York and California theater credits include Rabbit Hole, Cowboy Mouth, The Immigrant, Waiting For Lefty, The Hostage, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Antigone, Arcadia, as well as Verklarte Nacht at Carnegie Hall. His television and film credits include Better Call Saul, Manhattan, and Monsters Vs. Aliens. As a writer, Geoffrey’s short film, Hypothetically, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival.
Talia Pura
Talia is a recent import from Canada, where she enjoyed a long career with many professional theatre and film credits. Highlights include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which she performed using her aerial dance silks on silks and hoop, and a lead role in the acclaimed Guy Maddin film, The Saddest Music in the World.
Since relocating to Santa Fe this year, Talia has appeared as Ofelia in Anna in the Tropics for the Desert Rose theatre in Albuquerque, and as Madame Salomé in Rosemary Zibart’s All Too Human at Warehouse 21. She has performed many one-woman plays on stages in NYC, Minneapolis, Toronto, Cape Town, SA, and her former hometown of Winnipeg, where she taught theatre at the University of Winnipeg. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Equity.
Contact: talia@taliapura.com or 505.428.8508
Emily Rankin
Emily Rankin is an actor, director, and artist transplant from Texas, where she worked in theatre and film for over 15 years. Since moving to New Mexico in 2018, she’s worked as an actor, director, and stage manager with numerous companies, such as the Santa Fe Playhouse, International Shakespeare Center, Santa Fe Classic Theatre, and Meow Wolf.
Contact: emily.rankin1989@gmail.com
Danielle Louise Reddick
Danielle came to New Mexico after touring as a company member of the International Broadway tour of STOMP. Prior to STOMP, she was an actor, solo performer, puppeteer and percussionist in New York City. Some of the roles she has performed as an actor in New Mexico include: Mrs. Muller in Doubt: A Parable with Ironweed Productions, Ariel in The Tempest with Theaterwork, multiple roles in Hellcab and Lilith in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer both with Mother Road Theatre Company, Elizabeth in In the Next Room with Santa Fe Performing Arts, Van Helsing in Dracula directed by Shepard Sobel, founder of the Pearl Theater in New York City and La Marguise de Merteuil in Les liaisons Dangereuses directed by Jon Jory, formerly of the Actor’s Theater of Louisville. Danielle earned a B.F.A. in theater/acting graduating magna cum laude from Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Danielle has worked as an actor in film, television and new media. She performs two solo shows: Ask Louise and Hypnopompic.
Currently, Dani is an ensemble company member of Theater Grottecso. She is co-owner of RedQuyn Productions and curator of RedQuyn Space. Danielle is a wood carver specializing in puppets and a member of the Baumann Marionette Puppet Troupe.
Vanessa Rios y Valles
is a Santa Fe–based actor originally from San Antonio, Texas. She earned her BFA in Acting from the College of Santa Fe and was also trained at the British-American Drama Academy in London. Vanessa co-founded an award-winning ensemble company The Other Side Theater in Portland, Oregon, where she performed and directed for seven seasons before returning to New Mexico. Favorite acting roles include Mae in Fool for Love, Sister James in Doubt, and Molly in Molly Sweeney. She has performed with many local companies including Theaterwork, Ironweed Productions, Theater Grottesco, the Santa Fe Playhouse, and the New Mexico Actors Lab. Vanessa is also a trained voiceover artist currently exploring work in commercial and audiobook narration.
Contact: vriosyvalles@gmail.com
Jeffrey Lee Robinson
Jeffrey Lee is an actor, writer, producer and VFX artist that has worked on several independent projects in Nashville, Colorado and New Mexico. His approach to each project is to surface the voice of the work and become the medium of the director to the audience.
Performance and other mediums to Jeffrey's work linked below,
https://www.youtube.com/jeffreyleerobinson
https://www.instagram.com/jeffrey.lee.robinson
Contact: jeffrey.l.robinson@gmail.com
Dakota Tara Rose
Dakota Tara Rose is an actress, singer, and playwright. She has been in numerous musicals and productions around the Santa Fe area. She graduated from New Mexico School for the Arts with a theatre specialization and now attends Southern Methodist University (SMU) during the school year. She is ready to act in the summers! She is trained in viewpoints, Stanislavsky, Meisner, and various other techniques. She is a hard worker and eager to be involved, has lots of experience in experimental and devised works. She looks forward to working with you!
Contact: dakotarose918@gmail.com
Tallis Rose
Tallis attended the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and graduated in 2014 with a B.A. in theater. Since then she has worked with the New Mexico Actor’s Lab on two very special productions, Proof and A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, as well as 1984 for the Santa Fe Playhouse.
Ann Roylance
Ann’s varied professional career has included television, musical theatre, plays and clubs from D.C. to New York to Sydney to L.A. to Santa Fe. She has worked with such notables as Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Mary Tyler Moore, Kathy Bates, Brian Dennehy, Bob Newhart, Julie Harris, and other wonderful talents.
Her introduction to Santa Fe theatre was as a teenage boy in The Shakespeare Society’s Midsummer Night's Dream, and she has been seen at the Santa Fe Playhouse dancing with a ghost in I Hate Hamlet, playing a Granny in Moon Over Buffalo, two Benchwarmers, and another teenager in Kimberly Akimbo. At the Adobe Rose, she played a dopey sister in Bonjour, La Bonjour, and lately a grande dame in All Too Human at Warehouse 21.
Contact: ann@FlappingBrain.com
Karen Gruber Ryan
Since joining the Santa Fe theatre community in 2014, Karen has been seen onstage at the Santa Fe Playhouse (Fun Home, Marjorie Prime, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cabaret, and The Madwoman of Chaillot), Oasis Theatre Company (The Water Engine), and with the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society (The Tempest). Prior to that, Karen lived and performed in Seattle. Favorite roles there include Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Dorothy in Act a Lady, and Mrs. Boeuf in Rhinoceros. She was also a performer and writer with the critically-acclaimed comedy group, Bald Faced Lie, producing more than twenty original shows and touring to comedy festivals around the country. Television credits include roles on the sketch comedy show, The John Report with Bob, and on Bill Nye the Science Guy’s The Eyes of Nye. As a singer, Karen has appeared in numerous musical and jazz cabaret productions.
Contact: kgryan44@gmail.com
Matt Sanford
Matt Sanford is a native Santa Fean. In the past twenty years, he has either written, directed, designed, produced, or appeared in more than one hundred different productions for the stage and screen. Credits include The Sundance Kid in Gunslingers, Macbeth in Macbeth, among many others, including having co-written and directed, designed and starred as Count Dracula in Doc Watson vs. the Vampires.
Matt is currently the Master Electrician and Internship Director at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, where he mentors and instructs eighteen high school interns in the basic skills of Technical Theater every school year. Outside of stage and screen, Matt is a devoted father and husband to Hero and Scarlett, avidly shoots Polaroid photography, and writes and performs experimental guitar compositions under the moniker King Witch. He secretly loves Yoo-Hoo and not-so-secretly loves the Sangre de Cristos in the autumn.
Contact: iAmMattSanford@gmail.com
Kat Sawyer
A native Californian, Kat Sawyer is an actor, award-winning writer and painter, and, for over thirty years, yoga instructor. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from U.C.L.A. with a B.A. in theater, and trained with Meisner proteges, Gene Bua and Paul Kent. She also workshopped with the National Theatre of Great Britain. Kat boasts over a hundred movie, TV, voice-over, and commercial credits in both California and New Mexico. Here, you may have caught her on stage in Georgia and the Butch (New Mexico Actors’ Lab), Seeds (Ironweed Productions), Forces of Nature (Just Say it Theater), Imaginary Invalid (Theaterwork), and many others. For more info on Kat, check out her website: katsawyer.com.
Contact: katsawyer@mindspring.com
Alexis Scott
Alexis Scott is a member of AEA and a dramaturgical actor and director. She has spent the last decade acting in new play premieres across the country and moved to Albuquerque to teach Theatre at the Albuquerque Academy. Off-Broadway NY credits include: Dishwater Blonde, a solo show about Eva Braun by David Turkel; Claire Keichel’s Paul Swan is Dead and Gone with The Civilians; and Gabriel Jason Dean’s Triggered at Cherry Lane Theatre with The Amoralists. She has performed in two premieres at the international Fusebox Festival in Austin, two premieres at the Seattle Children's Theater, and was a team member of Philadelphia Improv. Some favorite roles include Veronica in Hot Belly, Catalina in Catalina de Erauso, Bev/Kathy in Clybourne Park, Twisted Finger Jake in Threepenny Opera, and Girl in Edge of Peace. She is most inspired by rigorous collaborative processes, multi-hyphenates, and queer narratives. She received her MFA in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin. She won the 2024 Enchantment Award for Best Direction in New Mexico. Alexis is currently represented by the O' Agency.
More information about Alexis: http://alexisleahscott.com
Email: alexisleahscott@gmail.com
Dharm Andrew Segal
Dharm is an actor, musician, author and entrepreneur. He has trained with Alan Arkin, Steve Johnson, Phillip Taul and others. He studied Film production, direction and acting at the University of Rochester. Local roles have included Death in Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s Everybody, Thyrsus in Aria da Capo, and Basho in The Bundle. As a musician he has played nationally as well as Europe. Originally from Denmark he has lived in Massachusetts, California and New Mexico. Having run a well known business for many years, he is now returning to his passion for acting.
Contact: dk.maven@gmail.com
Noah Segard
Noah Segard is a Wichita, KS native currently based in Santa Fe. Favorite credits include Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Santa Fe Classic Theater), Hal in 1 Henry 4 (International Shakespeare Center), Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Scottish Rite Signature Theatre), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wichita Shakespeare Company), Chuck in She Kills Monsters (&Sons/Ad Astra), and Luke in Save The Bees (Teatro Paraguas). Noah also appeared in Netflix’s The Harder They Fall.
Danette Sills
Danette Sills hails from Chicago, IL. She has a BSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In Santa Fe since 2012, she has been in numerous plays and staged readings, including The Hat and The Pillowman at the Santa Fe Playhouse, Enfrascada at Teatro Paraguas and Almost Adults at Warehouse 21. She and her husband Peter Sills founded Stage Santa Fe in 2020. Danette is a member of SAG-AFTRA and has been in the independent film All the World Is Sleeping, and S5E7 of Better Call Saul. As a writer, she regularly contributes to science fiction essay collections and writes short fiction.
Contact: sillsdanette@hotmail.com
Noah G. Simpson
Noah is an actor, director, and pianist, as well as a public speaker and emcee.
More about Noah: https://theatresantafe.org/s/Noah-G-Simpson-resume.pdf
Contact: dodina64@yahoo.com
Francis Parker Stein
A recent transplant to Santa Fe, I moved here after seven years in France, where I continued my work as a professional actor. I got my start in youth theatre and Shakespeare, and theatre productions in high school and in college. As a native Kentuckian, my journey has brought me across oceans and back. My first role back in America is Romeo in the Santa Fe Shakespeare/Shakespeare Gym's production of Romeo and Juliet.
Email: francisparkerstein@gmail.com
Link to online information about you: http://instagram.com/frncsprkrstn
Rob Tode
Rob Tode is an award-winning professional actor, director and producer, and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. He is the Theatre Director at Capital High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is an adjunct faculty member for the Film Dept at Santa Fe Community College. He has performed in over 100 theatre productions, TV shows and films in the United States and the UK. Recent acting credits include roles on the television shows, Duster (HBO Max), Longmire (Netflix), and Manhattan (WGN), in the feature film, Dirty Weekend, and as a commissioned Guest Artist in the UNM production of The Imaginary Invalid in 2024. He also recently completed principal photography for the new comedy TV pilot, Posers (2026), which he wrote and directed.
More information: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2506210/reference
Contact: robtode2004@yahoo.com
Tara Tovarek
Tara is a graduate of Second City. Her favorite stage role was portraying Melibea/ Isabelle/ Hippolyta in Kushner's "The Illusion" at Actors Express. Previously, Tara owned and operated Ship Oil Productions where she Produced and Directed shows that included: "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," "Sure Thing," and "Space Aliens and Tupperware." While living in Brooklyn, Tara attempted standup comedy because it was cheaper than therapy.
More information: https://www.instagram.com/sugarplum_sugarsocks/
Contact: shipoil@gmail.com
Lilia Urrutia
Lilia has worked in various productions as a background artist and recently transitioned to theatre. Lilia’s most recent role was in We are Hispanic American Women, Okay? at Teatro Paraguas in the part of “Nanita.”
Contact: lilia.urrutia@yahoo.com
Adam Wagner
A proud member of AEA and graduate of University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, I have performed for over 20 years professionally. As a director, I have directed and/or choreographed 20+ musicals in houses as small as 49 and as large as 1,700 seats, coordinating crews of 50+ and managed production budgets as large as $250,000.
More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjonathonwagner/
Contact: adamjwagner@me.com