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Meet the Company

  • Role
  • Department

  • Emma Horwitz ’20

  • Catia

  • G ’23

  • Clew ’23

  • Luna

  • Marylenny

  • Aizhaneya ’23

  • Afsaneh Aayani

  • Jennifer Ables

  • Will Adams ’19

  • David Adjmi

  • Shoshana Adler

  • Scott Aiello

  • Dahlia Al-Habieli

  • Alina Alcántara

  • Ashely L. Aldarondo

  • Ashely Aldarondo

  • Liza Alexis

  • Anwar Ali ’20

  • Kaii Almeida

    Assistant Director of Facilities and Security

  • John Ambrosone

  • Jen Anaya

  • Cameron Anderson

  • Tanya Anderson

  • Adam Anderson

    Finance Coordinator

  • Alfredo Antillon ’21

  • Jeff Ararat

  • Lucia Aremu

  • Lexi Asare

    Costume Technician (Wardrobe)

  • Emily Atkinson

    Grants Writer

  • Julia Atwood ’17

  • William John Austin ’12

  • Monique Austin

    Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism

  • Nakia Shalice Avila

  • A.J. Baldwin

  • Michael Barker

    Interim Director of Marketing & Communications

  • Madeleine Barker ’22

  • Mia Barnes

    House Services Associate

  • Raquel Barreto

  • Ross Barron ’23

  • Valérie Thérèse Bart

  • Shura Baryshnikov

    MFA Head of Movement and Physical Theater

  • Tay Bass

  • Normand Beauregard

  • Emma Becker

    Education Programs Coordinator

  • Jack Becker

    Lead Bartender and Security & Property Assistant

  • Daniel Begin

    Associate Education Director

  • Nikki Belenski

  • Nic Benacerraf

    MFA Faculty, Dramaturgy

  • Kayla Bennett

  • JB Benzinger

    Teaching Artist

  • Stephen Berenson

    Resident Company Member and Brown/Trinity Rep Founding Director

  • Kate Bergstrom ’18

  • David Bertoldi

  • Erick Betancourt

  • Lisa Biggs

  • Wendy Blackburn Eastland

  • Abram Blau

  • Dylan Michael Bowden

  • Amanda Brackett

    Assistant Production Manager

  • Elton Bradman

  • George Brant

  • Angela Brazil

    Resident Company Member and Professor of the Practice, Voice & Speech

  • Jess Brennan

  • Jessica Brennan

  • Matthew Bretschneider

    Teaching Artist

  • Bianca Rosa Brockl ’23

  • Lizzy Brooks ’21

  • Ryan Joseph Broussard ’19

  • Sara Brown

  • Candice Brown

  • Kannetha Brown

  • Jayna Brown

    Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

  • Siobhan Brown

    MFA Faculty, Liberatory Strategies

  • Stefania Bulbarella

  • Jonathan Buonaccorsi

    Ticket Office Associate

  • Ebony M. Burton

  • Anaïs Bustos

  • Jordan Butterfield

    Director of Education & Accessibility

  • Kyra Button

  • Nicholas Byers

  • Wensley Sarkar Bynoe

    Director of Community Engagement & Teaching Artist

  • Angelique M. C-Dina

  • Maria Noriko Cabral

  • Rudy Cabrera

  • Alexa Cadete

  • Jennifer Canole

    Director of Institutional Advancement

  • Tatyana-Marie Carlo

    Resident Company Member, Artistic Associate, and MFA Faculty, Directing

  • Amanda Downing Carney

    Costume Shop Director

  • Leander & Tristan Carney

  • Tristan Carney

  • Marcus Carroll

  • Barbara Casey

    MFA Faculty, Alexander Technique

  • Alison Castañeda

    Carpenter

  • Brandon Castillo

    Ticket Office Associate

  • Anita Castillo-Halvorssen ’19

  • Leandro Kufa Castro

  • Amith Chandrashaker

  • Corina Chase

  • Octavia Chavez-Richmond ’18

  • Yao Chen

  • Dawn Chiang

  • Jeremy Chiang

    MFA Technical Director

  • Tina Chilip ’06

  • Broken Chord

  • Rachel Christopher

    Resident Company Member and MFA Assistant Professor of the Practice/Acting

  • Jeff Church

  • Ted Chylack

  • Rachel Clausen ’17

  • Matt Clevy

  • Michael Cline

    MFA Technical Supervisor

  • Kei Soares Cobb

  • Buzz Cohen

  • Joshua Wolf Coleman

  • Kalyne Coleman ’20

  • Curt Columbus

    The Laura H. Harris Artistic Director and MFA Professor of the Practice, Directing/Dramaturgy

  • Jessica Cooke

    Ticketing Shift Lead

  • Robert Cope

  • Michael Costagliola

  • Ayden Courage

    Sound Board Operator

  • Kyle Crand

  • Alexander Crespo-Rosario II

    Teaching Artist

  • Alessandra Cronin

  • Timothy Crowe

    Resident Company Member

  • Adam Crowe

  • Katie Croyle ’19

  • Dr. Michelle Cruz

    Director of Community Engagement

  • Myka Cue ’23

  • Oona Curley

  • Alexandra D’Agostino

  • Lucy Dantz

    Arts Administration Apprentice

  • Christopher Darbassie

  • Anthony DaSilva

    Housekeeper

  • Carlos DaSilva

  • Sofia DaSilva

  • An-lin Dauber

  • Jackie Davis

    Resident Company Member, Artistic Associate, Teaching Artist, and MFA Faculty, Physical Theater

  • Stephen Davis

    Housekeeper

  • Justin Davis

  • Josiah Davis ’20

  • Aliana de la Guardia

  • Joao De Santos

    Information Technology Support

  • Alexander De Vasconcelos Matos ’19

  • Emma Deane

  • Maranda DeBusk

  • Eddie DeHais ’21

  • Jasson Deleon

  • Efren Delgadillo, Jr.

  • Camilla Dely

  • Brad Delzer

    Associate Director of Individual Giving

  • William DeMeritt

  • Nate Dendy ’09

  • William Derby

  • Stacey Derosier

  • Matthew Desorcy

  • Gerardo Díaz

  • Tracy Diibon Coffey

  • Jayson Dixon

  • Grace Dolan

  • Richard Donelly

  • Molly Donovan

  • Danielle Dorfman ’20

  • Anna Drummond

  • Jack Dryden ’20

  • Janice Duclos

    Resident Company Member

  • Caitlin Duffy ’20

  • Rachel Dulude

  • Evie Dumont

  • Yasmeen Duncan

  • Daniel Duque-Estrada ’13

    Resident Company Member

  • Jack Dwyer ’18

  • Renata Eastlick

  • Sinan Eczacibasi ’17

  • Justin Ellington

  • Mia Ellis ’12

    Resident Company Member

  • Layan Elwazani

  • Kelsey Emry

    Production Assistant

  • Caroline Eng

  • David Ensor

  • Nora Eschenheimer

  • Jaimy Escobedo

  • Michael Évora

  • Ricardy Fabre ’20

  • Adeliia Faizullina

  • Alejandro Fajardo

  • Caoilfhionn Farrell

    Electrics Apprentice

  • Brian Fauska

    Technical Director

  • Polly Feliciano

    Production Assistant

  • Anthony Feola

  • Melaine Ferdinand-King

  • Wilkie Ferguson III

  • Natán Rodrigues Ferreira

  • Alec E. Ferrell

  • Kate Field

  • George Finley-Pyle

  • Bethany Fitch

    Company Manager

  • John M. Flores

  • Jennifer Fok

  • Shelley Fort ’15

  • Raymond Fournier

    Ticket Office Associate

  • Larry D. Fowler, Jr.

  • Jotae Fraser ’20

  • Lynnette R. Freeman ’09

  • Miranda Friel

    Scenic Painter

  • Ashley Frith

  • Megan Frye

    MFA Props Supervisor

  • Olivera Gajic

  • Ian Gale

    Light Board Operator

  • Taavon Gamble

    Resident Company Member, Artistic Associate, Teaching Artist, and MFA Faculty, Physical Theater

  • Viraj Gandhi ’18

  • Marcus Gardley

  • Kent Gash

  • Ava Gaudet

  • Richard Gemma IV

  • Alberto Genao

  • Tosin George

  • S. Michael Getz

    Props Supervisor

  • Rebecca Gibel

    Resident Company Member and Teaching Artist

  • Carol Gill

    MFA Faculty, Voice and Alexander Technique

  • Nina Giselle

  • Hannah Gluvna

  • John Godbout

  • Connor Goins

    Costumes Apprentice

  • Andrew Gombas ’21

  • Lovanni Gomez

    Lighting Supervisor

  • Rene Gómez

  • Diego Alejandro González

  • Isabella Gonzalez

  • Taylor Goodrich

    House Services Associate and Bartender

  • Addie Gorlin ’19

  • Erin Grafing

    Sound Apprentice

  • Brandon Green

    MFA Faculty, Movement

  • Alexis Green ’17

  • Jeremy Gressman

    Security & Property Assistant

  • Benjamin Grills

  • Augusto Guardado

  • Lorraine Guerra

  • Jihan Haddad

    Teaching Artist

  • Allison Hall

    Advancement Manager

  • Amanda Hallam

    Bartender

  • Aimee Hamrick

  • Mauro Hantman

    Resident Company Member

  • Kara Harmon

  • Anne L. Harrigan

    MFA Production Manager

  • Shenyse Harris ’18

  • Jon Hart

    House Services Associate

  • Kevaughn Harvey

  • Sammi Haskell

    MFA Program Coordinator

  • Mel Hayes

    Teaching Artist

  • Edward E. Haynes, Jr.

  • Tyler Herman ’18

  • Orlando Hernández

  • Ramon Hernández

  • Henry Hetz ’20

  • Dan Hewson

  • Brendan D. Hickey ’19

  • Michael Hisamoto ’23

  • Mycah Hogan

    MFA Faculty, Physical Theater

  • Andrew Holder

  • Carson Hollingsworth

  • James Horban

  • Cloteal L. Horne ’20

  • Anita Horne Lawlor

    Director of Finance and Administration

  • Evan Andrew Horwitz ’19

  • Molly Houlahan ’23

  • Janie Howland

  • Ian Hudgins

    Assistant Shop Supervisor

  • Samantha Hudgins

  • Romello Huins

  • Peter Sasha Hurowitz

    Sound Engineer

  • Zoë Hurwitz

  • Billy Hutto ’18

  • Miriam Hyfler

  • Matthew Imhoff

  • Tonia Jackson

  • Tylar Jahumpa

  • Jill Jann

    MFA Academic Coordinator

  • Olivia Jarbadan

  • Qween Jean

  • Sharon Jenkins

  • Angie Jepson

    MFA Faculty, Physical Theater

  • Aaron Johansen

  • Patrick Johnson

  • Will Johnson

  • Justine Johnson Kenahan

  • JāQuan Malik Jones ’23

  • Allison Jones

  • Tatiana Kahvegian

  • Jeanine Kane

  • Kayleigh Kane

  • Alyssa Karnes

    First Hand & Crafts Artisan

  • Megumi Katayama

  • Phyllis Kay

    Resident Company Member

  • Kenisha Kelly

  • Annmarie Kelly

  • Marika Kent

  • Laura Kepley

  • Matt Ketai ’17

  • Melissa Kievman

    MFA Creative Producer, Professional Development

  • Gwen Kingston ’17

  • Kayla Kirk

  • Taylor Kmetz

    Charge Scenic Artist

  • Tammy Knight-Gallant

    Bartender

  • Zoe Knutsen

    Production Assistant

  • Claire Koenig ’23

  • Lily Kops

  • Felese Kparyea

  • Ian Kramer

  • Ian Kramer ’20

  • Oriana Lada ’18

  • Kris Laliberte

    House Services Associate

  • L’Oreal Lampley ’19

  • Daniel Landez

  • Nicole Lang

    Executive Assistant/Board Liaison

  • T Lawrence Simon

  • Jacqueline E. Lawton

  • Tina Leach

    Ticketing Shift Lead

  • Kristin Leahey

  • Meghan Leathers ’18

  • Alex LeBlanc

  • Meg Tracy Leddy

  • Eugene Lee

    Resident Designer

  • Nick Lehane

  • Peter Leigh-Nilsen

  • Nikki Leite

    Graphic Designer

  • Julia Lema

  • Garry Lennon

  • Nicole Lewis

  • Elizabeth Lewis ’19

  • Lynden Miles Ley

  • Lex Liang

  • Kate Liberman

    Executive Director

  • LeVonne Lindsay

  • Christopher Lindsay ’21

  • Christopher Lindsay ’21

  • Harmony Lindstrom

    Carpenter

  • Julia Locascio

  • Erin Lockett

  • Lia Lockhart

  • Jake Loewenthal ’17

  • C. Mingo Long

  • Brandon Lopes

  • Matthew López

  • Gabriela López Ruiz

    Production Assistant

  • Geri-Nikole Love

  • Laura Lyman Payne ’17

  • Patrick Lynch

    Assistant Set Design

  • Jason Lynch

  • Teddy Lytle

  • Amie Lytle

  • Matt Lytle ’18

  • Madeleine Maby

  • Alex MacBeth

    Assistant Lighting Supervisor

  • Karen MacDonald

  • Liam MacDougall ’22

  • Alexis Elisa Macedo

  • Victor Machado

  • Taibi Magar ’14

  • Fiona Marie Maguire ’23

  • Erica Lauren Maholmes

  • Michael Jennings Mahoney

  • Caterina Maina

  • Manny Maldonado

    Education Apprentice

  • Gunnar Manchester ’22

  • Andrew March

    MFA Assistant Technical Director

  • Jessie March

  • Evelyn Marote

  • Maria Ines Marques

  • Zdenko Martin ’14

  • Kevin Patrick Martin

  • Deb Martin

  • Ken-Matt Martin ’19

  • Carla Martinez

  • Marta V. Martínez

    Resident Artist

  • Germán Martinez

  • Marcel Mascaró ’18

  • Maggie Mason ’17

  • David Mattar Merten ’23

  • R. Christopher Maxwell

  • Shahrzad Mazaheri

  • Jennifer McClendon

    Producing Director

  • Kelly McDonald

    Receptionist

  • Brian McEleney

    Associate Director, Resident Company Member, and Brown/Trinity Rep Founding Director

  • Michael McGarty

    Resident Artist

  • Kate McGee

  • Porsche McGovern

  • Kincaid McLaren

  • Jayne McLendon ’18

  • Louis Reyes McWilliams ’19

  • Rocio Mendez

  • Brian Mertes

    Associate Director and MFA Head of Directing

  • Josephine Miller

  • Cameron Blake Miller

  • Olivia Miller ’19

  • Jasson Minadakis

  • Jennifer Mischley

  • Tsebiyah Mishael

  • Lizan Mitchell

  • Justin Mitchell

  • David R. Molina

  • Talene Monahon

  • Rebecca C. Monroe

  • Daria-Lyric Montaquila

  • Liz Morgan ’13

    MFA Faculty, Playwriting

  • Miguel Morillo

  • Luke Morrison

    MFA Costume Shop Director

  • Ruarí Morrison

    Lead Bartender

  • Marina Morrissey ’17

  • Elexis Morton

  • Tristen Moseley

    Assistant Production Manager

  • Tara Moses

  • Josephine Moshiri Elwood

  • Mary Mullane

  • Jaylayah Murray

    House Services Associate

  • Deanna Myers

  • Mathieu Myrick

  • Santiago Najarro Cano

  • Sade Namei

  • Martinez Napoleon

  • Angela Nash Wade

  • Luyuan Nathan

  • Ash Neece

  • Victor Neto

  • Jenny Nguyen Nelson ’23

  • Hillary Nicholson

    MFA Faculty, Singing

  • Katherine Niedzwiadek

    House Services Associate

  • John Noble Barrack ’18

  • Lynn Nottage

  • Megan Nussle

    Assistant House Services Manager

  • Henry Nwaru

  • Emma O’Donnell

    House Services Associate

  • Karen O’Malley

    Staff Accountant

  • Cait O’Connor

  • Jules Odendahl-James

  • Firo Oliva Ridge

  • Karin Olson

  • Tanya Orellana

  • Sara Ossana

  • Wendy Overly

  • Orlando Pabotoy

  • Chingwe Padraig Sullivan

  • Montana Palmer

    Human Resources Manager

  • Jordan Palmer

  • Johanna Pan

  • Keith Parham

  • Helen Park

  • Yakim Parker

  • Shayna Passaretti

    Hair, Wig, & Makeup Artisan

  • Marlisse Payamps

  • Adrian Peguero

  • Natalie Penna

    Stage Carpenter

  • Julia Perez

  • Magnolia Pèrez

  • Madison Pérez

  • Zahra Perez

  • Tiago Periera

    Assistant to Props Supervisor

  • Daniel Perkins

    House Services Associate and Sensory Friendly Consultant

  • Mya Piccione

  • Sartje Pickett

  • Blair Pierre

  • Shivani Pinapotu

  • Erick Pinnick

  • Sara Pisheh

  • Ricardo Pitts-Wiley

  • Jonathan Pitts-Wiley

  • Alexander Platt

  • Paula Plum

  • Collette Pollard

  • Mary Potts Dennis

  • Kimberly Powers

  • Arturo Puentes

  • Baron E. Pugh

  • Yunus Quddus

  • Luis Ra Rivera ’23

  • Dave Rabinow

    Teaching Artist

  • Riw Rakkulchon

  • Ayrin Ramirez Peguero

  • Raphael Regan

  • Brad Reinking

  • Matthew Requintina

  • Julia Reyes

    Assistant Director of Marketing and Sales

  • Michael Rice

  • Cherie Corinne Rice

  • Adam Rigg

  • Erin Riley

  • José Rivera

  • Omar Robinson

  • Tyrone Robinson

    Facilities Assistant

  • Diane Rodriguez

  • Sokeo Ros

  • María Gabriela Rosado González ’19

  • Michael Rosas ’20

  • Mark Rose

  • Max Rosenak

    MFA Faculty, Voice and Speech

  • Kelvin Roston Jr.

  • Alex Ruiz

  • Matthew Russell

  • Madeleine Russell ’23

  • Alison Russo

  • Devon Russo

  • Kathy Ruvuna

  • Christopher Sadlers

  • Nia Safarr Banks

  • Katsuto Sakogashira

  • Vinaya Saksena

    Security & Property Assistant

  • Elia Saldana

  • Deborah Salem Smith

    Playwright in Residence and MFA Faculty, Playwriting

  • Mauricio Salgado ’18

  • SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobal

  • Noah Saltzman

  • David Samuel ’17

  • Barbara Samuels

  • Jude Sandy

    Associate Director and Resident Company Member

  • Pablo Santiago

  • Cynthia Santos DeCure

  • Mike Sartini

  • Jonah Schnell

  • Haley Schwartz ’20

  • Jenna Lea Scott

  • Dan Scully

  • Anne Scurria

    Resident Company Member and MFA Faculty, Acting

  • Cha See

  • Stefanie M. Senior

  • Kimberly Senior

    MFA Faculty, Directing

  • Nicholas Shay

  • Sara Sheets

  • Kayla Shimizu

  • Daniel Shtivelberg

  • Robin Silva

    House Services Associate

  • Maddie Simmons

    Light Board Operator

  • Leiyana Simone Pereira

  • Sophia Skiles

    MFA Head of Acting

  • Anna Slate

  • Shanel LaShay Smith

  • Amy Smith

    MFA Freelance Instructor

  • Jordyn Smith

  • Jessica Natalie Smith ’21

  • Andrew Smithson

  • Stephen Sondheim

  • Aman Soni ’19

  • Daniel Soule

  • Hannah Spacone

  • Toni Spadafora-Sadler

  • Kedren Spencer

  • M. Florian Staab

  • Chris Stahl ’17

  • Mike Stanton

  • Sara States

  • Joanna Lynne Staub

  • Brennan Stefanik

  • Lindsey Steinert ’20

  • Ben Steinfeld

    MFA Faculty, Acting

  • JaMario Stills

  • Mikaal Sulaiman

  • Linda Sutherland

    Teaching Artist

  • Corinne Sweeney

  • Helena Tafuri

  • Carol Ann Tan ’23

  • Eddy Tavares

  • Rosalyn Tavarez

  • Alex Tawid Di Maggio

  • Garrett Taylor

  • Ashley Teague ’17

  • Peter Tedeschi

  • Marina Tejada

  • Olivia Tellier

  • Shaffany Terrell

  • Jan Carlos Terrero

  • Meg Thalken

  • Wall-e

  • Nicolette Theroux

    Ticketing and Sales Manager and Bartender

  • Joel Thibodeau

  • Kai Thomani Tshikosi ’23

  • Benja Kay Thomas

  • Dereks Thomas

    Teaching Artist

  • Dustin Thomas

    Costume Technician (Wardrobe)

  • Claire Thompson

    Production & Stage Management Apprentice

  • Stephen Thorne

    Resident Company Member and MFA Faculty, Acting

  • Charlie Thurston

    Resident Company Member

  • Suzanne Tidwell

    House Services Manager

  • Olivia Tighe

    Production Assistant

  • Kai Tshikosi

  • Will Turner ’17

  • Ahtziri Ulloa

  • Stephen Ursprung

  • Delia Usenia

    Ticket Office Associate

  • David Valdes

    MFA Faculty - Directing and Dramaturgy

  • Mark Valdez

  • Lucy Van Atta ’17

  • Han Van Sciver ’21

  • Lori Vega

  • Christie Vela

  • Max Vernon

  • Nick Vicinanzo ’20

  • Birgitta Victorson

  • Mariana Villa Jaramillo

  • Nic Vincent

  • Anton Volovsek

  • Rachel Walshe

  • Rachael Warren

    Resident Company Member, Artistic Associate, Teaching Artist, and MFA Faculty, Singing

  • Christina Watanabe

  • Richard Waterhouse

    MFA Faculty, On-Camera Training

  • Andrew Watring ’23

  • Rose Weaver

  • Laura Weick

    Communications Specialist

  • Alec Weinberg ’17

  • Aileen Wen McGroddy ’21

  • Quinn West

  • Hugh Wheeler

  • Whitney White ’15

  • yaTande Whitney V. Hunter

  • Rebecca-Anne Whittaker

  • Jordan William Cardona

  • Shawn Williams

    Security & Property Supervisor

  • Naviya Williams

  • Austyn Williamson

  • Alexis Wilner

    Scenic, Paints, & Props Apprentice

  • Tobias Wilson

  • Brad Wilson ’17

  • Joe Wilson, Jr.

    Resident Company Member

  • Christopher Windom

  • Abigail Winsor

  • Elizabeth Wislar

  • Amy Witherby

    Production Stage Manager

  • Rodney Witherspoon, II

    Teaching Artist

  • Antonio Michael Woodard ’19

  • Am Wyckoff

    Teaching Artist

  • Gia Yarn

    Casting Director & Artistic Producer

  • Sharifa Yasmin

  • Jess Yates

  • Patricia Ybarra

    MFA Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Dramaturgy

  • Lauren Yee

  • Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

  • Elliot Yokum

  • William Andrew Young

    Cutter/Draper & Shop Supervisor

  • Michael Yussef Greene

    Carpenter

  • Esther Zabinski

  • Karen Zacarías

  • Jade Ziane

  • Sophie Zmorrod ’23

  • Andrew Zukoski

    Sound Technician

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