MEET OUR Creatives
Adi Cabral (they/them)
Voice and Text Coach
A RAISIN IN THE SUN, EMMA THE MUSICAL & THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Previous Credits: Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (CO), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (MO), New Repertory Theatre (MA), Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company (TX), Stage Q (WI), The New Hazlett Theater (PA), The Hangar Theatre Company (NY), Central Square Theatre (MA), and Darlinghurst Theatre (Australia). Publications: Here’s How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women (Plural Publishing)
Teaching Credits: Arizona State University, New School for Arts and Academics (AZ), University of West Georgia, University of Nevada Reno. Education: MFA Theatre Performance, Arizona State University: BA Musical Theatre, Rhode Island College. Professional Affiliations: Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA)
An-Lin Dauber (she/her)
Costume Designer
CORIOLANUS, TIMON OF ATHENS
A set and costume designer based in New York and Seattle. Off-Broadway/New York: Paul Swan is Dead and Gone; What You Are Now (The Civilians), Letters That You Will Not Get (American Opera Project), H*tler’s Tasters; Great Novel (New Light Theater), Salesman 之死; June is the First Fall (Yangtze Repertory Company), Bulrusher; Passage (Juilliard). Seattle: Metamorphoses (Seattle Rep), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Intiman & The Williams Project), Amen Corner; Marisol; Blood Wedding; The Bar Plays: Small Craft Warnings and The Time of Your Life; A Bright Room Called Day (The Williams Project). Regional: Huntington Theater Company, Hartford Stage Company, Alliance Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Magic Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, Park Square Theater, Serenbe Playhouse, Passage Theatre, InterACT Theatre, Inis Nua, Theater Alaska. Film: Lolita Express (Houselight). Assistant Professor of Costume Design at the University of Washington. Company member of The Williams Project, a living wage theater company dedicated to radical hospitality. MFA Yale School of Drama. Proud member of USA 829.
Paul Dennhardt (he/him)
Fight Director
ROMEO & JULIET, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Past Seasons: King Lear, Sweeney Todd, All’s Well That Ends Well, Pericles, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, The Conclusion of Henry the Sixth, Macbeth.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival – Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet; Shakespeare Theatre Company – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear; Arrow Rock Lyceum – Sherwood; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis – Hamlet; Folger Theatre – Romeo and Juliet; Arden Theatre – Macbeth; Indiana Repertory Theatre – The Three Musketeers; Dallas Theatre Center – Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls; Shakespeare Festival St. Louis – Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry IV, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III
Britannia Howe (she/her)
Director/Writer
THE GREENSHOW: THE HILLS OF APPALACHIA, ENGLISH REGENCY GARDEN PARTY
Previously at the Festival: The Greenshow 2018, 2019, 2021, and Cymbeline.
Other Theatres: Illinois State University, Utah State University, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Women of Will, Coalescence Theatre Company, Nomad Theatre Company. Awards: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Directing Fellowship 2011. Teaching Credits: Illinois State University, Southern Utah University, Utah Shakespeare Festival Playmakers and Actor Training. Education: MFA- Directing, Illinois State University; BFA- Classical Acting, Theatre Education Southern Utah University
Instagram: @howetelling
Geoffrey Kent (he/they)
Director/Fight Director
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
A freelance SDC director/fight director and an AEA Actor based out of Denver, Colorado. Past USF work includes Talbot in Henry 6, 1, Master Ford in Merry Wives and Billy Bones in Treasure Island. Geoffrey has spent fourteen seasons with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, twenty with the Denver Center Theatre company, seven with the Arvada Center and has completed various seasons with Orlando Shakespeare Theater and the American Shakespeare Center as either actor, director or fight director. He is a nationally recognized fight director and one of twenty fight masters with the Society of American Fight Directors. Geoffrey has instructed at various MFA programs across the US including the National Theatre Conservatory, the ASOLO Rep, the University of Alabama and the University of Louisiana.
Jason Lajka
Scenic Designer
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
EMMA THE MUSICAL
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Broadway: Associate Scenic Designer––Sweeney Todd. Previous USF Credits: Hamlet (2019), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2019), The Foreigner (2018), Big River (2018), The Liar (2018), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017), Guys and Dolls (2017), Treasure Island (2017), Julius Caesar (2016), Murder for Two (2016). Film: Stop-motion animated films, including Art Director––Wendell & Wild, Scenic Designer––Coraline. Education: MFA from New York University. Member of United Scenic Artists 829
Valerie Rachelle (she/her)
Director/Choreographer
EMMA, THE MUSICAL
Artistic Director of the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, OR. She has been a freelance Director/Choreographer for over 23 years and has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, and many others. www.valerierachelle.com
Jo Winiarski (she/her)
Scenic Designer
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,
ROMEO & JULIET
Off-Broadway: Accidentally Brave; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelky. Over forty shows at the USF including Gold Mountain, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The 39 Steps, The Glass Menagerie, The Music Man, The Winter’s Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Misérables, Peter and the Starcatcher, Twelve Angry Men, Boeing Boeing, Mary Poppins, The Odd Couple, How to Fight Loneliness, The Sound of Music, Trouble in Mind, Clue. Other Theatres: Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre, Pioneer Theater. Television: art direction, Late Night with Seth Meyers (episodes 1–844 and 1127–1154). Other Credits: Wishes for Disney Cruise Line
A Member of United Scenic Artists.