Scott C. Sickles

Playwright

Scott is an LGBTQ / neurodivergent / Korean American writer. His plays have been performed in New York City, across the United States, and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’s world premiere of Nonsense and Beauty garnered an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and was an ATCA’s Steinberg Award finalist. Recent LGBTQ+ centered full lengths include The Second World Trilogy, which consists of Marianas Trench (O’Neill Finalist; 2020 Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected, 2020 Road Theatre Company Summer Playwrights Festival), Pangea (Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival), and The Known Universe (Mixed Asian Media Festival); the comedies Intellectuals and Perfecting the Kiss; the horror cycle TARTARUS; and Seaside Tragedies (Scawwy Howwow Theatre). His plays Composure (Lambda Literary Finalist), Hairdresser on Fire, From the Top, Hairdresser on Fire, and Moonlight & Love Songs are all published by Next Stage Press. Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes for and About Queer Kids has been performed in the conservative bastions of Pennsylvania and Florida.

Published short plays include Beautiful Noises (Smith & Kraus), murmurs (Samuel French), Turtles and Bulldogs (Applause), Badger and Frame (Applause), a Hungarian translation of The Other Half, the anthology Demon Bitch Goddess (Amazon), Your Gaze, (The Playground Experiment’s Faces of America), and his eulogy Eighty-Seven Keys which is included in The Covid Monologues from Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble.

Of local interest are his one-act solo piece The Interior and the short musical pantomime Under Cover of Darkness By the Light of the Moon, or “Nobody Was Supposed To Be Here” A Tale of the Pacific Northwest.

Sickles has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime drama General Hospital, and ten Emmy nominations. Member, Dramatists Guild, New Play Exchange. www.ScottCSickles.com 

Megan Kay Wright

Stage Manager

Megan is thrilled to be working with Theatre22. As a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts Acting program, Megan spends their time in as many roles as they can in and around Seattle’s theatre community. Their credits include Stage Manager and Actor at Annex Theatre, Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager and Director at Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre, and Actor at Greenstage. Megan believes that theatre is for all and is extremely grateful for your support of the arts.

Jocelyne Fowler

Costume Designer

Jocelyne has designed for Theatre 22 (Or and The Revolutionists), Shakespeare Company (Arms and the Man, Timon of Athens, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Titus Andronicus, Richard II), Taproot Theatre (The Spitfire Grill, Babette’s Feast, Arsenic and Old Lace, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Civil War Christmas), Book-It Repertory Theatre (Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet), Harlequin Productions, Seattle Musical Theatre, Vashon Opera, Youth Theatre Northwest, SecondStory Repertory, Bellevue College, Overlake School and others. She is the recipient for the 2016 Gregory Award in Outstanding Costume Design.

Marianna de Fazio

Dialect Coach

Marianna is pleased to be back coaching for Theatre22 after appearing as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland last summer. She/her/hers coaches at theaters and schools around the Seattle area, most recently 14/48 Productions Casablanca and Hay Fever with InD Theatre on Bainbridge Island. Marianna also teaches Voice for Theatre as an adjunct professor at SPU, and coaches individuals in voice/speech, accent modification and public speaking : www.mariannadefazio.com .

Parmida Ziaei

Set Designer

Parmida is an Iranian designer, performer and choreographer based in Seattle. She has been designing various interior, architectural, immersive and entertainment spaces and she has also been a scenic and production designer with many local Seattle theaters including Seattle Shakespeare Theatre, Sound Theatre, Seattle Public Theater and Washington Ensemble Theatre.  She is delighted to return to Theatre22. Parmida is the co-founder and Producing Managing Director of Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble and is the resident set designer with Macha Theatre Works. When not designing, Parmida performs, teaches, and choreographs contemporary and Persian dances. www.parmidaziaei.com

Kyle Thompson

Sound Designer

Kyle is very excited to be designing for Theatre22 again, where he has designed for multiple productions (Or, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Downstairs, Annapurna, and Water By The Spoonful). Before live theater returned to the stage, he was fortunate to design and edit multiple audio dramas and radio plays with both Book-It Repertory Theatre and Harlequin Productions while theaters were dark. On the stage, since 2010 he has designed for over 50 productions in the Seattle area, including: Returning the Bones (Gregory Award Nominated for Sound Design), American Junkie, Jane Eyre, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Treasure Island (Book-It); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labor’s Lost (Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare Company); Our Country’s Good, The Pavilion, Take Me Out (Strawberry Theatre Workshop); Mothers and Sons, 4,000 Miles (ArtsWest). Kyle is extremely thankful for his family and all of their support.

Rhys Strohmayer

Scenic Painter

Rhys is excited to be involved with this production of Nonsense and Beauty. He recently collaborated with Theatre22 as scenic charge for the production of OR,.

Julie Beckman

Director

Julie is deeply grateful to be directing again with Theatre22. Her previous productions with Theatre22 include adapting and co-directing last summer’s park version of Alice in Wonderland at Volunteer Park, adapting and directing the pandemic radio version of The Celestial Omnibus, as well as directing the Seattle premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists, Theresa Rebeck’s Downstairs, Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful and The Happiest Song Plays Last, Sharr White’s Annapurna and Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July. Most recently, she had a fantastic experience directing the 2021 version of A Christmas Carol at ACT Seattle. Her adaptation of Jane Eyre played at Book-It, across the country, and at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Company in Canada. Other adapting and directing projects include Dickens’ Hard Times and Raban’s Waxwings at Book-It, and Edith Wharton’s The Bunner Sisters with Athena Theatre Project. Other favorite directing projects include The Elephant Man, The Bells, and Fellow Passengers with Strawberry Theatre Workshop, A Small Fire with Sound Theatre Company, Bernie’s Apartment with eSe Teatro, 26 Miles with Latino Theatre Projects, Angel’s Fall with Our American Theatre Co, and Trevor with MAP Theatre. Julie has taught and directed in a dozen different schools and universities, and has an MFA in directing from Northwestern University.

Anahita Sepehri

Assistant Stage Manager

Anahita Sepehri is experienced in dubbing, voice-over acting, radio drama, reporting, and marketing (assistant apprentice) at Macha Theatre Works, and is a Patron Services Representative at Seattle Children Theatre. She also worked with Seda Iranian Ensemble Theatre as a camera operator. In 2014, Ana and her husband decided to move to the United States from Iran. She has a bachelor’s degree in Media Production and Journalism. Anahita enjoys a good happy hour with friends, the sounds of a great music playlist, spending time with her Persian cat, playing piano, and seeking adventure in the outdoors.

Katie McKellar

Production Manager

Katie McKellar has been with Theatre22 since their second production.  She has functioned as production director for many years but has also been seen on the T22 stages in The Hours of Life.  She directed two new work pieces for the T22 Second Stage Series:  Can’t Talk Right Now and the sequel Sings the Hits by Scotto Moore.  Katie’s newest adventure in life is the role of mom to Alletta Lilith Sherry-McKellar born December 25, 2021.

Jennifer Ewing

Dialect Coach

Jennifer is a wearer of many theatrical hats: actress, producer, scenic artist, dramaturg, director, and dialect coach. She is classically trained in theatre (American Academy of Dramatic Arts – NYC) specializing in dialects and classical and period works. Jennifer’s work with Theatre22 has been seen onstage (The Celestial Omnibus, White, The Hours of Life) and behind the scenes as Associate Producer and Resident Scenic Artist. She has also worked with Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre, ArtsWest, Island Shakespeare Festival, Tacoma Opera, Key City Public Theatre, The Secret Theatre and New York Fringe Festival, and as a youth at the MacRobert Arts Centre in Stirling, Scotland and the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ahren Buhmann

Lighting Designer

Ahren Buhmann is a Lighting and Video designer based out of Seattle. His previous shows include White, The Revolutionists, Happiest Song Plays Last, Burn This, The Pride, and Annapurna with Theatre22, The Angel In The House with Café Nordo, Pipeline, Mala, Dry Land, Fade, Grounded, Vanishing Point, and 2017’s X-Mas shows with Seattle Public Theater, Dear San Francisco with 7 Fingers, My Antonia with Book-It Repertory Theatre, Parliament Square with Pony World, Cyla’s Gift with Samara Lerman, Angels in America, White Noise, and The Good Book with Berkeley Rep, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree with Chicago Opera and Opera Philadelphia, Earnest Shackleton Loves Me at the Tony Kiser,  Every Five Minutes with WET, The Who’s TOMMY, Princess Ida and H.M.S. Pinafore with Seattle G&S Society, and Carefree with NJPAC. Ribbet.

Parmida Ziaei

Set Designer

Parmida Ziaei is an Iranian designer, performer and choreographer based in Seattle. She has been designing various interior, architectural, immersive and entertainment spaces and she has also been a scenic and production designer with many local Seattle theaters including Seattle Shakespeare Theatre, Sound Theatre, Seattle Public Theater and Washington Ensemble Theatre.  She is delighted to return to Theatre22. Parmida is the co-founder and Producing Managing Director of Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble and is the resident set designer with Macha Theatre Works. When not designing, Parmida performs, teaches, and choreographs contemporary and Persian dances. www.parmidaziaei.com

Rhys Strohmayer

Scenic Painter

Rhys Strohmayer is excited to be involved with this production of Or, and to be back at it after a two year hiatus. This is Rhys’s first production with Theatre22.

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 Julie Beckman

As a theater director and adapter, Julie Beckman is all kinds of amazing. Give her a stage full of actors and something remarkable will happen. Guaranteed. She recently directed critically acclaimed productions of Annapurna and Water by the Spoonful for Theatre22. Scroll down the resume and you can find her credits all over Seattle. Her adaptations have also been produced in Chicago, DC, Cincinnati, Atlanta, St. Louis and Winnipeg. Julie is a Gregory Nominated Director. And obviously, she’s got it going on.

 Angela DiMarco

Angela DiMarco has been on stage and in front of the camera for twenty years— and has racked up three Gregory Award nominations (so far). You may have seen her on stage at the Seattle Rep, ReAct or Village Theater. Or on the tube on Grimm or Z Nation. Her company, Mighty Tripod Productions, screened a feature film in SIFF this year. When she’s not acting up a storm, she’s teaching local artists to Be Mighty at her studio. Angela DiMarco is obviously Not F*ing Around.

Kelly Kitchens

As the Artistic Associate with Seattle Public Theater, Kelly Kitchens brings it not only to the Bathhouse at Greenlake, but all over the region. She’s been putting in the hours as a pro actor, director and teaching artist since the late 90s, working with Book-It, Seattle Rep, Seattle Opera, Seattle Shakespeare Company and many more. Kelly is a Gregory nominated director and the winner of the Gregory Award for Outstanding Director. She’s an all-around powerhouse with a big and beautiful vision.

 Scotto Moore

Scotto Moore likes words. And ideas. And stories. He has written dozens of short plays and plenty of feature length productions and adaptations including Balconies, interlace (falling star), Duel of the Linguistic Mages and many, many others. His works have been nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg New Play Award and he’s been nominated for a Gregory Award for Outstanding Playwright. Scotto knows a thing or two about writing theatre. And getting his ideas onto the stage.