OCTAVIO HERNANDEZ (U/S Norman) is a junior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Directing. Octavio transferred from the College of Lake County, where his credits include The Story Club (Charlie), Eurydice (Big Stone), I Have a Story to Tell (self), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Doug), Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Father), School House Rock Live! (Tom), Lions in Illyria (Asst. Director), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] (Asst. Director), and The Squirrels (Director). Most recently Octavio was the Assistant Director for The Laramie Project at UW-Parkside.

ALEX ORTIZ (U/S Gerald) (Ensemble, Otto and Georg Cover) is a junior Theatre Arts major from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Previous credits include Spring Awakening (Ensemble, Otto & Georg Cover), As You Like It (Touchstone) and The Tourists (Dmetri).

DYLAN PEROZZO (Gerald) is a sophomore Theatre Arts minor, majoring in Geosciences with an Environmental Geoscience concentration. Previous credits include Spring Awakening (Georg/Dieter) at UW-Parkside.

ALYSSA RAMIREZ (U/S Laura) is a first-year Theatre Arts Major. Previous credits include The Laramie Project (Wardrobe Crew).

ALYSSA RITACCA (U/S Corky) is a sophomore Theatre Arts major. Recent credits include Spring Awakening (Ensemble, Adult Woman Cover), The Wolves (U/S #7, #14, #25) at UW-Parkside. She has been involved in multiple productions at Children’s Theater Academy (CTA) in Kenosha, such as Frozen (Sven), Moana (Moana), and Newsies (Ensemble). Alyssa has designed props for CTA’s production of Newsies and scenery for their production of Seussical.

JENNA SPEER (Corky) is a senior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Musical Theatre and a transfer student from State Fair Community College (Sedalia, MO). Recent credits include The Laramie Project (Asst. Stage Manager), The Aliens (Assistant Stage Manager), The Wolves (#2) and Indecent (U/S The Ingenue) at UW-Parkside. Additional credits include Racine Theatre Guild’s The Little Mermaid (Arista), Cyclopedic Ensemble's Stinky Cheese Man (And Other Fair(L)y Stoopid Tales), Summit Theatre Group’s Mamma Mia! (Ali), SFCC’s First Date (Lauren), James and the Giant Peach (Aunt Spiker), and Coffeyville Community College’s regional premiere of The Humans (Brigid).

COLTON SMITH (Norm) is a senior Theatre Arts major from Lawrence, Kansas. Previous acting credits include The Laramie Project (various), Spring Awakening (Moritz), As You Like It (Adam/Jacques), Indecent (Lemml), and The Thanksgiving Play (Caden) at UW-Parkside. Additional credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Ed) and The Humans (Erik) at Coffeyville Community College. Recently, Colton served as assistant director for Little Shop of Horrors at the Lawrence Arts Center. Colton received the 2023 Irene Ryan Best Comedic Performance Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 3).

GIULIANA SODATELLI-DAMO (Laura) is a second-year Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Musical Theatre. Previous acting credits include The Wolves (U/S #13) and Spring Awakening (Ensemble) at UW-Parkside.

SAVANA ANDERSHOCK (Lighting Designer) is a junior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Design and Technology. Previous credits include The Aliens (Light Board Operator), As You Like It (Assistant Stage Manager), The Wolves (Master Electrician), She Kills Monsters (Assistant Stage Manager), Indecent (Assistant Master Electrician), and The Penelopiad (Deck Crew). Recent acting credits include She Kills Monsters (Narrator) and The Thanksgiving Play (Logan). Most recently, Savana was a Production Assistant at American Players Theater in Spring Green, WI.

KALI AVERY (Wardrobe Supervisor) is a junior Biological Sciences major with a minor in Theatre Arts. Previous credits include She Kills Monsters (U/S Agnes) and Spring Awakening (Kayleen).

JEFF BRAIN (Scene Shop Supervisor) is a graduate of UW-Parkside (2020) with focuses on performance, carpentry, and props design. At Parkside, his performance credits included Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence), Love's Labour's Lost (Longaville), and War of the Worlds (Announcer #2). He also designed props for Silent Sky and served as Lead Carpenter for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Jeff has also worked as a carpenter and props artisan for theatres including The Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), American Players Theatre (Spring Green, WI), and Fireside Dinner Theatre (Fort Atkinson, WI). He is an ensemble member of Redtwist Theatre in Chicago, where he continues to expand his portfolio of performance, carpentry, and props design.  

MICHELLE CATALAN (Assistant Costume Designer) is a senior with a major in Psychology and a minor in Theatre Arts. She works as a Costume Shop Assistant and has served on costume construction crew for a number of UW-Parkside productions, including Stupid F##king Bird, The Glass Menagerie, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Penelopiad, Indecent, She Kills Monsters, The Wolves, and As You Like It.

SAMANTHA FEILER (Stage Manager) is a Milwaukee based stage manager and actor and is an alumnus from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, having earned a BA in Theatre Arts with concentrations in Acting, Musical Theatre, and Stage Management. Her professional stage management credits include Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, and Sunstone Studios. She can be seen with Bug in a Rug Children’s Theater, acting in their children’s touring productions, and the upcoming production of Hello Dolly with Forte Theatre Company.

BRIAN J. GILL (Director) is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. UW-Parkside Theatre directing credits include Book of Days, Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight and Moll Flanders, Love's Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, The Thanksgiving Play, and As You Like It. As a member of the adjunct faculty of the College of Lake County, Professor Gill directed Crimes of the Heart, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, She Kills Monsters, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Chicago acting credits include Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Victory Gardens, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and Remy Bumppo. Milwaukee acting credits include Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, First Stage and Milwaukee Repertory. Regionally, Brian has performed with the Illinois and Texas Shakespeare Festivals, Southwest Shakespeare Company, Theatre at the Center, Allenberry Playhouse, and the historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. Internationally, he has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where he trained as a member of the first International Artistic Fellowship. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, and the Society of American Fight Directors where he holds the rank of Advanced Actor-Combatant.

ALLISON HAYES (Sound Designer) is a senior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Musical Theatre. Previous credits include burn: a folk musical (Tracy), Circle Mirror Transformation (Swing and Sound Designer), The Penelopiad (Maid/Iole), The Wolves (Sound Designer), As You Like It (Audrey) and Spring Awakening (Ensemble/Wendla Cover) at UW-Parkside, James and The Giant Peach (James), She Kills Monsters (Farrah) at State Fair Community College, and The Addams Family (Pugsley) at Next Generation Performing Arts Camp. Most recently, Allison was a Character Performer at the Bristol Renaissance Faire.

J LOFTY (co-Props Designer) is a senior Theatre Arts major with a minor in International Studies. Previous acting credits include Hir (Isaac). Additional credits include As You Like It (Assistant Props Lead) and She Kills Monsters (Assistant Props Lead) at UW-Parkside, as well as You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at STEPS Performing Arts (Props Lead) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Assistant Stage Manager) at Lakeside Players.

LESLIE VAGLICA (Costume Designer/Costume Shop Supervisor) is a costumer whose foundation in fashion and art has enriched her focus in theatrical costuming. She has worked as a costume technician for Off-Broadway productions of Trevor, The Musical and Boswell, as well as for professional companies, including American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Florentine Opera Company, Skylight Music Theatre, and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Professional regional design credits include The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Sugar Creek Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Florentine Opera Company, Luminous Theatre, UW-Milwaukee Dance and Musical Theatre, Peter Stathas Dance, and Renaissance Theaterworks. She has also served as Costume Shop Manager at Hope Summer Repertory Theater in Holland, MI. Leslie is a graduate of UW-Eau Claire and holds a certificate in Apparel Product Design and Development from Mt. Mary University.  

KENDYL WOODS (Assistant Stage Manager) is a junior transfer student from the College of Lake County with a double-major in Theatre Arts and Environmental Science. Previous credits include Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief (U/S Bianca), The Squirrels (Lighting Design) plus School House Rock Live!, The Squirrels, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised], and Into the Woods (Stage Management Team) at CLC.

TAYLOR IRELAND (Head Electrician) is a senior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Stage Management. Recent UW-Parkside credits include The Laramie Project Stage Manager), Spring Awakening (Spotlight Operator), The Aliens (Stage Manager), As You Like It (Assistant Stage Manager) and The Wolves (Assistant Stage Manager). Taylor was also the Stage Manager for The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales at Cyclopedic Ensemble, The Diviners, James and the Giant Peach, and Oedipus at State Fair Community College. Other credits include Dearly Departed (House Manager), Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience (Crew), and First Date (Light Board Operator) also at SFCC. Most recently, Taylor was Assistant Stage Manager for The Old Man and The Old Moon and As You Like It at Door Shakespeare.

JODY SEKAS (Scenic Designer/Technical Director/Prop Designer) is a Production/Scenic Designer for theatre & film, whose recent designs include the Off-Broadway debut of Boswell, and the upcoming feature film What Happened to Dorothy Bell. In 2021 he won the National KCACTF Scene Design award for his design of Stupid F##king Bird. He has worked for such venues as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Door Shakespeare, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Dell’Arte International, Rochester Civic Theatre, Omaha Theatre Company for Young People, The Western Stage, and on the films The Music Inside, Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes, FLEA, and The Wine of Summer. He taught Scenography for Theatre, Film, & Dance at Humboldt State University in northern California; Scenic/Lighting Design & Technology at UW-Eau Claire and was the resident scenic & lighting designer for the Sioux Falls Playhouse in South Dakota. He is now in his eleventh year at UW-Parkside as Associate Professor of Scenic Design & Technology and is a core professor in the Digital Design & Fabrication program. See examples of his work at www.d4production.com.

PETR WILLIAM (Projections Designer) is a junior Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Design and Technology. Past credits include The Laramie Project (Asst. Lighting Designer), Spring Awakening (Ensemble, Moritz cover), Hir (Stage Manager), The Wolves (Assistant Lighting Designer), She Kills Monsters (Head Electrician), Circle Mirror Transformation (Lighting Designer), and The Mad Ones (Adam U/S). Recently, Petr directed Anne of Green Gables and a Playwriting Showcase at Racine Lutheran High School.

MAGGIE JAY (Scenic Charge Artist) is a junior Theatre Arts major with concentrations in Acting and Design & Technology. Previous acting credits at UW-Parkside include The Laramie Project, Reasons to be Pretty (Steph), Gruesome Playground Injuries (u/s Kayleen), Circle Mirror Transformation (Theresa), and The Tourists (Peggy). Additional credits include The Aliens (Assistant Sound Designer), The Wolves (Scenic Charge Artist), and The Penelopiad (Deck Crew). Maggie has frequently helped as an Assistant Scenic Artist at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.

TRAVIS SIEPL (Assistant Director) is a sophomore Theatre Arts Major with a concentration in Directing. Travis also works as a Scene Shop Assistant, and most recently at UW-Parkside was the Light Board Operator for The Laramie Project. Last year he directed the Parkside Studio production of Reasons to be Pretty, and this past summer was a Scenic Carpenter for Maples Playhouse in ________?

QUINCY WILSON (Lead Carpenter) is a sophomore Theatre Arts major with a concentration in Acting. He works as a Scene Shop Assistant and holds an AAS in Welding-Manufacturing Technology. Previous credits include The Laramie Project (Ensemble, Lead Carpenter) at UW-Parkside, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience (Grandpa Mole Rat) and The Stinky Cheese Man (Foxy Loxy) with the Cyclopedic Ensemble; Check Please/ Check Please Take 2 (Guy) with the Blue Springs Community Theatre; Puffs (Wayne Hopkins), Heathers (Kurt Kelly) and The Tempest (Gonzalo) at State Fair Community College.