KATE POLING (SHE/HER)

Kate Poling is excited to be performing with And Toto too again! She is an actor, director, and teaching artist based in Denver, Colorado. She holds a BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. New York Credits: Puppet Julius Caesar (Puppet Shakespeare Players). With And Toto too: Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell (Edinburgh Fringe 2022); Smoke; South Star; The Way Station; Show of Force. Other Colorado credits: Miss Bennet: Pemberley at Christmas, Pride and Prejudice, Towards Zero, Three Tall Women (Firehouse Theatre); Rumpelstiltskin, The Story of the Nutcracker, The Pied Piper (Miners Alley Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Foothills Theatre Company); Inheritance (Curious Theatre Co) and Almost Maine (Town Hall Arts Center). Enjoy the show!

CYNDI PARR

Cyndi Parr is excited to be making her debut at And Toto too. She is the program director and co-founder for Dragon Theatre Productions, where everyone who auditions gets a role, and has helped create over 500 roles in 14 years for actors of all ages and abilities. She has performed over the last 25 years as an actor, writer, director, puppeteer and magician in over 200 productions. Last year she performed in two shows in Chicago for the Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival, and has had her film in two puppet slams with the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry. She has been the MC for six Rocky Mountain Puppet Slams, including recently at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, is the treasurer for the Rocky Mountain Puppetry Guild, and over the summer performs her baby dragon puppet in Green Mountain Falls and in Santa Fe. More information at: https://cvparr.wixsite.com/cyndiparrcreations

SUSAN LYLES (SHE/HER)

Susan Lyles is an accomplished and award winning director and producer, holds a BA from Wichita State University, and received certification from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Shakespeare. She has worked on stage as an actor in both Chicago and Denver. Credits: Whacking the Turkey (Hildegard); The Playground (Omni, Rachel); Ordering Lunch (Sarah); Hay Fever (Sorrel); Present Laughter (Daphne); Swimming in Seuss (Fox, Cindy Lou Who, The Lorax. Ensemble) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator). Film Credits: Blameless; Shattered; Second String Villains; Son of Spies and Whispers, B.O.B. and Night Screams. She has also worked in commercials, print, industrial, and voice over. Susan is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of And Toto too Theatre Company, and has directed more than 20 plays, including the award winning Naked in Encino, Car Talk, and Heads. She has designed costumes for more than 50 plays, including Lion in Winter (Denver Victorian Playhouse), 12th Night (Denver Victorian Playhouse), and Greater Tuna and Christmas Tuna (Denver Victorian Playhouse, Town Hall Arts Center). Susan is also producer for the award winning film production company Ruff, Ruff, Dog Productions.

REBECCA GORMAN O'NEILL

Rebecca Gorman O’Neill was born in Akron, Ohio; she left at age 17 to attend Dartmouth College where she earned a B.A. in Drama and English. Rebecca went on to earn her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her original plays have been produced across the United States, and those published can be found through Dramatic Publishing, Eldridge Publishing, and Next Stage Press. Rebecca is a Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she teaches playwriting, screenwriting, cinema studies, and the graphic novel.

MELISSA MCCARL

Melissa has directed plays and musicals all over Denver, including Littleton Town Hall, the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Aurora Fox, Theater on Broadway, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, and Athena Project. Some of her favorite productions include Anna in the Tropics, Real Women Have Curves and the musical Swingtime Canteen. An award -winning playwright, she is the author of Painted Bread, a play about Frida Kahlo produced most recently by the Aurora Fox. She was commissioned by the Mizel Arts Center to write Poignant Irritations, a play about the life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. She wrote a short play about the Sand Creek Massacre for Curious Theatre’s War Anthology. In recent years her play Lost Creatures about the film star Louise Brooks was produced by And Toto too Theatre Company. She has been named Best Local Playwright by Westword and Best Actress in a Musical by the Denver Post for her role in Ruthless the Musical. She currently teaches dramatic writing for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Denver Center.

BILLIE MCBRIDE

Billie McBride Director . Billie has directed for many of the Colorado Theatre companies including 10 years at The Denver Children’s Theatre and recently she directed The Fantasticks for THAC, Same time Next Year for CCT, Grease for Center Stage in Louisville and a new play for the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her next directing projects are The One-Act Play Festival for the Denver Center Academy and will be Co-directing Memphis for THAC. She is also an Actress. Recent productions are The Year of Magical Thinking at The Aurora Fox, The Treasurer and Before You Go at Miners Alley Playhouse, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime for BETC, Life Sucks for the Aurora Fox, Sunday in the Park for The Arvada Center and Enchanted April for CSFAC. Before moving to Colorado she spent 20 years in NYC doing theatre and Television. Her Broadway stage credits include Torch Song Trilogy (Helen Hayes), Safe Sex (Lyceum) and The Kurt Weill Cabaret (Bijou Theatre). She has won 3 Henry Awards, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2016 True West Award.

DARREN SMITH (HE/HIM)

Darren Smith serves as vice-president as well as technical director for And Toto too, he is responsible for the technical operations of the theater, determining technical staffing and equipment requirements for productions, and acts as the central coordinating point for the designers, the stage management team, the craftspeople, etc. – throughout each production. With more than 30 years of experience both on-stage and in almost every capacity behind the scenes, he brings a wealth of ideas and best practices to And Toto too. Mr. Smith is not, despite what a 'vanity search' on the internet may lead you to believe, an editor and writer specializing in travel directories and feature magazine stories, an Australian rugby league player, the 1997 World Irish Dancing Champion, a football player for the Grand Valley State University Lakers, a new age composer living in Texas, or a Christian comedian and illusionist. He lives in Denver with his wife, sons, and their two dogs, and is also the co-founder of the leading B2B customer reference company Point of Reference.

ALEXIS BOND (SHE/HER)

Alexis is delighted to be collaborating with And Toto Too again, and to be making her post-Covid design debut! Alexis is a Denver native with experience in local theatre, rental and staging, and most recently has been using her logistics skills for Summit Integrated, an audio visual install company for churches. Alexis would like to thank her incredible circle of friends that have never wavered in their support. Proverbs 19:22

SPARKLEANDTHEBURN

https://sparkleandtheburn.bandcamp.com/music OPHELIA'S  ENTRANCE- CHARMS AND INTUITIONS BY SPARKLEANDTHEBURN

HARRISON LYLES-SMITH

Harrison is a senior at Denver School of the Arts. He is an AEC, and is SAG eligible. His work includes, Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Aurora Fox), Jerusalem (Edge Theatre), Medea (Edge Theatre), Appropriate (Curious Theatre), A Chorus Line (Denver School of the Arts), Radium Girls (Denver School of the Arts), A Scouts Guide to Brutal Honesty, and Blow Ins (And Toto too) Film credits include: Liam, 7th Son, Son of Lies and Whispers, Second String Villians, and the feature film The Engagement Plot . He would like to thank all his friends and family for their support.