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Jeffrey Lo

Jeffrey Lo (He/Him/His) is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is the recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, the Emerging Artist Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley and Theatre Bay Area Director's TITAN Award. Selected directing credits include The Language Archive, Little Shop of Horrors and The Santaland Diaries at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin and Hold These Truths at San Francisco Playhouse, Vietgone and The Great Leap at Capital Stage as well as A Doll’s House, Part 2 and Eurydice at Palo Alto Players (TBA Awards finalist for Best Direction). As a playwright, his plays have been produced and workshopped at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, BindleStiff Studio, City Lights Theatre Company and Stanford University. His play Writing Fragments Home was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwright's Conference and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference. Jeffrey has also worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Asian American International Film Festival, San Jose Repertory and is a company member of Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company and SF Playground. Jeffrey also works as an educator and advocate for issues of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and has served as a grant panelist for the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Creates and Theatre Bay Area. He is the Director Community Partnerships and Casting Director at the Tony Award Winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, a graduate of the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute and a proud alumnus of the UC Irvine Drama Department. For more: www.JeffreyWritesAPlay.com.

William Thomas Hodgson

William Thomas Hodgson is a choreographer/director, and actor, based out of Oakland, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego, and is co-artistic director of the Oakland Theater Project. Most recently, he worked with Jeffrey Lo on Little Shop of Horrors (TheatreWorks)! Other movement/directing credits include The Tempest (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Ragtime (Berkeley Playhouse), Passing Strange, Brownsville Song (Shotgun Players), This Land Was Made, The Radicalization of Bradley Manning (Oakland Theater Project). Upcoming projects include Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse), Exodus to Eden and Is God Is (Oakland Theater Project)!

Kelly James Tighe+

Kelly James Tighe: Off-Broadway and national tour credits include Martin Luther on Trial, Shadowlands, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Great Divorce, The Fantasticks, Almost Heaven, Movin’ Out, Shear Madness and Cats. Other credits: Disney theatrical, Paper Mill Playhouse, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Center REPertory Company, SlowBurn Theater, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Sacramento Theatre Company, Gateway Playhouse, Broadway By the Bay, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Diablo Theatre Company and Ray of Light Theatre. Kelly’s theatrical work is published in the textbook Scene Design and Stage Lighting and his work as an illustrator has been published in "Mooseltoe, A Moose and a Dream." Awards and recognitions include the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, DramaLogue and the Shellie Awards. kjtdesign.com

Aaron Spivey+

Aaron Spivey: Previous Lesher Center designs include Pricilla Queen of the Desert, Matilda, and West Side Story (CCMT). Regional designs: The Winter’s Tale, 2666, Blind Date, Brigadoon and Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre); Tug of War-Civil Strife (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); La Cage aux Folles and Sweat (Pioneer Theatre Co); The Producers, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Beauty and the Beast (Broadway By the Bay); The Secret Garden (Children’s Theater of Charlotte); Marry Me a Little (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Bomb-ity of Errors (Syracuse Stage); Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors and God of Carnage (Theatre Aspen); The Full Monty (Pittsburgh CLO). His off-Broadway credits include Shadowlands, Jukebox Jackie, Wanda’s World, From My Hometown, 4 Guys Named José, Golf the musical and Elle, staring Alan Cumming. Internationally he designed A Chorus Line in Mexico City. On Broadway Aaron has served as the associate/assistant designer on 30 Broadway productions including: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Something Rotten!, Aladdin, Motown, The Coast of Utopia, Catch Me if You Can, The Merchant of Venice, 9 to 5, Tarzan, Little Women, Grease, A Chorus Line, Lend Me a Tenor and Collected Stories. Aaron served as the associate designer for Disney’s Aladdin from 2013-2022, creating productions in Tokyo, Hamburg, Sydney, London, Mexico City, as well as two US tours.

Becky Bodurtha+

Becky Bodurtha is a costume designer with regional, international and New York City credits. Recent credits include Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (SF Playhouse) Drowning in Cairo (Potrero Stage), Felix Starro (Theatre Ma-Yi), Open (The Tank), 1000 Nights and One Day (Prospect Theatre Company), and Mr. Burns (NYU Gallatin). Other credits: Constellations (Wilma), The Strangest (East 4th Street), Among the Dead (Theatre Ma-Yi) Passover (Cherry Lane), The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go! (Theatre Ma-Yi), Livin’ La Vida Imelda (Theatre Ma-Yi), and This Lingering Life (HERE Arts). International credits include Anna in the Tropics (Repertory Philippines), Movement for Humanity and Africa’s Hope for the Ubumuntu Festival in Kigali, Rwanda. She currently is Senior Lecturer of Design at Stanford University. MFA University of Iowa. Please visit her website at: www.beckybodurtha.com

Chris Sauceda

Alyssa Tryon

Alyssa Tryon (she/her) has been the Resident Properties Designer for Center REPertory Company since 2019. Originally from New Jersey, she worked in NYC for six years prior to moving to the Bay Area. Her work has been featured in NYC, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and all over the Bay Area. She has a BA in Theatre Performance & Theatrical Design from Marymount Manhattan College. She would like to thank her family, friends, and fellow creatives for all their support! www.alyssatryon.com

Scott Reardon*

Scott Reardon: Actor's Equity Association member. Actor/Director/Producer/Stage Manager. Bay Area native/local. Theatre: Beach Blanket Babylon, TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Musical Theatre West, 5-Star Theatricals, Fresno Grande Opera, PCPA Theatrefest, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Presidio Theatre, Hillbarn, Disney Cruise Line, and Nickelodeon. Actor’s Equity Association’s Roger Sturtevant Award Winner. Commercial: Visa, Samsung, Philips, Dell, Verizon, LinkedIn, Logitech, LG, Dolby, Google, Cisco Systems, Symantec, Garmin, Intuit, Polycom, Service Now, and more. Education: B.A. Drama – University of California, Irvine; M.A. Education – Alliant International University.

Spence Matubang

Spense Matubang is a freelance lighting and projections designer currently based in Oakland, California. They have been working in the professional theater world of the Bay Area for four years. They received their degree in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020. Spense uses their career as a never-ending outlet for exploration, creative experimentation, and community building. They have previously designed for The Chikahan Company, City Lights Theater Company, EnActe Arts, Town Hall Theater Company, Ferocious Lotus, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, West Valley Light Opera, and Jewel Theatre.