Dana Sammond

Dana Sammond has been involved in several productions in Spokane over the last few years. Her most recent role was Maria in Spokane Ensemble Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night at the Northwest Museum for Arts and Culture. Some of her favorite roles include Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew and Fritzie in Cabaret, both at the Spokane Civic Theatre. Squeamish is her first one-woman show and she is so grateful to everyone at Stage Left for their support. Much love and thanks to her Squeamish team, her parents, and her wildly supportive friends.

Lisa Edwards

Lisa Edwards is an actor, director, and educator who worked in New York and Seattle before moving to Spokane in 2017. In Spokane, you may have seen her in The House of Blue Leaves (Bananas) and Present Laughter (Liz Essendine), both at Spokane Civic Theatre, as well as Masterpiece Monologues: Shakespeare Edition I and Words That Changed the World, both at Stage Left. Lisa directed several pieces in Masterpiece Monologues: Shakespeare Edition II. Squeamish marks Lisa’s Spokane directorial debut of a full-length play! Lisa and her husband are busy raising two daughters who are very involved with dance and figure skating, so she spends her time away from the theater as a glorified chauffeur.

Elizabeth Kitzig

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Kitzig joined the Spokane theater community in 2015, when her love of arts and crafts found an outlet with managing properties for many shows. That quickly evolved into becoming a Stage Manager for shows such as Left Overs, Arcadia, Fiddler On The Roof Jr., God’s Country, Hecuba, A Place to Call Home, Present Laughter, An Iliad, and I Am My Own Wife. 

During the pandemic, Lizzie learned how to operate the light board and she has been happily pushing buttons ever since.

Robert Tombari

Robert Tombari is a classically trained actor, director, producer, educator, and an acting/vocal coach. He received his MFA in Acting, with an emphasis in Shakespeare, from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Birmingham, England where he lived for two years. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Boise State University.  

While living in Boise, Robert worked as a stagehand on numerous productions at The Morrison Center for The Performing Arts and has also toured the Pacific Northwest with Idaho Theatre for Youth part of Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  

Robert has performed locally at Spokane Civic Theatre (Morris, Present Laughter) and at Stage Left Theater (Jody, Lonely Planet; Mack The Knife, Threepenny Opera). Robert is currently the executive producer of the Masterpiece Monologues series for Stage Left Theater. 

Paul J Watts

Paul J Watts has been a thorn in the side of Stage Left Theater, both on stage and behind the scenes, getting in the way of performances by adding scenic painting, sound, and light cues for both festivals and season productions since 2017 when Texas ran him out of town. Having pestered the Lone Star State with everything from Stage, Screen, TV performances, photography, makeup, and playwriting, they finally had enough. Now he’s Spokane’s problem. 

His past acting roles as Fred from Civic Theatre’s Present Laughter and Odysseus in Stage Left’s Hecuba were particularly dangerous. Paul has been the Sound Technician for all of Stage Left’s streamed events this past year. Social distancing around him is advised or you may lose a finger.

Jeremy Whittington

For the past six years, Jeremy has been the Resident Designer for numerous theaters including The Public Theater of San Antonio, The Modern Theaters of Spokane/Cd’A, and Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 

Prior to his career in theater, Jeremy was the Associate General Manager of Tomato Street Italian Restaurant in Coeur d’Alene, and Cyrus O’Leary’s Restaurant & Bar in Spokane from 2000 to 2014. He attended Ohio University from 1989 to 1992 majoring in Theater Production and, more recently, graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2014 with his BFA in Graphic Design from Sanford Brown. 

Recent stage credits include The Threepenny Opera (JJ Peachum, Stage Left), Disney’s Newsies (Weisel/Teddy Roosevelt, The Public Theater), and Assassins (Sam Byck, The Public Theater-2018, and Lake City Playhouse-2016). Jeremy brings his varied artistic talents and his longstanding business acumen to Stage Left, where he will continue to promote diversity, inclusion, political discussion, and social justice both on stage and in our community.

Check out Jeremy’s website at www.JeremyCreates.com