Alison Monda
Alison is thrilled to be part of such an incredible cast and crew. Recent credits include the Witch in Into the Woods with Lakewood Playhouse, Miranda in My Terrible Aunt with CenterStage, The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with ART, Poona in Poona the F*ck Dog with TAO, Maureen in the regional premiere of Rent at TMP and touring as Vicki in Talk about Stuff with Open Door Theatre’s NW tour. Next she will be one of the five cast members starring in Harlequin Production’s Sixties Kicks. Thanks to family, friends and Matt Posner the best fiancé in the world!
Loretta Deranleau Howard
Loretta is thrilled to be making her Redwood Theatre debut in such a tremendous show with a wonderful cast and crew. A 25-year theater veteran in the Puget Sound area, she has performed with Eastside Musical Theatre, Renton Civic Theater, Burien Little Theatre, Puget Sound Musical Theatre, CenterStage and Village Originals, to name a few. Favorite roles include Velma Kelly, Dolly Levi and Ghost of Christmas Present. This show is for all the amazing women in her life and you know who you are. I am woman…hear me roar! Love to Bryce, Moe and Lee. Thank you Art; I wouldn’t have done it without you!
Iris M. Elton
This will be Iris’ third production with Redwood Theatre. Most recently she was Marie in The Seven Year Itch. Prior to that, she was featured in the ensemble of Illyria during the Redwood 2009 season. Iris has also worked with Showtunes! Theatre Company, Village Theatre, and various community theaters in New York City and Seattle. A big hug and thank you to all of the faces who don’t get nearly enough credit for their work behind the scenes!
Antonia Darlene
This is Antonia’s debut at Redwood Theatre. She is delighted to be here! Her credits include: Showboat, Aida, and Saint Heaven–Village Theatre; Minty –BookIt Rep; Soul on Fire and Stardust–Harlequin; Ragtime—Tacoma Musical Playhouse; Ain’t Misbehavin’ –Capital Playhouse. She’s been Esmeralda—Hunchback of Notre Dame, Rusty—Footloose, Joanne—Rent, Deena—Dreamgirls, and Joanne—Godspell. She can be seen next in Ain’t Misbehavin’ at CenterStage/Knutzen Family Theatre in Federal Way and then on to Sixties Kicks at Harlequin in Olympia. Antonia would like to thank God for making everything possible and her little brothers, Trevor, Sadat and Jace, for being her best critics.
Erin Sprow
Erin is delighted to be back on the Redwood Stage in A … My Name Will Always be Alice after appearing as Maria in the west-coast premier of Illyria last season. Other local credits: Dallas in Sister Cities (Emerald City Scene); Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical (Seattle Musical Theatre); Sugar Dudack in Route 66 (Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals); Mama Noah in Children of Eden (Seattle Civic Light Opera); Ramona in Blue Plate Special (CenterStage); Dot in Honk, the Musical! (Seattle Musical Theatre); Miss Clarke in Annie Warbucks (Showtunes! Theatre Company); Guest artist in the reoccurring showcase New Voices (Contemporary Classics); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Tacoma Actor’s Guild); Voices of Christmas (ArtsWest); producer/director/guest artist in 32 Bars, a cabaret and the workshop readings of Iron Curtain and Saint Heaven (Village Theatre Originals). Thanks to Art, Kim, this amazing cast of women, and to Evan for his unyielding love and support.
Amy Adair
Amy is delighted to be selected as the Redwood Theater’s first ever Cast Intern. The majority of Amy’s experience is in theater sports improvisation and backup singing/voiceover work in college. She comes from a family of singers and thespians, and has now found the call to the stage hard to resist. Amy is hoping to gain much needed knowledge from this production’s cast and crew. She thanks the Redwood Theater staff for this terrific opportunity.
Kelley Faulkner
Kelley is thrilled to work with the Redwood Theatre again after her recent debut in The Seven Year Itch. Kelley studied voice at St. Olaf College, acting at the U of WA, Freehold Theatre, and the Atlantic Acting School in NYC, and has worked with the Edge Theatre Ensemble and Live Girls! Theater in Seattle. Kelley fell in love with musical theater when she saw Annie on Broadway at the tender age of 5, and wonders if it is coincidence or fate that Alice is also a female name that starts with the letter “A”, and signifies her re-entry into musical theater??? Thank you, Art Anderson! and Thanks to my parents, siblings, friends, and fiancé, for encouraging me to use my voice!
Amber Rose Cutlip
Amber is so thankful to work with Redwood Theatre for the first time. Most recently she appeared in Carl Sagan’s Contact at CenterStage, and as ‘Cathleen’ in Long Days Journey Into Night with New Amerikan Theatre. Favorite performances include ‘Julie’ in Perfect Wedding at Sierra Repertory Theatre, and roles with local companies Wooden O, Village Theatre, Eastside Musical Theatre, Edge Of The World, Crepe de Paris, and Freehold, where she studied acting in the Ensemble Training Intensive.
SPECIAL GUEST (April 30th and May 1st, 2010)
Rebecca Meredith is Redmond’s first Poet Laureate, a position established to promote the literary arts through workshops, public readings and special events throughout the city. Rebecca is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist, as well as a Redmond Association Spokenword (RASP) cofounder. She has performed at the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing Festival, and on KUOW’s The Beat. Her chapbook, Intergenerational Delta Blues, was published by Pudding House Press. She was a fellow of the Jack Straw Writers’ Program and an alumna of Hedgebrook Women Writers’ Colony. Learn more online: http://www.redmond.gov/arts/poetlaureate.asp
PRODUCTION TEAM
Art Anderson (Director)
Art Anderson is very happy and honored to be directing this wonderfully written musical review here at Redwood Theater, celebrating the ‘EveryWomen’ in all of us. He is also humbled and cannot be more thrilled to be working with such an amazing group of women both on stage and behind the scenes. Art has helped stage and choreograph musical productions large and small with many Seattle companies such as Eastside Musical Theater, Seattle Shakespeare, Greenstage, ArtsWest, among others; and regionally throughout California, Nevada, Oregon and the USO. Art is also an actor and concierge. Squeezes to Tuddahs, Trix, and the Booboos.
Kimberly Dare (Music Director)
Kim is thrilled to make her Redwood Theatre debut with the A…My Name Will Always Be Alice. Recent productions: I Love You Because, CenterStage Theatre; Full Monty, Balagan Theatre; Gutenberg! The Musical!, Arts West; New Voices, Contemporary Classics; H.M.S. Pinafore, Second Story Rep.
Kären Engelbrecht (Assistant Director)
Kären is delighted to be working on her first show with Redwood Theatre and her third collaboration with the multi-talented Art Anderson. Past favorite productions include Not Now Darling and Return To the Forbidden Planet at Microsoft Theater Troupe, Twelfth Night at SecondStory, and Bat Boy: The Musical at ArtsWest. She’s thrilled at the opportunity to work with such a talented cast and crew.
Jen Klos (Stage Manager)
Jen is happy to be working on her second show with Redwood Theatre. She has just come from being Production Manager at SecondStory Repertory. She spent a year in California working on shows like Lobster Alice with Noah Wyle and the American Premiere of Tender with Syzygy Theatre Group. Past favorite Northwest shows include Woman in Black, Bat Boy: The Musical! and Souvenir at SecondStory.
Stacey Breyfogle Derk (Costume Designer)
Stacey is excited to costume her first show for Redwood Theater. She has costumed 12 shows over the past 12 years for the Microsoft Theater Troupe including Pippin, Grease, Evita, Dracula, Threepenny Opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, Into the Woods, Not Now Darling, and Arcadia. In the past Stacey has served on the board for the Microsoft Theater Troupe as well as Theater Schmeater in Seattle. She’d like to thank Art for the opportunity to work with Redwood Theater and such an amazing group of people.
Mark Chenovick (Producer)
Mark has traveled the United States, Canada, and South Caribbean performing various theatrical vocations ranging from Production Manager/Technical Director for the national tour of “Anything Goes starring Gloria Loring” to Dance Captain/Tenor aboard the SeaWind Crown cruise ship. Extended engagements along the way included; the Studio Theatre in Washington DC, Virginia Musical Theatre in Virginia Beach, Grandstreet Theatre in Helena Montana, The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn New York, and Nebraska Theatre Caravan.
