Naghmeh Samini (PhD) is a playwright, scriptwriter, and lecturer in Dramatic Arts. Born in Iran, she earned her BA in Drama and MA in Cinema from the University of Tehran. She completed her PhD in Art Studies at Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran, with a thesis focused on Drama and Mythology. Naghmeh was a professor […]
A Midwest transplant to the Pacific Northwest, Leah is a storyteller, theatre director, arts educator, and producer. Locally, she has directed for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Sound Theatre Company, Pony World, Seattle Public Theatre, Intiman, UW School of Drama, and Cornish College of the Arts, among others. Leah is committed to the power […]
Carl has been a scenic and costume designer for professional and educational theatre companies in the Seattle area for many years, designing and constructing productions for companies such as Seattle Symphony, The Bathhouse Theater, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Seattle Musical Theatre, Shoreline Community College, and Bellevue College, among others Carl is an accomplished miniaturist, […]
THORN MICHAELS is a Seattle-based lighting designer for theatre, dance, and opera. She has designed for 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, Kentucky Opera, Village Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Santa Fe Playhouse, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle Shakespeare Company, ArtsWest, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, and others. As the 2016-2017 Hemsley intern, Thorn […]
Heidi Zamora is a costume designer whose work has been seen at Seattle Opera (Orphee et Eurydice), Florida Grand Opera, Seattle Repertory Theatre (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), ACT, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Company, among other local credits. She was a co-founder and co-artistic director of Washington Ensemble Theatre, designing costumes for most […]
Danny Kam (he/him or they/them) is a singing actor, voice teacher and musical director with nearly two decades of experience in the greater Seattle area. As an actor, Danny was most recently seen in Legally Blonde (Village Theatre), Sister Act (Taproot Theatre), Twelfth Night the musical (Seattle Shakespeare Company) Into the Woods and Beauty and […]
Nicole is a musical theatre artist, director, choreographer, teacher, wife, and mother. On screen, Nicole has been seen in Nike, LG, and T-Mobile commercials, Grey’s Anatomy, and Fox Searchlight’s Adam with Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. As a stage actor, Nicole has performedin Seattle with the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle […]
Sheila Daniels is a multi-disciplinary Theater Maker. Directing work includes Indecent (Seattle Rep), The Wolves (ACT) A Streetcar Named Desire, Crime and Punishment and multiple other credits with INTIMAN Theatre; Dancing At Lughnasa (TANTRUM): Jackie & Me (Seattle Children’s Theatre); According to Coyote (Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis); A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing […]
RICHARD GRAY currently teaches MT acting, audition, MT writing and cabaret technique at Cornish. He has also directed Cornish productions of The Theory of Relativity, Company, Lift, Nine, Quilters, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Grand Hotel, The Drowsy Chaperone, Head Over Heels, Chess, Amélie and Sweeney Todd. He has also guest taught at University of […]
Timothy McCuen Piggee holds an MFA from the National Theater Conservatory and a BFA from the University of Utah. On Broadway, he originated the role of FBI Agent Bill Cod in the musical Catch Me If You Can. His directing credits include Appropriate, Fat Ham, and A Raisin in the Sun at the Seattle Repertory […]