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SATYA CHÁVEZ (they/she/ he – Bee Quijada / Additional Compositions) is a Chicagobased, queer, MexicanAmerican actor, musician, composer, and director. As a composer their work includes: Refuge, co-created with Andrew Rosendorf, received an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, a Venturous Theater Fund Grant, and a MAP Fund Grant, and has been produced at Curious Theatre (True West Award), Theo Ubique (three Jeff Awards for Original Music, Ensemble, and Artistic Specialization), Unicorn Theatre, and Theatre Lab FAU; an original score for Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, by Brian Quijada, at Actors Theatre of Louisville (virtual production nominated for a Drama League Award), Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and now at Marin Theatre Company; and musical compositions for Late, A Cowboy Song (Wirtz Center); Hamlet and Ophelia (The Artistic Home); Empanada (The Public San Antonio); Life on Paper (Jackalope Theatre Company); and Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (Colorado Shakespeare Festival).

As an actor their credits include: Goodman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Playhouse, John F. Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, Arvada Center, Curious Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Public San Antonio, Aurora Fox, Jackalope

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Theatre Company, 16th Street Theater, Porchlight Music Theatre, and San Diego

Rep. Proudly represented by Paonessa Talent Agency, stay connected at www.satyachavez. com or follow @satyachachachale

Creative Team

BRIAN QUIJADA (he/ him – Playwright) is an Emmy-nominated playwright, actor, and composer whose original work has been developed and produced all across the country. Where Did We Sit on the Bus? has been produced at Victory Gardens, Geva Theatre, Teatro Vista (2 Jeff Awards including Outstanding Solo Performance), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2 Drama Desk Nominations), Boise Contemporary, 1st Stage, City Theatre Pittsburgh, and a digital production at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Drama League Nomination). His TYA play Kid Prince and Pablo premiered at The Kennedy Center in 2019. His newest musical Somewhere Over the Border received a rolling World Premiere at Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, and TeatroVista, garnering 3 Jeff Awards including Best Musical. His plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh CLO’s Spark Festival, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, New Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference. Commissioning institutions include A.R.T., 1st Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Woolly Mammoth, Hero Theatre and The Kennedy Center. Brian’s song

“The Always Song” was Nickelodeon’s 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Song.

MATT DICKSON (he/ him – Director) is a director based in Brooklyn with a focus on new work, classics and musicals. Upcoming: Step Mom by Jahna FerronSmith (InterACT Theatre), Where Did We Sit on the Bus? by Brian Quijada (Denver Center).

Recent: Smart by Mary Hamilton (Ensemble Studio Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queens College), Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Springs & a digital creation w/Satya Chávez for Actors Theatre, nominated for Drama League Award), Everything Is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel (Juilliard), Macbeth (NYU), We the People: America Rocks! (TheaterWorksUSA, US Tour), Selkie by Krista Knight (Dutch Kills), Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (NYU Grad), Machinal (Strasberg Institute), Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh (Drama League DirectorFest), Blood Wedding (Rutgers Mason Gross), Minami by Leah Nanako Winkler (Dramatists Guild), Kid Prince and Pablo by Brian Quijada (Ars Nova), Bizet’s Carmen (New York Opera Exchange), Lanford Wilson’s Home Free! and Michael John Garcés Audiovideo (Williamstown Theatre Festival). As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in War Horse and The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater), and most recently Off-Broadway in Nicky Silver’s Too Much Sun (Vineyard Theatre). B.F.A. from Boston University. Member of SDC. www.mattjdickson.com directed by Rebecca Martinez, Poor Yella

Rednecks: Vietgone 2 directed by Jaime Castañeda, Fefu and Her Friends directed by Pam MacKinnon, Oedipus directed by Jenny Koons at The Getty Villa, The Industry’s Sweet Land, an immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and LEAR by Marcus Gardley, co-directed by Eric Ting and Dawn Monique Williams. Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. She is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Production Network. www.tanyaorellana.com

ALICE RUIZ (she/her –Costume Designer) Over the years, Alice has been a freelance Costume Designer, Assistant Costume Designer, Costume Mentor, and Theatrical Dresser throughout the SF Bay Area. She’s very excited to bring this piece about the queer latina experience to life. Recent credits include Clue at San Francisco Playhouse, Two Trains Running at Marin Theatre Company, Dream Hou$e at Shotgun Players (Berkeley), and Book of Sand at Oakland Theater Project. You can view her full portfolio at www.aliceruizdesign.com or follow her @costumesandcaffeine

PABLO SANTIAGO

TANYA ORELLANA (she/ her – Scenic Designer) designs performance spaces for theatre and opera.

Originally from San Francisco’s Mission District, she is a core member of the awardwinning ensemble Campo Santo. Previous collaborations include the world premiere of Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border

(Lighting Designer) is a live performance and digital film lighting designer. Winner of the Richard Sherwood award, Stage Raw Award, and multiple Ovation Award nominations.

Pablo’s designs aim to find evocative images that embody the emotional moment of the show. Images that can spark the imagination of the audience to worlds beyond the stage. Pablo has worked at Santa Fe Opera,

LA Opera, Opera Omaha, Boston Lyric Opera, Detroit Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Long Beach Opera, Prototype Festival, the Industry, Opera Columbus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Academy of the West, Opera Santa Barbara, Kennedy Center, Teatro Municipal São Paulo Brazil, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theater, Arena Stage DC, BAMHarvey Theater, The Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Los Angeles Theatre Center, South Coast Repertory Company, Playhouse In The Park Cincinnati, Broad Museum, Kirk Douglas Theater, Ensemble Theater Company Santa Barbara, Hollywood Bowl.

LIAM RUDISILL (he/him

– Props Lead / Assistant Technical Director)) is a carpenter and props maker who has been working with Marin Theatre Company since moving to the Bay Area in 2014. He’s excited to be back at full capacity as Assistant Technical Director and Props Lead for the company this season. Recent design credits include Boys Go to Jupiter (Word for Word at Z Space), The Sound Inside (MTC), Pass Over (MTC), Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (MTC), Dunsinane (MTC), August Wilson’s Two Trains Running (MTC), and Justice: A New Musical (MTC).

DARIA PERKOVA (she/they

– Assistant Costume Designer/ Costume Shop Manager/ Wardrobe Lead) is a Bay Area native costume designer. She has designed, stitched and run wardrobe for many theatres around the Bay. Her most recent design works include Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya at Chabot College, and How Black Mother’s Say I Love

You at Theatre Rhinoceros. She is the Costume Shop Manager and Wardrobe Lead here at Marin Theatre Company.

NICK CARVALHO (he/ him – Stage Manager) is excited to return to Marin Theatre Company after stage managing the continued world premiere of Justice: A New Musical. Recent credits with MTC include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, and Dunsinane. Past credits include the world premiere of Monument, or Four Sisters (a sloth play) at Magic Theatre; The Cherry Orchard and Cinderella: A Fairytale (2019) at Town Hall Theatre; Head Over Heels, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Will, Seussical: The Musical, and Our Lady of 121st Street at Diablo Valley College. Nick earned two Associates degrees from Diablo Valley College in 2021. He was awarded three certificates of merit in stage management from the KCACTF for his work on Our Lady of 121st Street, Seussical: The Musical, and The Book of Will. Nick is the Assistant Technical Director and a Production Supervisor at El Campanil Theatre. He would like to thank his partner, Emma, for her continued love and support.

JO DAVITA ORTIZ (they/ them – Assistant Stage Manager) is an AEA Stage Manager and has been stage managing for 6 years. Their favorite part about stage management is bringing the shows together from pre-production through closing. Credits include School of Rock, Funny Girl, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged], The Agitators, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, and The Travelers

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