WE’RE SAVING A SEAT FOR YOU

Kate Marvin

Composer & Sound Designer

PlayMakers: “A Wrinkle in Time”. Off Broadway/New York: “The Best We Could” (MTC); “Wolf Play” (MCC/Soho Rep); “Heartland” (59E59); “Fidelio” (Heartbeat Opera); “Blood Meal,” “The Little Hours” (Theater in Quarantine); “Wives” (Playwrights Horizons); “Fruiting Bodies” (Ma-Yi); “Chimpanzee” (HERE Arts Center); “Porto” (WP Theater); “Wilder Gone” (Clubbed Thumb); “Happy Days” (TFANA). Regional: Two River Theater, Northern Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theater, Mark Taper Forum, among others. Film: “The Memory Trade” (Handmade Puppet Dreams); “Out of Office” (NYS Puppet Festival); “White Flags” (AC Pictures). Education/Other: Kate is an associate artist with Target Margin Theater and Little Lord. MFA, Yale School of Drama. @katemarvinsound

Tracy Bersley

Intimacy Choreographer

PlayMakers: Movement coach and resident choreographer in her sixth season.Off-Broadway/New York: As director/choreographer— Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Lortel Theatre, Primary Stages, and many award-winning Off-Broadway companies, such as The Civilians and Red Bull Theatre. Regional: As director/choreographer— Carolina Performing Arts, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Eduction/Other: Served as professor or guest artist at Yale School of Drama, Princeton University, New York University, Purchase College, Columbia University/Barnard College, and The Juilliard School. Tracy received her MFA in Directing from Syracuse University and is currently co-head of the Professional Actor Training Program in the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill, a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and a Drama League Fellow.

Jo Holcomb

Dramaturg

PlayMakers: Debut. Regional: “Floyd’s” (as a developmental dramaturg with Lynn Nottage), “Metamorphoses,” “Indecent” (with Paula Vogel), “Native Gardens” (with Karen Zacarias), “The Crucible,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Uncle Vanya,” “The Burial at Thebes,” “M. Butterfly,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Six Degrees of Separation” among others (Guthrie Theater); “Into the Woods,” “The Winter’s Tale,” “Comedy of Errors,” “Thunder Knocking at the Door,” “Sotto Voce,” “Iphigenia at Aulis,” and “Mlima’s Tale” (Ten Thousand Things Theater); Jo has served as dramaturg for Six Points Theater and Macalester College where she was the dramaturg for “Angels in America: Part One”. Academia: Jo has taught at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program and the National Theatre Institute, O’Neill Center. She is currently the BFA program Dramaturg for the University of Minnesota.

Tia James

Vocal Coach

PlayMakers: Company member for three seasons. Actor: “Hamlet,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “Julius Caesar,” “Native Son.” Vocal coaching includes “They Do Not Know Harlem,” “Stick Fly,” “Ragtime,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “Life of Galileo,” “Bewilderness,” “She Loves Me,” “Skeleton Crew,” “Sherwood,” “Jump,” “Your Healing is Killing Me.” Director: “How I Learned What I Learned,” “As You Like It,” “Macbeth” (PlayMakers Mobile) and “Constellations” (PlayMakers Ground Floor). Broadway: “The Merchant of Venice.” Off-Broadway/New York: “The Winter’s Tale,” “The Merchant of Venice” (Shakespeare in the Park). Regional: "Much Ado About Nothing" (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); “Richard III” (Allentown Shakespeare); “Loving and Loving” (Stella Adler Studios); “Much Ado About Nothing” (Two River Theatre); “Civilization [All You Can Eat]” (Woolly Mammoth Theater). Television: “Nurse Jackie,” “Treme.” Teaching/Coaching/Directing: UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU Graduate Acting, NYU Dance, Atlantic Acting School, Montclair University. Education/Awards: MFA NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program, BFA Virginia Commonwealth University; Miller Voice Method Teacher Certification. Recipient of the 2014 NYU Graduate Acting Diversity Mentorship Scholarship, 2003 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship winner for Best Actor; 2019 Michael Chekhov/Zelda Fichandler Scholarship.

Sarah Smiley Stage Manager

After a seven-year hiatus in her home state of Florida, Sarah returns to PlayMakers as resident stage manager, having held that position from 2005 – 2015. She has worked with theatres, theme parks, and road houses in eight states and the U.K., including Tampa Playmakers, freeFall Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Busch Gardens Tampa, the Alliance Theatre Company, 7 Stages, Gulfshore Playhouse, Shadowland Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, Wales, and the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and has been active in USITT and the Stage Managers’ Association. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.

Aspen Blake Jackson Assistant Stage Manager

PlayMakers: “They Do Not Know Harlem,” “Native Gardens.” “ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (Summer Youth Conservatory). Aspen graduated in May of 2019 with a BA in Vocal Performance and Dramatic Arts from UNC-Chapel Hill. During her undergraduate career, she was stage manager for shows such as “Cendrillon,” “Dido and Aeneas” and “ The Pillowman.” After graduating, Aspen completed an internship with the Walt Disney World Company and she worked as a production assistant for PlayMakers Repertory Company during their 19/20 and 21/22 seasons. Aspen is thrilled to be returning to PlayMakers Repertory Company this season for her debut as Resident Stage Manager.