ARTISTIC STAFF

Theater choreographing Louis Braille: The World at Your Fingertips and Into the Woods . Previously in her career, Andrea worked as a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher in the U.S. and Canada. Broadway credits include Jerome Robbins Broadway and SMILE . She also has numerous credits with national tours, Radio City Music Hall, and major regional theaters in the U.S. and Canada. Andrea is cofounder and resident choreographer for The Irondale Ensemble Project Canada and a company member of The Building Company. She is honored to be choreographing A Christmas Carol for the Syracuse Stage/Department of Drama 2023 2024 holiday co-production!

Hannah “Rock” Roccisano (she/ they) (Fight and Intimacy Direction) is a New York City based fight and intimacy director, director, educator and Shakespeare nerd. Her work has been seen off-Broadway including Wolf Play, A Bright New Boise, and Montag this season. She has intimacy directed Sweet Charity (Department of Drama mainstage), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, and Lungs (studio projects). Rock has choreographed regionally and at universities such as Columbia University, and the Hartt School. She is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and holds two masters degrees, an M.F.A. and Master of Letters in Shakespeare & Performance from Mary Baldwin University. Hannah is the chair of development for the SAFD and the founder of Expand, Educate, Empower, an initiative bringing free stage combat training to students in underserved communities across the U.S.

Celia Madeoy ( Voice/Dialect Consultant ) is an associate professor of voice and acting with the Department of Drama at Syracuse University and Syracuse Stage. She has performed professionally with many League of Resident Theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the United States including The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, The Acting Company, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Theatre J, The REV Theatre Company/Broadway in the Finger Lakes, Marin Theatre Company, Arizona Repertory Theatre, and The Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center. Her international Shakespeare training and performance includes voice work alongside Andrew Wade, Patsy Rodenburg, Giles Block, and distinguished directors and voice teachers of the Royal Shakespeare Company, British American Drama and performed in several productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and been featured in many roles at Syracuse Stage including Deb in Elf The Musical for which she won a Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) Award for Best Supporting Actress. Celia is a proud M.F.A. acting graduate of the Theatre

Artistic Staff

School Conservatory at DePaul University in Chicago.

Alexis Wilner (she/her) (Dramaturg) is a junior Drama major with concentrations in theater management and scenic design and a minor in disability studies. As a disabled artist, Alexis hopes to combine her theatrical endeavors and advocacy work to create a more accessible industry for disabled theater professionals. Her most recent credits include EPIC intern for EPIC Players NYC, community engagement intern for the world premiere of How to Dance in Ohio (Syracuse Stage), scenic designer for Lungs (studio project), and artistic director for Access Arts SU (Syracuse University and Black Box Players co-production).

Yuchao Zong (he/him) (Student Technical Director) is a senior theater design and technology major from Newark, DE. Other Syracuse scenic design credits include Sweet Charity (Department of Drama) and assistant technical directing The Little Mermaid (Syracuse Stage).

Carrie DeGraw ( Casting Associate) is a senior theater management major from Union Springs, NY. During her time at Syracuse, she has been the Department of Drama’s casting associate, as well as a production assistant for the Department and Syracuse Stage. Previously, Carrie was a management intern at Jermyn Street Theatre in London, England and the development apprentice at Theatre Aspen in Aspen, CO, where she currently is working as the management and board coordinator and apprentice program coordinator.

Annabelle Lamb (she/her) (Stage Manager) is a stage management major from Lake Forest, IL. This is her first mainstage production as stage manager, and she is so incredibly grateful to be a part of this production. She thanks her family and friends for their love and support!

ASSISTANTS & ASSOCIATES

Miranda Barrick (she/her) (Assistant Scenic Designer) is a junior theater design and technology major from Lancaster, PA.

Brooklyn Green (she/her) (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a sophomore theater design and technology major with a concentration in lighting and costume design, from San Diego, CA.

ASSISTANTS & ASSOCIATES

Kate Grover (she/her) (Assistant Director) is a junior theater management major from Northern Virginia, right outside DC.

Jay Korter (Assistant Sound Designer) is a sophomore theater design and technology major from Syracuse, NY.

Xiangyi (Annie) Meng (she/her) (Assistant Stage Manager) is a junior stage management major from Beijing, China.

Lubeini Yang (she/her) (Assistant Stage Manager) is a junior theater management major from Yunnan, China.

Director

Daniella Caggiano (she/her) is a queer disabled director, intimacy director, and native New Yorker. She is an alum of Roundabout’s Directors Group, MTC’s Directing Fellowship, The Drama League’s Residency, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Daniella has directed or developed work at NYTW, Joe’s Pub, The Tank, WOW Cafe, HERE, and Rattlestick, among others. Favorite directing projects include a site-appropriate Fun Home in a funeral home (starring Tony nom. Jenn Colella), Next To Normal , Glass Town , Vinegar Tom (performed with an original Riot Grrrl score), Show Me Eternity, and Macbeth. Daniella has also assisted or associate directed for rock stars such as Leigh Silverman and Rebecca Taichman. M.F.A.: The New School, B.A.: Sarah Lawrence College.

Music Director

Jacob Carll (he/him) is excited to have been on faculty here at Syracuse University for the spring semester. Credits include: Elf The Musical (associate conductor, National Tour), Titanic (associate conductor, Milwaukee Rep), Side By Side By Sondheim (Northern Stage), Spamalot (Northern Stage), Guys and Dolls (Sharon Play- house), South Pacific (Cape Playhouse), and West Side Story (White Plains Performing Arts Center). Graduate of the Goodspeed Music Director Intensive 2020. Education – B.M. in vocal performance from SUNY Potsdam, M.M. in vocal performance from New York University - Steinhardt. Follow at @jacobcarllonthekeys!