Creative Team Biographies

Dot Auchmoody

Dot Auchmoody

(Costume Designer) is celebrating her 19th season as the Resident Costume Designer for The Naples Players. This has been a season like no other to say the least. In spite of all the challenges that we have faced, it has brought home to all of us that we are a family. We are thankful for the volunteers that have helped in this difficult time and for those who couldn't join us but sent their encouragement. A special shout out to Bryce and the Board of Directors for their leadership in helping us keep involved in this community we love. She is pleased to see her husband and friends treading the boards again. “Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde

Starlet Jacobs

Starlet Jacobs

(Scenic Designer) received an MFA in Scenic Design from UCLA and a BA in Music and Art from University of Washington. Her Set Design credits at The Naples Players include Making God Laugh; Bell, Book & Candle; Don’t Dress for Dinner; White Christmas; Charles Ives Take Me Home; and Miracle on 34th St. She lives and works in NYC as a set designer and as an art director for film and TV. She would like to thank Michael, Chase, and all the volunteers for their talent and hard work building and painting the sets year after year!

Gabrielle Lansden

Gabrielle Lansden

(Properties) has been in love with theatre since she was 7 years old. She studied theatre at FSW and got her AA, and then got her BA in FGCU’s theatre program in 2020. She has been working in props since she started college and has loved it ever since. She also loves to perform in theatre; she has been in She Kills Monsters as Agnes at FSW, Water Stories at FGCU and as Janet in The Rocky Horror Show at New Phoenix Theatre. She thanks her wonderful parents for their love and support and hopes y’all enjoy the show.

Hunter Reum

Hunter Reum

(Stage Manager) is excited to be taking on his first Tobye production – and the first show in this space since the shutdown! Hunter last stage managed Twelfth Night and has been the ASM on productions such as Footloose; Yours, Truly; Mamma Mia! Teen; and The Great Gatsby. While he enjoys being offstage, he equally enjoys acting. Hunter was most recently seen on stage in Bye Bye Birdie last spring.

Manda Smith

Manda Smith

(Deck Manager) is happy to be part of the SM team for this beautiful production. Born in London, Manda worked during high school and college as a model/actor before moving to the US to start a career in advertising and design. This morphed into a love of home design, and she became a serial house flipper. Manda returned to her theatre roots in 2005 when she started at TNP as Assistant Choreographer for the summer KidzAct shows. Manda would like to thank her family for their unending love and support. Enjoy the show!

Bradley Van Houten

Bradley Van Houten

(Sound Designer) is celebrating his 8th season at TNP. Brad has his bachelor’s degree in Theatre: Design & Technical Production and Theatre: Stage Management from Western Michigan University. Having had the pleasure of working Off-Broadway on Soul Doctor and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brad is happy to be working at a theatre where every day brings on a new challenge. In his time at TNP he has worked on sound on over 80 productions. Select previous credits include Mamma Mia!, Peter and the Starcatcher, Chicago, Maple and Vine, She Kills Monsters, Sister Act, Rocky Horror Show, The 39 Steps, Something’s Afoot, and Good People.

Craig Walck

Craig Walck

(Lighting Designer) After initially working for TNP from 2000-2006, Craig returned to TNP in 2011 after a five-year absence, during which he worked for Columbia University, The All-Stars Project, and other theatrical groups in New York City from 2006-2008. He then oversaw the completion of construction, opening, and first two years of operation of the Miramar Cultural Center in Miramar, FL from 2008-2011. Overall, Craig has designed the lighting for over 150 TNP productions. Originally from Niagara Falls, N.Y., and a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, he once again calls Naples his home with his wife, Jessica, and their kids (dogs) Ziggy, Twoey, and Roscoe.

Steve Wilson

Steve Wilson

(Director) is a Denver-based, award-winning director, actor, teacher, and administrator with over 30 years serving multiple organizations in multiple capacities. He is deeply honored to join TNP for the first time to work alongside dear friend and colleague Bryce Alexander. For 14 years he served as the Artistic Director of PHAMALY Theatre Company where directing highlights included Urinetown, Man of La Mancha, Beauty & the Beast, Joseph…, Our Town, Little Shop of Horrors, The Elephant Man and Fiddler on the Roof. He is married to Denver Center Theatre Company actress Leslie O’Carroll and a proud dad of their talented daughter, Olivia. Training: MFA, Acting, National Theatre Conservatory; BFA, Drama, USC. www.stevewilsonarts4all.com