Devin Archer (Gerry Goffin) is thrilled to be making his Asolo Rep debut after just completing his two-year run as Enjorlas in the National Tour of Les Miserables. His other National Tours include Miss Saigon, Bright Star, and MAMMA MIA! Devin’s regional credits include Sweeney Todd (Anthony, South Coast Rep), Bright Star (Jimmy Ray, Musical Theatre West), The Last Five Years (Jaime, La Mirada), RENT (Roger, La Mirada), Tarzan (Tarzan, 3D Theatricals), Les Miserables (Marius, Musical Theatre West), Follies (Chicago Shakespeare), and the Las Vegas production of MAMMA MIA! He holds a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University. @devinjarcher

Aja Simone Baitey (Shirelle, Lucille, Ensemble) is elated to be making their Asolo Rep. debut! Their professional credits include Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour), Redwood (La Jolla Playhouse) and Six (Norwegian Cruise Lines). Aja has a musical theatre B.F.A. from Pace University. Aja is grateful to their friends and family for their love and support! You can find them on social media @ajasimonebaitey.

Emma Flynn Bespolka (Cynthia Weil) is a New York City based performer and she received her BFA in Musical Theatre from The Hartt School of Music. She is so excited to be making her Asolo Rep debut! Recent theatre credits include: Cher Horowitz in Clueless (London/UK Premiere), Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (The Engeman Theatre), u/s Lauren in Kinky Boots (Norwegian Cruise Lines), Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie (The Palace Theatre), and many more. She would like to thank her agent, managers, her family, her parents and especially her incredible husband Carl for their unwavering love and support.

Landry Champlin (Marilyn Wald, Ensemble, u/s Cynthia Weil) is thrilled to be making her Asolo Repertory Theatre debut! Landry’s recent credits include Jersey Boys (Francine), Rock of Ages (Waitress #1), Bright Star (Alice Murphy), Honky Tonk Chicks (Lead Vocalist), She Gees (Lead Vocalist), Legally Blonde (Margot). Landry is a proud B.M. Music Theatre Graduate from Oklahoma City University. Special thanks to Mom, Dad, Grayson, Nick, and HCKR! Instagram: @landrychamplin TikTok: @landry.champlin

Cornelius Davis (Drifter, Ensemble) Asolo Repertory Theatre Debut! Previously, he has been seen in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Broadway At Music Circus and The Walnut Street Theatre. NYC theatre and tour credits include: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Aladdin: The Musical. Other selected regional theatre credits include: Florida Studio Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and Flat Rock Playhouse. Cornelius holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Central Florida. Follow him on instagram @cpdavis91.

Matt Dengler (Righteous Brother, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Vee, Lou Adler, Ensemble, u/s Barry Mann, u/s Don Kirschner) has appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music as well as in Kander and Ebb’s The Visit staring Chita Rivera. His Off-Broadway roles include Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, Harold in Harold & Maude, and Matt/The Mute in The Fantasticks. His favorite regional credits include Henrik in A Little Night Music with Berkshire Theatre Festival, Laurie in Little Women at Theatre Works Palo Alto, Gabe in Next to Normal at Pioneer Theatre Company, Lawrence in The Monster in the Hall at City Theatre Company, and Logan in Chicken & Biscuits at Crossroads Theatre Company.

Matthew Bryan Feld (Donny Kirschner) began studying acting with The Barrow Group Theatre Company immediately after receiving his Master's in jazz performance at the Manhattan School of Music. He worked on the Netflix Series Manifest, Starz Series Power and won a Henry Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the original musical Rattlesnake Kate at DCPA. Other credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels & The Sound of Music. He is excited to break bread with Asolo on this Beautiful show! He’d be nothing without his beautiful Amanda and magical Hayes. @matthewbryanfeld

Melvin Gray Jr. (Drifter, “On Broadway” Singer, Ensemble, u/s “Up On the Roof” Singer) Previously Melvin could be seen traveling across the country in the 1st National Broadway Tour Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Swing/Dance Captain). Regional: Bull Durham: A New Musical (Deke/US Jimmy) Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Adrian), Songs For A New World (Standby Man 1 & 2), The Scottsboro Boys (Ozie Powell/Ruby Bates), Newsies (Albert). Film/TV: Killer Beat (Tubi), Medicating & Healing, Hype (YouTube Series). For updates, please check out @melvingrayjr5 or visit melvingrayjr.com.

Maya Jacobson (Betty, Ensemble, u/s Carole King) Florida-raised and delighted to be making her Asolo Repertory Theatre debut! She has been seen off-Broadway in Fidler Afn Dakh (directed by Joel Grey) and Amerike the Golden Land (NYTF). Select regional credits include Paper Mill Playhouse (Fiddler on the Roof), Studio Theatre (Fun Home), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Barrie Kosky's Fiddler on the Roof), George Street Playhouse (A Walk on the Moon). For Grammy, my natural woman blueprint. @_mayajacobson / www.mayajacobson.net

Kianna Kelly-Futch (Shirelle, Janelle Woods, Ensemble) is a multi-talented crossover artist from the DC Metropolitan Area. This is her Asolo Repertory Theatre debut. She has former pageantry experience, loves cheetah print, and enjoys creativity and versatility in Musical Theatre. She’s received education and training from Manhattan School of Music (B.M Musical Theatre), Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Ottley Music School, and has worked with the Argyle Theatre, Urban Change Theatre, and Washington National Opera in numerous roles and productions. She thanks God, Tara Rubin Casting, and Family and Friends for supporting her artistic journey! IG: @kiannakellyfutch

Julia Knitel (Carole King) has played Carole King on Broadway, on Tour, at Theatre Aspen (Henry nom), & at The Cape Playhouse. Additional Broadway/Tour: Bye Bye Birdie, Come From Away (Janice). Julia originated the role of Maggie/Millicent in the NYTimes Critic’s Pick Dead Outlaw (Outer Critics Circle Nomination). Off-Broadway: A Letter to Harvey Milk (Lortel Nomination), Panic of ‘29, The Tycoons (Rave Theatre Award - Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role). Regional: Louise in Gypsy (The Muny, St. Louis Theatre Circle Nomination), The Constant Wife (Denver Center – Dir. Shelley Butler), The Producers (Casa Mañana), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Portland Stage). TV/film: The Other Two, Miles.

AJ Lockhart (Drifter, Ensemble) from Chicago, IL/Atlanta, GA, credits his dedication and determination to following the examples of the four strong women that all had hands in molding him into the man he is: his mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother. I love you all. Thanks, Clear Talent Group! Lead with love. Favorite Credits - 1st Nat’l: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Male Swing) International tours: Bring It On! The Musical (Cameron), West Side Story 60th Anniversary Tour (Moose) National Tour: Memphis: The Musical (Wailin' Joe). Regional: RENT (Collins), Tick, Tick…Boom! (Michael), Matilda (Rudolpho), The Little Mermaid (Jetsam).

Anne L. Nathan (Genie Klein) Anne’s Broadway credit include Funny Girl, It Shoulda Been You, Once, Sunday in the Park With George, Chicago, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ragtime. Off-Broadway she has been in Sing Street (NYTW), Broadway Bounty Hunter, Sundown Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/WP) Taming Of The Shrew (Delacorte) Wings (2ST) and Road Show (The Public). She has toured with Chicago (Carbonell Award), Les Misérables, and  Aspects of Love. Anne’s Film & TV credits include Baby Mama, King of California, Fleishman Is In Trouble, Little America, Elementary, The Good Wife, among others. Web Series: “Submissions Only”.

Alyssa Enita Stanford (Shirelle, Little Eva, Ensemble) is excited to be in her first show at Asolo Rep! She is a proud PG County native. Some of her favorite credits include Violet (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Duckling Donna (SUMMER: the Donna Summer Musical). Many thanks to the cast and creative team. Special love to God, her Mom, Dad, and people who guided to this point!

Andy Tighe (Righteous Brother, Nick, Ensemble, u/s Gerry Goffin, u/s Don Kirschner) is thrilled to be making his Asolo Rep debut. Off-Broadway: A Class Act (Ed Kleban, First NYC Revival), Seesaw. Select Regional: Titanic (Thomas Andrews, Fireside), Cabaret (Cliff, Argyle & Ivoryton Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Fred, North Shore Music Theatre), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy, Reagle MT), Jekyll & Hyde (North Shore Music Theatre), and many more. He has also performed multiple times as a soloist with the Boston Pops. His Christmas album, Just in Time for Christmas, is available to stream. He would like to thank Merri and Spencer at Tara Rubin Casting. Unending love and gratitude to his amazing friends and family.

Ryan Vona (Barry Mann) is a Boston bred, New York based, Actor/Musician. Broadway: Parade, Once, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour. Off Broadway/Regional: The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla Playhouse), Love in Hate Nation (Two River); Jesus Christ Superstar (Connecticut Rep); Streets of New York (Irish Rep); You I Like (Pasadena Playhouse, 92Y); Little Shop of Horrors (Sharon Playhouse). Symphony: Grand Teton Music Festival, Detroit, Baltimore & Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestras. Original music streaming everywhere. He dedicates this performance to the group chat. For Caitlin & Moony. www.Ryanvona.com @ryanvona

Tiana Williams (Shirelle, “Uptown” Soloist, Ensemble) is excited to be making her Asolo debut this summer. She is a proud BFA alumni of Indiana University. Her recent credits include Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Natasha), Disney Cruise Line’s Aladdin (Jasmin U/s), Something Rotten at Rocky Mountain Rep Theatre (Portia U/s), The Wiz (Dorothy), The Sound of Music (Elsa Schraeder), Ragtime (Sarah), In the Heights (Vanessa), and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Pharaoh). Tiana thanks her agent, Kellie, and Merri Sugarman for the opportunity, and thanks God, her parents, and family for their love and support!

Maddi Bowman (u/s Marilyn Wald, u/s Betty, u/s Carole King) is thrilled to be making her professional debut with Asolo Repertory Theatre! She recently graduated with her BFA in Musical Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College. She would like to thank the creative team at Asolo Rep, as well as Merri Sugarman and Spencer Gualdoni with Tara Rubin for this opportunity. She’d also like to thank her agent, Michael Rodriguez, and her friends and family for always supporting her! Instagram: @maddibowman // Tik Tok: @maddibowman8

Aria Evans (u/s The Shirelles, u/s Lucille, u/s Janelle Woods, u/s Little Eva, u/s “Uptown” Singer) is over the moon to be making her Asolo Rep debut! Recent; Janelle Woods/Shirelle in Beautiful and Mrs. Phelps in Matilda (Music Theatre Wichita), Sheila in A Chorus Line (Penn State Centre Stage) and Brooke Wyndam in Legally Blonde (Timberlake Playhouse). She is a proud 2024 graduate of Penn State Musical Theatre! Many thanks to her team at Hudson Artists agency and her amazing family! @ariacevans

Steven Gagliano (u/s The Righteous Brother, u/s Neil Sedaka, u/s Bobby Vee, u/s Lou Adler, u/s Nick) Asolo Rep Debut! International/National Tours: Pretty Woman: The Musical. NY Credits: Funny Face. Regional: Fulton Theatre, Arrow Rock Lyceum, Gateway Playhouse, John W. Engeman Theater, Argyle Theater, and Surflight Theater. TV/Film: American Horror Story. Rider University BFA. Many thanks Brian at HKA, Tara Rubin Casting, Neal Tracy, family, and friends for their love and support. @stevengagliano

Michelle McCord (u/s Genie Klein) Michelle’s career spans from being a ballerina at the Hannover State Opera, to performing in over 30 productions at Theater des Westens Berlin, including Grand Hotel, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Sweet Charity. 2004 she was a faculty member at NKU and CCM. In 2013, Michelle and her husband Matt opened Ovation- School of Musical Theatre and then Ovation Theatre Inc.

Jonah Nash (u/s The Drifters) is a proud Southern native from Atlanta, Georgia. National/International Tours: Mean Girls (Ensemble/u/s Damian), A Chorus Line Japan (Richie). Other credits include PIPPIN (Pippin), CAPRI: World Premiere (Adam), The Bodyguard (Ensemble) & Beautiful (Drifter/Swing). Thrilled to be joining #SwingNation at Asolo Rep this season! Huge thanks to God, Team Nash and The Collective Talent for their undying love & support! @jonahrnash

Ayda Ozdoganlar (u/s Betty, u/s Marilyn Wald, u/s Cynthia Weil) is delighted for her second season with the Asolo Rep, where her previous roles include U/S Margret in Silent Sky. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, where she played Sophie in Mamma Mia! and received her B.S. in Biology and Minor in Drama with a dramaturgical focus. Recent credits include Regan in Lear and Jane in Pride and Prejudice at the Texas Shakespeare Festival, as well as Irina in Three Sisters, Kristin in Miss Julie, and Benvolia in Romeo and Juliet.

Banji Aborisade (Choreographer) Broadway: Beetlejuice the Musical (Assistant Director), Select Directing/Choreography Credits include: You're A Good Man Charlie Brown at Forestburgh Playhouse, Urinetown at the American Theater of Actors (Choreographer), Guys and Dolls at the Arthur Storch Theater, The Christine Jorgenson Show at HERE Arts (Choreographer) Film/TV: SC7NARIO on BroadwayHD, The Last Fall, While You Were Dreaming, SYNC: The Dance Series (Choreographer), and Every Right. Assistant/Associate Directing credits include Bye Bye Birdie at The Kennedy Center, Hairspray National Tour, Oliver at New York City Center, The Griswolds Broadway Vacation at 5th Avenue, Virgin Voyages’ It's A Ship Show, Beetlejuice on Norwegian Cruise Line, Bull Durham at Theatre Raleigh, How to Load a Musket at 59e59, and SoftPower at the Public Theater. BFA Syracuse University.

Drayton Alexander (Dramaturg) is a theatre artist specializing in creating new plays and production & institutional dramaturgy. He is on the creative team of Zitkala-Sa’s Astonishing Wild West (Asolo Rep Ground Floor; New Musicals Lab at Ferguson Center) and was Co-Artistic Producer of Serias@TheFlea. Dramaturgical highlights over their career include Cabaret (Asolo Rep, transfer to the Old Globe), Dial M for Murder (Asolo Rep, transfer to Pittsburg Public Theatre), Inherit the Wind (Asolo Rep), Spin (Edinburgh Fringe, TWA Award; Arcola Theatre, London), Taylor Mac’s The Fre (World Premiere), and Not My Monster (OBA nomination). He is the Literary Manager at Asolo Rep, and they have been the Company Dramaturg at The Flea (NYC) and the Literary Associate at New Earth Theatre (London). MFA: Tisch Asia. 

Shelley Butler (Director) has over forty Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits to date and has worked extensively with writers on new plays and musicals at theaters across the country. Notable productions include the world premiere of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 at South Coast Repertory, the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter for Two River Theater and the Japanese premiere of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo. Shelley is the recipient of a Drama League Fall Directing Fellowship, a 2018 Drama League Directing Resident, a 2005 Director’s Guild of America Trainee, and a proud member of SDC. Upcoming: World premiere of Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir at The Denver Center, The Alliance Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse.

Patricia Delorey (Dialect Coach) Asolo Rep favorites include: Knoxville (World Premiere), Silent Sky, Crazy For You, Cabaret, Sweat, The Cake, Sweeney Todd, Gloria, Ragtime, Rhinoceros, Roe, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The Great Society, Josephine (World Premiere), All The Way, West Side Story, Sotto Voce, Other Desert Cities, The Grapes of Wrath, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Clybourne Park, The Innocents (World Premiere), Twelve Angry Men, Bonnie & Clyde (World Premiere), Doubt, Equus. Other credits include Judith (World Premiere, Urbanite Theatre), Pitmen Painters (American Stage Theatre), The Smuggler (Urbanite Theatre), Studio Six’s production of Plasticine (The Baryshnikov Arts Center), Saturday Night Fever (Royal Caribbean International Cruises), Stone Cold Dead Serious (World Premiere, American Repertory Theatre), and Nocturne (World Premiere, American Repertory Theatre).

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Bailey Dumlao (Assistant Director) is a proud Filipino-American director, cat person, and multi-hyphenate artist hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. They are so excited to bring Carole’s world to life! Assistant Directing: world premieres of Tony Meneses’ A Thousand Maids, Hansol Jung’s Romeo and Juliet, Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter, and Mando Alvarado’s Living & Breathing, as well as acclaimed productions of Two Sisters and a Piano, Hair, and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Two River Theater). Directing: SENSATION (Theatre Q), Lewiston/Clarkston, Significant Other, the southeastern premiere of Martyna’ Majok’s Sanctuary City, and the world premiere of Lindsay Partain’s THE WAY YOU MADE ME (University of Alabama at Birmingham). Thanks to Shelley, mom, dad, and Katie B.

Alan C. Edwards (Lighting Designer): Off-B’way: Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre), Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre, Berkeley Rep); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature NYC & A.R.T); Fires in the Mirror, The Hot Wing King, Sunset Baby (Signature NYC); Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Sally & Tom (The Public). Regional: Paradise Blue, Lights Out: Nat King Cole (Geffen Playhouse). Dance: Chasing Magic and Where We Dwell by Ayodele Casel; In the Same Tongue by Dianne McIntyre; Lifted by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. Broadway: Associate to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. West End: Harry Clarke (Ambassador Theatre Group). Awards: Lucille Lortel and Audelco Awards, Drama Desk nomination. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he is also an assistant professor of lighting.  www.alancedwards.com.

Ross Egan (Managing Director) is the Managing Director at Asolo Repertory Theatre, bringing a wealth of experience in arts administration and leadership. His career began in Chicago, where he co-founded the Jeff Award-winning Refuge Theatre Project. Ross has also served as Managing Director of Barter Theatre, the nation's longest-running professional theater, and as Director of Marketing & Operations for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He holds a BFA in Acting from Michigan State University and an MBA from Illinois State University. Ross sits on the board of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County and is a proud den leader for the Boy Scouts of America. 

Gerry Goffin (Words and Music) Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Gerry Goffin met Carole King at Queens College, and their musical collaboration began almost immediately. They married in 1959, and that same year wrote their first hit song "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" (The Shirelles). The duo penned more than 50 Top-40 hits including "The Locomotion," "Natural Woman" and "Up on the Roof." In 1987, Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Goffin has left an indelible mark on American music.

Michelle Hart She/Her (Hair/Wig & Make-up Design) Hart designs for Asolo Repertory Theatre and FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Other credits: Sarasota Ballet; Palm Beach Drama Works; freeFall Theatre; Urbanite Theatre; Florida Studio Theatre; West Coast Black Theatre Troupe; Banyan Theatre; Ruth Eckerd Hall; Venice Theatre; Dorset Theatre, Barrington Stage and Open Stage Theatre. She has also done hair and/or make-up for Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts, Martin Short, Jane Russell, Arlene Dahl, Soledad Villamil, Jane Pauley, Richard Dreyfuss, Castille Langdon, Christopher Higgins, Mary Mara, Heather Robb, Lauren Sweetser, Justin Long, Paul Downs, Douglas Sills and Nia Hills; music videos: *Second Chance* by Shinedown, *Reverse Cowgirl* by T-Pain; film and television: *Lady Of The Manor, Paradise, FL.* and *The Real Stephen Blatt.*

Jaclyn Kanter (Assistant Stage Manager) Jaclyn Is excited to return to Asolo for her fourth season, after starting as a Stage Management Apprentice in 2019. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, TheArmory, The Connelly Theater, The York Theater Company. Regional: The Muny, The Santa FeOpera. Lots of love to the family and friends who support her every step of the way.

Carole King (Words and Music) Pop music would be very different without the contributions of Carole King, who at age 17 wrote her first #1 hit with Gerry Goffin, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," for the Shirelles. The dozens of chart hits Goffin and King wrote during this period became legendary, but it was 1971's Tapestry that took King to the pinnacle, speaking personally to her contemporaries and providing a spiritual musical backdrop to the decade. More than 400 of her compositions have been recorded by over 1,000 artists, resulting in 100 hit singles and six Grammys.

Barry Mann (Words and Music) has written the melodies of some of the most influential pop songs in musical history. In addition to "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," the most-played song of the last century, and the songs heard in Beautiful, he composed later standards like "Somewhere Out There" (winner of two Grammys), "Here You Come Again," "Sometimes When We Touch," "Just Once" and "Don't Know Much." Together he and Cynthia Weil have amassed an incredible 112 pop, country, and R&B awards from Broadcast Music Inc. for significant radio air play. He has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Kimberly Ann McCann (Production Stage Manager) She/Her/Hers (Production Stage Manager) is excited to be making her Asolo Repertory Theatre debut! Previous Broadway credits include Curtains, and Off-Broadway credits include Bill W. and Dr. Bob, How to Save the World and John Ferguson. Kimberly has also worked with Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Peninsula Players Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Tuacahn Center for the Arts and The Julliard School. 

Douglas McGrath (Book) was a filmmaker and playwright. Most recently, he directed the HBO documentary "Becoming Mike Nichols." He collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplay for Bullets Over Broadway, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award. He wrote and directed the Oscar-winning Emma from the Jane Austen novel; Company Man; Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, which won the Best Ensemble Cast from the National Board of Review; Infamous; and the HBO documentary, "His Way," nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special. His play Checkers opened the 30th anniversary season of New York's acclaimed Vineyard Theatre. His book for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. He began his career as a writer for "Saturday Night Live" in what was incontestably the worst year in the show's history. He has written essays on the arts and politics for the New Republic, the New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Times and Vanity Fair. Douglas McGrath passed away on November 4, 2022.

Vic Meyrich (Production and Operations Director) is a graduate of Carnegie Tech and worked at New York Shakespeare Festival, Brandeis, University of California Institute of Repertory, APA, American Conservatory Theater, and again in New York. As head of production and technical staffs, he is responsible for the overall technical operation of Asolo Rep and its facilities. He wrote the architecture program for both the Center for the Performing Arts and the Koski II expansion and is the owner's representative on both projects. He has been a member of the Asolo Rep family since 1969. 

Alex Neumann (Sound Design) is an NYC-based sound designer. His credits include Broadway: Into the Woods, over 20 shows as associate designer. National Tours: Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I. New York City Center Encores!: Pal Joey, Oliver!, Into the Woods. Off-Broadway: Death Let Me Do My Show, Walk on Through, The Atheist. Regional: Sense and Sensibility (American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage). Bus Stop, The Atheist (Huntington Theatre Company), Ether Dome (Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company), 39 Steps (Olney Theatre Center), Cabaret, Million Dollar Quartet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Events/Other: Drama Desk Awards (2017-2019), A Tribute to the Presidential Scholars (Kennedy Center, 2016-2019). Footloose (Norwegian Cruise Lines). Awards: Tony nominee, Drama Desk winner: Into the Woods. www.soundsneu.com

Peter Rothstein (Producing Artistic Director) Peter Rothstein is the Producing Artistic Director for Asolo Rep where he directed 12 Angry Men: A New Musical, Inherit The Wind, Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, and Ragtime. He works extensively as a director of theater, musicals, theater, opera, and new work development. For 25 years Rothstein served as the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Latté Da, a Minneapolis-based company dedicated to new and adventurous music-theater. Other collaborations include the Guthrie Theater, Children's Theatre Company, Ten Thousand Things, and Seattle's 5th Avenue, as well as the Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater. Rothstein is the creator of All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, which had its Off-Broadway debut in 2018 receiving the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and has been seen around the globe airing on PBS. Rothstein served on the board of directors for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Alive and Kickin', and the Twin Cities' Ivey Awards. He has been a panelist and evaluator for the Playwrights' Center, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals. He holds degrees in music and theater from St. John's University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   

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Dewanda Smith Soeder (Cultural Competency Coordinator) She/Her/We (Cultural Competency Consultant) is the President of Smith-Soeder Enterprises, LLC. She is an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) strategist who developed the Affinity Space and Triage cultural competency processes based on her research and thesis, “Theatre as a Diversity Intervention”. Cultural competency consulting engagements include Theatrical Institutions: Asolo Rep, Florida State University Conservatory for Actor Training, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe Theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Touring Production Companies: RCI Theatricals, LDK Productions, Tom Kirdahy Productions, Octopus Productions, Louis on Broadway, Martian Entertainment, Skidrow Downtown. 

Angela Steiner (Music Director, Additional Arrangements, Conductor, Piano 1) is thrilled to be returning to Asolo Rep for her 4th season. Prior Asolo Rep productions include Crazy for You, Cabaret, and Sweeney Todd. She has worked as Music Director/Conductor/Arranger all over the country. Select shows include Little Shop of Horrors (South Coast Repertory) La Cage Aux Folles, Cabaret, and Next to Normal (Barrington Stage Company), Hair! (The Old Globe), Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Geva Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors, A Little Night Music, Rattlesnake Kate, The Who’s Tommy, Oklahoma, Indecent, Twelfth Night (Denver Center). Angela holds a bachelor’s degree in piano from Wichita State University and a masters in collaborative piano from the University of Northern Colorado. Go to angelasteiner.com for more info!

Reid Thompson (Set Design) For Asolo: Gloria, Disgraced. Recent NYC: Exception To The Rule, What The End Will Be, Something Clean, Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout); Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Eddie and Dave (Atlantic); Wilder Gone (Clubbed Thumb); Fruiting Bodies (Ma-Yi). Recent Regional: POTUS (Arena Stage); The Lehman Trilogy, You Lost Me (Denver Center); On Cedar Street (BTG); When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama); A Doll’s House Part Two (Actors Theater of Louisville); Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage). Opera: Tosca, Fidelio, La Susanna, Butterfly, Dido, Lucia (Heartbeat Opera). TV: Fallout, Kaleidoscope, Bridge and Tunnel. Film: The Instigators, A Complete Unknown. Upcoming: The Suffragette’s Murder (Denver Center). Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, Kathryn Bigelow’s Untitled. MFA: Yale School of Drama. reidthompsondesign.com

Alejo Vietti (Costume Design) Originally from Argentina. New York: Broadway’s Allegiance (Drama Desk Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - (also West End - Olivier Nomination, National Tour, Australia and Japan) and Holiday Inn, as well as well as works for the Radio City Rockettes, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC Center Encores!, Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC Opera, Primary Stages, and MCC, among others. Has also extensively designed for regional Theatres across the U.S., commercial projects, and dance. Other credits: Titanique (Lucille Lortel Award), Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Japan, Germany and Austria, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Donesk Opera (Ukraine), Colorado Ballet, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design

Summer Dawn Wallace (Intimacy Coordinator) is a playmaker: a versatile theatre professional working as producer, director, actor, and educator. Summer is the Producing Artistic Director at Urbanite Theatre, which focuses on new work. She is happy to be returning to Asolo Rep after playing Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town in 2022. Regional Credits include 1st Stage, Vashon Repertory Theatre, Cumberland County Playhouse, Dog Day’s Theatre, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, New College of Florida and the list goes on. She is a proud member of AEA and Sag-AFTRA and would like to express her deepest gratitude to the incredible Sarasota patrons and the Asolo Repertory Theatre team. 

Cynthia Weil (Words and Music) was the acclaimed lyricist of classic songs such as "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," the most-played song of the 20th century. In addition to the songs heard in Beautiful, she set the words to later standards including "Somewhere Out There," "Here You Come Again," "He's So Shy," "Just Once" and "Don't Know Much," to name just a few. Weil was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, honored with multiple Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards for "Somewhere Out There" as the Motion Pictures Song of the Year and Song of the Year. Weil passed away on June 1, 2023.

Sydnei Williams (Assistant Stage Manager) is from Astoria, Queens and is thrilled to be in Florida making her Asolo Rep debut! Select regional credits include 42nd Street, Tootsie (Theatre By The Sea); Fabulation: Or The Re-education of Undine (Billie Holiday Theatre) The Fantasticks, Mary Poppins (Quintessence Theatre Group); Jersey Boys (Weathervane Theatre); Alabama Story (Greenbrier Valley Theatre); the world premiere of HANG TIME (The Flea); Ain’t Misbehavin’, State Fair, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Catch Me If You Can, Footloose, Buddy Holly: The Buddy Holly Story (The REV Theatre); and The Wedding Singer (Oswego State Theatre). Sydnei is an expert scrapbooker and baker of brownies. Her goal is to inspire the next generation of theatre artists. Much love to everyone who supports me in my career!