DENISE STEWART (Mary)

Denise Stewart is a freelance theatre artist, speaker, and coach. She toured her one woman show, Dirty Barbie and other girlhood tales throughout the Southeast as well as runs in New York, DC, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She’s a former Tedx speaker and a current speaker coach. Her TV pilot, Adjuncts, was a finalist for the Virginia Film Award. She’s been teaching at UVA since 2014 and currently teaches in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She has an MFA in Playwriting from UVA.

COLLEEN KELLY (Director)

Colleen Kelly is a Professor in the Drama Department at UVA and Director of the M.F.A. Professional Actor Training Program. She is a current board member of the University Resident Theatre Association (URTA), a founding board member and former president of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, a former vice president of the Virginia Theatre Association and a former vice president of the Society of American Fight Directors. She is recipient of the ATME Lifetime Achievement Award, the SAFD President’s Award, and the “Ginny” Award from VTA. Colleen, who is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association, has worked professionally as an actor, director, fight director, and dance choreographer at professional theatres across the country. Film credits include dance choreography for Sommersby with Richard Gere and Jody Foster and Everybody’s All-American with Jessica Lang and Dennis Quaid, and fight direction for the nationally-aired PBS series Tell About the South.

BROOKE CRITTENDEN (Waitress)

Brooke is an actor currently working on her theatre degree at Mary Baldwin University. She’s from Stuarts Draft, Virginia, and has been a part of many productions around the valley, including the recent production of Puffs with Silver Line Theatre Exchange. A few of her favorite productions have been Matilda at the Wayne Theater and Romeo and Juliet at MBU. She spends her time studying and visiting shops downtown with her friends.

CHRISTIAN O’NEILL (Piano player)

Christian is a Maryland-born actor who lived and worked in the Baltimore area and northern California before attending the University of Virginia’s MFA Program in Acting in which he is in his third and final year. Recent credits include: 16 Winters or a Bear's Tale, When the Rain Stops Falling, A Midsummer Night's Dream, God of Carnage (UVA Drama), Crimes of the Heart (Vagabond Players), She Stoops to Conquer, 10x10x10 Theatre Festival (Fells Point Corner Theatre).

JOHNNY WILLIAMS III (Lighting Designer)

Johnny Williams III is an actor, director, and lighting designer who is a second year student in Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and Performance program. He was raised in Kewanee Illinois where he served as technical director and cofounder of KPD Community Theatre. Johnny also served as a board member of Prairie Players Community Theatre. Johnny was the technical director and fall play director for Kewanee High School from 2017-2021. Most recently Johnny served as an acting fellow/swing for The American Shakespeare Center's 2022 Spring Season.