Rebecca O’Neil is a Seattle-based actor with a passion for equity in the theatre and a profound interest in using the theatre to tell stories about all kinds of people, at all the intersections in their lives. A 2019 of the MFA Arts Leadership program at Seattle University, she applied her classroom work to the development of The Shattered Glass Project. Rebecca is the president of the Theater Puget Sound board of directors for 2023 and previously served as treasurer. She has an MFA in Acting (University of Portland); an MA in Teaching (Willamette University), and a BA in Dramatic Arts (Mills College). She is the proud mother of Jade, Gemma and Rafferty, and grandmother of Leila. Peter: I couldn’t do this without you.

Alexandra Kronz is a Seattle based teaching artist whose own creative work spans playwriting, dance, choreography, drag and theatre. Their generative and pedagogical approaches are informed by their experience as a queer woman in the arts, their passion for social justice, and their academic background in Socio-Linguistics and the Psychology of bias. In addition to serving as TSGP’s Director of Education, Alexandra teaches online theatre workshops for LGBTQIA+ and allied youth at the Rainbow Center Tacoma, teaches freelance partner dance lessons, and is a member of the 2021 Teaching Artist Training Lab cohort. Their recent performance work includes: acting in Dacha Theatre’s interactive zoom play Secret Admirer, dancing for Lucille Jun in Velocity’s The Bridge Project, and writing/directing Wormwood, their original evening length play, at 18th & Union’s Springshot Festival.

Carolynne Wilcox is a Seattle-based actor and playwright whose plays have been produced both locally and regionally, most recently a virtual production of Clytemnestra, as well as virtual (with TSGP!) AND actual productions of A Series of Small Cataclysms (co-written with Jen Smith Anderson). Aside from a slew of virtual performances over the past year, favorite recent roles include Ana in The Clean House, Carmen in Juan Palmieri, and La Muerte in Blood Wedding. She is beyond excited to finally be unveiling Loom after originally creating it as her graduate thesis project at Towson University in 2008!

Gemma O’Neil is an artist, writer, and learner of the world and all of its entities and oddities. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gemma has been drawing as well as painting with acrylics since she was a child. Gemma spends a lot of her time practicing intentional body movement— running, walking, dancing, cycling and roller skating. She works in the field of childcare and considers it extremely important to educate the worlds’ youth with nurturing care and an open heart! Kindness, humor, love, light, acceptance, and social justice govern Gemma’s own little universe, and she hopes that those values emanate as best as they can through yours as well.

Lighting Designer

Chih-Hung is the technical director at 18th & Union and a young professional lighting designer in Seattle area. His most recent lighting design was Puss in Boots, directed by Vince Brady. Other lighting design credits in the US include Fermin’s Great Book of Dreams(Uheights Theatre-Auditorium), What We Were(12th Ave Arts-Mainstage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Jones Playhouse), Women of Lockerbie(Penthouse Theatre), and Rosmersholm(Jones Playhouse).

Ana N. Rusness-Petersen, the founder of Ana Noelle Creative Productions, is an arts leader, theatrical producer, and creative-placemaker. She has worked over two decades as a collaborator, producer, director, stage manager, box office manager, and all-around artist and production resource for theatres, performance venues, record labels, and festivals in Fargo, Chicago, Seattle, and Austin. Since graduating with her MFA in Arts Leadership (Seattle University), she has been bouncing between projects in Fargo, Austin, and Seattle.

Ian Bond (he/him) is a Seattle based actor, fight and intimacy director, and educator. He has performed with ACT, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Taproot Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Sound Theatre Company and others locally. His fight and intimacy direction has been seen at the University of Washington, Washington Ensemble, Book-It Repertory, and Seattle Shakespeare. Ian is also a motion capture artist and a professional Game Master.

Photography

Kirk is an architect, photographer and filmmaker based in Seattle, Washington. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech in 1993. His photographic work examines environments that humans construct for themselves, their uses, intimacies, and implications, and how time imprints and alters these relationships. His ongoing project on the Duwamish River is a direct result of these interests, as well as an extension of years spent on the industrialized rivers of his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Visit www.kirkhostetter.com.