MATTHEW CAMPBELL
(Production Manager)
is grateful and honored to support, collaborate, and work with our brilliant and outstanding production team, shops, crews, artisans and guest artists to create extraordinary theatre. Previously a stage manager at a few stops in the mid-west as well as numerous Colorado theatres and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Brooklyn College in New York. Joined the DCPA stage management team in 2010 and after several years moved over to the production management team. Every show along the way is a favorite, but some DCPA and Off-Center highlights have been Sweet & Lucky, The 12, Lord of the Flies, Animal Crackers, Frankenstein, Book of Will, Rattlesnake Kate, and The Chinese Lady.
MEGHAN ANDERSON DOYLE
(Costume Designer) (She/Her)
At the DCPA: (30+ productions/19 seasons) with the DCPA. Select credits: Hamlet, Rubicon, The Chinese Lady, A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part II, American Mariachi, The Wild Party, Sweet & Lucky, Xanadu and Act of God. Other select credits: Noises Off!, The Drowning Girls, and others (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities); The Book of Will, King Lear, and others (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Secretary, The Cake, The Brother/Sister Plays, and others (Curious Theatre Company). Special Awards: Henry Award Outstanding Costume Design – A Doll’s House 2020. Training: BA-University of Denver, MFA-University of Florida. DoyleCostumeDesign.com
SEAN HAGERTY
(Composer and Sound Designer)
is a sound designer, composer, and violinist based in NYC. At the DCPA: The Wild Party and Sweet & Lucky. With Third Rail Projects: Then She Fell (Bessie Award), Ghost Light (Lincoln Center), Yours to Lose (SXSW), Midsummer: A Banquet (Drama Desk Nomination), The Grand Paradise, and Still, the Sky, a fully underscored audio book. Other shows include Sump’n Like Wings (Mint Theater, Theater Row), Drift (New World Stages), and Hit the Body Alarm (Performing Garage). Associate sound designer and sound supervisor for Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb/Public Theater) and Jill Sobule’s F*ck 7th Grade (Wild Project). seanhagerty.com
REGAN LINTON
(Accessibility Consultant)
MSW, MFA, is a multi-genre creator, actor, director, writer, and internationally-recognized leader in the arts, specializing in disability aesthetics and accessible design. Acting: Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, DCPA Off-Center, Phamaly. Directing: imperfect (documentary, 30+ film festivals, now streaming); Jack and the Beanstalk for Warner Bros/Discovery (short); Artistic Director of the preeminent disability theatre Phamaly (5 years). Playwriting: FDR’s Very Happy Hour, Squishy But Firm: Sexcapades of a Crip Girl, and Buntport’s The Menagerist. Other projects: Accessibility Coordinator on David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind; lecturing at top institutions from Juilliard to UC San Diego; TYA shows, voiceover, and featured columns. reganlinton.com
CHARLES R. MACLEOD
(Lighting Designer)
At the DCPA (300+ productions/40 seasons): Recent designs include: Little Shop of Horrors, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Clyde’s, In the Upper Room, As You Like It, Sweat, Native Gardens, One Night in Miami, Appoggiatura, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lydia, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1001, The 39 Steps, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, Lord of the Flies. For DCPA Cabaret: The Other Josh Cohen, The Improvised Shakespeare Company®, Xanadu, First Date, The Secret Comedy of Women (Denver and national tour), The Last Five Years, Always…Patsy Cline. For DCPA Education: Corduroy, Goodnight Moon. Mr. MacLeod has been a member of the Theatre Company since 1983. charlesmacleod.com
MARISSA NIELSEN-PINCUS
(Premium Experience Creator) (she/her)
is a performing artist, teacher, and somatic practitioner. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects, an integral part of Third Rail’s creative team, performing, directing, and teaching since 2001. Marissa was Assistant Director for Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise, and was a member of the directing teams for Learning Curve and Port of Entry, Third Rail’s collaboration with the Chicago youth theater company APTP. Marissa teaches performance skills and Somatic Practice nationally and internationally, and is a certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Somatic Movement Therapist.
LISA M. ORZOLEK
(Scenic Designer)
At the DCPA: (280+ productions/35 seasons) Theater of the Mind (Associate Designer), DragOn, Sweet & Lucky (2016) (DCPA Off-Center); Hotter Than Egypt, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Doll’s House and A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Whistleblower, Native Gardens, The Nest, Tribes, One Night in Miami, Benediction, Shadowlands, Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, Superior Donuts, Othello, Gee’s Bend, The Pillowman, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, and more (DCPA Theatre Company); Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Little Red, Goodnight Moon and more (DCPA Education); Gutenberg! the Musical, Miss Rhythm, The Other Josh Cohen, The Improvised Shakespeare Company®, Xanadu, Forbidden Broadway, Girls Only, and more (DCPA Cabaret). Lisa is a Denver native and has a BFA in Scenic Design from Boston University.
KALI PAGUIRIGAN
(Choral Director)
is a singer, performer, song leader, and educator whose musical interests spans the spectrum from Renaissance to American pop and everything in between. She is the Artistic Director of Denver Choir League, where she leads community singing with heart, humor, and purpose. A firm believer in the transformative power of group singing, Kali fosters spaces where voices can rise together in connection and joy. She is also the cofounder of ReSound, a collaborative ensemble blending string quartet and voice to explore timeless repertoire in fresh ways. Kali holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master’s degree from CalArts.
GRADY SOAPES, CSA
(Casting)
is the Director of Casting and Artistic Producer with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Grady has cast over 50 DCPA productions including Rattlesnake Kate, Theater of the Mind, The Chinese Lady, The Who’s Tommy, and The Wild Party. Choreography credits include A Christmas Carol (3 seasons), Twelfth Night, Goodnight Moon, Anna Karenina, As You Like It, Drag Machine, Lord of the Butterflies, DragON (Denver Center); Natasha, Pierre and…, Into the Woods, The Liar (Arvada Center); Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Grady also works as a Casting Director for Sylvia Gregory Casting where he has cast multiple commercials, TV, film, and video game projects.
KIRYA TRABER
(Dramaturg)
is a theatre artist and cultural organizer. She is a New Harmony Project Fellow, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow, and a Djerassi Artist Residency Fellow, a New York Stage and Film Founders Award recipient, the Curator in Residence with Hi-ARTS from 2020-2023, and Lincoln Center’s lead Community Artist in Residence from 2015-2020. Her work with First Person PBS received a NY Emmy Nomination in 2019. Her collaborative work with Ping Chong + Company, Undesirable Elements: Generation NYZ, was a New York Times Critics Pick in 2018. Throughout her ambitious artistic career, Kirya has continuously engaged in art for social change.
CORIN DAVIDSON*
(Stage Manager)
Over 15 productions at the DCPA including: The Reservoir, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Rubicon, The Color Purple, Theater of the Mind, Choir Boy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wildfire, twenty50, Indecent, Corduroy, The Who’s Tommy, The Secret Garden, Sweeney Todd, Lookingglass Alice. At DCPA Cabaret: An Act of God. Other Theatres: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Renaissance Theatre Works, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Training: BFA Stage Management, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
KRISTIN DWYER*
(Assistant Stage Manager) (she/her)
Kristin Dwyer is thrilled to be at DCPA, and to work with Third Rail Projects again after stage managing Then She Fell and Return the Moon. Other immersive credits include: The Great Gatsby Immersive Show (Immersive Everywhere) and Mr g: A Play About the Creation (Princeton); Carnal Spill (Carrie Ahern Dance), Nutcracker Rouge (Company XIV), Eschaton (Chorus Productions), La Canción en la Tormenta (EMIT TYA), and Lab Rat by A$AP Rocky. Proud alumna SUNY New Paltz.
THIRD RAIL PROJECTS
has been hailed as one of the foremost groups creating site-specific, immersive, and experiential performance. Led by Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willett, the company has been working in New York, nationally, and abroad since 2000. Their award-winning immersive hit Then She Fell was named one of the “Top Ten Shows of 2012” by Ben Brantley of The New York Times and acclaimed as one of the best theater experiences of 2013 by Vogue. The show ran for more than seven years for a total of 4,444 performances. Third Rail Projects has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including two New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards, a Chita Rivera Award for Choreography, a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, and more than 20 short film awards in over 40 festivals worldwide. Third Rail Projects has also been recognized as part of the creative team of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning virtual reality adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Wolves in the Walls, and as contributors and featured artists in the Emmy Award-winning series IMMERSIVE.WORLD by ALL ARTS. In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named Zach, Tom, and Jennine among the 100 most influential people in Brooklyn Culture by Brooklyn Magazine.
DCPA OFF-CENTER
produces unexpected theatrical experiences that put the audience at the center of the story. What began in 2010 as a small theatrical test kitchen has grown into a signature line of programming for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, credited with bringing immersive theatre to Colorado and helping establish Denver as a national hub for immersive art. Among Off-Center’s large-scale productions that have garnered local and national praise are: the world premieres of Theater of the Mind created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar, Sweet & Lucky created with New York-based Third Rail Projects, Camp Christmas with artist Lonnie Hanzon, produced a 360-degree staging of The Wild Party, presented The Last Defender, Space Explorers: THE INFINITE, and launched the national tours of acclaimed immersive experiences DARKFIELD: FLIGHT, SÉANCE, + COMA and MONOPOLY LIFESIZED: Travel Edition. With support from the Doris Duke and Wallace foundations, Off-Center has been recognized as a leader in developing new programming that attracts new audiences. Through Off-Center, the DCPA is the only professional regional theatre in the country regularly developing, producing, and presenting large-scale immersive and experiential work.