September 26 - October 1, 2023
Director | Makaylee Secrest
Stage Manager | Olivia Lunsford
Props Designer | Sarah Statham
Sound Designer | Haley Hughes
Costume Designer | Jordan Herbert
Lighting Designer | Kate Landry
Scenic Designer | Cole Clark
Make-Up Artist | Jenika Kolacz
French Dramaturg | Milan Williams
Accent Coach Landon Corbin
Sound Board Op Bella Rodriguez
Light Board Op Ethan Hood
| Abby | Alex Arnold |
| Zack | Ryan Bailey |
| Alioune | Amechi Obodoechina |
| Amina | Allysan Cleveland |
- Drew Alvarez, Front Office & Box Office Coordinator
- Jeremy Bernardoni, Instructor
- Suzanne Chambliss, Instructor
- Joe Chrest, Adjunct Film & TV
- Sonya Cooke, Assistant Professor of Acting
- John Michael Eddy, Professional-in-Residence Props
- Nick Erickson, Associate Professor of Movement, Head of MFA Acting
- Femi Euba, Louise & Kenneth Kinney Professor Black Drama and Playwriting
- Melissa Fay, Business Manager School of Theatre
- John Fletcher, Billy J. Harbin Associate Professor Theatre History
- Jason Jamerson, Assistant Professor Virtual Production and Immersive Media
- George Judy, Gresdna A. Doty Professor Acting and Directing
- Kyla Kazuschyk, Associate Professor Costume Technology
- Tyler Kieffer, Assistant Professor Sound Design
- Vince LiCata, Adjunct Professor
- Smaida Massatt, Assistant Professor of Lighting & Media Production
- Jim Murphy, Prof. of Technology, Production Manager, Head MFA Technology/Design
- Claudio Ribeiro, Professional-in-Residence Co-Head, Dance
- Rocky Sansom, Assistant Professor Voice Assoc. Head MFA Acting
- Alan Sikes, Associate Professor Theatre History
- Amy Smith, Assistant Dean of Student Success Counselor
- Kristin Sosnowsky, Executive Associate Dean, Chair & Professor
- Vastine Stabler, Managing Artistic Director
- Vanessa Uhlig, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film & TV
- Becca Wagner, Student Success and Recruiting Coordinator
- Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor Theatre History, Associate Dean D.E.I.
- Apollo Weaver, Assistant Professor of Scenic Design
- Chris Wood, Professional-in-Residence Scenic Technologist/Shop Manager

Alex Arnold
Alex Arnold (Abby) is a junior at ÃÛÌÒAPP studying Theatre (performance). Her previous credits include Theatre Baton Rouge’s The Addams Family and the ÃÛÌÒAPP Musical Theatre Club’s Heathers.

Ryan Bailey
Ryan Bailey (Zack) is a junior theatre performance major with an arts administration minor. Previous shows at ÃÛÌÒAPP that he has been in include the mainstage production of Airness, Musical Theatre Club's production of Heathers, a UTA staged reading of Circle Mirror Transformation, and the HopKins Black Box production of Alice: A Parable. He is also a member of the ÃÛÌÒAPP Improv troupe.

Amechi Obodoechina
Amechi Obodoechina (Alioune) is a senior Theater (Theater Studies) major. Previous credits include ÃÛÌÒAPP Theater Zoom Production Anonymous; ÃÛÌÒAPP Theater Lab's All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. Amechi has also been in an UTA Staged Reading of She Kills Monsters.

llysan Cleveland
llysan Cleveland (Amina) is a junior English major, concentrating in Creative Writing. Previous credits include starring in Annie and Hairspray.
Ethan Hood (Lighting Board Op) is a sophomore receiving a BFA in the Film & Television program. Previous credits include the ÃÛÌÒAPP Geaux Films; The Dream List and There’s Something Wrong in Sugarland. Belleville will mark his theatrical debut.
Bella Rodriguez (Sound Board Op) is a sophomore Theatre (Tech and Design) major. Previous credits include assistant sound design for ÃÛÌÒAPP Theatre Lab’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. She also designed and operated (sound) for ÃÛÌÒAPP UTA’s My Body, No Choice and Hookman.
Sarah Statham (Props designer) is a senior Theatre: Design and Technology major and a history minor. Previous production credits include the Geaux Film The Dream List (Props assistant) and ÃÛÌÒAPP lab series’ Wolf Play (Props designer). She also has experience as a stage manager including Swine Palace’s Sweat, ÃÛÌÒAPP lab series’ The Goat, ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Theatre’s Rachel, Dream Logos performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and 225 Theatre Collective’s The Shawshank Redemption.
Olivia Lunsford (Stage Manager) is a junior Theatre (Arts Administration) Major and Music (Experimental Music and Digital Media) Major with a Business Administration Minor. Her previous stage managing credits include ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Theatre’s Craters, Airness, ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Dance and Physical Theatre Showcase, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Wizard of Oz. She has also assistant produced Second Act Theatre Company’s production of 42nd Street.
Kate Landry (Lighting Designer) graduated from ÃÛÌÒAPP in May 2023 with a degree in Theatre Technology and Design (and a minor in History if you can believe it). Previous credits include Swine Palace’s Craters and Sweat, ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Theatre’s Dream Logos, ÃÛÌÒAPP Mainstage’s The Wolves, ÃÛÌÒAPP Musical Theatre Club’s Heathers, God Gun!, and Ascension Community Theatre’s productions of Matilda the Musical and Significant Other.
Cole Clark (Scenic Designer) is a 3rd year Studio Art major with a concentration in ceramics. They started as an actor and have previously performed in ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Historic Black Box. This is their second designed show, however, having designed for ÃÛÌÒAPP Theatre Lab’s To Stand in The Water in Spring 2023.
Haley Hughes (Sound Designer) is a senior Theater (design and technology) major. Previous credits include Assistant Sound Designer for Swine Palace’s Craters, and ÃÛÌÒAPP Mainstage’s At the Wedding. She will also be Sound Designing the ÃÛÌÒAPP Lab Season’s Antigone: Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine.
Jordan Hebert (Costume Designer) is a senior Textiles, Apparel, and Merchandising major and business minor. Previous credits include Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Student Body, and Streetcar Named Desire. Upcoming credits include Antigone.
Jenika Kolacz (Makeup Designer) is a senior in the BFA Film and Television and BA Technical Theatre
degree programs. Previous credits include stage managing for ÃÛÌÒAPP Main Stage show
ANON(YMOUS) and designing makeup for ÃÛÌÒAPP Lab Show Clown Bar. In her first year in the film program, she wrote and directed the university funded
ÃÛÌÒAPP Geaux Film 783 Bowman Ave. Jenika’s other ÃÛÌÒAPP Geaux Films credits include LACED, Araignée, The Dream List. She is the secretary of ÃÛÌÒAPP Film Club, Delta Rouge.
Landon Corbin (Accent Coach) is a graduate (2013) of the Manship School of Mass Communication with a concentration in Public Relations. Recent credits include Theatre Baton Rouge productions of Murder on the Orient Express, Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show, Blithe Spirit, and The Odd Couple.
Makaylee Secrest (Director) is a senior Theatre (performance) major and Psychology minor. Previous directing credits include the ÃÛÌÒAPP Lab Series production of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Assistant directing credits include Theatre Baton Rouge’s Little Women, How I Learned to Drive, and Romeo and Juliet. This summer, Makaylee was a directing intern at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where she assistant directed And a Nightingale Sang... and As You Like It.
For a full list of ÃÛÌÒAPP College of Music & Dramatic Arts faculty and staff, please visit our college directory.