Director & Artistic Director

Courtney currently serves as the Artistic Director of Seattle Children's Theatre where she has directed The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Little Prince. Commissioned writers under her tenure at SCT include Idris Goodwin, Cheryl West, Allison Gregory, Karen Hartman, Trista Baldwin, Ramon Esquivel, and James Still. Recent directing projects:  Tiny Beautiful Things at Seattle Rep,  Steven Dietz’s The Ghost of Splinter Cove at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Support Group for Men at Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Prior to SCT, she spent three years as Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre, where directing credits include the world premiere of April 4, 1968:  Before We Forgot How to Dream, The Mountaintop, The Mousetrap, Jackie & Me, And Then They Came For Me, The Giver, and two iterations of A Christmas Carol. Other credits include The Cake, Wild Horses, Not Medea (CATF), Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play, On Clover Road (The Phoenix Theater), Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Indy Shakes), and Zen Prayers & Songs (Fusebox), written and performed by Kirk Lynn. With the Duplicates, she has co-created The Fictional Life of Historical Oddities, September Play, The Man with the Dancing Eyes, and The Poison Squad (Austin Critics Award). She has developed new work at New Plays for Young Audiences at NYU/Provincetown Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company’s Summit New Play Festival, The New Harmony Project, Write Now, and The Orchard Project. Other awards included Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under Forty Designation. She has taught at Summer at Cornish, Seattle Children’s Museum, Temple College, and the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Sale is a proud member of the National Theatre Conference and represented by Abrams Artists NYC.  BFA, Cornish College of the Arts. MFA, The University of Texas at Austin.

Playwright

James' plays have been produced around the world.  In addition to SCT premiering BLACK BEAUTY, this fall his play for pre-schoolers THE LITTLE CHOO-CHOO THAT THNKS SHE CAN premiers at Indiana Rep.  For television he was the head writer on Maurice Sendak’s “Little Bear” and wrote “The Miffy Movie” for European cinema.  Other plays include a trilogy of THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Indiana Rep), APPOGGIATURA (Denver Center), and MIRANDA (Illusion Theater, Minneapolis).  Two plays about the Lincolns: THE WIDOW LINCOLN and THE HEAVENS ARE HUNG IN BLACK ( both premiering at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.); a play for one actor about culinary icon James Beard called I LOVE TO EAT (Portland Center Stage); a play for 57 actors called A LONG BRIDGE OVER DEEP WATERS (Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles); AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME; and LOOKING OVER THE PRESIDENT’S SHOULDER.  Still is an elected member of both the National Theatre Conference in New York and College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center.  He is a four-time nominee for the Pulitzer, five-time Emmy nominee, received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the William Inge Festival and the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from Spoleto.  He is the Playwright in Residence at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artistic Affiliate at American Blues in Chicago, and lives in Los Angeles.

Scenic Designer

Carey has designed 35 shows for SCT.  Additionally, he has designed for the Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Village Theatre, Childsplay, Phoenix Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Hey City Theater, and Prince Music Theater. Carey has been Resident Designer for Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, and Wildwood Park for the Arts, and has designed for Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Vancouver Opera, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Macao and Beijing Music Festivals, and Nearco Producciones in Spain.  He is the Artistic Advisor/Designer of the new Portland Chinatown Museum, received his B.A. from Yale University, and thereafter attended Yale School of Drama.

Costume Designer

Trevor is excited to be back with SCT for Corduory after previously working on Black Beauty andThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Additional credits include:  Ragtime (5th Ave); Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, Bloodknot (Pillsbury House Theatre); Ride the Cyclone, Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill (The Jungle Theater); The Fix, Fellow Travelers (Minnesota Opera); True West, BLKS (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963 (The Kennedy Center) Trevor holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from West Virginia University.

Lighting Designer

Connie has previously been at SCT for “Snow White,” “Black Beauty” and “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.”  Most recently, local designs include “Don Giovanni” for Seattle Opera and Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” for 5th Avenue Theatre.  Other recent designs include “Lucia di Lammermoor” for Madison Opera, “Tosca” for Portland Opera, and the world premiere of “The Rise and Fall of Holly Fudge” at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. She has also previously designed for ACT, Seattle Rep, On the Boards, Tacoma Opera, Pacific Musicworks, The Cabiri, Cornish College, Bellevue College, University of Puget Sound, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Kentucky Opera, Arizona Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Canadian Opera Company.  Upcoming projects include “The Elixir of Love” for Palm Beach Opera, “The Thin Place” for ACT, and “The Marriage of Figaro” for Seattle Opera. 

Composer

Rob’s previous shows at SCT include The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and Go, Dog. Go! Other recent credits include: The Ghost of Splinter Cove (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte); Romeo + Juliet, The Wolves, Skylight (ACT); Richard III, Timon of Athens, Bring Down the House (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Ironbound, Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater) and Matilda (Village Theatre). His sound designs have also been heard at Seattle Rep, Intiman, Spectrum Dance Theater, and Teatro ZinZanni. Rob has been seen onstage in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, (ACT); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre, Yale Rep) and Into the West (Tantrum Theater). Upcoming projects include Greenwood (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) and The Best Summer Ever! (SCT). Rob plays with several bands, including The Love Markets, “Awesome” and the Toucans steel drum band. Rob is a Part-time Lecturer at UW School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829.

Puppet Designer & Coach

Annette is beyond thrilled to have been part of the process of making this show a reality. As with so many of us, horses are near and dear to who and what she is. To have envisioned and created these amazing characters was decades in the planning and years in the making (and of course; months of building). It is spectacular for her to see all these dreams and ideas come together on stage and share it with you. Annett has been a professional puppet designer and builder for nearly twenty years and says this show is a highlight for her in many ways. She thanks all who support SCT to make shows like this possible. Special thanks to Bob Evans, David Baldwin and Kellie Dunn who believed in her; to Courtney and James who took a risk when they didn’t know her and without whom this show would not exist. “It has been a grand ride!”

Sound Designer

Chris is very happy to be returning as resident sound designer for SCT. In Seattle, he has designed at The Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, Intiman, and The 5^th Avenue. In California, he’s designed at The Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, and ACT (San Francisco). He spent seven seasons as the resident designer at American Repertory Theatre in Boston, designing over forty productions while there. He has also designed in New York, Houston, Philadelphia, Princeton, Providence, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Phoenix, as well as internationally in Singapore, Taiwan, and Moscow.  Commercially, he has designed for Intel, Harvard University, Starbucks, and Popcap Games. He holds a degree in Classical Piano performance from Cornish College of the Arts.

Assistant Director & Understudy

Ana is a Mexican-American theatre artist and educator who previously worked with SCT for Above Between Below. She is a teaching artist at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arts Impact. Favorite acting roles include Lucia in Fade (Seattle Public Theatre), and Catherine in a bilingual adaptation of David Auburn's Proof (Thriving Artists), which she also produced and translated alongside director Arlene Martínez-Vásquez. She's developed three bilingual scripts for Seattle Shakespeare's Educational Tour: The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth, the latter of which she directed. She looks forward to her next bilingual adaptation and directing project with them, Hamlet in 2020. At the center of her work lives the driving desire to create opportunities for artists of color, to remove economic and geographical barriers for audiences and students, and to expand and deepen our American identity. May you always know how kindness feels.

Stage Manager

Cristine Anne Reynolds Select work at Seattle Children’s Theatre (over the last 21 seasons) includes: Black Beauty, Go Dog. Go! (2012 & 2017) Robin Hood (2011 & 2015), Getting Near to Baby, The 100 Dresses, and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Locally she has stage managed for Seattle Repertory Theatre (20 seasons), Seattle Opera (29 seasons) including assistant stage managing Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle from 1995 – 2013. Thank you to the parents, grandparents, caregivers, guardians and teachers for giving the gift of live theatre to the young theatre attendee sitting next to you.

Kiera is grateful to be back at SCT after previously working on The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, and FireStation 7. Other Seattle credits include: Seattle Opera (Rigoletto, Carmen, Aida), Seattle Rep (In the Heights), Seattle Shakespeare Company (The Government Inspector), Taproot Theatre Company (Baskerville, Road Company ‘17), and the 5^th Avenue Theatre (Stage Management Mentor for Rising Star Project’s West Side Story). She has also worked with Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre and Inland Northwest Opera in Northern Idaho. Kiera is a graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX.

Youth Cast Supervisor

Amy is happy to be back at SCT after working on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Brooklyn Bridge, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Previously, Amy has worked as a Child Supervisor on productions at the 5^th Avenue, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Opera, Book-It, and ACT. She holds a Masters degree in Theatre Education from the University of Northern Colorado and also works as a Teaching Artist specializing in Creative Drama.