Director

Rita has over 35 years of experience in professional theatre locally and across the country. Recent SCT credits include The Lamp is the Moon, Into the West, Brooklyn Bridge, The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, Pippi Longstocking, and Crash. She has been directing at SCT steadily since 1981, so the full list is long and varied, and includes: A Year with Frog and Toad, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Borrowers, Getting Near to Baby, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, I Was a Rat!, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hamlet. Other Seattle-area credits include work with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theatre, Seattle Rep, ACT, The Empty Space, Village Theatre, TAG, Theater Schmeater, Center Stage, Unexpected Productions, and Stark/Raving Theatre. Ms. Giomi is the Artistic Associate at SCT, and from 1993 to 2007, she served as the Artistic Director of SCT’s Young Actor Institute.

Stage Manager

Mr. Paul has stage managed locally at the Seattle Repertory Theatre (most recently In the Heights),  ACT, Intiman and the 5th Avenue Theatre. National credits include The Guthrie; Shakespeare Theatre in DC; Oregon Shakespeare Theatre;  Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival; La Jolla Playhouse; Baltimore’s Center Stage; Manhattan Theatre Club and the late Alaska Repertory Theatre.  For The Seattle Children’s Theatre:  Addy, An American Girl Story, Night of the Living Dead, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Cat in the Hat, Pippi Longstocking, Dick Whittington and his Cat, Elephant and Piggy - We Are In A Play! and, most recently, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, The Rock Experience.

Scenic Designer

Jennifer (she/her) is delighted to return to the Great Green Room from Spain, Jennifer’s new home. Recently, she designed “El Rey Tuerto” and the premier of “Noviembres” for Compañía El Escondite of Navarra. Jennifer designed for many theaters in the Northwest for 35 years. Favorite SCT sets: Robin Hood, Lyle the Crocodile, Busytown, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Bunnicula, The Tempest, Frog and Toad, and Afternoon of the Elves, the show that opened the Charlotte Martin Theatre. Jennifer received her MFA in Set and Lighting Design from UW and for 22 years was on the faculty of Cornish College.  

Fight Director

Geoffrey** is extremely pleased to return to SCT, the theatre that shaped and molded his career, first as an actor, and then as a Fight Director. Recent work in Seattle includes the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns at Seattle Opera, Macbeth at Seattle Shakespeare, and Sweat at ACT. He teaches Stage Fighting at The PATP at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and Freehold Theater, and is a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, as well as a Certified Fight Director and teacher, and the honorific of Fight Master with The Society of American Fight Directors. (**SDC)

Marianne (she/her) is delighted to be back at SCT where she has choreographed over 30 productions with her favorite director, Linda Hartzell. Highlights include Lyle the Crocodile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and James and the Giant Peach. Ms. Roberts has also choreographed at other Seattle theaters and taught ballet and dance for actors at Cornish College. She danced professionally in NYC, toured internationally with New York-based dance companies, and appeared in the film “Pumping Iron”. Hugs to my wonderful family, especially grandsons Raden and Rowan. 

Lighting Designer

Andrew (he/him) most recently designed lights for Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience at SCT. Seattle designs: Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, New Century Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre Festival, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Public Theatre, ArtsWest, & On The Boards. National: Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Cornerstone Theatre Company, and Flint Youth Theatre, among others. He received the 2010 & 2011 Gregory Award for Outstanding Lighting Designer. Andrew holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Washington, where he currently teaches. 

Cathy (she/her) is a two-time Theatre Puget Sound Design Award winner, recipient of the Southeastern Theatre Design Award, Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, and was an inaugural Theatre Communications Group Design Fellow. Cathy has designed costumes for over 100 theatre and opera productions. Her work has been seen across the country at the Hartford Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, New Victory Theatre, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburg Opera, Seattle Opera, 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, LA Theatre Works, Intiman Playhouse, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Childsplay, and Clarence Brown Theatre. Cathy has been a guest lecturer at The University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from The University of California, San Diego.