Director

Steven Dietz Directed at SCT: Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (by Kevin Kling), Go Dog Go! (co-written with Allison Gregory), Honus & Me (also playwright). Playwright, SCT: The Rememberer, Still Life with Iris, Jackie & Me. Recent Seattle: Dracula (ACT), Last of the Boys (Seattle Rep), Lonely Planet (West of Lenin), On Clover Road (Seattle Public). Recent premieres: How a Boy Falls (Northlight Theatre, Chicago), The Great Beyond and The Ghost of Splinter Cove (Actors’ Theatre of Charlotte, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte), This Random World (Humana Festival of New American Plays, Louisville). Other directing: premiere productions at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Festival of Sydney (Australia), ACT, Seattle Rep, Westside Arts (Off-Broadway), and the Sundance Institute. Teaching: professor of playwriting and directing at UT/Austin; currently a Dramatists Guild “Traveling Master” – teaching classes in playwriting, story-making, and collaboration. Thank you, Courtney. 

Playwright

Allison’s play commissions by SCT for their young audiences include GO DOG. GO!, which she co-adapted from the P.D. Eastman book with Steven Dietz; PETER AND THE WOLF; and BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS. Her widely produced adaptations of JUNIE B. IN JINGLE BELLS, BATMAN SMELLS!; JUNIE B. IS NOT A CROOK; and JUNIE B., TOOTHLESS WONDER from the popular book series by Barbara Park have been enjoyed nationally. Her award-winning play EVEN STEVEN GOES TO WAR was developed at the Kennedy Center and premiered at Childsplay, Inc., and her adaptation of RONIA, THE ROBBER’S DAUGHTER, from the Astrid Lindgren book has been seen internationally. Allison was recognized this year by TYA USA as “One of the 10 Most Produced TYA Playwrights”. Her plays are published by Playscripts, Smith & Krauss, Dramatic Publishing, and Rain City Press. Allison splits her time between friends and family in Seattle and Austin. http://allisongregoryplays.com/ 

Matthew is pleased to return to SCT, where previous designs include Brooklyn Bridge, The Wizard of Oz, Harold and the Purple Crayon, In the Northern Lands, Hamlet, Jason and the Golden Fleece, The Secret Garden, The Gingerbread Man, and The Outsiders. Smucker’s work has appeared locally at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Opera, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, Book-It, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, New Century Theatre Company, and Annex Theatre, among others. Smucker is a Professor at Cornish College of the Arts, received his M.F.A. from the UW School of Drama, and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists. 

Costume Designer

Sarah has been designing costumes in Seattle since 2005. She is beyond delighted to be designing Red Riding Hood. Other local favorite designs include: Balloonacy at SCT; Dracula, The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jane Eyre, and Persuasion at Taproot Theatre Company; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Edmonds Community College. This season, she will be designing costumes for The Best Summer Ever as well. Other than the pandemic induced sabbatical, she has been the Costume Shop Head here at SCT since 2017.  Prior to that, she worked at Taproot Theatre Company as their Resident Costume Designer and Costume Shop Manager. Before moving to Seattle, she taught Costume Design at Mars Hill University in North Carolina. Other regional credits include working at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, StageWest Theatre, and Venture Theatre Company. She is a two-time Gregory Award nominee and received her MFA in Costume Design from Temple University. In addition to being a costume designer, Sarah is an artist, writer, editor, and fairy godmother extraordinaire. Roses and parsnips to CLM. 

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. 

Sound Designer & Composer

Rob’s previous shows at SCT include Black Beauty, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and three productions of Go, Dog. Go! Other recent credits include: Dracula, Romeo + Juliet (ACT); The Revolutionists (Whitman College); The Ghost of Splinter Cove (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte); Comedy of Errors (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Flight, Tosca (Seattle Opera) and Greenwood (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater). His sound designs have also been heard at Seattle Rep, Intiman, Spectrum Dance Theater, Village Theatre, and Teatro ZinZanni. Rob plays with several bands, including The Love Markets and the Toucans steel drum band. Rob is a member of United Scenic Artists, USA-829. 

Assistant Director

Musse is an actor and filmmaker currently living in Seattle. His monologue portraying Becker from August Wilson’s stage play Jitney earned him a spot in the National August Wilson Monologue Competition in 2020. His proudest moment as a director was bringing the stage play The Laramie Project to life in his community in support of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Musse is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the brilliant cast and crew of the Seattle Children’s Theatre production of Red Riding Hood. 

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.

 Stage Management Fellow/Production Assistant