OTR: The Bed Trick at Chance Theater

Sabrina J. Liu is a recent LA transplant and graduate of the UCSD MFA Acting Program. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Government and Psychology with minors in Inequality Studies and Theatre from Cornell University. Regional Credits: Victorian Psychedelic Sleepover Play (Reading, IAMA Theatre), Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse), In Every Generation (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Reading, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center), Electra (National Women’s Theatre Festival). UC San Diego credits: The Winter’s Tale, Dance Nation, Hells Canyon, Everybody, Twelfth Night, Town Hall.

Abby Awe is an actor currently based in LA & previously based in NYC where she lived for close to a decade. In New York she was fortunate to debut the role of Mary Wallace in Athena by Gracie Gardner. She was also in the early workshops of Clare Barron’s SHHH! at Atlantic Theater Company. She was seen on stage at Ars Nova, JACK, Theaterlab, HERE Arts, Clubbed Thumb and more. Abby just wrapped on her first comedy-thriller short “Oh, Hi There” that she co-wrote, produced and acted in! She has been featured in TV shows and movies but she’s a #SAGStrike member and supporter ✊ When she’s not acting/writing/producing, she’s an audition coach for @putmeonselftape and a postpartum doula. She is an east coast native, a believer that Philly pretzels are superior to all and a dog mom to an intersex pup named Athena (after the play, of course).

Emily Stout- Theater credits include Pick Me Last by Idris Goodwin (La Jolla Playhouse), Grownup (MITU580), Rules of Comedy (Humana Festival), A Christmas Carol, Dracula, and Our Town (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Readings/workshops include: Dave Harris’s Watch Me (O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s The Haunting at Camp Winona (ACT, Berkeley Rep), and Keiko Green’s Insignificant Bugs (Seattle Rep). MFA in Acting from UCSD, BA from Fordham University.

Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Ben) Old Globe Theatre. Henry VI (Young Talbot, Prince Edward) National Asian American Theatre Company. The Tempest (Leonine, Boatswaine, Musician) Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. Regional: WIG OUT! (Lucian) The Theatre School at DePaul University. Film/Television: “Atlas,” “BOVINE,” “Roberta’s Living Room.” Honors: Princess Grace Nominee. Education: B.F.A. in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. @michelangelo.hyeon on Instagram

MJ is thrilled to be a part of The Bed Trick! Some previous theatrical credits include: Gregg in the World Premiere of Keiko Green’s ‘Sharon’ and Vanya in Life Sucks (Cygnet Theatre/San Diego), God of Carnage (Backyard Renaissance) Glengarry Glen Ross, Outside Mullingar, Dry Powder, Photograph 51, What the Constitution Means to Me (Seattle Rep), Oslo, The Crucible, Lt. of Inishmore, Stupid Fucking Bird (ACT Theatre), Native Son (Intiman), Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, She Stoops to Conquor, The Winters Tale (Seattle Shakespeare Co.), Gutenberg the Musical, Prelude to a Kiss, The Elephant Man(StrawShop), Barefoot in the Park, Sleuth, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Village Theatre). He was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of New Century Theatre Company appearing in their award winning productions of The Adding Machine, O Lovely Glowworm, Festen and directed the West Coast Premiere of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winner The Flick. Film and Television: Z Nation (SyFy), Danger Diva, Grassroots, The Gift and News Team 9. Find out more at: mjsieber.com

Jocelyn A. Brown has served as Chance Theater’s Associate Artistic Director since 2011 and a Chance Resident Artist since 2001. Acting highlights include: Diana in Next To Normal (OCTG Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical, StageScene LA’s Performance of the Year), Leigh Fondakowski in The Laramie Project & Ten Years Later (Ovation Recommended), the Witch in Into The Woods (Back Stage West Critic’s Pick), Cathy in The Last 5 Years (Back Stage Garland Award Honorable Mention for Best Actor), Ann in Goodnight Children Everywhere (OC Weekly Award for Best Actress). Directing highlights include Ride The Cyclone (OCTG Recommended), Lizzie, The Musical (Ovation Award Winner: Best Musical – Intimate Theatre, Ovation nomination Best Direction, OC Weekly Best of OC 2019), Good People (Ovation Recommended), in a word (Best in OC by The Orange Curtain Review), The Big Meal, Never In My Lifetime (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), and The Cherry Orchard (OC Weekly nomination Best Direction). Jocelyn received the OC Board of Supervisors’ award for Women Making a Difference (2023). She teaches at Laguna Hills High School where she was an honoree for the California League of High Schools “Teacher of the Year” for Orange County (2012). M.Ed: Vanguard University, B.A. & B.S.: University of California San Diego.

KEIKO GREEN is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and performer. She is a Core Company Member at ACT Theatre in Seattle and previously a resident playwright at both Theatre Mu’s new play incubator the Mu Tang Clan, as well as Seattle Rep’s Writers Group. Her plays have been developed and/or produced by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, ACT Theatre, the Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, Playwrights Realm, and Actors Express. As an actor, Keiko has performed at the Denver Center of Performing Arts, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, and the National Asian American Theatre Company, among others. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing and will receive her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego this June. Her plays range from coming-of-age comedies to large-concept horror and everything in between, exploring the unexpected connection between people from different backgrounds, as well as the internal tensions held within our bodies. She holds commissions from the Old Globe and ACT Theatre. Keiko is represented by the Gersh Agency and Anonymous Content.

Emily Moler is a LA based director of theater and film. Recent theater credits include Dance Nation, Nonna Kills the President, Promithes Promithes, Men on Boats, Uncle Vanya, End Days, As You Like It, and Ironbound at UCSD. The Winterguard Play, Circle of Leaf, Coffee Break, And We’re Live, The Patriot, White Noise, How Revealing, and MINUTES_12/2/08.doc at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Guarding at The PIT; Chamber Music (Self Produced); Untitled American Flag Craft Project, Good Cry at The Brick; Queen of Sock Pairing at The Tank; The Troll King with Pipeline Theatre Company. Recent assistant and associate directing credits include The Thin Place (dir. Les Waters), How to Defend Yourself (dir. Marti Lyons), Pipeline (dir. Steve H Broadnax III), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (dir. Meredith McDonough), Peace For Mary Frances (dir. Lila Neugebauer). Moler has also developed new work with Joe’s Pub, San Diego Rep, The PIT, The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, The TEAM, IAMA, The Duplex, and Dixon Place. BS: Skidmore College, MFA: UCSD.

Nicole Schlitt is a proud Resident Artist of the Chance. When not stage managing a main stage production, she loves to spend her time to with our OTR Staged Readings. She was last seen as the stage manager of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Edges, The Story of My Life, Ragtime, The Little Mermaid at Peppertree Park, in a word, The Little Prince, A Chorus Line, Stinky Cheese Man, The Dragon Play and Loch Ness: the Musical at the Chance; assistant stage manager for In the Heights, Laramie Project/Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Reborning, and the Ovation Award-winning show Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Chance. She also works as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Disneyland Resort making magic behind the scenes for the resort’s live entertainment.

Jenny Jacobs (she/her) is delighted to be working with Chance again! Jenny is a theatre artist and educator. Jenny’s theatrical work includes dramaturging, choreographing, and directing classic and contemporary musicals, plays, new works, and devised pieces; performing in ensemble and solo productions; leadership roles at regional and educational arts institutions in the LA, Orange, and Philadelphia areas; and lecturing and consulting for colleges and universities on the East and West Coasts. Jenny earned her Educational Doctorate with a dissertation about the value of the performing arts in education in 2019, and created a new translation of Moliere’s Tartuffe which premiered at Chapman University in 2021. All of Jenny’s work is connected to her personal mission to deepen appreciation for and connections to the performing arts. http://www.jennyjacobs.net.

James Michael McHale is an actor, director, writer, and musician. As an actor, he’s had the pleasure to work with Tony Award winning director Kathleen Marshall at The Old Globe in Much Ado About Nothing, play Hamlet at the Lyceum Theater, and Buzz Aldrin in the World Premiere and National Tour of APOLLO 11 for Troika Entertainment. He received a Staged Scene LA Award for Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role for his work in Middletown at Chance Theater. Other theater credits include the musical Once at both California Center for the Arts Escondido and Lamb’s Players Theater (San Diego Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Ensemble). He recently directed the Regional Premiere of American Idiot at Chance Theater, where his directing credits also include the OC Premiere of Edges, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. He has written and directed a number of storytelling concerts for Pacific Symphony and presented at Segerstrom Concert Hall including, Beethoven: Trials to Triumph, A Dream of Tchaikovsky, Pacific Symphony and the Curious Case of the Vanishing Violin, and Music From the Movies and More! Connect with him on IG @jmcnavy, and at jamesmichaelmchale.com