Sister Act at Cabrillo Crocker Theater

Rebecca is thrilled to be making her directing debut at Cabrillo Stage! She started out as a scenic painting intern at Cabrillo on Jesus Christ Superstar and is so excited to be back. Since then, she has directed across the globe in New York, Brazil, and the UK, including the acclaimed “Master Harold”...and the Boys at Santa Cruz Shakespeare last summer. Her directing credits include: Emilia, The Mountaintop and original work of Cycle-Logical and Hindsight 2020. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a B.A. from Columbia University in Drama and Comparative Ethnic Studies. She received a Fulbright grant to study Shakespeare and race in Rio de Janeiro and is currently a lecturer in the Film and Theatre Department at San José State University and the director of education at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. www.rebeccahaleyclark.com.

Daniel is a pianist, music director, and conductor currently based in Santa Cruz County. Over the past seventeen years of working continuously with Cabrillo Stage, he has been involved in dozens of productions as a pit musician, rehearsal accompanist, and musical director of such shows as La Cage aux Folles, Mary Poppins, The Producers, Into the Woods, and most recently Sweeney Todd. In addition, Daniel is one of the founding members of Santa Cruz Opera Project, with the goal of making the art of opera to a wide range of audiences with an emphasis on accessible productions mounted in unorthodox and exciting locations. Daniel holds a BM in piano performance from University of the Pacific (CA) and an MM in collaborative piano from Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Babe Payne is truly honored to be working with Cabrillo Stage. Recent stage credits include Magenta in Rocky Horror (Paper Wing) Electric Skate in SpongeBob the Musical (Cabrillo College) Christine in American Psycho the Musical (BAD Musical Theatre) and Frenchy in Grease (Cabrillo Stage). As well as Choreographer for Cabaret, Reefer Madness (Renegade Theater) and Addams Family (Mountain Community Theatre). She is also an internationally traveled burlesque performer (Babraham Lincoln), cofounder of Best Coast Burlesque and Santa Cruz School of Burlesque. Additionally, she helps run Little Giant Collective, nonprofit community art space.

Scott Boynton is a Bay Area based scenic and projection designer. He holds an MFA in design and technology for theater, film, and television from San Diego State University. In the Heights is Scott's first show designing for Cabrillo Stage—though he's been with Cabrillo Stage since 2012, starting as a scene-shop intern. He's had several jobs with the company over the years including carpenter, props master, flyman, and actor—but his real passion is set design. Recent scenic and projection credits include Ride the Cyclone (York School), Frozen Jr., Matilda, and Newsies (CYT Santa Cruz), Mary Poppins (Children's Music Theatre San Jose), White Sky, Falling Dragon (Mountain View CPA Secondstage), Befana: A Christmas Fable (Cabrillo Music and Theatre Dept. & Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra) , The World Goes Round (Coronado Playhouse). Scott's work has also been seen on television working with Emmy Award-winning production designer JPConnelly. Visit Scott's website at scottboyntondesign.com for more.

Justin is a San Francisco based theatrical designer originally from Alameda, and a proud UCLA graduate (Go Bruins!). He is passionate about innovative storytelling and strives to illuminate the beauty of our differences through his work. He wants to thank his two dads, brother, and friends for all of their support! I love you all! He is thrilled to be making his Cabrillo Stage debut with Sister Act! Recent Designs: Fiddler On The Roof, The Wizard of Oz, Mice & Men, A Christmas Carol (Sierra Rep), Otherkin (The Road Theater), Sister Act, Little Shop Of Horrors (SCP), Pacific Overtures (Kunoichi Productions), Electric, I (Theatre of NOTE), and RENT (Jaxx Theatricals) Associate design: GUAC (Center Theater Group).

Natalie (she/her)is excited to be reuniting with her favorite company, artists and audiences for Sister Act this summer. Natalie Silva has been building, sewing, searching and frankensteining things together to create whatever the show, director or designer desires since 2015. This somehow led to her teaching history, theatre and art in the Bay Area. To follow Natalie’s escapades check out her social media @NatalieUvon.

Joseph is a sound designer and composer from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Design credits include The Far Country, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Rep); Gutenberg! (Playhouse on Park); Enron, Matawan (Atlantic Theater Conservatory); Fucking A, Julius Caesar, And the Beatle Hums (Yale School of Drama); Underlying Chris, Our Lady of 121st Street, Cabaret (Hamilton College) Witch (Lake Superior State University); Upwelling (California Academy of Sciences); Voices of the New Belarus (Oslo Freedom Forum) Assistant/Associate Credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Geva Theatre); Hurricane Diane (Hartford Stage); Theatre People (Westport Country Playhouse); El Coquí Espectecular and the Bottle of Doom (Long Wharf Theater); Between Two Knees, The Brightest Thing in the World (Yale Rep); Concord Floral (Hamilton College) In addition to design, Joe has worked as a sound engineer with Google, Microsoft, Stanford University, Berkeley Rep, SF Jazz, Theaterworks Silicon Valley, IFAI, and many others. He is an avid teacher, lecturing at Yale School of Drama and as a guest lecturer around the country. He is particularly easy to google!

Marcel has been working for Cabrillo Stage since 2007. He has had a great time crucifying Jesus, hanging Judas and Bill Sikes, melting the Wicked Witch, scaring the dickens out of Scrooge, bring the “Lunch” Hotdog Cart to life and was glad to survive all the “Magic” in Marry Poppins. He is excited to be back in the Crocker to create some more! Some of the other local companies Marcel has worked for include American Musical Theatre of San Jose, San Jose Repertory Theatre, (May they both rest in peace) and TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. He has also worked internationally in Germany (Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf) and Austria (Seefestspiele Mörbisch). Marcel was born in Mexico City, Mexico and is a German citizen. He is the Performing Arts Technical Coordinator for Cabrillo College.

Angela Lopes (She/They) is delighted to be back at Cabrillo Stage this summer as the season's Production Stage Manager. Angela is a proud graduate of Cabrillo College (A.A Theatre Arts) and Ithaca College (BFA Stage Management). Angela has Stage Managed locally for many companies including Cabrillo College, CYT Santa Cruz, Agape Dance, and Cabrillo Stage. She currently resides in NYC and has most recently been working Off Broadway. Some of her favorite stage management credits include Carrie The Musical (Cabrillo College), Orpheus In The Underworld (Opera Ithaca), Into The Woods (Ithaca College), and The Picher Project (Dixon Place). She has always enjoyed working with Cabrillo Stage and is thrilled to be a part of yet another amazing season.

Dustin has had the honor of working with Cabrillo Stage since 1998, including Annie, Honk, Peter Pan, Music Man, The Last Five Years, Scrooge, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cabaret, just to name a few. Dustin has directed, produced and starred in a number of shows in the Monterey Bay area, most recently directing RENT, Oliver, The Full Monty, Little Shop of Horrors & West Side Story for Cabrillo Stage. Dustin’s diverse directing credits include The Laramie Project, Lord of the Flies, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Outsiders and Romeo & Juliet. A versatile performer, Dustin has been in shows as diverse as Shakespeare’s R&J to Guys & Dolls. His credits include both on and off stage at The Monterey Bay Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo Stage. Dustin’s most beloved performances on stage have been Mercutio in the return of the West Coast premiere of Shakespeare’s R&J adapted by Joe Calarco, Jeff in The Sum of Us, Mark in Mass Appeal and the Barber in Cabrillo Stage’s Man of La Mancha. Dustin provides theatrical consulting for theater companies and schools in South East Asia to improve their productions as they begin to produce western musicals into their yearly seasons.

Kelly started her career in backstage work with a Shakespeare group while attending Grossmont Community College in her hometown of San Diego. Kelly transferred to UC Santa Cruz and fell in love with the trees. After completing her MFA degree at UC Davis and several summers as the Lighting Assistant at Music Circus of California Theater in Sacramento, Kelly moved back to the trees and became Production Manager at Opera San Jose for five years pre-pandemic. Most recently coming from two years with Jewel Theatre as the Production Manager and Admin Assistant, Kelly considers herself incredibly fortunate to have found a home here at Cabrillo Stage and Cabrillo College’s Theatre Arts Department community. Kelly loves live theatre and the ever changing wonder that is being a part of something bigger. She lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband, two daughters, and two gravity defying kittens.

Andrea L. Hart is a writer, director, and theatre maker whose work ranges from large, sprawling devised pieces to one-woman shows to opera librettos and everything in between. Her work has been supported by grants from Puffin Foundation West, Theater Bay Area, and Venturous Theater Fund, and has been developed and performed at the #AmericanAF Festival in NYC, Great Plains Theatre Conference, the MacDowell Colony, CounterPulse, 6NewPlays, Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, TX and companies in and around San Francisco. Recent directing credits include “Spongebob: The Musical” and “Marie Antoinette” for Cabrillo Theatre Arts, an immersive “Die Fledermaus” for Santa Cruz Opera Project and “Ride the Cyclone” and “Alice by Heart” for York School in Monterey, CA. She has an extensive background in new play development and has created masks and shadow puppetry for a variety of venues. Her opera libretto for “Wet Dirt” (composer Collin Kemeny) premiered at Thompson Street Opera in Chicago in 2024. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently the Artistic Director of Cabrillo Stage in Santa Cruz, CA where she will direct “Sweeney Todd” for their 2025 season. Find out more at www.andrealhart.org