THEATRE and PERFORMANCE STUDIES PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS PANEL Faciliated by Emily Kitchens, Assistant Professor of Acting

THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS PANEL Faciliated by Emily Kitchens, Assistant Professor of Acting

ARTIST BIOS

Lenne Klingamen Lenne is a classically-trained actor who works all over the US. She grew up in San Francisco and found her way to Seattle where she received her MFA in Acting at UW. Most recent credits: Kris in Will Eno's The Underlying Chris at Second Stage off-Broadway in NYC directed by Kenny Leon. Dawn on Broadway (and originated the role) for the 1st National Tour of the hit musical Waitress and played Hamlet in both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Other credits include: Fingersmith at A.R.T. directed by Bill Rauch, To Kill a Mockingbird at St. Louis Rep, Ophelia in Hamlet (for which she also composed original music in collaboration with John Glover), Tartuffe at Shakespeare Theatre DC, Berkeley Rep (nominated for 2015 Theatre Bay Area Award - Best Ensemble & Best Production), and South Coast Repertory (Stage Scene LA Award - Best Ensemble), Appoggiatura and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet at Denver Center Theatre Company, Sylvia in Sarah Rasmussen’s all-female Two Gentlemen Of Verona at the Jungle Theatre, Capital Stage (playing Anna in Anna Karenina to much acclaim), Elinor in Sense and Sensibility at Sacramento Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Intiman Theatre, A Noise Within (Stage Scene LA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Richard III, Ovation Award nominee– Best Production for The Rehearsal), and Theatre Movement Bazaar (Ovation Award nominee – Best Ensemble for Model Behavior). She worked with her mentors from UW, Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson, on Flight where she built a plane, climbed ropes, and did a trapeze number.

Her film/TV credits include "Chicago Med", “Cold Case”, “TWENTIES” (from Lena Waithe and the creators of Dear White People), Love: As You Like It (Official Selection of West Palm Beach & Seattle True Independent Film Festivals), The Exchange (Official Selection of East Oregon, Tacoma, Carmel, & Gold Coast Film Festivals), Shawn Telford’s A Night in the Sunlight (Official Selection of Washougal International, 1- Reel, Rawstock & Schweitzer Lakedance Film Festivals), and various 5 Second Films which have repeatedly been featured on the front page of Funny or Die. She starred in “Welcome to Sanditon,” the “Lizzie Bennett Diaries” spin-off created by the two-time Emmy winning team Pemberley Digital, which was a 2014 IAWTV Awards nominee for Best Interactive Series, and was featured in “O” magazine.

Lenne is also a singer and songwriter and her debut album, The Heart is the Hunter, is currently available on iTunes and CDBaby.

Alejandro Rodriguez Alejandro Rodriguez is currently the Associate Producer at PlayMakers Repertory Company and the founding Artistic Director of ASTEP’s Artist as Citizen Conference, an immersive educational program that develops the whole artist by combining traditional arts classes and career skills workshops with speakers & panels on the subjects of citizenship, service & social justice through the arts. In 12 years as a performer, he created numerous roles Off-Broadway, including the part of Charlie Rosa in Ghetto Babylon (National Latino Playwrights Award), and the character of Gabriel in the New York Times Critics’ Pick Bird in the Hand. He played the title role in The Acting Company’s national tour of Romeo and Juliet, and the part of Edgar opposite Billy Porter in King Lear. Regionally, he performed at The Kennedy Center, the Guthrie Theatre, Denver Center Theater Company, Baltimore CenterStage and the Los Angeles Theater Center, among others. His film and TV credits include Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Dates from Hell (Discovery ID), and the feature film Emoticon. Now, driven by a passion to work across industries & disciplines in order to more powerfully unleash the transformative power of the arts on every segment of society, Alejandro produces artistic and educational experiences that are holistic, immersive, story-driven, audience-focused and community-facing. He has been the recipient of residencies through SPACE at Ryder Farm, Makehouse and the Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard, as well as grants from the Queens Council of the Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative and LPAC. He’s lectured at multiple colleges, is on faculty at The Performing Arts Project and has carried an adjunct professorship in the CUNY school system. A graduate of Juilliard.

Vichet Chum Vichet Chum is a Cambodian-American playwright and theater maker, originally from Dallas, Texas and now living in New York City. His plays have been workshopped at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Magic Theater, the Alley Theatre, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, All For One Theater, Amios, Florida State University, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2018-19 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists, serves as an Associate Artist at Merrimack Repertory Theatre and is a current board member for the New Harmony Project. This season, Vichet is a part of the 2019 Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the 2020 Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73 and the 2020 Ars Nova Play Group. He's currently working on a commission from the Audible Theater Emerging Playwrights Fund and Cleveland Play House. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA). He’s represented by Beth Blickers at APA Agency. vichetchum.com

Taylor Bailey Associate Producer, Play on! Other credits: In four years in Chicago, worked on 12 productions with The Neo-Futurists. Served as operations manager and education coordinator for The Neo-Futurists, as well as the program developer and coordinator for Neo-Access, a multi-winged strategy for diversity and inclusion as well as accessibility for the differently abled. As a freelance director, performer, storyteller, dramaturg and producer worked with: First Floor Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, American Theater Company, The Agency Collective, Timeline Theatre, About Face Productions, Collaboration Theatre Company and others. In Dallas, worked with WaterTower Theatre and served as the associate artistic director of Sideman Productions for two years. Additional experience as a teaching artist, IT coordinator and project manager.

Publications: Contributor, New York Times Bestseller It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Livingwith Dan Savage and Terry Miller.

Education: BFA, University of Evansville

Tobie Windham Tobie is an actor and theatre artist. He is best known for his main role on “Walk the Prank”. He portrays Byron Blatt on Just Roll With It.

He realized his passion for acting at the age of 12, when he attended a production of Thunder Knocking on the Door at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

He got his bachelor of arts in theater from the University of Alabama before attending the American Conservatory Theater to get his Masters in Fine Arts in acting.

Well known to Disney XD viewers as Uncle Will on Walk the Prank. He later began starring on Disney Channel’s Just Roll With It in 2019. His theater credits include American Buffalo, Hamlet, The Brothers Size, and Seven Guitars.