JAMES T. ALFRED (Tom Robinson) returns to Arizona Theatre Company, having appeared here in Jitney. His acting credits include the world premiere of RedShirts at Penumbra Theatre Company and Round House Theatre, Romeo and Juliet and Three Sistersat American Repertory Theatre, The Bacchae at the Moscow Art Studio Theatre, Our Lady of 121st Streetat Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sun Down Names at Chicago Theatre Company and Conversations on a Dirt Roadand Killing Me Softly(Ira Aldridge Award nomination for Best Actor) at eta Creative Arts Foundation. Mr. Alfred is the writer, producer and sole performer of Da Da, which had an extended run at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago. His film and television credits include Vile, Subterfuge, Split Decision, Discontinued, Journey of the Heart, Devious, Perspectives, If Jesus Was a Homeboy, No Coincidence, One Week and the television drama Prison Break. He is an MFA graduate of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School.

SCOTT CORDES (Bob Ewell) is a native of Nebraska, and has been a professional actor and director in Kansas City for more than 20 years. His acting credits there include work with Unicorn Theatre (The Exonerated, Take Me Out, Sideman, Beirut), Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest), The Coterie Theatre (Jekyll and Hyde), New Theatre (The Foreigner, Harvey, Biloxi Blues), Actors Theatre of Kansas City (Tally and Sons, Fifth of July), American Heartland Theatre (Deathtrap, Moonlight and Magnolias) and Kansas City Reperotry Theatre (Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, The House of Blue Leavesand The Deputy). A member of all three acting unions, Mr. Cordes also works in commercials and films, including Raising Jeffery Dahmer, Saving Grace B. Jonesand Suspension. For more information, visit scottcordes.com

MAEDELL DIXON (Mrs. Dubose) returns to ATC, where she appeared in Blithe Spirit, Amadeus, Katsina and Don’t Look Back. She appeared Off-Broadway in Intimate Letters with the Prazak Quartet. Other appearances include work with Chamber Music Plus Southwest (Still Life), Phoenix Theatre (And They Danced Real Slow in Jackson and Beyond Reasonable Doubt), Invisible Theatre (The Business of Murder, From Door to Door, My Old Lady, Collected Stories, Kindertransport, among others), Actors Repertory Theatre of Sedona (Sailing to Byzantium), Arizona Repertory Theatre (Mourning Becomes Electra, Light Up the Sky, The Belle of Amherst, among others), Old Tucson Studios (two years as Jubilee Jones) and Guthrie Theater. Ms. Dixon has appeared on television on CBS, NBC and Lifetime (Jesse, The Truth About Jane, Little Arliss). Her film appearances include Speed Zone and the leading role in the recent indie film Half Laughing. She received her BA from the University of Southern California and her MA from the University of Minnesota. She has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1973.

CALE EPPS (Mr. Gilmer) appeared as Antonio in ATC’s Twelfth Night. Other recent credits include the title role in Macbeth with Southwest Shakespeare Company, Brendan in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Arial in The Pillowman, both with Actors Theatre. Mr. Epps has worked extensively throughout Arizona, including performances with Shakespeare Sedona, Arizona Jewish Theatre, Childsplay, Stray Cat Theatre, Nearly Naked Theatre and Blackball Ensemble. Credits outside Arizona include Great Expectations, Richard III, The Threepenny Opera and So It Is... with A Noise Within.

JESSICA GOLDAPPLE (Mayella Ewell) recently originated the role of Kimberly in the world premiere of Screwballs at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. Other roles include Kattrin in Mother Courage and her Children at The Theatre @ Boston Court and the title role in The Little Prince at South Coast Repertory. She has toured with LA’s Will & Company and appeared in the Center for New Performance at CalArts’ inaugural, all-female production of King Lear, both in Los Angeles and at the Festivale du Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne in France. Ms. Goldapple was a series regular on the hit Canadian sitcom Student Bodies. She holds a BFA in Performance from The California Institute of the Arts.

ROBERTO GUAJARDO (Mr. Radley/Judge Taylor) most recently appeared at ATC in Molly’s Delicious. Other ATC productions include Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Macbeth, Over the Moon, Much Ado About Nothing, Wit, As You Like It, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shadowlands, One Crazy Day, The Tempest, You Can’t Take It With You and The Matchmaker. Other regional appearances include Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Guajardo has also worked extensively throughout Arizona, including performances at Invisible Theatre, Borderlands Theater, Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, The Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Actor’s Lab, Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, Actors Theatre and Phoenix Theatre. He has also made numerous appearances on TV and in film.

DAVID ALEXANDER JOHNSTON (Boo Radley/Walter Cunningham) was last seen at ATC in The Fantasticks. Other ATC credits include Much Ado About Nothing and My Fair Lady. He has performed with Arizona Opera in The Threepenny Opera, The Girl of the Golden West, Carmen and The Barber of Seville. Local Tucson audiences will recognize him from performances as The Actor in The Woman in Black, Cupid in Endymion, Marvin in Falsettoland, Buzz in Love! Valour! Compassion! and PT Barnum in Barnum! He has also been seen in Into the Woods, Holy Spirit on Grand Avenue and Of Mice and Men. Mr. Johnston’s film credits include Day of Redemption, The Unflyable Plane, Fast Getaway 2 and Spin.

MIKE LAWLER (Sheriff Heck Tate) appeared in ATC’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He has also performed with Phoenix Theatre, Actors Theatre, Arizona Jewish Theatre Company and Canyon Moon Theatre in Sedona. His television credits include the BBC mini-series Nuclear Secrets in which he played Edward Teller. He will also be seen in the BBC television production of Comet Impact. Film credits include Portrait, Ash Wednesday, andthe award-winning Split, as well as performances in the not-yet-released Jolene and locally produced indie thriller Death Hunter. He was a visiting instructor of theatre at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where he directed productions of Our Town and Fortinbras. Mr. Lawler is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

DARIA LEGRAND (Scout) is making her Arizona Theatre Company debut. Ms. LeGrand is 12 years old and lives in the Kansas City area where she has been seen in numerous productions including the world premiere musicals The Happy Elf (composed by Harry Connick, Jr.) and Geppetto and Son (composed by Stephen Schwartz)at The Coterie Theatre; and Annie, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wizard of Oz at Starlight Theatre. Regional credits include Gypsy, Ragtime, Ruthless, Seussical, Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Children’s Letters to God, Urinetown, The Hot Mikado, and HONK! She was a vocal soloist in the Kansas City Symphony’s Magic of Christmas for three seasons. Ms. LeGrand studies acting, dance and voice. She is also a competitive classical pianist with four first-place Kansas state titles.

JOHN RENSENHOUSE (Atticus Finch) recently finished a four-year stint with the national tour of The Lion King and also toured nationally with the Broadway production of Noises Off. His regional credits include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and the title role in Dracula for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Macduff in Macbeth, Odysseus in The Cure At Troy and The Count in The Rehearsal for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Edmund in King Lear for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Don John in Much Ado About Nothing for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo for Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. Once upon a time, he was a ‘bad guy’ on the soap opera The Edge of Night, but his character, Hector Wilson, suffered a rather fatal bullet wound. Mr. Rensenhouse is a graduate of The Orme School in Mayer, Arizona, and he holds a degree from the Professional Theatre Training Program now located at the University of Delaware.

SAMANTHA K. WYER (Director) is in her tenth season at Arizona Theatre Company where she serves as Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education. Her directing credits at ATC include I Am My Own Wife, Tuesdays with Morrie, Permanent Collection, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Proof, Wit, Secret Things by Elaine Romero and staged readings of Daddy – the Myth, Psychic Fare and Neon Lights and Red Seats for the Latino/Native American Playwright Mentorship Program. Her additional Arizona directing credits include Betrayal, Three Sisters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Arcadia at Arizona Repertory Theatre, Sleeping Beauty at Childsplay, Anger Box and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode and Two Days of Grace at Middleham by Toni Press-Coffman, a play she also directed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. In Kansas City, Ms. Wyer served as Director of Playwright’s Stage for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre New Play Program. Her Kansas City directing credits include Buried Child, Speed-the-Plow, The Member of the Wedding, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Rumors and Little Shop of Horrors. Ms. Wyer’s developmental work includes Players in the Game by Dale Wasserman, Iago by James McClure, China Dolls by Jack Hefner and Barrio Hollywood by Elaine Romero at Phoenix Theatre’s New Play Festival, That Slut! and Trucker’s Rhapsody by Toni Press-Coffman. Ms. Wyer worked at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. as Assistant Director for Michael Kahn and Joe Dowling. She has also served as a grants panelist for Theatre Communications Group, Tucson Pima Arts Council and Arizona Commission on the Arts. Ms. Wyer has been a visiting instructor and director for University of Missouri-Kansas City, Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Ms. Wyer earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and was awarded the Buffalo Exchange Arts Award for Emerging Artists by the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.

HUGH LANDWEHR (Set Designer) designed Twelfth Night for ATC last season. He designed the Broadway productions of Frozen, Bus Stop, All My SonsandA View from the Bridge. Off-Broadway, he designed Last Easter, Scattergood, Filumena, The Baby Dance, The EntertainerandCandide, among others. His regional theatre work includes productions at Long Wharf Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre and ACT Theatre. During summers, he has designed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Westport Country Playhouse. He is currently a member of the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught at University of Wisconsin in Madison, North Carolina School of the Arts and Williams College. He has twice been the recipient of NEA grants as an Associate Artist and was awarded the Murphy Award in Design (administered by Long Wharf Theatre) and the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design. He was educated at Yale College.

SAM FLEMING (Costume Designer) returns to Arizona Theatre Company where she designed Bad Dates, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Wit and Proof. She has designed costumes at theatres across the country including the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera (world premiere of Dead Man Walking), Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Studio Arena Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, StageWest, Houston Opera Studio, Skylight Opera Theatre, Texas Opera Theatre, ACT Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Craig Lucas’ award-winning Reckless). She designed costumes for more than 50 productions for Milwaukee Repertory Theater during her 14 years with the company. Ms. Fleming received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her designs for the Dr. Seuss-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Westwood Playhouse. Off-Broadway, she designed the new musical The Prince and the Pauper and has worked with the Pearl Theatre, Manhattan Class Company and The Women’s Project. She is the Associate Costume Designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.

DENNIS PARICHY (Lighting Designer) designed Arizona Theatre Company’s productions of The Pajama Game, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Talley’s Folly, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ghosts and the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. He has been designing for forty years and has worked on Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and in regional theatre and opera. Mr. Parichy’s Broadway credits include Talley’s Folly (Tony nomination), Crimes of the Heart, As Is, Burn This, Penn & Teller: The Refrigerator Tour, Redwood Curtain (Tony nomination), Coastal Disturbances, The Water Engine and Fifth of July (Tony nomination). He served as Resident Lighting Designer for Circle Repertory Company from 1975 to 1995 where he designed numerous premieres including many plays by Lanford Wilson. His regional theatre credits include productions at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Huntington Theatre Company and Long Wharf Theatre. He is an Affiliate Artist of People’s Light & Theatre Company near Philadelphia, where he designs several shows each season. Mr. Parichy has designed for Athol Fugard’s recent plays Valley Song; My Children, My Africa; Sorrows and Rejoicings and Playland, all directed by the playwright. He teaches lighting design at Purchase College. He has received an Obie, several DramaLogue Awards, the Drama Desk Award and an ariZoni Award for his designs.

PETER OSTROUSHKO (Composer) is most well-known for his 33-year association as musician, radio actor and occasional Musical Director with Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show. He also has had a successful touring career doing concerts all over North America and as far as Moscow, Russia. Mr. Ostroushko started his theatrical career at age 16 joining The Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis. He performed in numerous plays as an actor and as a musician. He acted in the Minnesota Ensemble Theater for two seasons before deciding to concentrate on music. He has written musical scores for Arizona Theatre Company, The Children’s Theater Company, ACT Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre and numerous others. He has 14 recordings of mostly original music. He has written many musical scores for television and received an Emmy Award for his work on Minnesota: A History of the Land. His music is often used by filmmaker Ken Burns in his films. In the past year, his music was heard in Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion and Sean Penn’s Into the Wild.

JOHN STORY (Sound Designer) designed Jitney at ATC last season. He has designed sound for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s productions of Bad Dates; The Syringa Tree (along with Steve LeGrand);Jitney; A Raisin in the Sun; Give ’Em Hell, Harry; Two Trains Running and for five years now, A Christmas Carol. His work has also been heard in the Unicorn Theatre productions of CrownsandOmnium Gatherum, for the world premiere of SPARTS Radio at Just Off Broadway Theatre, and in the Amnesty International-sponsored production of One for the Road at the Next Space Gallery for the Kansas City Fringe Festival. He has composed music for such plays as My Mother Said I Never Should, Hamlet and Dracula, as well as for multi-media and commercial productions. Mr. Story earned his BA from Cleveland State University and his MFA in Sound Design from University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), where he now teaches. He serves as Sound Supervisor for Kansas City Repertory Theatre and the UMKC Department of Theatre.

DIANNE WINSLOW (Dialect Coach) returns to ATC after serving as dialect coach for many productions including I Am My Own Wife, Pride and Prejudice, Oh Coward!, A Streetcar Named Desire, Talley’s Folly, Over the Moon, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Fully Committed, Proof, My Fair Lady, H.M.S. Pinafore, Side Man, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Valley Song, Candida, Fires in the Mirror, Dancing at Lughnasa, Noises Off, Dracula and Sea Marks. Ms. Winslow is currently a professor of theatre arts at the University of Arizona and Associate Artistic Director of the UA School of Theatre Arts’ Arizona Repertory Theatre. She is also the creator/director of Touring Shakespeare, an educational program that has performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles and Monterrey, Mexico. She also works as a professional vocal coach for private clients in the film and television industries.

BRENT GIBBS (Fight Director) serves on the Theatre Arts faculty at the University of Arizona where he teaches Acting and Stage Combat. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild. For nine years, Mr. Gibbs served as the Director, Fight Director and Production Stage Manager for one of the nation's largest outdoor dramas, Tecumseh!, located in Ohio. He has gained recognition as an Advanced Actor/Combatant by the Society of British Fight Directors, The Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors Canada. He has traveled to Thailand to work on battle sequences in Phuket and to London to teach Master classes at various schools, including The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For the past several summers, he has taught stage combat workshops at the International Theatreschool Festival held in Amsterdam. In Arizona, Brent garnered an ariZoni Award for his fight direction in the Southwest Shakespeare Company's production of Henry V. This spring, he will direct and choreograph the fights for Titus Andronicus at the Arizona Repertory Theatre, where he serves as Artistic Director.

BRUNO INGRAM (Stage Manager) stage managed Ella, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anna in the Tropics, Talley’s Folly and The Underpants for Arizona Theatre Company.He has worked as a Stage Manager for The Cleveland Play House and Theatre for a New Audience on a variety of productions, including Ella, Company, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Touch the Names, Jerusalem, Art, Cymbeline, and Julius Caesar. Mr. Ingram has also worked at Great Lakes Theatre Festival on six productions including A Christmas Carol and Tom Hanks: Now Playing Center.

GLENN BRUNER (Assistant Stage Manager) is in his eleventh season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, The Pajama Game, Molly’s Delicious, Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and Production Stage Manager for the off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.