ELSIE ESCOBAR (Ensemble) has worked at the Denver Center Theatre Company for three seasons in productions such as The Comedy of Errors, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Galileo and Black Elk Speaks. Other theatre credits include Bandido at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, and Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for East L.A. Classic Theatre. Ms. Escobar has appeared in the films Orange County, Pumpkin and Do You Wanna Know a Secret?, as well as guest starring on a variety of prime time television shows.  A Yoga Instructor by trade, Ms. Escobar is currently a pioneer in New Media, producing immersive and interactive online shows merging the worlds of technology, health and well being via the iTunes music store.

ANN GUILBERT (Ensemble) has appeared on Broadway in A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and The Billy Barnes Revue. Off-Broadway, she appeared in Play Yourself at New York Theatre Workshop. Regionally, she has performed at many theatres, including Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, The Cleveland Play House and Denver Center Theatre Company. On film, she has been seen in Grumpier Old Men, Viva Max, How Sweet It Is and A Guide for the Married Man. On television, she is, perhaps, best known as Millie Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Grandma Yetta in The Nanny. She has also appeared on State of Mind, Law & Order: SVU, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Cheers, Home Improvement and Picket Fences, among others. Ms. Guilbert is a graduate of Stanford University.

STEPHEN MAILER (Ensemble) appeared on Broadway in Laughter on the 23rd Floor and performed in the national tour of Broadway Bound. Other New York appearances include Awake and Sing! and What’s Wrong with this Picture? with The Jewish Repertory Theatre, The Innocents Crusade at Manhattan Theatre Club, Peacetime with The WPA Theatre,  For Dear Life at The Public Theater and Asylum with The Ensemble Studio Theatre.  Regionally, he has appeared in The End of It All at South Coast Repertory, The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Alliance Theatre, Moonshadow and Minor Demons at The Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays and Orphans at Pittsburgh Public Theater.  His film work includes Baby Mama, Chatham, Guerilla, Kettle Of Fish, Ride with the Devil, 24 Nights, Red Meat, Quiet Days in Hollywood, Getting In, Reversal of Fortune, Cry Baby, Another Woman and War and Love. His television appearances include Gilmore Girls, Law & Order: SVU, Love and Other Sorrows, Darrow and As the World Turns.

ELIZABETH RAINER (Ensemble) appeared on Broadway in The Moliere Comedies at the Roundabout Theatre Company. She has recently been a company member at the Denver Center Theatre Company where her credits include The Madwoman, The Misanthrope, Blithe Spirit, Scapin, The Showoff, Taking Leave, The Icebreaker and Slabtown. She was in the world premiere of Bright Ideas at The Cleveland Play House. Other recent credits include Love, Janis at Marines Memorial Theatre and Theatre Aspen, The Mineola Twins (Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Actress in a Comedy) and Closer with Curious Theatre Company, Born Yesterday at The Arvada Center and the one-woman show Baring Fruit at The Nomad Theatre. She appeared as Leslie in the John Sayles film, Silver City. Television credits include As the World Turns and America's Most Wanted. Ms. Rainer received her MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University.

KIM STAUNTON (Ensemble) appeared most recently as Mrs. Muller in the Virginia Stage Company production of Doubt. Ms. Staunton has also appeared regionally at Denver Center Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Folger Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage and the O'Neill Theater Center. She has also performed in numerous productions on and off Broadway in New York. Ms. Staunton's film credits include the soon-to-be-released First Sunday, as well as Changing Lanes, Dragonfly, Bark, Heat, Holy Man, Deceived and Amos and Andrew. Television appearances have included guest starring roles on The Nine, Bones, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, Law & Order, City of Angels, New York Undercover and TNT's original movie, Glory and Honor. She is a native of Washington, DC and a graduate of The Juilliard School.

RAY ANTHONY THOMAS (Ensemble) is a member of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company where he recently appeared in the premiere of Keith Reddin's Human Error. Other Atlantic Theater Company credits include Edmond, The Lights, Distant Fires and The Beginning Of August. Off-Broadway credits include Touch the Names, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Caucasian Chalk Circle (both at the The Public Theater), Volunteer Man (Obie Award), Saved or Destroyed, The Exonerated and Democracy (both at Naked Angels Theater Company), Black Eagles (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Play To Win (AUDELCO Award nominee). Regional roles include Gabriel in Fences (Barrymore Award nominee), Tom in To Kill a Mockingbird (Detroit Free Press Award), Proctor in The Crucible (Syracuse Stage), Boy Willie in The Piano Lesson (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Lincoln in Topdog/Underdog (City Theatre). Film and TV credits include Half Nelson, The Manchurian Candidate, Imaginary Heroes, Changing Lanes, Our Song, Random Hearts, The Sopranos, Oz, The Hoop Life, Law & Order, Homicide and I'll Fly Away.

CHARLES WELDON (Ensemble) began his career as lead singer with the Paradons, writing and recording the number one hit “Diamonds and Pearls.” He went on to perform in the original San Francisco cast of Hair. He moved to New York with the Broadway musical Big Time Buck White with Mohammed Ali and, in 1970, joined the Negro Ensemble Company, performing in The Great MacDaddy, The Offering, The Brownsville Raid, A Soldier’s Play and the company’s Broadway production of The River Niger. He has appeared at many theatres across the country, including Guthrie Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Denver Center Theatre Company, among many others. He is the new Artistic Director for the Negro Ensemble Company and is the co-founder of the Alumni of the Negro Ensemble Company. He was awarded Denver’s Henry Award for Best Supporting Actor in Gem of the Ocean, and an AUDELCO Award for Best Supporting Actor in Seven Guitars at Signature Theatre. His film career includes Stir Crazy, Serpico, The River Niger, Malcolm X and The Wishing Tree. Television credits include Roots: The Next Generation, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Police Story and New York Undercover.

RANDAL MYLER (Director) returns to ATC where he co-wrote and directed Love, Janis; Hank Williams: Lost Highway and It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues and directed The Immigrant. He was nominated for a 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award in the Outstanding Director category for the New York production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and was a Tony Award nominee (Best Book of a Musical) for It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. He has directed at theatres across the country, including The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Center Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bay Street Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Barter Theatre and many others. His writing and directing projects include co-adapting and directing Fire on the Mountain, Always Heaven and Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and directing Union City. In New York, he has also directed at Broadway's Ambassador Theater, The New Victory Theater, Little Shubert Theatre, Dodger Stages, Promenade Theater, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, B.B. King's and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

VICKI SMITH (Scenic Design) returns to Arizona Theatre Company where she designed Love, Janis; Jitney; Hank Williams: Lost Highway; Dirty Blonde; Master Class; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; Fences; Taking Steps; The Matchmaker; The Marriage of Bette and Boo; Galileo; The Government Inspector; Fool for Love; Death of a Salesman and Learned Ladies. Other theatres where she has worked include Denver Center Theatre Company (where she has designed 37 productions), The Cleveland Play House, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT Theatre, Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, The Minnesota Opera and Anchorage Opera, among others. She received MFA’s in both Technical Theatre and Sculpture from the University of Washington. One of her designs was recently selected to be part of the Prague Quadrennial Exposition 2007.

DON DARNUTZER (Lighting Design) returns to Arizona Theatre Company, where he designed over forty shows, including Love, Janis; I Am My Own Wife; Molly's Delicious; Hank Williams: Lost Highway; The Immigrant; It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues; Dracula; Little Shop of Horrors and One Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro. He designed the lighting for the Tony-nominated Broadway production of It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues. His design work off-Broadway includes Hank Williams: Lost Highway, The Immigrant and Almost Heaven. He has worked for Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mark Taper Forum, B.B. King’s Blues Club, Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, The Atlanta Opera, Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Orleans Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, La Societe Lyrique d’Aubigny, The Minnesota Opera, Anchorage Opera, ACT Theatre and San Antonio Festival.

KISH FINNEGAN (Costume Design) has been with Arizona Theatre Company since 1989 and is the Costume Design Manager. Her ATC costume designs include I Am My Own Wife, Molly's Delicous, Tuesdays with Morrie, Drawer Boy, Copenhagen, The Origins Of Happiness in Latin, Fully Committed, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Art, Seamarks, Mascara, and Valley Song. Ms. Finnegan also enjoys designing costumes for children’s theatre including Seussical, Junie B. Jones, Go Dog Go, The Imaginators atChildsplay and Sabunana for Arts For All/Third Street Kids. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, she began her career in Los Angeles in both theatre and film, designing for a variety of projects, from animated bears to MTV. She also designed for the Burbank Repertory Theatre and the Chamber Theatre, where she won the Los Angeles DramaLogue award for costume design. Her most unique designs have been for Aquacades in Las Vegas, Japan, Spain, Hong Kong, Australia and the Canary Islands. She has also designed aquatic costumes for the US national synchronized swimming team.

BRIAN JEROME PETERSON (Sound Designer) celebrates his 22nd season and 54th sound design for ATC, where he has designed, among others, I Am My Own Wife, Molly's Delicous, Twelfth Night, Tuesdays with Morrie, the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Crowns, Bad Dates, Macbeth, Permanent Collection, The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, The Underpants, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Over the Moon, Copenhagen, The Drawer Boy, Dirty Blonde, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Much Ado About Nothing, Fully Committed, Proof, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, The Mystery of Irma Vep (forwhich he won an ariZoni Award), Loot, The Road to Mecca, and the world premieres of Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons, and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres includingBerkeley Repertory Theatre,La Mirada Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Northlight Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Peterson has produced for several music groups, including Cuerpos Sin Sombra, The Trade, Eye Pennies, and The Hillwilliams.