2023 Theater Conservatory
Belle Alatorre
they/them
Sound Fellow
Regional/Educational: When Yuri Met Malcom (East West Players); Mojada (Indianapolis Shakespeare Company); LA Immersive Invitational (Shakespeare Center LA); Urinetown, Into the Woods, A Chorus Line, As You Like It, The Wolves, Cider House Rules Part 1 and Part 2 (USC).
Education: BFA candidate in sound design at the University of Southern California.
Joining us from Los Angeles, California.
Brandi Alexander
she/her
Scenic Fellow
Regional/Educational: Shakespeare in Love, Marisol, Picnic, Silence, and Little Shop of Horrors (Scenic Design, University of Houston); Ride the Wave (Lighting Design, VORETX Repertory Theatre); Our Lady of 121st Street (Assistant Scenic Design, University of Houston); King Lear, Cymbeline (Assistant Scenic Design, Houston Shakespeare Festival); Panto Snow White and The Seven Dorks (Assistant Scenic Design, Stages Repertory Theatre).
Awards: USITT’s 2023 Emerging Creatives Showcase, was awarded Main Street Theater’s 2022 BIPOC scenic design fellowship and was a 2022 winner of the Black Theatre Network’s Judy Dearing Student Design Competition.
Education: B.A. in mass media communications at Prairie View A&M University, and MFA in scenic design at University of Houston.
Joining us from Houston, Texas.
Veda Baldota
she/her
Lydia/Lady Catherine, Pride and Prejudice
Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Lenfest Center for the Arts), Metamorphoses (Schapiro Hall Theatre)
Short Film: Garbage (MFA Columbia Uni Film), Girl in Red (MFA Columbia Uni Film)
Awards: The Travis Bogard Memorial Prize for 2019-2020 at UC Berkeley
Education: B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and MFA in acting at Columbia University
Originally from South India, Veda is joining us from New York City.
Edoardo Maria Benzoni
he/him
Bingley, Pride and Prejudice
Education: B.A. University of California, Berkeley, and MFA David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
Originally from San Diego, CA, Edoardo is joining us from New Haven, Connecticut.
Karen Killeen
she/her
Mary/Miss Bingley, Pride and Prejudice
Regional/Educational: Marys Seacole, The Cherry Orchard, Affinity, Bodas de Sangre (Yale School of Drama), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Yale Cabaret), Wishful Thinking (Strive Theatre)
TV: KIN (AMC), Taken Down (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)
Education: B.A. Technological University Dublin in Drama Performance, and MFA Yale School of Drama Class 2024
Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Karen is joining us from New Haven, CT.
Fiona Maguire
she/they
Charlotte, Pride and Prejudice
Off-Broadway: I’ll be in my Hanukkah Palace (Ars Nova).
Regional: By the Queen, Prince of Providence (Trinity Rep), Electra, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, Much Ado About Nothing, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (Brown/Trinity); On the Y-Axis, The Creature, Possession (Writing is Live)
Education: B.A. Stanford University, and MFA Brown/Trinity
Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Fiona is joining us from Providence, RI.
Rin Menge
they/them
Costume Fellow
Regional/Educational: She Kills Monsters (Saint Mary’s College), West Side Story (South Bend Civic Theatre)
Education: B.A. candidate in environmental studies & fashion and costume at Saint Mary’s College.
Joining us from Hammond, Indiana.
Colby Muhammad
she/her
Jane/Miss De Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice
Regional/Educational: Bunny, Bunny, Dance Nation, Nonna Kills the President, In the Red and Brown Water (UCSD) Anything Goes, Spunk!, and Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Howard University).
Film: Centerfold (dir. Ariel Julia Hairston), Transcend (dir. TJ Davidson), and Doing it Wrong (dir. Tevin Scott).
Education: BFA Howard University in Musical Theatre, and MFA University of California, San Diego, Acting candidate.
Originally from Richmond, VA, Colby is joining us from San Diego CA.
Anna Roman
she/her
Lizzie, Pride and Prejudice
Regional: The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Tampa Repertory Theatre)
Film: Three Sisters (Teamonfire Prod.)
Web series: The Lemonade Files (VDOG Prod. LLC)
BroadwayWorld Tampa Best Performer in a Play 2022
Education: BFA University of Florida, and MFA Acting Candidate 2025 Yale School of Drama
Originally from Florida, Anna is joining us from New Haven, CT.
André Segar
he/him
Lighting Fellow
Regional/Educational: Being Chaka (Tea Artistry at The New Ohio); My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay, Blue Fire Burns the Hottest (The Brick); Alex Edelman – Just for Us (Williamstown Theatre Festival – Pre Broadway); the dance floor, the hospital room and the kitchen table (Tour)
Education: BFA in theatre design at Carnegie Mellon, and MFA candidate in lighting design at NYU Tisch.
Originally from Orlando, Florida, André is joining us from New York City.
Olivia Songer
she/her
Directing Fellow
Off-Broadway: Made by God (World Premier, Irish Repertory Theatre) We Are Not Well (NYU Tisch/Clifford Odetts Commission), Anatomy of a Suicide (The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute).
International: Venus in Fur (Rough Magic, Project Arts Centre), We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House (The Peacock at The Abbey, National Theatre of Ireland), Beside the Sea (Composed by Ian Wilson, Irish Tour) Disconnected (The New Theatre/Smock Alley Theatre), Each Day Dies with Sleep (The Lir), Tribes (Assistant Sound Design, The Gate), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Assistant Sound Design, Rough Magic/Kilkenny Arts Festival), Unwoman III (Assistant Sound Design; The Rabble, Dublin Fringe Festival).
Regional: Ironbound (Associate Director, Geffen Playhouse)
Other: SEEDS Resident Director at Rough Magic Theatre Company, Contemporary Artist-in-Residence at The National Gallery of Ireland.
Education: BFA NYU Tisch, MFA The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Dublin.
Originally from Ann Arbor, Olivia is joining us from Brooklyn, New York.
Cole Taylor
He/Him
Wickham/Collins, Pride and Prejudice
Regional: Pipeline (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Handjob (The Echo Theater Company)
Film: Strive (Amazon, Apple TV)
TV: Saved By The Bell (Peacock)
Education: BFA Pace University, and MFA NYU Grad Acting Candidate 2024
Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Cole is joining us from New York City.
Daniel Velez
he/him
Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Educational: The Oresteia, Raft of the Medusa, The Cherry Orchard, Henry IV Part 1 (The Juilliard School)
Awards: 2020 National YoungArts Winner in Theatre, 2019 Music Center’s Spotlight Winner in Acting (Los Angeles, CA), 2019 August Wilson Monologue Competition National Alternate
Education: BFA The Julliard School (Drama)
Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Daniel is joining us from New York City.
