Acting Conservatory
2025 Season Acting Conservatory
Julien Alam
CTC: first season. Regional: The Last Five Years (Princeton Summer Theater); Collateral: The Collaterusical (Brooklyn Comedy Collective). International: 13th Morning (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Julius Caesar (Intercollegiate Shakespeare Co.); Antony and Cleopatra (LAMDA). Education: B.A. Princeton; MFA NYU Grad Acting.
Anina Baker
CTC: first season. Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Marin Shakespeare Company); Eurydice (The Actors Space). Film: “Bunny Laces” Education: B.A. UC Berkeley; MFA UC Irvine.
David Bertoldi
CTC: first season. Regional: La Broa’, The Inheritance u/s (Trinity Rep); Ironbound, Fugitive Songs, One Flea Spare (Brown/Trinity Rep); Henry VI Part 2, King Lear, The Waverly Gallery, Sense & Sensibility, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare & Company); Pterodactyls, The Tempest (Ghostlight Rep); REALLY (WAM Theatre). Education: MFA Brown/Trinity Rep; B.A. Clark University.
Ayla Decaire
CTC: first season. Regional/Educational: Big Love, Three Sisters, Connection Is Unstable, The Munchies, Taming of the Shrew, The Revolutionists. Film: “Super Powers Aren’t a Thing,” “Alone in the Darkness,” “More Than Capable,” “Is This Nora?” Education: MFA Acting Columbia University (2026), B.A. California State University Long Beach
Germainne Lebrón
CTC: first season. Regional: Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse); La Gringa (American Stage); Native Gardens (The Warehouse Theatre); The Inheritance (Trinity Rep); Dracula, Madre Tierra, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Are You There? (Humana Festival of New American Plays); Julius Caesar (Stages on the Sound); Eight Tales of Pedro (The Secret Theatre); Deadman’s Cellphone (Red Monkey Theatre Group); Educational: Hedda Gabler, The Rogues Trial, Motherloss (Wagner New Play Festival 25); The Promise by Jose Rivera, Romeo & Juliet,809 Almond (Wagner New play Festival 2024) Education: MFA Actor University of California, San Diego.
Bailey Lee
CTC: first season. Off-Broadway: No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab). Regional: Lesson for the Future, Prairie (Lincoln Center Education); Pirates of Penzance, Romeo and Juliet (North Carolina Symphony); Here There Be Dragons (Players Theater); Papa (New Hazlett Theater); Sweeney Todd (Arts One Presents); Human Democracy (American Democracy Project). Co-Founder of the artistic collective The What Co. Education: BFA University of North Carolina School of the Arts, MFA candidate University of California, San Diego. Taming of the Shrew, The Revolutionists. Film: “Super Powers Aren’t a Thing,” “Alone in the Darkness,” “More Than Capable,” “Is This Nora?” Education: MFA Acting Columbia University (2026), B.A. California State University Long Beach
Olamide Oladeji
CTC: first season. Regional: The Inspector (Yale Rep). Educational: ‘You Can Tell a Tree by Its Fruit’ (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale); Cherry Orchard, Chicken & Biscuits, Bite Me (Theatre UCF). Education: MFA David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Christopher Thomas Pow
CTC: first season. Regional: Grandmother / Bathtub, Beneath Soil (Yale Cabaret); Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre); Tiger Style! (Writer’s Theatre); Cambodian Rock Band (Theatre Mu/Jungle Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre/City Theatre/Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Great Expectations, The Tempest, Love’s Labours Lost (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Short Shakes! Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Education: B.A. Northwestern University; MFA candidate, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (2027).
Amarih SoVann
CTC: first season. Educational: King Hedley II (NYU); Jitney, Everybody (KSU Stillwell Theatre). International:13th Morning (Caveat and Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Awards: August Wilson Monologue Competition State Finalist (2019). Education: MFA NYU Acting.