The Royale

Jay Frisby (Wynton) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits: Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, South Pacific; Annie; Mary Poppins (Northbrook/Park Keeper). NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL TOURS: South Pacific; Hong Kong Disneyland: Festival of the Lion King (Simba); Click Clack Moo; The Whiffenpoofs of Yale. REGIONAL: Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Smokey Joe’s Café (Adrian); Ogunquit Playhouse: South Pacific; Papermill Theatre: West Side Story (Chino); Seussical (Wickersham Brother). DC AREA: Imagination Stage: Cinderella (Prince Jason) [Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Production in a Musical]; Signature Theatre: The Scottsboro Boys (Charles Weems/ Victoria Price) [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble]; Rep Stage: Dorian’s Closet (Jesse Torres); Toby’s Dinner Theatre: The Buddy Holly Story; Miss Saigon. EDUCATION: BA in Theater Studies from Yale University.

Chris Genebach (Max) is excited to be returning to OTC where he has been seen in Mary Stuart, Oil, The Crucible, My Fair Lady, Carousel and Awake & Sing! DC credits include: Signature Theatre: Billy Elliot; Mosaic Theatre Company: A Human Being Died that Night, Ulysses on Bottles; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, Measure for Measure, Two Gentleman of Verona, Julius Caesar (FFA), Cymbeline, King Lear, Titus Andronicus; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play; Folger Theatre: Davenant's Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Othello, Cyrano, Orestes: A Tragic Romp; The Studio Theatre: The Big Meal, Superior Donuts, Shining City. NEW YORK: BROADWAY: Manhattan Theatre Club: Shining City; OFF-BROADWAY: The Duke: Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, MTC: The Other Side. REGIONAL: Everyman Theatre: Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Inspector Calls; Goodman Theatre: King Lear; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, King John, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Short Shakespeare!, Romeo & Juliet.

Lolita Marie (Nina) Doubt (1st Stage) [Helen Hayes Award recipient for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play]. Secrets of the Universe (The Hub Theatre) [Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play. REGIONAL: Keegan Theatre: God of Carnage, American Daughter; Mosaic Theater: Native Son; Theater Alliance: Flood City, Brownsville Song, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…; Constellation Theatre Company: The Skin of Our Teeth, Blood Wedding; 4615 Theatre Company: Sophocles’ Electra; 1st Stage Theatre: Well; The Hub Theatre: Leto Legend; Theater J:The Hampton Years, Something You Did. FILM: Too Saved. TV: Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry.

Clayton Pelham, Jr. (Fish) is fired up about making his KNOCK OUT debut with Olney Theatre Center! Credits include: Mosaic Theater Company: Native Son, Charm; 1st Stage: The Brother Size, Hero’s Welcome, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play]; Arena Stage: The Great Society; Theater Alliance: Words Become Flesh [Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play]; Spooky Action: The Orbit in Mercury; Flying V: A Theatrical Mixtape of the 90's; Discovery Theater: Season of Lights; Faction of Fools: The Miser; Anacostia Playhouse: Solomon and Marion; Compass Rose Theater: A Raisin in the Sun. TV: Criminals at Work (BET); Southern Fried Homicide (Investigation Discovery). FILM: Money Matters, Orange Juice in Bishop's Garden .EDUCATION: The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory; American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). UPCOMING: The Till Trilogy (Mosaic Theater)

Jaysen Wright (Jay) is pleased to make his Olney debut. Arena Stage: Jubilee, Smart People. Imagination Stage: Davy Copperfield, Anatole, Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Looking for Roberto Clemente.  Everyman: Importance of Being Earnest. Theater J: Actually, Sons of the Prophet.  Folger Theatre: Macbeth.  Ford’s: The Wiz, A Christmas Carol. Studio Theatre: Wig Out!, Choir Boy, The Rocky Horror Show. 1st Stage: Now Comes the Night, Take Me Out. Marin Theatre Company: Choir Boy.  Adventure Theatre MTC: Pinkalicious, 12 Days of Christmas. The Welders: Carolina Layaway Grail.  Shakespeare Theatre: Measure for Measure, Wallenstein, Coriolanus. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting from Indiana University, BA in Theatre from Grinnell College.

Marco Ramirez (Playwright) has had plays produced at Lincoln Center Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Humana Festival, The Old Globe (San Diego), The Bush Theatre (London), American Theater Company (Chicago), Soulpepper (Toronto) and Center Theatre Group (LA). Honors include Helen Hayes and Drama Desk nominations, the Outer Critics Circle’s John Gassner Playwriting Award, Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship, Lincoln Center’s Le Comte du Nouy Award, and TCG’s Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Marco is also a WGA and Emmy Award-nominated TV writer and producer, where his credits include Marvel’s Daredevil (Netflix), Marvel’s The Defenders (Netflix), Sons of Anarchy (FX), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), and Fear the Walking Dead (AMC).

Paige Hernandez (Director/Choreographer) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include:The Piano Lesson (Choreographer), REGIONAL: Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Proof (Director), Queens Girl in the World (Director), Queens Girl in Africa (Director), The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily), DOT (Averie), The Children’s Hour (Mary Tilford), School for Scandal (Mariah);  Woolly Mammoth Theatre: For Black Trans Girls at Joe's Pub NYC (Director), We are Proud to Present... (Choreographer) [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography]; Rep Stage: Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Director); The Kennedy Center: She a Gem (Director), American Scrapbook (Ensemble), ALL THE WAY LIVE (Herself), Mermaids, Monsters…(Marta Elena); University of MD: Clove (Director); Glimmerglass Festival: Stomping Grounds (Director/Librettist); Mosaic Theatre: Queens Girl in Africa (Director) [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Direction]; Theatre Alliance: Brownsville Song (Director); Forum Theatre: How We Got On (Director); Theater J: Queens Girl in the World (Associate Director); Michigan’s Wharton Center for the Performing Arts: Shape of a Girl (Braidie), LUNGS (W); Adventure Theatre: Wizard of Oz (Dorothy); Imagination Stage: Cinderella The Remix (Cinderella), P.Nokio (Graffiti Fairy), Zomo the Rabbit (Big Fish), Hip Hop Anansi (Spray); Cleveland’s Playhouse Square: HAVANA HOP (Yeila); Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre: PAIGE IN FULL (Herself); Folger Theatre: Second Shepard’s Play (Virgin Mary); GALA Hispanic Theatre: Caribeana Imperial (Sade);  Keegan Theatre: The Crucible (Titubua); Baltimore School for the Arts: Lysistrata (Lysistrata) Education: Theatre and Broadcast Journalism, University of Maryland & the Baltimore School for the Arts

Debra Kim Sivigny (Scenic and Costume Designer) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: Tiger Style!, Every Brilliant Thing, Stuff Happens, Therese Raquin, and National Players Tour 53. Other recent credits include: Theater Alliance: Klytemnestra; 1st Stage: The Member of the Wedding; Company One: Vietgone; Rep Stage: Twilight LA: 1992; Kennedy Center TYA: She a Gem; and Adventure Theatre: Huck Finn’s Big River. The Welders: Hello, My Name Is... [Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Set Design, exhibited at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial.] Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Scenic Design Forgotten Kingdoms at Rorschach Theatre. Education: MFA University of Maryland, BA Middlebury College debsivigny.com

Sarah Tundermann (Lighting Designer) is happy to be returning to Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney credits include Tiger Style!, Elf the Musical (Projection Design), Annie, and National Players tours 68 - 71. REGIONAL: Twilight Los Angeles: 1992, Things That Are Round (REP Stage);Sing to Me Now (Rorschach); Tinker Bell, Judy Moody and Stink, and Ella Enchanted (Adventure Theatre MTC); Queens Girl in Africa (Mosaic); Charlotte's Web, Smartest Girl in the World, and The Jungle Book (Imagination Stage). EDUCATION: MFA in lighting design from the University of Maryland. Sarah currently resides in Baltimore with her dog, Jinx Monsoon. www.sarahtundermann.com

Kelly Colburn (Projections Designer) is a freelance interdisciplinary artist. Olney Theater Credits include: The Diary of Anne Frank and National Players Tour 69. REGIONAL: Children’s Theatre of Charlotte: Matilda. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, If I Forget, The Hard Problem; Theater Alliance: Blood At The Root, Still Life With Rocket; Imagination Stage: The Princess and the Pauper; Woolly Mammoth: Kiss. EDUCATION: BFA Tisch ’11 | MFA UMD ‘18

Kenny Neal (Sound Designer) Kenny Neal is a three-time Helen Hayes Award nominated sound designer, composer and arranger. His work has been heard at Olney Theatre Center (Oil); The Kennedy Center (She a Gem, Digging Up Dessa); Signature Theatre (Heisenberg, John, The Gulf); Studio Theatre (Straight White Men, Jumpers for Goalposts, Choir Boy); Theater J (Becoming Dr. Ruth); Constellation Theatre Company (The Master and Margarita); Theater Alliance (Klytemnestra); 1st Stage (columbinus, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Well, Floyd Collins, Old Wicked Songs, Bat Boy); Taffety Punk (Pramkicker, Mom Baby God); as well as production for NextStop Theatre, WSC Avant Bard, The Welders, and Adventure Theatre MTC.

Cliff Williams III (Fight Choreographer) Cliff is a native Virginian who has been choreographing/directing intimacy and violence for the last 13 years in the D.C. area. Favorite credits include Disgraced, The Shoplifters, and Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage), As You Like It (Baltimore Center Stage), Vanity Fair (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Chimerica (Studio Theatre), Familiar and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Spunk (Signature Theatre), Macbeth (Folger Theatre), Dracula, The Scene and Six Years (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (Long Wharf Theatre). Cliff was awarded the 2017 Helen Hayes for Outstanding Choreography for Girl in the Red Corner (The Welders).

Jessica Short (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to make her Olney debut! REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Nell Gwynn, King John, Davenant’s Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra; Round House Theatre: Or, Caroline, Or Change, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (takeover), The Who & The What, Stage Kiss; Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean Time Capsule; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, Passion Play, The T Party, How We Got On; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor; Arena Stage: Healing Wars; Anacostia Playhouse: DC Dead: Mutation; Signature Theatre: Jelly’s Last Jam; Flying V: You, or Whatever I Can Get