Tiger Style!

Regina Aquino (Jennifer) is thrilled to make her Olney Theatre Center debut. BROADWAY: Lincoln Center & Kennedy Center TYA: Where Words Once Were; INTERNATIONAL: Actor's Actors Inc. Manila: Our Country's Good; SELECTED DC CREDITS: Theater Alliance: The Events [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress], Brownsville Song (B-side for Trey); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe The Night, The Arsonists; Studio Theatre: Vietgone, Red Light Winter, Dog Sees God [Helen Hayes Award nomination Outstanding Ensemble], Polaroid Stories; Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn; Synetic Theater: A Christmas Carol, The Little Mermaid; EDUCATION: Duke Ellington School of the Arts, The Studio Acting Conservatory, Manhattanville College. UPCOMING: Eureka Day (Meiko) dir. by Serge Seiden at Mosaic Theatre, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page) dir. by Aaron Posner at Folger Theatre.  

Michael Glenn (Reggie/Russ the Bus/Customs Guy) is pleased to be returning to Olney Theatre Center.  Previous Olney credits include: Marjorie Prime and Neville's Island. WASHINGTON D.C.: Arena Stage: Junk, Baskerville, Good People. Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn, As You Like It, Sense & Sensibility, Henry VIII, Arcadia. Round House Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, Small Mouth Sounds, Stage Kiss, THIS.  Shakespeare Theatre Company:  School for Lies. Theatre J: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Photograph 51.  Woolly Mammoth: Clybourne Park. Signature Theatre: Lieutenant of Inishmore. Longacre Lea: Cat's Cradle, Hothouse, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Imagination Stage: Robin Hood, Aladdin's Luck. Washington Stage Guild: Widowers' Houses, Village Wooing, The Underpants, A Skull in Connemara, Major Barbara.

Kurt Kwan (Dad/Tzi Chuan/others) is happy to be making his Olney Theatre Center debut. Recent credits include work with Penumbra Theatre (The Brothers Paranormal); Guthrie Theatre (The Great Leap, Othello); Actors Theatre of Louisville (We, The Invisibles); Pillsbury House Theatre (The Children); Ten Thousand Things Theater (The Changelings, Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire); Mu Performing Arts (You For Me For You, Yellow Fever, Cowboy vs Samurai, Yellow Face); Park Square (The Language Archive); Yellowtree Theatre (Grace); Walking Shadow (After the Quake)

Eileen Rivera (Mom/Matchmaker/Cousin Chen) is making her Olney debut. OFF-BROADWAY: New York Theatre Workshop: Beast; The Public: Dogeaters; Rattlestick Playwrights Co.: A Fable; Cherry Lane Mentor Project: King Lear; The Culture Project: Sides: The Fear is Real. REGIONAL: Diversionary Theatre (San Diego): The Hour of Great Mercy; Perseverance Theatre (Alaska): The Long Season; Virginia Stage Co.: The Comfort Team. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Vietgone; Baltimore Center Stage: The White Snake; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. FILM: Mildred, Daughter of Venus; The Barrelman Caper. TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. EDUCATION: Boston University School of Theatre.

Sean Sekino (Albert) is so excited to debut at Olney Theater Center! LA AREA: Marty Has Cancer [Best-Of Fringe Award], Last Days of Judas Iscariot (El-Fayoumy) FILM: Goodbye, My Big Cat [Best Ensemble, Seattle Film Fest] TV: American Vandal, Grey’s Anatomy, General Hospital, Life is Ruff, Going to the Mat. EDUCATION: BA in Music Education from University of Utah.

Mike Lew (Playwright) Plays include Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi at the Public and Artists Rep productions; Public Studio, O’Neill, OSF workshops), Tiger Style! (Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill and CTG workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi and Alliance productions), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct and Next Act productions), Moustache Guys, and the book to the musical Bhangin’ It (Richard Rodgers Award; La Jolla Playhouse, Project Springboard, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat workshops).  He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, and a resident of New Dramatists. Mike’s honours include a Mellon National Playwrights Residency at Ma-Yi and La Jolla Playhouse Artist-in-Residence, both with Rehana Lew Mirza; Lark Venturous and NYFA fellowships; and the PEN Emerging Playwright, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards. Education: Juilliard, Yale. Website: mikelew.com.

Natsu Onoda Power (Director) is thrilled to return to Olney Theatre Center, where she adapted/ directed Alice in Wonderland for National Players Season 69. REGIONAL: Baltimore Center Stage: The White Snake; DC Area: The Studio Theater: Vietgone, Astro Boy and the God of Comics; Spooky Action Theater: The Lathe of Heaven [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Adaptation and Outstanding Set Design]; Theater J: Yellow Face. EDUCATION: Northwestern University, Ph.D. in Performance Studies. Associate Professor, Georgetown University.

Tony Cisek (Scenic Designer) has collaborated with Ms. Power on Vietgone at Studio Theatre. OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Bad Dog, Sueño. OFF-BROADWAY: Roundabout: Beyond Glory; New York Theatre Workshop: columbinus.  REGIONAL: Goodman, Guthrie, Cincinnati Playhouse,  Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Alliance, Cleveland Play House, South Coast Rep, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman, Arden, Two River Theatre, Virginia Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival.  DC AREA: Ford’s, Arena, Folger, Woolly Mammoth, Round House, Theatre Alliance, Theater J, GALA, Signature, The Kennedy Center.  TRAINING: MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.  AWARDS: four Helen Hayes Awards, Washington; five Drammy Awards, Portland; three Barrymore nominations, Philadelphia. www.tonycisek.com

Roc Lee (Sound Designer) is a DC based Composer/Sound Designer. He holds a Master of Music in Stage Music Composition from CUA. Credits include: Arena Stage: The Price, The Year of Magical Thinking, Mother Courage; Mosaic Theater Company: CHARM, Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies, Ulysses On Bottles; Olney Theatre Center: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Annie, Thurgood, Fickle: A Fancy French Farce, Dial ‘M’ for Murder; National Players Tour 70: Around the World in 80 Days, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Twelfth Night; Forum Theatre: Love & Information; Faction of Fools: Our Town; GALA Hispanic Theatre: Seneca El Raton de Biblioteca, In the Heights. Roclee.net.

Debra Kim Sivigny (Costume Designer) Previous Olney credits include: 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.

Sarah Tundermann (Lighting Designer) is happy to be returning to Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney credits include: Elf (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

Jack Riley (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning to OTC. Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Magic Play, Sweeney Todd, Mary Poppins. Round House Theatre: Angels in America, I'll Get You Back Again.  Washington National Opera: Tosca, Faust, La traviata. National Symphony Orchestra: West Side Story in Concert.  Maryland Lyric Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor. Studio Theatre: Silence! the Musical, Wig Out!  Maryland Opera Studio: Dialogues des Carmélites, Le nozze di Figaro. EDUCATION: University of Maryland, OTC Professional Training Program. Mr. Riley is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.