V ermont S tage S taff CRISTINA ALICEA ( Producing Artistic Director) - Cristina Alicea has been Producing Artistic Director of Vermont Stage since 2011. As a director, favorite Vermont Stage credits include the world premieres of Doublewide by Stephen Spotswood and The Quarry by Greg Pierce ( slowgirl, The Landing ), The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, Venus In Fur by David Ives, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, Dancing Lessons by Mark St. Germain, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, and The Call by Tanya Barfield. Prior to her arrival in Burlington, Cristina spent a year working as Assistant to the Managing Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and 10 years as a freelance director. Over the years, she has had the pleasure of workingwith The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Culture Project, ForumTheatre DC, The American Globe Theatre, the FringeNYC Festival, Theatre Rhinoceros, Next Stop Theatre, University of Vermont, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Cristina was a finalist for a Denham fellowship given by the Society of Directors and Choreographers and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Bachelor of Arts, Theatre, George Mason University. JAMIEN L. FORREST ( General Manager) - Jamien has served as General Manager of Vermont Stage since 2014. For the past fifteen years she has worked for theaters throughout the region in many capacities including production, design, administration, and education. She was stage manager for Vermont Stage way back in 2005 and then again from 2010-2014. In between stints in Burlington, Jamien lived in New York City where she spent over two years working at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with Lincoln Center Institute (now called Lincoln Center Education) where she served as technical supervisor and rental coordinator for the Clark Studio Theater and Samuel’s Teaching Studio. She also worked Off-Broadway at NewWorld Stages as stage manager and licensed laser operator for The Gazillion Bubble Show . She was technical director and Youth Theater Director at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH, and spent two seasons on tour with American Theater Arts for Youth. As a lighting designer, she has worked for NYCDA and Wallis Knot Theater in NYC, Vermont Stage, Flynn Arts, Middlebury Actors Workshop, and SEABA’s Strut! Fashion Show. BA Theatre, The University of Vermont.
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ANDREW CASSEL (Jerry) - Perseverance Theatre: The Crucible. Middlebury Acting Company: A Christmas Carol. Vermont Shakespeare Festival: Shakespeare: Completely Unbound! Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, The Tempest, King John, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Witches, Camino Real. Fairbanks Drama Association: American Buffalo, Santaland Dia- ries, Dinner With Friends, I Hate Hamlet. Arsenic and Old Lace. Theatre UAF: Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, Lysistrata, Laramie Project, How I Learned To Drive, All In The Timing. Andrew holds a BA in Theatre-Performance from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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