Meet the Cast & Team for: Diamond Alice (December 2022 Workshop)
DIAMOND ALICE
a new musical
Book by Ben Steinfeld, Music & Lyrics by Alexander Gemignani, Directed by Amanda Dehnert
Amanda Dehnert - Director
Recent productions include: West Side Story (director), Carnegie Hall; Love’s Labor’s Lost, Timon of Athens, and Julius Caesar (adaptor, composer, director) for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; world premiere productions of The Steadfast Tin Soldier (composer), Eastland: A New Musical (director, orchestrator), and Peter Pan – A Play (author), for Lookingglass Theatre Company; Richard III (director, adaptor, composer), for The Public Theatre Mobile Shakespeare Unit; The Verona Project (author and composer, world premiere), for California Shakespeare Theatre; Death of a Salesman (director, composer), for Dallas Theatre Center; The Fantasticks (director, music director), for Trinity Rep, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, and South Coast Rep. Amanda is an associate professor of theatre at Northwestern University.
Roxana Khan - Stage Manager*
Off Broadway: Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club); Epiphany, Greater Clements (Lincoln Center), Mies Julie, The Dance of Death (Classic Stage), Kings (The Public); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Westport Country Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Wallis Annenberg Center, and others.
Avery Trunko - Assistant Stage Manager
Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Off-Broadway: Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theater); The Confession of Lily Dare (Primary Stages); Hangmen, On the Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theater Company); Privacy, Julius Caesar (Public Theater); This Space Between Us, Molly Sweeney (Keen Company); Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project) By the Way Meet Vera Stark (Signature Theatre); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur); Superstitions, The Ding Dongs, Is Edward Snowden Single? (The Pool Plays) Select Regional: Hartford Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Yale Repertory Theatre; Avery holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, and a BFA from Hofstra University.
Julia Bates - Assistant Stage Manager*
*The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
FIASCO THEATER
Co-Artistic Directors: Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Ben Steinfeld
Managing Producer: BJ Evans