‘TIS THE SEASON: FOLKTALES & FABLES

Stephanie is a B Street Theatre Core Company Member. Recent Mainstage credits include: Charade, Dance Nation, One Man, Two Guvnors, Airness, We’re Gonna Be Okay and The Last Match. She co-starred in and co-wrote Treatment with company members Tara Sissom and Amy Kelly. Upstairs at the B credits include: Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. Other Mainstage credits include: Hand to God, Speed-the-Plow, Handle with Care, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche and The Explorers Club, and many more. Family Series credits include: Tis the Season, Charlotte’s Web, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood, Frankenstein, and others. Regional Theater credits include: Alabaster, Slowgirl, reasons to be pretty, and Clybourne Park (Capital Stage).

Jason Kuykendall has been a proud member of the B Street Theatre’s Acting Company for over 20 years. He has performed in over 50 productions here, including, The Nibroc Trilogy, The Big Bang, The 39 Steps, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, The Explorers Club, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The House On Haunted Hill, The Last Match, Proclivity for Kiting, and and most recently WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. Favorite regional credits include A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Edmund) and the world premiere of Lanford Wilson’s translation of Henrick Ibsen’s Ghosts (Oswald) with Arizona Theatre Company; Of Mice And Men (Lenny) and The Importance Of Being Earnest (Ernest) with Sacramento Theatre Company; The Elephant Man (Treves), The Country House (Michael), and Around The World In 80 Days(Phileas Fogg) with TheatreWorks; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Brick) with St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Phoenix Theatre; and Les Liaisons Dangerous (Valmont), Ideation (Brock), and Stupid F#%*ing Bird at Capitol Stage. Mr. Kuykendall also produces, directs, and edits for the camera with his wife Elisabeth Nunziato. Visit NKMedia.biz for their feature film, documentary, commercial work and more.

Meher is a member of the B Street Theatre Core Acting Company. She is originally from Mumbai, India. Her credits at B Street include Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone In This Room Killed Him, Insertion, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson: APT 2B, Lovers and Executioners, Dance Nation, The Conference of The Birds, Tiny Trailblazers- Kids who Changed the World, ‘Tis the Season and Junie B Jones is not a Crook. Regional credits include Come Fall in Love at The Old Globe, San Diego. She has performed in several productions in Mumbai and other Indian cities, including Disney India’s Beauty and the Beast, Monsoon Wedding, The Truth, Uncle Vanya, The Sound of Music, Lucrece, Jesus Christ Superstar. Television credits include The Week That Wasn’t, Made in Heaven, Good Karma Hospital. Film credits include Silvat, Bansuri, Do Cup Chai. Instagram handle - @mehermistry. Represented by CLA Partners.

Ángel Rodríguez is a Sacramento-based artist, thrilled to make his B Street debut with this talented and inspiring team. Deeply involved in the Sacramento theater community, Ángel has contributed to numerous productions in multiple capacities, including acting, writing, directing, designing, and producing, all with a passion for bringing meaningful stories to life and connecting with diverse audiences. As an actor, he has had the privilege of stepping into the shoes of many magical roles, including Beto in THE HOMBRES (Capital Stage), Rafael in CLYDE’S (Capital Stage), René in LYDIA (Teatro Nagual), Chuy in WAITING FOR GODINEZ (Teatro Espejo), and Usnavi in IN THE HEIGHTS (Sacramento State). Ángel has also collaborated with several other local organizations, such as the Latino Center of Arts & Culture, Davis Shakespeare, and Matriarchy Theater. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from Sacramento State. Follow him on Instagram @angelrodriguezloza.

Lyndsay Burch is the Executive Artistic Director and CEO of The Sofia: Home of B Street Theatre. For B Street, Lyndsay has directed more than twenty productions across the Mainstage and Family Series, written for multiple touring shows, and produced hundreds of professional productions. As a director and assistant director, Lyndsay has developed new plays with Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, the National Showcase of New Plays, Sacramento Theatre Company, the Dramatist Guild Footlight Series, Hangar Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Group, American Conservatory Theater and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Lyndsay has written two full-length plays for the B Street’s Family Series: Gandhi! (2018) and an adaption of The Wizard of Oz (2019). She was honored as one of Sacramento Business Journal’s “40 under 40” in 2017 and as one of Sacramento Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” in 2021. She is an alum of Elon University’s BFA Acting Program, the National Theater Institute, Yale University’s Directing Intensive, SDC’s Observership Class of 2017 and Theatre Bay Area’s ATLAS Program for Directors. Lyndsay serves as the President of the National New Play Network (NNPN). Locally, Lyndsay is a proud member of Point West Rotary (PWR) and she is a graduate of Leadership Sacramento, Class of 2020. Lyndsay lives in Sacramento with her dog Manny and her partner Tommy. She would like to extend her thanks to the B Street board, staff, company and audiences for their endless support.

Alāna Rader (Assistant Director) is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker who is very excited to be working with B Street for the first time! Many thanks to Lyndsay and the rest of the team for making me feel so welcome. Alāna is currently pursuing her MFA in Directing at the University of Idaho. As a Director, she seeks to explore the human condition, highlight the margins, and champion the underdog through reinterpreting the classics and discovering new stories. Past credits: Polishing Shakespeare (Assistant Dir- 59e59/Edinburgh Fringe), Plotters (Assistant Dir- 59e59/ Edinburgh Fringe) Sweat (Assistant Director/Dramaturg- Hunter College), State of Dis’Union (Rogue Theater Festival), Asleep at the Wheel (Players Theatre), Down the Rabbithole: Into Other Realms (Writer/Director), The Crucible (Co-Director), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Director) Our Town (Co-Director). She is a company member with New Circle Theatre, and Associate Artistic Director of Play Readings with Friends in NYC. Let’s connect and collaborate! www.alanarader.com @lanaenchanted

W. Fran Astorga (they/them) is a theatre artist and producer based in San Francisco, CA. Fran is excited to return to B Street Theater, where their full-length play, Exhaustion Arroyo, received its first staged reading and then went on to be published by Theater Magazine and produced in San Francisco, CA. Fran once toured a show called Tortoise vs Hare across the United States as a Tour Actor/Director with Missoula Children's Theatre; they hope you enjoy their interpretation of the classic tale.

DANA BROOKE is an actor and playwright based in NYC. She is a Core Company Member at B Street Theatre, where she has appeared in CONSTELLATIONS, IRONBOUND, VENUS IN FUR, OTHER DESERT CITIES, THE REALISTIC JONESES, OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, among others. For B Street’s Family Series she has written the plays EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: THROUGH THE EYES OF ANNE FRANK, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and THE SWORD IN THE STONE. Premiered as staged readings at B Street, Dana’s original plays IN BETWEEN THE HOURS and WILL received workshop productions in NYC. She has worked in new play development at Cincinnati Playhouse, New Jersey Rep, NNPN’s National Showcase of New Plays, Valdez Theatre Conference, as well as in NYC with New Dramatists, Cardinal Group, The NOW Collective, The Journey Company, and The Lark. As an actor, she has worked opposite Chita Rivera, Mike Birbiglia, Reed Birney, Arthur Laurents; performed at Cherry Lane, 59E59, Theatre Row, New Light Theatre Project (Company Member), Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, George Street Playhouse, New Jersey Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Rep, Playhouse on Park. Film/TV: “Laura Gets A Cat” (Amazon; Best Actress - Reno Tahoe Film Festival), “Not Your Year” (Amazon), “Damages” (FX), “Ed” (NBC), “Canterbury's Law” (FOX). www.danabrooke.com

Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Lebanese-American, playwright, educator and arts facilitator. She was the 2024 Playwright-in-Residence at SPARC New Voices and a 2024-’25 Keen Teens commissioned playwright. Her play, The Newlywed Game, won B Street Theatre’s 2023 New Comedies Festival and received its World Premiere in June 2024. Other plays include The Ancestry Dot Com Play (Developed at The Playwrights Realm, Premiere Stages at Kean, Art House Productions. Finalist: Leah Ryan Award, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, Semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Rattlestick Theater Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference) Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play (Developed at NYTW, Backstitch Story Arts. Finalist: Amphibian SparkFest, The Playwright’s Realm, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. Semifinalist: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, Princess Grace Award, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival), and others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. alyssahaddad.com

Sean Patrick Nill is Artistic Associate and Company Manager at the B Street Theatre. B Street Writing Credits include: Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘Tis the Season: A Celebration of Holiday Stories, Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI, Mind Boggling Mysteries of the World, and Mathematical Madness. Directing Credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Wide Open, A Year with Frog & Toad, Proclivity for Kiting, and Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI. His plays have been produced by the Sacramento Theatre Company, B Street Theatre, Dramatist's Guild's San Francisco Footlight Series, Rover Dramawerks, Theatre InspiraTO festival, Watermelon One Act Festival, M.T. Pockets Theatre, Torent Theatre, and the Manhattan Repertory Theatre. His play, Kings of America was a finalist for the Davey Foundation Theatre Grant given by the Salt Lake Acting Company, his play An Ordinary Woman was published in Stage It! Ten Minute Plays: 2017 Edition,and his play Brynlee & the Bull won the Audience Choice Award at the InspiroTO 10 Minute Play Festival in Canada.

Tara is thrilled to be directing again! She previously directed the 2022 New Comedies Festival winner, Insertion, for the Mainstage last summer. She serves in administration as the Theatre for Young Audiences Manager and is a member of the B Street Theatre Acting Company. Recent Mainstage credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong, Proclivity for Kiting, Byhalia, Mississippi, The Ladies Foursome, Airness, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The House On Haunted Hill and One Man, Two Guvnors. Recent Playwriting credits include: Rescue Me, Ride Sally, Ride and Treatment. Tara is a member of the Upstairs at the B improv group Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. A founding member of The New Colony in Chicago, Tara also performed in The Goodman Theatre’s production of The Iceman Cometh at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tara holds a BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University.

Peter Story is a proud B Street Theatre Core Company Member. You may have seen him recently in Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in this Room Killed Him, Rescue Me (which he also co-wrote with Tara Sissom-Pittaro), Love & Baseball, or Lovers & Executioners. Some of his favorite B Street credits include One Man, Two Guvnors; Byhalia, Mississippi; The Forever Question and Ironbound. Local credits include Luna Gale (Capital Stage) & Five Course Love (Sacramento Theatre Company). Other regional credits include Surviving Sex (Garry Marshall Theatre) & the national tour of the one-man Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Some on-camera favorites are CSI, Without a Trace, Days of Our Lives & Ugly Betty. @thepeterstory