'Tis The Season: Hometown Holidays, Traditions of Sacramento & Northern California

Brittni studied Acting at CSU Sacramento and NYU’s Collaborative Arts Project. She is a proud Company Member at B Street Theatre, last seen on the Mainstage as Maisie in Insertion and before that as Michele in Jerry Montoya’s Love and Baseball. Her last Family Series role was Sally Ride in Ride, Sally Ride. Currently living in San Diego, she’s had the opportunity to film commercials and mixed media with a wide variety of fun clients and products like The New Yorker, Fairy Tales Hair Care, Lume, Glamnetic, Lomi and many more. Other regional credits include Nora in A Doll’s House and Elizabeth Bennet in The Wickhams and Christmas at Pemberley at Capital Stage, as well as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and Suzy Hendrix in Wait Until Dark at the old Sacramento Theatre Company. Brittni is a host on the Amazon Prime show Beyond Geek. She's delighted to return to B Street where she started as an acting intern in 2010.

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.

Dave is the former Artistic Producer of the B Street Theatre and a proud member of the Acting Company. Dave has directed many productions for the B Street Theatre including KIMBERLY AKIMBO, OTHER DESERT CITIES, ELEMENO PEA, BUYER & CELLAR, THE CHRISTIANS, CLEVER LITTLE LIES, TREATMENT, THE LADIES FOURSOME, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, AIRNESS, A DOLL’S HOUSE PT. 2 and most recently THE LOST CLAUS. As a playwright, Dave’s work has been featured on the Family Series Stage and the Mainstage, most recently with his adaptation of CHARADE.

Stephanie is a B Street Theatre Core Company Member. Recent Mainstage credits include: Pickleball, Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in this Room Killed Him, Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Wide Open, 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: A Celebration of Holiday Stories, A Year with Frog & Toad, ‘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). For Smooch and the boys.

Anthony D'Juan is a Sacramento based director-playwright who has been active since 1996. He was assistant and protégé to Ed Claudio from 1997-2005. He is currently an adjunct professor for the Los Rios Community College District. Playwriting credits: MEN IN RIFFS, THEORY OF THE DREAM, THE PURVEYORS, SAFE AT HOME: THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY, 3:BLACK GIRL BLUES, THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, BIRDMOCKING, ANY/PERSON, US & THE REST OF ‘EM, and LIVE LIKE YOUR FATHER’S DEAD. Directing credits: SUBURBIA, ENDGAME (best drama 2004), A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (THE MUSICAL), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (2007), THE MOUNTAINTOP, BOOTYCANDY (nominated best director), SKELTON CREW, PASS OVER, THE ROYALE, DIRECT FROM DEATH ROW: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, FATSO (with Logan Heller - 2023 revival), PAPI ME AND CESAR CHAVEZ, CLYDE’S, ROBIN HOOD (world premier), THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA? (nominated best director), FAIRVIEW (nominated best director), FENCES, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, TWELFTH NIGHT & BIRDMOCKING.

Jerry Montoya is the Executive Producer of the B Street Theatre and the Sofia Center for the Arts and he has worked as a director, writer, actor, designer, stage manager, and educator among many other positions in professional theater for the past 30 years. For B Street he recently directed the hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, the critically acclaimed Jump as well as Byhalia, Mississippi, which closed prematurely due to the pandemic. He has written 14 plays for the Family Series including Robin Hood, The Flying Machine, Frankenstein as well as next season’s The Hardy Boys. His play Love And Baseball received its world premiere at B Street in 2016 and is now a feature film streaming on HBO/Max. His family narrative Nosotros La Gente was originally commissioned and produced by American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida and just enjoyed a successful run on the B Street Mainstage in Spring 2025.

Sean Patrick Nill is Artistic and General Manager at the B Street Theatre. B Street Writing Credits include: Tiny Trailblazers: Kids Who Changed the World, Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘Tis the Season, Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI, Mind Boggling Mysteries of the World, and Mathematical Madness. Directing Credits include: Tiny Trailblazers: Kids Who Changed the World, Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in This Room Killed Him, The Prince of Lightning, 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, Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, 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. His adaptation of Winnie-the-Pooh, which premiered here at the B Street Theatre, is now published and can be purchased through Theatrical Rights Worldwide (https://www.theatricalrights.com/).

Briandaniel is a working playwright originally from Yolo County, now based out of Austin. He has written 27 plays for young actors, many of which have been published and produced worldwide, along with a number of plays for mature audiences. Notable projects include: THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN, commissioned by Acme Theatre Company, published by Stage Partners, has been produced dozens of times; SMALL STEPS was developed at the JAW Festival, Playwrights Week at the Lark, and B Street's New Comedies Festival; BASEMENT DEMONS AND TRAILER SAINTS took part of Cap Stage's Playwrights Revolution, and will be produced at James Madison University in the spring. MFA from University of California Riverside (Creative Writing) and MFA University of Texas at Austin (Playwriting). He is Director of Theatre Arts at Appamada School outside of Austin, where he writes innovative plays with and for young people. Check out his work at briandanieloglesby.com and plays-for-teens.com. Love to you, hometown Sacramento!

Tara is a member of the B Street Theatre Acting Company and recent Mainstage credits include: The White Chip, The Play That Goes Wrong, Proclivity for Kiting, Byhalia, Mississippi, The Ladies Foursome, Airness, One Man, Two Guvnors, The House On Haunted Hill, and A Doll’s House, Part 2. Family Series credits include: A Christmas Carol and Cinderella. Writing credits include: Marie Curie & The Sisterhood of Science, Treatment, Ride Sally, Ride! and Rescue Me. 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.