Drew Hobson as Erik Blake

Drew is so excited to be part of such an amazing show with such a great cast and is very thankful to Teresa, Shermona and everyone at Sound Theatre Company for having him back. Drew is a local BIPOC Actor, Voice Over Artist, DJ, Teacher, Motivational Speaker, Karaoke Host and Playwright. His stage works includes Cost of Living (Sound Theatre), In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, 16 Wounded, Zooman and The Sign, 5 summers with Greenstage Shakespeare in the park and 15 years with Last Leaf Touring Childrens Theatre. He can be seen guest starring on the TV shows GRIMM, The Librarians and Z Nation. In Voice Over, he can be heard in many radio and Internet commercials and in video games like State of Decay 1 & 2, BattleTech, Golem, Fire Emblem Heroes and the Marvel Move Exercise App voicing the X-Men character Forge. Drew would like to thank his friends and family especially his wife Kendra.

www.drewhobson.com

Erin Stewart as Aimee Blake

Erin has been an actor and writer in Seattle for over 20 years. Favorite roles include Blinky, the Red Ghostette in the Ms. Pak-Man cabaret series (Shoes and Pants Productions), Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch w/ Jinkx Monsoon (Balagan and STG) and Lois/Peggy/Ma in Kittens in a Cage (Annex). Erin played Diwata Jones in Speech and Debate at the Seattle Rep, another Stephen Karam play. She has also worked with ArtsWest, The 14/48 Projects, Seattle Public Theater, Radial Theater Project and Ian Bell’s Brown Derby Series. Honorable mention goes out to theaters no longer with us – The Empty Space, EXITheater, Theater Schmeater, Macha Monkey, and Live Girls! Theater. As an educator, she has toured Washington State with Book-It All Over and Living Voices. This is Erin’s first Sound Theatre Company production.

Rebecca Cort as Brigid Blake

Rebecca is delighted to be returning to Sound Theatre after Citizen: An American Lyric (Gregory Award Outstanding Ensemble Winner).
Selected credits: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Amy March in Little Women (Seattle Rep/Milwaukee Rep); Jersey Boys and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Village Theatre); Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act and Suzanne in The Hello Girls (Taproot Theatre); Maureen in RENT and Brooke in Noises Off (Harlequin Productions).
Founder of Cort Studios (@cort_studios) where she teaches Grotowski-based psychophysical acting. Also a drag king under Broy Tolton.

@beckabrooke

Vincent Milay as Richard Saad

Vincent Milay is a Graduate of The Pacific Conservatory (PCPA) in California. He has been working onstage and behind it, in Seattle for the last 17 years. He graced the stage recently as Applegate in Damn Yankees with Reboot Theatre Company. Vincent thanks his cats for being his stand in scene partners at home.

Mary Machala as Momo

MARY MACHALA, former AEA & AFTRA, has been working in theatre for a very long time. AD for socio/political comedy/improv group Off the Wall Players: actor, director, improvisationalist; Founding member Book-It Repertory Theatre: director, actor, adaptor. Acting/directing credits include work with Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Theatre 22, Seattle Group Theatre, New City Theater, Theater Schmeater, ArtsWest, Seattle Shakespeare Company and As If Theatre. She was an improvisationalist with Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis and has toured extensively throughout the country.

Patricia Haines-Ainsworth as Deirdre

Pat is a playwright, actor, director, and visual artist. She lives in Snohomish. She has appeared on stage in Seattle as ‘A’ in Three Tall Women for Twelfth Night Productions, as Ben Franklin in Reboot’s production of 1776, & as Aunt March in ArtsWest’s production of Little Women. In March, Pat portrayed the role of Augie in the upcoming film Say Something. In her role as producer, Pat writes and directs a musical audio play podcast for young audiences called “WinkingKatTales.”

Patricia Haines-Ainsworth as Deirdre

Pat is a playwright, actor, director, and visual artist. She lives in Snohomish. She has appeared on stage in Seattle as ‘A’ in Three Tall Women for Twelfth Night Productions, as Ben Franklin in Reboot’s production of 1776, & as Aunt March in ArtsWest’s production of Little Women. In March, Pat portrayed the role of Augie in the upcoming film Say Something. In her role as producer, Pat writes and directs a musical audio play podcast for young audiences called “WinkingKatTales.”

Olivia Lee as Aimee/Brigid Blake

This is Olivia’s first show with Sound Theatre Company. She has recently been seen as Celia Peachum the Gregory Award nominated Threepenny Opera with Theatre Battery and various other roles including Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch in Anastasia (Gregory Award nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Musical,) Donna in Mamma Mia!, and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She has been involved in several world premier productions including Come On, Get Tappy! She is mama to the coolest kid and wife to the hottest husband. As always, she would like to thank Cher for just being Cher.

Chris Shea as Richard Saad

Chris is a multi-faceted theatre artist from Dayton, OH. Past directing credits include The 39 Steps, Ripcord (As If Theatre), Henry IV Pt. 1 (GreenStage), The Merchant of Venice (Free Shakespeare!). Locally he has performed with Taproot Theatre, Village Theatre, The 14/48 Projects and many more. He used to do a lot more but he’s settling into middle age nicely and enjoying a slower pace of life while dodging trees to forge a humble existence on this shared planet.
Special thanks to Dennis Rodman.

David Tierney as Erik Blake

Credits with Sound Theatre: “Lightning: a 10-minute New Play Festival”; elsewhere in Seattle: The New Vocabulary of Theatre by Naghmeh Samini with The Leeside New Work Series; elsewhere: The Deception and the Miser with La Jolla Playhouse and Theatre de la Jeune Lune, many roles as an ensemble-member of Sledgehammer Theatre, improviser with ComedySportz Chicago, and as Director of National Comedy Theatre. David is a board member of Sound Theatre.

Ian Bond

Ian Bond is a Seattle based storyteller. His fight and intimacy direction has been seen at the 5th Avenue Theatre (Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, Afterwords, Spring Awakening), Seattle Rep (Teenage Dick, Ghosts), Seattle Children’s Theatre (Luchadora!), Union Arts Center (Shrew), ACT Theatre (Twelfth Night, Hotter Than Egypt), Village Theatre (The Fantasticks, Dial M for Murder), The Seagull Project (The Lower Depths), Sound Theatre (Gaslight), University of Washington (Caucasian Chalk Circle, Monstrosity), Seattle Pacific University (Big Love), Seattle University (The Seagull), Washington Ensemble (Feathers and Teeth, Is God Is, Teh Internet is Serious Business), Taproot Theatre (See How They Run, The Nerd), Book-It Repertory (Behold the Dreamers), and Seattle Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth). He is an actor (most recently: The Play That Goes Wrong, Seattle Rep), educator, co-founder of PNW Theatrical Intimacy, Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and motion capture artist (Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yotei). www.ianbond.org

Michael Latham

Michael is excited to be working with Sound Theatre Company for the second time. When not working on a show, he can be seen performing with Seatown Sound, a local acapella group where he is a tenor and vocal percussionist. Recent backstage credits include the award-winning production of Vietgone (Pork Filled Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (Island Shakespeare Company), Mean Girls: School Edition (Village KIDSTAGE), Journey of the Wind (Jet City Improv), and 110 in the Shade (Reboot Theatre Company). He is thankful to be involved with such an amazing production, and thankful to audiences for supporting it!

Kristin Brown

Kristin is a Seattle based Stage Manager. She graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in Performance and Theater Management. Previous theaters she has worked for include South Coast Repertory, The Fifth Avenue, Annex Theater, Pratidhwani, Island Shakespeare Festival, ReAct, Seattle Public Theater, and is a company member at Pony World Theater.

Burton Yuen

Burton K. Yuen is excited to be working at Sound Theatre Company again. He has worked professionally in theater and film in various technical and design positions. When not designing scenery, he can be found at GGLO Architects in the landscape studio. Selected scenic design credits include: …and Jesus Moonwalks The Mississippi, The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963, My Manana Comes, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, Skeleton Crew, King Lear, Distracted, What We Talk About When We talk About Love, Cabaret, Songs for a New World, Tea, Yellow Fever, Po Boy Tango, and The 39 Step.

Henry Behrens

Henry Behrens is an actor, editor, designer and cat dad excited to be working with Sound Theatre for the first time. He has designed props for Dacha Theatre (Yaga, The Pomegranate Tree, and Dicekeeper: Twelfth Night), as well as eSe Teatro (Cornelia’s Visitors), Centerstage Theatre (The Hatmaker’s Wife and Spider’s Web) and Auburn Community Players (Elf the Musical, Nunsense and Into the Woods). They enjoy storytelling through design and hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. See more of them on Instagram @hankb.design.

Jacob Viramontes

Jacob Viramontes (lighting designer) is delighted to be back at Sound Theatre! You may have seen his work last season in 53% Of. Other recent lighting design credits include: Dracula, Little Women, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Renton Civic Theatre), The Roommate (ArtsWest), Here & Their (12th Ave Arts), House of Joy – Gregory Award nominee (Seattle Public Theatre/Pratidhwani), Miss Holmes (Centerstage Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and The Mousetrap (Tacoma Little Theatre), GOLD (Annex Theatre), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Drama Dock), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Damn Yankees – Sound On Stage award winner (Reboot Theatre Company), and Come On Get Tappy! (Outrage Onstage/SecondStory Repertory). Ig: @jacobviramontestheatre

Josh Valdez

Josh is a sound designer, composer, musician in the Greater Seattle area. Their work is heard across many Seattle theatre companies. They are also a recipient of the 2024 Gregory Award for Outstanding Sound Design for Yun Theatre’s June is the First Fall. Recently, they’ve designed sound for Here and Their (Jazzie Rae Productions), Exotic Deadly: The MSG Play (PFP/SiS), assisted on Laughs in Spanish (Seattle Rep), The Play that Goes Wrong (Seattle Rep), Golden (Union Arts Center), performed drums and percussion for Vietgone (Pork Filled Productions), UW School of Drama’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, and for 14/48. Josh is also a producer for Pork Filled Productions. Aside from theatre, they work for the Seattle Promise scholarship program, is also a DJ, and plays drums and produces for YUELAN.

Isabella Martinez

Isabella is delighted to be making her design debut with Sound Theatre Company. She has previously costume designed for the Seattle University stages and most recently assisted in costuming for the feature film Between The Lines (2025). She has also wardrobe supervised with Book it Repertory Theatre and Jen Ayers’ original musical She Said (2023). She is a proud Seattle born and raised Chicana artist who loves to tell story on stage and behind the curtain. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a focus in Acting and Costume from Seattle University.

Robin Macartney

Robin Macartney (she/her) is an award-winning set and prop designer who has been fortunate to work with a large number of the theater companies in Seattle and the Puget Sound area. She is the resident set designer at Theatre Off Jackson, as well as the former scene shop supervisor for the University of Puget Sound’s theater department.

Teresa Thuman

Teresa launched Sound Theatre Company in 2006 with the site-specific production of The Tempest performed in the water and on the shore of Lake Sammamish, WA. Other Sound Theatre directing credits include Gaslight (Angel Street), ASL Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peeling, Goblin Market, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Holiday of Errors, and more. Other local directing credits include productions with GreenStage, Mount Baker Theatre, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Music Theatre, Bainbridge Performing Arts, Driftwood Players, and Theater Schmeater. In California and Oregon, Teresa has directed at PCPA Theatrefest, Central Coast Shakespeare, San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre, George Fox University, CenterPoint Theatre Company and served as Assistant Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Teresa has taught at UW School of Drama PATP, UNC Chapel Hill, Shoreline Community College, Cornish College of the Arts, George Fox University, Allan Hancock College, Freehold ETI and served eight years as an Artist in Residence at PCPA Theatrefest where she taught in the Conservatory and acted in over 30 productions. She holds an MFA in Directing from University of Portland and a BFA in Acting from Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts.