We Are Proud to Present (Event Program)

Production Manager: Therrin J. Eber

Technical Director: Jennifer Glass

Assistant Technical Director: Jonathan Harder

Costume Director: Amy Page

Costume Studio Supervisor: Sharon McCoy Morgan

Stage Electrics Coordinator: David Page

Properties Master: Inji Ha

Media Relations: Shannon Thomason

ASC House Management: Terrie Entrup, Summer Guffey

Assistant Stage Managers: Samantha Adkins, Brook Powell

Scenic Construction: Samantha Adkins, Hayden Bullard, Emma Cabrales, Ryan Chalmers, Kir Emakov, Chloe Ellis, Andrew Gleason, Madison Halloway, Leah Harris, Perry Hazelwood, Jenny Howell, Yahni Jemison, AJ Jenkins, Meredith Kardell, Judah Lathem, Alex Mercado, Sanjiya Parker, Lauren Parrish, Stella Shipman, Monica Velma

Electrics: Ryder Dean, Grayson Farr, James Taylor, Patrick Wilson

Properties Construction: Sophia Evangelidis, Brook Powell

Case Warner Lead Carpenters: Ryan Chalmers, Lauren Parrish

Scenic Charge: Alexis Reeves

Student Paint Lead: Jenny Howell

Scenery/Properties Running Crew: Andrew Logan Tumlin

Costume Construction: Zion Carmichael, Ryan Chalmers, Camille Coco, Katelyn Douglas, Jack Fortner, Jordan Foster, Brenn Foy, Apollo Gibson, Katelyn Gottleib, Dana Guajardo, Dante Hall, Emery Hammer, Cory Hogeland, Jenny Howell, Aurkheem Jolley, Key Lewis-Sayles, Arianna Mendoza-Corona, Aidyn Mohr, Miller Morgan, Myah Motton, Robert Oakley, Cadence Parson, Amy Potts, Elana Santini, Irina Seale, Jaden Scherrer, Case Warner, Matthew White, Jaida Zeigler

Dressers: Cheslee Duke, Leah Harris

Assistant to the Lighting Designer & Light and Sound Boards Operator: Red Zellner

Graphic Design: Michael Vizzina Design

Promotional Photography: Taylor Campbell Photography

Fight Captain: Patrick Eamon Wilson

Intimacy Captain: Sarah Thiel

Music Captain: Andrew Gleason

Samantha is excited to be stage managing at UAB for the first time. As a sophomore Theatre Major with a concentration in Design & Technology, she has participated in eleven shows since discovering her passion for technical theatre in high school, and she especially enjoys scenic construction and sound design. Samantha would like to thank her par-ents and her cat, Wyla, for supporting her throughout her theatre journey.

Ola is from Birmingham, Alabama and currently a junior at UAB majoring in general theater! Ola did theater for 4 years in high school starring in shows like Clue, Law & Order Fairytale Unit, and more.

Kazarious is thrilled to make his debut on the UAB stage. He is a senior majoring in Theatre. He has performed in many shows in his hometown Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A few Past Credits include: Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd, TJ in Sister Act, Medda Larkin in Newsies, and Booker T. Washington in Ragtime. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors for Theatre Tuscaloosa. Kazarious thanks his family and friends for their support!

Lily is a senior studying musical theatre here at UAB. Lily spent this past summer performing at the Woodstock Playhouse. She has most enjoyed being a part of Newsies (Medda Larkin, Woodstock Playhouse), The Wiz (Ensemble, Red Mountain Theatre), Crazy For You (Louise, Woodstock Playhouse) Hello Summer! (Skylar, Idlewild & Soakzone) and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Duckling Donna, Red Mountain Theatre). Lily is thankful for her family and friends’ support, encouragement, and assurance that she is not on this journey alone.

From Hoover High School. Senior BA in General Theatre, Minoring in Chemistry and Psychology. ASM - Dead Man’s Cellphone. SM - Don’t Ask, and now WAPTP. Likes D&D.

Katelyn is a sophomore Theatre Performance Major (BA). We Are Proud is my second production at UAB. For her first production, Katelyn was on the run crew for Don’t Ask. Her pre-college background is in both theatre and dance. Her more notable credits include the Nutcracker, Cinderella the ballet, dancing at halftime for the Harlem Globetrotters, and The Wizard of Oz presented by the ACT Louisville Productions.

Cheslee is a musical theatre BFA student from Munford, AL. Her performance credit include: Don’t Ask (UAB), Freaky Friday (Red Mountain), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (UAB), Lizzie: The Musical (ACT/Birmingham Festival Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Project).

Therrin holds an M.F.A. in Scenic and Lighting Design from the University of Alabama and a B.A. in Theatre Design & Technology, and Directing from Purdue University Fort Wayne. Therrin’s design work has been seen across the country, including Off-Broadway at New York City Center, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Opera Louisiana, Druid City Opera, Theatre Tuscaloosa, the Athenaeum Center in Chicago, and many other venues. Selected credits include Machinal Off-Broadway; Pagliacci, Madama Butterfly, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Barber of Seville (Opera Louisiane); Ragtime, Anything Goes, Anastasia, and Big Fish (Theatre Tuscaloosa); Murder on the Orient Express, Cabaret, Freaky Friday, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (UAB); and Carousel, Rise, A.E. Reverie, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hawaii Performing Arts Festival). His concert and event work include artists such as Béla Fleck, The Temptations, The Four Tops, and David Crosby. See more of his work at Mona Eldahshoury - Director

Jennifer is an Alabama theatre artist from Demopolis, Alabama. She earned her BS in Interdisciplinary Arts (Music/Theatre) from the University of West Alabama and her MFA in Scenic Design and Technol-ogy from the University of Southern Mississippi. Jennifer has previously served as the Technical Director at Birmingham-Southern College, and most recently as the Technical Director at Troy University. Her work has also previously been included with USITT, SETC, and ACTF. Jennifer’s design credits include Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly, She Kills Monsters, and Hedda Gabler. Her Technical Direction credits include Something Rotten, Twelfth Night, and Into the Woods.

Andrew Gleason is a senior. Prior to returning to school, he worked as an improv instructor and stand up comedian in North Carolina. His acting credits include: film: Reptchild (Gillworks Productions), Uncomfy Comedians (Expressart Films). Stage: Comedy Cabal Revue (People’s Improv Theatre).

Leah is excited to get the opportunity to work with many friends and mentors she has met at UAB. She just finished performing as Trudy, a German secretary in Elvis has Left the Building at ACTA Theater in Trussville. She is excited to work on another UAB show after working as a member of the run crew during Murder on the Orient Express last semester.

Arianna has been in multiple productions at UAB: Dead Man’s Cellphone, Murder on the Orient Express, and the touring production of Red Flags. She is a big lover of theatre for social change and is so grateful to be in this production.

Sharon brings decades of national theatrical and film expertise to the role. A graduate of Jacksonville State University, Sharon earned her MFA from the University of Alabama before launching a career at premier regional theaters across the country, including three seasons with the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. Her design credits span the continent, reaching from the Sitka Fine Arts Musical Theatre Camp in Alaska to Birmingham’s own Virginia Samford Theatre. Sharon is the owner of the internationally recognized Altered Tyme Corsets and an independent contractor for San Francisco-based Romantasy Corsets, the nation’s oldest modern custom corset business. As a member of IATSE Local 479, Sharon is a sought-after tailor and pattern maker in Atlanta’s busy film industry. Her screen credits include major productions for Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros., and other leading studios, where she crafts everything from intricate period garments to iconic superhero suits.

Isabella is a sophomore at the University of Alabama at Birmingham double majoring in Theatre and English Literature. In February 2026, Isabella became the American College Theater Festival Playwriting national finalist for her play Little Stars Everywhere. Her recent performance credits include She Kills Monsters (Farrah the Faerie) and Macbitches (Hailey Hudson).

Jared is a senior, BA performance at UAB. This is his third production with UAB theatre. Some past productions include Dead Man’s Cellphone as Dwight understudy, Don’t Ask as Dave/Ensemble, and is also currently involved in the Red Flags touring show.

B.A., Winthrop University, Theatre Education. MFA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Costume Production. Amy is originally from Columbia, SC, and has worked professionally in New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, and New Mexico. She served as a Draper for Playmakers Repertory Company and Carolina Ballet on productions of Amadeus, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nicholas Nickleby, and Macbeth. She worked professionally in the area of costume construction with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, Carolina.

David is an award winning Lighting Designer and multi-disciplinary Creative Artist with 25 years of experience in the theatre and over 100 design credits throughout the course of his career. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Alabama and currently serves as the Head Electrician for the Department of Theatre as well as the Production Manager for Alabama Ballet. His extremely versatile experience includes a unique blend of design, programming, and technical expertise that spans across the country, including regional theatre, summerstock, concert venues, arenas, universities, Off-Broadway, and Broadway productions.

Santiago is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement at the University of Alabama - Birmingham. When not teaching, Santiago works, around the country, as a voice and text coach, a dialect designer, director, fight director, and a voiceover artist. On and off stage credits include: American Players Theatre, New York Theatre Company, Ore-gon Shakes, Illinois Shakes, Great River Shakes, Alabama Shakes, Island Shakes, Door Shakes, Nashville Shakes, Pennsylvania Shakes, Shakespeare at Sloss, Shakespeare Rep SC, Writers Theatre, Red Mountain Theater, Kansas City Rep, Kansas City Actors Theatre, Forward Theater, Definition Theatre and Nashville Rep. Training: BFA Texas State University, MFA University of Wisconsin.

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Sarah is a BA Performance major at UAB with a passion for storytelling and a love for the never-ending ways that theatre inspires creativity in all. Her recent credits include Mermaid in Big Fish and Miranda in Return to the Forbidden Planet, with previous roles as Masha in Young Frankenstein and Dunya in Anastasia. Sarah is honored to be part of UAB’s 2026–2027 touring production of Red Flags, an applied theatre production that uses storytelling and performance to educate young people about domestic violence, healthy relationships, and the warning signs of abuse. She is passionate about education and creating work that sparks conversation, builds connection, and leaves audiences with something to carry with them in their own lives.

Andrew is a high school graduate, Phi Theta Kappa Honors member, has an Associate of Science from Jefferson State Community College, and is working to get a Bachelors of Arts degree. Andrew has taken Scenery and Lighting and worked on “Great Comet” and “God of Carnage”.

Patrick is a senior theater studies major here in The Department of Theatre. He has recently appeared in department shows such as the “Red Flag Tour,” “Don’t Ask,” and Dead Man’s Cellphone. Outside of UAB he can be found on the stages of various local theatrical and musical spaces. His personal mantra is simply: “Keep Climbing”. Red Zellner - Assistant to the Lighting Designer & Light Board Operator Red is a freshman tech and design student. This is the first show he is able to participate in at UAB and he is so excited! After working on sets and lighting designs in many high school productions he is ecstatic to begin learning and working on a more professional level.

Inji is a scenic and properties designer and artist originally from Korea and currently based in Alabama, where she works as a properties and scenic designer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Recent credits include Dead Man’s Cell Phone (UAB), GUT (굿) ACT 2: Memoirs (HERE Arts Center), Violet the Musical (Auburn University), She Kills Monsters (UAB), and The 39 Steps (UAB). Her work spans scenic, projection, and properties design across theatre, musical, opera, and installation, with an interest in collaborative, immersive, and story-driven performance. Inji holds an MFA in Live Design and Production from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology from Auburn University. More at injihadesignstudio.com Link opens in a new window..