Miles Anderson is a veteran of stage and screen both in the UK and the USA. Film credits include: The Tragedy of Macbeth; La La Land; The Wind; RadioFlash; The King is Alive!; Vishwaroopam; Ninja; The Shepherd and Cry Freedom. Television credits include Battle Creek; Baskets; Constantine; Criminal Minds; Le Bureau des Legends (Canal Plus); Musketeers; Waking the Dead; Midsomer Murders; Frost; Colonel Dan Fortune in Soldier, Soldier; Roger O’Neill in the original BBC House of Cards; and 5 seasons as Colonel Dempsey in Ultimate Force. Theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Company); Henry V and Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage); four seasons at the Old Globe San Diego including The Madness of George III and The Merchant of Venice (both of which garnered him the San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Awards for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Amadeus; End of the Rainbow (Ahmanson Theatre, LA). Previous to his arrival in the States, he spent ten years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, A Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Volpone and Mother Courage. He received an Olivier nomination for Sigismund in Life’s A Dream, and the receipt of three British Theatre Awards for Dog in The Witch of Edmonton, Hermes Wouldbe in The Twin Rivals and Blount in Money. He was the first male to play Peter Pan in Trevor Nunn’s production at the Barbican, London. Other West End and London appearances include Bill Sykes in Oliver!, The Unknown Soldier, The Rehearsal, The Weir and – for Out of Joint/National Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company – The Permanent Way. Directing work includes Th Revenger’s Tragedy (JMU, Virginia); The Grapes of Wrath (UC Davis); Measure for Measure and Tartuffe (UCR); and Tilly No-Body with Bella Merlin (Shakespeare & Co., UCR and the 2024 International Theatre Festival in South Korea). His book Colonels, Cads and Charmers: Memories received Honorable Mentions at the Los Angeles Book Festival and the Southern California Book Festival.

Zoe Foy (she/they) is a recent graduate from UC Riverside, where she earned her B.A. in Dance Making in the spring quarter of 2024. A versatile performer and choreographer, recent projects include curating Within/Without, a free, public event created in collaboration with a small business in Riverside, CA, and performing Posture, Pose, and Persistence, a movement exploration created in response to an UCR ARTS exhibition on photography, movement, and labor. Other projects include performing in the UCR Dance Dept’s UCRiD 2022, UCRiD 2023, Spring Forward 2023: RITWAL, Growth, UCRiD 2024, and To The Left of Center, as well as the UCR Theatre Dept’s 2022 rendition of Cabaret. Recent projects outside of UCR include dancing with Peninsula Lively Arts in San Mateo, California at the 2023 Peninsula International Dance Festival, and performing SEEFoam in February 2024 at The Firehouse in Joshua Tree, California.

Bigad considers himself privileged to be working in the arts. Throughout the various roles he has held in the field, his greatest joy has come not from the art itself, but from the community that develops around the process. It matters not the caliber of the art, or the musical prowess of the individual – Bigad’s rubric would instead include: thirsty minds, enthusiasm, genuine and respectful collaboration, honesty, and devotion.
 

He and this cast and crew of Peter and the Starcatcher have had a brief yet fulfilling relationship, and he is lucky to have had any time interacting with this bunch. What a truly lovely, choral sound they produce; what a nurturing and accepting environment they create; and whatpatience and strength they have. [chef’s kiss] Thanks, y’all – sincerely, it’s been a pleasure.
 

Bigad is a pianist, teacher, and writer at heart. He holds a B.M. in Theory and Composition from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ with a double principle in piano and voice, where he also studied music education. His career has seen him as a teacher (private lessons and groups), music director, pit musician and accompanist, choral conductor, and composer/arranger. He has worked with the very young, young adults, and professionals, and sees no deep distinction between the various settings/companies/individuals he has had the pleasure to work with provided the aim is to bring happiness and good ideas to the world.

Jacqueline, who also goes by JQ, is an award-winning lighting designer based in Orange County, CA. Some of her recent design credits include Sweeney Todd (Chance Theater), Vietgone, Airness (UC Riverside), After Juliet (South Coast Repertory), Romeo & Juliet, Into the Woods (UC Irvine), and Love Always…Patsy Cline (The Great River Shakespeare Festival). She graduated with her MFA in lighting design from UC Irvine in 2023, and she has worked at a number of regional theatres and festivals including The Great River Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and The Williamstown Theatre Festival as a master electrician, programmer, and designer. When she isn’t designing, she is likely spending time with her cats. jemld.com

Bob Marino recently returned from London conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a series of Broadway recording sessions at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios and has just confirmed a booking to return this December for another project with the London Symphony. Bob just completed a year as Englebert Humperdinck's Musical Director and Drummer. Broadway credits include Kiss of The Spider Woman, starring Vanessa Williams, Sunset Blvd., starring Glenn Close, Into The Woods, starring Bernadette Peters, Hello Dolly, starring Nell Carter, and Joanne Worley. Tours include Jerry Lewis – “Unlimited”, Ben Vereen and Leslie Uggams – “On Broadway”, Harry Blackstone (5years), Don Rickles and Joan Rivers – “In Concert”, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Three Tenors (Rome), Andrea Boccelli, The New York Tenors, Peter Cetera, Bob has had the pleasure of accompanying some of the greatest entertainers in the industry including Mel Torme, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Peter Cetera, Steve Allen, Lionel Ritchie, Savion Glover, Quincy Jones, Jackie Evancho, John Raitt, Burt Bacharach, Peggy Lee, John Denver, George Burns, Jerry Herman, Carol Channing, Shirley Jones, Toni Tennille, and many others. Bob was the associate producer and drummer for the Legends of Swing which received 3 Grammy nominations. Bob has conducted, musical directed, played drums and percussion, technically designed, lighting designed, and produced over 400 full-scale musical productions.

Ken Merckx has choreographed fights for film, television, theatre, and universities all across the country. He has taught stage combat for AMDA (LA), Cal State Fullerton & Long Beach, PCPA, Cal Arts, and UC Santa Barbara.  Ken has been the resident fight choreographer for the Idaho and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals, A Noise Within (Los Angeles) and Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland). He is proud to have staged violence for the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Pasadena Playhouse), Jeffery Hatcher’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (San Jose Repertory) and The Suicide Club (Arizona Theatre Company), Octavio Solis’ Cloudlands (South Coast Repertory), Jane Martin’s Somebody/Nobody directed by Jon Jory (Arizona Theatre Company) and the theatrical adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (San Jose Repertory). Mr. Merckx received Ovation Awards in 2013 & 18 for his fight work at A Noise Within and his MFA, in acting, from the University of Illinois and his BA, in theatre studies, from the University of Washington.

Shinshin Yuder Tsai (Intimacy Choreographer) is a dedicated Resident Artist and full-time staff member at Chance Theater, where he serves as Casting Director and Marketing Manager. He is also a Board Member-Council for OCTG and the Founding Artistic Director of the AAPI Sketch Comedy Troupe, No MSG Added.

His directing portfolio features a wide range of critically acclaimed productions, including She Kills Monsters at Long Beach Playhouse & STAGEStheatre, The Hatmaker’s Wife, LOVE/SICK, and Cowboy Vs. Samurai at Long Beach Playhouse, as well as The Pillowman and Almost, Maine at the University of California, Irvine. At Chapman University, he has helmed works such as Metamorphoses and Mother Courage and Her Children, and his production of Kvetcher in the Wry was a highlight at OC-Centric. Most recently, Shinshin directed the 2024 OCTG Award Shows at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

In addition to directing, Shinshin is also an experienced intimacy director, ensuring that performers feel safe and respected in their work. His intimacy direction credits include Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Chance Theater, Unbroken Blossom at East West Players, Vietgone at the University of California, Riverside, and Peter and the Starcatcher at the University of California, Riverside.

Shinshin is also deeply committed to the development of new theatrical works, having collaborated on projects like Boat Show by Dustin H. Chinn, saving all my worries till the day you don't need me by Nicholas Pilapil, and Shanghai Express by Aj Layague.

Outside of his artistic achievements, he has lovingly curated an extensive list of All-You-Can-Eat restaurants in Southern California—his passion for food rivaling his dedication to the theater arts.

Lia Weed is a freelance sound designer located within Orange County. She is a Cal State Fullerton Alum, graduating in 2022 with a degree in Theatre Production with an emphasis in sound design. Her most recent show was, Sweeney Todd (Chance Theatre).  She would like to thank her friends and family for the amazing support they have given her all these years.  She hopes you enjoy the show!