THE PLAY CRAWL 2022
DIRECTORS BIOS
YOU’RE OK by Nicolette Vashtay
ANDREW UHLENHOPP(Director)
Andrew is pleased as punch to be making his Play Crawl directorial debut. Among other endeavors where he has been at the helm, Andrew directed Samuel Beckett’s Endgame; pieces for Benchmark Theatre’s Fever Dream Festival; and Deborah Salem Smith’s Love Alone at Firehouse. As ever and for always, 6 million things to Sugar: I’m so glad it’s you.
WE ARE FAMILY by Nina Alice Miller
SUSAN LYLES (Director)
Susan Lyles is an award winning director and producer and has directed more than 20 plays over the last 17 years with And Toto too. She currently serves as the Producing Artistic Director of Denver’s only theatre dedicated to the woman playwright. She is also producer and artistic member of the award winning Ruff Ruff Dog Productions film company.
SHELTER IN PLACE by Leslie C. Lewis
ERICA SARZIN-BORILLO (Director)
Erica Sarzin-Borrillo began her career in her native N.Y. She was the leading lady of Movement based company and taught their course at Cornel, Yale and NYU. Ny credits include Off Broadway and the National tour of tour of Jacques Brel. Ms. Borrillo has garnered several nominations and awards from the Denver Community. Some of her credits include; Circle Mirror Transformation at Curious Theatre, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Suddenly Last Summer, and Nine, The Musical. She recently appeared at The Arvada Center in Death Takes a Holiday. Ms. Borrillo is also a director, author, and visual artist.
PLAY THERAPY by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill
CHRIS MEDINA (Director)
Chris Medina is very happy to be playing with Toto in this fun, out of the box fundraiser! Medina is the founding artistic director of Funky Little Theater Company which is located in Colorado Springs on the Westside. He is an award-winning, community-infused actor, director, designer and producer. Some of his favorite productions include KIMBERLY AKIMBO, HARVEY, TRASH, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, NUNSENSE and SPAMALOT. However, his greatest role to date is being a daddy to his beautiful little girls, Blakely and Brooklyn.
DAISY by Christie Brenner Winn
MARU GARCIA (Director)
Maru has been acting and directing for over 30 years now. She has a Bachelor’s in Art from UNAM Mexico City, specializing in directing. Maru has participated in more than 100 plays as actor and/or director. She has also had the opportunity to act in a few films and some TV. During her artistic career, she has had the opportunity to lead and manage Grupo Bochinche in Mexico City as Executive Producer and Artistic Director as well as The 73 rd . Avenue Theatre Company in Westminster, CO. She currently serves as Executive Producer at Wheat Ridge Theatre Company.
TWO BITCHES IN A COFFEE SHOP by Edith Weiss
BILLIE MCBRIDE (Director)
Billie McBride Director. Billie has directed for many of the theaters in Colorado. She spent 10 years at the Denver Children’s Theatre in the Wolf Theatre in the JCC. At the Arvada Center she directed As Bees In Honey Drown, House of Blue Leaves and several Children’s Productions including Lyle the Crocodile and Flat Stanley. In adult theater she directed ‘night mother for the Vintage Theatre and received a Henry Award. Billie recently directed The Fantasticks for THAC and Same Time Next Year for the Cherry Creek Theatre. She is also an Actress. Recent productions are The Treasurer and Before You Go at Miners Alley Playhouse, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime for BETC, Life Sucks for the Aurora Fox, Sunday in the Park at The Arvada Center and Enchanted April for CSFAC. Before moving to Colorado she spent 20 years in NYC doing theatre and Television. Her Broadway stage credits include Torch Song Trilogy (Helen Hayes), Safe Sex (Lyceum) and The Kurt Weill Cabaret (Bijou Theatre). She has won 3 Henry Awards, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2016 True West Award.
THE ROAD RETAKEN by Linda Berry
ABBY APPLE BOES (Director)
Abby is an actor, singer and producer. Previous performances as an actor include: Mae Brussell in Queen of Conspiracy (Miner’s Alley Playhouse); Polly in Other Desert Cities (Cherry Creek); Frieda/Betty in Sunday In The Park With George (Arvada Center); Edna in A Delicate Balance (Marlowe Award), Beatrice in A View from the Bridge (Edge Theater Company); Barbara Fordham (CTG Henry Award Nomination and Marlowe Award) in August: Osage County (Dairy Center/Abster Productions). Abby is also the Executive Producer of Abster Productions and Co Producer of A and A Productions.
OF ALL THE BOOKBARS IN ALL THE TOWNS by Melissa Lucero McCarl
MELISSA LUCERO MCCARL(Director)
Melissa has directed and choreographed plays and musicals all over Denver, including Town Hall Arts Center, Athena Project, Mizel Arts Center and most recently, Hi-Hat Hattie and Real Women Have Curves at the Aurora Fox. An award winning playwright, she is the author of Painted Bread, a play about Frida Kahlo which has had multiple productions in Denver. Her full length play, Lost Creatures, about silent film star Louise Brooks and British theatre critic Ken Tynan was produced by And Toto too Theater Company 2016. She teaches playwriting at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
EVERYTHING MUST GO by Ellen K. Graham
MADISON KUEBLER (Director)
Madison is so excited to be back home in the theatre world and is honored to be working with And ToTo too for the new Queer Reading Series and the Play Crawl. She's worked as a sound designer, actor, and director for various companies in Denver over the last 9 years. She has a BA in Theatre from Metropolitan State University with a Minor in Women's Studies and is very passionate about telling stories from and about the Queer and LGBTIA+ community. She works in Death Care and currently works for a company passionate about conserving land to create eco-friendly memorial forests. She is also a certified Death Doula. Thanks to Susan Lyles for this opportunity and to Alison for always encouraging me to be me.