Circle Mirror Transformation Cast

Tracy Ahern is the founder of Mighty Acorn Productions and has been acting on Houston’s stages for the past 25 years. Favorite acting credits include playing Glinda/Auntie Em in American Family Theatre’s national tour of The Wizard of Oz. Regional credits include: How the West was Won at Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Utah and How the Other Half Loves at Long Beach Playhouse in Los Angeles. Houston credits include: Peg O’ My Heart and Lilies of the Field (A.D. Players); Girls Only–The Secret Comedy of Women, June Moon, An Experiment with an Air Pump, The Three-Cornered Hat, Seussical the Musical, and Lil’ Abner (Main Street Theater); Parade (The Masquerade Theatre); Wit (Houston Equity Festival); The Outsider, Almost Maine, Motherhood Out Loud (Mighty Acorn Productions). Tracy earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Baylor University and is a proud graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. She wishes to thank her family—and especially her husband Brian—for their endless love and support! Follow on Instagram: @Tracy.A.Owen

Callina Anderson is thrilled to return to Mighty Acorn! She has been seen in previous Mighty Acorn Productions including The Outsider, Almost, Maine, The Effect, and Motherhood Out Loud. Ms. Anderson’s onstage credits include: Seven Assassins Walk Into a Bar, Woman in Black, The Revolutionists, Grand Concourse, The Hard Problem (Main Street Theater); Wolf Play, Dance Nation (REC Room), Medea, War of the Worlds, The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Classical Theatre Company); Bug (Dirt Dogs Theater); Phenomenal Woman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Freeda Peoples, Platanos y Collard Greens (Ensemble Theater); On the Exhale (Unity Theater); The Outsider, Almost, Maine, The Effect, Motherhood Out Loud (Houston Equity Festival); To Kill A Mockingbird (A.D. Players); Come and Go, Well, Dollface (Mildred’s Umbrella); The Judgment of Fools, The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise…(Horse Head Theater); Gambrels of the Sky (The Landing Theater); The Interruption, The Intervention by Emily Hynds, as well as numerous roles with Coneman Running Productions, Boiling Point Players, Fade to Black Festival, and InterActive Theater. Ms. Anderson was named one of Houston Press’ “Up and Coming Actors to Watch of 2019” and holds a B.A. in Theater from the University of Houston. Follow her at @callinaanderson and linktr.ee/callina.anderson

Recent local credits: Stages: Roe (Track 10). The Ensemble Theatre: Camp Logan (Captain Zuelke), Phenomenal Woman (Track 6), Love and Southern Discomfort (Arnod), The Lawsons (Mayor Cutrer). Unity Theatre: Greater Tuna Christmas (Various). Off Broadway: McGinn-Cazale Theater: Season’s Greetings (Neville). Cherry Lane Theater: Anonymity Must Be Preserved (Role A). Irish Arts Center: True West (Austin/Lee). Looking Glass Theater: War Zone (Peter). Classic Stage: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedict). Off/Off: Queens Theater: Spinning Into Butter (Ross), Roulette (Steve). 78th Street Theater Lab: Uncle Vanya (Astrov). Centerstage: The Goodbye Types (Charles). Improv Theater: Hand to Mouth (Various). American Shakespeare Center: Julius Caesar (Brutus), As You Like It (Charles, Corin, Duke Senior), Henry V (Chorus, Dauphin, Glower), Comedy of Errors (Luciana). Unity Theatre: Noises Off (Phillip/Frederick). Actors Theater of Houston (RIP): Spike Heels (Edward), The Baltimore Waltz (Th3rd Man), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Rosenstern!), Wild Oats (Rover), Book of Days (James) The Debutante Ball (Brighton Parker), Habeus Corpus (Canon Throbbing). Main Street Theater: Experiment With An Air Pump (Armstrong). Ivanhoe Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander). Houston Shakespeare Festival 1998-2002. Utah Shakespeare Festival: Greenshow (Various). U.T. @ Austin Class of 1994. High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Class of 1990. Teacher, director, writer and co-host of What’s My Motivation? A self-help podcast now in 3rd season, Foster is grateful you have read this far in his bio! Thank you! And since they gave me five hundred words to use here let me also congratulate you on getting out tonight and trying to make a real human connection! Good job! And great work getting off your device (or at least putting it in your pocket for a few hours..maybe? We can hope) and taking part in our community. I'm grateful you are here. I’m also grateful to Mighty Acorn for doing this play. It reminds me of why I fell in love with Theatre and why after so many years I remain attendant to its religion of connection, success, failure and transformation. Stay well my friends.

Anna is delighted to be a part of Mighty Acorn’s production of Circle Mirror Transformation. This has been a wonderful process and she is excited to share the company’s work with you. Most recently, Anna was in Rec Room’s staged reading of Women, Beware the Devil (Katherine) and production of Death of a Salesman (Miss Forsythe). Her other local works include A.D. Players’ original production, A Texas Carol, Part Deux (Mya Berry), The Honeycomb Trilogy, Blast Radius (Willa) with The Octarine Accord, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Hermia) with The Garden Theatre, and multiple installations of The Adventures of Damian Dare (Peggy, Felicity, misc.) produced with Rec Room Arts. Some of her dearest projects included Hamlet (Hamlet), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), The Tempest (Miranda), and The Wolves (#11). Anna’s feature length and short film credits can be found on her IMDB page. And in case you were wondering, yes, she is a Taurus. Enjoy the show!

Christian Tannous is a Houston-based actor-director and is thrilled to be a part of this incredible work with such an extraordinary cast and creative team. Other acting credits around Houston include: And Then There Were None (Understudy) at the Alley, The Sound Inside (Christopher Dunn) at 4th Wall Theatre Co., Kingdom Undone (Jesus of Nazareth) at A.D. Players, The Wanderers (Abe) at Mildred's Umbrella, The Odd Couple (Oscar Madison) at Island ETC, and Appropriate (Franz) at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Endless amounts of love and gratitude go to his friends, family and partner--without their relentless love and support none of this would be possible.