Lizzi is a director, actor, and teaching artist who directed Perisphere’s 2023 production of Hazardous Materials, by Beth Kander. Other directing credits include This Historic Night (Seed Productions/Capital Fringe 2018), A Christmas Carol and The Tempest(Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), and an all-female Macbeth (Notre Dame of Maryland University). Acting credits include Avant Bards’ Julius Caesar, Constellation Theater Company’s Absolutely! Perhaps, and several productions with Chesapeake Shakespeare, where she is a company member. Lizzi is interested in creating intimate, expressive, psychologically insightful theater that allows audiences to both see their own experiences reflected on stage and be inspired to seek out new ones. She holds an M.A. in acting from the University of Essex and a BFA in theater from New York University.

Katie is ecstatic to work with Lizzi for this, her first design with Perisphere. Katie was fortunate to also serve as the lighting mentor for last year's production of "The Niceties." Favorite and recent work includes designs with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (company member), Rorschach Theatre (company member), Peabody Dance, Catholic University of America, and Next Stop Theater. When not designing, Katie is the Director of Curriculum Development and Director of Development for Educational Theatre Company (ETC), where she is also a proud Teaching Artist.

Cheryl brings an impressive background as a sound designer and theatre professor to the Perisphere Theater. With over 30 years of professional experience, she has designed more than 25 productions across the United States and internationally in countries such as Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ghana, and Kenya. In academia, Cheryl has taught a wide range of theatre subjects, including technical theatre, at numerous institutions, including Morgan State University, UMCP, UMBC, Howard Community College, Old Dominion University, and universities in Ghana and Kenya. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, underscoring her dedication and expertise in the field. Her extensive experience and education contribute greatly to her role in the theatre community.

Hannah is a costume and lighting designer from Baltimore. She is the Assistant Costume Shop manager for Towson University’s Department of Theatre Arts. Recent work includes costume design for Scrooge.0 (Towson University), A Year with Frog and Toad (Towson University), TU Dance Company shows Episodes, Four Seasons: Reimagined, Multiplicity, Echoing Visions, Legacy, and Surging (Towson University), Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (Single Carrot Theatre), The First Thing That Happens (Acme Corporation), and lighting design for Rachel (Rapid Lemon Productions.) Hannah has also worked as wardrobe manager for Mary Stuart, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, The Oresteia, A Christmas Carol 2022, 2023, & 2024 (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.) https://www.hannahbrill.com/

Simone started her DC theater career at Theatre Lab's summer program as Assistant Technical Director and Studio Theater as a technical direction apprentice (Doubt, Pipeline, White Pearl) and acting technical director (Pass Over). In 2019, Simone transitioned to scenic design, designing and building for Monumental Theater Company (Be More Chill, Head Over Heels) and the Rainbow Theatre Project (Blue Camp). More recently she has worked with Unexpected Stage Company (Fade), ExPats (Scorched), Edge of the Universe Players (A number), Nu Sass (To Fall in Love, Twig and Bone, R & G) and Theater Prometheus (Dua, Motherhood, Pliant Girls, and Galatea).

Gerrad is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary theatre artist based out of the Greater Baltimore region and an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current creative work and research centers around creating space that preserves history and celebrates culture of the Global Majority. In 2021 he was named one of Baltimore’s “40 Under 40” by the Washington Business Journal. In 2020, he founded Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE), an affinity space for black actors interested in training and exposure of the “classics” and what an expansion of the classical canon may look like today. In 2024, Gerrad joined colleague Lizzi Albert to take on the roles of Co-Artistic Directors of Perisphere Theater in Montgomery County, MD. He holds a BA in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has worked with theatres and educational institutions across the country including the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Perisphere Theater, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Pacific Conservatory Theatre-PCPA, Children’s Theatre of Annapolis, Everyman Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, Mosaic Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, and Washington Stage Guild. He is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Makayla is a freelance stage manager, hair and makeup designer, theatre technician, and performer providing her skills to various theaters across the DMV. She is also a recent college graduate from Mississippi State University, and a graduate from the DC Arts Education Alliance's Arts Institute for Creative Advancement apprenticeship program for young theatre technicians, who traveled all the way from Mississippi for the opportunity to be a part of DC theatre. In addition to theatre, Makayla is a makeup artist working for events, photoshoots and is branching out into film. Her other interests include reading, video games, and Hello Kitty.

La'Trelle is an actor in the DMV area. He is excited to be making his professional debut as an Assistant Stage Manager with this production, and would like to thank the entire team for having him. He is currently perusing a BFA in Acting at UMBC, previously working as an ASM for UMBC’s production of John Proctor is the Villain.

Kevin is the former artistic and executive director of Perisphere Theater. He was the founding artistic director of Barabbas Theatre Company, which produced highly acclaimed plays in the Capital Fringe Festival.

Nigel is a Baltimore-based director, movement director, and educator originally from Washington, D.C. As an Assistant Professor of Performance and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Nigel’s work is rooted in fostering inclusive and equitable theatrical spaces through anti-racist pedagogies and restorative practices. Nigel’s directing career spans a wide range of work, including the Off-Broadway premiere of Bloodshot by Elinor T.Vanderburg, Ntozake Shange’s Spell #7, and most recently Bryony Lavery’s Slime. Nigel’s work speaks to those who have let the sadness in—for those who have been attuned to the haunting wail of the banshee. Often exploring themes of grief, violence, and the hardships of life, their work seeks to embrace the darkness from within. This work is evident in their adaptation work, projects like 10,000 Moor, an all-woman adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus exploring rage and violence, For Hylas—an adaptation of the Hercules myth exploring love, loss, and grief, and Call Me By Any Other Name…Just As Sweet, a queer deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet. Upcoming adaptations include in the darkest forest, exploring Shakespeare’s forested worlds, and the serpent under’t, exploring the elements of horror and supernatural complexities of Macbeth. Having trained under companies such as Frantic Assembly, Pig Iron, and Tectonic Theatre Company, Nigel approaches movement as a pivotal tool in storytelling. Their work can be found in plays, operas, musicals, and films. Notable credits include movement direction and fight choreography on Heartbeat Opera Company’s Fidelio, fight and movement for Sarah Young’s award-winning short film Not Him, and Federico Lorca’s Blood Wedding. Their dedication to creating accessible and inclusive performance is reflected in their academic work, which focuses on developing anti-racist pedagogies in theatre education. Nigel is a board member of the American Alliance for Theatre Education and co-chair of the Irene Ryans Acting Scholarship for Region II’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.