Brittani Minniweather

Performer

BRITTANI MINNIWEATHER is an actor, playwright, and activist. She is the proud new momma to Michael-Hope and they enjoy making videos together! She is a co-founder of B.L.A.C.T. Her original play, Sundays at Four, won Best Play at the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival in October 2019. Acting credits include: Sweet Water Taste, Freaky Friday and Madeline’s Christmas (Horizon Theatre), Jump and Little Shop of Horrors (Actor’s Express), Secrets of a Soccer Mom (Stage Door Players), Sweat (The Warehouse Theatre), Sordid Lives (Out Front Theatre), Polkadots (The Legacy Theatre), For Colored Girls… and The Laramie Project (IA Playhouse), and Debbie Allen’s Brothers of the Knight (Ms. Debbie Allen). Follow her: @britminnieweather

Kelly Criss

Performer

KELLY CRISS is originally from Lexington, SC, Kelly Criss graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts from Furman University in Greenville, SC. She then joined the pre-professional Apprentice program at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, where she has worked as an Education Artist and performer. She has taught numerous residencies and summer intensives in Shakespeare since 2007. In addition to teaching Shakespeare, Kelly also teaches beginning acting courses for teens at the Alliance Theatre. Prior to that, she taught elementary aged children through adult professionals here at the Aurora Theatre with both the afterschool and summer drama academy programs. From 2012-2016, she worked at Horizon Theatre in Atlanta in various capacities including artistic support, mentoring the apprentice company, and as the primary coordinator for the Young Playwrights Festival, working with 20-30 high school and college students for a week-long residency filled with workshops, rehearsals, seminars, and readings with professional actors, directors, and dramaturgs. For the past three years, Kelly supported the Development team as Manager of Special Projects at the High Museum of Art, the Southeast’s leading art museum. She managed the Friends of the Collection donor groups including event planning, soliciting, donor communications and tracking, stewardship, and cultivation; coordinating domestic and international travel programming for upper level members; maintaining all existing foundation and government funding; and working across departments to help shape Major Gifts, Foundations, and Government Relations fundraising strategies. Additionally, Kelly is a founding member and former producer with the Weird Sisters Theatre Project, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. The Weird Sisters’ mission is to foster and cultivate opportunities for women in the performing arts.

Alejandra Ruiz

Performer

Jaclyn Hofmann Faircloth

Performer

Parris Sarter

Performer

Cate Lightburn

Performer

Adam King

Performer

Kati Grace Kirby

Understudy

Vinnie Mascola

Understudy

Kymberli Green

Understudy

KYMBERLI GREEN (she/her) is an actor from Atlanta. She was most recently seen on tour with Georgia Ensemble Theatre (Dragons Love Tacos, She Persisted: The Musical). She completed AppCo 22 and has been featured in Aurora productions such as Reindeer Games 2022, Feeding Beatrice, and Christmas Canteen 2021. She also portrayed Soraya in the award winning Atlanta Fringe production of Sister, Braid My Hair. After a successful Shrek! Bringing Down the House class this spring, she has high hopes for this upcoming session.

Diane Camacho*

Stage Manager

DIANE CAMACHO* (she/her) is a recent graduate from Georgia Gwinnett College with a love of the Arts, ready to take on the vast world of Theatre and learn every aspect that goes into production. Past works include: Aurora Theatre’s Christmas Canteen 2021, Mary Poppins, Goldilocks & the Three Bears and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Stage Door Theatre’s Completeness, GGC’s Ordinary Days, Romeo & Juliet, Black Nerd. She thanks her family, friends, and all who have supported her along the way.

Robyn Rogers

ASM & AD