ADIN WALKER (Director & Choreographer) is a PhD Candidate in Theater and Performance Studies working on performance, literature, and cinema engaging the politics of queer aging in relation to public health reforms since the mid-1990’s. As director + choreographer: Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (New Conservatory Theater), Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen (Golden Thread), Roger Q. Mason’s The White Dress (Off-Broadway), L M Feldman’s Grace, or the Art of Climbing (Jersey City), and developmental labs of Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel’s Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams (New York Theater Workshop) and L M Feldman’s Limber, A Love Story (Emerson Stage). Adin collaborates as movement director + associate director with internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Recent choreography: Jen Silverman’s Witch (Profile Theater), Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Last of the Love Letters and Preston Choi’s Limp Wrist on the Lever (Crowded Fire), and multiple productions of Paula Vogel’s Indecent (CenterREP; Chautauqua Theater; Profile Theater; Artists Repertory Theater; and Guthrie Theater, MN, as associate choreographer). Adin has served as associate director to May Adrales, Shana Cooper, Dustin Wills, and Tony award-winner Rebecca Taichman. Adin’s writing can be found in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Topics, and New Review of Film and Television Studies.

JAD BERNARDO (Music Director; Conductor, Keys) is an award-winning music educator in both SF and NYC, coaching and training singers at New York University and Adelphi. In addition to his work in academia, Jad is a sought-after music director in local theater. Recent credits include 9 to 5, Next to Normal, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, and Cruel Intentions for Ray of Light Theater, and Something Rotten and Assassins for Hillbarn Theatre.

SARA ALANIS MORALES (Christian) is a sophomore studying English and Symbolic Systems. Sara is a member of the Stanford Shakespeare Company (StanShakes), where they have previously acted in their production of Henry IV (Poins) and Romeo and Juliet (Paris). Sara was also involved in NExT and Theater Lab’s Proportionality (SM).

JENNY BALLUTAY (Joan) (she/her) is a sophomore majoring in Economics and minoring in TAPS. She acted Off-Off-Broadway in Hamlet (Polonius), and was involved in the StanShakes’s Henry IV (ATD) and Romeo and Juliet (Sound Designer). She currently serves as a technical director for the StanShakes.

LYLE BELGER (Older Alison) is a coterm studying Communication who earned her BA in Psychology with minors in TAPS and Spanish. She trained at the American Conservatory Theater, performing in Young Conservatory productions and understudying lead roles in the mainstage musical A Walk on the Moon. At Stanford, she was involved in TAPS’s Witch (Elizabeth) and was the lead vocalist of Clare’s in Town, a five-piece student band.

DEREK BROOKER (Guitar) is a Bay Area musician specializing in guitar, mandolin, banjo, resonator, and slide. Derek has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from San Francisco State University. He has supported countless pit orchestras for musicals in the Bay Area and beyond since 2003 and has toured extensively for theater and several original projects. Derekbrookermusic.com

EVELYN ROSE BURT (Dance Captain, Swing [Alisons, Joan, Helen]) is a sophomore double-majoring in TAPS and Biology on the pre-med track. She trained in musical theater at Theatre Under the Stars’ Pre-Professional Company, with some of her favorite roles including Eponine in Les Misérables and Alice in Alice by Heart, for which she was a Tommy Tune Award finalist. Previously at Stanford, she appeared in SLOCo’s Fading In (Katie).

HENRY CARGILL (Bruce) is a senior from Oklahoma majoring in TAPS. His previous Stanford credits include Ram’s Head’s Gaieties 2022 (The Backpack), A Chorus Line (Zach), Theater Lab’s Falsettos (Mendel), SLOCO’s Mary Poppins (Bert), and TAPS’s Assassins (John Wilkes Booth). He began acting over a decade ago and hopes to continue after graduation.

PHOEBE CHOU (Drums/Percussion) received her performance degree from Berklee College of Music, and has been working as a percussionist and educator in California for the past 15 years. She has performed with the Blue Devils, Santa Clara Vanguard, at the Boston Symphony Hall, San Jose Summer Fest, Joshua Tree Music Fest, and more. She has also toured across the US and internationally in Taiwan, Shanghai, Austria, and Italy. Phoebe hopes to offer the world music of adventure, truth, and kindness.

CLIFF CARUTHERS (Sound Designer) (he/him) is a San Francisco-based sound designer and composer with over 300 production credits, including Born with Teeth for OSF, Frankenstein for Guthrie Theater, Caucasian Chalk Circle for ACT, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Rep, Sweat for Center Rep, A Winter’s Tale for Alley Theatre, and 5 and Dime for TheatreWorks. He is co-curator of the SF Tape Music Festival and a proud member of United Scenic Artists.

KAT CRAWFORD (Violin) is a sophomore planning to major in Physics and minor in TAPS. Previously at Stanford, she was a cast member in Gaieties (ensemble) and a member of the crew for Spring Rise Up: A Dance Sensorium.

DAVID FOX (TAPS 39 Crew) is a senior majoring in Biomedical Computation and minoring in TAPS (Dance). David’s primary dance training was at Roco Dance (Marin County, CA) in ballet, modern, hip-hop, breaking, and jazz, in addition to Interlochen and Joffrey Ballet School. David is the co-president of Stanford’s Traction Modern Dance Company, was a TAPS-Dance Peer Advisor, danced in the Chocolate Heads Movement Band, and co-founded the TAPS annual Young Choreographers Festival.

MADDIE GARFINKEL (Small Alison) (she/her) is a sophomore double-majoring in Physics and TAPS. Previously at Stanford, she was involved in TAPS’s Three Sisters (Maid) and Rams Head’s Legally Blonde (Ensemble, Costume Designer). This summer she performed with the Marin Shakespeare Company in The Tempest (Ensemble). Additionally, Maddie is an alumnus of the NHSI Cherubs program at Northwestern. Other notable performances include Hair (Sheila), Fefu and Her Friends (Julia), and The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy).

NATALIE GREENE (Intimacy Coordinator) is an artist and educator working at the intersections of performance, consent, and community engagement. Formerly Artistic Director of the award-winning ensemble Mugwumpin, currently the Director of Education & Community Programs at American Conservatory Theater. Past work with Aurora Theatre Company, Cal Shakes, Center Rep, Custom Made, Marin Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Shotgun Players, and several shows with TAPS. Natalie’s research & pedagogy focus on embodied creative experiences that build a culture of consent.

SEBASTIAN HOCHMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) (he/him) is double-majoring in Music and TAPS. Recent credits include Huppet (Stanford in New York/TheaterLab), Book of Dew (Edinburgh Fringe), and working with Daniel Kluger on shows at The Public Theater, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, and the Daryl Roth Theater.

BEN HOLLINGSHEAD (Assistant Stage Manager) is a sophomore double-majoring in TAPS and Economics. Previously at Stanford, he appeared in StanShakes’s Henry IV (Prince Hal/Henry V) and NExT’s Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Laertes). Elsewhere, he was recently in BADA Midsummer in Oxford’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius) and The Bishop’s School’s Hamlet (Hamlet).

STEPHANIE HUNT (Text/Vocal Coach) teaches acting and voice at TAPS, and is the Coordinator of the Acting concentration. With TAPS she has worked on the productions of Everybody, Cabaret, Pali, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and Witch as voice/text coach. A core member of the theater company Word for Word in San Francisco, Stephanie has acted in fully-staged stories by Upton Sinclair, Angela Carter, Tobias Wolff, Virginia Woolf, Kevin Barry, and Colm Tóibín.

RICHARD JOHNS (TAPS 39 Crew) (he/him) is a junior majoring in English with an intended minor in TAPS. Previously at Stanford, he was involved in Theater Lab’s Yakuman Chance (Set Designer) and Huppet (Set Designer); StanShakes’s Henry IV (Set Designer, Assistant Props) and Romeo and Juliet (ATD); as well as acted in NExT’s Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Guildenstern).

KENDALL JOHNSON (TAPS 39 Crew) is a senior majoring in Communication and minoring in TAPS (Dance). Kendall currently serves as a student marketing assistant for TAPS and is a member of both TRACTION Modern Dance Company and Chocolate Heads Movement Band.

JOE KREMPETZ (A2) is a sound designer and composer from the Bay Area. Design credits include The Far Country, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Rep); Enron, Matawan (Atlantic Theater Company); Fucking A, Julius Caesar (Yale School of Drama); Our Lady of 121st Street, Concord Floral (Hamilton College); and Upwelling (Academy of Sciences). Recently, Joe designed sound for Voices of the New Belarus, an installation for the Oslo Freedom Forum. He is particularly easy to google.

VIVI ISABELLA LA FONT (TAPS 39 Crew) is a frosh prospectively majoring in Earth Systems. During high school, she directed and acted in two variety shows and a short film.

ANDREW WOO-JONG LEE (Cello) is a lifelong creative with a background in classical cello and contemporary/modern dance. He is currently a coterm studying Mathematics (BS), Philosophy (MA), and Dance (minor), and a member of Traction Modern Dance and the Stanford Improvisors. Favorite credits: Theater Lab’s Ghost Quartet (Musical Director) and Three States of Matter (Associate Director, Co-choreographer, Andrey), CIRCA’s Leviathan (dancer), and numerous pit orchestras (it is like a hackathon, but for music in musical theater).

EMMA LEIBOWITZ (TAPS 39 Crew) is a senior majoring in English and double-minoring in Music and TAPS. Most recently, at Oxford, she starred as Hodel in the Eglesfield Music Society’s Fiddler on the Roof. At Stanford, she has acted in TAPS’s Assassins (Squeaky Fromme), SLOCo’s Mary Poppins (Miss Andrew), Theater Lab’s Falsettos (Trina), and more. Currently, she is rehearsing to play Ilona Ritter in the Music Department’s production of She Loves Me.

CONNOR LIFSON (Projections Designer/Assistant Lighting Designer) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in TAPS. As a director and designer, he works across disciplines, often with live video cameras, dynamic projections, and various forms of puppetry. Previously at Stanford, he directed Omelas and designed lights for Box of Sand. He has directed professionally in Chicago, Oregon, and the SF Bay Area, and recently co-created Book of Dew, which was performed in the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. connorlifson.com

CHRISTIAN MEJIA (Lighting Designer) believes that light can tell stories that go beyond words. His design approach seeks to create environments that invite us to lean into and learn something about our shared humanity. His practice includes live performance, architectural lighting, and immersive entertainment. His work has been seen on stages and in built environments around the world. BA from New York University and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

SHAILEE RAJAK (Dramaturg) is a second-year PhD scholar in TAPS. Prior to Stanford, she worked in Montréal with Teesri Duniya Theatre and Imago Theatre as a playwright. Her research engages archival practice, performance, and feminist-queer historiography, while her dramaturgical work considers how memory, form, and translation shape what we choose to remember on stage.

ANNABELLE REHN (Wardrobe Lead) is a sophomore double-majoring in Economics and Psychology. Previously at Stanford, she was involved in TAPS’s Spring Rise Up: A Dance Sensorium.

TRINI ROGANDO (Assistant Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a senior pursuing dual degrees in TAPS (Theater-Making) and Design (Digital Methods). Her most recent lighting designs include Theater Lab’s Proportionality, TAPS’s 2024 Graduate Repertory, and Ram’s Head’s Gaieties 2024: Camp Stanford (Co-Lighting Designer). She is a member of StanShakes, where she has additionally worked on Romeo and Juliet (Scenic Designer), Titus Andronicus…and Zombies! (Sound Designer), and Henry IV (Assistant Projection Designer).

LEETH SINGHAGE (Wardrobe Lead) is a Sri Lankan actor-writer. He won Best Emerging Actor at United Solo NYC for his play GROWTHesque which premiered at Edinburgh Fringe. Other credits include Shaan in The Good Karma Hospital S4 (2022, Tiger Aspect), Friedrich in The Sound of Music (2018, The Really Useful Group), and Kalana in the multi-award-winning Grease Yaka Returns (2019–20, AnandaDrama). His new play, Steel Demon, is premiering at Stanford in Spring. leethsinghage.com

JUDE ST JOHN (Assistant Sound Designer/A2) (he/him) is a TAPS minor studying Mechanical Engineering with an interest in audio, illusions, and themed entertainment. Previously at Stanford, he did sound design for Camp Stanford: Gaieties 2024 (Ram’s Head), Legally Blonde (Ram’s Head), and Matilda (AATP).

MAX SUTTON (John) is a PhD candidate in Earth and Planetary Science, and an alumnus of TAPS (Theater-Making). They are honored for the chance to return to the stage in Fun Home. Previous favorite projects at Stanford include Ram’s Head’s WiSH production All the Difference (Producer), TAPS’s Beyond the Wound is a Portal (Assistant Lighting Director/Zoom Developer), and the development of the Roble Gym lobby video wall.

ALEXIS TUCHINDA (Medium Alison) is a sophomore studying CS and minoring in TAPS. This is her first TAPS production. She played Matilda in AATP’s Matilda, and was in the cast of Ram’s Head’s Gaieties 2024 and an original student musical.

AMISTAD VANEGAS (Helen) is a junior majoring in Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC). Previously at Stanford, she performed in TAPS’s Assassins (Proprietor/Emma Goldman). Before Stanford, she was involved in productions such as In the Heights (Ensemble/Camila u/s), A Chorus Line (Sheila), and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Magenta).

KYLE WONG (Bass) (He/Him) is an upright and electric bassist who has performed with various theater companies around the Bay Area. Most recently he performed in 9 to 5 (Ray of Light Theater), Hadestown: Teen Edition (A.C.T. Youth Conservatory), Waitress (SF Playhouse), and Cabaret (Theater Rhinoceros). He also frequently plays with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony.