Tom has been an adjunct professor and guest director for Theatre Fairfield since 2010. He is a professional actor, director, and teacher based in New York City. He has performed all over the country. He is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of the critically acclaimed Guerrilla Shakespeare Project, nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Tom served as Artistic Director of The Deertrees Theatre Festival and Associate Artistic Director of The Old Creamery Theatre. Tom created and continues to teach the Patients and Performance: Health Care Method Acting Workshop for the Egan School of Nursing here at Fairfield.

Hi everyone! My name is Nora Jacobi and I am a senior with a double major in Theatre and Marketing. I am the Assistant Director on this production as well as Theatre Fairfield's Marketing Production Intern for this season. Past TF production credits include: Director and Lighting Designer for The 39 Steps: Even More Abridged (2024), Stage Manager for Mask Play (2023), Director for Lillian Goes to the Mirror (2022), Wardrobe Crew for Project X (2021), and Wardrobe and Sound Crew for The Thanksgiving Play (2021). I am also extremely excited to be the Assistant Director, Co-Scenic Designer, and Lightning Designer for our student independent project, Next to Normal later this season. Previous TF acting credits include: Clarisse and Katie in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2024), Christine in DollHouse (2023), Loud Stone in Eurydice (2023), Sugar in Tiny Beautiful Things (2022), Lydia Bennet and Lady Catherine in Pride and Prejudice (2022), and TurkTok actor in The Thanksgiving Play (2021). I am beyond honored to be Assistant Directing my first main stage production alongside such a wonderful team. Thank you to our director, Tom Schwans, for mentoring me throughout this process. I can't wait for everyone to have so much fun with us in the theatre!

Lynne Porter is a theatre professor and the Resident Designer of Theatre Fairfield.  At Fairfield, Lynne has designed numerous productions such as Avenue   Q, Stop Kiss, Rhinoceros, The Rocky Horror Show, She Stoops to Conquer, Lend Me a Tenor, and Waiting for Godot.  In addition to her work with Theatre Fairfield, Lynne has designed extensively with Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where she is an Affiliated Artist of the Ensemble. She has also designed for CT Lyric Opera, Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, and the Maine Shakespeare Festival, among others.  Lynne is also the Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare Ventures, a professional classical summer theatre, where she both directed and designed.  Over the past few years, Lynne has done extensive research on creativity and the design process, culminating in her book, Unmasking Theatre Design   which was recently published by Focal Press.  lynneporter.com

Jan Mason is proud to be an instructor and director in the Fairfield University Theatre Program since 2014. In New York city she developed new plays as a director with Ensemble Studio Theatre (Theatre Lab Member); The Women’s Project (Director’s Forum Member); Rattlestick (Artistic Associate); and New Georges (Affiliated Artist and Roaring Girl). In 2023 her play Lost & Found was produced in a festival of new work in Vermont. Her play Jack & Jill was published in the inaugural June ’23 edition of Mini Plays Magazine and in the July ’23 edition of Literature Today. Jan is a member of Wild Geese Writers, a national, award-winning group of playwrights. She teaches playwriting at Hartford Stage and her dramatic writing is available through New Play Exchange. Jan is an Affiliated Artist with Hartford-based Capital Classics Theatre Company, and Associate Artistic Director for Connecticut Lyric Opera where she teaches master classes in acting and directs opera in Connecticut and Italy. Jan is a proud alumna of Punahou School in Honolulu; Emerson College in Boston; and holds her MFA in Directing from the University of Virginia. www.janmason.net

Anne is the Technical Director and Production Manager for Theatre Fairfield.  She also teaches courses in Entertainment Technology, Prop Construction, and Lighting Design.

Jessie Lizotte is a proud alumna of the Theatre Fairfield program. Previous design credits include The Thanksgiving Play  (Theatre Fairfield), and Twelfth Night  (Shakesperience Productions). She was previously the resident scenic designer for Music Theatre of Connecticut's 2019 and 2020 seasons (Ragtime, Steel Magnolias, Sylvia, Fully Committed, RFK, and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play). She is currently the resident scenic designer for The Fairfield Prep Players (Little Shop of Horrors, Puffs, Pippin, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Something Rotten). 

As Costume Director for the Fairfield University Theatre Program, Julie designs and builds costumes for TF productions, manages the costume shop, and mentors student theatre artists and technicians. Her TF costume design credits include Silent Sky, The Taming of the Shrew, Dead Man’s Cellphone, The Arabian Nights,  and The Rocky Horror Show,  among many others. She also collaborated with Shakesperience Productions in Waterbury, CT, costuming Shakespeare from Comedy of Errors to King Lear, as well as The Sword in the Stone   and Alice in Wonderland.  Before coming to Fairfield, Julie was an Assistant Professor of English at Westfield State College, the Assistant Costume Designer at Chicago’s The Goodman Theatre, and a freelance costume designer at Organic Theatre Company (Mere Mortals), Pyewackett Theatre (The Belle of Amherst), and Emerald City Children’s Theatre (The Wizard of Oz). She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Northwestern University, and a BA in Theatre and English Literature from the University of New Hampshire.

​​Lynne Chase (lighting designer) has lit over 200 productions nationwide. Highlights include Doubt (Portland Stage Company), As You Like It and Enchanted April (Pioneer Theatre), Light Up the Sky  and La Bête (Two River Theatre) and Speed-the-Plow and Over the Tavern  (Merrimack Repertory Theatre.) She has spent 17 summers working in rotating repertory and counts among her favorite shows Pericles, King Lear, Hamlet  and The Glass Menagerie  (Theater at Monmouth.) She has worked extensively at Horse Cave Theatre and Penobscot Theatre Company (Art, Betrayal, The Crucible, and Skylight  among others.) Memorable shows at Fairfield include Arabian Nights, Cabaret, Three Sisters, Romeo & Juliet, Dancing at Lughnasa, Avenue Q and The Spitfire Grill. Lynne is a graduate of Cornell, Harvard and the Yale School of Drama and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829. www.lynnechaselights.com

Jamie Monahan is an award-winning filmmaker, director, actress,  intimacy director (theatre), and certified intimacy coordinator (film/TV). Jamie completed IDC’s Intimacy Coordinator training, fostering intimate, safe spaces for performers. She is currently listed on the SAG-AFTRA Intimacy Coordinator Pre-Registry. Jamie intimacy coordinated the short films: ONLY THE DEAD, IN THE NIGHT, HEALING TREE, BETTY BITES BACK, and THE BIG 3-OH to name a few. She also intimacy coordinated the award-winning feature film ESCAPING OHIO, and I’LL FIND YOU. Jamie intimacy directed POWERHOUSE Off-Broadway, GREASE at The Wilton Playshop, 9 to 5 at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre, and she is going into her third year at Fairfield University as resident intimacy director and adjunct professor for their 2024-2025 season.

Gabriela is a theatre artist based in New Haven, CT. She graduated from Providence College with a B.A. in Public & Community Service Studies. She currently works at the Yale Schwarzman Center and The Essex Steam Train & Riverboat as a theatre technician. Some of her previous experience included stage managing multiple productions at Co-Op High School, Square Foot Theatre, and Nathan Hale School. She has also worked at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Long Wharf Theatre, Madison Lyric Stage, Hartford Stage, and the Girl Scouts of CT. She hopes to work more closely with her community via the arts. Gabriela would like to thank everyone at Theatre Fairfield for letting her into their community.

Hello! My name is Jacobo Merino Fernandez. I'm a Freshman English, creative writing and Theatre double major. This is my first show in Theatre Fairfield as Assistant Stage Manager. I've loved my experience so far and everyone from the cast to the production team have been amazing. This show has been super fun to work on and to witness it grow from the words on the page to what it is now. Thank you for watching the show!

Hi! I am a junior Theatre and English double-major. I have worked as a carpenter on “The Lightning Thief” and “DollHouse”, and as Technical Director on “The 39 Steps”. I also performed in “Mask Play” and “Director's Cut '22”. Later this season, I will be directing the Student Independent Project. Enjoy the show!

Hi! My name is Katharine and I am a junior with double majors in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Theatre and a minor in Communication. My past Theatre Fairfield credits include Letter Writer in “Tiny Beautiful Things”, Lillian in “Lillian Goes to the Mirror” from “Director’s Cut”, Nora in “Dollhouse” and Annabeth Chase in “The Lightning Thief”. I also have worked as the Front of House Manager for “Mask Play” and “The 39 Steps: Even More Abridged”. Thank you so much for coming to see “Complete Works”! Enjoy the show!

Hello! My name is Nathanael Wilhelm and I am a Sophomore Film Major and Creative Writing Minor. I am a writer for The Rearview, a student-run digital media organization, and an active writer for Inkwell, a student-run creative writing magazine. This is my first time working with Theatre Fairfield, but I’ve worked on several independent, original productions with SAY, the Stuttering Association for the Young, in NYC. It’s been great meeting so many creative people through Theatre Fairfield and I look forward to being a part of so much more in the future! 

Hi there! I’m Ava DiVincenzo, and I’m a senior English Major and Theatre, Editing & Publishing, and Women, Gender Sexuality Studies Minor. I’ve been with TF my whole college career and worked as assistant stage manager for “Pride & Prejudice” and stage manager for “DollHouse” last fall. This year, I’m working as props master for Complete Works and am excited to also work props for Indie’s “Next to Normal”!