HADLEY KAMMINGA-PECK (she/her)
Playwright/Senga
Currently the Theatre Historian and Head of Directing at WIU, Hadley completed her PhD in Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015. She received her BA in drama and with a minor in Italian from Colorado College, her master's degree in Acting from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, and is a member of the 2019 Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab. Originally from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, she worked in the Education Department for the Guthrie Theater before moving to Colorado. From 2011-2018, Hadley taught at CU Boulder and the University of Northern Colorado, directed for the Department of Theatre and Dance, dramaturged for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and house managed for the Denver Center Theatre Company. THE LADY M PROJECT is her first production with Local.

ANNE PENNER
Playwright/Lady M
Anne Penner is thrilled to have this opportunity to further develop The Lady M Project with Local Theater Company and this terrific group of artists. She is an Associate Professor in the University of Denver Theatre Department, where she teaches acting, directing, movement, and voice. She performs professionally with various Colorado theater companies, most recently with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline), Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (The Wolves), Sis Tryst Productions (Grounded), and Stories on Stage (Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking). She is an Associate Artist with Local, and she also is co-host of the popular acting/psychology podcast, The Actor's Mind.

MARE TREVATHAN
Playwright/Director
Mare Trevathan has extensive experience performing Shakespeare, but also loves new and unconventional theater. In recent years, she performed in the immersive show “Blind Date”-- pairing one audience member to one actor as they wandered the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; directed “microtheater” in a bookstore; and worked with architects in Ahmedabad, India to create “site-specific” performance drawing focus to built-environments. Mare has narrated over 650 audiobooks and teaches Voice Acting at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She is a founding member of Local Theater Company. maretrevathan.com

STEVEN J. BURGE (he/him)
Corvus
Steven J. Burge is a Colorado-based actor, director and event host. A few favorite Colorado acting credits include: God, "An Act of God;" The Best Friends, "First Date the Musical" (Denver Center Galleria), Adam, "What You Will" - A world premiere by Jeff Neuman (Benchmark Theater), Monty, "Saturday Night Fever the Musical" (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities), Howie, "Speech & Debate" (Curious Theater), Beethoven, "Dog Sees God" (Avenue Theater), Everyone (30+ characters) in "Fully Committed" & Seymour in "Little Shop of Horrors" (Aurora Fox), and more. Steven has a particular passion for new work and thanks Mare and her team for the opportunity to explore "The Lady M Project." He makes his Local Lab debut with this exciting new play.

KYLE HADEN (he/him)
Eshu
Kyle Haden is an Equity actor who has performed at regional theaters nationwide, including the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Arvada Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, as well as various theaters in New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
As a director, Kyle has helmed various productions at theaters across the country, including Creede Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Hangar Theatre Company, Island Shakespeare Festival, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. He was named a 2018 Drama League Directing Fellow, and is a member of the Drama League Directors Council. Kyle is the former artistic director of the Ashland New Plays Festival.
Kyle is an Assistant Professor of Acting and the Senior Associate Head at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.
BA: Wake Forest University, MFA: Columbia University.

JAMIE ANN ROMERO
Greer
Bio forthcoming.

GARETH SAXE (he/him)
Duncan/Prosecution
Gareth Saxe Broadway: The Lion King, The Homecoming, Heartbreak House, Nicolai and the Others; Off Broadway: Harper Regan (The Atlantic); Richard III, The Winter's Tale (Public Theatre); Regional: Hamlet, Dangerous Liasons, The Merchant of Venice, The Importance of Being Earnest (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (American Conservatory Theater); iWitness (Mark Taper Forum). Local: Sylvia, Plaza Suite (Arvada Center); Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night,(CSF); You Lost Me, Anna Karenina, Macbeth,(DCPA Theatre Company); Film: Public Enemies; TV: SVU; Law & Order. Training: MFA; NYU .

ANDREW SYED (he/him)
Macbeth
Andrew Syed is a Meisner trained actor having graduated from the Lea Marlene Actors Studio in Denver, CO in 2020. Having come to the stage a bit later than most, Andrew is a curious and hard-working student within the craft of acting. Outside of the theater Andrew is a humanitarian and a high school soccer coach as well as a father of two amazing sons.

JANET FEDER
Soundscape Director
Bio forthcoming.

BETTY HART
Post-Show Facilitator
Betty has acted in Local Lab and has facilitated audience conversatioons and salons for Local Theater Company. In 2020, Betty directed Josh Kroenig’s Vroom Vroom for Local Lab, which audiences never saw due to the theatre wide shut down. In June 2021, Betty directed the one person play An Iliad for Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT) and in spring, directed a virtual offering of To the Moon by Beth Kander for CRT as well. In spring of 2021, Betty directed an original devised theatrical film for the University of Northern Colorado called 2020 Speaks. Upcoming projects include directing Polaroid Stories for Metropolitan State University, By the way, Meet Vera Stark for the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Once on this Island for Town Hall Arts Center and Blackademics for Vintage Theatre. In November of 2020, Betty gave a Ted Talk on compassion culture instead of cancel culture. You can view the talk here: go.ted.com/bettyhart

MISHA ZIMMERMAN (she/her)
Stage Manager
Misha is Local Theater Company's Producer. Her stage management credits with Local include Discount Ghost Stories: Songs from the Rockies, Paper Cut and Wisdom from Everything as well as numerous Local Lab play readings. She has worked with Local in various roles since 2017. Other credits include Sisters in Law (Theater Or), The Secretary (Curious Theatre Company), The Headliners (Cherry Creek Theatre), Florencia en el Amazonas (Opera Steamboat) and The Enchanted Pig (Opera Steamboat). Misha holds a BA in Theater and Literature from the University of Colorado and participated in the Semester at Sea study abroad program.

Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.