CAST

Joe Tally has been active in Bay Area theatre since the early 1990s, acting with such companies as Crowded Fire, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Shotgun Players, and Theatre Rhinoceros. He served as Development Director and Company Manager for Theatre Rhinoceros from 2016-2022 and as Librarian for American Conservatory Theater from 2006-2023. He began producing as JT Presents in 2022 with Ken Urban’s A Guide for the Homesick for the Theatre Rhinoceros 2022-2023 Season. The production prompted Bay Area Reporter critic Jim Gladstone to declare that “Rhino [has] got its groove back.” JT Presents next produced Four Play by Jake Brunger in 2024, which Theatrius called “brilliant.” In between, they brought Joe DiPietro’s Fucking Men to the Nectar Social Club in Oakland for three sold-out performances.

Alan Quismorio is the Managing Director (and formerly Co-Artistic Director) of The Chikahan Company, a Filipinx American theatre company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served as Artistic Director for the Alchemy Program for Emerging Playwrights at the Jon Sims Center, Asian American Theater Company, and Bindlestiff Studio. His directing credits include Dooley (Alchemy Program & New Conservatory Theatre), Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Bindlestiff Studio), and A Guide for the Homesick (Theatre Rhino). He is an alumnus of Crowded Fire Theatre.

Raphael Louis is a dynamic and multidisciplinary theatre professional based in San Francisco. With a foundation in stage and production management, Raphael has supported a wide range of Bay Area productions, most recently managing The Trees, an eco-homo-erotic musical by Kristy Lin Billuni, directed by Claire Ganem, as part of 3Girls Theatre's 2025 New Works Festival, and JT Presents previous production, Four Play, in collaboration with Theatre Rhinoceros.​ Known for his sharp eye, steady hand, and collaborative spirit, he thrives in the organized chaos of live theatre. In addition to his work behind the scenes, Raphael brings experience in web design, sound design, creative producing, and acting. He is making his Bay Area stage directorial debut this summer at Bindlestiff Studio, expanding his artistic voice with bold and community-centered storytelling. In April 2025, he was appointed Executive Director of SF Eagle Players, where he officially begins in June 2025, leading with vision and heart to help uplift queer theatre artists and foster inclusive creative spaces. For collaborations, feel free to reach him at rsd.buenaventura@gmail.com

Noah Lucé (he/they) is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist working primarily as an actor, director, and intimacy choreographer. He is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Director of the Arts Center at Lake Superior State University. Additionally, he serves as a Lecturer in Drama at UCSC, is an assistant faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education and is an Associate Artistic Director at New Canon Theatre Company. Direction and choreography highlights include: directing, Much Ado About Nothing at NCTC (2023 Monterey Production of the Year), Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at LSSU, Eurydice at UCSC, intimacy & fight direction for A Guide for the Homesick at Theatre Rhinoceros (America’s longest running LGBTQIA+ theatre), co-directing and intimacy choreography for NCTC’s Macbeth, associate directing EnActe Arts national tour of The Jungle Book; Rudyard Revised, assistant directing and fight choreography for An Iliad at the Jewel Theatre Company and intimacy directing the world premiere of The Formula; Santa Cruz Shakespeare. As an actor Noah has performed up and down the west coast most recently appearing in NCTC’s world Premier of Finding Chase by C. Wright. He has also appeared internationally in a new play by Anuvab Pal, Admission (EnActe & Rage Productions). Locally he has appeared in: Chicago (PacRep); Noises Off, The Miracle Worker, Legacy of Light (The Western Stage); and Romeo and Juliet (Santa Cruz Shakespeare). Other selected credits include: The Duchess of Malfi, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Bacchae (GreenStage); Comedy of Errors (Wooden O); Lonestar, Pippin, The Merchant of Venice (Quiet); and Creature (Theater Schmeater). To learn more about the artist’s work visit: www.noahluce.com

Colin Johnson is a Bay Area-based lighting designer whose work spans theatre, dance, and performance art. He began his creative journey as an actor before discovering a passion for the technical side of storytelling in 2010. Since then, he has brought his versatile skills to lighting, sound, direction, stage management, electrical and carpentry work, and beyond.

Colin currently serves as Technical Director for SAFEhouse Arts, the Joe Goode Annex, and Performers Under Stress Theatre Company. His lighting design has illuminated the stages of countless Bay Area companies, with credits that extend to Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Bosnia, and throughout California’s Central Valley.

In 2014, Colin received BATCC and TBA award nominations for his lighting design on Life X 3 (Off Broadway West). Recent favorite projects include Cabaret and Gumiho with Theatre Rhinoceros, Pechan with Ishami Dance, and Jump/Fall at Circus Center.

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For collaborations, feel free to reach him at colin@safehousearts.org

Wesley Allen Murphy is a multi-instrumentalist from Northern California, where he has worked professionally as a 5-String Banjo player for over 15 years. Wesley is thrilled to be back working with JT Presents in San Francisco, where his past sound and projection designs have included A Guide for The Homesick, as well as At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen, How Black Mothers Say I Love You, Pillow Talk, The Review (Theater Rhinoceros). Some of Wesley's other favorite credits include sound design and original composition for Alice in Wonderland (Falcon's Eye Theater), Fences (Celebration Arts), When We Were Colored (The Guild Theater), Twelfth Night (Freefall Stage), and 20,000,000 Leagues Under the Seas (provided additional sound design and codirected, Falcon's Eye Theater).

Christine U’Ren has designed costumes for several Bay Area theater companies, including Altarena, Bella Union, Masquers and The Rhino. This is not the first show she’s costumed that deals with the Third Reich, but the topic feels very different to her this time. Christine is grateful to the TROR team for creating such a pleasant working environment. Special thanks to Gene Mocsy, for doing so many things to help, and to cat Cairo for not undoing any of them.

Andrew Bergh is a New York based playwright. His plays include Bliss, Jane of the Tree, The Domesticated Queer, the trilogy Hinterlands, and a bunch of one-acts. The Radicalization of Rolfe won the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival for Overall Production.