Varinique “V” Davis – Zoe

Varinique Davis (she/her) studied at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. She is a member of the Miranda Family Fellowship created by Lin-Manuel Miranda. V’s credits include Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Public Works productions of Winters Tale, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It; Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Mamma Mia (Village Theatre); Howl’s Moving Castle (Book-it Rep); Office Hour (ArtsWest) “I would not be the artist I am today without Black influence, culture and experience. For this, I’m eternally grateful.” IG: @515davis

Hazel Rose Gibson – Stage Manager

Hazel (she/her) has been acting, stage managing and modeling in Seattle since 2015. Originally from CO, she moved to the PNW to continue her career after starting it in Sioux City, Iowa as a stage manager for a private college production of Into the Woods post-graduation. This is her first production with Intiman. Other stage manager credits include Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Co.), Henry IV, Part 2 (Green Stage), 25-35 (an original rap musical by Tré Calhoun, Theatre Off Jackson), A Charlie Brown Christmas (Taproot Theatre), and Venus in Fur (Island Stage Left).

Matt Starritt – Sound Design

Matt Starritt (he/him) is a Seattle-based, freelance sound designer. In Seattle, he has designed for ACT, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Book-It Repertory Theatre, ArtsWest, Cherdonna, Kitten and Lou, New Century Theatre Company, The Williams Project, BenDeLaCreme, Waxie Moon, zoe | juniper, and Washington Ensemble Theatre. Nationally, he has designed for Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, and the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre. He is the sound supervisor at Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington and was a founding member of Washington Ensemble Theatre.

Isabella Price – Costume Design

A costume designer for over 10 years, Isabella (she/her) first began making costumes inspired by cartoon characters from her favorite shows. Once she was in her 20’s after years of making costumes for science fiction conventions, renaissance faires and local theater, she interned at the Pittsburgh Playhouse where she was the Head Stitcher for 3 years. During that time she designed for plays, film, burlesque and worked as a stylist. Moving to Seattle in 2015, Isabella jumped back into styling and wardrobe, doing work for the “100 Years of Beauty” Youtube series, film, and is delighted to work for Intiman for the first time.

Photo by Daniel Shapiro

Vada Briceño – Lighting Design

Vada (she/her) is happy to return to Seattle and Intiman for The Niceties. Previous credits include Wild Horses (2018); Two Mile Hollow (2022); I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter at Seattle Repertory Theatre – Associate Lighting Designer (2023); vadabriceno.com

Jennifer Zeyl – Scenic Design

Jennifer (she/they) is thrilled return to the Intiman stage where she has designed scenery since 2006 and over the moon to be working with Sheila Daniels again! Previous Intiman shows include: Angels in America, Dragon Lady, Heartbreak House, Trouble in Mind, Stu for Silverton, and Bulrusher among others. Locally, Jen has designed many shows for ACT Theatre, Seattle Rep, Seattle Childrens, Seattle Shakespeare and more. Nationally, their scenic designs have been seen at: NY Public Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Two River, Pittsburgh Public, The Rose, Duke Presents, Red Cat, The Clarice Center and more. A Seattle-based scenic designer, stage director and producer, she is honored serve Intiman Theatre as Artistic Director and is a Founding Co-Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre, winner of The Stranger Genius Award in Theatre and three-time Gregory Falls Best Scenic Design recipient. Jennifer is grateful to receive funding for her original and touring work from: The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Theatre Communications Group, Map Fund, Creative Capital, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Jennifer is a proud member of USA 829. BFA Directing, BFA Theatre Design – University of Rhode Island 1996, MFA Scenic Design – University of Washington, 2003.

Jasmine Lomax – Associate Director + Fight Choreographer

Jasmine (they/them) returns to Intiman after appearing in the Emerging Artist Program in 2017 to present their solo show Thicc Girl Problems: Eating My Feelings. Some of their favorite credits include Tiara’s Hat Parade (Director), In the Time of The Butterflies (Minerva Mirabal, Actor) and The Bonesetter’s Daughter (Assistant Director) with Book-It Repertory Theatre, PASSOVER (Intimacy Director/ Co-Fight Choreographer) with The Spot Sun Valley, and Or, (Intimacy Director/ Dramaturg) with Theatre22.

Sheila Daniels – Director

Sheila Daniels is a Seattle-based, multi-disciplinary Theater Maker. She served as Associate Director to Bartlett Sher at Intiman from 2007 through 2009 and is honored to have worked as a director under Jennifer Zeyl and Andrew Russell’s leadership tenures. Her Intiman directing credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and Punishment, The Children’s Hour, and Lysistrata. Other directing work includes: Indecent (Seattle Rep), Dancing at Lughnasa (Seattle Repertory Theatre, TANTRUM Theatre in Ohio) The Wolves (A Contemporary Theatre), Jackie & Me (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Lydia, The Normal Heart, Breaking Code, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), According to Coyote (Seattle Children’s Theatre Company, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis), A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Electra, Pericles, Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Company), This Wide Night (Seattle Public Theatre), Crime and Punishment (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Arcadia (Capitol Hill Arts Center) HAC), Rubble Women (co-creator, UMO Ensemble), Anaphylaxis (Throwing Bones/IRT, NYC), Burning Bridget Cleary (Ladykiller Productions). As a devisor/choreographer Sheila has self-produced multiple works of rarely told women’s stories and co-created with other artists including Martha Enson (UMO). Upcoming projects include her first documentary film, Hidden Bodies: Stereotyping and Shaming of the Femme Body in American Theater. She is the current Theater Department Chair and proud Faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts.

Eleanor Burgess – Playwright

Eleanor Burgess has written plays that have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Geffen Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, the Huntington Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, and Centenary Stage, and presented or developed at The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Lark Play Development Center, the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, Ryder Farm and Luna Stage. She is currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of The Civilians’ R&D Group, and a member of P73’s writers’ group, I73. She has also been the recipient of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, an EST/Sloan commission, a Keen Teens Commission, and the Susan Glaspell Award for Women Playwrights. She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, studied history at Yale College, and recently completed the M.F.A in Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch.

Amy Thone – Janine

Amy Thone (she/her) is so deeply pleased to once again be collaborating with Sheila “Horfey” Daniels, with whom she’s worked on King Lear (Kent), Midsummer (Titania), The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Much Ado (Beatrice), My Name is Asher Lev (Rivkeh), The Bridge at San Luis Rey (Nun), The Normal Heart (Dr. Emma Brookner), Macbeth (co-workshop leaders–UW), plus years of collaborating as teachers at Cornish College of the Arts. Previously at Intiman, Amy appeared in: A Question of Mercy, Measure for Measure, and The Diary of Anne Frank. She is a proud core company member at ACT, where she has played both Marley and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and just recently, an ensemble member in Reginald Andre Jackson’s History of Theatre.

Ms. Thone spent 25 years on staff at the Seattle Shakespeare Company, where roles have included Prospero, Goneril, Lady Macbeth, Adriana, Emilia, Cassius, Cleopatra, Helena, and the Chorus. She’s also extremely proud to have played King John and Titus in the first two Upstart Crow productions, directed by Rosa Joshi.

She is currently in a year-long workshop rehearsal process with The Seagull Project, which will culminate in Fall 2023 in a production of Gorky’s The Lower Depths (with a new adaptation by Jehan Osanyin) directed by Gavin Reub.

This production, like most other things in Amy’s life, is dedicated to her two beautiful daughters.

Photo by Adam Fontana.