CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
ALICIA MASON
Alicia Mason is a SAG-AFTRA actor, daughter, partner, and devoted pet mom. She was raised by parents who served in the military and a mother who worked as a clinical psychologist—people who taught her the importance of empathy and the many layers of the human experience. As an actor, her mission is to tell stories that move, transform, and resonate, while honoring and uplifting the communities of color she grew up in.
ALICIA MASON
Effie
MICHELLE TALGAROW
Michelle is a Kalmyk/Pinay performance maker in the Bay Area for over 30 years. She is a proud member of Shotgun Players’ Artistic Company and has directed Man of God by Anna Ouyang Moench and Thirty-Six by Leah Nanako Winkler which won the Will Glickman Award in 2025, for their mainstage. Other directing credits: the all female AAPI sketch comedy group Granny Cart Gangstas, in their holiday show XXXMas – Suck Our Mistletoes, Golden Thread and Z-Space’s co-production of Pilgrimage by Humaira Ghilzai and Bridgette Dutta Portman and SFBATCO’s, Cuckoo’s Edible Magic by Reed Flores. Michelle is currently an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.
MICHELLE TALGAROW
Director
JAMES ARD
Noisemaker specializing in new works. Ard’s work includes design for Shotgun Players’ productions of Kings, A Small Fire, Wolf Play, and Collective Rage. His designs have also been heard at the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater, Alley Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Marin
Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, CenterREP, and Cutting Ball, among others.
JAMES ARD
Sound Design
ENKIDU KHAN
Enkidu Khan is a multi-disciplined theatre artist who has worked in a variety of positions, including playwright, lighting and projection designer, director and a stage manager. They studied theatre and performance with an emphasis in new works and devised theatre at Oklahoma City University.
ENKIDU KHAN
Stage Manager
NICOLE LIMÓN
Nicole C. Limón is a director/actor/devisor from Sacramento. She is Founder of Matriarchy Theatre, a resident artist with Teatro Espejo, and theatre faculty at CSUS. Recent Intimacy Coordination: Fairview, Unseen, Eureka Day, Fat Ham (Capital Stage), Hair (Broadway Music Circus), Nosotros La Gente, Insertion (B Street Theatre), Don’t Touch My Hair (Celebration Arts), Rashomon (CATS). She is honored to work with Shotgun Players on this production! Associate Member SDC.
NICOLE LIMÓN
Intimacy Choreographer
ANGRETTE MCCLOSKEY
Angrette is a set designer, technical director, and artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. They have designed the sets for over 100 plays/musicals in the Bay Area and NYC. Previous Shotgun Players shows include Collective Rage, Dry Land, Kings & The Events. Angrette teaches Dramaturgy & Devising for Designers at NYU Tisch. They can be reached at [email protected] or visit angrette.com
ANGRETTE MCCLOSKEY
Scenic & Props Design
MATT STANDLEY
Matt is thrilled to return to Shotgun Players, having been previously seen in Sunday in the Park with George and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other local credits include The Lehman Trilogy (American Conservatory Theater), Indecent (SF Playhouse), The Threepenny Opera (West Edge Opera), Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Exodus to Eden, Down Here Below, Othello, The Grapes of Wrath (Oakland Theater Project), Last Stop on Market Street, Gold: The Midas Musical, Pete the Cat (Bay Area Children’s Theatre), James and the Giant Peach, Urinetown, Beauty and the Beast, and Peter and the Starcatcher (Berkeley Playhouse). He sends all his love to Izzy and Yuki!
CHRISTIAN V. MEJIA
Lighting Design
EMMA STEVENS-JOHNSON
Emma Stevens-Johnson is an experienced accent and voice coach for TV, film and theatre. She specialises in British, Welsh and American accents. She has over two decades of experience as a professional voice coach, and in 2004 earned an MA from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London with clients including Hannah Waddingham and Daniel Dae Kim.
EMMA STEVENS-JOHNSON
Dialect Coach
BUFFY
Buffy is filmmaker and artist from the Bay Area. In addition to personal creative goals, Buffy is eager about supporting others in their work, and resistance. Buffy has collaborated on Collective Rage at Shotgun Players, Do You Feel Anger at Marin Theatre, Azad, the Rabbit and the Wolf, as well as The Pilgrimage at Golden Thread Productions.
BUFFY
Costume Design
MAD FELLOWS
ATUSA ASSADI
Atusa Assadi is an Iranian-American writer and stage manager from the Bay Area who collaborates most often with Golden Thread Productions and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. While not running around the Bay working on various theater productions, Atusa is a cinema and screenwriting student at San Francisco State University with plans to pursue filmmaking alongside theater. She loves storytelling and is excited to get the opportunity to dip into the creative side of production through the MAD Fellowship program!
ATUSA ASSADI
MAD Directing Observer
ALEX CAMERINO
If Effie was a shot of Pink Whitney, Alex Camerino is a cold can of Angry Orchard. He is involved in various areas of theatremaking–most notably, acting and scenic fabrication–and works around the greater Bay Area as a carpenter and painter for live theatre. Recent technical credits include SF Shakes, Marin Shakes, Marin Theatre, and Hillbarn Theatre.
ALEX CAMERINO
Scenic & Props MAD Fellow
MILISA COLEMAN
MiLisa is a Black-American, queer writer, artist, and light programmer from Cleveland, OH based in Oakland, CA. They are thrilled to be in collaboration with an amazing design team. They carry gratitude for Afro Urban Society for introducing lighting and Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson and Ashley Munday for guiding them. Special thanks to Christian Mejia for being their mentor for this production. B.A. Cleveland State University.
Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, CenterREP, and Cutting Ball, among others.
MILISA COLEMAN
Lighting Design MAD Fellow
EMMA JIANG
Emma Jiang is an Oakland-based audio engineer and AV technician and is delighted to make her theatrical debut with the Shotgun Players as a 2026 MAD Fellow. She specializes in vocal editing and mixing and is passionate about the human creative soul and crafting sensory experiences. In her spare time, she enjoys birdwatching, singing and a cappella, and making hearty soups.
EMMA JIANG
Sound Design MAD Fellow