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WHO’S WHO

CIARA AYALA* (Stage Manager, John Ryan JONATHAN CRAFT (Music Director,
Del Bosque and Carolyn Johnson Sessions) Teresa Zimmermann and John Ryan Del
Ciara is always happy to be working with Bosque Sessions) received his musical
Stages! They are the most welcoming, education at Boston University and the
professional, inclusive, and safe theatre Royal College of Music (London), and has
she has had the privilege to work at. been working professionally as a pianist
Previous credits include: Stages: Buttons and music director for the last decade.
Sleeping Beauty (Covid Compliance He most recently served as the associate
Officer), Stages Studio Sessions, The Great conductor on the national tour of the
American Trailer Park Christmas Musical musical “Cats,” until Covid-19 returned
(Stage Management). Oregon Shakespeare him to his hometown of Houston. Locally,
Festival - Comedy of Errors, A Wrinkle in he has worked with TUTS, the Queensbury
Time (Stage Management Assistant), The Theatre, the Alley Theatre, A.D. Players
Juiliiard School - By The Way Meet Vera Theatre, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
Stark, Angels in America: Millennium the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and
Approaches, A Winter’s Tale (Stage many others. He has also worked with
Manager), The Peterborough Players - many local and colleges and universities,
Arsenic and Old Lace, The Producers, including SHSU, UH, UST, and the Lone
Constellations, The Whipping Man, Steel Star College System. Stages audiences
Magnolias, OH! Coward, The 39 Steps, and will recognize him from Always...Patsy
many more as an Assistant and Production Cline (2017) and three of the original
Stage Manager. Theatre Under the Stars: Stages Studio Sessions performances last
A Chorus Line (Assistant Stage Manager), summer. He’s proud to call Houston his
Houston Grand Opera: The Flying home, where he lives with his husband
Dutchman, La Boheme, La Florencia en Edward and their three cats.
el Amazonas, Don Giovanni, The Phoenix, www.jonathancraft.net
El Milagro del Recuerdo, and Saul (Stage
Management). Ciara is a proud University CANDICE D’MEZA’s (Director, Anna Maria
of Houston Alumna and member of Actors Morris Session) acting work has been
Equity Association. featured in American Theater Magazine
(national publication, Sept. 2015), NBA TV,
Great Day with Deborah Duncan, Houston
Press, Houston Chronicle, Houstonia Mag,
Free Press Houston, Broadway World,
Black Voices with Jose Grinan.