Ally is thrilled to be making her Kitchen debut. She graduated from Stephens College in May 2012 with a BFA in Theater-Emphasis in Acting and a Minor in Music. Credits at Stephens include: The House of Blue Leaves (Head Nun), Shooting Stars (Gay), Evita (Ensemble), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Jewel) and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Narrator). Regional and world credits include: Iron preformed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Constance), Coriolanus (Soothsayer/Gentlewoman), The Crucible (Tituba), and Aida (Nehebkah). Ally has also been seen in operas at the University of North Texas including: The Magic Flute (Boy), Cendrillion (The Fairy) and Suor Angelica (Sister Chiara). She can also be seen as Rae in Scraps which won Best Drama Short at the 2012 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. As always Ally would like to thank her family, friends, Tommy, Mom and Dad for their love and support.

Molly Stoller

KTC debut! Molly recently appeared in God of Vengeance and Spring's Awakening with Marvell Repertory Theatre in NYC.  Other credits include Fit (FringeNYC), Angelina Ballerina (Vital Theatre Company), Guidance (Sunglasses After Dark), and The Lewis Carroll Project (The Tank Theater).  Molly studied at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and RADA.  www.mollystoller.com

Rachel Lampert

Rachel is a playwright, director and choreographer. Her work at the Kitchen includes: Playwright: Main Stage Musicals Book & Lyrics for Waiting for Spring, Bed No Breakfast, Comfort Food, Tony & the Soprano, The Angle of the Sun and Precious Nonsense. Main Stage Non-musical plays: Losing Myself, The Trial, The Book Club, Frankenstein and The Soup Comes Last. Main Stage Movement Pieces: In the Company of Dancers and Summers at Rock's Edge. Family Fare: I Have a Song to Sing O!, Scoot, Sizzle & Slide, The Mozart Mystery, The Odyssey parts 1 & 2, A December Suite, and A Christmas Carol, among others. Director: Broke-ology, Red Light Winter, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Mary’s Wedding, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Secret Order, Last Train to Nibroc, The Glass Menagerie, The Price, Master Class, A Delicate Balance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Swimming in the Shallows among many others. For the 2012-13 season she will direct Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Opus, and Crooked and will premiere in May a new piece And, Lately... in collaboration with composer/pianist Richard Montgomery.
She is proud to have been involved in the building of the new theater and, after two years in the new space, continues to be awed by its possibilities and always grateful to everyone who supported this amazing project.
Rachel is active in the Ithaca arts community beyond the Kitchen, having directed and choreographed at the Hangar Theatre (director: Sweeney Todd, Falsettos, The Sisters Rosensweig; choreographer: 2007 production of Hair) Other collaborations include: Rounds for Orchestra with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, A Soldier's Tale with Ensemble X, and dance pieces with Music's Recreation. Her play Bet You Can't Catch It? was commissioned by AIDSWORK of Tompkins County as part of an educational program for teens, and toured Central NY for three years.
Directing and theatrical choreography credits outside Ithaca include productions at Cal Rep, Arkansas Rep, Portland Stage Company, New York's Public Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre and Hawaii Opera Theatre. Her concert dance works have been in the repertories of numerous dance companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Her trip to China in 1997 to stage West Side Story resulted in her writing The Soup Comes Last, produced off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in Fall 2004. The Angle of the Sun (written by Lampert & Pressgrove) was selected by the New York Musical Theatre Festival to be presented in NYC in September 2007. Rachel is a 4-time recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships and a CAP Individual Artist Grant. She received a SALT Award for Best Actress 2004. She attended Mount Holyoke College and has a BFA and MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Raised in Brooklyn, she moved to Ithaca as a trailing spouse right behind her husband David Squires in 1995. They enjoy a wonderful house, two terrific dogs, and the joy of having family join them in Ithaca and friends always visiting. This is her 16th season as Artistic Director – a job that is always exciting.

Tyler M. Perry

Tyler is a recent graduate of Ithaca College where he received a BFA in Theatrical Production Arts with concentration in Lighting and Scenic Design. Past Kitchen Theatre credits include: Opus (Scenic & Lighting Designer), The Whipping Man, Frankie and Johnny in... Lune, Waiting for Spring, The Mystery of Irma Vep, In the Company of Dancers (Lighting Designer), Broke-ology (Properties Designer), Bed and Sofa (Assistant Scenic Designer). Ithaca College credits include: The Magic Flute (Scenic Designer), The Light in the Piazza, How Learned to Drive (Lighting Designer), The Little Prince (Assistant Lighting Designer), among others. His work has also been seen with Running to Places Theatre Company where he spent the season as Resident Designer: A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, Joseph and...Dreamcoat (Scenic and Lighting Designer), Annie, Oklahoma, Noises Off, Oliver, Cinderella (Scenic Designer), Urinetown (Lighting Designer). He also has extensive work as an assistant/associate designer to Steve TenEyck with such companies as Ithaca College, Kitchen Theatre Co., Hangar Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Florida Grand Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, and the Herson Group Ltd.
www.tylermperrydesign.com

Lisa Boquist

Lisa has designed and coordinated costumes for a number of previous productions at the Kitchen Theatre, including this season's The Whipping Man, Brian Dykstra Selling Out and Opus and last season’s Circle Mirror Transformation, Irma Vep, Red Light Winter, Broke-ology and Waiting For Spring. Also at the Kitchen she has designed Mary’s Wedding, Bed and Sofa, Last Train To Nibroc, I Become A Guitar, Nine Parts Of Desire, Precious Nonsense, and others. She runs her own studio, where she designs and constructs prototypes, mascots and custom clothing for film and public appearances. She has been the Textiles Coordinator and Design Associate for MacKenzie-Childs, Ltd., and presently runs the costume shop at Cornell University. There she is responsible for training students in all aspects of costume construction, and has designed costumes for Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Beat Box Bard, Bedroom Farce, and Drama, Dance And The Disco Of Desire, among others.

Lesley Greene

Lesley has been a member of the Kitchen Theatre staff since 2003. She has degrees in physics, geology, and atmospheric science from Cornell University. It wasn't until a chance encounter with Rachel Lampert & Dancers in 1997 that she knew she was destined for a career in the arts. In addition to her producing responsibilities, Lesley’s work at the Kitchen has included composing music (Science Fair, Winter Tales, Emmett & Ella's Big Apple Escapade and others), playing flute, and acting. She also serves as the Kitchen Theatre's in-house sound and projections designer. Lesley is co-founder of Porchfest, a music festival held on the porches of Fall Creek. Her husband is Robbert van Renesse – Ithaca's only computer scientist/unicyclist/ukulele player. They have two wonderful daughters, Anneke and Tanya, and this year a Dutch exchange student named Bink as well!

Megan Christine

Megan is currently serving as a production intern here at The Kitchen Theatre, and she is thrilled to be afforded the opportunity to design the properties for the upcoming season. The Whipping Man and Opus, here at with the Kitchen Theatre Company, was Megan’s first professional design, her previous props experiences include working as a prop artisan for the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA (Summer 2012) and filling the role of props master for 4 years at Whittier College from whence she graduated in 2010. Some of her Whittier College credits include Pride and Prejudice, Urinetown, and Wonder of the World, which earned her Meritorious Achievement honors from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Jennifer Schilansky

Jennifer is delighted to be continuing her work at The Kitchen Theatre after stage managing The Whipping Man and Brian Dykstra Selling Out.  For the past five years she has been the resident stage manager for Stageworks Theater in Hudson NY. She has stage managed Stageworks’ productions of The Rivalry, Tomorrow in the Battle, Tennis in Nablus, The Divine Sister, The Amish Project, Imaging Madoff, Or, Play By Play, Nowhere On The Border, Car Talk, Forbidden Broadway, Falling: A Wake, Souvenir and Gutenber! The Musical! She has also stage managed Emerson High for Half Moon Theater in Poughkeepsie, La Ronde, Stage Blood, Gum, and Promenade for Bard College. As an actor, she performed the role of Killer as well as the Stage Manager for The Time of Your Life at the Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center, Madeline Monroe in Tony & Tina's Wedding at Proctors in Schenectady NY and in numerous productions with Classics at the Point. A native of Catskill, NY, Jennifer holds a BA in Acting from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA.