Bios for She Devil of the China Seas

Roger Tang (Playwright, Executive Producer)
Sometimes known as the Godfather of Asian American Theatre, he is a four decade veteran of theatre, starting as a deisgner with David Henry Hwang and Philip Kan Gotanda at the start of his career. He is a founder of Pork Filled Productions, current Secretary of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists and editor of the Asian American Theatre Revue, the web’s top information source on Asian American theatre (https://www.aatrevue.com/Newsblog). He has written sketches for PFP and has writte for SIS Productions and 14/48 Productions. She Devil is his first produced full length play.

Kiefer Harrington (Director)
Kiefer Harrington’s most recent directing credits include Resilience! 2021 and miku, and the gods with PFP, and Theatre Battery Tries to YouTube with Theatre Battery. Other credits include Snow White (Assistant Director, SCT) and Hitchhiker(Director, By the Seat of Our Theatre Company). Kiefer received his Bachelor’s of Sciences in theatre arts management at Ithaca College.

Cast

Eloisa Cardona (Moh Tsu)
Eloisa is delighted to be helping PFP, Roger Tang, and the wonderful cast and crew of She Devil come to life at TOJ! During her long career as a Seattle based actress, she has been privileged to work at the following theaters:  Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle Children’s Theater, Seattle Public Theater, Book It Repertory Theater (touring company and understudy for Precious Auntie-Bonesetter’s Daughter),Sound Theater Company, ACT ( ActLab-The Good Woman Of Szechuan), Dukesbay Theater (Tacoma), and Centerstage Theater to name a few. She is a 2018  Broadway World nominee for Best Leading Actor as Noriko Jameson in Dukesbay’s production of Calligraphy. Eloisa also has foreign indy film credits for Deep Sleep ( Canada) and Atras (Philippines).  Love to R, N, L, and C.

Kaughlin Caver (Ensemble)
Kaughlin began his journey in creative arts as a songwriter/recording artist touring across the East coast. He has training from Freehold Theatre with Meg Mclynn and Elena Flory-Barnes, along with Mesiner based training from Greenwood Acting Studio with Kjerstine Rose Anderson. His most recent credits include TakeOver: Origins (short-film) and Art after Dark (play). Kaughlin looks forward to working on alternative/experimental projects combining his music production and acting skills in the future.

Aaron Jin (Zhang Boh)
Aaron Jin is a queer, Asian-American actor, writer, and now filmmaker. Currently, Aaron is working on a directorial debut with the short film Blondie and releasing a short film with creative agency All is Will. Recent highlights include acting in Potato Dreams Of America, his first opera Together with composer Elise Winkler as part of Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab, and being a Sundance Community Leader.

Michael Latham (Huang Jeong, Ensemble)
Michael is beyond excited to be onstage for the first time in seven years. He has been involved in theatre most recently as an assistant stage manager for shows like Europe (Thalia’s Umbrella), Lonely Planet (West of Lenin), and A Small History of Amal, Age 7 (Forward Fluxx). When he is not working on or watching live theater you can most likely find him in a movie theater taking in the newest releases or playing board games with his friends. He wants to thank PFP for this opportunity and hope you all enjoy the show

W. Barnett Marcus (Ensemble)
W. Barnett Marcus is an actor, playwright, and critic based in Seattle. Favorite past roles include Spencer in how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma), Judas in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Poins in Henry IV. His one-act, Gimme A Sign, was given a reading at Western Washington University in Spring 2022. W. Barnett’s theatre reviews have appeared in Real Change.

Kristin Ota (Yi Tse)
Kristine has directed, produced, and performed improv and sketch comedy for over 7 years. She has performed in several festivals, including HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival, LA Diversity Festival, Seattle Festival of Improv Theatre, Alaska State Improv Festival, Sketchfest, and Intersections Festival and studied at Freehold Theatre, UCB, Michelle Danner’s Acting Studio, Unexpected Productions, and Jet City Improv. Kristine has chosen projects that spotlight spaces for marginalized and underrepresented communities throughout Seattle.

Van Lang Pham (Zhang Ngoi)
Van is a well known actor and musician in Puget Sound theatre. As an actor: Centerstage – Yellow Fever (Chuck) | Pork Filled Production – Brothers Paranormal (Visarut) | Pratidhwani – Washer/Dryer (Sam) | Café Nordo – 7th and Jackson (James) | REBATEnsemble – Night Parade (Father/ensemble) | Midnight Rice Productions – The Two Kids That Blow S**t Up (Max) | Seattle Public Theatre – The World of Extreme Happiness (James/Li-Han). As musician: 14/48, Kitsap Forest Theatre, SMT, BPA, SIS Productions, and Renton Civic Theatre.

Andreya Pro (Ensemble)
Andreya Pro (She/Her) is a queer, Latinx/e actor, singer, and teaching artist in the Seattle & South Sound areas. Holding her BFA in Theatre Performance, recent work includes Romeo y Julieta as Benvolio/Paris (Seattle Shakespeare Company), In the Heights as Ensemble/Fight Captain (TMP), & Making Waves: Fall Festival (Sound Theatre).

Anna Saephan (Hei)
Anna Saephan is a Mien American performing artist born in NorCal and raised in South Seattle. She is passionate about empowering youth in underserved communities in the arts and storytelling. Previously, she appeared in Black Sheep (18th & Union), White Snake (ReAct Theatre), The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (University of Washington), Paper Angels (SIS Productions), Do It For Umma (Annex Theatre), and Yellow Face (UTS).

Dylan Smith (Ensemble)
Dylan Smith is a Seattle Based Actor from Carnation Washington. He has been acting on stage in Seattle since 2013. Dylan studied Drama at Bellevue College, took a summer program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2009, and has had Shakespeare and Stage combat training at Freehold Theater. He has also taken numerous classes with Seattle Actorswork over the years. Notable past roles include Don Nordo in Don Nordo Del Midwest (Cafe Nordo) Jason in Take me Out (Strawberry Theater Workshop) Tae in Sheathed by Maggie Lee (Macha Theater Works) The Major in The Incident at Vichy (UW Drama) and has most recently understudied with Book It Theater for their production of Mrs. Caliban.

Steph Sola (Yuen Loh)
Steph is thrilled to be joining the cast of She Devil. Some of her previous credits include: Diana in The Two Kids that Blow Shit Up (Midnight Rice Productions), Judith Bliss in Hay Fever (Burien Actors’ Theatre), and Barbara Grant in Perfect Arrangement (React Theatre). Steph is also the Assistant Music Director for Seattle Ladies Choir, the Co-Founder/Director/Producer for Let’s All Drink and Do Broadway and is on the board for Lowbrow Opera Collective.

Tim Takechi (Lay Fong)
Tim’s theatre experience includes Yellow Fever at Centerstage Theatre, A Christmas Carol…more or less at Lakewood Playhouse, Handle with Care at Burien Actor’s Theatre, The White Snake at ReAct Theatre, Waltz of the Toreadors at Dukesbay Productions, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Snow Falling on Cedars at Bainbridge Performing Arts, and Cannibal! The Musical at Unexpected Productions. He’s also worked extensively with Turbo Turkey Productions, a local sketch comedy troupe.

Jade Yuelan (Ensemble)
Jade Yuelan (乐澜) is a Chinese-American artist, musician, and actor based in Seattle. They have played Nemasani in UW UTS’s production of Anon(ymous) and the Policeman/Unemployed in Christie Zhao’s online theatre production, The Good Person. They also have composed and sound designed for The Good Person. Most recently, they are working with Christie again on a new devised work, Monologues of n Women (n个女人的独白) as assistant director and musical director/composer.

Staff

Grecia Leal Pardo (Stage Manager)
Grecia is a Latina theater artist based in Duwamish and Coast Salish lands (Seattle). She’s worked with various companies around town, including eSe Teatro, SIS Productions, Pratidhwani, and Sound Theatre Company, most recently having co-Stage Managed Gaslight (Angel Street). She has also worked with Pork Filled Productions in the past, having Stage Managed their digital production of CJ: A Spanglish Play last year, and having directed The Golden Record for their Unleashed 2020 festival.

Alyda Sorm (Stage Manager)
Alyda is a second generation Khmer American artist, born and raised in South King County. She stage managed for UW School of Drama on multiple productions: Goldie, Max and Milk (2018), Incident at Vichy (2018) and Bull in a China Shop (2022). She has also been ASM for Seattle Shakespeare and Intiman and was a youth supervisor for ACT, meanwhile also being Associate Production Manager at Sound Theatre.

Omar Faust (Production Manager)
Omar is a queer mixed-race theater artist who was born in Seattle and went to school for theater at Bard College. Upon returning from walking across Spain after college, Omar stage-managed and produced for several theaters around town. For three years Omar lived in a co-op focusing on diversity and accessibility.  Despite loving board games, card games, D&D, and hiking, bringing people together to tell their stories is the true driving force. 

Stacey Bush (Combat Choreographer)
Stacey Bush (she, her) has created violence for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Drum and Colors: Hamlet & As You Like It, WET: Tin Cat Shoes, ACT Theater: Yen, Seattle Repertory Theatre: Ibsen in Chicago, Theater Schmeater: She Kills Monsters, MAP Theatre: Year of the Rooster and Annex Theatre: My Dear Miss Chancellor. She is the Managing Director of Performers’ Forge, a local performance company focusing on the exhibition and education of theatrical interpretations of historical and modern violence.

Kendra Pierce (Asst. Combat Choreographer)
Kendra is so honored to be finally be working with Pork Filled Productions for the first time! She has a BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts. Before college, she grew up in her fathers various Taekwondo studios, watching him teach and would eventually get her 1st degree black belt. That journey transitioned when being introduced to stage fighting at Cornish. From then on, a new passion ignited. Since then, she has been extremely grateful to see her own fight (and dance) choreography on stage with some phenomenal Seattle theater companies.  Being apart of this show specifically has given her an incredible gift. The gift of opportunity to help paint this incredible story of a strong female fighter, nothing could be more important to Kendra at this time. She would like to Send love to this cast, crew, and Stacey Bush for allowing her to honor her father in a way she never thought she’d have the chance to do. Kendra would love to dedicate her work in this show to him, Jack Pierce. He taught her to be a fighter, of course for protection, but also to be a fighter in all aspects of life. To always carry courage, bravery and an indomitable spirit. The Stage combat in this show allows a daughter to feel closer to her father since he left this earth 4 years ago. “This one is for you, pops.” Also, a big thank you to her partner in crime, Brandon, XO! And, Thanks so much to you, the patron, for taking the time and energy to come see this powerful story and having a part in keeping theatre alive! It’s good to see you all again.

Dan Rector (Dramaturg)
Daniel Rector has been working as a dramaturge in Seattle for ten years, most frequently with Pork Filled Productions. He helped develop Maggie Lee’s New Providence trilogy, as well as working with the Unleashed! festival and on She Devil. He is also an author of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with his works appearing in such magazines as Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Mysterion.

Chris Parker (Set Designer)
Chris Parker is a Senior Associate at Board & Vellum Architecture. Originally from Honolulu, Chris received his Doctorate of Architecture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Chris has a varied career including starting his own company, lecturing at Cornell University’s Design & Environmental Analysis program, and serving on numerous boards, most recently Board President of Forward Flux Productions and is currently a Board Director at Shunpike.

Chih-Hung Shao (Lighting Designer)
Chih-Hung, Shao (Lighting Designer) Hometown: Taichung, Taiwan Chih-Hung is a young professional lighting designer in Seattle area. His most recent lighting design was Passage, directed by Adrienne Mackey. Other lighting design credits in the US include A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Jones Playhouse), Women of Lockerbie(Penthouse Theatre), Rosmersholm(Jones Playhouse), What We Were(12th Ave Arts), and Puss In Boots(Centerstage Theatre). Chih-Hung would like to thank everyone who has been part of this creative production for being supportive and inspiring.

Robin Macartney (Props Designer)
Robin Macartney is a Gregory award winning set and props designer who has been fortunate to work with a large number of theatre companies across the Puget sound. She is resident set designer at Theatre off Jackson, as well as being the Scene Shop Supervisor at the  University of Puget Sound. Her last show with PFP was The Brothers Paranormal. 

Josh Valdez (Sound Designer, Producer)
Josh is a multidisciplinary artist and educator in the Greater Seattle area. He has worked with numerous community theatre houses, filmmakers, and musicians alike to create immersive soundscapes and ambient musical scores for new works. Aside from theatre, Josh also serves to support first-generation students in college access/persistence, hosts a community discord server, loves animes, and enjoys DJing every now and then. 

Saleh Matt (Asst. Sound Designer)
Saleh is the assistant sound designer for She-Devil and is a musician/producer on the side. He enjoys working on various soundscape designs and enjoys creating for genres such as electronic, fantasy, punk, hip-hop and neo soul. When he is not producing or learning a new instrument you will find the native Seattlite working in tech, paddleboarding and skating around Greater Seattle.

Cody Smith (Set Builder)

Laura Uyeki (Costume Designer)
Laura Lowe Uyeki is thrilled to be making her designing debut at Pork Filled Productions! She holds a BA in Theater from The University of Puget Sound. Outside of Pork Filled Productions, she has worked on various theater gigs in both the Seattle/Tacoma area and the Bay Area. Currently, she is working as a costume designer for her theater company, Rainy Day Artistic Collective, in their digital adaptation of Cyrano De Bergerac (coming in October 2022). When not at work or working on creative projects with other theater artists, Laura can be found spending time with friends and family, singing, doing yoga and baking. Huge s/o to her partner in crime Jack Conley for being her support system in everything she does.

Stephani Sachs, Puppet Builder
Since 2011, Stephani Sachs has taught 100’s of humans to build puppets. The founder of Half Pint Puppets, Stephani designed and built big, furry costumes for Children’s Educational Theater in Salem, Oregon.  While attending a workshop at The 2nd City in Chicago , she attended an improvised puppet show, and was hooked. Puppets are like a costume for your hand!  Stephani taught puppet building, along with costuming, at the Children’s Educational Theater  until  moving to Seattle with the quest of putting a puppet on every hand in the city!

Chrystal Villamarzo Asst. Costumer
Chrystal is new to the theatre scene, coming out of the cosplay scene.

Anna Shih (she/he) Asst. Lighting Designer
Anna is a rising junior studying drama design and computer science at the University of Washington. She is beyond grateful for this opportunity to work with this talented group of people on such an amazing show. A huge thank you to her family and friends for all of their support. Other productions she has been a part of include: Sweeney Todd (Village Theatre), Passage (UW School of Drama), The Children’s Hour (Undergraduate Theatre Society), Beaver Slurpee (Undergraduate Theatre Society), and The Importance of Being Earnest (UW School of Drama),

Kimberley Le (she/her) Technical Associate, Assistant Stage Manage
is excited to be working with Pork Filled Production as her first post-grad job. A recent alumnus at Seattle U, with a Theater major with Departmental Honors, Le is excited to venture out into the the Seattle theater community and make her mark. She would like to dedicate her first show post-grad to Alex and Lia, for their undue patience; to Sunam, for grounding her; to Jax, for always listening; to Kristine Le, for her sisterhood, and to Emily, for saving her in every way possible. And finally, she would like to thank the “She Devil” and Pork Filled family for their open arms and generosity. Remember you are always worthy of love. Enjoy the show!