Archives: Team Members
Alexandria Moorman
ALEXANDRIA MOORMAN (she/her) makes her Victory Gardens debut with cullud wattah! Selected Chicago credits: What to Send Up When it Goes Down (Congo Square Theatre), The Before Haiti Project (HAMOC), Wolves (Exit 63), Mother of the Dark Water (IMPAACT), Tubman: Road to Freedom, Christmas Carol (GreatWorks Touring Co). Short films: How to Re-caulk your Tub dir. Sean Pierce (Best INTL Short, Calgary Underground FF), Mid 30s Martyr dir. Eliaz Rodriguez (Best Actress Short, Austin Revolution FF & others). She’s written and produced several sketch and improv shows at The Second City, iO, The Annoyance, CiC, Newport Theater, among others. She attended Emerson College, graduated w/ a BFA in Acting and teaches with VG, CPS, Mudlark Theatre & GreatWorks. Her advocacy work is focused on diversity and accessibility within Chicago theatre, learn more @chicagoartistguide.org. She’s returning this fall in Congo Square’s critically acclaimed, Jeff-recommended play, What to Send Up When It Goes Down at Lookingglass.
Connor Sale
CONNOR SALE (he/him) is an Arizona native who recently graduated from Columbia College Chicago. His recent design credits include Sea Change at the MCA (Cabinet of Curiosity), When There are Nine (Pride Arts Center), House of the Exquisite Corpse (Rough House Theater), Alexithymia (Third Mask Festival), and Above the Water (Third Mask Festival). He was the Lighting Design Intern on the Broadway transfer of The Sound Inside—which was nominated for the Tony award for Best Lighting Design of a Play in 2020. Additionally, his installation work, There’s Coca-Cola in the Soil and the Sugar Rush Will Only Last So Long, was at the C33 Gallery last winter as part of the HYPERLINK show. He enjoys absurd ballet, chandeliers that suspiciously sway, and low maintenance house plants that look nice. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com.
Ryan Dobrin
RYAN DOBRIN (he/him) Recent credits include Caryl Churchill’s A Number (The Drama League), Joe DiPietro & David Bryan’s Diana, The Musical (associate director to dir. Christopher Ashley, Broadway), Bess Wohl’s Continuity (Fordham University), Hart Fargo’s The Annihilation of Je$$ie: an Anthology (Atlantic Acting School); Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime (NYU Experimental Theatre Wing); Eboni Booth’s Conference Room B (Atlantic Acting School); Daniel Goldstein & Dawn Landes’ Row (associate director to dir. Tyne Rafaeli, WTF), Jack Spagnola’s You and Me and the Space Between (feat. Michaela Watkins and Mark Feuerstein, Playdate Theatre); Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman (Access Theater); Daphne Gampel’s Above the Noise (Dixon Place); She’s a Witch! (The Tank), and projects with Ars Nova, EST, Breaking & Entering, A4, and Waterwell. Upcoming work includes his phone-based short film The Homiesexuals: A Social Media Tragedy written by Gage Tarlton, Ryan Drake’s you don’t have to do anything, and assisting director Sam Gold on the world premiere of Will Arbery’s Corsicana at Playwrights Horizons. Ryan is one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of Obie Award-winning The Movement Theatre Company, a Drama League Directing Fellow, a member of the 2020-2022 Roundabout Directors Group, and one-half of Those Guilty Creatures alongside Carina Goebelbecker. Previous fellowships include Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, and NAMT. Additional associate/assisting credits include Trip Cullman, Margot Bordelon, Shira Milikowsky, and Miranda Haymon. ryandobrin.com.
Shandee Vaughan
SHANDEE VAUGHAN (she/her) makes her Victory Gardens debut with In Every Generation. Shandee is a production manager and AEA stage manager from Arizona. Other Chicago credits include: It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!, Roan @ the Gates, Five Presidents, The Spitfire Grill, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, On Clover Road, The Buddy Holly Story, Little Shop of Horrors (American Blues Theater), Night in Alachua County, The Woman in Black (Wildclaw Theatre) and Time Is On Our Side (About Face Theatre). Between projects she continues to travel, longboard, and play music along her conure, Piper. shandeevaughan.com