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'Tis the Season: Folktales & Fables at B Street Theatre

Dates: (11/23/2024 - 12/15/2024 )

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B Street Theatre


2700 Capitol Ave
Sacramento,CA 95816

Phone: 9164435300

Tickets: $22-$27

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For the past three years, B Street Theatre has changed the way kids celebrate the holidays with our ‘TIS THE SEASON story collections! This time, we’re going back in time to visit the fables and folklore from the many traditions around the world.


Ages: 5+ Required

Cast and Creative team for 'Tis the Season: Folktales & Fables at B Street Theatre

Cast

Stephanie Altholz

ENSEMBLE & PLAYWRIGHT
Stephanie is a B Street Theatre Core Company Member. Recent Mainstage credits include: Charade, Dance Nation, One Man, Two Guvnors, Airness, We’re Gonna Be Okay and The Last Match. She co-starred in and co-wrote Treatment with company members Tara Sissom and Amy Kelly. Upstairs at the B credits include: Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. Other Mainstage credits include: Hand to God, Speed-the-Plow, Handle with Care, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche and The Explorers Club, and many more. Family Series credits include: Tis the Season, Charlotte’s Web, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood, Frankenstein, and others. Regional Theater credits include: Alabaster, Slowgirl, reasons to be pretty, and Clybourne Park (Capital Stage).


Jason Kuykendall

ENSEMBLE
Jason Kuykendall has been a proud member of the B Street Theatre’s Acting Company for over 20 years. He has performed in over 50 productions here, including, The Nibroc Trilogy, The Big Bang, The 39 Steps, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, The Explorers Club, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The House On Haunted Hill, The Last Match, Proclivity for Kiting, and and most recently WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. Favorite regional credits include A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Edmund) and the world premiere of Lanford Wilson’s translation of Henrick Ibsen’s Ghosts (Oswald) with Arizona Theatre Company; Of Mice And Men (Lenny) and The Importance Of Being Earnest (Ernest) with Sacramento Theatre Company; The Elephant Man (Treves), The Country House (Michael), and Around The World In 80 Days(Phileas Fogg) with TheatreWorks; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Brick) with St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Phoenix Theatre; and Les Liaisons Dangerous (Valmont), Ideation (Brock), and Stupid F#%*ing Bird at Capitol Stage. Mr. Kuykendall also produces, directs, and edits for the camera with his wife Elisabeth Nunziato. Visit NKMedia.biz for their feature film, documentary, commercial work and more.


Meher Mistry

ENSEMBLE
Meher is a member of the B Street Theatre Core Acting Company. She is originally from Mumbai, India. Her credits at B Street include Cosmo St.Charles is Dead and Someone In This Room Killed Him, Insertion, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson: APT 2B, Lovers and Executioners, Dance Nation, The Conference of The Birds, ‘Tis the Season and Junie B Jones is not a Crook. Regional credits include Come Fall in Love at The Old Globe, San Diego. She has performed in several productions in Mumbai and other Indian cities, including Disney India’s Beauty and the Beast, Monsoon Wedding, The Truth, Uncle Vanya, The Sound of Music, Lucrece, Jesus Christ Superstar. Television credits include The Week That Wasn’t, Made in Heaven, Good Karma Hospital. Film credits include Silvat, Bansuri, Do Cup Chai. Instagram handle - @mehermistry. Represented by CLA Partners.


Ángel Rodríguez

ENSEMBLE
Ángel Rodríguez is a Sacramento-based artist, thrilled to make his B Street debut with this talented and inspiring team. Deeply involved in the Sacramento theater community, Ángel has contributed to numerous productions in multiple capacities, including acting, writing, directing, designing, and producing, all with a passion for bringing meaningful stories to life and connecting with diverse audiences. As an actor, he has had the privilege of stepping into the shoes of many magical roles, including Beto in THE HOMBRES (Capital Stage), Rafael in CLYDE’S (Capital Stage), René in LYDIA (Teatro Nagual), Chuy in WAITING FOR GODINEZ (Teatro Espejo), and Usnavi in IN THE HEIGHTS (Sacramento State). Ángel has also collaborated with several other local organizations, such as the Latino Center of Arts & Culture, Davis Shakespeare, and Matriarchy Theater. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from Sacramento State. Follow him on Instagram @angelrodriguezloza.


Creative Team

Lyndsay Burch

DIRECTOR
Lyndsay Burch is the Executive Director and CEO of The Sofia: Home of B Street Theatre. For B Street, Lyndsay has directed more than twenty productions across the Mainstage and Family Series, written for multiple touring shows, and produced hundreds of professional productions. As a director and assistant director, Lyndsay has developed new plays with Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, the National Showcase of New Plays, Sacramento Theatre Company, the Dramatist Guild Footlight Series, Hangar Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Group, American Conservatory Theater and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Lyndsay has written two full-length plays for the B Street’s Family Series: Gandhi! (2018) and an adaption of The Wizard of Oz (2019). She was honored as one of Sacramento Business Journal’s “40 under 40” in 2017 and as one of Sacramento Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” in 2021. She is an alum of Elon University’s BFA Acting Program, the National Theater Institute, Yale University’s Directing Intensive, SDC’s Observership Class of 2017 and Theatre Bay Area’s ATLAS Program for Directors. Lyndsay serves as the President of the National New Play Network (NNPN). Locally, Lyndsay is a proud member of Point West Rotary (PWR) and she is a graduate of Leadership Sacramento, Class of 2020. Lyndsay lives in Sacramento with her dog Manny and her partner Tommy. She would like to extend her thanks to the B Street board, staff, company and audiences for their endless support.


Dana Brooke

PLAYWRIGHT
DANA BROOKE is an actor and playwright based in NYC. She is a Company Member at B Street Theatre, where she has appeared in CONSTELLATIONS, IRONBOUND, VENUS IN FUR, OTHER DESERT CITIES, THE REALISTIC JONESES, OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, among others. In New York, she has worked opposite Chita Rivera, Mike Birbiglia, Reed Birney, Arthur Laurents, and has performed with New Light Theatre Project (Company Member), The Journey Company, Cardinal Group, The Lark, New Circle Theatre Company, and NYCFringe. Regional: George Street Playhouse, New Jersey Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Repertory, Playhouse on Park, Valdez Theatre Conference, NNPN’s National Showcase of New Plays, and Edinburgh Fringe. Film/TV: “Laura Gets A Cat” (Amazon; Best Actress Reno Tahoe International Film Festival), “Not Your Year” (Amazon), “Damages” (FX), “Ed” (NBC), and “Canterbury's Law” (FOX). www.danabrooke.com


Alyssa Haddad-Chin

PLAYWRIGHT
Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a playwright, educator, and arts administrator from NY. She is the 2024 Playwright-in-Residence at SPARC New Voices, a 2024 Premiere Stages Finalist, and a 2022/23 Writing Fellow at The Playwrights Realm. Other plays include THE ANCESTRY DOT COM PLAY (Semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Terrence McNally New Play Incubator. Finalist: American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award) OFF-WHITE; OR THE ARAB HOUSE PARTY PLAY (NYTW Mondays @ 3 Reading Series, Semifinalist: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, Princess Grace Award, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival. Finalist: Amphibian SparkFest 2023, The Playwrights Realm 2021/22 Writing Fellowship, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship) and others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. alyssahaddad.com


Sean Patrick Nill

PLAYWRIGHT
Sean Patrick Nill is Artistic Associate and Company Manager at the B Street Theatre. B Street Writing Credits include: Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘Tis the Season: A Celebration of Holiday Stories, Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI, Mind Boggling Mysteries of the World, and Mathematical Madness. Directing Credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Wide Open, A Year with Frog & Toad, Proclivity for Kiting, and Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI. His plays have been produced by the Sacramento Theatre Company, B Street Theatre, Dramatist's Guild's San Francisco Footlight Series, Rover Dramawerks, Theatre InspiraTO festival, Watermelon One Act Festival, M.T. Pockets Theatre, Torent Theatre, and the Manhattan Repertory Theatre. His play, Kings of America was a finalist for the Davey Foundation Theatre Grant given by the Salt Lake Acting Company, his play An Ordinary Woman was published in Stage It! Ten Minute Plays: 2017 Edition,and his play Brynlee & the Bull won the Audience Choice Award at the InspiroTO 10 Minute Play Festival in Canada.


Tara Sissom-Pittaro

PLAYWRIGHT
Tara is thrilled to be directing again! She previously directed the 2022 New Comedies Festival winner, Insertion, for the Mainstage last summer. She serves in administration as the Theatre for Young Audiences Manager and is a member of the B Street Theatre Acting Company. Recent Mainstage credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong, Proclivity for Kiting, Byhalia, Mississippi, The Ladies Foursome, Airness, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The House On Haunted Hill and One Man, Two Guvnors. Recent Playwriting credits include: Rescue Me, Ride Sally, Ride and Treatment. Tara is a member of the Upstairs at the B improv group Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. A founding member of The New Colony in Chicago, Tara also performed in The Goodman Theatre’s production of The Iceman Cometh at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tara holds a BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University.


Peter Story

PLAYWRIGHT
A former intern, Peter has acted on the B Street stages for over 20 years and is a proud B Street Core Company Member. This year you may have seen him in Lovers & Executioners or A Great Migration. Some of his favorite B Street credits include One Man, Two Guvnors; Byhalia, Mississippi; The Forever Question and Ironbound. Local credits include Luna Gale (Capital Stage) & Five Course Love (Sacramento Theatre Co.) Other regional credits include Surviving Sex (Garry Marshall Theatre) & the national tour of the one-man Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Some on-camera favorites are CSI, Without a Trace, and Days of Our Lives. @thepeterstory




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