The Dacha Team
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Kate Drummond - Artistic Director, Founder
She/Her Kate Drummond is a director, producer, intimacy director, teaching artist, and actor. She is a graduate of the Seattle Children's Theatre Teaching Apprenticeship, and has a BA in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis. In Seattle, Kate works with the Pacific Northwest Theatrical Intimacy collective, and teaches with the 5th Avenue Rising Star Project, Book-It's StoryMakers, and Seattle Rep's Public Works, among others. She is passionate about good jokes, consent-based rehearsal rooms, and brave leaps – her work is born of all three. Kate is currently pursuing her MFA in Directing at the University of Washington. Past Dacha credits include: Creator/Director of Star Play; Director of Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea, Secret Admirer, Yarn: Unraveled, The Light Princess, Quick Bright Things, Dice: Twelfth Night; Ensemble Director of Dice: Hamlet, Dice: As You Like It, Pride & PrejuDICE, Dice: Romeo & Juliet; Intimacy Director for The Moors, Metamorphoses, the Dice series; Juliet in Dream Things True; Nina in The Seagull. |
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Mike Lion - Artistic Director, Founder
He/Him Mike is a director, actor, and Russian translator. He concentrated in Theatre at Hampshire College and created an immersive adaptation of Hamlet as his thesis. He frequently directs in non-traditional spaces, working to blur the line between audiences and performers. Mike is drawn to physical theatre and has trained in Commedia dell’Arte, American Melodrama, Suzuki Movement, Slapstick, and Clown. He works as an Admin Assistant and Improv Coach at Youth Theatre Northwest. Past Dacha credits include: Creator/Director of Dears in Headlights; Streaming Director for :robot_face:, Secret Admirer; Director of The Moors, Metamorphoses, Who Killed Otter's Babies?; Director/Dice Keeper of Dice Keeper: Twelfth Night, Ensemble in Dice: Twelfth Night, Dice: As You Like It, Pride & PrejuDICE, Dice: Romeo & Juliet; Ensemble Director of Dice: Hamlet; Puck in Quick Bright Things; Associate Director of The Veil, Assistant Director of Ghost Party; Director/Translator of The Snow Queen; Director/Writer of An Awfully Big Adventure; |
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Emily Huntingford - Director of Development, she/her
Emily received a BA in Theatre from Whitman College and has been in Seattle for three years performing throughout the city. A lover of classical theatre, she has memorized the entirety of Hamlet, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night and has acted with Fern Shakespeare Company, GreenStage, WET, Taproot, and Key City Public Theatre. She has also performed with the UMO Ensemble in Falling Awake at ACT Lab and Burien Actors Theatre. Most recently she understudied The Moors at the University of Washington. Past Dacha credits include: Bessie in Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea; Kayla in (F)unfair, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing; Assistant Director/Swing in Star Play; B.F.F.2000 in Secret Admirer; Host in :robot_face:; Moor-Hen in The Moors, Ensemble in Dice Keeper: Twelfth Night, Dice: Romeo & Juliet, Dice: Hamlet, Dice: As You Like It, and Pride & PrejuDICE, Lifting Ensemble in The Light Princess, Peaseblossom in Quick Bright Things |
Orianna O'Neill - Director of Audience Services, she/her
Ori has been producing with Dacha since 2019. From Portland, OR and an alumna of Beloit College, Ori has previously been a company member with Dacha, and has stage managed or acted in 8 productions over the last three years. Ori is frequently heard as a vocal performer with Viva Vocalists, Saint Marks Cathedral Choir, and The Esoterics, where she is a Board Member. In her daytime life, Ori is the elementary music and performing arts specialist at Giddens School, and is frequently heard bothering her coworkers by playing the recorder. Past Dacha credits include: Voyager/Andromeda in Star Play; Stage Manager for Dice: As You Like It, Pride & PrejuDICE, Ghost Party, The Light Princess, Quick Bright Things; Flopsy (Lost Boy) in An Awfully Big Adventure, Production Manager for Orpheus & Euridice |
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Haley Thomas — Co-Production Director, she/her
Haley Thomas is a stage manager and house manager from Charleston, SC. During her time in Seattle, Haley has house managed for Seattle Rep and the University of Washington, where she currently works. Prior to her move to Seattle Haley was an Assistant Stage Manager for the Savannah Voice Festival (The Barber of Seville) as well as Production Intern for The Goodman Theatre’s Santaland Diaries. Past Dacha credits include: Assistant Director for (F)unfair; Stage Manager for Secret Admirer, Star Play, Dice: Romeo & Juliet, Dice Keeper: Twelfth Night; Production Manager for Girls School Memory Play |
Daisy Schreiber - Co-Production Director, she/her
Daisy is an actor, writer, administrator, stage manager, eldest daughter, and always happy to help out. Currently a student at the University of Washington, and a lifelong Seattleite, she is profoundly grateful to call the PNW home. Daisy cares deeply about honest stories that unearth unexpected commonalities, attempts to approach her artistry with tremendous love and gratitude for those around her, and admits that she's a sucker for a happy ending. She thinks often of the ways bodies construct meaning onstage, and aims to tell stories that soften the barbs we turn on ourselves. Outside of rehearsal Daisy works at a small cookie bakery, video-chats with her cats, and always wants a hug. Past Dacha credits include Production Manager for Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea. |
Nate Olson — Director of Finance & Administration, he/him
Nate is a Stage Manager, happy to be back in his hometown of Seattle after several years in New York. He has previously stage managed for NYU's Law Revue and several productions while a student at Whitman College. He loves singing and watching the magic of theater come together during the production process. During his daytime hours, Nate is an attorney and spends his free time reading or playing tabletop games. Past Dacha credits include: Stage Manager for Much Ado About Nothing, (F)unfair, An Incomplete List...; Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea |
Technical Director: Kyle Levien
PR/Marketing Manager (The Master & Margarita): Audrey Herold Production Manager (The Master & Margarita): Ayla Wren Wallace Artistic Producers: Community & Company Engagement: Paula Wilson Nitka Literary Management: Danielle Mohlman Associate Producers: Audience Services: Hannah Votel, Patrick Hogan Company: Steph Couturier Community Engagement: James Schilling Finance/Administration: Kristina Roy Literary Management: Beth Pollack PR/Marketing: Valerie Miller, Henry Behrens Stock Management: Ro Miller |
