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include: Ludicrous Theatre and Riddlemark
Theatre. He serves as an artistic associate
with the Tampa Shakespeare Festival. He
received his MFA in Performance from
the University of Southern Mississippi. He
would like to thank his family and friends
for their love and support.
BRIAN SHEA (Antonio)
An actor and filmmaker,
Brian previously performed
in Jobsite Theater’s A
Skull In Connemara.
Other Jobsite productions
include: Time Stands
Still, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and
Spike, The Lonesome West, The 39 Steps,
Mindgame, and Dracula. A recipient
of Creative Loafing’s Best Of The Bay
award, Brian has performed with most of
the professional theaters throughout the
Tampa Bay area. Some of his other credits
include: Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor
(Hat Trick Theater), Waiting For Godot
(Stageworks), The Santaland Diaries, God
Of Carnage, Art, Around The World In 80
Days, August: Osage County (American
Stage), Harvey, The Buffalo Kings (freeFall
Theater), Twelfth Night (Eckerd Theater).
Brian is also the co-producer and lead actor
of the award winning independent feature
film Waiting On Mary, which received the
Gasparilla International Film Festival’s
Audience Selection Best Florida Film
Production 2016 Award and the Intendence
Film Festival Best Comedy Film 2017.
Follow his film’s journey on Facebook,
Twitter, or Instagram.
WARD G. SMITH
(Stephano) is delighted to
back among the Jobsite
fold once again where his
past appearances include:
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia,
What The Butler Saw, We
Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! and The Odd
Couple. Other local stage appearances
include: Comedy of Errors, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest (freeFall) and South
Pacific (St. Pete Opera). As artistic director
for the Heather Theatre, his director credits
include: Private Wars, Two Thirds Home,
The Mountain Top, Race and Disgraced.
Television Guest Star credits include:
Zoo, Nashville, Burn Notice, Army Wives
and Let’s Stay Together. Ward is a proud
member of the Screen Actors Guild and
Actors Equity Association and is honored
to be among this brilliant ensemble.
KATRINA STEVENSON
(Ariel, Costume Design)
most recently appeared
onstage in Cloud Nine as
Ellen/Lin/Mrs. Saunders,
The Great Gatsby as Myrtle,
Psycho Beach Party as
Marvel Ann, The Maids as Claire, in the
title role of Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, and as
Mrs. Van Buren in Intimate Apparel with
American Stage. Other credits include
Richard III (Elizabeth), Much Ado About
Nothing (Beatrice), Lebensraum (Woman),
Twelfth Night (Olivia), Closetland (The
Woman), Crimes of the Heart (Meg), The
Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Dog Sees God
(Tricia), Gorey Stories (Lady Celia), Dead
Man’s Cell Phone (Hermione), Rabbit Hole
(Izzy), Boston Marriage (Anna), and The
Mineola Twins (Myrna/Myra). An awardwinning
costume designer, her costumes
have been seen onstage in Gorey Stories,
The Underpants, Return to the Forbidden
Planet,The Hound of the Baskervilles, The
39 Steps, and many more. Katrina holds
an MFA in Acting from the University of
Florida and a BA in Theatre Arts from the
University of Northern Colorado. When not
at the theatre, Katrina loves flying on aerial
silks and running after her dogs, Tink and
Sherlock.
DREW SMITH (Assistant Director) is
a native of New Brunswick, Canada, and
graduated from Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg. He received a BA with majors
in Theater, Economics, and Business
Management. Some of his favorite roles
include Brad Ellis in Gloucester Blue, Eli in
Studio@620’s Slipping, and J.K. Vardaman
in Powerstories’ Vote.
VIVIAN E. RODRIGUEZ (Stage
Manager) is a USF Alumni with a B.A.
in Theater Arts. She has stage-managed
several productions throughout the bay
area including Gloucester Blue and
Time Stands Still with Jobsite and The
Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt at Tampa
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