Artistic Associates
Dr. Jan Powell
hails from Oregon, where she was the founding Artistic Director of the innovative Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. She has also served as the Producing Artistic Director for Quill Theatre/Richmond Shakespeare, Artistic Director of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and is a past president of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association. She holds Ph.D. and B.A. degrees in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon, and a Masters in Liberal Studies from Reed College. Her professional training was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, and Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Jan has produced and directed most of the Shakespearean canon, including all of the histories.
Melissa Johnston-Price
has been involved in Richmond area theatre for over 35 years as a producer, organizer and actor. On the stage, Melissa has held over 50 roles in her varied career. She was voted Style Weekly’s Favorite Actress for three years and has been nominated five times as Best Actress in both Supporting and Leading Roles and won for her portrayal of Barbara in August: Osage County produced by Cadence Theatre Company in cooperation with Virginia Repertory Theatre. She was the 2014 recipient of the Teresa Pollack Award for Excellence in the Arts. She and her husband, Roger Price, own Whisper Recording and record phone voice prompts for such prominent establishments as the US Federal Government and Bank of America.
Nata Moriconi
has worked as a stage manager for over a decade in Richmond, Virginia. Theatre companies she has worked with include Firehouse Theatre, Cadence Theatre Company, The Children's Theatre at Virginia Repertory Theatre (formally Theatre IV), Sycamore Rouge, Henley Street Theatre Company, and Dogwood Dell. She is Quill Theatre’s Company Stage Manager awhere she has worked on dozens of productions.
Shanea N. Taylor
has an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy/Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently she teaches Theatre Arts at Appomattox Regional Governor’s School. She was the director of education at Sycamore Rouge in Petersburg, was on the theatre faculty at Henrico Center for the Arts, and teaches public speaking and freshman level theatre courses at John Tyler Community college. She has directed numerous productions for: ARGS; SPARC- The Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company; THETC/ Firehouse Theatre; Sycamore Rouge/Richmond Triangle Players; TheatreLab and The Illuminated Stage Theatre Company. Taylor is the current resident director for Quill Theatre’s Festival Young Company.
W. REED WEST III
Professor Emeritus at the University of Richmond, has created light and scenic design for over forty years in the U.S. and Russia. He spent his sabbaticals at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-Upon -Avon, and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. In 2015, he was an assistant to Broadway designer Edward Pierce. Reed has been designing for Quill Theatre since 2017.
CORA delbridge
is a graduate of Fairmont State University earning her BA in Theatre in 2011, studying Costume and Hair/Make-up Design. Recent work includes Costume Designing The Bottom Show, The Great Gatsby, Taming of the Shrew, Red Velvet, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Lysistrata, Love Labors Lost and Top Of Bravery for Quill Theatre, and Ubu 84, at Firehouse Theatre. She spent five years Costume Designing and Shop Managing for Weathervane Playhouse’s 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 summer seasons. she is also the Scenic Charge Artist and a Jack of all trades for Brok Décor International 2014-Present.
Anna Bialkowski
began working as a backstage dresser for Richmond Shakespeare over 15 years ago and stayed with the company through the merge with Henley Street Theatre to form Quill Theatre. She began costume designing in 2014 and has designed shows for several local theaters. Quill design credits include Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (RTCC nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design), The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Dracula, Stupid F**king Bird, American Buffalo, Hamlet (RTCC nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design) and The Lion In Winter.
Andrew Gall
is a multi-disciplinary theatre-maker living in Richmond, VA. Locally, he has worked with the Firehouse Theatre, Richmond Shakespeare Festival and Cadence Theatre. Before coming to Virginia, he co-founded and served as the artistic director of the Wing-and-Groove Theatres in Chicago and Highland Rep in Western NC. He was the Producing Artistic Director for NC's historic Parkway Playhouse for 12 years. He has created theatre from sources as diverse as novels, literature, folk songs, punk rock, and regional history. Andrew has taught performing arts at the undergraduate, graduate, high school, as well as inside correctional facilities. Andrew received his undergraduate degree from Northern Michigan University a Masters Degree from Louisiana Tech University's School of the Performing Arts, and is in progress on an MFA in Playwrighting/Screenwriting from Augsburg University.