EVA LAPORTE (she/her) is a theatre artist from California who has returned to San Antonio after working across the country. She holds an acting degree from the University of Northern Colorado and has studied with the National Theatre Conservatory, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Academy, and the Moscow Art Theatre.
Eva has worked nationally on new play development with playwrights Edward Albee, Philip Dawkins, and Mark Medoff, among others. She has served as the mentor for the Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Highlights as a director include The Surround Project’s Four Places by Joel Drake Johnson and 9 Circles by Bill Cain, Rebecca Gilman’s Dollhouse at Stages Repertory Theatre, and POST by Eric James. San Antonio’s directing highlights include Brilliant Traces**at the San Pedro Playhouse and Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphosis at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre.
As an actor: 100A Productions: Talley’s Folly*; 20% Theatre Co: Outside Agitators(premiere); Main Street Theater: Woof (premiere); Classical Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya, Ubu Roi; Stages Repertory Theatre: Auntie Mame; Texas Repertory Theatre: Crimes of the Heart, Bus Stop, Moon Over Buffalo; Shakespeare Globe Centre of the Southwest: Romeo & Juliet; Classic Theatre: The Glass Menagerie*; Attic Rep: Mr. Marmalade*, Just A Kiss (premiere)*; Church Theatre: Doubt, The Underpants*, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown*: Sheldon Vexler Theatre: The Crucible, Taming of the Shrew, Female Transport, The Clearing, A Company of Wayward Saints, Chinamen/The Two of Us*; San Pedro Playhouse: State Fair, The Women, Carousel, Intimate Apparel, Sky Girls, Lobby Hero.
*Best Actress, Alamo Theatre Arts Council.
**Best Director, Alamo Theatre Arts Council.
JOHN COKER(he/they) is a musician. Training at some of the finest conservatories in the U.S., he’s equally obsessed with the Delta blues, the High Baroque, and noise. Incorporating both minimalism and maximalism, his work is notable for its ability to articulate deep and mysterious subjects.
KAITLIN MUSE(she/her) received her BFA in Dance from Cal State Long Beach in 2009, where she also discovered her love of stagecraft. She has stage-managed, performed, and served as lighting designer at several theaters in San Antonio, as well as in California. She has received two ATAC awards for lighting, for Marriage Play at The Classic Theatre, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the San Pedro Playhouse. She is honored to be “in the band” with Surround Project.
ZACH LEWIS (he/his) is a San Antonio actor and graphic designer. Originally from Houston, he graduated with a BFA in theatre arts from Sam Houston State University and was an Irene Ryan alternate finalist in 2009. After college, he began working in Houston with a variety of companies and in various roles, as an actor and production run crew. Zach has experience in theatre education, working as a stage manager for the Young Actors Conservatory at Stages Repertory Theatre and as a volunteer instructor with the groundbreaking A.B.L.E. Ensemble in Chicago. Acting credits include: Surround Project: 9 Circles; The Classic Theatre of San Antonio: Macbeth, A Doll’s House, School For Scandal; Unity Theatre: I Hate Hamlet; The Landing Theatre: SMUDGE; Back Porch Players: In The Blood; NightCap Theatre: POST by Eric James; Texas Repertory Theatre: Bus Stop and Crimes of the Heart; Stages Repertory Theatre: Auntie Mame; Shakespeare Globe Centre of the Southwest: Romeo & Juliet.
