Monday Nights Theatre Co. - Inaugural Season
Waterbury, Vermont | Theatre
Comedy, Drama
Monday Nights Theatre Co. is a group of artists bringing live theatre and educational workshops to a community near you! Help us fund our inaugural season in Waterbury Center, VT, which includes 2 plays: GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph and ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare.
Monday Nights Theatre Co. - Inaugural Season
Waterbury, Vermont | Theatre
Comedy, Drama
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Monday Nights Theatre Co. is a group of artists bringing live theatre and educational workshops to a community near you! Help us fund our inaugural season in Waterbury Center, VT, which includes 2 plays: GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph and ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
It's feeling pretty rough out there right now. Most days we're looking at our screens a majority of the time, where social media makes it seem like we're connected, when really we're losing touch with each other. Plus, jobs in TV, film, and theatre have been on a steady decline for years now.
We've gotten together to make something that feels joyful and actually brings human beings together into the same physical space. We want to connect urban and rural communities by creating jobs for artists, putting on engaging play productions, and offering accessible educational workshops (see below for details!).
Theatre is immediate, ephemeral, alive, chaotic, tangible, imaginative, vibrant; it allows you to engage in big questions, and sparks conversation; it is one of the oldest art forms for a reason, and our small way, we want to honor that tradition, and bring it along into the future.
Combined, MNTC co-founding members have over fifty years of experience working in theatre, film, and TV. We’ve performed at The Public Theatre in New York; the Young Vic in London; and at The Groundlings in L.A.; you may have seen us at Just For Laughs, the Hollywood Fringe, or the New York Fringe; beyond the stage, we have appeared on HBO, CBS, Showtime, and Amazon Prime. We’ve created our own web series, TV series, solo shows and devised theatre pieces.
We are passionate about theatre as a collaborative and inclusive art form that allows for human beings to gather in supportive and joyful ways. Rooted in our community, we celebrate local voices, contribute to the local economy through creative partnerships, and offer educational workshops.
Check out the Team tab for more details on our company members and casts!
We are headed to Waterbury Center, VT, for our first season as a company! It is our intention to bring theatre to places that maybe don't have as much access to it the way that bigger urban areas do. In an attempt to connect with people in the community and share our knowledge, we also plan to offer educational workshops that pull on our individual strengths and experiences as actors, directors, and teachers.
This year, our season includes:
*Denotes MNTC Company Member
The plays will be running in rep the last two weeks of July, 2026, Thursday through Sunday, at Grange Hall Cultural Center.
Grange Hall Cultural Center is a multi-use performing arts center located in Waterbury, Center Vermont. Nestled in between Stowe and Montpelier it’s slightly off the beaten path but surrounded by a rich and lively community that serves as the heartbeat for this venue. It’s charming in its history, versatile in its floor plan and is smaller in size, making it the perfect starting point venue for us.
Our workshops and special events will be offered throughout the same two weeks as the play productions at various locations in central Vermont.
IMPROV with Emily Day Blackwell
Learn how to let loose without a script - it's just you, your fellow actors, the stage, and your imagination. Yes, and!
SHAKESPEARE IS FOR EVERYONE! with Kristina Mueller Taylor Jackson Ross
Get into some iambic pentameter, line endings, and antithesis - it's not as scary as it sounds! Discover how accessible and fun the old Bard's words can actually be (ruff not included).
POETRY IN PERFORMANCE (Masterclass) with Kristina Mueller and Amy Beth Sisson
Are you a poet who has always wanted to read your work aloud in front of others? This is the class for you! Discover how to paint a performative picture of your poetry with vowel sounds, plosives, different voices, and even body movement.
ACTING FOR THE CAMERA and CONTEMPORARY ACTING with Annie Chang
Good acting is good acting - this workshop will cover contemporary acting techniques along with ways to shift your performance for the camera.
OUR PLACE AS NATURE
An evening of poetry with Sarah Audsley, Amy Beth Sisson & Rose Fairley
Amidst the dual existential crises of climate and biodiversity, what can poets and poetry teach us about being human and connecting as members of the natural world? Poet Amy Beth and naturalist Rose Fairley are curating this evening of poetry featuring poet Sarah Audsley, poet and Vermonter. MNTC company members will read selections from Audley's collection Landlock X (Texas A&M University Press) alongside poems by Franny Choi, Louise Glück, Ross Gay, Ocean Vuong and Emily Dickinson. (Can you say ABBA? (And we don't mean that Swedish pop group...)
Here is a breakdown of how we will be using your generous donations. Please also check out our Wishlist items - if you or anyone you know are able to loan us items on that list, simply click the "loan" option and we will be in touch!
This campaign allows us to not only launch an inaugural season of shows and workshops but also set the stage (if you will) for future seasons, which means opportunities for future artists.
While 30k is our goal, 50k is what we would need to pay our incredibly talented artists and crew, transform into a 501c3, and be on the right foot for the second season so that MNTC has a solid future. If we hit our bare bones goal, we will have an exclusive livestream of a scene from each of our plays in our social media in celebration!
We appreciate any support, including just following the campaign and our socials and sharing with your friends!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Flights to Vermont
Costs $4,800
If we can't fly the cast and crew there, we can't do the show!
Housing
Costs $10,000
We want to be able to give actors, directors and crew at least their own rooms for two and a half weeks for tech and the run of the show.
Team Per Diem
Costs $5,800
This will cover a low per diem for each out of town member to be able to eat while away.
Grange Hall Cultural Center Venue Fee
Costs $3,000
The owner of Grange Hall has generously lowered her normal rate to promote having art in this beautiful space!
Rehearsal Space
Costs $1,000
We need space for both plays to rehearse in LA.
Local Vermont Stage Crew
Costs $1,000
We will need help with lights, sound, and stage managing the shows during the run.
Props
Costs $300
We will be attempting to find items in the most earth friendly, sustainable way.
Costumes
Costs $400
We will be sourcing these in the most sustainable way possible with the hope of thrifting as much as we can.
Car Rental
Costs $2,000
We need to be able to transport the actors/crew from housing to the venue for tech and shows.
Licensing Costs
Costs $600
Because Gruesome Playground Injuries is a modern play, we have to pay for licensing rights.
Liability Insurance
Costs $200
We cannot rent the venue without insurance.
Marketing Costs
Costs $900
We have to get people to know who we are to get butts in seats - this covers things like posters, flyers, postcards, and a website.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries
Juliet et al in Romeo & Juliet
Emily Day Blackwell is an LA-based actor, writer, comedian, and clown. Her credits include The Brother’s Sun, Roomies, Here for the Weekend, and her one-woman improvised show Show ’Em Your Best! She was featured in the Just For Laughs New Faces: Characters showcase and performs improv and sketch comedy at The Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Lyric Hyperion.
You can also find her character comedy on social media (@emilydayblackwell), where she continues the noble art of being weird online. When she’s not playing make-believe, she’s snuggling her fur baby Gigi or fixating on how to reduce plastic waste—one reusable paper towel at a time.
While she admits it’s a little strange to write about herself in the third person, Emily is deeply grateful for your support of Monday Nights Theatre Company and for helping keep the magic of theatre alive—because nothing quite compares to the unbridled chaos, joy, and human connection of live theatre. So, thank you!
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Director, Gruesome Playground Injuries
Annie Chang was born in Orange County, CA but learned to become a tolerable human being in NYC after proudly graduating from NYU Tisch where she attended none of her general ed courses. Her first theatre jobs included a world premiere of Wild Swans at the Young Vic and A.R.T. as well as 4,000 Miles at Studio Theatre.
She was selected for the ABC Diversity Showcase in NY and the NBC Diversity Showcase in LA. She’s been a series regular in television pilots with Fox and Showtime that never went to series, so nobody will ever see when she acted alongside Jane Krakowski, David Cross, Amy Sedaris, Rachel Dratch and Ben Schwartz. Some other credits include Peacemaker on HBO, Interior Chinatown on Hulu, and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber on Showtime. Her friends get most excited though by her commercials while her parents continuously wonder how she still has health insurance.
This year will be Annie’s directing debut (we’re not going to count the production of Midsummer Night’s Dream in 6th grade or West Side Story in high school) and she is thrilled to create something that brings her back to her first love of theatre.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
In 2020, Rose established Plant Friends, a community ecology studio, to connect people with local ecosystems through craft, ecology studies and native garden design. The question: How do we take care of ourselves and the earth as one? Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
Rose has been a guest instructor for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy, the San Dimas Nature Center, and the Weaver’s Croft (formerly the Marshfield School of Weaving). She is a participant in the Vermont Master Naturalist program through the North Branch Nature Center and a UC-ANR Certified California Naturalist and a Certified California Native Landscaper. Rose lives in Washington County, Vermont where she has been very slowly repairing a Victorian-era house with her partner.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Director, Romeo & Juliet
Kristina Mueller is an actress, VO artist, writer and director based in Los Angeles, CA, and a founding member of Monday Nights Theatre Co. Raised half in the beautiful city of Munich and half in the States, she is fluent in both English and German. She is an NYU/Tisch and RADA (London) alum, has studied improv at UCB and The Groundlings, and is a long-time attendee of the Shakespeare Forum (in NYC and now also in LA!).
One of her favorite experiences thus far was playing Rose in Grasses Of A Thousand Colors at The Public Theatre, written by and starring Wallace Shawn and directed by André Gregory. Both seasons of her award winning web series, BE, which she created, wrote, produced and starred in with her friend Calaine Schafer, are available to watch at www.BEtheseries.com. Season 1 was an official selection of 7 film festivals and was broadcast on BRIC TV. She was also the founder of The Reuptake Project, a devised theatre initiative, which aims to raise awareness for and end the stigmas around depression and mental illness. She has performed Shakespeare in many bars, on outdoor stages, in London, in a basement in Germany, and possibly in your living room. She passionately believes in theatre and film as wonderfully collaborative creative endeavors that can change atoms around and maybe even make your heart grow a few sizes.
For other current projects & updates, visit www.k-mueller.com.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Doug in Gruesome Playground Injuries
Mercutio et al in Romeo & Juliet
P.K. Simone is a Los Angeles–based actor and award-winning filmmaker, best known as the creator and star of The Red Rob Roy Show. He also voiced the demon Grekt in the fantasy feature Age of Stone and Sky: The Sorcerer Beast, starring Jeffrey Combs and Corey Feldman.
His additional screen credits include playing Van Herron on the Amazon series Countdown opposite Jensen Ackles, an appearance in the acclaimed independent film Palm Trees and Power Lines, and the lead role of Sam Lockhart on the television series The Wild West Chronicles.
Having spent many summers in Vermont, P.K. has long considered the state a second home. He is especially excited that his theatrical debut with The Monday Nights Theater Company will bring him back to the Mad River Valley, where he looks forward to sharing his passion for the arts with the local community.
In addition to his work on screen and stage, P.K. creates comedy content on social media @p.k.simone, where several of his sketches have gone viral. His most popular video has garnered more than 12 million views.
Romeo et al in Romeo & Juliet
Chau Long is 5'10 and tired all the time.
He under-salts his eggs and over-thinks everything else.
If he wasn't an actor, he'd be asleep.
Chau is so grateful to Monday Night's Theatre Co. for allowing him to be a part of a such an incredible production, and to work with such a talented group of artists.
Benvolio et al in Romeo & Juliet
Justin Syas is a classically trained actor born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. An avid Shakespeare acolyte, Justin is most proud of his drama studies done in England at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) and the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Hailed for possessing a kaleidoscopic voice, he has recently been seen as Menenius in BADA’s production of Coriolanus and as Cleopatra in LAMDA’s production of Antony and Cleopatra. Also an earthy, unbridled actor-mover, he religiously works through the realms of improvised movement, The Viewpoints, Suzuki Method, Commedia dell’Arte and The Four Elements. You can catch him thrashing and slithering as a Witch ensemble member and Lennox in Red Ink Ensemble’s upcoming sold-out production of Macbeth! Along with acting, Justin is also a distinguished classical pianist (BM: Piano Performance), having played for 17 years, and a fervent writer, particularly having a profound fondness for poetry and playwriting. He is currently working on his upcoming book of poems, containing 100 modern sonnets in the style of Shakespeare. @justinsyas
Nurse et al in Romeo & Juliet
Taylor Jackson Ross is an actress specializing in stage and immersive projects, and a voiceover artist. She hails from the sun baked fever dream of Los Angeles and graduated from UC Irvine. Previous credits include ten years of outdoor summer Shakespeare at Theatricum Botanicum and six years of immersive work with Meyer2Meyer Entertainment Inc, featuring interactive projects for for FX, AppleTV+, and Disney. She is represented by CESD Talent Agency, voiceovers department.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
It's feeling pretty rough out there right now. Most days we're looking at our screens a majority of the time, where social media makes it seem like we're connected, when really we're losing touch with each other. Plus, jobs in TV, film, and theatre have been on a steady decline for years now.
We've gotten together to make something that feels joyful and actually brings human beings together into the same physical space. We want to connect urban and rural communities by creating jobs for artists, putting on engaging play productions, and offering accessible educational workshops (see below for details!).
Theatre is immediate, ephemeral, alive, chaotic, tangible, imaginative, vibrant; it allows you to engage in big questions, and sparks conversation; it is one of the oldest art forms for a reason, and our small way, we want to honor that tradition, and bring it along into the future.
Combined, MNTC co-founding members have over fifty years of experience working in theatre, film, and TV. We’ve performed at The Public Theatre in New York; the Young Vic in London; and at The Groundlings in L.A.; you may have seen us at Just For Laughs, the Hollywood Fringe, or the New York Fringe; beyond the stage, we have appeared on HBO, CBS, Showtime, and Amazon Prime. We’ve created our own web series, TV series, solo shows and devised theatre pieces.
We are passionate about theatre as a collaborative and inclusive art form that allows for human beings to gather in supportive and joyful ways. Rooted in our community, we celebrate local voices, contribute to the local economy through creative partnerships, and offer educational workshops.
Check out the Team tab for more details on our company members and casts!
We are headed to Waterbury Center, VT, for our first season as a company! It is our intention to bring theatre to places that maybe don't have as much access to it the way that bigger urban areas do. In an attempt to connect with people in the community and share our knowledge, we also plan to offer educational workshops that pull on our individual strengths and experiences as actors, directors, and teachers.
This year, our season includes:
*Denotes MNTC Company Member
The plays will be running in rep the last two weeks of July, 2026, Thursday through Sunday, at Grange Hall Cultural Center.
Grange Hall Cultural Center is a multi-use performing arts center located in Waterbury, Center Vermont. Nestled in between Stowe and Montpelier it’s slightly off the beaten path but surrounded by a rich and lively community that serves as the heartbeat for this venue. It’s charming in its history, versatile in its floor plan and is smaller in size, making it the perfect starting point venue for us.
Our workshops and special events will be offered throughout the same two weeks as the play productions at various locations in central Vermont.
IMPROV with Emily Day Blackwell
Learn how to let loose without a script - it's just you, your fellow actors, the stage, and your imagination. Yes, and!
SHAKESPEARE IS FOR EVERYONE! with Kristina Mueller Taylor Jackson Ross
Get into some iambic pentameter, line endings, and antithesis - it's not as scary as it sounds! Discover how accessible and fun the old Bard's words can actually be (ruff not included).
POETRY IN PERFORMANCE (Masterclass) with Kristina Mueller and Amy Beth Sisson
Are you a poet who has always wanted to read your work aloud in front of others? This is the class for you! Discover how to paint a performative picture of your poetry with vowel sounds, plosives, different voices, and even body movement.
ACTING FOR THE CAMERA and CONTEMPORARY ACTING with Annie Chang
Good acting is good acting - this workshop will cover contemporary acting techniques along with ways to shift your performance for the camera.
OUR PLACE AS NATURE
An evening of poetry with Sarah Audsley, Amy Beth Sisson & Rose Fairley
Amidst the dual existential crises of climate and biodiversity, what can poets and poetry teach us about being human and connecting as members of the natural world? Poet Amy Beth and naturalist Rose Fairley are curating this evening of poetry featuring poet Sarah Audsley, poet and Vermonter. MNTC company members will read selections from Audley's collection Landlock X (Texas A&M University Press) alongside poems by Franny Choi, Louise Glück, Ross Gay, Ocean Vuong and Emily Dickinson. (Can you say ABBA? (And we don't mean that Swedish pop group...)
Here is a breakdown of how we will be using your generous donations. Please also check out our Wishlist items - if you or anyone you know are able to loan us items on that list, simply click the "loan" option and we will be in touch!
This campaign allows us to not only launch an inaugural season of shows and workshops but also set the stage (if you will) for future seasons, which means opportunities for future artists.
While 30k is our goal, 50k is what we would need to pay our incredibly talented artists and crew, transform into a 501c3, and be on the right foot for the second season so that MNTC has a solid future. If we hit our bare bones goal, we will have an exclusive livestream of a scene from each of our plays in our social media in celebration!
We appreciate any support, including just following the campaign and our socials and sharing with your friends!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Flights to Vermont
Costs $4,800
If we can't fly the cast and crew there, we can't do the show!
Housing
Costs $10,000
We want to be able to give actors, directors and crew at least their own rooms for two and a half weeks for tech and the run of the show.
Team Per Diem
Costs $5,800
This will cover a low per diem for each out of town member to be able to eat while away.
Grange Hall Cultural Center Venue Fee
Costs $3,000
The owner of Grange Hall has generously lowered her normal rate to promote having art in this beautiful space!
Rehearsal Space
Costs $1,000
We need space for both plays to rehearse in LA.
Local Vermont Stage Crew
Costs $1,000
We will need help with lights, sound, and stage managing the shows during the run.
Props
Costs $300
We will be attempting to find items in the most earth friendly, sustainable way.
Costumes
Costs $400
We will be sourcing these in the most sustainable way possible with the hope of thrifting as much as we can.
Car Rental
Costs $2,000
We need to be able to transport the actors/crew from housing to the venue for tech and shows.
Licensing Costs
Costs $600
Because Gruesome Playground Injuries is a modern play, we have to pay for licensing rights.
Liability Insurance
Costs $200
We cannot rent the venue without insurance.
Marketing Costs
Costs $900
We have to get people to know who we are to get butts in seats - this covers things like posters, flyers, postcards, and a website.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries
Juliet et al in Romeo & Juliet
Emily Day Blackwell is an LA-based actor, writer, comedian, and clown. Her credits include The Brother’s Sun, Roomies, Here for the Weekend, and her one-woman improvised show Show ’Em Your Best! She was featured in the Just For Laughs New Faces: Characters showcase and performs improv and sketch comedy at The Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Lyric Hyperion.
You can also find her character comedy on social media (@emilydayblackwell), where she continues the noble art of being weird online. When she’s not playing make-believe, she’s snuggling her fur baby Gigi or fixating on how to reduce plastic waste—one reusable paper towel at a time.
While she admits it’s a little strange to write about herself in the third person, Emily is deeply grateful for your support of Monday Nights Theatre Company and for helping keep the magic of theatre alive—because nothing quite compares to the unbridled chaos, joy, and human connection of live theatre. So, thank you!
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Director, Gruesome Playground Injuries
Annie Chang was born in Orange County, CA but learned to become a tolerable human being in NYC after proudly graduating from NYU Tisch where she attended none of her general ed courses. Her first theatre jobs included a world premiere of Wild Swans at the Young Vic and A.R.T. as well as 4,000 Miles at Studio Theatre.
She was selected for the ABC Diversity Showcase in NY and the NBC Diversity Showcase in LA. She’s been a series regular in television pilots with Fox and Showtime that never went to series, so nobody will ever see when she acted alongside Jane Krakowski, David Cross, Amy Sedaris, Rachel Dratch and Ben Schwartz. Some other credits include Peacemaker on HBO, Interior Chinatown on Hulu, and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber on Showtime. Her friends get most excited though by her commercials while her parents continuously wonder how she still has health insurance.
This year will be Annie’s directing debut (we’re not going to count the production of Midsummer Night’s Dream in 6th grade or West Side Story in high school) and she is thrilled to create something that brings her back to her first love of theatre.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
In 2020, Rose established Plant Friends, a community ecology studio, to connect people with local ecosystems through craft, ecology studies and native garden design. The question: How do we take care of ourselves and the earth as one? Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
Rose Fairley is native garden designer working to create beautiful and biodiverse gardens in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southern California. An alumna of NYU’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting alongside Annie Chang & Kristina Mueller, Rose returns to her first artistic home (theater!) as a catalyst for this first season in Vermont.
Rose has been a guest instructor for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy, the San Dimas Nature Center, and the Weaver’s Croft (formerly the Marshfield School of Weaving). She is a participant in the Vermont Master Naturalist program through the North Branch Nature Center and a UC-ANR Certified California Naturalist and a Certified California Native Landscaper. Rose lives in Washington County, Vermont where she has been very slowly repairing a Victorian-era house with her partner.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Director, Romeo & Juliet
Kristina Mueller is an actress, VO artist, writer and director based in Los Angeles, CA, and a founding member of Monday Nights Theatre Co. Raised half in the beautiful city of Munich and half in the States, she is fluent in both English and German. She is an NYU/Tisch and RADA (London) alum, has studied improv at UCB and The Groundlings, and is a long-time attendee of the Shakespeare Forum (in NYC and now also in LA!).
One of her favorite experiences thus far was playing Rose in Grasses Of A Thousand Colors at The Public Theatre, written by and starring Wallace Shawn and directed by André Gregory. Both seasons of her award winning web series, BE, which she created, wrote, produced and starred in with her friend Calaine Schafer, are available to watch at www.BEtheseries.com. Season 1 was an official selection of 7 film festivals and was broadcast on BRIC TV. She was also the founder of The Reuptake Project, a devised theatre initiative, which aims to raise awareness for and end the stigmas around depression and mental illness. She has performed Shakespeare in many bars, on outdoor stages, in London, in a basement in Germany, and possibly in your living room. She passionately believes in theatre and film as wonderfully collaborative creative endeavors that can change atoms around and maybe even make your heart grow a few sizes.
For other current projects & updates, visit www.k-mueller.com.
Co-Founding Member, MNTC
Doug in Gruesome Playground Injuries
Mercutio et al in Romeo & Juliet
P.K. Simone is a Los Angeles–based actor and award-winning filmmaker, best known as the creator and star of The Red Rob Roy Show. He also voiced the demon Grekt in the fantasy feature Age of Stone and Sky: The Sorcerer Beast, starring Jeffrey Combs and Corey Feldman.
His additional screen credits include playing Van Herron on the Amazon series Countdown opposite Jensen Ackles, an appearance in the acclaimed independent film Palm Trees and Power Lines, and the lead role of Sam Lockhart on the television series The Wild West Chronicles.
Having spent many summers in Vermont, P.K. has long considered the state a second home. He is especially excited that his theatrical debut with The Monday Nights Theater Company will bring him back to the Mad River Valley, where he looks forward to sharing his passion for the arts with the local community.
In addition to his work on screen and stage, P.K. creates comedy content on social media @p.k.simone, where several of his sketches have gone viral. His most popular video has garnered more than 12 million views.
Romeo et al in Romeo & Juliet
Chau Long is 5'10 and tired all the time.
He under-salts his eggs and over-thinks everything else.
If he wasn't an actor, he'd be asleep.
Chau is so grateful to Monday Night's Theatre Co. for allowing him to be a part of a such an incredible production, and to work with such a talented group of artists.
Benvolio et al in Romeo & Juliet
Justin Syas is a classically trained actor born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. An avid Shakespeare acolyte, Justin is most proud of his drama studies done in England at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) and the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Hailed for possessing a kaleidoscopic voice, he has recently been seen as Menenius in BADA’s production of Coriolanus and as Cleopatra in LAMDA’s production of Antony and Cleopatra. Also an earthy, unbridled actor-mover, he religiously works through the realms of improvised movement, The Viewpoints, Suzuki Method, Commedia dell’Arte and The Four Elements. You can catch him thrashing and slithering as a Witch ensemble member and Lennox in Red Ink Ensemble’s upcoming sold-out production of Macbeth! Along with acting, Justin is also a distinguished classical pianist (BM: Piano Performance), having played for 17 years, and a fervent writer, particularly having a profound fondness for poetry and playwriting. He is currently working on his upcoming book of poems, containing 100 modern sonnets in the style of Shakespeare. @justinsyas
Nurse et al in Romeo & Juliet
Taylor Jackson Ross is an actress specializing in stage and immersive projects, and a voiceover artist. She hails from the sun baked fever dream of Los Angeles and graduated from UC Irvine. Previous credits include ten years of outdoor summer Shakespeare at Theatricum Botanicum and six years of immersive work with Meyer2Meyer Entertainment Inc, featuring interactive projects for for FX, AppleTV+, and Disney. She is represented by CESD Talent Agency, voiceovers department.