Andrea Washington is an actor, teaching artist, and educator based in Atlanta, GA. She provides support and professional development to educators for a sustained impact and uses creative solutions to address critical learning gaps. When she isn’t in a classroom, Andrea finds joy in partnering with organizations to positively impact spaces with young people, utilizing the arts as a means to discover, connect, and share ideas. Some notable performance credits include two national tours of Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical (Kennedy Center), a national tour of Me Jane... (Kennedy Center), Super Cello! (Kennedy Center & Teller Productions), Peter and the Wolf & Friends (Teller Productions & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), Go, Dog, Go! and TVY productions of Waiting for Balloon; From Head to Toe; Gimme Please! (Alliance Theatre).

Brittany Loffert is thrilled to bring Gimme Please! to BAM! Working with this production from the beginning of the Atlanta development, she has performed Little Gimme through numerous runs and remounts with the Alliance Theatre. Recently, she performed Gimme Please! at Lincoln Center. She is a professional actor and theater-maker in Atlanta. She has performed with the Alliance Theatre, Center for Puppetry Arts, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, and Ex Somnium, and has devised, directed, and performed with numerous independent theatrical and film projects. Thank you for supporting live theatre!

Joseph Quintana is an actor, musician, director, and deviser built in Texas and currently making nonsense in Atlanta, GA. Some favorite credits include Gimme Please! (Lincoln Center); Assistant Director for Business Ideas, Musician in Gimme Please!, Dot & String in Oodles of Doodles (Alliance Theatre); Conrade/Friar in Much Ado About Nothing (Opera House Arts); Niño in La Medéa, resident violinist (Renaissance Theatre Co.); Mr. Marks in Intimate Apparel (Orlando Shakes); Emcee & cello in Once (Theater West End); Templeton in Charlotte's Web (Zach Scott Theatre). Graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. @jmqactor 

Samantha Provenzano is a director, dramaturg, and teaching artist currently based in Denver and Atlanta—where she is a resident artist and teen programs manager at the Alliance Theater. She has more than a decade of experience making work as an educator and director with institutions across the globe. Sam has her MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in theater for young audiences, museum theater, and new play development.  

Megan Alrutz is an artist, educator, and scholar with over 25 years of experience in theater, media, and interdisciplinary performance for youth and families. She has directed and created several nationally recognized theater pieces and interactive installations, with a special focus in theater for the very young, experimental, and community- engaged performance projects, and visually dynamic staging. Megan’s work has been produced or presented by the Alliance Theatre, Lincoln Center, The New Victory, Kennedy Center, Orlando REP, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Arts on Horizon, Manual Cinema, and Metro Theater. Megan is a long-time collaborator of author/illustrator Mo Willems, working as producer, dramaturg, and/or director on his musicals, museum exhibits, interactive engagements, and animated and televised entertainment. She is professor and associate chair of Theatre & Dance at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-founder of the Performing Justice Project and the Center for Imagining and Performing justice. She has authored/co-authored four books that dance at the intersections of theory and practice: Elephant & Piggie’s We are in an ACT-ivity Book (Union Square); Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project (Routledge); Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth (Routledge); and Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice (Routledge).

Michelle Habeck is a designer whose work is seen nationally at The Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, CenterStage in Baltimore, Alliance Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and many others. She has enjoyed the great pleasure of collaborating with many fine artists, including Julie Taymor, Twyla Tharp, August Wilson, James Still, Marion McClinton, Austin Pendleton, Amy Morton, Lou Bellamy, Tina Landau, Naomi Wallace, Nambi E. Kelly, Marcus Gardley, Audrey Cefaly, and Kwame-Kwei Armah to develop new work and reexamine works that prove momentous to our immediate present. Michelle worked as an associate on Broadway to Tony award-winning designer Donald Holder on numerous collaborations, including Julie Taymor’s opera Grendel at Lincoln Center,  

King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Boy from Oz, Julie Taymor’s Playing with Fire, and lighting for the UK Millennial commission The Earth Centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Ms. Habeck was honored with the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group Career Development Grant for 2003—05, and the 2009 University of Texas at Austin Cooperative Society Creative Research Award. Michelle is a Provost Teaching Fellow and an Experiential Learning Mentor Alum on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. She is Area Head of Live Design and Production in the Department of Theatre and Dance.  

Jayson Waddell is thrilled to continue his work with the Alliance Theatre for the Very Young, where he has designed lighting for KNOCK KNOCK, All Smiles, Gimme Please!, Lizard and El Sol, Oodles of Doodles, The Curious Cardinal, and our upcoming production Dinosaur! He has been a part of the Alliance Theatre for over 15 years, contributing to a wide range of productions. Jayson has also worked with Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Northwestern University, and Lookingglass Theatre Company. 

Jay Williams has been a part of Gimme Please! ever since it first went on tour in 2019 and is thrilled to be bringing it to BAM! Jay is an Atlanta-based theater maker with a passion for creating work that speaks to young people of all ages. When not on the road, Jay coordinates production for the Alliance Theatre’s Education Department, where he makes sure that everything is set backstage to expand hearts and minds on stage. Recent credits include The Melvin Invention, Curious Cardinal, and Groove in the Galleries (Alliance Theatre). 

Olivia Aston Bosworth is an artist, educator, and producer who believes deeply in the power of theater for young audiences, and the positive impact stories can have on people of all ages. Olivia began her journey with Alliance Theatre as a teenage ensemble member of the Palefsky Collision Project in 2004. It was through this singular educational program that Olivia experienced the transformative potential of young voices in the arts. In Spring 2011, Olivia started as the first actor/stage manager for Alliance Theatre’s Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young, and continued to shepherd that production series toward expansion for the past 14 years. She conceived and produces the annual Toddler Takeover: An Arts Festival for the Very Young, which brings together the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alliance Theatre, and community partners to embrace and celebrate the youngest patrons of the arts in Atlanta. As a mother-artist, she recognized the unique challenge of non-traditional childcare, and developed the Alliance Theatre’s free childcare program for artists in 2024 to provide space for children to thrive while their grown-ups are on stage and in the classroom. As the Dan Reardon Director of Youth and Families, Olivia supports out of school programs for children and their families including acting classes, drama camps, and family programming. Additionally, Olivia is the Vice President of the TYA/USA Board of Directors.