Roxanne Harley began her performance career as a dancer with Milton Berle’s comedy and musical revues touring the shores of Lake Michigan. For the past 20 years, she has performed in many Tucson theaters including Beowulf Theater, Seascape and Humble Boy, Borderlands Theater Blind Date, and White Tie Ball. Additional theaters: Live Theater Workshop, The Foreigner, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Death by Design and The Seven Year Itch. LTW Etcetera Productions, Hamlet; Winding Road Theater in the all-women cast of Julius Caesar and United. She was with The Rogue Theater for The Balcony, The Dead, and The Good Woman of Setzuan and with The Invisible Theater Let’s Live a Little; Arizona Onstage Productions, Steel Magnolias; and Wilde Playhouse, The Tale of the Allergists Wife.
Goldsmith served on the faculty and later chair of the Pima College Theater Department from 1970 to 2004. Active also in the community, he was a co-founder of Teatro Libertad and later was founder/director of Borderlands Theater, (1986- 2014 when he retired). He is a co-founder of The National New Play Network, (Washington DC), and has participated in readings/workshops at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, (Washington DC) and Lark Play Development Center, (New York). Internationally he has directed extensively at El Circulo Teatral in Mexico City and has been invited as director or producer to The first National LatinX Theater Festival,( Los Angeles); The UNESCO International Theater Festival, (Tampico) and other festivals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. He has garnered press nominations and awards in Tucson and Mexico City.
Eva Zorrilla Tessler (Movement Coach) is a native of Mexico City. She has been working in the theater as a performer, choreographer, and director since 1980 in the USA and Brazil. She worked with the Latina Dance Project, a dance theater company for 12 years, and toured extensively throughout the USA, and internationally in Brazil, Portugal, and Canada. Tessler worked with Borderlands Theater in many capacities, artistic and administrative. Currently, she's a freelance theater artist who enjoys working with local companies such as Live Theater Workshop, Winding Road, Digna Teatro and Something Something. Tessler is the proud recipient of the LULAC Individual Artist Award (2008) and a LUMIE Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).
Trayce Peterson is a native of Philadelphia, PA and received her B.A. and her Master's of Divinity from Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion respectively. At Earlham College, Trayce produced two Art Is Our Resistance concerts that featured artists such as Rebel Diaz, Dead Prez, and Shadia Mansour and a spoken word show featuring Remi Kanazi.
In Tucson, Trayce served as one of the organizers for the Empty Chairs Project associated with the play Digna by Patricia Davis. She is the co-founder of SplitSeed Productions and was one of the producers of the Binational Encuentro: Female Migrations.
Gabbie is so excited to stage-manage her first professional show. She has done many shows at the University of Arizona including Generator, Erased, Three Sisters and Twelfth Night as a costume and stagehand. She has also done the show Polaroid Stories at Pima Community College as an assistant costume designer. Gabbie is getting her degree in sociology at the University of Arizona with a minor in theater.