Abby Boudreaux is a phenomenal actress, singer, and overall amazing human being who is a Usual Suspect with Miranda Rites Productions.
Abby teaches beginning choir and general music at Prairie Elementary School in Lafayette Parish. Over the years, she has worked closely with the Orlando Children's Choir, Chorale Des Amis and Kidz Performing Arts Company as a vocal director. She currently serves as the president of the Lafayette Vocal Music Teacher's Association.
Abby's musical theatre credits include Godspell, The Addams Family (Wednesday), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive Ostrovski), and Oklahoma! (Laurey).
When asked what her favorite part about playing a suspect role is, she answered, “I love that I only know my personal truth. I have so much fun watching the story unfold with the audience! It's just as exciting for me as it is for guests!”
Thank you for your dedication to entertainment, Abby! We are truly blessed to have you as a Usual Suspect with Miranda Rites Productions!
For close to 55 years, Bruce Coen has been involved as an actor, director, producer and teacher in both stage and screen. For the past 9 years, Bruce has been the Talented Theater teacher for Vermilion Parish schools. Bruce is also the co-director and co-teacher of the local film/stage performance school, Acadiana ACTS. Bruce has been a member of the Usual Suspects and Miranda Rites Productions since the beginning and truly enjoys every murder mystery we perform, especially the guest investigators, and absolutely loves and enjoys the rest of the cast.
Thanks, Bruce, for sharing your talent and energy with us. It is an absolute pleasure to have you perform as a Usual Suspect!
Miguel Ochoa is a native of Lafayette and has performed in a variety of musical genres both regionally and in local theater. Beginning on the musical theatre stage, he moved into studying opera in his late teens where he found his voice. Miguel graduated with his BM in Vocal Performance at UL Lafayette where he gained many opportunities as a performer, stage manager, choreographer, and stage director. You may have seen him recently in LA Opera Project’s Cosi fan tutte where he performed the role of Don Alfonso, and over the summer Miguel performed Amos Hart in a local community production of Chicago where he also served as the Music Director. Other notable roles include Marquis (La Traviata) with Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Alidoro (Cenerentola) with Bayview Music Festival, Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) with American Singers’ Opera Project, and many other operatic and musical theatre roles. “Classical Voice North Carolina” reviewed him as having “the most evenly polished voice as Sarastro.”
Miguel serves as the Orchestra Personnel Manager and Music Librarian with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra under the baton of international conductor Marius Smolij. He also is a vocal teaching artist with the Acadiana Conservatory of Music where he is passionate about enriching the minds of aspiring musicians. In his spare time Miguel enjoys playing baseball, cooking with friends, and lip syncing to Selena. He also loves to discover new music and looks forward to developing his character one stage at a time.
On behalf of Miranda Rites Productions and The Usual Suspects Murder Mystery Experience, we’d like to thank Miguel for sharing his talent with us and for making our events memorable for everyone involved!
Teresa Rymer is a veteran Murder Mystery Dinner performer with over 25 performances in the past 7 years.
She’s been active in local community theater since 2011 and has been involved in over 70 productions either as an actor, set artist/designer, or program artist and most recently, directing. One of her most famous roles was as Nurse Ratched, in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.” Teresa is also on the Board of Directors for Cite Des Arts and Head of the Marketing Committee.
Teresa says she LOVES performing in the Murder Mysteries as one of the Usual Suspects. In her own words she says, “It’s a wonderfully eclectic group of talented and fun actors. Interacting and entertaining the audiences are always an anticipated surprise. Every performance is a blast; you just never know what you’re gonna get. And what can we say about our fearless lead detective, Miranda Rites, other than we freaking ADORE her.”
Her smile can light up a room and she’s always a big hit with guests!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful spirit with us, Teresa. We are truly blessed to have you as a Usual Suspect with Miranda Rites Productions!
Jonathan Sanchez is a newcomer to the murder mystery scene with The Usual Suspects and Miranda Rites Productions.
Since 2005, he’s performed in numerous productions across short films, television and theatre. Jonathan began acting in Miami starring in a few plays, a Spanish soap opera and short films that includes ‘Brown Book,’ ‘El Clon,’ ‘Amateurs,’ and ‘On the Edge.’ Within the past 2 years, Jonathan has stabled his talent in LRE’s Acting Showcase, ‘The Real Thing,’ and Sagittarius Entertainment’s Scenes in the Life.
A native from Miami, FL, Jonathan currently lives in Lafayette as a Consultant/Test Engineer for CGI. He majored in Communications at St. Thomas University, graduating with an M.A. degree.
He enjoys traveling, horror films, Cuban coffee and Latin dancing.
We love having this heartthrob as part of our lineup and thank you, Jonathan, for sharing your talents with us!
Alexi Brigitte Langlois got her start in New Orleans. She attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts as a Drama student. She was involved in musicals, plays, and a member of a local Improv Troupe. From there she went on to study at Northern Illinois University, where she graduated in 2016 with a BFA in Acting. While there, she attended MXAT (the Moscow Art Theatre School) in Moscow, Russia, where she studied stage combat, Russian language, Russian Cinema History, Acting, Fencing, Movement, Chekhov, and Stanislavsky.
She made her Lafayette debut in 2017 as Stella in Lauren Reilly Elliot’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Other Lafayette credits include: Debbie in LRE’s “The Real Thing,” Emily in LRE’s “Our Town,” (directed by the late Andrew Lee Vincent), A Witch in Acadiana Repertory Theatre's "The Macbeth Project," as well as many Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre performances. She spends her time working both as an actor as well as a film industry professional.
Lexi is an extremely talented performer and catching her as a suspect in one of our murder mysteries is sure to be a treat!
Robert Dominic, hailing originally from Houston but now calls Lafayette home, works in the financial industry and is a veteran of the Murder Mystery Dinner game, performing as a suspect and host for the last 8 years.
He came into acting as a usual suspect byway the mantra of "don't threaten me with a good time" asked many years ago by a friend to step in as a suspect last minute, Robert did and over 50 shows later he is still at it making guests laugh and loving every minute he shares the stage with his usual suspect cohorts.
A husband and father of two amazing boys that love to see the different costumes he wears as a Usual Suspect. The clown is still their favorite. Robert enjoys traveling, the outdoors, baseball, Cuban cigars and a cold old-fashioned.
If you are looking for a fun-filled event, Robert is sure to make that happen! His amazing personality shines through in each role he plays as a Usual Suspect. We are very blessed to have Bobby as part of our line up.