biographies

Lindy Benton-Muller (Actor/Director)

Jill Browning (Production Stage Manager, Admin Asst)

Almeria Campbell (Actor)

Katya Campbell (Actor)

Amphibian Productions: Icarus (Altagracia), Matt and Ben (Ben Affleck). NYC and Regional: Ensemble Studio Theatre (Flora in Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton), Williamstown Theatre Festival, George Street Playhouse. TV: The Guiding Light, Law and Order. MFA: Rutgers.

Jaime Castañeda (Director)

Amphibian Stage Productions credits: First Person Shooter, This is How it Goes, Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You, Credeaux Canva. Welcome to Arroyos (Summer Play Festival); One for the Road (DirectorFest); Crave, Closer, Momentahn, Blue/Orange, Nocturne, Sonnets for an Old Century (FireStarter Productions); Red Light Winter (Perseverance Theatre); Attack of the Asians (Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.-workshop); Lincolnesque (Circle Theatre); Assistant director: Anon, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater Company, NYC); Pig Farm (Old Globe Theatre, San Diego); Going Gone (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Hispanic Playwrights Project (South Coast Repertory). Jaime has received various DFW Critics awards, a Live Theatre League award, and a Drama League fall fellowship in NYC. He is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Jaime is also the producing artistic director for FireStarter Productions and holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sarah Elizondo (Actor)

Sarah Elizondo, a native of San Antonio, Texas, began working with Amphibian Stage Productions her freshman year at Texas Christian University where she is currently pursuing her BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting. Amphibian credits include Stage Directions for The Talented Mr. Ripley, Below the Belt, Fully Committed and Eye of God. Sarah was part of the first round of Amphibian's Internship Program during the 2006 Summer Mainstage Series where she operated sound for Below the Belt, worked costume crew for Icarus, and ran set crew for both productions. Acting credits at TCU include: (Helen Cohen) Ellis Island, Dream of America performed at Bass Hall, (Lina Szczepanowska) Misalliance, (There in the room) The Vagina Monologues, (Tiresias) Burial at Thebes, (Assistant Stage Manager) Bus Stop performed at Circle Theatre in Fort Worth, TX, and various student directed projects. She is also currently part of Actors' Equity Membership Candidate Program.

Richard Ercole (Actor)

Jennifer Faletto (Actor)

Jennifer Faletto is an original Amphibian Stage Productions company member. Jennifer played Anna in Burn This and woman/medea in Bash for the company. She has also participated in staged readings for Amphibian, reading Carmen in A Leopard Complains of Its Spots and Amelia in Credeaux Canvas. A resident of Chicago, Jennifer has worked with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (Be Aggressive), Signal Theatre (Much Ado About Nothing), The Attic Playhouse (Communicating Doors), The Moving Dock (Savage/Love), Breadline Theatre (Destination Lost) and others. Film credits include: No Such Thing As, World of Weird and Monsterlieben. Jennifer also writes and performs sketch comedy in Donny’s Skybox at Second City. Jennifer has a BFA in theatre performance from TCU and is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory.

Mariana Fernandez (Actor)

Mariana Fernandez is a native of Mexico and currently attends Purdue University’s MFA Actor Training Program. She worked with the Amphibian Outreach and Education program with A Crazy Love of Things: The Odes of Pablo Neruda and interned during their summer season in 2007 with Miss Witherspoon. Other credits: Jason and Claire for the California Young Playwright’s Project at The San Diego Old Globe, Sonnets for an Old Century with Firestarter Productions, and As Bees and Honey Drown at StageWest. Recent shows at Purdue include Trojan Women and Marat/Sade. She completed her BFA Performance major at Texas Christian University.

Drew Hayes (Actor)

Drew Hayes, a native of Milwaukee, WI, now resides in Las Vegas, NV. Amphibian Credits: A Buyer’s Market, Leonce and Lena and Bash, and the staged readings of Credeaux Canvas, Vincent in Brixton, The Talented Mr. Ripley, A Leopard Complains of its Spots, Europa's Child and Triptych. Drew also composed and directed A Crazy Love of Things: The Odes of Pablo Neruda for Amphibian’s outreach program. New York credits: Louis of Angels in America Parts I and II (Heights Players), Peter of The Good Samaritan (Triptych Theatre), and Mark of Mass Appeal (H.B. Studio Theater), among many other off-Broadway original works. TV/Film: Studio 13 and An Al Franken Special (Burly TV). Drew is a performance graduate of TCU, and has enjoyed studying under Anne Lynn Kettles and Margaret Loft (TCU), Ed Morehouse (H.B. Studio) and Lenard Petit (Michael Chekhov Acting Studio).

Lena Gwendolyn Hill (Actor)

Lena Gwendolyn Hill is a Texas native who moved to Los Angeles after living in the Big Apple. Recent appearances include: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Kirk Douglas Theatre - CTG), The Wild Party (The Blank Theatre Co. - Ovation Award Nominee - Best Musical), Atalanta (Powerhouse Theatre – Santa Monica), The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (Kirk Douglas Theatre - CTG), and will appear in the feature length film South of Heaven this spring. Amphibian appearances include: 4 Edges and La Llorona (reading). Lena has been a member of Actors Equity Association since 1998.
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Heather E. Humphery (Scenic Designer)

is currently living in North Carolina. Amphibian Credits: The True History of Julia Pastrana... Regional: Cowboy Songs with Bruce Wood Dance Company. Educational Credits: Alice in Wonderland and Love's Labours Lost at TCU. Scenic Art: Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, Kids Who Care, Cobalt Studios (NY Summer Session), and Casa Mañana. Stage Management: Kids Who Care and Ballet Arlington. Heather is a graduate of Texas Christian University with a BFA in Theatre Production and is currently an MFA candidate in Scenic Design at North Carolina School of the Arts.

Anne-Lynn Kettles (Actor)

Amphibian Productions: A Room of One’s Own, Full Gallop (staged reading). Representative Regional Credits: A Christmas Carol; Hartford Stage Co., Hartford CT. Hot L Baltimore; Connecticut Repertory Co; A Room of One’s Own, Hartford, CT. Prides Crossing, Stage West, Ft. Worth TX; Broken Glass, Theatre Three, Dallas, TX. Three Tall Women, Circle Theatre, Ft. Worth, Master Class, Stage West, Ft. Worth. Other professional credits: Sister Mary Ignatios, Tea and Sympathy, Miami, FL. Toys in the Attic, Center Stage, Baltimore, MD. The Royal Family. Alliance Theater, Atlanta GA. Lettice and Louage, A Delicate Balance, Ft. Worth. N.Y. credits: Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Clearing in the Woods, Silent Night, Lonely Night. TV/Radio/Commercials: BL Stryker, Miami Vice, Voice of America, PBS Great Performance: All Over. Training: Uta Hagen, HB Studios NY.

Elizabeth Kopitke (Actor)

J.P. Matthews (Actor)

John Patrick is originally from Kansas City and has been a member of Amphibian for 5 years. J.P. has appeared Off-Broadway in the Blue Man Group and regionally at The Dallas Theater Center, Casa Manana in Fort Worth, TX, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (NSE), Missouri Repertory Theater, Starlight Amphitheater and The New Theater, both in Kansas City. J.P. received his MFA in Acting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and his BFA in Acting and Musical Theater from TCU. J.P. recently moved back to the states from England where he lived with his wife Erin. He continues to “take his turn” in supporting his wife through her Graduate studies while he currently works, acts, teaches and directs in Kansas City. Next fall, J.P. is excited to begin assisting his mentor Scott Miller, teaching voice and speech at the Graduate Acting program of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

JV Mercanti (Director)

For Amphibian: Icarus, Matt & Ben, The Talented Mr. Ripley (staged reading), and Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World. At Mason Gross School of the Arts: Therese Raquin, As Bees in Honey Drown, Other People, and Hello Out There. Resident Director of the National Tour of Cabaret (directors: Rob Marshall and Sam Mendes). Broadway and off-Broadway Assistant Director credits include: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (revival), Little Me (starring Martin Short), You Never Can Tell (Roundabout Theater Company). JV has also worked on new play development for the New Harmony Theater Project. He has worked as a Casting Associate on numerous Broadway and off-Broadway shows for Roundabout Theatre Company. JV recently served as Casting Director and Producing Associate on the Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Kevin Kline.

Frances Mercanti-Anthony (Actor)

Frances is originally from Haddonfield, New Jersey. She appeared most recently with Amphibian Stage Productions in Matt and Ben in the summer of 2005 in Fort Worth, TX. She also performed the role of Marge in the staged reading of The Talented Mr. Ripley both at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art and at Dodger Stages in New York City. She was seen (or rather, Not seen) as the Countess in The True History of Julia Pastrana... for Amphibian Stage Productions in the summer of 2003 both in Fort Worth and at the Greenwich Street Theatre in New York. Additionally Frances most recently appeared in the original Broadway company of the musical Spring Awakening directed by Michael Mayer, in the Off-Broadway production of Mr. Marmalade with the Roundabout Theatre Company, and as Betsy in the Ken Urban play I (Heart) Kant with the Committee Theatre. Frances is a proud member of Actor's Equity and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

David A. Miller (Director)

Alix Milne (Props Mistress)

Alix has worked with Amphibian Stage Productions since its inception in 2000, serving as production designer for Gutenberg! The Musical!; assistant scenic designer for Icarus; props mistress for Three Days of Rain, Julia Pastrana, and
4 Edges; and as ensemble cast member in Leonce & Lena and Bash. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has been the production designer and set dresser on a number of music videos, independent films, and the feature film Necessary Evil.

Evan Mueller (Actor/Playwright/Director)

Amphibian Productions: This is How it Goes (Fort Worth Weekly Readers Pick, Best Actor), Below the Belt (Fort Worth Weekly Critics Pick, Best Ensemble), …Julia Pastrana…The Ugliest Woman in the World, A Leopard Complains of its Spots, A Nervous Smile (reading), Miss Witherspoon (director), Eye of God (director, reading), and Hot Season (playwright, reading). Outside of Amphibian, Evan has worked as an actor, director, playwright, and producer with various theater companies, including: The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, The McCarter Theatre, The Warehouse Theatre, The Public Theatre of Maine, The Lightning Strikes Theater Company, Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Programs, The Sweet William Collective, The New Phoenix Theater Company, and The Wendell Theater Group, of which Evan was a co-founder and artistic director. Evan lives in New York, where he teaches Acting and Voice & Speech at NYU. Education: B.A. from Duke University, M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Michael Muller (Actor)

Michael Muller has 30 years of professional theatre experience as an actor, director and producer. Amphibian Credits include Below the Belt, A Buyer’s Market, and readings of Bach at Leipzig, and Eye of God. He earned a B.A. in English and Theatre (double major) from Washburn University and did graduate work at Ball State University. In addition to producing and directing 26 national tours, Mr. Muller was the Producing Director of Shakespeare in the Park, a position he held for 7 years. As an actor, he has worked locally with Amphibian Productions, Firestarter Productions, the Dallas Theatre Center, Shakespeare in the Park, Stage West, Circle Theatre, Jubilee Theater, Kids Who Care and Casa Mañana. In 2007 he was voted Best Actor in the Metroplex by the Fort Worth Weekly. Nationally, he has run the gamut, performing in theatres from Key West to the National Theatre of Ontario. Retiring from "life on the road" in 2000, he has just finished his 7th year as the Theatre Arts Director at Paschal High School.

Jessica Myhr (Actor)

Amphibian credits include Miss Witherspoon, The True History of Julia Pastrana…(NYC
& Fort Worth), and staged readings Eye of God, Hot Season, and La Llorona. Recent NYC Credits: The Cherry Orchard (Anya) Resonance Ensemble, House of Desires (Dona Ana) Storm Theatre, and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia) Boomerang Theatre Company. Regional: Hamlet (Ophelia) West Side Theater, NJ, The Diary of Anne Frank (Miep) Northern Stage, VT. Film/TV: Send in the Clown, Breaking the Girls, Blood Streaming, Henry and All My Children (ABC). She is also a member of the Actors Shakespeare Company (www.ascnj.org) and resides in New York City. M.F.A Rutgers University.
www.jessicamyhr.net

Judy Norman (Dramaturg)

A resident of San Francisco, Judy is a graduate of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She has worked with Amphibian in various capacities, most recently as dramaturg for A Buyer’s Market. Throughout her life she has been actively involved with the arts, both performing and visual, including work with Theatre Workshop in Mexico City and the Pilgrim Theatre Company in Aspen, Colorado.

Shane Taylor (Actor)

A native of East Orange, NJ, Mr. Taylor earned his M.F.A at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has trained at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and Williamstown Theater Festival. Mr. Taylor has appeared in the Amphibian productions of This is How it Goes and Burn This. Most recently, Mr. Taylor has appeared in the critically acclaimed Round House Theater production of A Lesson Before Dying as Jefferson. Regional credits include: African Continuum Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Williamstown Theater Festival and the Lincoln Center Institute. Film Credits: King of the Bingo Game, God’s Forgotten House, and Sarbane’s Oxley. Mr. Taylor is the 2007 recipient of the Best International Actor Award from the Barbados International Film Festival for his performance in Sarbane’s Oxley.

Aaron Patrick Turner (Costume Designer)

Aaron holds an M.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma and a B.F.A. from Northeastern State University. Credits include: Miss Witherspoon, Below the Belt, Icarus (Amphibian Stage Productions), Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Right H, Jeeves, Social Security, The Last Night of Ballyhoo [Column Nomination 2006] (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas), The Little Dog Laughed, Rockin’ Christmas Party (Water Tower Theatre). The Boxer [Column Nomination 2008](Bootstraps Comedy Theatre), First Kiss (Teatro delle Muse), Jack and Jill (Second Thought Theatre), Goodnight Moon, The Secret Life of Girls, Sleeping Beauty [Leon Rabin Award] (Dallas Children’s Theatre), Every Trick in the Book [DFW Theatre Critic’s Forum Award] (Classical Acting Company), A Critical Case of Murder [Coulmn Nomination 2008], Full Moon Murders (Pegasus Theatre), Real Estate (Santa Fe Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Tulsa Repertory Theatre), Rocky Horror Picture Show (Delaware Playhouse), South Pacific (Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival).
www.aaronpatrickturner.com

Erin Williams (Actor)

Erin Williams: Amphibian credits include The True History of Julia Pastrana... (Julia), Vincent in Brixton (Eugenie - reading), and The Talented Mr. Ripley (reading). She most recently appeared as Martha Jefferson in Goodspeed Opera House's production of 1776. New York Theatre: Merrily We Roll Along (Beth) directed by JV Mercanti, Rags (with Harvey Firestein) directed by Stafford Arima, The Secret Garden (with Laura Benanti) directed by Stafford Arima, Pippin (with Ben Vereen) directed by Gabriel Barre, The New Jersey Trapzoid, Buckhunter - A Musical Love Story, The Good Samaritan (workshop). Other favorite roles include Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar, Alison in Look Back in Anger, and Prudence in Beyond Therapy. Erin holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and currently resides in New York City.