Dracula Creative Team

Director

Holly Rose

Holly is thrilled to be here at Federal Way High School to teach these talented young performers! In addition to teaching here, she also is the founder and artistic director of Rosebud Children’s Theatre Conservatory www.rosebudctc.org - founded in 2010. Some of Holly's credits include performing in A Narrow Bed (Wings Theatre, NYC), dancing alongside Smashmouth (Radio City Music Hall, NYC) and playing “Benten” in the World Premiere of The Kyogen Rope (O’Malley Theatre, Chicago) to name a few. Holly has earned a BFA in Musical Theatre from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University; a Performance Certificate from the American Musical & Dramatic Academy in NYC; an MBA with an emphasis in Project Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management; and a Certificate in teaching with endorsements in ELA and Theatre from Northwest Educational Development.

Stage Manager

Melanie Downing

Melanie is a junior and this is her 3rd show with Federal Way High School Drama Dept. The previous two include Blithe Spirit and Mary Poppins. She has also helped out with two shows this summer one being Rosebud’s Once Upon a Mattress. Some of Melanie’s hobbies include Hanging out with her friends and Painting. Melanie would like to thank the Crew for stepping up and being a big part of this production. I hope you all enjoy the show!!

Assistant Stage Manager

Lily Wright

Lily is 16 and this is her 2nd show with Federal Way High School Drama Dept. The other show included Mary Poppins. Some of her hobbies include being normal.

Playwright

Steven Dietz’s thirty-plus plays and adaptations have been seen at over one hundred regional the- atres in the United States, as well as Off- Broad- way. International productions have been seen in over twenty countries, including recently in Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Estonia, and Iran. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.

Recent world premieres include Bloomsday (Stein- berg New Play Award Citation); This Random World (Humana Festival of New American Plays); Rancho Mirage (Edgerton New Play Award), and On Clover Road (NNPN “rolling world pre-miere”). His interlocking plays for adult and youth audiences (The Great Beyond and The Ghost of Splinter Cove) premiered in Charlotte, NC, in 2019. His latest thriller, How a Boy Falls, will premiere at Northlight Theatre, Chicago, in 2020.

A two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction, Still Life with Iris), Dietz is also a two-time finalist for the American Theatre Critic’s Steinberg New Play Award (Last of the Boys, Becky’s New Car). He received the PEN USA West Award in Drama for Lonely Planet, and the Edgar Award® for Drama for Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.

Other widely produced plays and adaptations include Yankee Tavern, Private
Eyes, Dracula, Jackie & Me, American la Ronde, Inventing van Gogh, God’s Country, and The Nina Variations.

Currently a Dramatists Guild “Traveling Master,” Dietz teaches workshops in playwriting, story- making, and collaboration across the U.S. He and his wife, playwright Allison Gregory, divide their time between Seattle and Austin.