Jenni is glad to be back at the Ooley after an extended break! She has been stage managing productions in and around Sacramento since 2012, including the former SARTA Elly Awards, and previously served as the Sacramento Ballet company manager as well as stage/company manager for a virtual theatre troupe in the video game Final Fantasy 14. She is no stranger to performing herself, both as an actor and musician, but prefers the magic behind the scenes. The rest of her time is spent working in or studying technology, playing RPGs, enjoying good food and drinks with friends, and loving on her sweet kitties.

Candace is directing two of our monologue selections: "Suzanne 3" and "Three a.m." Candace Adams has participated as an actor, playwright & recently director in community theatre productions. Adams’ first full length play in 2012, Healing Grace, received four out of five stars in the Sacramento News & Review. Rowin’ Up Salt River had a staged reading at the Berkeley Rep Summer Intensive Workshop, 2022 and Sacramento Playwrights Collaborative, 2024. Adams has also written ten minute plays for festivals. She is a proud mom, a pianist, loves birds and lives with her husband, three dogs and a grumpy cat. She is excited to be part of Ooley Theatre.

Victoria Z. Daly’s plays, tv productions and radio stories have appeared across the U.S. and on four continents, including at the Actors Studio, PBS, Lifetime, Valdez Theatre Conference, ATHE Conference, Short+Sweet Festivals (Hollywood, Dubai, Perth,) Vspyshka Theatre (Russia, ) Supersound Scotland Radio, Berrie Center, KPBX-FM (NPR,) and the Edinburgh Festival. Awards include: Regional Emmy (Story Editor/Producer, 3 Seconds in October, PBS;) the Neem International Award for Improper Dramaturgy (Russia;) Best Play, Short+Sweet Dubai; “9 Most Memorable Plays of Last 9 Years,” Warner International Playwrights Festival, etc. She is a Faculty Member in the Plays in Progress program at the Dramatists Guild Institute, where she works with members to develop their new plays, and also consults privately. Raw and Other Short Plays, a collection of 7 of her plays, is published by Next Stage Press. Other plays and monologues are published by Applause Books, Smith & Kraus, Venus Theatre, Valdez Theatre Conference, some scripts, etc.. Education: MFA, NYU/Tisch; A.B. and M.B.A., Harvard; Certificat d’Etudes (theatre,) L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq. To learnmore, please visit victoriazdaly.com

Maizy Broderick Scarpa (she/they/any pronouns) is an award-winning playwright, director, educator, and performer. Her play ADULTS (National Women's Theatre Fringe) was recently named in “Best Of Triangle Theatre” by Byron Woods, alongside works by Annie Baker, Tom Stoppard, Robert O'Hara, and Lynn Nottage. In has been workshopped at Sandcastle Theatre Company and Arizona State University, in addition to touring the state of Wyoming. Their other collaborations have included Barrington Stage Company, Shakespeare&Co, Berkshire Theatre Group, Capital Rep, The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Hubbard Hall, Opera House Arts, Pauline Productions, Pittsfield Shakespeare, Hamptons Shakespeare, Nutshell Playhouse, Sandcastle Theatre Co, SUNY Geneseo, NYU Tisch's Experimental Theatre Wing. SWEDEN: Länsteatern på Gotland, Vastmanlands Teater, Kulturhuset Spira FRANCE: Le Chapeau Rouge. With degrees from NYU/Tisch, Maizy is a Massachusetts Cultural Council awardee, a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. Maizy was born in a bathtub. The rhythms of children's books leak into her work, sometimes even on purpose.

Caitlin Gurtner has been in community theatre her whole life, growing up in historical reenactment fairs around the Bay Area and participating heavily in her high school's drama department. She graduated from the University of Denver in 2020, with a BA in Theatre and a minor in Creative Writing. After graduating, Caitlin returned to Sonoma County where she’s worked as a technician, designer, actor, director, and teaching artist around the Bay Area. Many of her short plays have been performed in festivals, and both her poetry and fiction have been published online. She continues to write in all genres when she’s not working with her local theaters.

Andrea Aptecker’s plays have been performed in theatre festivals in the United States and UK. She received a scholarship to attend the Rocaberti Writers’ Retreat in Spain (2025), and has been selected for a one-week development and workshop festival of her play There are Monsters, Durango Playfest in Colorado (2025). She’s a semi-finalist in the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Program, a finalist in the Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-minute plays, and a semi-finalist in the Garry Marshall Theater New Works Festival. She received the Audience Favorite Prize in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition, and her full-length gothic, ghost drama, Unrequited, which one reviewer called, “lyrical, witty, seductive and dark – and always spellbinding,” is available with Next Stage Press. Andrea attended the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2021. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Andrea Aptecker | New Play Exchange

Lee is excited to return to the Ooley stage as Anne in George Washington’s Teeth. She has previously appeared here in Speed Dating 1, Grey Gardens and This Is Me. Previously, Lee has appeared in Actor’s Theater productions of Husbands, I Am Woman, A Chance Encounter and Sisters as well as a number of ensemble pieces. Lee is a member of The Writer’s Room, a group of writers attached to The Artists’ Collective which is dedicated to writing for the theater. She thrilled to see both Speed Dating 1 and Speed Dating 2 appearing together. Originally, Speed Dating 1 was presented as a standalone piece. Audience feedback suggested that Lee write a companion piece which became Speed Dating 2. Lee has written a number of pieces for the theater, and her three-act play, Dirty Dora is appearing at the Ooley in May, 2025.

Produced off-Broadway and nationwide in Seattle, Boston, Chicago and more. Work developed in NYC at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Roundabout, Urban Stages; regionally at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva, Victory Gardens. Winner: Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Israel Baran Award, and a runner up at the Sundance Playwriting Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Heideman Award and Princess Grace Fellowship. Other honors: nominated for Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and honorable mention, The Kilroy list. Plays and monologues published by Smith & Kraus and Applause.

Dear Tyler is a monologue from my full length play Broken that was to be produced in 2020 but alas, of course the world had other plans for, well, everyone. The irony of that play was that while I wrote it back in 2015, it detailed how a woman who had become an agoraphobic becomes involved with someone on the other side of her duplex wall. Alex is an astronaut who moves in next door and it turns her world upside down, this person who has been out in space when she can't even open her front door. The oddity being that of course in 2020 we all had to close our doors and begin relationships on line or over fences and through walls in our apartments. I had no idea I was writing anything so prophetic in a weird way. This play has yet to be produced and maybe never will, but the most powerful moment for our main character is at least shared here with you all and I thank you for hearing it. I hope it impacts you as much as she was. I have written and produced 10 of my own full length and short plays, along with a dozen or more original works by others. I love the art of writing and telling a story. It truly does share the power of words.

Adriana has long been a member our Artist's Collective, gracing our stage as well as directing when she has time. Currenly she is even in a production of As You Like It at our R25 Complext on 25th and R streets too! We are thrilled she took on directing this short comedy and we thank her for her dedication to the theater. We know you'll enjoy the show!