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LEADERSHIP & STAFF

Senior Management & Founders

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Stephanie Carrillo
Artistic Director
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Stephanie Carrillo is a founding member of K.B. Theatre and the company’s Artistic Director. She’s an actor, director, and teaching artist. While pursuing her MFA in Acting at Ohio University, she’s been leading her own classes at the University, teaching acting to non-majors along with Voice and Speech to sophomore acting majors. She recently taught Tantrum Theatre Kids where she invited young female artists to take ownership of their artistry while producing their first production. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso where some of her title roles include Medea in Medea and Margery in Hand to God.
Jesús López Vargas
Managing Director
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JELopez@KBTheatre.org
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Jesús López Vargas is a founding member of K.B. Theatre Company. As a producer of the performance arts Jesús has written & directed four original productions: RED (TX, 2017),  /Echo (TX, 2018), In This Light There is Silence  (CA, 2019), & Tzaqik | a tale, of many  (CA, 2020). His next project is a collaboration with choreographer Brandon Ray & MOON | Collective, titled HARDcandy. Jesús is currently the Assistant Artistic Director for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival in California & a 3rd year Masters of Fine Arts candidate for Stage Management at the University of California, Irvine. Jesús also works freelance as a photographer, lighting designer, project manager, translator, writer, and as a publicity artist. In the Summer of 2016 Jesús published his first book of poetry & photography titled I See Red, for young adults. He was proudly born & raised in México.
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Merle DeWitt III
General Manager
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Merle DeWitt III is currently pursuing his MFA in Drama while conducting research at the University of California, Irvine. With a background in theatrical lighting and projection design and a passion for technology, Merle primarily enjoys working on small scale productions and installations which allow for individuals to submerge themselves into a world they otherwise would not be able to. Merle's work bases itself on the use of innovative and new technologies while finding methods of making them more accessible to artists and audiences.

Senior Artistic

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Stephanie Carrillo
Artistic Director
StephanieCarrillo@KBTheatre.org
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Jesús López Vargas
Associate Creative Director
JELopez@KBTheatre.org
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Kezia Waters
Associate Theatre Director
KWaters@KBTheatre.org
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Kezia Waters is a performing artist, playwright, actor, director and teaching artist from Waterbury, Connecticut. As a teaching artist Kezia has led a Children’s Theatre Workshop in Puerto Plata, Domincan Republic and has served as a Drama Director for Neighborhood Music School, New Haven, CT where he devised and directed six children’s shows about social justice. Before and while obtaining a BA in Theatre Art ( Performance) from Western Connecticut State University he interned for 2 Shakespeare Companies: Shakesperience Productions Waterbury, CT and Connecticut Free Shakespeare Stratford, CT. Outside of performing he is also a playwright produced in New York City for the 10th season of the Obie Award winning Festival The First This Time. Kezia continues to perform and has studied and been mentored by broadway actors Julio Matos and Tony nominated Elizabeth Parkinson. He is currently in his 2nd Year at Ohio University pursuing an MFA in Acting. He is currently creating his own theatre pedagogy called S.O.F.T. which incorporates Black ritual techniques as it relates to devising orginal work.
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Brandon Ray Alba
Associate Movement Director
BRay@KBTheatre.org
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Brandon Ray Alba is a choreographer & performance artist. He is a Los Angeles native, but now resides in El Paso, Texas. Brandon is currently working as a dance instructor for British Ballet Academy. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. He is the founder and co-director of Moon|Collective and is currently collaborating with Jésus López Vargas on a show entitled: HARDcandy. Brandon was the co-founder & co-artistic director of Fawnz Dance company under which he produced & choreographed: In-Utero (2016-17) & REDVelvet (2018). His works include M@lfuNc7ion (2016), Tribe (2018), Spark (2019), & Seasons (2019).

Producing Associates

Nancy Batres
Outreach Director
NBatres
@KBTheatre.org
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Nancy Batres is a founding member of K.B. Theatre and the company’s Outreach Director. Nancy is also an actress that works mainly in the Southern California region. Recent credits include Dream Hou$e (CSUSM & TuYo Theatre), Resistance Creates Beauty (Blind Spot Collective), A Play About Something (Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company/ La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival), Aztec Pirates & The Insignificance of Life on Mars - Reading - (San Diego Repertory Theatre Latinx New Play Festival), and A Mother's Mother (Playwrights Project).
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Jessica Keasberry-Vnuk
Associate Producer
JLKeasberry@KBTheatre.org
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Jessica is a producer, manager, and scenic artist. Her producing credits include K.B. Theatre’s Tzaqik | a tale, of many and acting as a Producing Assistant for the 2019 Ovation Awards. Her stage and production management credits include: Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate's Christmas (Lythgoe Family Panto); ModelLand (immersive experience); Ghosts, Summer’s Soldier, Orlando (Williamstown Theatre Festival) I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Driving Miss Daisy, Clybourne Park, King of the Road (Laguna Playhouse); The Glass Menegarie (International City Theatre); Hedwig (K.B. Theatre); Pirates of Penzance, Henry IV Part One (Shakespeare Orange County). Jessica has completed internships at Center Theatre Group & Williamstown Theatre Festival. She holds a B.A. in Drama with honors in Management from the University of California, Irvine.
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Shelby Caughron
Associate Director
shelby.caughron@yahoo.com
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Shelby Caughron has experience in various areas of theatre including acting, directing, choreography, theatre management & stage management. Her directorial credits include many devised pieces, most recently being Tzaqik | a tale, of many with K.B. Theatre Company & Untold: A Verbatim Play with MiraCosta College Theatre. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from UCI as well as an Associate Degree in Drama from MiraCosta College. She is the Assistant Box Office Manager and Production Assistant for the Moonlight Amphitheatre in San Diego.
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Collaborators

Athziri Morales
Resident Lighting Designer
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Nita Mendoza
Associate Lighting Designer
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Dimitri Soto
Music Composer
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    • TZAQIK | a tale, of many
    • MARY'S WEDDING
    • /ECHO
    • IN THIS LIGHT THERE IS SILENCE
    • REPETITION IS RITUAL
    • HEDWIG
  • EVENTS
    • Re-Creating the Stage >
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    • IN THIS LIGHT THERE IS SILENCE
    • REPETITION IS RITUAL
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