Amanda Forstrom

Currently performing as fictional financial executive Claudia Roe in 4615 Theatre Company's production of Lucy Prebble's Enron (running through September 1), Minnesota-born AMANDA FORSTROM says that she loves that the play is a "highly theatrical, absurd, exciting, and relatable way of talking about the financial world," which many of us know can be complicated to navigate, and says that the Jordan Friend-helmed play "doesn’t let the audience off the hook." Forstrom has worked with local theaters including Arena Stage (Junk), Folger Theatre (Sense and Sensibility), and Shakespeare Theat

Niusha Nawab

Local actor, writer, and sound designer NIUSHA NAWAB has worked onstage with We Happy Few and the Capital Fringe Festival but his main gig is as a sound designer. While he's produced sound for companies including The Keegan Theatre (God of Carnage) and Prologue Theatre (Grand Concourse), his current project, Matt Ripa's presentation of Naomi Wallace's play The War Boys, about three vigilantes patrolling the US-Mexico border (running through August 31 at Joe's Movement Emporium), is his first engagement with Ally Theatre Company.

Walter "Bobby" McCoy

WALTER "BOBBY" MCCOY wowed audiences with his music direction for GALA Hispanic Theatre's production of In the Heights in 2017—so much so that he took home a Helen Hayes Award for his efforts. The Falls Church native's career started at the ripe old age of 15 when he got a job with the Little Theatre of Alexandria as a rehearsal pianist. It was all uphill from there. Before he'd even graduated from high school, McCoy worked on productions for The Keegan Theatre and Dominion Stage and went on to work as a music director for a number of DC-area theaters.

Jayne Atkinson

JAYNE ATKINSON remembers seeing her parents perform in Stop the World--I Want to Get Off as a child. It was her first show and she says that watching them onstage was when she "began to understand the power of theater." Fast forward to today: Atkinson has harnessed that power and turned it into a long and storied career as an actress, director, and producer.

Toni Rae Salmi

DC-based actress TONI RAE SALMI currently stars in The Hub Theatre's world premiere production of playwright Sam Hamashima's American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables. Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer, the play centers on a Japanese-American family as they navigate their way through life in a US town after the bombings at Pearl Harbor. Salmi tells theatreWashington how much she enjoyed working so closely with Hamashima and Bryer on this mostly Asian-American production.