Amandine Edwards is a German-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, hailing from a military family. She is currently completing her Masters in Vocal Performance at Sacramento State University, before that she studied and received her Bachelors in Music at the Crane School of Music in New York. Her most recent ventures have led to an award for Best Short Screenplay at the l’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival for Partycrasher, for which she was co-creator and screenwriter, Partycrasher is also a finalist at the Madras Independent Film Festival.

She has performed in the Savannah Voice Festival, with the Paradise Symphony Orchestra, North State Symphony, Camilla Symphony Orchestra, and at Carnegie Hall. She will be joining Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento in their upcoming virtual performance of The Gitanos, where she’ll be in the role of Christina. She will be making her debut with Opera in the Ozarks in 2021, playing Dorothée in Cendrillon, and Tituba and Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible.

Her work with the Davis Shakespeare Festival 2020 Digital Internship allows her to spread her creative and collaborative wings further, into the realms of dramaturgy, directing, voice-acting, producing, and sound engineering.

When she isn’t working on new repertoire or preparing an opera role, Amandine can often be found reading, playing the piano, spending time with her cats, weightlifting, running, archery, and contortion.

Guinevere Govea is an Austin-based actor, songwriter, and playwright currently pursuing degrees in Theatre and Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She has acted in several short films, commercials, and plays, including Matawan at UT Austin, which she received a B. Iden Payne Award for. She has also worked under the direction of Laura Gordon of the American Players Theatre in Sense and Sensibility. This fall, you can see her as “Desamaya” in UT Theatre and Dance’s remote main stage performance of La Ruta.

Arden Siadek (she/her/hers) is a current undergraduate student at UC Davis, with a major in Theatre and Dance. She loves instrumental and vocal music (and theatre) and has been performing for over ten years in various conservatories and ensembles. Arden is particularly interested in the intersectionality of theatre and activism. At UC Davis, she recently appeared in the virtual Theatre and Dance Dept. spring production, AntigoneNOW. Currently, she is on the board of the new organization, Theatre for Social Change, and is also an ensemble member of Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank. In quarantine, Arden has successfully and socially-distantly learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube. Arden also enjoys slacklining, rock climbing, and baton twirling. As a baton twirler, Arden has won multiple competitive titles, and performed in Disneyland parades. She is thrilled to be a part of this exciting production, work with artists across the country, and participate from her home in Los Angeles! In this virtual festival, Arden is also on the creative team of Everybody.

Cade Smith (they/them or he/him) is an artist, educator, and performer co-directing acts I and III of what we are affectionately calling the Faustus Podcastus. They are also working on sound editing, logo design, and voice acting within this production. Having recently completed his Bachelor’s degree in Art & Design Education at Pratt Institute (with a concentration in Painting and an Art History minor), Cade is gearing up to return to Pratt (virtually for now) to pursue a Master’s in Art & Design Education, focusing on Community and Museum Education, as well as continuing to work towards NYS Visual Arts teaching certification. As a fan of audio dramas and horror podcasts, they are excited to explore the potential for theatrical production in a purely audio format!

Camilla Dwyer (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year African-Black Diaspora Studies and Playwriting major at DePaul University by way of San Francisco. She most recently participated in the inaugural Exquisite Corpse Playwriting Project in Chicago and received DePaul’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fund for her project, “Wearing Her Skin: The Tragic Mulatta and the Rise of Blackfishing.” You can catch her waiting for public transportation or hiding from local weather in various cafes.