2025

Emily Curran (Chair)

is a third-year Public Policy major and TAPS minor. This is her second year on Committee after serving as Social Chair last year. Her UT and TAPS credits include: 13th Morning (Lighting Designer & Asst. Director); Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret); Arcadia (Asst Lighting Designer); Strings Attached (Lighting Designer); Falsettos (Charlotte); Twelfth Night (Lighting Designer); Be More Chill (Asst. Lighting Designer); Macbeth in Space (Lighting Designer); and Romeo & Juliet (Asst. Lighting Designer). She is also a Theater[24] Curator and is beyond pleased to be working with this fantastic group of people for another year!

Alasdair Dodd (Treasurer)

is a third year East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Religious Studies double major. His UT credits include Falsettos (Lighting Designer), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stage Manager), Royal Flush (Stage Manager), The Arsonists (Lighting Designer) and Troilus & Cressida (Production Manager). He is very excited to be on committee and make at least one spreadsheet!

August Petry (Secretary)

is a first-year TAPS and Math major. Their UT credits include If/Then (Assistant Director), The Tempest (Assistant Production Manager), and Cactus Flower (Assistant Lighting Designer). They are so excited to work with Committee and be your secretary for this year!

Giancarlo Beritela (Social Chair)

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Joseph DePaula (Outreach Chair)

Joseph DePaula (Outreach Chair) is a Medieval Studies/History major. Primarily an actor, his UT credits (former & upcoming) include Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood (Little John), Dead Fun Society (Mark Hellebrand), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio), and Strings Attached (Walt), as well as assistant directing Much Ado About Nothing (Fall 2024) and directing Cactus Flower (Spring 2025)! This is his second year on UT Committee in the capacity of Outreach Chair, and he also serves on the boards of both Cup of Theater (Artistic Director) and of Attori Senza Paura/UChicago Commedia (Production Manager & coincidentally also Co-Outreach Coordinator)! He is incredibly excited to work with the new Committee!

Kelly Mao (Dean's Men Representative)

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London Mahaley (Off-Off Representative)

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Ryan Cairns (Administrative Staff Liaison)

is a fourth-year BA/MA in Political Science, Human Rights, and History, with a minor in Classical Studies. She has been a member of the UT Committee since Fall of 2021, through the Mouton, Ng, Yablonivsky, Liu and now Curran administrations. In these years, Ryan has participated in a variety of roles for various UT shows, including but not limited to acting as Jason in the Strings Attached Workshop (Fall 2023), stage managing Romeo and Juliet (Fall 2022), and directing Thirteenth Morning (Winter 2025). Outside of UT, Ryan is the Co-Chair of W+ (Women and Gender Minorities in Public Service), and organizes with the Chicago Abortion Fund. Following her graduation in June 2025, Ryan will be moving to Baltimore to pursue a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program.

Crystina Windham (Tech Staff Liaison)

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Will Rehmus

is a second-year astrophysics major and TAPS minor. Their UT credits include: Muscle Memory (Asst. Lighting), Cassandra (Lighting and Sound), Falsettos (Asst. Stage Manager), Strings Attached: A Musical (Co-Sound), The Play That Goes Wrong (Asst. Lighting), Much Ado About Nothing (Scenic), Troilus and Cressida (Asst. Sound), 13th Morning (Committee Liaison), 35 mm (Asst. Sound), and Cactus Flower (Lighting). They also run this website! Please reach out if there are any issues, this codebase is a mess and they're doing their best.

Clara Pressey

is a first year TAPS and Classical Studies major! She is an avid Theater[24] enjoyer and a member of Off-Off Campus. This is her first year on UT Committee, and she is beyond excited to be involved!

Rachel Bolte

is a third-year Sociology major. Her UT credits include Thirteenth Morning (Olivia), The Arsonists (PM), and The Play That Goes Wrong (APM). You can usually find her color-coding spreadsheets or reading books.

Nayu Shimo

is a second-year studying some combination of Psychology, Religious Studies, and TAPS. Her past UT credits include: Welcome Back to my Channel (Asst. Director), The Arsonists (Asst. Stage Manager), If/Then (Asst. Production Manager), and Troilus and Cressida (Co-Stage Manager). She can usually be found crocheting little animals, lip syncing to Chappell Roan, or watching at funny cat videos.

Kaden Kaden

is a second-year History and Linguistics major from San Francisco who has worked on a variety of UT shows in lighting, sound, costume, and scenic design. They've never been on committee before but are excited to give it the ol' college try.

2024

Coco Liu (Chair)

is a third-year Chemistry and Linguistics major whose previous UT credits include *Macbeth in Space* (Production Manager), *Romeo and Juliet* (Production Manager), and *The Light* (Stage Manager). She delights in spreading chaos and lovingly bullying her friends, one of whom is writing this bio for her, as she is lazy.

Eleni Lefakis (Treasurer)

is a third-year TAPS major who recently dropped her Data Science double-major (hallelujah, she is free!). Her UT mainstage credits are *The Heirs* (Stage Manager), *The Trail to Oregon!* (Assistant Director/Dramaturg), *Romeo & Juliet* (Co-Production Manager), *Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood* (Assistant Director/Dramaturg), *MacBeth in Space* (Dramaturg), *The Laramie Project* (SM Collective™), *Be More Chill* (Co-Director), *Twelfth Night* (Pre-Production Manager), *The Taming of The Shrew* (Stage Manager/Assistant Dramaturg), *Falsettos* (Dramaturg), *Richard III* (Assistant Costume Designer), *Strings Attached* (Co-Director/Dramaturg), and *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* (Dramaturg). She is currently serving her third term on committee and last year she was UT’s inaugural Outreach Chair. She self-identifies as Coco Liu’s bodyguard.

Abby Kanes (Secretary)

is a third-year TAPS and Business Economics major. In UT she performed in a workshop of *The Heirs* (Aveline) and the TAPS show *Amazons and Their Men* (The Frau). Spring 2022 she played bass in the pit orchestra for *The Trail to Oregon!* and designed props for *Scientific Method*. She is excited for her year in UT Committee!

Emily Curran (Social Chair)

is a second year studying Public Policy and Theatre and Performance Studies. Her UT credits include *Romeo and Juliet* (Assistant Lighting Designer), *Macbeth in Space* (Lighting Designer), *Be More Chill* (Assistant Lighting Designer), *Twelfth Night* (Lighting Designer), *Falsettos* (Dr. Charlotte), and *Strings Attached* (Lighting Designer). She is incredibly excited to work with Committee this upcoming year with all of her silly little friends!

Joseph DePaula (Co-Outreach Chair)

is a second-year Medieval Studies/History major. Primarily an actor, his UT credits (former & upcoming) include *Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood* (Little John), *Dead Fun Society* (Mark Hellebrand), *The Taming of the Shrew* (Grumio), and *Strings Attached* (Walt). This is his first year on UT Committee, however, he is also a board member of both Cup of Theater (Events Manager) and of Attori Senza Paura/UChicago Commedia (Production Manager & coincidentally also Co-Outreach Coordinator)! He is very excited to work with the new Committee as well as with his partner-in-outreach, Giancarlo!

Giancarlo Beritela (Co-Outreach Chair)

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Nathalie Lam (Dean's Men Representative)

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Ryan Cairns (Student Staff Representative)

is a third-year prospective Public Policy and TAPS double major. Her only UT credit thus far is as Assistant Director for *Love's Labour’s Lost*, but she is hoping to be further involved in the future. She is very excited to be working with Committee this year.

Crystina Windham (Tech Staff Representative)

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London Mahaley (Off-Off Representative)

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Maya Carlos Doyle

is a third-year English and Linguistics major. Her UT credits include *Twelfth Night* (SM), *Macbeth in Space* (APM), *Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood* (SM), and she served as the curator for T[24]’s 2022–2023 season. When not looking at spreadsheets and schedules, she can be found peacefully napping or procrastinating on tomorrow’s assigned reading by doing last week’s optional reading.

Belle Nahoom

is a third-year Theater and Performance Studies and Data Science major. Her previous theatre credits with UT include *The Heirs* (ASM), *Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood* (ASM), *The Intruder* Workshop (Costume Designer), *Scientific Method* (Costume Designer), *Macbeth in Space* (Hair & Makeup), The *Queen of Spades Workshop* (SM & PM), *The Laramie Project* (SM Collective™), the B.A. Thesis, *Yivdak* (Jared), *Twelfth Night* (Hair & Makeup), *Be More Chill* (Costume Designer), The *Strings Attached* Workshop (Costume/Props/Scenic Designer), *Falsettos* (Costume Designer), and the upcoming productions of *The Play That Goes Wrong* (Costume Designer) and *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (Asst. Costume Designer). She is capocomico of the Commedia Dell’Arte improv troupe on campus and participates as a member of teh acapella group Medusa. She also runs this website! She's probably updating it as we speak!

Will Rehmus

is a 1st-year Astrophysics major. They have previously worked on Weekend of Workshops: *Cassandra* (Lighting/Sound Designer), Mainstages: *Muscle Memory* (Assistant Lighting Designer), and *Falsettos* (Assistant Stage Manager). They are also currently working on the Mainstages *Strings Attached* (Co-Sound Designer) and *The Play That Goes Wrong* (Assistant Lighting Designer). They are looking forward to working with everyone to make UT as good as it can be.

Christian Beltran

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