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There’s always something to do at Theatre Arlington. Check it out! A former stage manager at Theatre Arlington, Cathy O’Neal learned all about stage managing here before becoming a professional Actors’ Equity stage manager and working for regional theaters across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex for 22 years. Her stage management credits include Circle Theatre, Uptown Players, Theatre Three, Pegasus Theatre and Kids Who Care. Cathy took her stage management skills to Broadway twice as part of the stage management teams for Broadway Backwards, the main fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, where she got to work in Broadway’s Hirschfield Theatre and the Palace Theatre with stars like Betty Buckley, Estelle Parsons, Andrew Rannells and Len Cariou, the original Sweeney Todd. She also has appeared on television as a bartender in the final season of The OC and a courtroom spectator on the Dallas reboot. Addie Morales was a Theatre Arlington theater kid who dazzled everyone in youth productions, most notably as Glinda in The Wizard of Oz and Belle in Beauty & the Beast. She went on to dazzle even more people across the country as Cosette in the national tour of Les Miserables. Her regional theater credits include West Side Story at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Barrington Stage Company, North Carolina Theatre and New London Barn; and The Sound of Music and In the Heights at the Marriott Theatre, and Evita at the Drury Lane Theatre, both in the Chicago area. Addie is currently working on a pre-Broadway production in St. Louis. In addition to theater, she has appeared on TV in NBC’s Law & Order SVU, like all good New York actors! Shannon McGrann is a Theatre Arlington audience favorite for her roles as Della in The Cake and Truvy in Steel Magnolias. She has performed on Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex stages that include Casa Manana Theatre, Stage West, Dallas Theater Center and Theatre Three. Her regional theater credits include theaters in Oklahoma and San Francisco. Her impressive resume includes numerous local and national commercials. She played Carrie Fisher in the ABC television movie series The Price of Fame, and Vada Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s sister-in-law in the NBC TV movie series Fatal Deceptions: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald. Her television roles include Fox’s The Good Guys, HBO Max’s Love & Death, NetFlix’s Look Both Ways and Taylor Sheridan’s 1923. Theatre Arlington’s former technical director has taken his technical skills all the way to Broadway! He worked as head electrician for Hamilton after joining the show in 2018 as assistant electrician. He also has worked as an electrician for Broadway’s Billy Elliot the Musical, the stage musical of Dirty Dancing and assistant electrician for Waitress starring Sara Bareilles at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. His current project is Purple Rain, a new Broadway musical about Prince. Theatre Arlington’s technical director, lighting and set designer, and occasional director has designed at many area theater companies, including Fort Worth’s Shakespeare in the Park, Stage West, Jubilee Theatre and Circle Theatre. Nationally, he is known for his design work for the Boy Scouts of America National Conferences and shows. Bryan is an active participant in the United Institute of Theatre Technology, where he has shared his expertise on national panels on lighting and scenic design. Actor, designer, director and educator Ira Steck worked as theater arts program director at Lamar High School for six years. In addition to Theatre Arlington, he has acted in the region at Stage West, Kitchen Dog Theater and Shakespeare Dallas. Ira is the founder of Meadows Basement, an award-winning, critically acclaimed non-profit theater company in Los Angeles. Ira can be seen in recurring roles on television in the WB’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Monk on the USA Network, Fox’s Firefly and Halo for Showtime/Paramount Plus. Denise Lee, an award-winning singer and actress, is also the diva of Dallas Cabaret! A busy cabaret performer herself, she is the founder and executive producer of the Denise Lee Onstage Cabaret Series and the Dallas Cabaret Festival. Denise made her Theatre Arlington debut as Baneatta Mabry in Chicken & Biscuits and has performed one of her cabarets on the theater’s lobby cabaret stage. Denise is also a playwright and her first play, Funny, You Don’t Act Like a Negro, made its world premiere at Theatre Three. Her film credits include Hiding in Plain Sight, The Last Exorcism and Saving Jessica Lynch. She has been on television in Queen Sugar, Queen of the South, Friday Night Lights, The Lying Game and the reboot of Dallas. She has performed in China, at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Denise is also the founder of the non-profit Voices for Change equality awareness and activism organization in Dallas and has hosted special events and community conversations about racism across the Metroplex. Longtime Theatre Arlington patrons will recognize his nam