Introducing our 2021 Summer Intern Class! Meet the talented college students and recent graduates who will be joining us both in person and virtually this summer as Teaching Artist, Marketing, and Arts Administration Interns. Welcome to the team!
MEET SCT'S SUMMER 2021 INTERN CLASS
 | Lauren Mandras (she/her) is a senior at the University of Central Florida – Rosen College of Hospitality Management studying Entertainment Management. She is currently a Communications Intern with the Broadway Green Alliance, combining her love of theatre with her passion for environmental activism. In this role, she has developed creative skills in digital marketing, event planning, and community outreach. Moreover, Lauren has also gained extensive experience working at live shows within theme parks, such as Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple and Blue Man Group Orlando. Lauren is thrilled to work as a Content Marketing Intern this summer at the Seattle Children’s Theatre and is very grateful for the opportunity! |
 | Morgan Gwilym Tso (He/They) is a junior at Stanford University studying Theater, Asian American Studies, and Computer Science. Growing up in Seattle, the first theatrical show he remembers seeing was actually at SCT itself, so you can imagine how excited he is to be back! He’s heavily involved with student theater at school and spent this past fall quarter virtually interning at the New Victory Theater in New York. While he’s unsure if he’ll pursue theater as a performer, educator, or administrator, he knows he wants to use it as a tool for storytelling and empowerment within communities of color. |
 | Khanthida Mounivong (She/her) is from Laos and currently a junior at St. Olaf College double majoring in Theatre and Education. Her passion for theatre started in high school in Armenia, United World College Dilijan (UWCD), where she discovered how theatre can help understand the body, who we are as people, and strengthen connections to the community. However, when she recieved a scholarship to continue her passion for theatre in the US, she faced the lack of diversity and inclusion in the theatre field, which led her to a new passion in education. Khanthida would like to become a theatre educator working to create positive changes so that theatre students of color would feel safe, include, and believe that they will become successful both in life and on the stage. She is interested in the work of inclusivity in the field of theatre and how we can make theatre a safe-belonging space, and a second home. |
 | Kandace (she/her) is a rising senior at Northwestern University. She got involved with theatre when she was a child by participating in summer camps at the children’s theatre in her hometown, Omaha, Nebraska, and has loved it ever since. She loves acting, writing, directing, and theatre education and she hopes to pursue careers in acting and theatre education after she graduates. Kandace is slowly but surely learning how to play the ukulele |
 | Kaley Hinrichs (She/Her) is thrilled to be a new teaching artist intern for Seattle Children’s Theater! Kaley is a rising junior studying theatre education and entrepreneurial management at Ball State University. Her passion for diverse, accessible theatre education and seeing students grow through art drives every teaching endeavor she has. In the past, she has worked at Theatre Arts for Kids (Lincoln, NE), Muncie Civic Theatre, and Northside Middle School’s drama program (Muncie, IN). In her free time, she is involved in performing and film arts. She is so grateful and ecstatic for this opportunity with SCT. |
 | Julie Hedrick (she/they) is a current junior at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre. She is thrilled to travel to SCT for the summer and experience the west coast for the first time! Julie hopes to become a theatre educator in the future and enjoys coloring and doing calligraphy in her spare time. One of Julie’s passions include making theatre accessible to people of all ages and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to bring theatre to the youth of the Seattle area at SCT this summer. |
 | Gabrielle Moore (she/her) graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2020 where she received her B.A in Theatre Studies, a Minor in Film Studies, and a Certificate in Arts Entrepreneurship. She enjoyed working at the Denver Center for Performing Arts as a teaching artist, actor, playwright, and a Bobby G High School Musical Awards adjudicator for several years. Gabrielle is also a proud houseplant parent so ask her for any plant advice. |
 | Hailey Medrano (she/her) is a Teaching Artist and actor originally from San Antonio, Texas and is elated to be joining the Seattle Children’s Theatre Education team! Hailey graduated with her BFA in Acting from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, Missouri in 2018. In 2019, she moved to New York City and has worked in theatre education, TYA, zoom plays, and devised theatre there for the past 2 years. After growing up in summer programs for young people in theatre and performing arts, Hailey can’t wait to experience summer in Seattle for the first time and with a company as incredible as SCT. Speaking of summer camp, when Hailey was 8, she had to be picked up from sleep-away camp because she was tired of playing sports outside and missed her mom. Luckily, she tried theatre camp the next year. |
 | Emily Herman (She/Her) is a Junior at Michigan State University majoring in Theater and minoring in Musical Theater. Emily's educational focus is in Theatre for Young Audiences and Sensory Friendly Theater. Emily has a deep love for theatre and aspires to open her own TYA company. Emily is a proud member of OpenSpot Theater Company, a MSU orgnaization that specializes in theater for all abilities, especially for students who are neurodiverse. This is Emily's first time visiting/living on the West Coast. She is excited to start her adventure with SCT! |
 | Bee Dellepiane (she/they) is a recent graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, where she majored in musical theatre and fell in love with Theatre for Young Audiences, aspiring to be a writer and actor. Fun Fact: In Bee’s spare time they run the sci-fi audio drama called In Astra: A Sci-Fi Mystery, which can be heard anywhere podcasts are found. |
 | Brianna Canning (she/her) is originally from Missoula, MT, and is so excited to be a Teaching Artist Intern with Seattle Children’s Theatre this summer. After spending the last four years completing her BA in Government, Legal Studies, and Latin American Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, she is eager to settle in the Seattle area. Brianna loves theatre for its unique capacity to cultivate empathy, and produce social and political change through storytelling and community-building. At Bowdoin, she stage managed multiple productions for the Department of Theater and Dance and Masque and Gown, a student theatre group on campus (Cole Porter Musical Revue, American Idiot, Richard III, Heart of the City, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Dance Concerts, 2019 One Acts Festival). She spent the summer of 2019 with Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, serving as an assistant production manager, assistant stage manager for Beauty and the Beast, and revolving stage operator for Oklahoma!. In her free time, Brianna enjoys baking and finding new cookie recipes. |
 | Amanda Hinge (she/her) is a senior attending Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Amanda will graduate in May with a Bachelor of Science in Theater and a minor in Arts Administration as a member of the Periclean Honors Forum. Through Skidmore, Amanda attended Cinema Sarah Lawrence, a hands-on filmmaking program, and studied abroad at the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy where she participated in an intensive physical theatre program and was first introduced to Commedia dell’Arte. Amanda’s primary focuses in theatre and filmmaking include directing, acting, and producing. A few of Amanda’s favorite theatre experiences include playing Virginia Woolf in I Talk to the Flowers, assistant directing The Sor Juana Project, and directing Arch-I-tech. Outside of the theater, Amanda is a competitive alpine ski racer and enjoys spending time in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York where she grew up. Amanda is excited to join the SCT team this summer! |
 | Indira Rampersad (she/her) is really excited to be joining SCT as an intern, after years of participating as a student! Though she is a born and raised Seattleite, she is currently heading into her final year at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is studying towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a teaching certificate for K-12 Theatre Education. She has a passion for the art of storytelling and is especially excited by what young people can accomplish with this art form. She can’t wait to dive into this summer and help this season’s group of students grow as artists as she grows alongside them. |
 | Darby Sherwood (she/her) is a playwright and theatre educator from Illinois. She currently studies drama and political science at the University of Washington. Darby has taught youth at Taproot Theatre, School of Performing Arts, Kidz Kabaret, and BAM Theatre. Her plays have been performed over a dozen times in the past four years and four of her plays and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals. Darby's first role was playing the Ugly Duckling in a production of Honk Jr in 6th grade. Learn more about her at www.darbysherwood.com. |
 | Eliane Rodriguez (she/her) is a Seattle based collaborator, deviser, actress, and designer. Some of her most recent work includes WWU New Works Play Reading: Work by Brian Quijada, co-directing The Meme and [other things] play: a devised piece, and participating in #HereToo-WWU in collaboration with Tectonic Theatre Project. Eliane graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in Communication Studies and Theater with a concentration in performance. She is passionate about devised theatre and work which reflects the Latinx community. Eliane is excited to engage and inspire the future generation of thespians within the SCT community. |
