ADAM IMMERWAHR, (Director) is responsible for season selection and also oversees the artistic, education, and production departments. He recently directed Village’s productions of Dial M for Murder, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Fantasticks. He previously served as Artistic Director of Theater J, the Associate Artistic Director at McCarter Theatre, and the Resident Director of Passage Theatre. Adam’s producing credits include new works by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Danai Gurira, Fiasco Theater, Will Power, Stephen Wadsworth, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Ken Ludwig, several of which have transferred to Broadway or off-Broadway. As a director, Adam’s work has been seen from Aspen to Zimbabwe, including at some of the top theaters in the country: The Public and Theater Row (both for Summer Play Festival), Ensemble Studio Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, McCarter Theater, Cleveland Play House, Lyric Theater of Oklahoma, Theater J, Passage Theater, Hangar Theater, Bristol Riverside, and many others. He serves on the Board of the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce and is an inaugural member of the Drama League Director’s Council.
ANDREA BRYN BUSH, (Set Designer) has designed and collaborated with many Seattle-based companies, including Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT Theatre, and Intiman Theatre, among others. Past designs at Village include Million Dollar Quartet, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and Crimes of the Heart. She is a former ensemble member and resident designer at Washington Ensemble Theatre. Andrea holds an MFA from the University of Washington, where she is currently on staff in the Scene Shop. She received the 2010 Gregory Award for outstanding scenic design.
PETE RUSH, (Costume Designer) designs scenery and costumes for the theatre. He previously designed How to Break and Camelot for Village Theatre. His designs have appeared locally at ACT Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Taproot Theatre, ArtsWest and Seattle University. Pete additionally works as a visual artist, specializing in installation and wearable art, while also producing free public arts programs at Seattle Center. Member USA 829.
GEOFF KORF, (Lighting Designer) has designed lighting for more than three hundred productions including 108 world premieres. Notable world premieres have included August Wilson’s Two Trains Running directed by Lloyd Richards, Disney’s High School Musical directed by Peter Rothstein, and Larissa Fasthorse’s Urban Rez directed by Michael John Garçes. Geoff is a member of the Ensemble of Cornerstone Theater, and a graduate of California State University, Chico and the Yale School of Drama.
DARRON L WEST, (Sound Designer) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose nearly 40-year career spans theater and dance, on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theaters, too numerous to list here. Village Theatre: The Fantasticks, Beautiful: The Carol King Musical. His work has been heard in over 700 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others.
LAUREL NICHOLS, she/her (Stage Manager) is happy to be back after recently working on Brigadoon! Favorite Village credits include Jersey Boys, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Hello, Dolly!, The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, and Disney’s Newsies! Regionally, she’s also credited at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Union Arts Center, The Feast, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In her free time, Laurel enjoys traveling and finding cozy places to read. Proud AEA member. Love to Mr. Nichols! @laurelleemarie
ANNIKA EVENS, (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be back at Village Theatre. Past credits include: Brigadoon, Jersey Boys, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, The Fantasticks, and Sense and Sensibility. Other experience includes work at Seattle Shakespeare Company, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The New London Barn Playhouse, and KÀ by Cirque du Soleil. Additionally, she enjoys mentoring students through Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE and Intiman Theatre’s STARFISH Project. Annika is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in stage and production management.
COLLEEN NIELSEN, (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to celebrate 22 years at Village Theatre with Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. Previous stage management credits include Dial M for Murder, The Mousetrap, and Sleuth. Additionally, she is passionate about mentoring Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE students and working with the New Works program, some favorite new shows including: The Passage, String, and How to Break. For E.N., truly my rock.
KEN LUDWIG, (Book) may well be the most performed playwright of his generation. He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year. They have been produced in over 20 languages in more than 30 countries, and many have become standards of the American repertoire.
His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. It has been revived twice in London, most recently in 2023. His play Death on the Nile is currently on a 26-city tour of the UK and Ireland.
In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for writing the Kennedy Center Honors. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo; Leading Ladies; Baskerville; Sherwood; Twentieth Century; Dear Jack, Dear Louise; A Fox on the Fairway; A Comedy of Tenors; The Game’s Afoot; and Shakespeare in Hollywood. They have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins, Kristen Bell, and Henry Goodman.
His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, has been a bestseller and has recently been released in a new, expanded edition. It won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year. He studied music with Leonard Bernstein at Harvard University. His essays on theatre are published in the Yale Review, and he gives the Annual Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. He holds a lifetime appointment to the Council of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2022. His most recent world premieres were Moriarty and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley; Adults at Play; Beginner’s Luck with a score by George and Ira Gershwin; and Easter Parade with a score by Irving Berlin.
He has been commissioned to write plays by the Agatha Christie Estate, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic. For more information visit KenLudwig.com.
TREVOR CUSHMAN, he/they (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a Seattle-based lighting designer for theater and dance. At Village Theatre, he has previously assisted on Jersey Boys and 9 to 5, and he has designed for Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE productions of Guys & Dolls and The SpongeBob Musical. Recent theater designs include The Effect and Covenant (ArtsWest), and The Stupidest, Scariest Time (SwimPony). Upcoming projects: Walden (ArtsWest). MFA in lighting design – University of Washington. tcushmandesign.com
GIN HAMMOND, (Dialect Coach) is thrilled to be working on this show. She is an award-winning Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre graduate and her book, Returning the Bones, is a National Indies Excellence Finalist and a Gold Winning INDIES Book of the Year winner. Gin’s recent solo show, Living IncogNegro, will be released as a feature-length film in 2026.
AVERY CLARK, (Dr. Watson). 
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