Shoggoths on the Veldt: Meet the Cast
Tasi Alabastro (Famed Explorer Welton Mountcrag) - returns to the Dragon Stage with an elation that can only be described as seeing Elephants fly while surfing! Or something. Having just visited Scotland by way of Shakespeare, he’s excited to be traversing the globe to Deepest Darkest Africa with this merry crew. In addition to working onstage, he is an online content creator and photographer whose work focuses on reflecting his community and culture. He has had the honor of being the 2018 Silicon Valley Creates’ Emerging Artist Laureate as well as being published in CONTENT Magazine and Tayo Magazine. The productions of Macbeth, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Three Days of Rain, and The Libation Bearers are among his recent Dragon Theatre appearances. Other Bay Area credits include productions with CenterRep, City Lights Theatre Company, Pear Theatre, Hillbarn Theatre, and TheatreWork’s New Works Festival. Film/TV includes “Yes We’re Open” and PBS’ “Futurestates.” He is a proud member of the Red Ladder Theatre Company and is currently working with inmates in state prisons as part of the California Art’s Council’s Arts-in-Corrections program: a program which re-engages participants with their creativity and imagination. Catch him live three times a week on twitch.tv/kreenpananas.
Betsy (The Shoogoth) - Ooodle, oodle oodle oo! Oddle Dragon Theatre, oodle,oo, oodle OODDLE!.
Lisa Burton (Lady Philippa Bickleford-Smith Jones) - is thrilled to be back on the Dragon stage and in the company of such a fun and talented team. She was last seen at Dragon Theatre for that most festive of all shows—The Making of the Star Wars Holiday Special: Live!—in which she appeared as Han Solo and assorted other characters. Other Dragon performances include a turn as Bea Littleton in The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church and Tsarina/Sarrasine in Cirque Exotique du Monde. Locally, Lisa has also appeared at the Pear Theatre in The Millionth Production of the Christmas Carol (what is it with these long titles?) and at Santa Clara Players in Exit The Body and Rumors. Favorite roles from the distant past include Dorine in Tartuffe and both Cecily and Gwendolyn in two different productions of The Important of Being Earnest. Lisa holds a B.F.A. in theatre from New York University and an M.A. in literature from San Francisco State University. She is grateful to her wonderful family—Drew, Andrew, Zoe and Bolt—for all their love and support.
Ronald Feichtmeir (Lord Melford Pumbleshire) - Ronald has been acting on the peninsula most recently in the Dragon Theatre’s production of The Star Wars Holiday Special: Live! as C3PO and Art Carney. He is a Bay Area native. Recent shows include Waiting for Godotas Estragon, Cirque Exotique Du Monde at the Dragon Theatre and Jim/ Scrooge for A Millionth Production of a Christmas Carol at the Pear Theatre.
Alika U. Spencer-Koknar (Lady Euphonia Riggstone) - has been itching to do a production of Shoggoths on the Veldt ever since she saw the world premiere back in 2015 in Seattle WA. at The Rogues Gallery. She is honored to share this endeavor with such a talented and compassionate group of artists, she couldn’t have pulled this off without every single one of their help. Alika has recently stepped into the role of Co-Artistic Director here at the Dragon along with her director and husband, Max Koknar. Her past credits include; Princess Leia in The Star Wars Holiday Special: Live!, Judith in Equivocation, Boshka/Magda Goebbels in Cirque Exotique Du Monde with Dragon Theatre, with Northside Theater Company as Maureen in The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, with City Lights as Johnna Monevata In August: Osage County with City Lights Theater Company and Alice Bloomfield in Kinan Valdez’s production of Zoot Suit with El Theatro Campesino.
Michael Weiland (Crompit/Steward/The God of the Bloody Tongue/Arnulf) - has previously appeared in Equivocation at the Dragon Theatre. Other appearances include Geeks vs Zombies at the Pear Theater, The Legend of Georgia McBride at Los Altos Stage Company, Boom! at Minilights, andRocky Horror at City Lights Theater Company. Michael is also a company member at Play On Words San Jose, a staged reading company for new works by local authors, playwrights, and poets.
Tasi Alabastro (Famed Explorer Welton Mountcrag) - returns to the Dragon Stage with an elation that can only be described as seeing Elephants fly while surfing! Or something. Having just visited Scotland by way of Shakespeare, he’s excited to be traversing the globe to Deepest Darkest Africa with this merry crew. In addition to working onstage, he is an online content creator and photographer whose work focuses on reflecting his community and culture. He has had the honor of being the 2018 Silicon Valley Creates’ Emerging Artist Laureate as well as being published in CONTENT Magazine and Tayo Magazine. The productions of Macbeth, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Three Days of Rain, and The Libation Bearers are among his recent Dragon Theatre appearances. Other Bay Area credits include productions with CenterRep, City Lights Theatre Company, Pear Theatre, Hillbarn Theatre, and TheatreWork’s New Works Festival. Film/TV includes “Yes We’re Open” and PBS’ “Futurestates.” He is a proud member of the Red Ladder Theatre Company and is currently working with inmates in state prisons as part of the California Art’s Council’s Arts-in-Corrections program: a program which re-engages participants with their creativity and imagination. Catch him live three times a week on twitch.tv/kreenpananas. 
Betsy (The Shoogoth) - Ooodle, oodle oodle oo! Oddle Dragon Theatre, oodle,oo, oodle OODDLE!.
Ronald Feichtmeir (Lord Melford Pumbleshire) - Ronald has been acting on the peninsula most recently in the Dragon Theatre’s production of The Star Wars Holiday Special: Live! as C3PO and Art Carney. He is a Bay Area native. Recent shows include Waiting for Godotas Estragon, Cirque Exotique Du Monde at the Dragon Theatre and Jim/ Scrooge for A Millionth Production of a Christmas Carol at the Pear Theatre.
Alika U. Spencer-Koknar (Lady Euphonia Riggstone) - has been itching to do a production of Shoggoths on the Veldt ever since she saw the world premiere back in 2015 in Seattle WA. at The Rogues Gallery. She is honored to share this endeavor with such a talented and compassionate group of artists, she couldn’t have pulled this off without every single one of their help. Alika has recently stepped into the role of Co-Artistic Director here at the Dragon along with her director and husband, Max Koknar. Her past credits include; Princess Leia in The Star Wars Holiday Special: Live!, Judith in Equivocation, Boshka/Magda Goebbels in Cirque Exotique Du Monde with Dragon Theatre, with Northside Theater Company as Maureen in The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, with City Lights as Johnna Monevata In August: Osage County with City Lights Theater Company and Alice Bloomfield in Kinan Valdez’s production of Zoot Suit with El Theatro Campesino.
Michael Weiland (Crompit/Steward/The God of the Bloody Tongue/Arnulf) - has previously appeared in Equivocation at the Dragon Theatre. Other appearances include Geeks vs Zombies at the Pear Theater, The Legend of Georgia McBride at Los Altos Stage Company, Boom! at Minilights, andRocky Horror at City Lights Theater Company. Michael is also a company member at Play On Words San Jose, a staged reading company for new works by local authors, playwrights, and poets.
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