Arts on the Horizon recognizes these individuals as members of our artistic and educational community; their commitment to our mission is beyond anything we could ask of them, but one they generously choose to make.
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Natalie Cutcher - Company Member since 2016
Natalie is a local theatre maker and teaching artist in the DMV. She recently earned her MFA through The Academy for Classical Acting with the Shakespeare Theatre Company's program at The George Washington University. In undergrad at Muhlenberg College, she double concentrated in Acting and Directing and studied Commedia del'Arte and Clowning abroad in Arezzo, Italy. While pursuing local acting opportunities, Natalie has taught with Creative Kids, The Smithsonian Institutes, and The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. You may have caught her onstage in Arts on the Horizon's productions and remounts of Snow Day or Point A to Point B. This season, she is thrilled to premier Squeakers & Mr. Gumdrop, a holiday show co-created and co-directed with Amanda Forstrom. |
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Kate Debelack - Company Member since 2015
Kate is a DC-area director and actor and a proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. Kate created and directed By the Seashore and directed Sunny and Licorice and Sailing on String with Arts on the Horizon. Other directing credits include the One Minute Play Festival, Capital Fringe, and Cherry Red Productions. D.C. acting credits include: Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (American Scrapbook), The Shakespeare Theatre (Ion), The Studio Theatre (Fat Pig, Long Christmas Ride Home, Ivanov, Blue Heart), Studio Theatre 2ndstage (Bat Boy the Musical, Love’s Fire, The Wild Party), Taffety Punk (Measure for Measure), Forum (The Memorandum), Longacre Lea (Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s Macbeth), MetroStage (Electra), and Cherry Red Productions (Cinema Verité, Anger Box, Worm Girl, Spamlet, and Zombie Attack!). Regional: New York International Fringe Festival, Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. She is the Associate Artistic Director of The Klunch and teaches at the Studio Acting Conservatory. |
Pablo Guillén - Company Member since 2023
Irene Hamilton - Company Member since 2023
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David Kilpatrick - Company Member since 2014
David is a DC-area arts administrator and playwright, and proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. His playwriting career began in second grade with a show called Father Fox Tries to Get Some Chickens. Written on his parents' typewriter and starring his classmates, the piece proved to be so popular it then toured all the way down the hall to the first grade. Now, all of these years later, he's not only delighted to have made a career in theatre, but is also honored to be writing plays for children under 6. His other plays with Arts on the Horizon include: The Young Spectaculars and the Front Yard Adventure, Point A to Point B, and the Holiday Edition of Drumming with Dishes. His adaptation of Lindsay Ward’s picture book Please Bring Balloons was produced by New York City Children’s Theater. For the past two years, David has served as the Director of Education Programs and Productions at the Kennedy Center. Before that, he served as Manager of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences for nearly ten years.
David is a DC-area arts administrator and playwright, and proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. His playwriting career began in second grade with a show called Father Fox Tries to Get Some Chickens. Written on his parents' typewriter and starring his classmates, the piece proved to be so popular it then toured all the way down the hall to the first grade. Now, all of these years later, he's not only delighted to have made a career in theatre, but is also honored to be writing plays for children under 6. His other plays with Arts on the Horizon include: The Young Spectaculars and the Front Yard Adventure, Point A to Point B, and the Holiday Edition of Drumming with Dishes. His adaptation of Lindsay Ward’s picture book Please Bring Balloons was produced by New York City Children’s Theater. For the past two years, David has served as the Director of Education Programs and Productions at the Kennedy Center. Before that, he served as Manager of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences for nearly ten years.
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Kylene King - Company Member since 2014
Kylene has worked as a production manager, company manager, stage manager, props designer, stagehand, production assistant, and more for shows ranging from educational presentations for children to large-scale musicals and operas. Since 2013, Kylene has been the production coordinator at the Katzen Arts Center at American University, where she handles events for the theatre, music, arts management, audio technology, studio art, and art history programs. |
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Ryan Sellers - Company Member since 2019
Ryan Sellers has been a teaching artist, actor, and director in the DC area since 2008. He has worked with Arts on the Horizon, MVCCT, and Synetic mentoring and educating youth through theater arts. He has directed for Arts on the Horizon, Synetic Theater, Synetic Teen Company, Creative Cauldron, MVCCT, and many local schools. He has performed with several companies around the DC area, including Synetic Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Constellation Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Arts on the Horizon, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre, Studio Theatre, Longarce Lea, and Creative Cauldron. |
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Alicia Sells - Company Member since 2014
Mary Alicia Sells is a proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. A local freelance stage manager, she has had the privilege to work on over 30 productions with such companies as Adventure Theatre, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, The Source Festival, Spooky Action Theater, Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a BA in English, History, and Theatre. |
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E-hui - Company Member since 2020
E-hui has always been a hands-on creator and a very practical person, her dream jobs primarily being in the engineering and non-profit sectors. Her early exposure to the arts, combined with her love of math and sciences, eventually led her to discover her passion for lighting design and to pursue a BFA at Ithaca College. E-hui has been freelancing in the DMV area since 2015, often found hanging from catwalks or pressing buttons frantically in the dark. Her first show with Arts on the Horizon was Outside the Lines in 2018, and she is immensely excited to now be a company member and delighted to regularly be involved in all the amazing work that AOTH does! |
Arts on the Horizon Emerging Artists
In fall of 2018, AOTH launched an Emerging Artist Program to enhance our commitment to developing the next generation of artists, directors, creators, designers, and actors in the field of Theatre for the Very Young. Each season, we will select one individual to be our resident Emerging Artist to work on one AOTH production. Through this opportunity, the individual will receive professional experience and leadership opportunities, as well as an increase in their visibility in the theatre community. Take a look at the Emerging Artists who have worked with us so far:
Amber Smithers | Artistic Fellow (Winter/Spring 2023)
Amber has recently graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in Theatre. She is a Theatre Practioner, who was a part of The National Players Tour 73’s production of Much Ado About Nothing as (Beatrice/Borachio). She is also a local playwright whose work has been produced by Adventure Theatre’s Q-fest, as well as We Happy Few. Amber is ecstatic to be working with Arts On the Horizon as an Emerging Theatre Artist this season.
Nathan Leituala | Artistic Fellow (Fall 2022)
Nate is excited to jump on board with Arts on the Horizon. From Salt Lake City, Utah and a recent graduate from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts (NCDA) in Georgetown, DC, Nate has been an active presence on the theatre stage since his first ever appearance as Daniel in the musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and then went on to perform in numerous shows around the Salt Lake Valley such as Footloose as Ensemble, Mamma Mia as Pepper, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood as The Deputy, just to name a few. In addition to his previous experience, Nate has performed in two shows as a student at NCDA in Pass Over as Mister and A Life in the Theatre as Robert.
Olubunmi Shabi | Artistic Fellow (2021-2022)
Olubunmi is a senior Theatre major at the University of Maryland, and served as an understudy and the Assistant Director for our most recent remount of By the Seashore and worked on Arts on the Horizon's world premiere spring 2022 production, Birds of a Feather. She is Nigerian-American, born and raised in Maryland. Greatly interested in theatre design and music production, she is excited to be embarking on her career in Theatre and Performing Arts.
Stephen Indrisano | Lighting Designer (2019-2020)
Stephen is a lighting and sound designer and he designed the lights for Squeakers & Mr. Gumdrop. He graduated with honors from the University of Vermont in 2018 with a focus in Theater and Psychological Sciences. While in Burlington, VT, he designed lights for one of the Top Ten Fall Events in Vermont. After returning to the Mid-Atlantic, he designed lights for the world premiere of Craig Houk’s Cold Rain at Capital Fringe. He completed a year-long Production Apprenticeship at Imagination Stage in 2019. His work can be found at: Indrisanodesign.weebly.com
Becca Drew Ramsey | Creator/Designer (2018-2019)
Becca Drew is a NC-based theatre maker who specializes in creative drama, theatre design, and theatre for the very young. She was the creator and designer for Sailing on String. She earned her MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from the University of Texas at Austin. In Chicago, she served as Artistic Director of Bubbles Academy, an arts-integrated enrichment center where she developed innovative programming for babies to five year olds. At Lexington Children’s Theatre, Becca Drew worked as Education Associate, teaching theatre classes to young people, designing for MainStage productions and performing for young audiences. Becca Drew’s artistry is heavily influenced by young people. She believes passionately in the power a practicing artist can have in the classroom and the powerful influence young people have on practicing artists.
