Holding a BFA in Communications from Chapman University and an MFA in Directing from University of California Irvine’s prestigious Claire Trevor School of Arts, Teresa has directed professionally Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. She has worked with New York Classical Theatre, Vital Theatre Company, and the NY Fringe Festival and also previously served as the Executive Director of Anchorage Community Theatre. She has served on arts councils, development groups and other committee associations; locally in Anchorage she has collaborated on and off stage with organizations such as Perseverance Theatre, ACT, ATY, Alaska Native Heritage Center, Alaska Dance Theatre, UAA Department of Theatre, Out North Theatre, and worked with several nonprofit and charitable groups in a variety of roles.

Seth Eggleston was born and raised in Alaska, and works with multiple Alaskan theatre companies as a stage-manager, sound designer, music director, and performer. He has stage managed with Anchorage Opera, Cyrano’s Theatre Company, and TBA Theatre, including productions of The Barber of Seville (AO), Disenchanted! (CTC), and Our Friends, the Enemy (CTC). As a music director, he directed productions of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (CTC), The Merry Wives of Windsor (TBA), and Christmas Knight (TBA; voted “Best New Musical,” 2018 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards). As a sound designer, Seth designed for The Underpants (Perseverance Theatre) and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (CTC), and worked as a sound engineer for Willamette University Theatre. Seth has performed twice at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, most recently as an ASM and cast member in TBA Theatre’s The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2018). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Willamette University in both Music and Psychology. Through this study, he gained experience in the fields of piano performance, composition, and cognitive neuroscience research. Additionally, Seth is a regular instructor at TBA Theatre’s Performing Arts Academy, where he teaches technical theatre, music, and juggling.

Alexis Cisneros has worked with multiple Alaskan arts organizations either as a performer or as a staff member since she arrived in Alaska in 2016. As a staff member, she has worked with Cyrano’s Theatre Company, Alaska Junior Theater, and Perseverance Theatre. Recent performing credits include The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Mad Myrna’s, Tosca with Anchorage Opera, Secondary Characters with Anchorage Cabarets, and Boeing, Boeing with Cyrano's Theatre Company. In 2014, she had the honor of singing Schubert’s Mass in G at Carnegie Hall. She studied theatre performance at St. Ambrose University, is currently working on her master's degree in drama therapy at Lesley University, and serves on the Anchorage Opera Overture Council board.

OUR PRODUCTIONS

ARTISTIC HISTORY

The now and future Cyrano's Theatre Company is dedicated to Jerry and Sandy Harper and the high standards they established. Our first play, Eleemosynary, was produced in 1992. The company formed in 1995 as Eccentric Theatre Company and became Cyrano's Theatre Company in 2005.

1992

Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing

1993-94

American Buffalo by David Mamet
Four Poster by Jan De Hartog

1994-95

Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis
Oleanna by David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Duck Variations by David Mamet
Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
adapted by S. Berkhoff
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney

1996-97

Having Our Say adapted by Emily Mann
Moonlight by Harold Pinter
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Schulz) by Clark Gesner & John Gordon
Three Sisters (Chekhov) adapted by Lanford Wilson
Knock Knock by Jules Feiffer

Co-Production:
Libby* (Betty John) adapted by David Edgecombe, in association with Edgeware Productions

1998-99

Taxi Hands* by Jeff Silverman and Brian Hutton
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
Johnny’s Girl by Kim Rich
Zoo Story (reprise) by Edward Albee
American Dream by Edward Albee
The Magic Valley by Jack Gelber
Libby (reprise) adapted by David Edgecombe
Syd by Eric Wallace
Alaska Roadhouse* by Dick Reichman
Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig
Florida* by Dick Reichman
Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
3 Tall Women by Edward Albee
Master Class by Terrence McNally

2000

Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martian McDonagh
Art by Yasmina Reza
Holiday Memories (Capote) adapted by Russell Vandenbrouke

2001

The Price by Arthur Miller
Personals by Crane, Friedman, and Kauffman
The Trial (Kafka) adapted by Steven Berkoff
Lake Hollywood by John Guare
Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon
Wit by Margaret Edson
Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman

Co-Productions:
Harvey by Mary Chase, in association with Brown Eyed Girls Theatre Company
Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn, in association with Brown-Eyed Girls Theatre Company

2002

It’s All True by Jason Sherman
Money* by Dick Reichman
Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
Social Security by Andrew Bergman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt
archy and mehitabel by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks
Santaland Diaries (Sedaris) adapted by Joe Mantello

2003

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies
Albee’s Men by Glyn O’Malley
Proof by David Auburn
The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin

Co-Productions:
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, in association with Brown-Eyed Girls Theatre Company

2004

Nickel and Dimed (Ehrenreich) adapted by Joan Holden
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin
The Bells of Geneva* by Dick Reichman
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project

Co-Productions:
Fourplay by Schatzie Schaefers, in association with Kokopelli Productions

2005

The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov
Bat Boy: The Musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming and Laurence O'Keefe
The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey
The Bells of Geneva (reprise) by Dick Reichman
Kafka Dances by Timothy Daly

Co-Productions:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare, in association with Edgeware Productions & Alaska Theatre of Youth
War of Wills by David Edgecombe, in association with Edgeware Productions

*World Premiere Production

2006

Back of the Throat by Yussef El Guindi
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) by Will Eno
Skin Of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
War* by Dick Reichman
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck

Co-Production:
Adam’s Rib (Gordon/Kanin) adapted by David Edgecombe, in association with Edgeware Productions
Clue the Musical by by Peter DePietro, Galen Blum, Wayne Barker, Vinnie Martucci, and Tom Chiodo, in association with Brown-Eyed Girls Theatre Company

2007

The Ladies of the Camellias by Lillian Groag
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig
The Perfect Prayer by Suehyla El-Attar
Deathtrap by Ira Levin
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Growing Up Native in Alaska* (McClanahan) adapted from the book
Cyrano (Rostand) adapted by Jo Roets

Co-Productions:
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change…by Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts, in association with Brown-Eyed Girls Theatre Company

2008

Sylvia (reprise) by A.R. Gurney
Flamel’s Dream* by Dick Reichman
Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
The Boyfriend by Sandy Wilson

Co-Productions:
Othello by William Shakespeare, in association with Edgeware Productions
The Odd Couples by Neil Simon, in association with Brown-Eyed Girls Theatre Company

2009

Libby (reprise) adapted by David Edgecombe
The Ballad of Soapy Smith by Michael Weller
Make Good the Fires* by Arlitia Jones
Time Immemorial* by Jack Dalton and Allison Warden
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Meshuggah-Nuns by Dan Goggin
True Tales of the Frozen North* compiled by Linda Benson
The Big One: A Chronicle of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill* by Dick Reichman
The Courtship of Zack and Ada* by P. Shane Mitchell
Almost, Alaska by John Cariani (originally Almost, Maine)
Bark: The Musical by Francis Dillard, music by David Troy Francis

2010

Wind Blown and Dripping* by Peter Porco
Tuesdays with Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
You Can’t Take It With You by Moss Hart and George Kaufman
Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Theissen
Caroline or Change by Tony Kushner & Jeanine Tesori
Souvenir by Stephen Temperley
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
The Winter Bear* by Anne Hanley
Assimilation* by Jack Dalton
This Is Where We Came In by Allen Ayckbourn

2011

Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins
Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
Becky’s New Car by Steven Dietz
Red, White, and Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn
Helen by Ellen McLaughlin
Carnival by Michael Steward with composer Bob Merrill
It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry
Pinkalicious! The Musical by Victoria & Elizabeth Kann & John Gregor

2012

Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron
Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts
Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing
Ten Chimneys by Jeffery Hatcher
bobrauschenbergeramerica by Charles L. Mee
Gold Rush Girls by Kormo & Jerry Sanders
American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose by Richard Montoya
Red Hot Patriot by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel
Bruckner's Last Finale by Dick Reichman
It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play (reprise) adapted by Joe Landry

2013

Freud's Last Sesssion by Mark Germain
Clyborne Park by Bruce Norris
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
RED by John Logan
{title of show} by Hunter Bowen and Jeff Bell
Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
La Bete´ by David Hirson
Come to Me, Leopards by Arlitia Jones
A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle) adapted by John Glore

2014

The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gein
Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes by Yussef El Guindi
All the Great Books by Reed Martin and Austin Tichnor
The Audition* by Dick Reichman
Das Barbecue by Luigs and Warrender
Love, Loss, and What I Wore (reprise) by Nora and Delia Ephron
4,000 Miles by Amy Herzog
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) adapted by Jon Robin Baitz
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Shelly Markham

2015

The Ice-Breaker by David Rambo
Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
Red Hot Patriot: The Kickass Wit of Molly Ivins (reprise) by M. and A. Engel
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Venus in Fur by David Ives
Anchorage: The First 100 Years--A Theatrical Tour (an official Centennial event) by various Alaskan playwrights
Tribes by Nina Raine
Other Desert Cities by John Robin Baitz
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) by Michael Carleton, Jim Fitzgerald and John K. Alvarez and Will Knapp

Co-Productions:
A Woman by Design by Elizabeth Ware and David Edgecombe, in association with Edgeware Productions

2016

Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut
Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo
The Good Times are Killing Me by Linda Barry
Sila by Chantal Bilodeau
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth
The Ticket: An Imaginary Meeting Between Wally Hickel and Jay Hammond by Dick Reichman
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Pinkalicious! The Musical (reprise)
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) (reprise) by Michael Carleton, Jim FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez and Will Knapp

Co-Productions:
Good Men Wanted by Kevin Armento, in association with TossPot Productions
Money (reprise) by Dick Reichman, in association with RKP Productions.

2017

Private Lives by Noel Coward
Erma Bombeck: At Wits End by Allison and Margaret Engel
The Great American Trailer Park Musical by Betsy Kelso and David Neels
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow
Our Friends, the Enemy by Alex Gwyther
Fancy Nancy the Musical by Susan LiLallo and Danny Abosch

Co-Productions:
Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, in association with Blue Chair Productions
The Afterlife of J. Edgar Hoover by Timothy Daly, in association with RKP Productions

2018

Disenchanted the Musical by Dennis T. Giacino
Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton
Trevor by Nick Jones
The Spitfire Grill by James Valq
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
A Doll's House Part II by Lucas Hnath
Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly by Joan Cushing
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Austen) by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

Co-Productions:
Spikes* by Schatzie Schaefers, in association with RKP Productions

2019

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change… by Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Tea for Three by Elaine Bromka and Eric H. Weinberger
Boeing Boeing by Mark Camoletti & Beverley Cross
Hearts Like Fists by Adam Szymkowicz
Summerland by Arlitia Jones
Stinky Kids by Britt Menzies & Sammy Buck

Co-Productions:
The Old Woman Who Lost Her Voice by Jill Bess, in association with RKP Productions

2020

Emma (Austen) adapted by Martin Millar & Sarah-Doon Mackichen

2021

Ripcord by David Lindsay-Abaire

2022

Fallen Angels by Noel Coward

No More Harveys by Chantal Bilodeau

The Mommy Dance by Jill Bess

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood

WITH by Carter Lewis

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

2023

First Date, The Musical Adaptation by Austin Winsberg, Music & Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner

The Book Club Play by Karen Sacarías

Dog Park by Lisa M. Konoplisky

The Mystery of Irma Vep - A Penny Dreadful by Charles Ludlam

Uncle Ted by Senator Gary Stevens

Tartuffe by Molière, adapted by Richard Wilbur

Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas Musical by Cara Lustik and Matthew Hardy, Music by Randy Klein, and Lyrics by Matthew Hardy

2024

Clue: The Musical by Peter DePietro; Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker, and Vinnie Martucci; and Lyrics by Tom Chiodo

BLACK OUT - Black When I Was a Boy, Part II by Cooper Bates

Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon

Meteor Shower by Steve Martin

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

SANDY HARPER
Producing Artistic Director Emeritus

Until handing the reigns to Teresa K. Pond in 2016, Sandy's duties of Producing Artistic Director included coordinating the activities of the Board, directing marketing, fundraising, and operating Cyrano's Off Center Playhouse. In addition, Sandy served as the Artistic Director for Cyrano's Theatre Company productions, making programming decisions.

Sandy devotes a great amount of time serving in the community. She has served on the national board of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the board of the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, the board of the Rasmuson Foundation, and the board of the Anchorage Downtown Association. She also served as president of the Anchorage Cultural Council. Sandy's accolades include the Contribution to Literacy award as the founding member of the Alaska Center for the Book; the YWCA Notable Woman of the Year (2009); induction into the ATHENA Society (2009); recognition by the Soroptimist Society for her encouragement of women in the arts (2010); an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from UAA (2011); the Lorene Harrison Lifetime Achievement award (2011).

David Edgecomb and Elizabeth Ware: Cyrano's Company Founding Members Emeritus