A native Virginian who resides in Middleburg, Mallory began her career with SOT as an intern Assistant Stage Manager before moving up to staff Assistant Stage Manager. She now makes her debut as SOT’s Stage Manager with Much Ado About Nothing/Béatrice et Bénédict. Mallory is a recent honors graduate of The Highland School, where she served as captain of the district prize winning robotics team along with captaining the lacrosse and field hockey teams. Mallory’s future plans include attending Allegheny College, where she will double major in Theater and Environmental Science and continue to play field hockey for the Allegheny Gators.

Casey Kaleba founded and runs Tooth & Claw. He has coordinated violence for opera, television, music videos, and more than 400 theatrical productions. That work includes arranging fights at the Guthrie Theatre, Spoleto Festival, Folger Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Keegan Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera, Avant Bard, Hub Theatre, Washington National Opera, Source Festival, Olney Theatre Center, and Constellation Theatre. A company member with Rorschach Theatre and Brave Spirits Theatre, Casey has staged fights for knights, musketeers, princesses, zombies, wolves, pirates, ninjas, and at least one alien tentacle. Casey has trained with movement artists from across the globe, including Fight Directors Canada, the Society of Australian Fight Directors, British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Dueling Arts International, Dell’Arte, Combat Circus, Rapier Wit, and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Recently he has served as the audition choreographer for Marvel Universe Live. He holds an MA in Theatre History from the University of Maryland.
A Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, Casey has taught theatrical combat workshops and courses for a wide range of programs. He has taught at the University of Maryland, Catholic University, University of Mary Washington, Old Dominion University, Chesapeake College, Davidson College, James Madison University, Montgomery College, University of South Carolina, the Virginia Governor’s School, and Virginia Theatre Association, as well as scores of high schools, festivals, professional development workshops, libraries, and camps. He has served as a teaching artist for the Shakespeare Theatre, Round House Theatre, English Speaking Union, and Folger Library. Casey has been a guest instructor for Fight Directors Canada and the Nordic Stagefight Society, and an instructor at the Paddy Crean Workshop – the largest international stage combat workshop. Casey is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Prized for his strong bass voice, Mr. Allen has performed with SOT since 2018, portraying King Claudius in Hamlet (2020), Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (2019), and covered Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitor (2018). Since 2020, he assumed a new role with SOT as Associate Producer for Audience Development.

Amy Baska is pleased to be working with SOT again. She previously was seen in SOT’s “Hamlet” as Horatio, and as every one of Henry VIII’s wives in “Elizabethian Entertainments.” Amy holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Hartt School, a degree that was a heck of a lot of fun to earn but in no way prepared her to be a tax paying member of our society. She has worked with a lot of DMV theatres, played music with a lot of regional bands, and saw a lot of shenanigans when she was working for IATSE Local 22. Word to my mother.

MAGGIE RAMSEY, mezzo-soprano, most recently performed the role of Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare Opera Theatre’s production of Hamlet. Previous principal roles include Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with SOT, Woman #2 and the role of Liz (cover) in the professional premiere of Sweets by Kate with Marble City Opera, Sandman in Hansel and Gretel with Knoxville Opera, Silver Dollar in The Ballad of Baby Doe and Giovanna in Rigoletto with the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Medea in the world premiere of Larry Delinger’s Medea with the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre. Maggie also enjoys singing with D.C. Metro Opera On Tap and the all-female vocal ensemble Sopranessence. She lives in Alexandria, VA.