CAROLINE BRENT

Caroline Brent is elated to return to Pallas Theatre Collective after her tenure as Pallas's Founding Managing Director. Caroline hails from Arlington, VA and received a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from University of Maryland (College Park). Previous roles include Luisa (The Fantasticks, Cafritz Foundation Theater); Hermia/Snug (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Empty Chair Theatre); and Queen/Duchess of York/Duchess of Gloucester (Richard II, Empty Chair Theatre). While at UMD, Caroline performed in several operas with the Maryland Opera Studio, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eugene Onegin, and she performed the role of Young Estella in Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire as part of the University's Art of Argento festival. Caroline is currently pursing a Master of Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College School of Public Policy and Management.

KELLY L. DODSON

Kelly (SAG/AEA Eligible) has been teaching people to sing since 2001 in professional productions, schools, and in her home studio (www.kdvocals.com). It is her belief that technique alone does not make the singer. “You can lead a man to the microphone, but you can’t make him sing. Building self-confidence is the first step towards achieving your dreams.” Kelly is also a critically acclaimed Music Director, lending her expertise to various productions including The Last 5 Years, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Ragtime, the Musical. One of her former performers has even landed a role in the National Tour of Shrek the Musical.

Kelly has been performing for over 25 years. She’s grateful to have performed in leading roles in a number of great productions including Songs for a New World, the West Coast Premiere of The Many Women of Troy, and Pirates of Penzance. She can also be seen and heard lending her voice to various television and recording projects.

ELLIS GREER

Ellis Greer is a lifelong resident of Arlington, V.A. where her interest in theatre and singing began as a child. She has studied classical music since the age of nine and continued vocal performance studies through her freshman year of college at Oklahoma City University as a Musical Theatre Major. She is currently a BFA Acting student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and plans a career in film, stage drama, and musical theatre– whichever coast calls her first! Favorite performances have been Miep in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Hodel in “Fiddler on the Roof”.

Ellis spent an entire year interning in the Education Department at Signature Theatre and is back there this summer helping to run the Overtures and Stage One musical theatre programs. Spare time is spent enriching her relationship with Netflix, reading, doing culinary experiments in the kitchen, hiking, and killing plants despite her great interest in horticulture and geology.

TY HALLMARK

Ty is a South Louisiana transplant who has been active in the DC area theatre community for nearly 10 years. Ty joined Pallas in July 2012 when she played Luciana in The Comedy of Mirrors. She is a resident actor at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) where her prior roles include Lady Fidget in The Country Wife, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, and Imogen in Cymbeline. She will next be seen as Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In addition to CSC, Ty has had the privilege of working with artists at The Studio Theatre, Venus Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, American Century Theater, Molotov Theatre Group, Eleventh Hour Productions, Red Eye Gravy Theatre Company, Grain of Sand Theatre Company, The Capital Fringe Festival and dog and pony dc. Ty has a bachelor's degree in Theare from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and has trained at The Globe Theatre and The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory. Prior to moving to DC, Ty spent two years in the Education Department at the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, FL helping run their spring and summer camps for elementary students and team teaching the Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre (H.I.T.T.) program. In addition to serving as Casting Director for Pallas, Ty will direct the 2013 show for the Capital Fringe Festival. Ty is also a guide for Washington Walks and leads tours of Lafayette Square Park and Dupont Circle. She lives with her husband in Silver Spring.

CHELSEA MAYO

Chelsea is excited to rejoin Pallas after playing the Courtesan in last summer's Comedy of Mirrors. Other local credits include Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace (Vpstart Crow), and Vesna in the Beltway Drama Series' staged reading of A Patch of Earth. Chelsea holds a B.A. in Theatre and French from Vanderbilt University and is an Equity Membership Candidate. Full resume available at www.chelseamayo.com.

LAURA ROCKLYN

Laura Rocklyn holds an MFA in Classical Acting from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. She is an actress based in the Washington, DC area where she has performed with numerous companies including Pallas Theatre Collective, Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and Imagination Stage. She has also toured with Olney Theatre Center’s National Players in The Taming of The Shrew, Dracula, The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, and she has performed with regional Shakespeare Companies across the country including Kentucky Shakespeare, Richmond Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Valley. She has a strong interest in history and does historic character portrayals around Washington, DC for groups such as The Jane Austen Society of North America and The Daughters of the American Revolution. She holds a Shakespeare Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and a BA in Theatre and English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont.

IAN RODGERS

Ian Blackwell Rogers most recently played the Duke, Panthino, and the Host in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. Also with BSF, he has played Macbeth in Macbeth, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Touchstone in As You Like It, and Leontes in The Winter's Tale. In Washington, he played Stanley, Tyrrel, and the Lord Mayor of London in Richard III, and Launce, the Duke, and Antonio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Brave Spirits Theatre. He played Bertie Wooster in What Ho, Jeeves!, and Tom Jones in Tom Jones at Lumina Studio Theatre. He played many characters--Athos, Cardinal Richelieu, the Duke of Buckingham--in a speedy four-actor adaptation of The Three Musketeers written and produced by Bette Cassatt. With Scena Theatre, Ian has played Robert in Public Enemy, the Orator and the Old Man's understudy in The Chairs, the Prefect in The Plague, and Otakar, Parasite, and an Ant in The Insect Play, along with lots of readings. He also does 19th-century plays in 19th-century style (footlights!) with New Old Theatre.