Stage Managers 2025
Harper Hadley
Stage Manager – Drowning
Harper is an AEA stage manager based out of the Denver area. She has been working professionally for more than five years. Her regional credits include: Hot Wing King, Theater of the Mind, Elephant and Piggie’s We are in a Play, Little Red: The Musical Adventure, CNPS: 2022, 2024, 2025 and In the Upper Room (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Amerikin, Truth Be Told (Curious Theatre Company); Democracy Cycle, 237 Virginia Avenue (Local Theater Company); and A Very Sordid Wedding, Fun Home, When Pigs Fly, and Kinky Boots (Uptown Players). She has BA in theatre from the University of North Texas.
Jessica McCallum
Stage Manager – There are Monsters
Jessica is very thankful for Durango’s thriving local theatre scene and the chance to make art with the PlayFest community again. She is fully immersed in a midlife theatre renaissance, and can’t stop working on plays, both backstage and onstage. She is a member of Merely Players, most recently having appeared in Chicago and Book of Will, and stage managed Hands on a Hardbody and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. She gets to do creative stuff with teenagers in her day job as a teacher at Animas High School, such as make cool media content (follow @ahsquillmedia on Instagram!) and organize extemporaneous dance parties.
Selena Trujillo
Stage Manager – D.Q.M. or Drag Queen Magic
A Durango native, Selena has worked as a stage manager, techie, and crew for Salt Fire Circus and Bare Bones Burlesque, Durango Arts Center, the Henry Strater Theatre, Snowdown Follies, 20 Moons Dance Company, Merely Players, Imaginario Circus, and Tami Graham Presents. She has been onstage in the roles of Andrew Hall for Men On Boats and the Second Sibling in As You Like It. Her first show as a techie was as a spotlight operator for Guys & Dolls at Durango High School, and was the lightboard operator for the recent 2025 production with Mona Wood-Patterson and Merely Players, coming full circle. Outside the theatre, she works as an administrative assistant at Fort Lewis College and as a freelance graphic designer. She likes to explore new creative hobbies, including video editing, drawing, leatherworking, 3-D modeling/printing, playing with her dog Mando, and playing Dungeons & Dragons with friends.
Misha Zimmerman
Stage Manager – Becky and Her Lung Transplant
Misha is excited to return to Durango PlayFest for the second year and is looking forward to teaching a course in stage management at Fort Lewis College this Fall. Misha is the executive director at Local Theater Company (LTC) in Boulder, CO, where she has supported the development of 50 new plays since 2017. Stage management credits with LTC include Discount Ghost Stories: Songs from the Rockies, Paper Cut, Wisdom from Everything and Pop the Holidays, as well as numerous Local Lab play readings. Other stage management credits include The Year of Magical Thinking (The Aurora Fox), Sisters in Law (Theater Or), The Secretary (Curious Theatre Company), The Headliners (Cherry Creek Theatre), Florencia en el Amazonas (Opera Steamboat) and The Enchanted Pig (Opera Steamboat). Misha holds a BA in theater and literature from the University of Colorado.
Helene Brimhall
Assistant Stage Manager – There Are Monsters
Helene is a senior acting major with a writing minor at the University of Northern Colorado who started her theatre journey in Durango. She took on the ASM position for Just Another Day (2022), Heartbeat (2023), All That Remains (2024), and is so grateful to be participating in her fourth year with PlayFest! Her most recent performance credits in UNCo’s School of Theatre Arts and Dance include Willa Jo in Getting Near to Baby, Little Girl/Surgical Student/Prostitute/Maid in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Chorus in This Restless House. Technical credits with UNCo student productions involve stage managing Rope by Patrick Hamilton (2023) and assistant directing Never the Sinner by John Logan (2024).
Zoe Corbine-Daniels
Assistant Stage Manager – Drowning
Zoe graduated from Fort Lewis College this past spring with a degree in theatre. She served as a production intern and assistant stage manager at the 2023 PlayFest. She is ecstatic about joining PlayFest for a second festival as an ASM. Zoe would like to thank her family, friends, and Felicia Lansbury Meyer for all of their support.
J’Kye Wientjes
Assistant Stage Manager – D.Q.M. or Drag Queen Magic
J’Kye has a degree in communication design and is a return student at Fort Lewis College, majoring in computer information systems. His appreciation of theatre comes from his interest in voiceover as well as production and costume design. He’s currently focusing on school but has worked in many fields, from forestry to bartending to freelance graphic design.
Bode Wolin
Assistant Stage Manager – Becky and Her Lung Transplant
Bode is currently a junior at Fort Lewis College, working to complete degrees in environmental conservation and psychology. For the past few summers, he has served as a stage manager for a children’s theatre company on the Front Range. Bode is excited to be part of Durango PlayFest this year and to begin working in Durango’s theatre community!