The Visionbox Ensemble
The Visionbox Ensemble represents the core of the Visionbox Mission to support the on-going development of professional actors by providing them with advanced text-based acting technique, movement and voice & speech classes, ultimately leading to the development of new performance work. Jennifer McCray Rincon, Founding Artistic Director of Visionbox Studio, asserts that actors who train together develop a common language that allows them to create performance work of more depth and complexity than work produced in the 4-week model of most commercial theatre. This idea continues a tradition founded in the 1930s by Harold Clurman and The Group Theatre, whose work addressed the social and moral preoccupations of their time.
Membership is competitive and by audition and interview only. Each member of the Ensemble contributes $300.00 per year and members are able to take all intensives at a reduced cost of $150.00 per intensive (A savings of $250). Ensemble members have preference in casting and are encouraged to develop their own project in our perfromance space, Skylite Station. The members of the Ensemble also mentor and support the younger actors and artists in the Studio. The Ensemble is reformed every January and each Ensemble creates their own collaborative agreements with the approval of the Artistic Director.
Colin Alexander
Colin is one of the newest members of the Visionbox Ensemble. He isa graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a member of Actor's Equity and performs frequently at the Arvada Center and appeared in the Denver Center Christmas Carol this past holiday season. He has been recognized with a Henry Award, Marlowe Award, and True West Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Dwayne Carrington is a proud Founding Member of Visionbox and is honored to serve as Lead Actor to the Ensemble. He performed the title role in the Visionbox Ensemble presentation of The Othello Project. Dwayne also serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator on staff and actively participates in classes and workshops. Dwayne is a graduate of Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) with a BA in Theater and English (double major). He later studied at Denver University where he earned an MA in Public Communications. Dwayne is currently active in the Denver Theater community. He performed in Gospel At Colonus presented by The Source Theater and produced by Su Teatro Theater Company. He was a Founding Ensemble Member of Shadow Theatre Company. Other companies include: Denver Center Theater, Arvada Center Theater, Aurora Fox Theater and Boulders Dinner Theater.
Dwayne Carrington
Jake Gallegos is a Professional Geologist and actor. He has been active in the Denver theatre scene for six years. Jake is grateful for to Jennifer McCray Rincon for her innovative work.
Dell Domnik
Dell has been involved in the Denver theater community for many years, originally as a member of the prestigious Hunger Artists Ensemble Theatre, a company who specialized in promoting new works and regional premiers including the first Denver production of Angels In America and the regional premiere The Kentucky Cycle. Also with Hunger Artists he appeared in the award-winning readers’ theatre production of James Joyce’s The Dead, a critically acclaimed adaptation that was developed, written and produced by Hunger Artists. He was also part of the creative team that developed An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe, another original readers theatre production, as an adapter, actor and director. He’s worked with many other Denver area companies including Spotlight Theater Dell is also a graphic and web designer and photographer. Dell has been with Visionbox since 2011 and is very grateful to have such a wonderful place to hone his craft.
Jacqueline Garcia
Jacqueline Garcia is a native Californian where she studied acting at Cal State Fullerton and received a masters in writing from the University San Francisco. She has been active in Denver’s theatre scene for ten years and several of her plays have been featured at local venues as well as out of state. She is a member of the Equity Care ensemble for Kaiser Permanente and has been a Visionbox ensemble member since 2013. Thank you to Jennifer and the Visionbox family for providing a creative place to grow and learn.
Rebecca joined the Visionbox Ensemble in early 2016. She has been taking classes at Visionbox since 2012, continually seeking to gain better skills and technique. Rebecca has an MA in Victorian Literature, Art and Culture from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is an essayist and theatre blogger. She is very excited to continue to work with Visionbox to not only grow as an actor, but to support the work of fellow artists in the Denver community
Jason McGlaughlin, Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology & Theatre, University of Colorado at Boulder, is overjoyed to become the newest member of the ensemble. He has tread upon the histrionic boards most his life, starting in preschool as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. His favorite international performing experience was as Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream with East West Theater in Shanghai. Having spanned the globe over, he's recently settled down on Denver's Westside with his wife, Paige.
Ren Manley graduated from Arcadia University with a BA in Theater Arts and Video Communications. She has studied art, theatre and media at City College in London, The Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy, and the Mohile Parikh Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai, India. She spent 8 years in Philadelphia working in sound and projection design and was the resident designer for New City Stage Company. She moved to Denver in 2014, and joined the theatre community as Pea in The Edge Theatre's production of Jerusalem, for which she also won a Henry Award and a Marlowe Award for her sound design. With Visionbox, she wrote, directed and designed Scary Stories, and sound designed Visionbox's recent showing of The Wild Hunt, written and directed by Bill Pullman. She is pursuing a directing career and began at Visionbox in an effort to learn as much as possible about acting in order to be a better communicator with her actors. She is excited to be a part of the swift and exciting development of Denver's theatre community.
Ben Morrow is a Colorado Native and founding member of the Visionbox Ensemble. He attended Vassar College, where he received his BA in Drama. He has also trained at the National Theater Institute and the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. In addition to work with Visionbox, he has appeared at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LOCAL Theatre Company, and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Maggy Morgan
Maggy Morgan was born and raised in Iceland. She trained for three years at Acting International, Paris, has a two-year certificate in Meisner technique from Esper Studio, New York, and an MFA in Acting from Regent University, VA. She was in the Ensemble of Acting International, Paris where she played Lady Ann in their production of Shakespeare's Richard III and Madame Arkadina in Tennessee William's The Notebook of Trigorin. She was also in the Regent University Ensemble, where she played Emilia/Abbess in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, The Chorus Leader in Euripides' Trojan Women, and Judy in Elmer Rice's Adding Machine. Finally, she co-translated Chroniques des Jours Entiers, des Nuits Entières by Xavier Durringer from French to Icelandic, and produced the show at the City Theatre of Reykjavik, also playing the character She.
Alexa Perez
Alexa studied theater and fine arts at the University of Colorado at Denver. She was part of the ensemble at Su Teatro from 2010-2011. She joined Visionbox in 2012 and has been a student and ensemble member since. Alexa recently did a Solo Shakespeare focusing on Lady Anne from Richard III and Lady from Orpheus Descending. Alexa is grateful for Jennifer McCray Rincon’s fearless leadership and the challenging work Visionbox constantly does.
Jennifer Dean Roberson
Jennifer Dean Roberson graduated with a BFA Acting degree from University of Colorado. Acting credits include being featured in the film, "Your Name Here," starring Bill Pullman, and was the Director’s Assistant additionally. She was featured as Honor Wainio in "Heroes of Flight 93" and had a supporting role in a PBS TV show Good Grief. She was an Associate Producer for Bill Pullman’s original play Expedition 6 that debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Recently, she worked on Bill Pullman's new play, "The Wild Hunt." Jenn produced a TV show and radio program called Reggie McDaniel’s Everyday People’s Entertainment Guide for Ion TV. She is thankful to have performed in several plays and projects at Visionbox Studio directed by Jennifer McCray Rincon. She has appeared in local and national commercials and is represented by Big Fish Talent agency.
Mark Rubald
Mark Rubald was seen in the Visionbox Studio production of The Wild Hunt, written and directed by Bill Pullman. He was a member of the Denver Center Theater Company for 16 years where he was seen in Dinner With Friends, Servant Of Two Masters, Comedy Of Errors, Three Sisters, A Christmas Carol, Man Of The Moment, Arcadia and many others. At the Arvada Center, Man For All Seasons, Of Mice And Men, Defiance, La Cage Aux Folles, She Loves Me, Harvey, Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, and others. At the Lone Tree Arts Center, Big River and The Explorers Club. He has also worked at the Aurora Fox, Curious Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Central City Opera, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Theatre Aspen and elsewhere.
Hallie Schwartz
Hallie grew up acting, singing and dancing in the beautiful foothills of Boulder, CO. After attaining her BA in Theatre from the University of Colorado, she co-starred in Somewhere West, a multiple Laurel winning feature film. Now a resident of Denver, she enjoys honing her acting skills through the incredible coaching of the Visionbox actors and Jennifer McCray Rincon.
Alison Vance
Alison Vance studied Opera at the University of Utah, where she performed with the Lyric Opera Ensemble, Jazz Choir, and Actor Training Program. As a little girl, her love of Broadway musicals inspired her to study dance, acting, and voice. She enjoyed a wide variety of community and regional theater roles, and was invited to a musical theater intensive with Circle in the Square in Manhattan. Alison’s vocals have been recorded and produced by several original composers, and she writes and record her own music. Alison Vance began training at age six in dance, acting, and voice. Her debut performance as Annie was followed by several lead roles in community musical theater productions. She moved to Denver in January 2013 and was thrilled to find Visionbox. She joined the Music in Acting class and studied works by Chekhov before she was invited to the Visionbox Ensemble in October 2014. Alison looks forward to working with such a versatile and generous group of actors.
Ethan Yazzie-Mintz
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Ethan landed in Denver in Summer 2011 via Boston and Bloomington (IN), and is honored to be a member of the Visionbox Ensemble. In the Denver area, he has performed in The Rainmaker with the California Actors Theatre, War of the Roses with the Shakespeare Oratorio Society, All My Sons at the Coal Creek Theater of Louisville, Gifted at the Edge Theatre, and several new play readings at the Aurora Fox and Edge Theatres. In Indiana, Ethan played in several productions at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, including AwareFest: A Green World, Artifice, and The Blizzard. He trained in the actor conservatory program at Classic Stage Company in New York City, and has acted in productions of The Laramie Project, The Zoo Story, The American Dream, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and in a number of children’s theatre productions, including the role of Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk. An actor, educator, researcher, and trolley conductor/motorman, Ethan is Founder and Executive Director of the First Light Education Project; he has worked and conducted research extensively in the field of drama and education, and works frequently with schools on using drama as a teaching and learning methodology.