Vanessa Arocha (U/S Bear on Ice/Anna Roos) is a freshman in the BFA Acting program. She is making her Theatre UCF debut as a cast member in Imogen Says Nothing. Previously at UCF she was a wardrobe crew member in The Prom. She is a member of Project Spotlight and the theatre fraternity Alpha Psi Omega. Other theatre credits include Project Spotlight’s musical Dive in (Young Emily), Through the Looking Glass (Alice), Puffs (Harry/Colin/Ric Gryff), Shrek (Featured dancer/Fairy Godmother).

Miguel Cabrera (Nicholas Tooley/Fluffy 2) is a BFA Musical Theatre program freshman and is excited about his second UCF performance. Some past theatre credits include Rent (Ensemble, U/S Angel), Something Rotten (Nigel/Dance Captain), and Chicago (Billy Flynn/Choreographer). He is a Choreographer for younger performers and has now choreographed over 8 full-length musicals.

William Fuller (U/S John Hemings, U/S Ned Whiting) is a First Year in the BFA Acting program. His Theatre UCF credits include The Prom (Swing), He’s also been seen in Urinetown (Cladwell), The Addams Family (Gomez) and Charley’s Aunt (Charley). In his free time he enjoys creating music and traveling. @Willsfuller

Anthony Geluso (Crier/Isaac) is a third-year student in the B.A. Theatre Studies program and B.S. Biology program with a Marine and Aquatics track. At UCF, he has been involved in What’s In Store (Wes), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble) and Let’s Go Camping! (Fuzzy). Other theatre credits include The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom), Fun Home (Bruce Bechdel) and Spring Awakening (Otto). His favorite Muppet is Fozzie Bear.

Ger Grandfield (Henry Condell) is a first-year MFA in Acting candidate. He recently graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Theatre/Performance. Ger is an older student who began his acting training 20 + years ago in Massachusetts and then took a detour working as a flight attendant for Aer Lingus as well as other hospitality jobs in his parent’s home country, Ireland. VCU credits include his self-written solo show, Failing Fabulously, Nils/Torkel in Let The Right One In, Marcellus/Player/Osric in Hamlet, and Queensberry in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Other recent credits are Ely/Montjoy/Macmorris in Henry V and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night with The Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic.

Elliott Horwitz (William Shakespeare/Warden) is a second-year in the BFA Acting Program. He was last seen on the Theatre UCF stage in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Ensemble) at the Dr. Phillips Center and Peter and the Starcatcher (Ted). He works as a Social Media Manager for Alpha Psi Omega and recently directed their production of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes. In his free time he likes to do photography. @elliottjhorwitz @elliottsfilmfolio

Wyatt Hubbard (Alexander Cooke/Fluffy 1) is a second year in the Theatre Studies program. He has most recently been seen in Desert Oceans (William) for Pegasus Playlab. Go bears!

Faith Klick (U/S Imogen) is a first year student in the MFA Acting Program. She is excited to begin her production journey with Imogen Says Nothing here at UCF. Faith has worked all of the country including some of her most recent work in The Sound of Music (Maria), Richard II (Queen), and Jesus Christ Superstar (Thomas). You can find Faith on Instagram @klickfai101 and on her website www.faithklick.weebly.com. 

Aidan Leary (U/S Henry Condell) is a 3rd year Theatre Studies B.A Major at the University of Central Florida. His previous credits include Pirates of Penzance (Ensemble/Pirate), May We All (Earl) and Working (Conrade Swibel). Aidan plans to use his degree to pursue a professional writing/acting career, and eventually help teach the next generation of performers. This is his first straight play, and he is very excited to do many more in the future.

Rebecca Low (Imogen) is a first-year MFA Acting student, and this will be her Theatre UCF debut! Other stage credits include Ride The Cyclone (Ocean), The Deer and The Antelope (Mel), and Sunday In The Park With George (Dot). She is a supporter of UCF APO and UCF Improv Academy.

Joshua Martinez (John Heminges/Ned Whiting) is a 1st year in the MFA Acting program at UCF. He has been an Understudy for Theatre UCF in The Clean House (Charles). Other theatre credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski), God of Carnage (Alan Raleigh), Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote), The Last Five Years (Jamie Wellerstein) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Anthony Hope). He is in the process of writing two one-person plays and has written a full-length play: Good Ol’ Fashioned Human Compassion. https://newplayexchange.org/users/91747/david-martinez

Esteban Mayorga (U/S Crier/Isaac) is a senior in the B.A Theatre Studies Program. He has been seen In Pegasus Playlab's Desert Oceans (Jose) and Project Spotlight’s production So Long Partner (David). Other theatre credits include Project Spotlight's The Notebook With a Cuban Accent (David) and UCF’s Theatre for Young Audiences and Communities Let’s Go Camping! (Fuzzy). 

Athan Miller (U/S William Shakespeare/Warden) is a freshman in the BFA Musical Theatre program. This is Athan’s debut with Theatre UCF. Other theatre credits include Chicago (Billy Flynn) and Boeing Boeing (Robert Lambert).

Branden Monge (U/S Alexander Cooke/U/S Fluffy 1) is a freshman in the BFA Acting Program. Other theatre credits include West Side Story (Moose), Addams Family (Gomez Addams), and Beauty and the Beast (Cogsworth). He is also involved in Project Spotlight.

Jake Perez (U/S Nicholas Tooley/Fluffy 2) is a Second-Year Transfer student in the BFA Acting Program. Theatre UCF: Chicken and Biscuits (Logan), The Cherry Orchard (Ensemble/Vagrant U/S Trofimov, U/S Yasha, U/S Yepikhodov), As You Like It (William/ U/S Touchstone), Home of the Brave (Marcus). Professional Theatre: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Production Stage Manager) Exhibits in the Zoo (Mendel), Snoopy (Woodstock), All the Great Books (Abridged) (Student Teacher).

Tomas Principe (U/S RICHARD BURBAGE, U/S HARRY HUNKS, U/S VOICE 3) is a first-year transfer student in the Acting BFA program. This is his Theatre UCF debut. Other credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Adam) and Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Tomas is also involved in Alpha Psi Omega. 

Tabitha Santillan (Bear on Ice/Anna Roos) is a senior in the BFA Acting Program. She is so excited to be making her Theatre UCF debut! She has been seen at Orlando Family Stage in Belladonna (Anna). Other theatre credits include Anything Goes (Erma) and Into The Woods (Jack). She is heavily involved in Project Spotlight as well as the film department. tabithasantillan.com 

Lincoln Stone (Richard Burbage/Harry Hunks) is a first-year student in the MFA Acting program. This is Lincoln’s Theatre UCF debut. Favorite credits include Into the Woods (Baker) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack Worthing), along with Macbeth (Macbeth), Mother Courage (Eilif) and The Tempest (Stephano) at Southern Utah University. He is also heavily involved in independent and short films throughout central Florida. lincolnstone.net

Sayada Ali-Khan (Deck Crew) is a senior transfer student in the B.A. Theatre Studies program. She has been seen on the Eastern Florida State College theatre stage in The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (Actor), Vote? (Peggy Baird Johns, Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Starveling). She previously served as an usher for The Clean House and Rhinoceros at Theatre UCF.

Julian Amores (Deck Crew) is a First-Year in the BFA Musical Theatre Program. Credits include: Mean Girls (Damian), Legally Blonde (Warner), Hairspray (Corny Collins).

Ethan Cabral (Stage Manager)  is a second year in the BFA Stage Manager Program at UCF. Theatre UCF credits include Dance Night (Assistant Stage Manager), Peter and the Starcatcher (Flyrail Operator), and RENT (A2). Other professional credits include Passport to Discovery (Assistant Production Manager), Rock and Romance Cruise (Assistant Production Manager), Jamrock Cruise (Production Assistant) and the Carnival Celebration Inaugural (Production Assistant). @orlandostagemanagers

Martina Cuarterola (Wardrobe Crew) is a freshman in the B.A. Theatre Pending Program. This is her first time working on a Theatre UCF production.

Freddy Cycholl (Production Assistant, Automation Operator) is a first year in the BFA Stage Management program. This is her Theatre UCF debut! Previous credits include Urinetown (Stage Manager), Company (Stage Manager), Hello, Dolly! (Stage Manager) and Theory of Relativity (Stage Manager). @orlandostagemanagers

Dani de Groot (Deck Crew) is a third-year transfer student in the BFA Acting Program at UCF. He previously played Yasha in The Cherry Orchard at Theatre UCF. He also attended Yuba College and Earned an Associate’s Degree in Arts and Humanities. Appeared in The Laramie Project (Jon Peacock). Upside Down Staircase (Lou Martin).

Marisa Figueras (Production Stage Manager) is a third year in the BFA Stage Management program. Theatre UCF credits include The Clean House (Lighting Programmer), The Prom (Assistant Stage Manager), summertime (an interlude) (Production Stage Manager) and Bright Star (Production Assistant). Other credits include Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr. (Assistant Stage Manager) and A Chorus Line (Stage Manager). @orlandostagemanagers

Lindsay Goldman (Assistant Director) is a third year in the BA Theatre Studies Program. She currently serves as Artistic Director for UCF’s developmental theatre company, Project Spotlight. Her other Theatre UCF credit includes Pegasus Playlab's Desert Oceans (Assistant Director) @lindsaygoldman__

Ruby Hernandez (Production Assistant) is a first year BFA Stage Manager, it is her first show working here at UCF. Ruby loves stage management and has been working with a great team, cast, and crew on this show Imogen Says Nothing. She is excited to participate in more shows in the years to come!

Odalys Lopez (Stage Manager) is a second-year in the BFA Stage Management program. She has previously worked on UCF Celebrates the Arts 2024 (Production Assistant), and in The Old Man and the Old Moon (Assistant Stage Manager) at the Orlando Fringe Festival.

Veronica McGrath (Wardrobe Crew) is a first year transfer student in the BFA Design Tech program. This is her first show at UCF. She has worked backstage previously on Hunchback of Notre Dame (design and dresser) and Hounds of Baskervilles (design and run crew) at the College of Central Florida theatre.

Lila McMorris (Wardrobe Supervisor) is a second year in the BFA SM program. She was a Stage Manager for the Theater UCF production of Rent and the Project Spotlight production of Irreverent. Lila was also a production assistant for the Theater UCF production of Peter and the Starcatcher.

Emily Picantine (Deck Crew) in the BA Theater pending program. I was born and raised here in FL. I have a younger brother and two dogs.

Mia Rojas (Deck Crew) is a second-year in the B.A. Theatre Studies program. She has been on the Theatre UCF stage with Project Spotlight in Dive In (Emily Swing) and The Lesson Plan (Swing). She has been a volunteer with the Orlando Family Stage.

Mylka Rosado Ortiz (Board Operator) is a First Year in the BFA Stage Management Program. This is her first show at Theatre UCF! She most recently was a technician on Nosferatu down at The Renaissance Theatre and Stage Managed Something Rotten and Newsies at University High School.

Savanah Schaller (Stage Manager) is a second year transfer in the BFA Stage Management program. Previous UCF credits include What’s In Store (Assistant Stage Manager), UCF Celebrates the Arts 2024 (Production Assistant), and Chicken and Biscuits (Production Assistant). 

Shamara Tubbs (Wardrobe crew) is a first year transfer student in the B.A. program. @shamaratubbs

Carianne Tummino (Fly Rail Operator) is a second-year transfer in the BA Theatre Studies program. Previous UCF credits include The Clean House (HM), The Cherry Orchard (PA), and The Prom (Fly/Rail Op).

Ena Venturo Aguirre  (Wardrobe Crew) Instagram/TikTok: @ena_Venturo

Jada Marie Williamson (Deck Crew) is a first-year in the BFA Musical Theatre program. She made her Theatre UCF debut last semester in RENT(Ensemble)! @jadamariewil

What does it mean to be erased? We should ask Imogen, a Shakespearean character whose name only appears once in the stage directions of the first folio of Much Ado About Nothing. In 2011, playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil decided that it was time to tell Imogen’s story. Her play reimagines Imogen as a bear in disguise as a human who comes to London to shake up the lives of a theatre troupe, turning their idea of what it means to be a human on its head. Imogen challenges the rules of society and fights against what is expected of her; today, we might take a page from Imogen’s rule book and fight for our own place at the table.

- Erin Osborne, dramaturg

While Imogen Says Nothing was written recently, the story takes place during late 1500s and early 1600s, a time when English was a bit different to how we use it today. In fact, scholars call it "Early Modern English," compared to Modern English. The majority of the play is written in a modern dialect of English, but there are moments in the text that call to mind the earlier dialect of days gone by that we hear when we attend Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. A dialect is a version of a language and includes the words we use, the way words are ordered, the way words are formed, and the way they are pronounced. Today, we're used to having some standardization of speech used in public spaces like educational institutions and theatres. But at the time, English had not been standardized yet! So speakers in the public sphere would have many differences in accent and pronunciation that revealed speakers' backgrounds and life experiences. And what might be most surprising today is how people sounded! While we clearly don't have recorded evidence, scholars have worked on reconstructing the sound systems that were likely heard in the late 1500s. For the dialects in Imogen Says Nothing, we're using The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal as a reference. Instead of sounding like modern Londoners, who drop their R's and pronounce "caught" and "court" exactly the same (!), Imogen and company might sound slightly more like modern Irish or American speakers of English! So keep your ears open and enjoy "hearing" the play!

- Dale Towarnicky, Voice and Speech