Rory Roberts began her stage career at the age of nine, when she quite by accident ‘discovered’ Shakespeare and instantly fell in love. Since then, she has played a wide array of roles onstage, most notably Emilia in Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief, Vera Charles in Auntie Mame, Constance Bonancieux in The Three Musketeers, part of the ensemble in The Complete History of America, Abridged, and Mary, Queen of Scots and Cleopatra in a pair of one-woman-shows which she also wrote and directed.
Rory spent the summer months of 2004 living and working in London under the mentorship of Cheeky Maggot Productions. During that time, she was involved with both of the writers’ programs at the Hampstead Theatre, where she also assisted in the performances of the adult groups’ plays. She assisted in rehearsals for The Wild Party at Riverside Studios, and for the world-premiere of a musical based on a Terry Pratchet novel, Only You Can Save Mankind, which showed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that autumn.
Rory graduated in 2006 with a BFA in Directing from Texas State University. When not at her nine-to-five with Dripping Talent Productions, she can be found with family and friends, reading a good book, working with her foster cats, or writing her first full-length screenplay.
GENE – Co-Founder
Gene is short for Genius. Don't be fooled by outward appearance, either. Remember Einstein? Gene has much better hair.
Bridget Farias - Artistic Associate
Bridget Farias graduated from Texas State University with a BFA in Acting and a BFA in Directing. While at Texas State, she served as President of the Alpha Psi Omega Honor Fraternity, was the recipient of the Larry Hovis Acting Scholarship and the Larry Hovis Leadership Award, and won Best Actress at the Ramsey Awards for her performance as Sunny in The Exonerated. At Texas State her favorite roles included: Madre in Blood Wedding, Sunny in The Exonerated, Belise in Learned Ladies, Karen in The Children's Hour, Reggie (Etc...) in The Laramie Project, Prudence in Beyond Therapy, and Hester in Equus. Since graduating college, Bridget has become a company member of Austin Shakespeare Festival, Scottish Rite Children's Theatre, and Troupe Texas. She has performed as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bathing Beauty (Etc...) in 365 Plays/365 Days, and Wolf, Mother, Fisherman's Wife in Tres Tales De Grimm: El Musical with Zachary Scott Theatre. Her directing credits include: Neville's Island, Godspell, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rhinoceros, Alice in Wonderland, Miracle on 34th Street, and now Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief. Bridget studied abroad with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England for two summers. She loves her husband very much and enjoys reading, rollerblading, basketball, belly dancing, choreography, astronomy, Disney, and Elvis Presley.
Molly McKee – Artistic Associate
Molly McKee was born in England and transplanted to Texas at an early age. (Due to her artist parents she has graced stages around the state since the age of three.) She graduated Suma Cum Laude from Texas State University with a BFA in Acting. At Texas State she was seen in as Martine in Learned Ladies, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and received an Irene Ryan Nomination for her role of Valiera in The Rover. Her professional credits include the lead in Dinosaur with Dallas Children's Theater, Felicity in The Real Inspector Hound with the HUB Theater in Dallas, Lady Macduff in Troupe Texas' Macbeth, and most recently as Louise in A Monster Trust's production of A Monster Carol. She also played Bianca in Rory Gene's first production: Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief. (Her interests include quantum physics, questioning reality and the origin of thought, yoga, and pie.)
Jessica Brooks-Allen – Artistic Associate
Jessica graduated from Texas State University in San Marcos in May 2007 with a BFA in Acting. She was recently the title role in Rory Gene's Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief, and in the Troupe Texas’ production of Macbeth as a Witch/Gentlewoman. Jessica was in Texas State Mainstage productions such as Move Over Mrs Markham as Linda and The Rover as Lucetta, which she won a Ramsey for as Best Actress in a minor role. In June 2005 she studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. She is trained in many different styles of acting from Classical to Experimental. Jessica loves everything, but especially the amazing Trey, her loving and supportive family, beautiful friends, her awesome dog Arthur, nature, sunsets, ART, and moments in life that you never forget . . . like putting on a play with three amazing women.
