Staff
Julia de Avilez Rocha (Marketing Manager) is an actor and teaching artist who was first seen with ATTP the summer of 2020 on the company’s radio show Hamlet Noir. Upon returning, she taught the Sandwich cobble and directed them in their rendition of A Midsummer Nights Dream - a socially distant film ( for socially distant times). ATTP Credits: Twelfth Night (2020-2021), Daphnis and Chloe (2022), and Much Ado About Nothing (2023). Regional credits: Pussy sludge (RLT), Cherry Orchard (Quantum), Tempest (Pittsburgh Public) Educational Credits: Macbeth // Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company Northeast Regional Tour), Young Playwrights Festival (City Theatre). Julia was trained with Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Phillippe Gaulier School in Paris, and received her B.A in English at the University of Pittsburgh. Through ATTP and Shakespeare & Company, she has taught at various middle schools and high schools local to the East Coast, as well as the University of Pittsburgh where she was an adjunct lecturer in the Spring of 2023.
Julia has recently joined the team as ATTP's Marketing Manager and follows a long legacy of writing copy, social media posts, ad sales, etc. She hopes to bring ATTP's story online and narrate the journey through various transitions, trials, and triumphs. Julia is Mama to a cat called Cat (i.e Gata, Gatinha, Kitty, or Mani) and Tia to four human children. |
Caroline Nesbitt (Founding Artistic Director) started Advice To The Players in 1999, in response to a need for an accessible resident theater that involved students and community at all levels. As an actor Caroline has appeared with New Art Theatre, Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company, New Hampshire Performing Arts Center,Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Hackmatack Repertory, etc., as well as in film and voice-overs. As a writer, her work has appeared in American Theatre, Teaching Theatre, The Boston Globe, TheaterMania.com, etc. She taught Theatre & Drama at The Community School (Tamworth, NH) for 13 years, was an adjunct professor of Acting at New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester, NH) for 2, and conducts many acting workshops for groups ranging from schools to libraries. Besides her work with Advice To The Players, Caroline directs Shakespeare productions for other companies. Her acting education includes two previous generations of acting Nesbitts, as well as Shakespeare work with David Perry (RADA, London Shakespeare School, etc.) and with Tina Packer, Dennis Krausnick, and Kevin Coleman at Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, MA. She has been honored by the New Hampshire Theatre Awards for her work with youth and children.
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