#adulting
Meet the Cast
Katie Kelley
(Lowbrow OC Co-Founder) Seattle based soprano Katie Kelley made her directorial debut with our May 2019 West Coast premier run of #adulting. She is ecstatic to be bringing the show back bigger, better, and dumber than ever! Katie received her masters degree in voice performance from the University of Washington in 2017. While at UW, she performed the titular role of Cavalli's La Calisto and appeared as Orphee in Gluck's Orphee et Eurydice. Recently, Katie performed the role of Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with Seattle Modern Opera Company. She is excited to return to SMOC this summer as Rodolfo in their all-women production of Puccini’s La Boheme. Other notable roles include Judith in Deseret Experimental Opera Company's 2016 premier of Red Lake, and that time she pretended to loudly cry under a piano for 8 minutes as part of the undergraduate composition recital of John Ervin Brooks (the composer of this very show).
Christine Oshiki
(Lowbrow OC Co-Founder) A nomadic army brat, Christine Oshiki found home in the cloud dome of Washington nearly 14 years ago. Originally making roots in Olympia, Christine built up her musical theatre resume through local performing arts company, Capitol Playhouse. There, she performed roles such as Ruth in Pirates of Penzance, Ida in Honk, and Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors. She later went on to stage manage West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for their children’s summer program, where she discovered her passion for stage direction and corralling small humans. Moving to Seattle in 2012, Christine attended the University of Washington where she earned her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, and added several operatic roles to her musical resume, including Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Giove in Diana in La Calisto, and La Badessa in Suor Angelica. Upon graduation, she worked as a director and after school coordinator at Seattle’s Performers, a children’s theatre company in U District, which eventually led her to seek a teaching position at St. Thomas School in Medina in their Early Learning Center. She has performed roles such as La Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and 2nd Lady/2nd Spirit in Die Zauberflöte through Summer Opera Workshop in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be traveling to Austin, Texas this summer to perform Pamina in her third production of Die Zauberflöte, ‘cause the bitch just can’t get enough. Along with teaching preschoolers how to put on jackets and wash their hands properly, Christine also sings with Choral Arts Northwest, and is the soprano section leader for the St. Thomas Church Choir and Boeing Employee’s Choir, with which she will be touring Spain and Portugal this summer. In her limited spare time, she excessively drinks IPAs, googles facts about sharks and serial killers, convinces her roommates to adopt more animals, and tries to remember not to burp in public.
Nic Varela
(Lowbrow OC Co-Founder) Nic Varela is a Seattle-based tenor and studies with Dr. Kari Ragan. He received his BM in Vocal Performance and his BA in Music History from the University of Washington.. He has served as chorus member for Pacific MusicWork’s productions of Semele, Die Zauberflöte, and Orphée et Eurydice, as well as Bellevue City Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. His repertoire of roles includes Mercurio in La Calisto, Monostatos/First Priest/First Armoured Man in Die Zauberflöte, Basilio/Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, and Die Knusperhexe in Hansel und Gretel. In his spare time, he likes to snuggle with his pets, write sad, existential laments in his journal, and attempt to smash the patriarchy.
Jared White
Jared is a native Seattleite who has been singing around the PNW since his voice dropped. He has sung with the Seattle Symphony Chorale for thirteen seasons and with various church and local groups, presently with Seattle First Baptist where he met Katie and Eric. He is currently studying voice at the University of Washington. He lives with his husband and their two Huskies in Bothell.
Eric Angus Jeffords
Eric was born and raised in Kalispell, MT and lives in Seattle, WA. He is a classical vocalist and actor. Some of his favorite roles include: Dr Frank n’ Furter in The Rocky Horror Show; Matt in b.a.r.e: a Pop Opera; David Posner in History Boys; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni; Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (both the musical and the straight play), as well as the numerous solo gigs in the Seattle area, including singing with the Skagit Valley Chorale, the Market Street Singers, and the Orcas Island Choral Society. He sings weekly with the Seattle First Baptist sanctuary choir as the tenor intern, and also sings with the Seattle Chorale, and UW Chamber singers. Outside of singing, he enjoys gardening, poetry, and brewing mead and dessert liqueurs.
Krissy Terwilliger
Kristina has been a resident of Seattle since she moved from her home town of Suffern, New York seven years to date. She came to Seattle to attend the University of Washington where she finished with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Minor in Experimental Physics. Throughout her time in Seattle she has performed many roles, but her favorite’s have been Diana in La Calisto, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and of course Bucket in #adulting. After this production Kristina will continue on to perform in Seattle Opera’s spring production of La Bohème. Outside of her performing adventures she continues to freelance as an audio engineer and is currently working at a Grammy Award winning music studio. Her other talents include baton twirling, napping, and yawning on cue.
Ava Linvog
is a collaborative pianist who recently returned from her undergraduate studies in New York. She is now reacquainting herself with the music scene in Seattle; #adulting is one of a number of projects that she is involved with, including NOISE (Northwest Opera In Schools, Etc.), the Seattle Girls Choir, and independent recitals. Ava is proud to work with Lowbrow Opera Collective in cultivating a fresh perspective on opera, and giving a voice to new music.