Caroline is the founder and current Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin, Texas. Since 2012 she has led the collaborative creation of nuanced works that bring awareness to climate justice and migration issues. Her work focuses on strategies to open the hearts and minds of audiences to these difficult topics using light-hearted, imaginative, and interactive puppet-based performance. She has received local awards from the B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table for Acting, Directing, Writing, Design, and Puppetry. A speaker of English, French, and Spanish, Caroline uses multilingualism to enhance the visual narratives of her works.
Caroline trained in Movement with June Kemp of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and with the mime Thomas Leabhart in the Decroux mime style. She is a graduate of École Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques Lecoq in France and has an MFA in Theatre for Self-Producing Artists from Towson University in Baltimore. She is on faculty at St. Edwards University and Austin Community College and teaches Movement and puppetry technique.
Gricelda became a Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre in 2021. Her first Glass Half Full show featured her playing opposite Caroline in The Orchid Flotilla (2012), and she has since appeared or played a critical role in every Glass Half Full production to date, as a performer, deviser, producer, and writer both in Texas and nationwide.
Gric came to Austin from Laredo in the early 2000s, graduating from St. Edwards University, and continuing her training in physical theater, acting and puppetry afterwards. She has been featured by a multitude of companies in Austin, with highlights including Glass Half Full, Trouble Puppet, The Vortex, Shrewd, Salvage Vanguard, and so many others. She was voted Best Actress in Austin in 2015 in the Austin Chronicle Best Ofs, and has received numerous Austin Critic's Table and B. Iden Payne awards for her work.
She currently works as a performing and teaching artist in addition to her producing. In the past, she has worked for and collaborated with companies including Creative Action, Pollyanna, and The Scottish Rite. She continues to write, devise, direct, and produce her own work and others.
Rachel Atkinson
Kelli Bland
Zac Crofford
Rachel Dendy
Marina DeYoe-Pedraza
S. Mariah Fonseca
Kelly Hasandras
K. Eliot Haynes
Connor Hopkins
Anatar Marmol-Gagné
Adam Martinez
Gustavo Martinez
Annie McCall
Lori Navarrete
Madison Palomo
Paul Piñon
Indigo Rael
Annie Ulrich
Jesus Valles
Stephanie Vasquez Fonseca
Tane Ward
Cami Alys
The Bald Mountain Band
Sonnet Blanton
Jay Byrd
Devo Carpenter
Joe Carpenter
Ben Cunningham
Lucie Cunningham
Sarah Danko
Teresa Danko
Stephanie Delk
Karina Dominguez
Parker Dority
Ia Ensterä
Judd Farris
Pam Friday
Noel Gaulin
Natalie George
Chris Gibson
CB Goodman
Taylor Harrison
Kelly Hasandras
Courtney Hopkin
Sadie Langenkamp
Emily Marks
Mother Falcon
Monica Pasut
Stephen Pruitt
Rudy Ramirez
Megan Reilly
Rupert Reyes
Julia M. Smith
Rommel Sulit
Dallas Tate
Kate Taylor
The White Ghost Shivers
Cami Alys
The Bald Mountain Band
Sonnet Blanton
Jay Byrd
Devo Carpenter
Joe Carpenter
Ben Cunningham
Lucie Cunningham
Sarah Danko
Teresa Danko
Stephanie Delk
Karina Dominguez
Parker Dority
Ia Ensterä
Judd Farris
Pam Friday
Noel Gaulin
Natalie George
Chris Gibson
CB Goodman
Taylor Harrison
Kelly Hasandras
Courtney Hopkin
Sadie Langenkamp
Emily Marks
Mother Falcon
Monica Pasut
Stephen Pruitt
Rudy Ramirez
Megan Reilly
Rupert Reyes
Julia M. Smith
Rommel Sulit
Dallas Tate
Kate Taylor
The White Ghost Shivers
President/Chair
'La Abuelita Poderosa'
JoAnn Carreon Reyes, along with Rupert Reyes, founded Teatro Vivo in 2000 in Austin, TX. Teatro Vivo’s productions have received numerous nominations for artistic excellence by the B. Iden Payne Awards Committee for best original script, directing, design, and acting. Austin Woman Magazine honored JoAnn in 2009 for her contributions to the Austin theater scene. She was recognized in 2011 by the City of Austin as one of Austin’s 100 Influential Latinas. The UT Austin Office of Diversity and Community Engagement presented the Community Leadership Award to her in September 2008. She was also awarded the Partners in the Arts and Humanities Award by the Austin City Council in 2011. JoAnn has served on the Director’s Council for the UT Department of Theatre and Dance.
Vice President
'The Curriculator'
Nitra Gutierrez is an interdisciplinary theatre artist who has worn the hats of teacher, facilitator, director, actor, improviser, and playwright. She has a BA in Theatre from St. Edward’s University and spent years working as a theatre artist in New York City before returning to Austin to pursue an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth at the University of Texas. She has worked for Creative Action, Drama for Schools, the Creative Learning Initiative and is currently part of the Academics Department in Austin ISD. Using stories to create dialogue about issues that affect us all is her favorite part of working in the theatre.
Secretary
'The TYAviator'
Spring Karlo graduated from The University of Texas in Austin with a double major in playwrighting and Italian. She has worked in theatre as a performer and playwright (in Rome, Italy), in development and grant writing (with Redmoon in Chicago, IL), and as a producer (with paper chairs in Austin, TX). A booking agent with Holden & Arts Associates since 2011, Spring became a Co-Director of HAA in 2017 and works with both national and international artists to create tours across North America of performances for young audiences and families. Spring is an avid scuba diver and loves to travel with her husband Don and giant puppy Fig.
Treasurer
'The Pecuniary Punch'
Etta Sanders is the Director of Finance at Green Goo by Sierra Sage and the former Executive Director of Tapestry Dance. She is a passionate, solution-drive Administrator who thrives in a collaborative atmosphere, seeking innovative organizations that champion hard work and creativity and offer opportunities to make a difference.
Member-At-Large
'El Environ-Mentor'
Khristián Méndez Aguirre (he/el) is a theater-maker, facilitator, and researcher originally from Guatemala City. All three areas of his work focus on naming and interrogating power dynamics existing in artistic, educational, and political processes, and using that information to contribute to learning, artistry, and political/environmental change. He’s currently a PhD candidate at UT Austin and Portfolio Candidate in Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Member-At-Large
'The Social Medea'
Griffon Ramsey is an Austin-based chainsaw artist and video content creator with over 400k social media followers. She makes sculptures inspired by nature, travel, pop culture, and human connections. A woman in a male-dominated medium, she has competed in several top chainsaw sculpture competitions in the world, created relationships with renowned international artists, and has been a brand ambassador for STIHL Inc., Arbortech, Dremel, and Dos Equis. Her work has been exhibited across the United States (including a permanent installation at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, CA), in Australia, England, Germany, Japan, and Scotland.
