Jodi Allison-Bunnell, violist, is a member of the Bozeman Symphony and performs with Opera Montana and other groups in Bozeman. For over twenty years, she performed with the Missoula Symphony. When she is not enjoying her active performing life, she is the head of Archives and Special Collections at the Montana State University Library where, among other things, she stewards the papers of regional creatives that include Eric Funk, Ivan Doig, Opera Montana, and others.

Marc Beaudin is a poet and theatre artist in Livingston. He is the author of These Creatures of a Day, Life List, and Vagabond Song. His albums of poetry and jazz, From Coltrane to Coal Train and The Sky Too Is Concrete, feature members of the bands Morphine and The Northwoods Improvisers. Locally, he has performed in several MIST productions and directed for Bozeman Actors Theatre and the Blue Slipper.

Kateena Bell is a Missoula-based actor and musician who discovered a passion for the stage after appearing in community productions of Rent, Rocky Horror, and Ragtime. These formative experiences ignited a deep love for performance and storytelling. Drawing on a musical background and a drive for creative risk-taking, Kateena is approaching each new opportunity with genuine excitement to collaborate and an eagerness to grow.

Kate has spent over twenty years acting professionally. Favorite roles include: Hannah in BAT’s production of Arcadia, Mary in The Blue Slipper's production of Late, A Cowboy Song, Aimee in the Verge production of The Humans, Marie Antoinette in The Revolutionists, Phoebe in HBO’s Spring/Fall, and a string of strong women fighting robots and jellyfish monsters in Sci-fi films you will never see. She is the Co-Founder of the Livingston Fringe Festival, Co-Founder and instructor at The Collective, and Development Director at the Shane Lalani Center for the Arts.

Stephanie Burda is a professional writer now, but was probably a semi-professional writer as a baby. Advertising creative by day, Steph is also a performer and multi-disciplinary artist, with credits including: RAGTIME (Evelyn Nesbit), ONCE (Music Director/Girl), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Cathy), BONNIE & CLYDE (Bonnie), and the self-produced IASB I & II: 30 ORIGINAL PLAYS IN 60 MINUTES. She is the shortest member of local alt-pop band The Sleepless Elite.

Lauren Chavez is a writer fascinated by languages and vocabularies that emerge from the landscapes she encounters. A lover of poetry, music, and nature, Lauren is at her happiest when these three loves coalesce.

Lilian Doyle, a rising junior at Gallatin High School and an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke Nation, is passionate about learning and pursuing academic opportunities. As a youth plaintiff in Held v. State of Montana, she continues to advocate for clean air and water with the Children’s Trust. Family and friends ground her. She loves caring for children, collecting laughter, and dancing—Jazz, Lyrical, and Native American. She is grateful to share music and movement in this beautiful place among good friends and neighbors.

Kata is a musician/composer, performing artist, and arts educator based in Minneapolis and Philadelphia. She focuses particularly on themes of nature, investigations of the female experience, and mental health in her creations.

Kata has performed with MassMOCA, Guthrie Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Fulton Opera, Virginia Rep, ISF, and MSIP among others.

John Hosking graduated from Montana State and was a member of the Hillberry Graduate Repertory Theater at Wayne State University, then worked professionally for three years with ACT in Seattle. He performed at the Virginia City Opera House in the 1970s and in 1981 John co-founded Vigilante Theatre Co., where he was an actor and director and toured Montana and the region for 33 years. You may have seen John at the Black Box as Pickering in My Fair Lady, as Willy Lohman in Death of a Salesman, in the title role of King Lear for MSIP in 2022, or as Scrooge at The Ellen in 2021 & '23.

Carrie Krause, violin, is concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony and founder of the series Baroque Music Montana, which has released two albums and performs 50 concerts per year across the region. Carrie performs with ensembles across the country and on international series including the BBC Proms, Tanglewood, and most recently at St. Martin’s in the Field. Carrie has degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School.

Luke Minton is a musician, actor, and student at Bozeman High School. He has studied violin with Carrie Krause for six years and participates as a section leader/concertmaster in his school’s Kamerata and Philharmonic Orchestras. Whenever not found at school or playing violin, Luke enjoys spending time climbing Montana mountains, exploring nature, reading, and writing. He is delighted to join Montana InSite Theatre again this year for Resounding Spring.

Riley is thrilled to be returning to collaboration with MIST, after appearing as Apemantus in Timon of Anaconda in 2019. Riley serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, and has recently worked with Opera MT, the MT Ballet, Bozeman Symphony, Verge Theater and Montana Arts Council.

Erik Pearson is a Minnesota native who has been active in theater, musical theater, opera, Shakespeare, concert music and educational theater for the past 20 years. In between gigs, he spends his time composing works for voice, strings, and various chamber ensembles, along with hiking, skiing, and working in our National Parks.

Livingston artist Aaron Schuerr (www.aaronschuerr.com) spends most of his time alone looking at mountains and rivers. On good days those outings result in paintings that don’t embarrass him.. Occasionally he comes in to see what people do. Sometimes he’ll listen to their stories. Other times he tells his own. People and rivers and mountains have fascinating stories to tell. You need only lean in to hear them.