Juli Bacon, Treasurer, joined the board in 2019 and is excited to get back to her theatre roots. Bacon majored in theatre with an emphasis on acting and directing and worked in theatre in the Puget Sound area but took a break to build her businesses and raise two kids. Juli is the sole owner of JB Consulting Systems, LLC and Bacon Building and Maintenance, LLC, is a partner in her joint venture, JJ BizWorks and a minority owner in Routec Industries, LLC. 

Driven by a competitive nature and a desire to affect change, Bacon works to achieve results and has a passion for helping small businesses succeed. Bacon leveraged her theatre skills to become a nationally recognized speaker. Bacon’s team assists their clients in overcoming the challenges of workforce development, human resources and business. Juli is excited to blend her love of theatre and business to work with WRT.

Missa grew up in and around community theatre, developing a passion for the collaborative and transformative power of live performance. Over the years, she has contributed to productions both onstage and behind the scenes, gaining experience as a stage manager, costumer, lighting and sound technician, stagehand, and house manager.

Her wide ranging technical and production background gives her a deep appreciation for every role it takes to bring a show to life, from auditions to final curtain call. As a board member, Missa is committed to supporting accessible, high quality theatre and strengthening the sense of community that local arts organizations like Woodinville Repertory Theatre provide.

Irinel is a jump-starter, and she loves creating – world-class software products, teams, customer experiences. She has spent all her adult life around computers, building teams and services like Office 365, Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams at scale to hundreds of millions of users. She considers herself a work in progress as she lives to learn, obsess over customers, improve. Her passion: storytelling – driven by love, stories unite, remind of our shared humanity, and celebrate the vibrant diversity that colors our world.  Irinel has a degree in Mathematics, an MBA from the University of Washington and 20+ years’ experience at Microsoft before beginning her Woodinville Repertory Theatre journey supporting various
projects to drive audience engagement, community outreach and education initiatives.”

Anjanette Vaidya is a poet, educator and scholar-activist who centers her work around access to education, justice, and the role of the arts in knowledge acquisition. Her work as an education consultant includes her role as a facilitator with The Posse Foundation, where she creates and implements workshop curriculum that addresses current social issues for top universities and colleges across the country. Trained in the tradition of the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal, she utilizes embodied play and theatre techniques as a basis for coalition building, organizing, and change. Anjanette has been tapped as a policy advisor with Ascend at the Aspen Institute and the Kresge Foundation and has experience as a lead organizer, adjunct professor, doula and researcher. She is deeply committed to hopeful and joyful engagement with the world. In her free time she can be found writing, dancing, gardening, and contemplating the cosmos.

Molly West is a life-long artistic creator and businesswoman, bringing decades of data analytics and artistic experience to Woodinville Rep.  She is equally invested in keeping the business side of WRT running smoothly and bringing a rich artistic vision to each show as in-house Set Designer for the company. Molly is committed to WRT’s inclusive and collaborative approach to bringing diverse stories to our communities.

Rael started her theatre career acting in dozens of plays and musicals in high school, college and university. Rael received her BA from Albion College focused on performance and her MA from Wayne State University focused on technical theatre production. Rael’s doctoral studies led her to the University of London, England, researching adaptations of ancient Greek drama through the female lens. After 12 years in London, Rael moved her young family to Bothell, WA. Rael’s thrilled to work with WRT flexing creative muscles and supporting the LGBTQIA+ community.

Emily Murray is a playwright and a high school drama and psychology teacher at Woodinville Montessori.  She has a BA in Cultural Studies from University of MN, an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, and an MSW in Clinical Social Work from University of WA.  She loves musicals, realistic plays confronting social issues using macabre humor and avant garde works about anything.   She’s thrilled to be part of Woodinville Repertory Theater.