Chris Curino’s career spans across fashion, personal styling, branding, marketing, and, most passionately, theatre. With a15 year tenure in the fashion industry, Chris worked as a color analyst, clothing designer, and trend forecaster. They designed a versatile range of products from children’s clothing to lingerie and handbags, always surveying emerging trends and maintaining a dedication to authenticity. Chris also founded a personal styling business in California, guiding clients to discover their unique style signatures. Chris found this venture profoundly fulfilling because it empowered individuals to embrace their true identities confidently.

Chris’s commitment to community and advocacy came to a head when they joined the steering committee for Trans March San Francisco. Through collaboration, branding and marketing strategies, they played a pivotal role in significantly boosting the event’s attendance, earning multiple awards from the California Senate for their contributions.

Transitioning from the vibrant world of fashion and advocacy to the arts, Chris joined the Woodinville Repertory Theatre in 2017. As a board member and costume designer, their contributions have since expanded to include set design, marketing, and operations. Chris’s journey back to theater—a foundational passion—is not just a professional milestone but a personal full-circle moment. Their work at the theatre is driven by a deep-seated belief in the transformative power of the arts, the profound medium of storytelling and a commitment to sustaining the creative community.

Heather is a passionate and experienced arts administrator with a background in theater, design, fine art, and community engagement. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where she earned her MFA in Interior Architecture. She has also studied theater at New York Stage & Film Powerhouse Theatre and has bachelor’s degrees in Theatre and Fine Art.

Heather has a wealth of experience in the arts community. She has worked as a stage manager, actor, designer, director, and administrator for several theater companies. She is a creative thinker with a strong eye for design. An effective communicator and collaborator, she has also served on the boards of several arts, non-profit, and community organizations.

Heather is eager to use her expertise in theater, design, and community engagement to help the Woodinville Repertory Theatre achieve its goal of providing high-quality arts programming to the community.

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.

Anna currently works at Xbox as the Accessibility User Research Lead on the Xbox Research team. At Xbox, she has co-led the development of the accessibility user research program, including the creation of multiple gaming and disability participant panels as well as piloting new methodologies for games accessibility user research. Prior to joining Xbox, Anna earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and her undergraduate degree at Cornell University. Her graduate work focused on exploring the cognition of young children, dogs, and squirrels by coming up with fun games for them to play that would shed light on their internal causal and spatial reasoning strategies. Anna’s role on the board of directors combines her love of the arts and community with her professional expertise in program creation and management. Outside of work, Anna loves to hike, craft, and play puzzle games with friends and family. To learn more,  visit her website: www.awaismeyer.com.

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.