Meet The Cast
Michael Anthony Tatmon (Director/Jaxton)
Michael Anthony Tatmon (Director / Jaxton) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to school in Connecticut, served in the US Air Force in law enforcement, and went on to attend the American Conservatory Theatre where he studied professional acting. He worked with 7 Stages Theatre as an Associate Artist where he traveled to China to perform Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs, for which received a Best Actor nomination at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Festival.
Tatmon has faced many challenges in his life. Including a period as a homeless veteran living on the streets in Georgia, Florida, and Arizona. Working his way off the streets and out of homelessness gave Tatmon another dimension and view of life that he incorporates into his acting.
Acting for Mike has been an odyssey of transformation. As a young actor, he thought only of pursuing commercial success. Yet, at the same time, he loved art. As he found more opportunities to express his art, he was drawn to work that would give voice to social and political issues and the under-represented. Thus In Living Colored was born.
Angie Dobson (Logan)
Angie Dobson has been performing in Theater and Film for 30+ years on both coasts. After receiving her BA in Theater and Music, she moved from Boston to LA to pursue her dreams. She has acted on stage and on film in a variety of roles as well as been an asset behind the scenes as director, producer, lighting designer, and costume designer. Before leaving Los Angeles, she was a member for several years with the Archway Theater Company, who produced 6 shows per year. Some of her favorite acting roles with the company were Mistress Quickly in Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Miss Watts/Instructress in The Women, where she and her fellow cast mates won the Best Ensemble Award in a dramatic play for the Broadway Awards in Los Angeles. As far as her technical achievements, Angie is most proud of her work as costume designer for Jesus Christ Superstar, Trojan Women, Henry IV, and her nomination for best costume design in a play for The Women. Another passion of hers is teaching theater to kids and adults, including most recently her Adult Acting Class held in downtown Berthoud and hopes to open her own theater studio someday. Since moving from Los Angeles to Colorado, Angie has performed in over a dozen film projects throughout Denver and the Front Range, starred on stage in Tillie the Teller as Tilly, and directed her first Colorado production of An Audition for a Murder, a murder mystery play in Berthoud. Angie would like to thank her husband Pete and her two kids for their continuous support in her endeavors in the arts. They make it all possible! She is also looking forward to playing Logan in the Thanksgiving Play and hopes everyone enjoys the show!
Hayan Kim Buergisser
Hayan Buergisser (Caden) (she/her) has had roles in Colorado independent films, voiceover and print work. She is trained in Meisner, Shakespeare and Improv. She is from Los Angeles and has been in Colorado for 26 years primarily as an IT professional and homemaker. Her top ambitions are to act in a Star Trek series, run an organic produce farm and sing in a musical. The Thanksgiving Play is Hayan’s initiation into theater.
Kelly Sardiñas
Kelly Sardiñas (Alicia) is thrilled to be simplicity as she makes her Colorado theater debut. She has been a professional actor for over 30 years working primarily in regional musical theater, Shakespeare, commercials and film in Chicago, Austin and most recently, Orlando, as a company member, director and adjudicator at the Doctor Phillips Center. She received an AA in Musical Theater from Florida School of the Arts, studied Performance at Roosevelt University in Chicago & also earned her BA in Organizational Management with Ashford University. Kelly's touring credits include Showboat, Damn Yankees, Best Little Whorehouse, Christmas Carol, Robin Hood, Can-Can and Alice in Wonderland. She has 4 beautiful children, 2 really great dogs and her husband, Erik, who is always front row center for every aspect of their crazy life.
Meet The Crew & Creative Team
Larissa FastHorse - Playwright
Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, professor of practice (literature) at Arizona State University’s Department of English, award winning writer/choreographer, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences. Larissa’s revised book of the beloved Jerome Robbins Broadway musical, Peter Pan, toured nationally and internationally. She made her Broadway debut in the 2022-2023 season with her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play, making her the first known female, Native playwright to be produced on Broadway. The Thanksgiving Play is one of the most produced plays in America and abroad with over 300 separate productions. In fall of 2025, Larissa will be performing her autobiographical solo show, Fancy Dancer, in collaboration with Seattle Children’s Theatre and Seattle Rep. Additional produced plays include Fake It Until You Make It, For The People, The Democracy Project, What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless and Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, Fancy Dancer, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She develops work with the top theaters in the nation including Center Theatre Group, The Public, Second Stage, Yale Rep, Cornerstone, and Arena Stage.
Prodan Dimov - Artistic Director
Prodan Dimov has been known as director to the Atlanta theatre audiences since his first show Diary of a Madman, by Gogol, at 7 Stages in 1998, which Creative Loafing’s annual review mentioned along with the ten best shows for the year. He came to Atlanta with considerable experience as actor, director, and educator in Bulgaria and Russia, where he continued to be invited multiple times as director in repertory theaters. After 3 years of teaching at Kennesaw State University, in 2005, Prodan Dimov founded Metropolis Theatre where he directed many shows and developed collaborative relationships with emerging playwrights and theatre directors. All his professional life, Prodan Dimov has been closely connected to the field of education. He has BFA, MFA, and PhD degrees in Theatre Arts and has worked at secondary and post-secondary institutions in the US and abroad. Quite a few of his students have become well-known theater, TV, and film actors.
His most acclaimed American productions have been The Chairs and The Bald Soprano, by Ionesco, The Gin Game, by D. L. Coburn, The Proposal, The Bear, and The Harmfulness of Tobacco, by Chekhov. Some of these shows brought back awards from international festivals. According to AJC, the 7 Stages production of The Chairs (2003) was the first show in the history of the state of Georgia to go to China. His latest success abroad was with Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, directed on the stage of the legendary Russian theatre Kolesso. In 2018, he joined the artistic leadership team of the New Marietta’s Theater in the Square, where he directed Arthur Miller’s A View for the Bridge and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park.
Amelia Morse - Assistant Director & Intimacy Choreographer
Amelia Morse (she/her) is an acting coach, educator, intimacy director, and intimacy coordinator dedicated to creating brave, collaborative, and empowering spaces for performers. She also serves as the Admin Assistant and Social Media Manager for In Living Colored.
Amelia is the founder of The Morse Actors Studio, where she works with actors of all experience levels, helping them build truthful, embodied performances and sustainable careers. In addition to her private studio, she serves on the Assistant Faculty with Theatrical Intimacy Education, contributing to national training efforts that promote ethical and effective practices for staging intimacy.
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Theatre: Torch Song Trilogy (Vintage Theatre), Sarah Kane’s Blast (Benchmark Theatre), Seams (The Agenda Theatre), The Cottage (StageDoor Theatre), and Cabaret (Vintage Theatre).
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You can connect with her through www.themorseactorsstudio.com OR www.ameliamorse.com
Zhanna Gurvich - Production and Design Consultant
Zhanna Gurvich (Production and Design Consultant) is an award-winning designer and painter who has designed scenery, costumes, and lighting for theatre, dance, opera, industrials, and film. She has worked on designs for Broadway, Regional Theatre, International Tours, and Hollywood films.
For In Living Colored Productions she designed and produced Thurgood at the Lincoln Center in 2024 and at Bas Bleu Theatre in 2017. Some notable designs include The Most Dangerous Room in the House for The Susan Marshall Dance Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tears for Violetta, Tierra del Nadie, and Eyes of the Soul for Ballet Hispanico at the Joyce Theatre, Hansel and Gretel at Chautauqua Opera, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Dallas Theatre Center, The Seagull, Man and Superman, and Three Sisters at the Juilliard Theatre, An Iliad at Theatreworks in Colorado Springs, Orpheo et Uridice, Die Fleidermaus, Il Tritico, Hansel und Gretel, Xerxes, The Marriage of Figaro, A Little Night Music, Cendrillon, and The Hobbit at Colorado State University, Trip to Bountiful, Airness, Beyond Therapy, Snow Queen, Dirt, Waiting for the Parade, Last Train to Nibroc, How to Survive Your Family at Christmas, and Mr Perfect at Bas Bleu Theatre, and 9 to 5 The Musical at CU, Boulder.
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Zhanna received an HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Set Design for her work on La Llorona at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. She teaches design and arts management at Colorado State University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
See her work at zhannag.com
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