Troupe Director

Alessandra Garcia - Alē - is a Class of 2025 Senior and a 4th year thespian at Sickles High School.  She has worked both sides of our productions - technical theatre and actor.    She was a member of the makeup crew for Once Upon a Mattress, Clue: The Musical, and Makeup Designer for And Then There Were None and Mean Girls.   As an actor, Alē held the role of the main antagonist in Sickles Theatre’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace and was a go-to member of the ensemble for Mean Girls where she filled multiple male and female character roles.

 Ava has performed in four Sickles Theatre Productions. As a sophomore she held lead roles in both Arsenic and Old Lace and Clue the Musical.  Ava was elected by Troupe 5729 members to be 2024-2025 Vice President after a completing a successful year as the Troupe's Social Media Mogul.  She urges everyone to follow our Instagram, TikTok and Facebook @sicklesheatre. In addition to these demanding duties during the 2023-2024 school year, she also held a lead role as Ms. Emily Brent in the Theatre Program’s production of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None in December 2023 and Cady in the Musical Mean Girls in April 2024. 

Riley McDaniel is a junior at Sickles High School. She has held positions with the technical theatre crew for Sweeney Todd at St. Pete College and two lead roles in Sickles Theatre’s productions of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None in December 2023 and Mean Girls in April 2024. 

 Jaclyn Sabella is a sophomore at Sickles High School and appeared in her first high school production - Mean Girls in April 2024. In addition to her lead role as Janice, Jaclyn was also the show’s Director of Choreography.

  Lily Hunzeker is a Sickles High School Class of 2025 Senior. She has been involved in multiple Sickles Theatre productions including technical theatre roles with the Lights Crew for Arsenic and Old Lace and Clue the Musical as well as a member of Set Run Crew for Once Upon a Mattress. She was the Lighting and Sound Designer for Sickles Production of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and assisted the lighting and sound design team for Mean Girls. 

 Addison McSheffrey is a junior at Sickles High School and held her first lead role during Sickles Theatre's production of Mean Girls in April 2024.  One noteworthy accomplishment from this past school year was her Top Honors performance at 2023-2024 District-9 Thespy Festival for Costume Construction.  

Currently a sophomore at Sickles, Vaileen immediately joined Thespians their freshman year, acting as 'Mrs. Rogers' in Sickles Production of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in December 2023 and joined the TECH team working behind the scenes as a member of the Run Crew for Mean Girls in April 2024.