Billy has been a composer, arranger, musical director, orchestrator, accompanist, and performer for stage productions throughout the country, including Ars Nova in New York, The Walnut in Philadelphia, The Old Globe in San Diego, Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, MT, and here at home with Cygnet. His first full length musical, Invasion! garnered the 2007 LA Weekly Theatre Awards for Best Original Score and Best Musical Direction. Since 2012, he has toured with it gets better, a musical performance and outreach campaign for bullying awareness and suicide prevention, with special emphasis toward the LGBTQ community. Billy holds a BM in Composition from USC and an MFA in Musical Theatre from SDSU. A Christmas Carol is his fifth collaboration with Cygnet Theatre, having previously directed music for Parade, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and It’s A Wonderful Life.

A veteran of over 70 professional productions, Tom trained in Great Britain at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and in Michigan at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. At Cygnet Theatre Company, he has been seen as Hector in The History Boys, Ben Hubbard in The Little Foxes, and for the last three years, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Other credits include, Ben Franklin in 1776 (Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical), Renfield in Dracula (Patti Award), George Frederick Handel in Joyful Noise, Lamb’s Players Theatre and off-Broadway; Billy in Heathen Valley, and Saturninus in Titus Andronicus, San Diego Rep; Bill in The Quality of Life, Intrepid Theatre Company; Finbar in The Weir, New Village Arts. Tom was named Actor of the Year for 2014 by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle.

Selected theater credits include: The Glass Menagerie, Man From Nebraska, It’s A Wonderful Life, Las Meninas (Cygnet Theater); Road To Mecca, Doubt (SD Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award Outstanding Featured Performance), A Christmas Carol(San Diego Rep); Voice of the Prairie, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Collected Stories, Amy’s View(North Coast Rep); Comedy of Errors, Four Dogs and a Bone, Be Aggressive, Golden Boy (SD Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award Outstanding Lead Performance), Dancing at Lughnasa, Sailor’s Song, Crimes of the Heart, Three Sisters (New Village Arts, Ensemble Member) Fair Use, Torch Song Trilogy, Twilight of the Golds (Diversionary Theater); A Bright Room Called Day (Backyard Productions/Diversionary Theater); Hysterical Blindness (Backyard Productions); The Gingerbread Lady (Renaissance Theater Co.); The Terrible Girls (Fringe Festival NYC). Ms. Sitton received her BA in Theatre from UCSD.

Cygnet Theatre: Design and installation of lighting system for the original Cygnet space in Rolando, On the Twentieth Century, Gypsy, The Rocky Horror Show, When the Rain Stops Falling, Dogfight, My Fair Lady, Sons of the Prophet, Spring Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Company, Assassins, Gem of the Ocean, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2003). Off-Broadway: The Pianist of Willesden Lane. His other credits include The Old Globe, Geffen Playhouse, San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, San Diego Musical Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Diversionary Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, and Starlight Theatre. Chris also designs lighting for museum exhibitions, special events, architectural features, and lighting systems for new venues.

Cygnet Theatre: The Vortex, Hay Fever, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Arcadia, Little Foxes, Copenhagen. Regional Theatre: 33 Variations (Theatreworks, Palo Alto), Love In American Times (San Jose Rep), Steel Magnolias (La Mirada Theatre), Dividing the Estate, Sea of Tranquility, Romeo and Juliet, Missing Footage, Trojan Women, (Old Globe Theatre), San Diego Theatre: Favorite roles include; Uncanny Valley, Doubt. (San Diego Rep)Mandate Memories, Ghosts, Wit, Amy’s View, (The North Coast Repertory Theatre), Lettuce & Lovage, (Lambs Players Theatre) Shirley Valentine, Long Days Journey Into Night, (Renaissance Theatre Company.) Other San Diego theatres include New Village Arts, Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, Sledgehammer Theatre and Malashock Dance Company. Rosina has directed over 30 productions in San Diego. She is the founding artistic Director of the Chequamegon Children’s Theatre in Northern Wisconsin.