Meet Our Team
Lexie Showalter
Founding Artistic Director
Lexie is a Seattle born actor, dancer, producer, and occasional teacher. Now based in New York City, she received a BFA from Texas Christian University - go frogs! - and has had the pleasure of working all over. Lexie received the opportunity to study Shakespeare in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). Since then, her passion for seeing Shakespeare, performing Shakespeare, and producing Shakespeare has continued to grow. Lexie continues to be encouraged by the artists she works with as they discover and help reveal things about the text she hadn’t seen before. What a gift stories are.
In addition to her love of Shakespeare, she is a proud company member and writer for Our Bar, a sketch company that has been performing on the second floor of a bar in Murray Hill for over 15 years. In the past two years she’s also had the honor of serving as the Head of People and Culture for the company.
As a performer, she has had the immense privilege of working with Be Bold! Productions at the Players Theater off broadway quite frequently. The family she’s found there, both onstage and off, have been absolutely instrumental in her producing career and she is immensely grateful for their encouragement and support.
Shea Coughlin-Jacobs
Director / Much Ado About Nothing
Shea Coughlin-Jacobs a New York based performer and creative. Her background training in concert dance, Musical Theater BFA, and boundless passion for all aspects of performance art has propelled her into an eclectic creative career. Shea can frequently be found in shows with Be Bold! Productions in residence at the historic Off-Broadway Players Theater, both in performing and creative capacities. She has a particular love of new works and her favorites to have worked on include Limerence (world premier) and Nickel Mines (regional premier). Always one for a challenge, her list of job titles over the years include Actor, Dancer, Featured Vocalist, Understudy, Swing, Dance Captain, Fight Captain, Choreographer, Director, Associate Director, Intimacy Choreographer, Wardrobe Crew, Stitcher, and even Sound Board Operator (in emergencies only!) When she is not performing, she organizes dance fundraisers for the Democratic Party with industry veterans MaryAnn Lamb and Susan Meisner.