Americana Christmas

Allison Kelly is thrilled to return to Sierra Rep after two successful runs with her previous project, Ramblin Rose. Allison is the producer and creator of Americana Christmas, and is truly honored to bring this concert to SRT. Favorite productions include: The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Other Josh Cohen (Director Hunter Foster), American Idiot, Moonshine and Mistletoe (Director DJ Salisbury), Airness (Human Race Theatre), and multiple productions of Ring of Fire and Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America. NY Workshops: Little Orphan Danny (New York Stage and Film), The Hello Girls. TV: “The Helpsters” (Apple TV+), The 75th Annual Tony Awards (ensemble vocalist). Allison tours nationally with her band New Ohio as well as Not Fade Away: Rock n/ Roll Reignited. She creates and produces concerts including “Americana Women: Celebrating the Icons of Country and Folk Music”. In addition to performing, Allison has served as Assistant Music Coordinator for the Tony Awards, Music Director for the Roxy Regional Theatre and as a sound designer for the Ensemble Theatre Company in New York City.

Originally from Billings, Montana, Tina is now a New York City-based musician, actor, and makeup artist. She is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for the all-female country and folk group “Americana Women” and has toured the country for nearly a decade as the lead singer of “A Band Called Honalee”. In 2020, she debuted her solo show “Feels Like Home: Celebrating the Queens of 70’s Folk/Rock” which has gone on to play iconic venues in NYC’s tri-state area (Birdland, 54 Below, Green Room 42) as well as tour across America. She is a member of Actors Equity, and has performed multiple contracts for Disney Cruise Line, Utah Shakespeare Festival, as well as various Off-Broadway shows. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein University. When she’s not performing, Tina makes magic happen behind the scenes as a makeup artist to Broadway stars & TV personalities. @tscarianomakeup

Meg has played and written with some of the greatest songwriters of our time (Sara Bareilles, Lori McKenna, Anais Mitchell). She earned praise as a guitarist of The Weepies, won a Latin Grammy with Spain’s Manolo Garcia, and helped orchestrate Waitress The Musical. Her songs are featured on shows like “Pretty Little Liars”, “Vampire Diaries”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and with Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel, Cyndi Lauper, The Go Go’s, Jason Mraz, Lea Salonga, and Ruben and Clay.

Davis is excited to be back at SRT, he appeared as Leon (the fiddler) in Hank Williams’ Lost Highway twice! Finch has played besides Alan Cumming, Serj Tankian, Tony Bennett, Amanda Palmer, Kylie Minogue and Dee Snider. As actor/musician: Broadway; Cabaret, West End; Woody Sez. He played chromatic harmonica as the Mock Turtle in the opera Alice In Wonderland with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and the L.A. Phil. National/Int.Tours: Cabaret, Fame the Musical.

Matt is excited to be making his Sierra Rep debut. He is an actor, musician, composer, arranger, music director/supervisor and music/audio producer. His Broadway credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (Associate Music Director) and Bandstand. Off-Broadway, he was a part of Roundabout Theatre’s revival of The Robber Bridegroom. Matt has also been a part of numerous national tours and regional theatre productions. His favorite credits include John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd, Million Dollar Quartet, The Buddy Holly Story (Music Director), and Ring of Fire (Music Director). On television, he can be seen on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and heard in The Reading League’s Reading Buddies where he served as composer and sound designer.

Scott Viets is Sierra Rep’s Executive Producer. He has directed over 60 shows for SRT since his arrival in 2002. As a director, his SRT favorites include The Wizard of Oz, Intimate Apparel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Story, All My Sons, Shipwrecked, The Robber Bridegroom, and The Glass Menagerie. Thank you for supporting live theatre and continuing (or beginning) your journey with us!

Jonnie Painter is excited to be returning to SRT! They have designed shows at SRT such as ELVIS, JERSEY BOYS, ROGERS AND HAMERSTINES CINDERELLA, as well as others. Jonnie has a BFA in Fine Arts from Texas State University, and now lives and works out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but loves getting to journey back out West for their favorite country artists. Yee-Haw!!

Mateo is so happy to be a part of the Sierra Rep team! It’s been such a joy with working with all this talent returning and new! They would love to express appreciation to Scott and Jerry for letting them stretch their artistic arms in this way, and Tatiana for providing the tools and moral support necessary to succeed.