Jordan Brownlee

Puppet Builder, Puppetry Instructor, Writer, Actor

Jordan Brownlee was born and raised in San Diego, California, and has loved making people laugh for as long as he can remember. While attending a Bike City open mic in 2018, he was randomly selected to perform, and has maintained a relationship with the company ever since.

He is an award-winning impressionist who has lent his voice to several short films, award ceremonies, and The Empty Iris on Amazon Prime Video. Jordan portrayed Thanos in A Marvelous Parody, a musical tribute to The Marvel Cinematic Universe on YouTube. Jordan has trained directly with the Muppet performers of Sesame Street, and has since taught other Bike City actors to how operate puppets.

He made his Bike City acting debut in Light The Way: a Bike Safety Musical, and has since acted and written for various Bike City sketches and radio plays. Jordan is currently co-writing and designing the upcoming production of Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? Jordan graduated from UC Davis with a BA in Cinema and Digital Media.

Sophie Brubaker

Education Assistant, Actor

Sophie Brubaker is a UC Davis student who is currently studying Theatre and Human Development. At Bike City Theatre, she's appeared in We've All Got Skeletons: A Comedy Sketch Show, Westeros Side Story, and she has been touring as Annie Londonderry in BCTC's premiere touring educational show Light the Way: A Bike Safety Musical. Some of her other features include Sydney Summers in Ranked, A New Musical at the Ground and Field Theatre Festival, and she is also featured on Ranked's streaming concept album. She believes art is necessary to the human condition, and she also knows every word to the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack by heart.

Alyssa Buchthal

Casting Associate, Stage & Production Manager, Actor

Alyssa Buchthal is a casting director, producer, and writer. Graduating from UC Davis in 2020 with her B.A. in Communication and a double minor in Computer Science and Theatre & Dance, Alyssa has worn every hat possible in producing theatre, not only with Bike City Theatre Company, but also with Ground and Field Theatre Festival (now Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank) and the UC Davis Theatre Department. She is now the casting director for Bike City, where she also assists with new works development and production management. BCTC credits include The Game of Life (director), Westeros Side Story (stage manager), Monsters Anonymous (stage manager), as well as several Salon Readings and workshops. Outside of Bike City, Alyssa currently works in Los Angeles as an acquisitions and production coordinator with Podium Audio, producing audiobooks and other audio-first content.

Ed Lee

Sound Designer

Ed Lee is always happy to be a part of anything creative. He has worked throughout Sacramento providing audio design, content, and consultation. Normally he can be found at the Capital Stage Theater Company which employs him as their in-house Audio Designer and Assistant Technical Director. Recently Ed has designed sound for Bike City's sketch production Monsters Anonymous as well as Light the Way: A Bicycle Safety Musical.

Andrea Love

Music Director, Writer, Composer

Andrea J. Love is an actor, writer, composer, lyricist, and educator. She has served as the resident music director of BCTC for the last two years, and co-wrote and composed the recent parody musical Westeros Side Story, which premiered with BCTC in May 2019. She is also the writer, composer, lyricist, and music director for the latest educational touring musical, focusing on air quality and climate solutions, that will be hitting up elementary schools around Yolo and Solano county in 2020/2021. As an actor, she received her MFA in 2015, and is a member of Actors Equity Association. She has worked with The 5th Avenue Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Playhouse, Capital Stage Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, and others around the country. 

Nicholas Walker Herbert

Writer, Writer-Advocate, Actor

Nicholas Walker Herbert is an award-winning playwright and theatre-artist based in California.  His plays have been produced and developed around the United States and internationally since 2001.  He started in theatre as an actor when he was 8 years old, and has performed in numerous staged readings and workshops with BCTC.  He also contributes as writer to their sketch and radio plays.  His most recent production was the March 2020 world premiere of his full-length drama Bloodless by Cal State LA.  In 2019, three of his short plays were presented in the BCTC’s Salon Reading Series Summer Shorts II.  One of those short plays, Astronauts in Love, was produced by Winters Theatre Company in their first 10-minute play festival in January 2020, and has been adapted as a radio drama for the Quarantine Radio Hour podcast.  Since 2011, several of his full-length plays have received staged readings in the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska.  His full-length solo show, The Alien Baby Play, has been produced in Texas, Canada, and adapted as a 5-minute online performance with the National Theatre of Scotland 24-hour festival in 2014.  In 2007, his full-length play A Flag Touched the Ground: The Blood Ties received the Dharma-Grace Foundation Creative Writing Award and full production at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  In 2014, Nicholas started co-hosting monthly readings called Bear Cave for creative writers and artists to receive feedback, support and inspiration, and he continues advocating on behalf of writers and artists for BCTC.  He has a BA with honors in theatre arts from UC Santa Cruz, and has interned with New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild of America.  He is a native of Davis, and was born in Sacramento.  His plays can be found on newplayexchange.org