Gigi is excited to make her Second Thought debut! Gigi has just finished a run as Abuela Claudia in In the Heights at Theatre Arlington, where she has previously appeared as Dottie Otley/Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off. Other theatre credits include The Amazing, Fabulous, and Spectacular Untruths of Juan Garcia (Amphibian Stage), The Way She Spoke (Undermain Theatre), Man Cave (Kitchen Dog Theater), American Mariachi (Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center), Our Town (Dallas Theater Center), and Our Town (Circle Theatre). Gigi is also an award-winning singer/songwriter, and has recently returned to teaching Theatre at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts.

Amanda is a Mexican American actor and filmmaker based in Fort Worth, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Media Arts from the University of North Texas and an M.F.A. in Directing Narrative Cinema from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn, NY. Notable acting credits include her role as the title character in the feature film Marisol. As a director, her most recent film, Going Home, premiered at the Panther City Film Festival and was also featured at the San Antonio Film Festival. Recent theater credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Big Love (Hip Pocket Theater), Texas Book of Beats (Arts Fort Worth), The Visit along with The Amazing, Fabulous, and Spectacular Untruths of Juan Garcia (Amphibian Stage) and Destroying David (Circle Theater). Additionally, she is an active member of the City of Fort Worth Young Professionals Club, and an active Board Member for Amphibian Stage. She is thrilled to join this incredibly talented cast on this phenomenal play for her Second Thought Theatre debut. She would like to thank her parents, brother, husband, and best friend for always believing in and supporting her ambitious dreams! 

Lisa is thrilled to be joining the STT company of Healed! Previous credits include Poor Clare (Stage West), A Christmas Carol, Be Agressive, Guys and Dolls (Dallas Theater Center), Work Song, A Christmas Carol, Wit, Anna Karenina (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Fiddler on the Roof (Casa Mañana), As You Like It(Montana Shakespeare), and numerous productions with The Dallas Children’s Theater, Casa Manana Playhouse and Garland Summer Musicals. Lisa's TV/Film credits include “Prison Break”, “The Young and The Restless”, “Cruel Summer”, “What Would You Do?” and “The Girl Who Believes In Miracles”. Commercial spots: “United Supermarkets”, "Right at Home", and "Travel Texas". When not on stage or screen, Lisa is the Private Acting Teacher for McKinney ISD. She holds her BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University and is represented by The Campbell Agency. Lisa would like to thank her husband, Markus for his endless love and constant encouragement of her career and their two teen boys, “Deuce” and Solomon, for their love and support, as she missed a few of their school performances to participate in this fabulous production. Soli Deo Gloria. @lisajlloyd 

Liz is delighted to make her Second Thought Theatre debut. She was most recently seen in Wakey Wakey (Kitchen Dog Theater) and Natural Shocks: A One-Woman Play in a Tornado (Echo Theatre). Liz is represented by Linda McAlister Talent, with recent commercial credits including Perdue, H.E.B., Ford, and Liberty Tax. She produced Howler by Richard Bailey and is excited to reunite with him as producer and performer in his upcoming film, Dreadnought. Offstage, Liz brings her creativity to community-building as a grant writer for Tasveer, the world’s only Oscar®-qualifying South Asian film festival. She proudly serves on the boards of Junior Players and Echo Theatre and was honored to join the inaugural cohort of Women of Color Rising, an initiative by Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation. Endless thanks to Frankie, Tim, and Leela for holding down the fort while I got to play—I love you, my family!

Karen was last seen in undermine theater's exit the king, and is thrilled to be working with second thought. other recent work includes love and vinyl, the sound inside, and Gary (kitchen dog), and the father (stage west). Karen has been a company member with Kitchen dog theater for over twenty years where memorable work includes: Ironbound, Blackberry Winter, The Arsonists, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, boom, Woyzeck, Jesus Hopped the “A” Train, Act of Passion, Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing and Road. A graduate of the SMU Theatre Program and MFA Acting program at WVU, Karen has also worked with Maryland Ensemble Theater and The Contemporary American Theater Festival. Karen taught theater at The University of the Incarnate Word and The Winston School. Currently, she teaches English at Richardson HS. She has 23 year old twins who never quit amazing her, two small dogs who keep her hopping, and an amazing husband who keeps her spoiled but grounded. 

kat is a queer artist based in Dallas, TX. They are thrilled to return to Second Thought after appearing in Libra Season and assistant directing the Sweetpea. Kat most recently appeared in Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Dallas), what fits inside a human heart (Soul Rep Theatre), the 2022 & 2023 New Works Festival Mainstage productions of High Five and The Last Truck Stop, as well as Queen of Basel and Wolf at the Door (Kitchen Dog), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Everywhere), and Dracula (Theatre Three). Their film work includes Everything Except Hope, Artificial, and Bitch’s Tit. They also work as a voice actor with Crunchyroll and have appeared in commercials and print ads for brands like HEB and Nutella. Kat is also a member of STT’s Thought Process playwriting cohort and is currently developing a play exploring themes of gender identity and sexuality. Kat holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin. katherinelozano.com 

vickie is a theatre artist and cultural worker based in Dallas and working everywhere. Acting credits (selected): The TEAM’s Primer for a Failed Superpower, directed by Rachel Chavkin; Blood Work, (National Black Theater); A Raisin in the Sun,(WaterTower); POTUS, (Stage West); Dreaming Emmett (DNA Works); Crowns, (DTC); for colored girls..., Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Piano Lesson, (Theatre Three); Contribution, From the Mississippi Delta (Soul Rep); The Tempest, Macbeth (Shakespeare Dallas). On-camera in Random Acts of Flyness (HBO); Indie films, Meta Care, They Charge for the Sun, Swimming in Your Skin Again(official Sundance selection); and Steps of Faith. Selected directing credits include Primary Trust, Responders, Whitelisted, Blood Knot, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Seven Guitars, Hairy and Sherri, The Mountaintop, Schoolgirls; or the African Mean Girls Play, Are you now, or have you ever been..., Fences, Passing Strange, Single Black Female, Sunset Baby, Fabulation, and Angela’s Mixtape. She is the recipient of the 2025 Irma P. Hall Lifetime Achievement Award, and as director has garnered two Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Awards along with recognition from the Dallas Observer for her direction of the world premiere of Jonathan Norton’s Mississippi Goddamn. vickie is founder and producing director of r-t-w~ reading the writers, a readers theatre performance organization. A proud member of Actors Equity, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, she deeply values the gift of theatre and the powerful ways in which it can be utilized to tell the stories of the African Diaspora. #onandup 

Mikaela is a director, playwright, and stage manager. She has directed SMU’s Smart People, a short film (Within), and Echo Theatre’s staged readings of Bourbon at the Border and Daisy Violet, the Bitch Beast Queen. She wrote FREAKSHOW, a futuristic view on what happens when history continues to be re-written and black women continue to be exploited, which premiered as a staged reading in SMU’s New Visions, New Voices new play festival, and was refined through Second Thought’s inaugural year of the playwriting cohort, Thought Process. She has stage managed US/THEM, I and You (Echo Theatre), When Earth Meets the Sky (Cara Mia), Spring Awakening (SMU), the South African tour of a new opera, Wading Home, the Dallas premiere of a new play, SHAPE (Kitchen Dog), and hang (Second Thought Theatre). She has been the Production Assistant on In The Bleak Midwinter, Working: The Musical, and the world premiere of The Supreme Leader (DTC).  

Roma is a theatrical lighting and projection designer who has worked with theatre, opera, concert, dance and video productions. She has designed lighting for dance for such diverse performing artists as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, and The Dance Theatre of Harlem among others. Roma is a recipient of the prestigious New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. Bessie) for her lighting designs and the KOI-USA Knight of Illumination Projection Design Award for A Bon Coeur, an evening-length work, created by dance artist, Helanius J. Wilkins. Roma created the video design for the 2023 premiere of The Factotum (Lyric Opera of Chicago). As Lighting Designer, her recent work includes Thunder Knocking on the Door (Houston’s Stages), They Do Not Move and Love Bomb (Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre). Fort Worth productions include Poor Clare and POTUS (Stage West), Destroying David (Circle Theatre) and hang (Second Thought Theatre) in Dallas. 

received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts Technology, with a focus in Sound Design from Howard University in 2012. Credits include: The Hatmaker’s Wife (Circle Theatre), SLEEPOVA (Olney Theatre Company), Shane (Dallas Theatre Center), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (University of Rochester), hang (Second Thought Theatre), POTUS (Everyman Theatre), Show Way the Musical National Tour (presented by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), One in Two (Mosaic Theater Company), The Mortification of Fovea Munson (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), The School for Lies (Constellation Theatre), Mojada (1st Stage Theatre), A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Intimate Apparel (Theatre J), Fabulation (Mosaic Theater Company), The Laramie Project (Duke Ellington School of the Arts), N (Keegan Theatre), Hope in the Hood (Amazing Grace Conservatory) and many more. Cresent is also a freelance Live Audio Engineer and Visual Artist. She has aspirations to design on Broadway and continue touring with various performing artists as their Audio Engineer, all while continuing to fill spaces with her original exhibits (www.linktr.ee/cresentrochelle)

kathleen is thrilled to be working at Second Thought for the first time. She has designed costumes for Rooted, Spaceman, No Child, She Wolf, Bank Job, A Room of One’s Own, and Three Days of Rain, as well as sets for The First Day of School, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Miss Witherspoon, Below the Belt, Four Edges, Leonce & Lena, Three Days of Rain, and Burn This—all at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth. Also a playwright, she is the author of The Amazing, Fabulous, and Spectacular Untruths of Juan Garcia, Smart Pretty Funny, La Llorona, and A Leopard Complains of Its Spots. For 25 years, she was the Founding Artistic Director of Amphibian Stage. 

José is a proud alum of Texas Wesleyan University, where he honed his craft and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. He is very honored to serve as Technical Director at Second Thought Theatre, where every day, he gets to marry his love for technical theatre with his deep appreciation for live performances. José lends his help at various local theatres including Pegasus Theatre, Teatro Dallas, Grand Prairie Arts, and Hip Pocket Theatre. Whether he is working on a local production, with the IATSE local unions, or touring as an entertainment technician, and is incredibly grateful for the hardworking and kind individuals he has had the opportunity to work with over the years. He extends his deepest thanks to everyone involved in the production, acknowledging that it is their collective effort that brings the dream to life, one stunning performance at a time.