Caroline Reck - Founder and Co-Producing Artistic Director

Caroline is the founder and current Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin, Texas. Since 2012 she has led the collaborative creation of nuanced works that bring awareness to climate justice and migration issues. Her work focuses on strategies to open the hearts and minds of audiences to these difficult topics using light-hearted, imaginative, and interactive puppet-based performance. She has received local awards from the B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table for Acting, Directing, Writing, Design, and Puppetry. A speaker of English, French, and Spanish, Caroline uses multilingualism to enhance the visual narratives of her works.

Caroline trained in Movement with June Kemp of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and with the mime Thomas Leabhart in the Decroux mime style. She is a graduate of École Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques Lecoq in France and has an MFA in Theatre for Self-Producing Artists from Towson University in Baltimore. She is on faculty at St. Edwards University and Austin Community College and teaches Movement and puppetry technique.

Gricelda Silva - Co-Producing Artistic Director

Gricelda became a Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre in 2021. Her first Glass Half Full show featured her playing opposite Caroline in The Orchid Flotilla (2012), and she has since appeared or played a critical role in every Glass Half Full production to date, as a performer, deviser, producer, and writer both in Texas and nationwide.

Gric came to Austin from Laredo in the early 2000s, graduating from St. Edwards University, and continuing her training in physical theater, acting and puppetry afterwards. She has been featured by a multitude of companies in Austin, with highlights including Glass Half Full, Trouble Puppet, The Vortex, Shrewd, Salvage Vanguard, and so many others. She was voted Best Actress in Austin in 2015 in the Austin Chronicle Best Ofs, and has received numerous Austin Critic's Table and B. Iden Payne awards for her work.

She currently works as a performing and teaching artist in addition to her producing. In the past, she has worked for and collaborated with companies including Creative Action, Pollyanna, and The Scottish Rite. She continues to write, devise, direct, and produce her own work and others.

The Artists

Rachel Atkinson
Kelli Bland
Delena Bradley
Kade Conklin
Zac Crofford
Diana Guizado
K. Eliot Haynes
Connor Hopkins
Anatar Marmol-Gagné
Barbara Mojica
Madison Palomo
Paul Piñon
Veronica Pomata
Sarita Ocón
Victor Santos
Annie Ulrich
Stephanie Vasquez Fonseca
Minerva Villa

Once and Future

Cami Alys
The Bald Mountain Band
Sonnet Blanton
Jay Byrd
Devo Carpenter
Joe Carpenter
Ben Cunningham
Lucie Cunningham
Sarah Danko
Teresa Danko
Rachel Dendy
Stephanie Delk
Marina DeYoe-Pedraza
Karina Dominguez
Parker Dority
Ia Ensterä
Judd Farris
S. Mariah Fonseca
Pam Friday
Noel Gaulin
Natalie George
Chris Gibson
CB Goodman
Taylor Harrison
Kelly Hasandras
Courtney Hopkin
Sadie Langenkamp
Adam Martinez
Emily Marks
Annie McCall
Lori Navarrete
Mother Falcon
Monica Pasut
Stephen Pruitt
Rudy Ramirez
Indigo Rael
Megan Reilly
Rupert Reyes
Julia M. Smith
Rommel Sulit
Dallas Tate
Kate Taylor
The White Ghost Shivers
Tane Ward

JoAnn Carreon Reyes, along with Rupert Reyes, founded Teatro Vivo in 2000 in Austin, TX. Teatro Vivo’s productions have received numerous nominations for artistic excellence by the B. Iden Payne Awards Committee for best original script, directing, design, and acting. Austin Woman Magazine honored JoAnn in 2009 for her contributions to the Austin theater scene. She was recognized in 2011 by the City of Austin as one of Austin’s 100 Influential Latinas. The UT Austin Office of Diversity and Community Engagement presented the Community Leadership Award to her in September 2008. She was also awarded the Partners in the Arts and Humanities Award by the Austin City Council in 2011. JoAnn has served on the Director’s Council for the UT Department of Theatre and Dance.

Nitra Gutierrez is an interdisciplinary theatre artist who has worn the hats of teacher, facilitator, director, actor, improviser, and playwright. She has a BA in Theatre from St. Edward’s University and spent years working as a theatre artist in New York City before returning to Austin to pursue an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth at the University of Texas. She has worked for Creative Action, Drama for Schools, the Creative Learning Initiative and is currently part of the Academics Department in Austin ISD. Using stories to create dialogue about issues that affect us all is her favorite part of working in the theatre.

Spring Karlo graduated from The University of Texas in Austin with a double major in playwrighting and Italian. She has worked in theatre as a performer and playwright (in Rome, Italy), in development and grant writing (with Redmoon in Chicago, IL), and as a producer (with paper chairs in Austin, TX). A booking agent with Holden & Arts Associates since 2011, Spring became a Co-Director of HAA in 2017 and works with both national and international artists to create tours across North America of performances for young audiences and families. Spring is an avid scuba diver and loves to travel with her husband Don and giant puppy Fig.

Etta Sanders is the Director of Finance at Green Goo by Sierra Sage and the former Executive Director of Tapestry Dance. She is a passionate, solution-drive Administrator who thrives in a collaborative atmosphere, seeking innovative organizations that champion hard work and creativity and offer opportunities to make a difference.

Griffon Ramsey is an Austin-based chainsaw artist and video content creator with over 400k social media followers. She makes sculptures inspired by nature, travel, pop culture, and human connections. A woman in a male-dominated medium, she has competed in several top chainsaw sculpture competitions in the world, created relationships with renowned international artists, and has been a brand ambassador for STIHL Inc., Arbortech, Dremel, and Dos Equis. Her work has been exhibited across the United States (including a permanent installation at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, CA), in Australia, England, Germany, Japan, and Scotland.

Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin. A native of Asheville, N.C., he has a B.A. in Theatre with departmental honors from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Theatre from UT-Austin. His research is focused on the role of community and locality in American regional theatres, as well as the governance of those theatres and related arts organizations. He is particularly interested in large cast and large scale community oriented performances in American regional theatres and their larger impacts on institutional health and focus. Before coming to Austin, Michael served for six years as the associate production manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and had a variety of experiences in production and artistic management at Zilker Botanical Garden, Kentucky Shakespeare, Berkshire Theatre Group, Lexington Children’s Theatre and the Austin Film Festival. His work has previously been published in American Theatre, Etudes, Howlround Theatre Commons, Theatre Design and Technology, and Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

David is a Texas born, Mexican, costume maker, designer, educator and artist. His work straddles the intersections of embodied and cultural knowledge, classical and contemporary techniques of garment making and visual storytelling via material sculpture. Through these practices, he is compelled to showcase the experiences of communities that have found themselves underserved by the American artistic canon. The transformation and elevation of ideas, objects and expectations is central to his practice. He has worked as a draper/tailor at the Santa Fe Opera for five summer seasons, for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Fulton Theatre and Merrimack Repertory Theatre, among others. He has taught courses in costume technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and created innovative new undergraduate coursework in design and material storytelling at Northwestern University. His costuming work was featured in Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design, and his artistic work, a material storytelling sculpture titled Raza Cósmica, was featured in American Theatre magazine. He is a first generation college graduate from San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. in Stage Design from Northwestern University.

Denise Garza Steusloff is a seasoned professional with expertise in project management, event planning, and travel coordination. She earned her bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of Indie Meme, a non-profit organization based in Austin that promotes independent South Asian cinema.

Steusloff has been actively involved in the Austin film community for many years. She began volunteering with Cine Las Americas in 1998 and eventually became the Festival Director. Her dedication to the organization led her to serve on its board, where she contributed significantly to its mission of supporting Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous filmmakers.

Denise is also a member of Women in Film & Television, Austin, and Tejanas in Film, reflecting her commitment to supporting women in the industry.