PRODUCTION STAFF

RACHELLE STONE – Stage Manager

Rachelle Stone is a motivated technical theater student at Cal State University Fullerton. She recently graduated from Las Positas College with an AA-T in Theater Arts and a Technical Theater Certificate of Achievement. She found her passion for stage management during her few years in the LPC theater program and is incredibly fortunate to have worked on almost 20 productions within that time, having stage managed more than half of them. Outside of professional work Ms. Stone practices her craft as a stage manager and technician. She looks to grow into a professional set designer and projection mapper, though her passion for management rules all. She has been Diablo Ballet’s Stage Manager since 2024. The opportunity to expand her skills into the world of dance has been an invaluable experience, and an especially enjoyable one due to the kindness and devotion of Diablo Ballet’s production team and dancers.

THOMAS ROBERTS – Technical Director

Thomas Roberts, born in Stanford, has worked in theater as an electrician and main technical lead for over twenty years. He spent ten years with the Grateful Dead as a sound and lighting engineer as well as various bands including the Dick Bright Orchestra and Cold Blood with Lydia Pence. In 2004 he joined Diablo Ballet as Technical Lead and became the Ballet’s Technical Director in 2017.

CASSIE BARNES – Lighting Designer

Cassie Barnes has been involved in technical theatre for well over a decade, and it was under the instruction of Joan Arhelger at San Francisco State University that her passion for lighting design was born. After graduating from SFSU, where she studied Theatre Arts and Women and Gender Studies, she began her freelance career. Ms. Barnes creates lighting design across the greater Bay Area for a variety of companies including the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Golden Thread Productions, Diablo Ballet, Bayer Ballet Academy, and New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) Applegate Dance Company. She’s also had the fortune to work under Justin Partier as an Assistant Designer and a Lighting Intern at San Francisco Opera. Ms. Barnes has been Diablo Ballet’s Lighting Designer since 2022.

WELLNESS & FITNESS TEAM

Sports Medicine Physician

Selina Shah, MD, FACP

Primary Care Physician

Denise Hilliard, MD

Physical Therapists

Pacer Physical Therapy, Inc.

Pilates and Conditioning

Karen Lapointe, Fine Line Fitness Pilates

Nutrition & Physique Development Coach

Tracy Beckham, Body by Beckham