Brandi Botkin
Rachael Hawkins
(she/her/hers)
Rachael is a graduate of NKU and holds a B.A. in English and a B.S. in anthropology. She is a founding member of InBocca Performance and has been contributing to InBocca as a writer and stage manager since 1997. Some of her most significant writing contributions to InBocca are Cygnet (2013), Redcap (2014), and The Land of Oz (2019). She has also stage managed many shows for the Village Players of Fort Thomas, most recently Turn of the Screw (2019). In her spare time, she enjoys writing, reading, knitting, finding other ways to tell stories, and playing with her son.
Perry Hensley
Perry has been a proud member of the InBocca community since 2008, beginning as a student performer and eventually returning to choreograph for the summer program. Theatre has always been her creative home, and there’s nothing she loves more than the energy of stepping into a character and bringing a story to life.
Erica Kruse
Erica Kruse is a multidisciplinary artist from northern Kentucky. She is a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York. Erica’s work explores storytelling in various forms, including illustration, music, puppetry, writing, and comics. At InBocca, she has previously designed posters, created sets, and written music for several productions.
Ashley Matt
(she/her/hers)
Ashley is a Cincinnati based performance artist and preschool teacher! She fell in love with InBocca Performance after being in Swan Lake: A Waking Dream and has been passionate about their mission ever since. Outside of InBocca, Ashley has worked with Pones, The Carnegie, Cincinnati Landmark Productions, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Opera, and ish Festival. All of Ashley’s creative endeavors are to make it known that you (yes, YOU) matter to her.
Ariel Mary Ann
(she/her/hers)
Ariel Mary Ann is a local theatre artist and activist born and raised in the Cincinnati area. By day, she’s a public health advocate. By night, she’s a reviewer, playwright, actor, and musical theatre aficionado. You can often find her at various theatre productions around town. As a theatre artist, much of her work centers around issues exploring race, gender, sexuality, and what it means to be othered in America. She’s worked with The Know Theatre through their mainstage and underground programming, The Educational Theatre Association as a featured playwright, The Overture Awards as part of the adjudication team and The League of Cincinnati Theatres as a theatre reviewer and current co-vice president. Ariel is so excited to be joining InBocca Performance as a board member. You can follow her adventures on Instagram @thelittleblackmermaid_
Krista Noll
Krista has been a part of the InBocca community since 2019 and has felt so grateful to be since. Starting with the summer program, she thrived on the community and creativity that InBocca introduced to her. In recent years, she has returned as a choreographer and costume/makeup designer and had the pleasure of sharing the stage again with the wonderful campers in 2025. The highlight of each of her summer’s is being able to create art with so many talented people and she hopes to continue to be inspired by those around her in the Inbocca community.
Tamara Sanow
Tammy is a 2024 graduate of Miami University with majors in Theatre and English Literature currently located in Cincinnati, OH. She has worked with InBocca in a variety of roles since 2013 and is always so grateful to return. Tammy has also worked/is working with a variety of theatre education programs: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Oxford Community Arts Center, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, and the Know (through InBocca).
Katie Scarlett
Kelsey Schwarber
Courtney Snow
(any pronouns)
Courtney Jayne Snow earned a masters degree in business administration and human resources, is a local business owner, has served on multiple non-profit boards, and has held several director and senior leadership roles for multi-million dollar national brands. Snow is a Business Leadership Award and Fred L. Turner Award recipient from the Mcdonald’s Corporation. She served as a board member for the 2021 Sister Site Council and the 2023 IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Awareness) Committee with the National City Mom Collective network. Snow’s Dayton and Cincinnati Mom Collective sites were recognized nationally in 2020 for the organizational value of Respect, the Cincinnati site was recognized for the value of Integrity in 2021, and her Cincinnati site was nominated for the 2022 national Mum Award for the value of Integrity. Snow was a panelist for the 2020 “It’s a Woman’s World Panel” for Columbus State Community College and served as a career mentor there from 2019-2022, being recognized two years in a row as an Outstanding Mentor. She strives to use her business, leadership, people, sales, and marketing skills to better the world and the environment, elevate others, and increase diversity and inclusion every day.
Kate Stark
Caroline Stine
Founder + Artistic Director
(she/her/hers)
Caroline started InBocca Performance as Cliffview Players in her basement at the age of twelve years old. She has been keeping it going single-handedly (and sometimes illegally) for twenty-seven years. Caroline is originally from Ft. Thomas, Kentucky, and ‘02 graduate of Highlands High School, has spent her artistic career as an actor, director, and costume designer. She has worked in Indianapolis, Indiana; Arezzo, Italy; and Boulder, Colorado, before circling back and returning to Cincinnati to produce and direct devised physical theatre. She obtained her BA in Theatre and English at Butler University and her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. She also has a certificate of completion of one year from the Accademia dell’arte in Arezzo, IT. Her work has been performed in all sorts of bizarre places from old lagering tunnels, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, cemeteries, Boulder Fringe, and the museums of St. Petersburg, Russia.