Produced by ThreePenny Theatre Company
Cast
Kallie Filanda Jazz
Annabelle Durham Chick
Perseus Cordero Star
Ryeleigh Eliza Eve
Samanta Cuallo Flo
Willow Rain Blake
Crew
Director: Hannah Orr
Set Designer: Jonah Kirkhart
Sound Designer: Cody O'Hare
Stage Manager: Cody O'Hare
Costumer: Hannah Orr
Intimacy Chor.: Liz Whittaker
Composer: Syd Peronnet
Kallie Filanda
Kallie Filanda (Jazz) is an actor and theatre teacher based in Salt Lake City. She graduated from Westminster University, where she received her BFA in Theatre Performance. This is her third time working with Three Penny Theatre Company, the other times being Generation Red (Erica) and The Duchess of Malfi (The Cardinal). Other regional acting credits include Save the Cow (Cow), The Sin of Self Love (Demetrius), As You Like It (Phoebe), King Lear (Oswald) and The Merchant of Venice (Jessica). She is also the Free Elementary School Tour Manager for Plan-B Theatre Company, where she is currently working on the children's show Eb and Flo.
Annabelle Durham
Annabelle Durham (she/they) is thrilled to make her ThreePenny debut in such an important and personal role! She was previously seen as Joanne in Rent (Sanctuary 2025), Catherine in Proof (Mad King Fellowship 2025), Silly Girl in Beauty and the Beast in ASL and English (Zigfield 2024), Constance/Ensemble in Rock of Ages (Zigfield 2024), and Ensemble in Kinky Boots (Zigfield 2023). Other roles they’ve enjoyed include The Importance of Being Earnest (WSU 2022), Puffs (2020), and Peter and the Starcatcher (2019). They have a BA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Weber State University, and would like to thank family, friends, and everyone else who made this show possible.
Perseus Cordero
Percy Cordero (They/He) is an alumni of Westminster University with their BFA in in theater acting. They've been in a few productions such as Mark Cohen from Rent with Sanctuary theater Harold Dobbs from Proof with Mad King Productions. As well as a few productions at Westminster like Theo from Doomsday Device and Frankenstein. They are very excited to be finally be doing their first fully trans role, especially as someone who grew up as similar to Star and excited for his debut with this theatre!
Ryeleigh Eliza
Ryeleigh Eliza is excited to be working with ThreePenny for the first time! Regional credits include Pride and Prejudice (Lydia) Tragedy Averted (Ophelia), and The Real Thing (Debbie).
Samanta Cuallo
SAMANTA CUALLO is an undergraduate student in the University of Utah’s musical theatre program from Portland, Oregon. She has recently performed in the University’s production of Spring Awakening and Charting Neverland. She has also appeared on stage in Stumptown Stages production of Les Miserables (Fantine), and Stages Theater’s Chicago (Mona). She is very excited to work on this production and is grateful to the cast and creative team for making it all happen.
Willow Rain
Willow Rain (Blake) is excited to work with ThreePenny Theatre company for the first time! She attended Westminster University and AADA in New York to study acting. Willow recently portrayed Susan Dewitt in 4/20/99: A Story Of Columbine and Queen Gertrude in Hamlet. She would like to thank her family and teachers for always supporting her.
Hannah Orr
Hannah Orr is a director, playwright, actor, and costumer with a BFA in Theatre Performance from Westminster University. You may have seen their prior directorial work on My Name is Rachel Corrie with ThreePenny Theatre Company or Vacation and Red Devil (Assistant Director) at Meanwhile Park. They’ve also designed costumes for OVEREMPLOYED with Rambleotle at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival and The Bald Soprano, A Catfish Christmas, Generation Red, ‘Night Mother, and The Duchess of Malfi with ThreePenny.
Directors Note
The nice thing about tweenhood is that it’s a moment of transition that’s broadly recognized. People get it, you’re going through puberty, your body’s changing, you’re learning how to be a person in new and confusing ways every single day. It doesn’t make it easier, but at least there’s some overarching idea that you can contextualize your experience within, and all of the adults around you have been through it themselves (even if they’ve forgotten what it was like by now). The bad thing about tweenhood is pretty much everything else.
At twelve or thirteen, everything is so big. Everything is the biggest thing you’ve ever experienced. That rough science test is your first time really failing, that rejected invite to the dance is your first heartbreak, that friend breakup is your first time grieving. It’s also a time when a lot of us learn to edit ourselves to fit the social definitions around us. When you’re raised as a girl, like the characters in this play, you encounter a strict set of expectations: be pretty, don’t be too loud, get the boys to like you, be sexy but not too sexy, be smart but not too smart. We’re taught to cut out pieces of ourselves that don’t fit the mold and reshape the rest to fit what we’re expected to be. It’s a lot of pressure to put on someone who’s still figuring out how to use a tampon.
I hope Marked Green at Birth, Marked Female at Birth will give you an opportunity to return to the tween inside you and feel a little extra softness for that version of yourself. What parts of you did you leave behind at 13? Maybe take a few minutes to give your old favorite songs another listen, dig out your old Webkinz, and remember who you were before you were told who to be.
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