Patrick Earl
Executive Director
Patrick has worked as a professional theatre artist for almost two decades. Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Patrick got his B.S. in Theatre and Biology from Aquinas College. He continued his studies at the University of Houston’s PATP where he received his MFA in Acting. Currently, he is an Adjunct professor at Randolph College.
Some of his regional credits include Hamlet in Hamlet, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Andrew Jackson in Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries, and many more for the American Shakespeare Center. For the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX he played Nana, Chay Turley, Bill Jukes in Peter Pan. For Mainstreet Theater in Houston, TX he played Aslan in The Magician’s Nephew, and King Charles and William Scot in Or. As a director and stage combat choreographer, he has staged for Main Street Theater, the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse, the American Shakespeare Center’s National Tours, Randolph College, and Endstation Theatre Company.
Patrick has worn many hats for Endstation Theatre. Before assuming the role of Executive Director, he performed in The Complete History of America, Abridged, As You Like It (Orlando), Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch), and most recently, Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools (Jack). Patrick has taken part in ETC’s Playwright’s Initiative where his play, Sullen Ground, went on to be a finalist in the American Shakespeare Center’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Competition. He will even be directing and performing in the upcoming ETC holiday show, The 12 Dates of Christmas.
Stephanie Holladay Earl
Artistic Director
Stephanie Holladay Earl has worked professionally as an actor, director, and choreographer for the last 20 years. She earned her BA in Theatre Performance and Dance from Greensboro College and her MFA in Acting from The University of Houston PATP. She is currently a tenured Assistant Professor at Randolph College, where she serves as Head of Theatre.
Earl moved to Virginia to work as an actor and choreographer at The American Shakespeare Center in 2011. Roles include Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and the Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi. Stephanie has worked with Endstation Theatre Company for many years. Her roles with ETC include Rosalind in As You Like It 2018, Neddy McCullough in The Bluest Water, and Tara in Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools. Other regional theatre acting work includes credits from The Barter Theatre, Main Street Theater Houston, and The Farm Theatre.
Her work as a Director and choreographer has been seen by audiences at The American Shakespeare Center, The Barter Theatre, Greensboro College, Greensboro Children's Theatre, Milligan College, and Main Street Theater Houston. American Shakespeare Center directing credits include the 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 productions of A Christmas Carol, Sense and Sensibility by Emma Whipday, Emma by Emma Whipday, and Amy E. Whiting’s Anne Page Hates Fun (the first production in ASC’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries series). Earl has choreographed dance pieces for more than 30 ASC productions. Her direction for the ASC's production of A Christmas Carol received praise from DCMetro: "...with Stephanie Holladay Earl’s intricately-woven choreography and direction, this new production soars in ways I never thought possible."
Alaina Shefelton
Supervisor of Operations
Alaina (Smith) Shefelton is thrilled to be returning to Endstation for the third year in a row. With ten years of theatrical experience, Shefelton has worked across the country as an actor, technician, and director at companies like Nashville Repertory Theatre, Crane River, The National Theatre for Children, the American Shakespeare Center, and Sacramento Theatre Company. Most recently, she directed Twelfth Night at Endstation’s Summer at the Point of Honor, Spirit at the Bell Witch Fall Festival, and served as assistant director for Romeo and Juliet at the Wayne Theatre. She was also an acting fellow for A Christmas Carol at the American Shakespeare Center. Shefelton is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University and Mary Baldwin University where she earned an MLitt/MFA in Shakespeare and Performance.
Heather Sinclair
Technical Director
Heather has been working with Endstation Theatre Company since 2019 as the Technical Director. She is originally from Carmel, Indiana and earned her BS in Theatre Design and Technology from Ball State University. Heather attended Kent State University to earn her MFA in Theatre Studies:Technical Direction. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Technical Director at Randolph College.
Heather has worked at various theatres spanning from Maine to Florida. She has worked at the Virginia Theatre Festival for several summers (previously the Heritage Theatre Festival) in Charlottesville, VA as an ATD/draftsperson, properties master, props artisan and intern. Other theatres and positions include props artisan at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, IL and the Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA; Technical Director at Porthouse Theatre, OH and Theatre at Monmouth, ME; Assistant Technical Director at Gulfshore Playhouse, FL; and Midland Community Theatre in Texas.
During the school year Heather is the lighting designer for the Randolph College Dance Program, plays in the Randolph College Chamber Orchestra as a cellist, supervises the realization of all theatrical productions at Randolph including the occasional design and mentoring student technicians, and teaches classes. www.heatherrsinclair.com.