2025 Resident Artists

Amy Desrosiers (she/her) is a local theatre artist, with focuses on acting, directing and writing. She is an alumnus of UNH, where she studied theater and Spanish. Amy performed for audiences big and small all across the country as part of the National Players tour in 2018 (Othello, The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland), during which she also taught workshops, worked as an assistant technical director, costumes manager, box truck driver and PR liaison. Recent local credits include A Funny Thing Happened…(Karla) and A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley/Belle) [The Players’ Ring], Twelfth Night (Olivia) [Theater in the Open], and Collected Stories (Lisa) and Romeo & Her Sister (Charlotte) [NHTP]. Amy was nominated for ‘Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role in a Professional Production’ at the 2025 New Hampshire Theatre Awards for both Collected Stories and Romeo & Her Sister and won the award for her portrayal of Charlotte Cushman in the latter. Aside from theatre, Amy is a community organizer and has lead the queer adult social group LezHang Seacoast since 2021. She spends her copious free time reading, cooking, gardening, cuddling her cat, and laughing with friends & family.

Kate Possi is a Boston native who has found an outlet playing music around the Seacoast New Hampshire area for the past 4 years. Starting with the cello at 9 and later picking up the guitar at 13, Possi has captivated audiences across New England with her indie-folk sound, both solo and with her band. Through her live performances, she shares her music dealing with themes of loss, love, heartbreak, and life. Kate also plays with other groups in the area, including a Massachusetts based all female/non-binary jazz band called the Shebop Swing Orchestra.

More recently, Possi has begun her professional career as an educator, teaching K-5 music at a public school, as well as started building her guitar studio through guitar/songwriting lessons at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center.

Thank you for being a part in this musical journey!

Ayan Imai-Hall

Raised in Lee NH, Ayan Imai-Hall began tap dancing in local dance studios as a child. His first company experience was at the age of 13 when Ayan joined the New England Tap Ensemble directed by Aaron Tolson. At the age of 17, Ayan began touring across North America with dance companies, Atlantic Steps, Tap Kids and Tapestry. Ayan has gained the education from world renowned teachers through awarded scholarship opportunities to tap dance festivals such as Tap City, D.C. Tapfest, Beantown Tapfest and Jacob's Pillow School of Dance. In 2012 Ayan was awarded with the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts with blues musician and educator, TJ Wheeler. With this grant, it was a pinnacle education in the value of the connection between the dance and the music. A cultural root based through instinctual human experience, tap dance is as necessary an instrument to American music as the jazz drummer is to the evolution of American music. Since working with Wheeler, Ayan has strived to perform throughout New England bringing the music and the dance to those who support it.