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Rebecca Joy Wilcox Aidala

Rebecca Aidala has taught at Ambleside for 18 years and has been an ASU adjunct instructor for five years. She has directed 26 Shakespeare plays in a process-centered style. These include Antony & Cleopatra, Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Hamlet, Tempest, Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, King Henry VI Part 1, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, and Two Noble Kinsmen. She has also directed five dinner theatres: Antigone, Tartuffe, Arsenic & Old Lace, Prometheus Bound, and Of Mice and Men. She has published Shakespeare for Children and The Sweet Life, Overcoming Poverty, a tribute to her mother. This summer she will begin another biography and a novel.

Rebecca is a summa cum laude graduate of ASU and a Merit scholar with a Master's Degree from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. 

Her favorite roles are "Mom" and "Momo".

Sierra Briones

as America, Human Nature

I am a senior at Ambleside, and I have been attending Ambleside since 6th grade. I have been in 5 plays at Ambleside. Those plays being Tartuffe, Arsenic and Old Lace, Prometheus Bound, and Of Mice and Men. This year I will be playing the characters: Human Nature and America. After graduating Ambleside, I am attending Angelo State University to study Criminal Justice. From there, I plan to attend Sam Houston State University where I hope to earn a doctorate in Criminology. My long term goal is to work in the FBI. 

Hanna Burney

as Religion, Echo

I am a senior at Ambleside Concho Valley. I have been going to Ambleside since pre-k. This semester I am taking 3 dual-credit classes through ASU. After I graduate I will be attending Angelo State University in the Fall. After ASU I plan to go to Escoffier Culinary School in Austin. I have been in five high school plays, and more Shakespeare plays at Ambleside. This year I will be playing Echo and Religion. I am currently working at Chick-fil-A Sunset Mall, and I have been working there for over a year.