Meet the Staff

Ashley Baldinelli

Box Office

My name is Ashley Baldinelli. I'm currently a senior at the University of Iowa studying elementary education and communication studies. I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, and came to the University of Iowa on a whim after changing my mind last minute. I live for football season in the fall in Iowa City, but also love going to country music concerts in the summertime. I enjoy traveling, writing, reading, working out, and spending time with my friends. One day I hope to write and illustrate a children's book, as well as fulfilling my career goal of becoming and 2nd or 3rd grade teacher.

Will Brown

Lighting Supervisor

Email: will@englert.org

Will has worked with lighting design for over six years and has been with the Englert since July 2007. His responsibilities include lighting design, maintenance, and board operator. He has designed over 100 creative theater, dance, and concert performances. With a passion for design, Will has started various freelance work with other theater companies in the area.

Chris Cary

Production Manager

Contact For: Technical Specs & Production
Email: chris@englert.org

Chris's career began in 1998 when he graduated from World Harvest Bible College in Columbus, Ohio. He currently has his own company, Revolution Exchange, which offers sound consultation to businesses and churches all over the country. Also, Chris is the Creative Arts Pastor of Life Church in Coralville, Iowa. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife, hanging out with friends and playing racquetball.

Jessica Egli-Davis

Box Office

Jessica Egli-Davis is a senior at the University of Iowa. She is a Theatre major with acting as her focus. She grew up in Ames, Iowa and graduated from Ames High in 2006. She chose to come to the University of Iowa entirely for academic reasons. Fooball teams were not a factor although she is now, of course, a Hawkeye fan. Her hobbies include painting, online window shopping, and watching old horror films. She has traveled a lot in Europe and hopes to someday visit New Zealand and Egypt possibly on location when she fulfills her dream of becoming successful actor of stage and screen.

Nancy C. Mayfield

Development Director

Contact For: Fundraising, Sponsorships, Grants
Email: nancy@englert.org

Nancy C. Mayfield received her MFA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa in 2003. Since then, she has served as the Marketing & Education Director at Riverside Theatre, the Jewelry Buyer at Vortex, and the Education Director for Rage Theatrics. On the side, she dabbles in dramaturgical research and sword fighting. Nancy is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Englert.

Tori Morgensai

Production Assistant

Emily Salmonson

Assistant Patron Services Manager

Emily is a 2005 graduate of the University of Iowa Studio Arts program and has been living in and out of Iowa City for 9 years. After graduation, she spent a year in Baton Rouge as a nanny and fine-tuned her ceramic skills at the LSU campus. Her love of international travel brought her to Japan in 2008, where she taught English at a private school in the Kyoto prefecture. She enjoys playing scrabble, watching films and shooting pool when she isn't working or traveling to far off places. She feels very fortunate to be a part of such a culturally and artistically rich environment as the Englert theatre.

Sarah Shonrock

Patron Services Director

Contact For: Patron Services, Concessions, Merchandise
Email: sarah@englert.org

Sarah earned her BA in Theatre from the University of Northern Iowa and her MFA in Stage Management from the University of Iowa. Sarah got sucked into the world of theatre at a very young age (age six – playing the role of "Carrot" in "The Tale of Peter Cottontail") and has been engrossed in theatre ever since. Sarah spends what free time she has with her husband, Derek, and her son, Michael.

Nicole Villanueva

Box Office

Nicole comes to us from Chicago, Illinois. The real Chicago, not a suburb of Chicago, where she lives in a house with a yard and has never been in a gang. Nicole has wanted to be a Hawkeye since she can remember and now she is studying Communications/Media Studies and History at the University of Iowa. Other than working or studying Nicole enjoys rooting for the Hawkeyes, playing Wii with her brother, taking cooking lessons from her mom, baking, and writing short stories.