Meet the White Christmas Team

Allison Price – Director

Allison Price (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate director, deviser, and writer based out of Austin, TX, with a focus on works that are intimate and have a bite; with a specialization in new work development, queer performance, and audience activation. Recent credits include Angels in American Part 1: Millennium Approaches, Little Shop of Horrors, Big Love, Peter and the Starcatcher, A League of Her Own, A Beautiful Day In November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, A Collective Noise, How I Learned to Drive, What We Scream Underwater When No One Can Hear Us, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Their opera credits include Il Giuoco del Quadriglio, Cendrillon, Don Giovanni, and Carmen. Their recent new work development credits include Acanthus, OUT, and A League of Her Own. They have been awarded the ATAC award for Best Direction of a Comedy and Best Comedy (Peter and the Starcatcher), BroadwayWorld Austin Best New Play (A League of Her Own), a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Technical Integration (A League of Her Own), and Stage Directors and Choreographer Fellowship (Kennedy Center). They were invited to participate in the Kerrigan and Lowdermilk Mad Ones Lab where they created an interactive music video for the musical The Mad Ones. Allison also serves as a co-producer for Queer to Tell Austin, an LGBTQIA+ advocacy group that produces local queer autobiographical stories. Allison has their MFA in Directing from Texas State University. Allison is an associate SDC member. (allisonpricedirector.com)

Lucas Lindberg – Music Director

Lucas Lindberg (he/him) is a jack-of-all-trades musician based in Austin, TX. His first Music Director role came in a 2019 production of Company in Seattle, WA. Other recent credits include Fun Home, Shapeshifters: A Queer Comic Book Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Next to Normal, The Addams Family, Into the Woods, The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, and Ride the Cyclone. In addition to music directing, he has enjoyed many years as a live musician, playing in countless musical productions, jazz combos, rock bands, and various world music ensembles.

Lindsay M. Palinsky – Choreographer

Lindsay began her ballet training at MGM Dance of MI, where she was a member of their pre-professional company Ballet21 and on the teaching staff. She has also studied with Young People’s Ballet Theatre of MI, The Dayton Ballet, and Deborah Wingert. Lindsay came to tap as an adult, and was a member of the Austin Tap Ensemble for over 5 years. This is her first time choreographing a conventional musical since moving to Austin in 2010; however, she has choreographed several Renaissance-style dances and provided movement guidance for local Elizabethan theatre troupe The Baron’s Men. Choreography and Dance Captain credits back in MI include Fiddler on the Roof, The Rothschilds, and The Light in the Piazza.

Lindsay’s main theatrical endeavors in the Austin area have been with The Baron’s Men, where she is one of the organization’s Co-Artistic Directors and costume designers. She was recently seen on their stage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. She directed TBM’s productions of Lysistrata, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, and is currently directing King Lear. She also directed new musicals Debate Team at Fort Worth Fringe Fest and The Brojan War at Frontera Fest. Other performances in the area include TexArts’ Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Broke Thespian’s workshop of the new play Acanthus, and The Twilight of the Golds with City Theatre.

Lindsay is excited to be making her GPT debut with Allison, Lucas, and White Christmas!

Scenic Designer – Mel Edwards

Costume Designer – Aaron Kubacak

Lighting Designer – Becca “Lemon” Bradford

Properties – Nick Wigg

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