Tony Estrella, Artistic Director

Born in Pawtucket, Tony has been an actor and director with The Gamm/Alias Stage since 1996. He has appeared in more than 20 productions including Rock 'n' Roll, Much Ado About Nothing (2009 & 2000), Awake and Sing!, An Ideal Husband, The Taming of the Shrew, The Pillowman, the world premiere of Paul Grellong’s Radio Free Emerson, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, La Bête, The Lonesome West, Crime and Punishment, Red Noses, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Julius Caesar, The Crucible, The Homecoming, The Tempest, Travesties, The Grapes of Wrath and the title roles in Hamlet and Henry V. He wrote and directed a new version of Friedrich Schiller’s Don Carlos and directed the company’s productions of 4:48 Psychosis, Romeo and Juliet, Grace, The Elephant Man, Mother Courage and Her Children, Twelfth Night, The Beard of Avon, An Enemy of the People, Aunt Dan and Lemon, A Child’s Christmas in Wales (2003), Hot L Baltimore and Uncle Vanya.

Tony has also appeared in theaters throughout New England including Trinity Repertory Company, Boston Playwrights, American Stage Festival, Wheelock Family Theatre and The Worcester Forum Theatre. In addition to being The Gamm’s artistic director, Tony teaches acting and script analysis at the University of Rhode Island, where he has been on the theater faculty for the past 12 years.

Tony appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning film The Departed and plays Ned Haspel in John Wells’ The Company Men to be released in 2010. His television credits include episodes of the Showtime TV series “Brotherhood” and NBC’s “Law & Order”. Tony is a graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory and the University of Rhode Island.

Yvonne Seggerman, Executive Director

Yvonne is executive director of The Gamm Theatre and the Pawtucket Armory Association. She has been leading The Gamm’s administration since it moved to Pawtucket in 2003. She spent seven seasons as director of sales and marketing for Trinity Repertory Company, under Oskar Eustis. Other positions include: director of development for WaterFire Providence and producer of Rhode Island filmmaker Laura Colella’s second feature film, “Stay Until Tomorrow”, under the guidance of the Feature Film Program of The Sundance Institute. She served for 11 years as vice president and general manager for The Cumberland Company for the Performing Arts. She serves on the working group of KeepSpace RI: Pawtucket/Central Falls and on the Mayor of Pawtucket’s 2020 Commission. She is a 2004 graduate of the Omega Class of Leadership RI. Yvonne is a cum laude graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has studied at Harvard Business School. An amateur dancer of Argentine Tango whenever and wherever possible, she lives in Cumberland with her husband, Normand Beauregard, her daughter, Irene, and twin sons, Harrison and Michael.