Erin Coomer
Founder, CEO
With 30+ years of musical theatre experience and education, Erin is a passionate advocate for the arts. She has a BA in Music Education and Vocal Performance and a background in songwriting and production.

Erin has spent the past two decades supporting organizations for young people in Seattle. She served over nine years on the board of directors for YouthCare, working to advocate and end youth homelessness in Seattle and served three years on the board of directors for the Seattle chapter of Summer Search, an organization supporting high school students to become first generation college students. Erin believes strongly that community involvement is a vital part of life.

In 2023, Erin co-founded Astro Lab for the purpose of supporting new artists and new works of art. She envisions the company growing to become a place where people from all walks of life can find and discover their voice and create impact within the broader community through art. She is thrilled to be giving a voice to the work of Christopher DeLair with Signs of Life, the premier production of Astro Lab.

Paula Tharp
Associate Producer
For 30 years, Paula has worked and played withinin the art world. For the last 15+ years, she has dedicated herself to arts fundraising in Seattle, including leading the philanthropy team at The 5th Avenue Theatre and overseeing corporate and foundation support at The Seattle Art Museum. She has a BA and MA in Art History and was in the PhD program at the University of Washington where her focus was Performance Art.

Paula is a collaborative leader and relationship builder, who connects with people through a genuine love of the arts. A fan of Greek mythology and drama, one of her favorite constellations is Pegasus, who embodies inspiration, bravery, and creative expression, all of which Paula endeavors to bring to her role at Astro Lab.

Billie Wildrick
Senior Creative Advisor/Constellation Architect
As an actor, Billie has been seen on stages across the country - NYC, DC, the Twin Cities, Sacramento, and Sarasota FLA - as well as on her beloved home boards of Seattle where her work in Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond) at Showtunes Theatre, Cabaret (Sally Bowles) at Village Theatre, Sunday in the Park (Dot/Marie), Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), Wonderful Town (Eileen) at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Das Barbecü (Brünhilde), Vanities (Mary) at ACT and Seussical (Mayzie la Bird) at Seattle Children's Theatre has been celebrated with 3 Gregory nominations, 2 Gregory Awards and 3 Footlight Awards. You may also have caught Billie as Margaret Johnson in Showtunes Theatre’s Light in the Piazza, Babe Williams, Carrie Pipperidge or Evelyn Nesbit in the 5th Avenue Theatre’s productions of Pajama Game, Carousel or Ragtime. As a director, Billie has helmed productions large scale musical productions such as Annie at The 5th Avenue Theatre, and Guys and Dolls at Village Theatre, small, edgy productions like an all-puppet Little Shop of Horrors at Shoreline CC, Murder Ballad at SideCountry Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar at Seattle Musical Theatre and The Unsinkable Molly Brown at Showtunes Theatre Co featuring a cohort of 7 fabulous Molly Browns... as well as developing new musicals like Scott Warrender’s wonderful mad-libs style musical Peanutty Goodness at Theater Schmeater, and The Champagne Widow paired with a full theatrical dining experience at Café Nordo. Billie debuted on Broadway in the cast of Scandalous and is featured on that Original Broadway Cast Recording as well on the original cast recoding of Broadway’s A Christmas Story (in the creamy radio quartet), you can also find her on Café Nordo’s Music for Dining Vol. 1. ...Billie is a proud founding member of the golden age girl trio, The Riveting Rosies and the pop country trio The Calamity Janes (Naomi Morgan Productions). You might recognize her voice from the characters she’s voiced on two Nancy Drew games for Her Interactive™ including Thomas Regin’s original song “The Word I couldn’t Keep” from Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness or from meditation apps, commercials, and the new romantasy podcast Moonlight and Love Songs which she also engineered. Billie has written and performed her own original work at the Seattle Fringe Festival, SPF, Liberty Deli, Thumpers and The Studios. Billie is not at all famous for Rita’s running piano ad lib in White Christmas or playing Dyanne in the first music-stand reading of Million Dollar Quartet at the Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals- but she sure does delight in over-developing ensemble roles, making the band laugh and new works at all stages of development. Billie has been teaching many facets of musical theatre arts to all ages around and about Seattle for many years (the 5th Avenue, Freehold Theatre, Village Theatre) and has enjoyed running song interpretation/are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-with-your-life-? master classes at schools far and wide. Billie is the Coaching Lead at Ovation Communication specializing in leadership, presence, storytelling and mastering the art of human interaction. This work takes Billie traveling around the world from Bahrain to Barcelona. Most importantly, Billie has a perfect dog named D’Artagnan that makes it all worthwhile.

Greg Coomer
Founder, Designer
Greg has been a designer in the games and entertainment industry for 30 years. At Astro Lab you might find him working on things as varied as contracts, live audio equipment, or the typography on a screen-printed t-shirt.

Greg is told he is an Aquarius. His favorite constellation is the Pleiades cluster. He rejects the notion that the Pleiades is actually just "part of Taurus". He is also Team Pluto.

Christopher DeLair - resident composer  Chris was raised by wolves, and then by his sisters, and then by the stars. Now it's up to all of us to raise him the rest of the way, which means he's back to wolves.

He's a triple-threat: he can sing, he can order thai food, and he can light up a room with his smile. Also he can write. Beautiful music, lyrics, and stories about lost children who want sweet vengeance or sweet dessert.

Chris is an accomplished member of the Seattle theatre community, has worked on many shows across the country...

His drag name is Crystal Air. Chris did not write this bio.