Kyle Hatley is an actor, director and playwright. KCREP ACTING: An Iliad, Death of a Salesman, The Foreigner, The Whipping Man, and The Glass Menagerie. REGIONAL ACTING: An Iliad (Geva Theatre Center); The Temperamentals (About Face Theatre); Danny Casolaro Died For You (TimeLine Theatre Company); End of the Rainbow (Porchlight Theatre, 2016 & Max & Louie Productions, 2018); The Actuary and Peter and the Starcatcher (Peninsula Players Theatre); Take Me Out (Steppenwolf & About Face); Hurlyburly, Carousel, and The Tragedy of Macbeth(The Living Room Theatre). KCREP DIRECTING: Sticky Traps, When I Come To Die, Little Shop of Horrors,Carousel, Circle Mirror Transformation, Broke-ology, The Borderland and A Christmas Carol. REGIONAL DIRECTING: Jesus Christ Superstar (Arts Asylum, This Happy Breed); Amadeus and Oklahoma! (TheatreWorks); Carousel, Titus Andronicus, Death of Cupid, Master of the Universe, The Tragedy of Macbeth (The Living Room); The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (KCAT); Ben Franklyn’s Apprentice and Red Badge Variations (The Coterie Theatre). PLAYWRIGHTING: The Death of Cupid, Master of the Universe and The Tragedy of Macbeth, a 3-artist 90-min adaptation (The Living Room Theatre). The Dead Girl, Surfacing, Pinocchio, The Children and Lineage (Chatterbox Audio Theatre). TV & FILM ACTING: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, In An Instant, As The World Turns, Soul Sessions and The Thinning: New World Order. He served as associate artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre from 2008 to 2014. In 2015, he was the Resident Director at KCRep. He is a 2011 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Artist Fellow and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Emily, and their dog French Fry.

KCRep: debut. Off Broadway: We Live in Cairo in Concert (Joe's Pub, Public Theater) Regional: We Live in Cairo (American Repertory Theatre); H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado (The Hypocrites, Olney Theatre Center); Amadeus (TheatreWorks); Pirates of Penzance (The Hypocrites, Pasadena Playhouse); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (People’s Light & Theatre); One Hundred Dresses (Chicago Children’s Theatre), Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes, Johanna Faustus and H.M.S. Pinafore (world premieres), All Our Tragic) The Hypocrites, The Den Theatre Mainstage Chicago); H.M.S. Pinafore (The Hypocrites, Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, and H.M.S. Pinafore (The Hypocrites, part of The Gilbert & Sullivan Rep at The Den Theatre Mainstage); Cabaret (The Hypocrites, Chicago DCA Storefront Theatre). TV: Chicago PD (NBC). Education: BS in Education, Loyola University. AEA Member @domartothemaxx

Joanie Schultz is a Chicago-based director of theatre and opera. She has directed at theatres that include Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Philadelphia Theatre Company. In 2017-18, Joanie was Artistic Director of WaterTower Theatre in the Dallas, Texas area. Prior to that, Joanie was Associate Artistic Producer at Victory Gardens Theater, as part of the Leadership U One-on-One Fellowship funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation administered through TCG. She was also a Drama League Fellow; The Goodman Theatre Michael Maggio Director Fellow; the SDSF Denham Fellow; and member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab.  She is an ensemble member at Steep Theatre, artistic associate at Victory Gardens Theater, and artistic cabinet member at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.  She received her B.A. in Theatre Directing from Columbia College Chicago and M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from Northwestern University. www.joanieschultz.com