Jack Beetlebegan his professional career as an actor specializing in Shakespeare and musical theatre. This is Jack’s twelfth collaboration with the Alley Theatre. Additionally, he has worked locally with the Houston Ballet, Theatre Under the Stars, Stages Repertory Theatre, and Generations: A Theatre Company. An active voice teacher, he maintains a private studio in Houston’s Heights neighborhood and is on faculty at Rice University.

Kevin Rigdonhas created designs for more than 108 productions for the Alley Theatre. He has designed the Broadway productions of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Grapes of Wrath, A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Town, and many more. He has designed around the world including The West End, off-Broadway, The National Theatre, and regional theatres. He is the recipient of two Tony Award nominations, two American Theatre Wing Design awards, and seven Joseph Jefferson awards among many others.

KJ Sanchez has directed five previous productions at Alley Theatre: Noël Coward’s Private Lives, The Night Shift Before Christmas, American Mariachi, Quixote Nuevo, and What-A-Christmas!. She is the founder and CEO of American Records, making theatre that chronicles our time and serves as a bridge between people. KJ has directed across the country, including Off-Broadway at Urban Stages, The Gene Frankel Theatre, and HERE Arts Center. Regionally, she has directed at (select list) Chicago’s The Goodman Theatre, Studio Theatre in DC, The Huntington in Boston, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Round House Theatre in Bethesda and Milwaukee Rep. As a playwright, KJ has been produced across the country and internationally. She is the voice of many characters on the cartoons Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. KJ is a Fox Fellow, Douglass Wallop Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and a recipient of the 2014 Rella Lossy Playwright Award. She is a Professor and Head of the MFA Directing programs at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre.