Jack Beetle began his professional career as an actor specializing in Shakespeare and musical theatre. This is Jack’s tenth 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.

Isaac Gómez (they/them) is an award-winning Los Angeles based playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Lincoln Center, Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, and many others. They are the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. They have two plays published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals, and have two more being published by Samuel French in 2025 and 2026. They are a certified facilitator of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process, mentored by Liz Lerman herself. In the television & film space: credits include writing for the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me, Paramount Plus’s Joe Pickett, among others. They have had television series and features developed by FX, MRC Entertainment, Focus Features, and others. A proud member of the Writers Guild of America West, Isaac also served as a Strike Captain during the historic 2023 Writers Guild Strike, and was nominated by the union to run for Vice President in 2023. Isaac strives to tell stories that often go untold across all mediums of writing.

Kevin Rigdon has created designs for more than 108 productions for 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 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 program at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre.