Colleen Lewis - Artistic Director Colleen has been performing professionally for twenty years and has been teaching theatre, dance and music for seventeen years.  A member of Actors' Equity Association, she has performed in theatres throughout the west and toured with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  As an undergraduate student she studied theatre at the U of U, did her graduate studies in theatre for youth at BYU, and trained in the education department at Seattle Children's Theatre.

 

Kirt Bateman - Board President Kirt, a founding board member, is a Salt Lake City actor, director, and arts administrator.  For Plan-B Theatre Company, he’s appeared in A Perfect Ganesh, The Laramie Project, Animal Farm, the World Premiere and Toronto Fringe Festival production of Amerika, the World Premiere of Exposed, the Regional Premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical!, five SLAMs, and directed Tragedy: A Tragedy.  Other regional credits include A Florentine Tragedy for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; I Do! I Do! for The Grand Theatre; The Voice of the Prairie, The Fantasticks, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten, and The Wizard of Oz for Egyptian Theatre Company; Saturday's Voyeur for Salt Lake Acting Company; The Diary of Anne Frank, Two By Two, and A Mid-Summer Night's Dream for Old Lyric Repertory Company; and, most recently, Gutenberg! The Musical! at Hippodrome State Theatre (Gainesville, FL).  Kirt has directed the youth productions of Wiley and the Hairy Man for Storybook Players; The Little Prince for Unicorn Pillow Theatre; and an independent youth production of Once on this Island. He has also directed for The Conservatory’s STUDENT SLAM.  His classes at The Conservatory have been on Musical Theatre and the work and theories of Stanislavsky.  Kirt appeared in the independent film, Peculiarities and has appeared in several commercials. Kirt is Executive Director of Davis Arts Council.

Kyle Lewis - Creative Director Kyle is a director, designer, and actor (Member, Actors' Equity Association) and has served as Artistic Director, President, Board Member and Coordinator for numerous theatre organizations.  He holds a B.A. in Theatre Education from Weber State University, has been a theatre educator for the past fifteen years, and is currently pursuing an MFA in directing at Arizona State University.

JJ is a performer and student from the Salt Lake area. She trained at the Theatre Arts Conservatory and has been teaching acting and improvisation there for four years. She has also worked in diverse community settings with young people and the incarcerated. She has been seen on stages across Salt Lake such as The Grand Theatre and the Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre.  JJ spent two years studying at the University of San Francisco in the Performing Arts and Social Justice Department and is currently pursuing a BA in Theatre Studies at the University of Utah.

Rhiannon trained at the Theatre Arts Conservatory for five years. She recently completed a year long course in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. She is currently studying history at the University of Utah. She has played Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream, Bride in Blood Wedding, Spider in Spider and the Bee, and Barb in A Kissing Way.