KCRep: Pride & Prejudice, Welcome to Fear City, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, Carter’s Way. Regional: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Portland Center Stage), Radio Golf (Studio Theatre DC). Local: Master Harold And The Boys, Hamlet, A Lesson from Aloes (KCAT); The Mountaintop, How to Steal A Picasso, Water by the Spoonful, The Clean House, Ruined (Unicorn); Becoming Martin, Our Town, The Miracle Worker, My Children My Africa, The Giver, Frankenstein, Valley Song (Coterie); Amadeus (Spinning Tree Theatre). TV: “Detroiters” (Comedy Central/Guest Star), “Chicago Med” (NBC), Gone in the Night (CBS), A Deadly Vision (ABC), The Only Witness (Lifetime) 12 Days of Giving (UP), All Roads Lead Home (Showtime), Truman (HBO). FILM: All Creatures Here Below, Jayhawkers, In the Wake of Ire, Goodland, The Profit, Destination: Planet Negro, The Only Good Indian.

KCRep (Associate Artist): Death of a Salesman (Willy Loman), Give ‘Em Hell, Harry (Harry Truman), Oleanna(John), M. Butterfly (Gallimard),Royal Hunt of the Sun(Pizarro),Treasure Island(Long John Silver),Bus Stop(Virgil),A Delicate Balance(Harry), Of Mice and Men(George),August: Osage County(Charlie),The Drawer Boy(Morgan),Nicholas Nickleby (Squeers), King Lear(Gloucester),Julius Caesar(Caesar),Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik), Cabaret(Herr Schultz),The Fantisticks (Hucklebee),Last Days of Summer(Rabbi Lieberman), among others.Local:A Lie of the Mind, A Number,The Mousetrap, A Lesson from Aloes, Morning’s At Seven, among others (Kansas City Actors Theatre); King Lear(Lear),Merchant of Venice(Shylock), among others (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Wizard of Oz (Wizard), Annie (FDR) (Starlight Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof(Tevye, Spinning Tree Theatre); Hello, Dolly (Vandergelder. Musical Theatre Heritage); Regional: Goodman Theatre (Chicago), ACT (San Francisco), Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.), Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre.Awards:Dean Goodman Award for best supporting actor (San Francisco) 2006. AEA Member

KCRep: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Frida...A Self Portrait (2020 Kilroys List, Playwright), Sex with Strangers, Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike, August: Osage County, Cabaret, Roof of The World, Lot’s Wife, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Christmas Carol. Local:Desdemona, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Death And The Maiden, Blithe Spirit, Taking Sides, and Hamlet(The Kansas City Actors Theatre); The Revolutionists, Venus In Fur, Men on Boats, Motherf**kerwith the Hat, The Clean House (Unicorn Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); The Miracle Worker (The Coterie); Annapurna, Black Bird, Burn This (The Living Room Theatre); Black Pearl Sings!, West Side Story (Spinning Tree Theatre). Ms. Severo is the recipient of the 11th Round of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, 2017. AEA Member

Vanessa Severo has studied at Missouri State University, as well as The American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. She is the recipient of the TCG 11th Round of the Fox Foundation resident Actor Fellowships, 2017. She has performed for the past 12 seasons at The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and is certified in Suzuki Method, and Viewpoints under the instruction of Ellen Lauren, SITI company. She is the playwright and actor of 'Frida...A Self Portrait’ (2020 Kilroys List) a one woman production about the tumultuous and brilliant life of Frida Kahlo. Vanessa is passionate about utilizing the element of Suzuki method in her work to challenge the boundaries of storytelling, and explore the depths of movement, composition, and the power of stillness.

KCRep: School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Between the Lines, A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Carol. Local: Who’s Your Baghdaddy, or How I started the Iraq War (Unicorn Theatre); The Ballad of Lefty and Crabbe (The Living Room). Regional: Harvey, Angel Street (Kansas Classical Rep).

Education: University of Kansas. AEA Member

KCRep: A Christmas Carol (Music Director/Keyboards), Fun Home, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Side by Side by Sondheim, Evita, The Fantasticks, Sunday in the Park with George, Hair: Retrospection (Music Director, Conductor/Keyboards), A Little More Alive (Keyboard/Orchestra Contractor), The Tallest Tree in the Forest(Orchestra Contractor), Little Shop of Horrors (Music Director, Conductor/Keyboards), Cabaret (Music Director, Conductor/Pianist, Orchestra Contractor), Into the Woods (Assistant Music Director/Conductor, Orchestra Contractor). Local: Resident Musical Director for Starlight Theatre, The Coterie, Unicorn Theatre, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Eventology Events. Additional Local: New Theatre, Quality Hill Playhouse, Theatre in the Park, Late Night Theatre, Musical Theater Heritage. Regional: Red Barn Theatre, Waterfront Playhouse (Key West). New York: New Victory Theatre. Mr. Edwards has served as musical director for theatres across the country including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and is Adjunct Faculty for UMKC. Mr. Edwards is a Kurzweil-endorsed artist and is a Board Member of the AIDS Service Foundation of Kansas City. anthonytedwards.com

KCRep: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Christmas Carol, The Fantasticks, The Diary of Anne Frank, Angels in America, Our Town, The Syringa Tree, Man and Superman, Indian Ink, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, M. Butterfly, The House of Blue Leaves. Local: Shearwater, The Grave (The Living Room); Steel Magnolias (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Morning’s at Seven, King Lear, The Mousetrap, A Lesson from Aloes, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Kansas City Actors’ Theatre); Stories My Grandmother Told Me, Little Foxes, The Dinner Party (American Heartland Theatre); The Clean House, Spinning into Butter, Frozen, Wit, Aunt Dan and Lemon (Unicorn Theatre). Regional: Ghosts (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, The Tempest (Guest Artist, Stephens College). Upcoming: The Lifespan of a Fact (Unicorn Theatre). Film: Ride with the Devil, Kansas City, King of the Hill, The Big Brass Ring, “Truman,” “My Antonia,” “Sarah, Plain and Tall.” Harpist for The Rep’s A Christmas Carol for 35 years.

KCRep: Last Days of Summer, A Christmas Carol, Evita, Sunday in the Park with George, Cabaret. Local: Violinist with Stevie Wonder (Sprint Center); Tuck Everlasting (The Coterie); Hands on a Hardbody, Everyday Rapture (Unicorn Theatre); The Producers(Musical Theater Heritage); Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Hello Again (Spinning Tree Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New Theatre); Les Misérables, Company, Chicago, The Producers, Peter Pan(Jewish Community Center, Shirley White Theatre); Legend of Zelda Symphony (KC Music Hall). Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Fireside Theatre Company); A Catered Affair (Porchlight Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof, Hank Williams’ Lost Highway, Always Patsy Cline (Lyceum Theatre); Bus Stop (Sapulpa Theatre); I Love You, You’re

Perfect, Now Change, Fiddler on the Roof (Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre); The Importance of Being Ernest (Kechi Playhouse);Killer Joe (Theatre on Consignment); Ohio Lite Opera, Light Opera of Oklahoma, Wichita Symphony. International: Recitals in Austria, Germany, France.