KCRep: Welcome to Fear City, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Carol, Carter’s Way, The Gospel at Colonus, To Kill a Mockingbird. Regional: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf Theatre), Radio Golf (Studio Theatre DC). Local: Hamlet, A Lesson from Aloes (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Nomad Motel, The Mountaintop, How to Steal A Picasso, Water by the Spoonful, The Clean House, Ruined (Unicorn Theatre); Becoming Martin, Our Town, The Miracle Worker, My Children My Africa, The Giver, Frankenstein, Valley Song (The Coterie); Amadeus (Spinning Tree Theatre). TV: Detroiters (Comedy Central), Chicago Med (NBC), Gone in the Night (CBS), A Deadly Vision (ABC), The Only Witness (Lifetime), All Roads Lead Home (Showtime), Truman (HBO). FILM: All Creatures Here Below, Jayhawkers, Goodland, Destination: Planet Negro, 12 Days of Giving, In the Wake of Ire, James Ellroy’s Stay Clean, The Only Good Indian. AEA Member

Sam Cordes was "born in a trunk" in Kansas City, Missouri and has been doing professional theatre since the age of five. Raised by actors, Cordes made quite the name for himself as an upcoming talent in the thriving theatre community of his hometown and has gone on to receive his B.F.A. in Theatre from Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO and his M.F.A. in Theatre from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Cordes is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and company member of Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre. Look for Mr. Cordes this July in The Okoboji Summer Theatre’s production Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. samcordes.org

Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours: Bubblin’ Brown Sugar; Tintypes; Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar; Godspell; By Strouse. KCRep: Welcome to Fear City; A Raisin in the Sun. Regional: Into the Woods; Children of Eden; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Man of La Mancha; Oklahoma; Songs for a New World; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Local: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Black Pearl Sings! (Spinning Tree Theatre); Project Dawn, Ruined, bare: A Pop Opera, And Her Hair Went with Her, The Women of Brewster Place (Unicorn Theatre); The Wiz (The Coterie); Menopause the Musical (American Heartland Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar, They’re Playing Our Song (Starlight Theatre). Special Event Performances: The White House; The Kennedy Center Honors; Carnegie Hall; Madison Square Garden. Music Videos: Tech N9ne’s Fear. Radio: Host/ Vocalist on NPR’s 12th Street Jump. Director: Once on This Island; Grey Gardens; Sophisticated Ladies; Children of Eden; Beehive. Upcoming: In the Heights (Director, Musical Theatre Heritage). AEA Member

Off- Broadway: Sehnsucht (JACK Theatre); My Name is Rachel Corrie (directed by Alan Rickman, Minetta Lane Theatre); Jump!/Realism (The Kirk Theatre). KCRep: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Christmas Carol, Constellations, Fire in Dreamland, Roof of the World (World Premieres). Regional: The School for Wives (Two River Theatre); Rock ‘n Roll (Huntington Theatre, Boston/ACT San Francisco); Angels in America (Boston TheatreWorks); The Two Noble Kinsmen (Old Globe Theatre); Our Town (Southwest Shakespeare). Local: A Streetcar Named Desire (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival). Awards: Elliott Norton Award Nominee; IRNE Award Nominee; San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Actress. Film: Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, Director). Ms. Elrod has appeared with New York City’s 52nd Street Project and is a member of the Actors Center in NYC. Education: MFA, New York University Graduate Acting. AEA Member

KCRep: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Christmas Carol, David Cromer’s Our Town. Regional: Enchanted April (Elmwood Playhouse); The Sword and the Stone, A Christmas Carol (Traveling Lantern Theatre Company); The Odd Couple (Antrim Playhouse). Local: Tribes (Unicorn Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Mesner Puppet Theatre); The Dixie Swim Club (New Theatre); ThisThatThen (The Living Room); Turn of the Screw (Spinning Tree Theatre); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (The Coterie); The Winter’s Tale (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); The Liar, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Big Love!, Almost, Maine (UMKC Theatre). Education: MFA, UMKC; BA, Flagler College. AEA Member NicoleMarieGreen.com

Brian Demar Jones (Darcy) feels fortunate and excited to be making his KC Rep debut! He is extremely grateful to Kim Martin-Cotton for reaching out to him after so many years. Favorite Credits: Brother/Sister Plays with Portland Playhouse; King Lear & All’s Well That Ends Well with Hip To Hip Theater in NYC; Henry 4, Part 2 and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Hello Dolly!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Anything Goes, The Winter’s Tale, and Little Shop of Horrors in Seattle. Brian is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association as well as an accomplished teacher and director. MFA in Acting from University of Washington. A big thank you to my partner in crime for the unyielding support and for keeping our home together while I’m away; you’re a perfect teammate. Facebook/Twitter/Insta: @bdemarj. www.bdemarjones.com

KCRep: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Christmas Carol. Regional: Next Fall (Indianapolis Phoenix Theatre); The Tower (ArtSpot International tour). Local: As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet TO GO (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude (The Coterie); The Nance, Casa Valentina (Spinning Tree Theatre); 12 Plays of Christmas, Rubble (Fishtank Theatre); Self-Ease, Our Author Died Today (KC Fringe Festival); Tom Sawyer, Alice in Wonderland, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Robin Hood, Snoopy the Musical (Theatre for Young America). Education: MFA, Purdue University; BFA, Avila University. AEA Member

Lauren Spencer (Jane, Mrs. DeBourgh/Ensemble) is thrilled to make her KCRep debut. Regional credits include Men on Boats, King Charles III (American Conservatory Theater); Candlestick, H.O.M.E. (Campo Santo); Party People (Berkeley Repertory Theater); Anne Boleyn, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Marin Theatre Company); Good Goods, The Late Wedding, Blackademics, Mechanics of Love (Crowded Fire); Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival). Upcoming: Rhinoceros (American Conservatory Theater). laurenspencer.weebly.com