Bob Hess serves as an Assistant Professor of Acting in the Department of Dance and Theatre. He began teaching there in 2009 as an adjunct professor, and, in the Fall of 2019, became a full-time professor. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Trinity University. As a stage actor, Bob has appeared in nearly every stage in the Metroplex over the last 40 years.

Greg Holt is very happy to be returning to Amphibian Stage Productions where he last appeared in Babette’s Feast. Amphibian audiences may also remember him from Artist Descending a Staircase, Cyrano, and Time Stands Still. Other D/FW credits include leading roles at Shakespreare Dallas (The Tempest), Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (The Diviners), Theatre Three/Theatre Too (The Birds), WaterTower Theatre (The Game’s Afoot), and Circle Theatre’s digital reading of George Orwell’s 1984. In Austin, he has worked at Zachary Scott Theatre Center (Pride’s Crossing), Mary Moody Northen Theatre (Macbeth, Measure for Measure) and Live Oak Theatre (She Loves Me, for which he won the Austin Critics Table Award).

Jonathan was born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. He went to TCU for his undergraduate degree. He has worked as a performer on many Amphibian shows including: Vigil, La Llorona, Below the Belt, and Leonce and Lena as well as the 2003 national premiere of The True History of…Julia Pastrana… Jonathan’s directing credits for Amphibian include Northside Hollow, Artist Descending a Staircase, and The True History of…Julia Pastrana, remounted in 2012. Broadway credits include The Play that Goes Wrong (also National Tour), Noises Off, Pygmalion with Roundabout Theatre Company, and The Seagull at the Walter Kerr. Jonathan has worked regionally at The Old Globe, Ford’s Theater, Penguin Rep, and the Harbor Stage Company: a company he helped found in 2012. On television he has appeared on “Law and Order: SVU” (NBC), “Castle Rock” (Hulu) and “Gotham” (FOX). He holds his his Masters Degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Brenda Withers is a playwright, actor, and founding member of the Harbor Stage Company on Cape Cod.  She’s worked onstage and off at places like Northern Stage, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Amphibian Stage, A.R.T, the McCarter ,and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She’s a recipient of the Clauder Prize, a playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theatre, and a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Hannah Valdovinos is so happy to be working on this show with Amphibian! Acting credits include Our Town (DTC), The True History… of Julia Pastrana (Amphibian Stage), In the Heights (Firehouse Theater), West Side Story (Stolen Shakespeare Guild), Summer and Smoke (Classics Theatre Project), and Romeo & Juliet/Twelfth Night (Trinity Shakespeare Festival). She also works as a costume designer in the area, most recently for Witch and Lifespan of a Fact (Stage West), & is a graduate of TCU with her BFA in Acting.

David Lanza has been sound designing in DFW for some time now, is excited to still be sound designing, and looks forward to sound designing more in the future.  He also loves the Phibs always and forever.  Pro-tip: eat half of your cookie now, and save the other half for a late night snack after the show.  Follow David Lanza Audio on Facebook or go to www.DavidLanzaAudio.com to learn more.  Or look up my LiveJournal I had in high school. Love to Nikki, Maggie, Peter, and the Oxford comma.