Shows category: Main Stage

Credits at Amphibian Stage include: Northside Hollow, A Lost Leonardo. Some credits DFW include: How is it that We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice, Madame Bovary at Undermain Theatre, Quixote at Shakespeare Dallas, Our Town at Circle Theatre, Holmes and Watson at Stage West. Washington DC credits include: Edge of the Universe Players II: Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Shakespeare Theatre: Tartuffe U/S, Tempest U/S Appeared; Taffety Punk: Hamlet, Constellation Theatre:  36 Views, Gilgamesh, Zorro, Ramayana; Forum Theatre; The Pillowman, Angels in America I and II, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Mad Forest; Theatre J: Born Guilty, Our Suburb; WSC Avant Bard: Night and Day, Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Bacchae, Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Folger Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Keegan Theatre:  Buried Child; Scena Theatre: Hedda Gabler;  Fountainhead Theatre: Fit to be Tied, Betrayal. Training: Southern Methodist University’s MFA Acting.

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.

Credits include: Dallas Theater Center: Romeo and Juliet (Paris); Sense and Sensibility (John Dashwood) and for one night, School for Wives (Horace). Amphibian Stage Productions: The Trap (Tom); Crossing the Line (Arthur). Circle Theatre: Mass Appeal (Mark). Trinity Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors (Angelo); The Tempest (Boatswain). Shakespeare in the Bar: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). SMU: A Flea in Her Ear (Chandebise/Poche); Black Snow (Sergei); Richard III (Brackenbury). His original monologues Warm Soda and Girl Dad have been performed in Dallas and at the United Solo Festival in New York. BA from the University of Dallas, MFA from Southern Methodist University. Justin is currently the Theater Director at Juan Seguin High School in Arlington ISD.

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.

DAWN STERN is an actor, playwrite, and COO of DE-CRUIT, a non-profit that treats trauma through Shakespeare and Science.  DE-CRUIT has partnered with Amphibian Stage to deliver workshops, clinics, presentations, and performances with veterans in Fort Worth including Tarrant County Vet Court.

Dawn oversees development, on-site residencies, key notes, clinics, and day to day operations of DE-CRUIT.  She earned her B.S. in Theatre Performance from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIU-E) and has been a proud Equity member since 1987.  Early in her career she worked in St. Louis and Chicago where she earned her AFTRA, AEA, and SAG union cards.

Dawn moved to Los Angeles in 1996 where she began a seventeen-year television acting career which includes six pilots, three series regular shows, and over twenty-five guest star appearances. Her highlights include a series regular role on: Viper, 413 Hope Street, Starhunter, and Nobody plus a recurring role on the Young and the Restless.

Notable guest star appearances include: Star Trek: Enterprise, Ally McBeal, Profiler, Beverly Hills 90210, and True Blood.  Dawn has worked with Damon Wayans on My Wife and Kids, Steve Harvey on the Steve Harvey Show, Wanda Sykes on Wanda at Large and Monique on The Parkers. Her film credits include: The Fugitive and Original Gangstas.

On the professional stage, some of Dawn’s favorite roles have been: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Paulina in A Winter’s Tale, Goneril in King Lear and Margaret in an adaptation she co-wrote with her husband (Stephan Wolfert) called She-Wolf which had its World Premiere at Amphibian Stage.

Off stage she is a member of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility) and represents BIPOC membership on the Education Conference Planning Committee for STA (Shakespeare Theaters Association.

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.

Jay Duffer directed The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) for Amphibian both in 2014 and 2017, and Babbette’s Feast in 2019. He will direct Marie Antoinette in our 2022 season. Past Amphibian acting credits include Wittenberg, The Nosemaker’s Apprentice, The Mystery of Irma Vep and the workshop production of David Davalos’ Daedalus (Retitled A Lost Leonardo). He has professional acting and directing credits spanning several decades and has performed in theatres from Off-Broadway, to regional theatres, to productions overseas. Jay has been involved in new works and script development with Threads Theatre Company (serving as a Founding Member and the Executive Director of New Works), Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, Kaleidoscope Theatre Company, Fort Wayne Civic Theatre and Brooklyn based The Artful Conspirators. His play, Asleep in the Arms of God, received its world premiere in November 2017 at the Box Theatre in Riverside, CA produced by New Threads Productions (CA). His play, Big Girl, Little World premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. His latest play, naked, was included in Amphibian’s inaugural SPARKFEST in the summer of 2021. Prior to joining Amphibian as Managing Director, Jay was Associate Professor of Theatre and Department Chair at Huntington University in Indiana. At HU, he directed a wide variety of approximately 50 plays and musicals while heading the theatre program. Jay currently teaches Directing for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas Arlington. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Credits at Amphibian Stage include: Northside Hollow, A Lost Leonardo. Some credits DFW include: How is it that We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice, Madame Bovary at Undermain Theatre, Quixote at Shakespeare Dallas, Our Town at Circle Theatre, Holmes and Watson at Stage West. Washington DC credits include: Edge of the Universe Players II: Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Shakespeare Theatre: Tartuffe U/S, Tempest U/S Appeared; Taffety Punk: Hamlet, Constellation Theatre:  36 Views, Gilgamesh, Zorro, Ramayana; Forum Theatre; The Pillowman, Angels in America I and II, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Mad Forest; Theatre J: Born Guilty, Our Suburb; WSC Avant Bard: Night and Day, Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Bacchae, Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Folger Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Keegan Theatre:  Buried Child; Scena Theatre: Hedda Gabler;  Fountainhead Theatre: Fit to be Tied, Betrayal. Training: Southern Methodist University’s MFA Acting.

Shawn Gann was last seen on the Amphibian stage in David Davalos’s A Lost Leonardo, directed by Illana Stein. Mr. Gann regularly performs throughout D/FW where his most recent credits include Terra Nova with The Arts Center, Titus Andronicus with Shakespeare Everywhere, The Scottish Play, Shakespeare in Love, & Hamlet with Shakespeare Dallas, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Shakespeare in the Bar. Notably, throughout 2019 he has portrayed Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (L.I.P. Service Theatre); which included performances at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Also, he just directed a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona with the newly formed Altered Shakespeare company. He has so much love for Amphibian Stage Productions and cannot wait to collaborate in the future. Merde!

Walter Kmiec is a theatre artist currently residing in Orlando, FL. He is the former artistic director of Virginia-based Endstation Theatre Company, of which he is also founding member. Endstation acting credits include title roles in Hamlet & Macbeth, as well as featured performances in Assassins, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It. Orlando credits include performances in The Three Musketeers, Henry IV: Part 1, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Charm, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, all for Orlando Shakes. He appeared in the world premiere David Davalos’ A Lost Leonardo at Amphibian Stage Productions in Ft. Worth. Directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, The Importance of Being Earnest, and three world premieres: in Sweet Remembrance by Tearrance Chisholm, Counter/Top by Kirin McCrory, and The Whole Bunch by Josh Mikel. He lives with his wife and daughter.

Kelsey Milbourn (AEA) is a KS native and TCU graduate with a BFA in musical theatre and independent study in modern dance. Kelsey is adjunct faculty for the BFA theatre program at TCU and is an actor and dance/fight/intimacy choreographer in the DFW area as well as a stilts instructor for Amphibians Tadpoles for 4 years. Some of their recent acting and choreo work includes projects at Stage West, Circle Theatre, DTC, Undermain Theatre, Amphibian Stage Productions, WaterTower, Danspiek NYC, and Cape Fear Regional. They’ve been an artistic associate of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival for a decade and a proud recipient of the Tarrant County Theatre League award.

Patrick Bynane is originally from Northeast Ohio and has lived and worked across the US. He has a Ph.D in Theatre History from LSU (Geaux Tigers!) and is a proud member of Actors Equity. He has lived in Denton, TX since 2006 when he moved there to join the Texas Woman’s University Theatre Program. He is Program Director for TWU Theatre and is currently enjoying a semester sabbatical to pursue creative and scholarly projects. He is thrilled to return to the Amphibian stage where he has previously been seen in this past summer’s SparkFest, Babette’s Feast and A Lost Leonardo among other productions.

Illana Stein (she/her) is a NYC-based director, originally from Fort Worth. Amphibian credits include Director/Co-writer (with Deborah Yarchun and Sean Hudock) on Hans & Sophie (five DFW Critic Awards including Outstanding Director and Outstanding New Play) and A Lost Leonardo. She recently directed Handle with Care (Stage West). NYC Directing credits: Julius Caesar Tour (HVSF), NYU (Tisch, Stella Adler, Strasberg) Associate/Asst. credits: TFANA, Signature, Pearl, OSF, Yale Rep, A.R.T., Hangar Theater, Cincy Playhouse, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Drama League First Stage Residency, LCT Directors Lab, AJT Theatremacher Program Director, JPP Artistic Producer, and League of Professional Theatre Women Board. illanastein.com 

Mitchell Stephens is an actor, choreographer and movement artist based in DFW. Mitchell is happy to be back at Amphibian after working on She Wolf, Cyrano, Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Mitchell’s work spans the country and all over the metroplex. Recent Credits include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Great Distance Home, Silent Sky, Lord of the Flies (WaterTower Theatre), Reykjavík (Kitchen Dog Theatre) La Maupin: The French Abomination, Everything will be Fine (Prism Movement Theatre). Mitchell is a proud facilitator for De-Cruit, using Shakespeare to treat Post Traumatic Stress and specializes in incarcerated veterans with Amphibian.

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).

Anastasia Munoz is a native Dallasite with a BA in Theater from the University of Alabama. She is an actor, director, producer, choreographer, teacher, and arts entrepreneur. She has worked with several theater companies in DFW as an actor- Amphibian Stage Productions, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Dallas, Stage West, Undermain Theatre, Theatre 3, Ochre House, Drama Club, Watertower Theater, Shakespeare in the Bar. She is a VO actor for Funimation Entertainment. She recently played Stacy in the local film Stacy Has a Thing for Black Guys. She is currently the new head of Drama at Cistercian Preparatory School. She is the founder and Executive Artistic Director at Arts Mission Oak Cliff- an artist co-working space in Dallas focused on education, celebration, and collaboration of live art forms. She will be playing Tybalt, Nurse, and Apothecary for Stage West at Bass Hall in February. She will be playing Portia for Shakespeare Dallas’ Merchant of Venice in Summer 2020. She will be directing and producing an immersive piece called Midsummer 2020 at AMOC this summer as well that is a Sleep No More for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Also, and probably most importantly, she is the new mom of the most adorable 8 month old- Marlow Romeo Munoz-Magill.

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.

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.

Kelsey Milbourn (AEA) is a KS native and TCU graduate with a BFA in musical theatre and independent study in modern dance. Kelsey is adjunct faculty for the BFA theatre program at TCU and is an actor and dance/fight/intimacy choreographer in the DFW area as well as a stilts instructor for Amphibians Tadpoles for 4 years. Some of their recent acting and choreo work includes projects at Stage West, Circle Theatre, DTC, Undermain Theatre, Amphibian Stage Productions, WaterTower, Danspiek NYC, and Cape Fear Regional. They’ve been an artistic associate of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival for a decade and a proud recipient of the Tarrant County Theatre League award.

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.

Sam is a Lecturer of Theatre and Film at Baylor University. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The Old Globe Professional Actor Training Program through the University of San Diego. Sam has appeared in Romeo and Juliet and as Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop, both at the Tony-award winning (2017) Dallas Theater Center. Also, in the DFW area, Sam performed in the Regional Premiere of Under the Skin (DFW Critics’ Choice for Best Ensemble) at Cir­cle Theatre; Two Trains Running at Jubilee Theatre; Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath at Second Thought Theatre; King Liz at Amphibian Theatre, and A Doll’s House at WaterTower Theatre. 

William (Bill) Earl Ray is a Director/Actor with 40 years of experience in the business. Directing credits are: Blind, Lonely Planet, No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, Two Trains Running, Skeleton Crew, King Liz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, A Raisin In The Sun & Having Our Say, staring Ms. Irma P. Hall (Big Mama of Soul Food movie fame, and A Family Thing), Beehive, The 60’S Musical, The Gin Game, The Gospel At Colonus, Fires In The Mirror, A Song For Coretta, The Lovesong For Miss Lydia, Annie Get Your Gun, Jerry’s Girls, Agnes Of God, The Heiress, Sea Marks, Ceremonies In Dark Old Men, Lilies Of The Field, And Others. Some Of William’s Acting Credits Would Include, The Whipping Man, Mastharold And The Boys, The Meeting, Blues For An Alabama Sky, Driving Miss Daisy, Misery, God’s Favorite, Two Trains Running, Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, Dirty Work, Cobb, Miss Evers Boys, The Sunset Limited, Piano Lesson, Audience, Of Mice And Men, A Street Car Named Desire, Simply Heavenly, Bank Job, Amen Corner And Others. Tv And Film Credits Include – The Tuskegee Airmen, The Gas Café’, Cadillac Ranch, The Temp, Dr. Giggles, Terror In The Towers, Better Off Dead, Walker Texas Ranger and the soon to be released short film, Con Alma, which has been selected for the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. William is a member of Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild and a graduate of the Evergreen State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the performing arts. 

Mitchell Stephens is an actor, choreographer and movement artist based in DFW. Mitchell is happy to be back at Amphibian after working on She Wolf, Cyrano, Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Mitchell’s work spans the country and all over the metroplex. Recent Credits include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Great Distance Home, Silent Sky, Lord of the Flies (WaterTower Theatre), Reykjavík (Kitchen Dog Theatre) La Maupin: The French Abomination, Everything will be Fine (Prism Movement Theatre). Mitchell is a proud facilitator for De-Cruit, using Shakespeare to treat Post Traumatic Stress and specializes in incarcerated veterans with Amphibian.

Aaron Patrick DeClerk has an M.F.A. in Costume Design from The University of Oklahoma. He has designed over 180 productions and garnered critical praise and numerous awards for his work. He was named Best Costume Designer in the Dallas Observers’100 Most Influential People of Dallas, named an Artistic Associate for Trinity Shakespeare Festival, and works with students through Stage West’s Mentorship Program. Some of his work with Amphibian includes Below The Belt, Icarus, Miss Witherspoon, Every Child, The First Day of School, and King Liz. 

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.