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Director
Cinnamon Schultz
Cinnamon Schultz is a proud member of Kansas City Actors Theatre Artistic and Community Board. She is also a local actor and director. She has had the pleasure of performing at several theatres in Kansas City; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, The Unicorn Theatre, The Coterie Theatre, Theatre for Young America, the KC Rep., Kansas City Actors Theater and The New Theatre Restaurant. While performing on stage, Cinnamon has also been quite busy in radio, television and film as well. She appeared as Victoria in the film Winter’s Bone, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received four Oscar nominations in 2011 including Best Picture. Another position she thoroughly enjoys is being the head Acting professor for Kansas City Kansas Community College. Cinnamon lives in the KC area with her amazing children Scout and Leo.
Dramaturg
Kay Manherz
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Scenic and Lighting Designer
Gary Mosby
Gary Mosby is Coordinator of Theatre here at Kansas City Kansas Community College, as well as, heading the Theatre Technology area of the department. Gary teaches the theatre technology classes, including 2 levels of stagecraft and 2 levels of lighting and stage management and also designs the scenery and lighting for the department productions. In addition to his work here with the students, Gary enjoys working as a scenic designer with several local professional companies, such as Unicorn Theatre, KCRep, and Kansas City Actors Theatre. Some recent college designs would be All In The Timing and Bus Stop and professionally, Sea Marks and Death and the Maiden “My favorite part of theatre and teaching is collaboration, sharing ideas and experiences”. You can see photos of more of Gary’s work at gmosby.com.
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Property Designer/Scenic Artist
Wendy Scott
An accomplished artist in a variety of mediums, Wendy has worked in New York, France and around the US. Her theatre work in Kansas City includes the New Theater Restaurant and the MET. For the past 10 + years, Wendy has been the resident Property Master and Scenic Artist at KCKCC. She received a Kennedy Center Award for Scenic Artistry in 2012 for her craftsmanship on the Theatre Department’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café. A successful businesswoman, Wendy owns Kitschup Creations, designing celebrity and custom prayer candles sold in various emporiums around Kansas City, the U.S. and internationally (find her online at kitschupcreations.com). And if that isn’t enough, you might even drop in at Grimm Tattoo and have her design something artsy that you can wear permanently. “La vie est belle “ Life is beautiful
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Costume Designer
Nancy Robinson
Nancy Robinson has designed 3 shows for KCKCC and is thrilled to be returning to work with this amazing community. She spent the majority of last year working on a film with director Martin Scorcese (starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio). Locally, she has had her work appear at Lyric Opera Kansas City, where she designed a project for life size puppets (a first!), as well as MTH and the Living Room theaters. Her film work includes CSA, Jayhawkers, The Only Good Indian, Destination Planet Negro (these 4 projects with Oscar winner Kevin Willmott as director), Gone Girl, Last Ounce of Courage, and All Creatures Here Below. She worked on HBO's True Detective (Season 3) for television. She has designed for scores of television commercials, including two that aired during Super Bowls. She has won an award for costume design for the web series Redbird. She owns and operates a costume rental house in Kansas City, MO.
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Sound Designer
Jonathan Robertson
Jon Robertson is a sound designer, audio engineer and composer based in Kansas City, MO. During the pandemic era, Jon has turned his attention to developing methods of improving audio sync and audio quality in live virtual performances. In 2021, in collaboration with White Snake Projects, Jon developed the audio tool, Tutti Remote, which allows for performers to easily send, receive and sync audio sources from anywhere in the world. Jon composes and designs for theatrical productions, radio plays, film and video, and his work has been featured at composition conferences and festivals such as SEAMUS, Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City Fringe, UC Davis Summer Arts, and many others. Jon teaches electronic music and sound design, recently an adjunct at University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Missouri Western State University. Educational background: MFA Sound Design (UMKC 2015), Master of Music Composition (UMKC 2011), Bachelor of Music (University of Arizona 2005).
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Stage Manager
Kyn Johnson
This is Kyn’s third time stage managing for KCKCC, having previously worked on The Actor’s Nightmare and The Most Massive Woman Wins. They are so excited to be working with Cinnamon again after assistant directing for her on You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and All in the Timing. While not at school, Kyn has been lucky enough to work with KC Public Theatre and Musical Theatre Heritage to help further their love and knowledge of the theatre world. Kyn would like to thank this wonderful cast and crew for making this show such a great experience, their family and friends for all of their support, and Cinnamon for everything.

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