Ile is thrilled to return to The KC Melting Pot after directing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? last season. She feels fortunate to have worked with many talented artists through KCAT (Smart People, Skeleton Crew, Deathtrap), KC Melting Pot Theatre (Begetters, Stew, and Jawbone Crack Quick), The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City (Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous), KC Fringe Festival (After Persephone, Look What the Fire Did), and SM Theatre in the Park (Little Shop of Horrors. Steel Magnolias). Next up Nunsense at SM Theatre in the Park. Ile also holds a master’s in social work and is a licensed clinical social worker, when not in a theatre she can be found at the UMKC School of Education, Social Work, and Psychological Sciences where she is a teaching professor. She is grateful to friends and family for a lifetime of love and support.

Laura Burt is a stage manager and actor from Kansas City, Missouri. She has worked with several theatres in Kansas City including: OCTA, City Theatre of Independence, The Barn Players, Buffalo Room, Fringe Festival, Tradewind Arts, Relevance Productions, KC Melting Pot, and Theatre Lawrence. She is a licensed counselor in the Kansas City area who works primarily with women. Thank you to KC Melting Pot, the Supers, her family, and her amazing partner Richard.

Kelsey Harms is happy to be the Costume Designer for this KC Melting Pot Theatre production. She has recently graduated from Avila University with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology. Over the past few years, Kelsey has achieved a KCACTF technical merit for her costume design, The Laramie Project (2023), directed by Darren Sextro, and awarded with the KCACTF Regional Scenic Design - Honorable Mention for William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (2024), directed by Matt Schwader. Kelsey wholeheartedly thanks her family, peers, and friends for supporting her through all the endless hours she spent towards becoming a future theatre-maker! Kelsey would especially like to send a heartfelt thank you to Shannon Regnier.

Dennis Jackson, is a Kansas City native. He designed sound for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, James Baldwin’s Amen Corner, Brysen Boyd’s Family SideShow at KC Melting Pot Theatre, Dominique Morriseau’s Skeleton Crew at Kansas City Actors Theatre, Douglas Lyon’s Chicken and Biscuits at The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City, Terrace Wyatt, Jr’s Black Man, MO at Terrace Studios, Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story and Kate Hennig’s Mother’s Daughter at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre and Robert Reale and Willie Reale’s A Year With Frog and Toad at The Coterie Theatre. He has appeared in August Wilson’s King Hedly ll, Two Trains Running, Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences; Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue and Lewis Morrow’s Six O’clock, to name a few, all with KC Melting Pot Theatre, crafting the soundscapes for these productions, as well. He has also appeared in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun and Keenan Scott ll’s Thoughts Of A Colored Man, both with The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City. Thanks to Ile Haggins and this talented cast and crew for the opportunity to, once again, make magic!

Warren's 50+ years of theatre experience includes being the Artistic/Technical Director for Great Bend Community Theatre, Technical Director/Designer for the Bethel College Drama Department and union membership in I.A.T.S.E., Local 190, Wichita, KS. He has directed or designed over 225 plays, musicals and operas. Highlights include ROAD TO YONDER (Dallas Theatre Center), MAN OF LA MANCHA, COSI FAN TUTTE, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Bethel College), BERNICE AT BAY/THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, GIDION’S KNOT, ANY QUESTIONS? (KC Fringe Festival), THE TAST TEST, FOR COLORED GIRLS… (KC Melting Pot Theatre). He is an assistant house manager/volunteer coordinator at KC Repertory Theatre and a technical director/board member for Just Off Broadway Theatre.