Technical Supervisor

Lighting Designer

Lea followed design and theatre work from out west and settled in Spring Green with APT for six seasons. Now her home, she picks up lighting design work with several local theatre companies. Credits include: RVHS (Bright Star 2023, Mean Girls 2024, Something Rotten 2025), Two Crows Theatre Company (A Thin Place 2024, Harry Clarke 2025, A Number 2025, Songs Without Words 2025), and RVP (She Kills Monsters 2023, Frog and Toad the Musical 2024, It's A Wonderful Life Radio Play 2024).

James

Neil is a Wisconsin based actor, writer, and visual artist. Wisconsin acting credits: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Third Avenue Playworks, Renaissance Theaterworks, NextAct Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Door Shakespeare, and Peninsula Players. Regional acting: Great Lakes Theater, Boise Contemporary Theater, Idaho Dance Theatre, Opera Idaho, Company of Fools, Seattle Novyi Theatre, People’s Light, Cadence Theatre Co, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Tennessee Shakespeare Co., and ten seasons with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Directing

Other

Nate is deeply grateful to return to Two Crows and serve the Spring Green community in winter. His previous credits here include all the characters in Harry Clarke. In Chicago, his work has been seen onstage at Court, Writers, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Timeline, Goodman, and New Leaf Theatre. Regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Forward Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, and 14 seasons with American Players Theatre, where he is a member of the core company. TV: Emperor of Ocean Park, Shining Girls, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med. Film: The Year Between. Thanks, as always, to Mom, Dad, Erin, Nora, Alicia Pursley, and Kara Ussery. He is a proud graduate of Loyola University Chicago and even prouder husband of Laura Rook.

Sandra: Playwright

Before the Mountains of Madness: Playwright

David Daniel is a writer, actor, director, and educator celebrating 27 seasons at American Players Theatre, where he serves as a Core Company Member and Education Director. As a playwright and adapter, his work ranges from his celebrated verse adaptation of Oedipus (which he also directed for the APT stage) to Mythic Mischief, a verse play series of Greek myths for middle schoolers. His commissioned projects include Me and Debry for Wisconsin Sea Grant and a one-man adaptation of Steinbeck’s writing of The Grapes of Wrath for the National Endowment for the Arts. His Greek adaptations are frequently featured in APT’s Winter Words reading series, alongside various farces, family comedies, and "a slew of other plays no one will ever read." This April, he and Colleen will revisit the "merry war" of Benedick and Beatrice in Forward Theater’s world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Lady Disdain. A proud veteran of the United States Army, David is a passionate advocate for sharing the arts with the veteran community. Of all his titles, poet, playwright, veteran, and artist, his favorite remains "father" to three wonderful young men. Explore more of his work at www.David-Daniel.net

Sound Designer

Ben is a musician, composer, and writer from the Spring Green area. He is the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Violet Palms as well as assorted other musical projects. He is delighted to be working with Two Crows again after doing sound design for Down the Road in 2020 and Harry Clarke in 2025. He would like to thank Marcus and everyone involved in the company for giving him this opportunity and Kyle and Lori for their enduring support.

Assistant Director

Casey Hoekstra is grateful to be working on his very first show with Two Crows! He spends most of his time as an actor, on the opposite side of the directing table, and this has been an amazing opportunity to appreciate the process of creating a show from a 180 degree angle. He's thankful for Marcus for bringing him on board and making space at the table, thankful to Nate and Neil for their incredible creativity and generative generosity, and thankful to Alexandra for late night talks and early morning talks over coffee. David Daniel, you're a wizard: thanks for gifting us the world. To all the designers, thanks for making it a reality. Most of the time Casey plays pretend for money. He went to the U of M Guthrie Program for the piece of paper that says he can, indeed, pretend.

Stage Management Assistant

After having worked nearly every other backstage job in the industry, Janco is thrilled to make her official stage management debut with Two Crows Theatre Company. Other credits include a variety of technician jobs--largely wardrobe--with American Players Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Music Theatre, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Ballet, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Stage Manager

Managing Director

Stage Manager

This is Alexandra's first show with Two Crows and she has so enjoyed building it with this incredible team. During the summer, Alexandra works across the river at American Players Theatre where she has recently worked on, The 39 Steps, Tribes, Fallen Angels, & Dancing at Lughnasa. When she's not in Spring Green she can be found in Minneapolis working as a director and stage manager with An Alleged Theatre Company. She's thankful to Marcus and Nora for recruiting her for this expedition and to Casey for preheating the car after rehearsals.

Scenic Designer

Nathan is the Props Director and Resident Scenic Designer at American Players Theatre. If you have seen a show there in the past 18 years there is a 21% chance you have seen his design work. This is his first Two Crows production and couldn't ask for a better group of people to join in this collective hallucination.

Producing Artistic Director

Marcus is an actor, director, musician, and writer living in Spring Green. He serves as Producing Artistic Director for Two Crows, where he directed A Christmas Haunting and Harry Clarke. Marcus has been a member of American Players Theatre’s Core Acting Company for 22 seasons. Credits at APT include the titular role in Macbeth, Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, Biff in Death of a Salesman, Chris Keller in All My Sons, Henry Carr in Travesties, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps. He’s appeared regionally in the world premiere’s of Ten Chimneys at Arizona Theatre Co and Old Glory at Writers’ Theatre. Other regional credits: Every Brilliant Thing, Tony in Dial M for Murder, Father Flynn in Doubt. Film: One Foot In, Witnesses. Marcus plays Ronald Reagan in Paper Girls on Prime. Check out his band Violet Palms @violetpalms wherever you stream. Love to G and T.

Costume Designer

Kaela worked as a costume designer in NYC for 20 years and is very happy to be able to continue designing after moving back home to Wisconsin! Her TV credits include Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Helpsters, Are We There Yet?, Inside Amy Schumer, Human Giant, Friends of the People, Kevin Can Wait, and The Daily Show. Her film credits include The Skeleton Twins, and Before I Disappear. She has been nominated for three Emmy awards and two Jerry awards.

Sound Designer