GRACE & THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Stephanie is a B Street Theatre Core Company Member. Recent Mainstage credits include: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Pickleball, Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in this Room Killed Him, Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Wide Open, Charade, Dance Nation, One Man, Two Guvnors, Airness, We’re Gonna Be Okay and The Last Match. She co-starred in and co-wrote Treatment with company members Tara Sissom and Amy Kelly. Upstairs at the B credits include: Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. Other Mainstage credits include: Hand to God, Speed-the-Plow, Handle with Care, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche and The Explorers Club, and many more. Family Series credits include: ‘Tis the Season: A Celebration of Holiday Stories, A Year with Frog & Toad, ‘Tis the Season, Charlotte’s Web, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood, Frankenstein, and others. Regional Theater credits include: Alabaster, Slowgirl, reasons to be pretty, and Clybourne Park (Capital Stage). For Smooch and the boys.

Amy is a member of the B Street Theatre Core Acting Company.Recent Mainstage credits include: Dog Mom, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Pickleball, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Lost Claus, Lovers & Executioners, Dance Nation, The House on Haunted Hill, The Ladies Foursome, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Treatment. Recent Family Series credits include: A Christmas Carol, Charlotte’s Web, The Sword in the Stone, The Wizard of Oz, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Flying Machine, Winnie the Pooh, and Tiny Trailblazers. Writing credits include: Treatment, Surprise Party at the End of the World (New Play Brunch - October 2018) and Amnesia a love story. Her film credits include Nick and Tristan Go Mega Dega (2010), West Hollywood Motel (2013), Honest Abe the Backstory (2020) and many others. She is currently co-producing a documentary film out of Nashville. Thank you to all who run The Sofia, and the incredible team that made Harriet Tubman happen. Thank you Jerry. Special thanks to her spouse and children, her family, her dear sister Emily and her resilient mother Maggie Ward. Dedicated to the memory of MJW and KW.

Sean Patrick Nill is Artistic and General Manager at the B Street Theatre. B Street Writing Credits include: Never Fear, Shakespeare!, Tiny Trailblazers: Kids Who Changed the World, Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘Tis the Season, Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI, Mind Boggling Mysteries of the World, and Mathematical Madness. Directing Credits include: Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Tiny Trailblazers: Kids Who Changed the World, Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in This Room Killed Him, The Prince of Lightning, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Last Wide Open, A Year with Frog & Toad, Proclivity for Kiting, and Fantasy Festival XXXI-XXXVI. His plays have been produced by the Sacramento Theatre Company, B Street Theatre, Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, Rover Dramawerks, Theatre InspiraTO festival, Watermelon One Act Festival, M.T. Pockets Theatre, Torent Theatre, and the Manhattan Repertory Theatre. His play Kings of America was a finalist for the Davey Foundation Theatre Grant given by the Salt Lake Acting Company, his play An Ordinary Woman was published in Stage It! Ten Minute Plays: 2017 Edition, and his play Brynlee & the Bull won the Audience Choice Award at the InspiroTO 10 Minute Play Festival in Canada. His adaptation of Winnie-the-Pooh, which premiered here at the B Street Theatre, is now published and can be purchased through Theatrical Rights Worldwide (https://www.theatricalrights.com/).

Tara is thrilled to be directing again! She previously directed Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors and the New Comedies Festival winners Insertion and The Newlywed Game for the Mainstage. She serves in administration as the Theatre for Young Audiences Director and is a member of the B Street Theatre Acting Company. Recent Mainstage credits include: A Christmas Carol, The Art of War, The White Chip, The Play That Goes Wrong, Proclivity for Kiting, Byhalia, Mississippi, The Ladies Foursome, Airness, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The House On Haunted Hill and One Man, Two Guvnors. Recent Playwriting credits include: Marie Curie & the Sisterhood of Science, Rescue Me, Treatment and Ride Sally, Ride!. Tara is a member of the Upstairs at the B improv group Maximum Occupancy and Seekers of the Strange. Tara holds a BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University.

Hunter is ecstatic to be the newest addition to the incredibly talented Core Company of B Street Theatre. Other B Street credits include Insertion, Jump, Wipeout, The Last Match, On An Open Fire, The Last Wide Open. Hunter also was a fight choreographer for the B Street productions of The Play That Goes Wrong, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, and Charade. Broadway: Sweat. National Tour: Oklahoma! (Broadway National Tour), Sweat (Public Theater Mobile Unit National). Off-Broadway: Troilus & Cressida (NYSF). Regional Theatre: Love, Love, Love (Studio Theatre - DC), Now Circa Then (Capital Stage) Clarkston (Boise Contemporary Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (New Stage Theater), Merchant of Venice (Gallery Players), Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (South Brooklyn Shakespeare). Hunter is also a singer/songwriter who performs and records under the alias, The Lost Wayne. His latest EP “Tangerine” is out now wherever you listen to music. Thank you, as always, to Mom, Dad, Paige, and my forever Squeak. IG: @thelostwayne

Greg serves as B Street Theatre’s Director of Education and member of the Core Acting Company. Recent Mainstage credits include: DOG MOM, DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS, THE WHITE CHIP, PICKLEBALL, SNOW FEVER: A KARAOKE CHRISTMAS, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, and THE LOST CLAUS. Recent Family Series credits include: THE FLYING MACHINE: THE STORY OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, THE WIZARD OF OZ, and TREASURE ISLAND. Along with writing partners Clifford Lee Johnson III and Jane Kelley, Greg helped write the TYA musical GRACE & THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, which was selected for development by the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s New American Musical Writers Grove at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam CT. GRACE will have its premiere as part of B Street’s Student Matinee series in 2026! As Director of Education he oversees workshops in schools, hospitals, community centers, and correctional facilities, as well as class offerings with B Street’s Conservatory and Studio for Young Actors. Greg lives in Sacramento with his wife Sean and their Westies, Quincy Magoo & Finnegan Hooligan.

JANE KELLEY is the author of many award-winning kids’ novels and non-fiction books, including GRACE AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. Her creative life began in the theater. After graduating from Northwestern University, she apprenticed at Actors Theater of Louisville where she met her collaborators Greg and Lee. She moved to New York City, started writing, got married, and raised a daughter who inspired her to write for kids. Many years and many books later, she and her husband moved to the edge of a magical woods in Fairy Chasm, Wisconsin. She’s so happy to be working in the theater again. A huge thank you to everyone at B Street Theatre for helping bring her novel to life. For more information about Jane’s other books, please visit https://janekelleybooks.com/

CLIFFORD LEE JOHNSON III [CLJ3] is a writer and producer who specializes in creating new plays and musicals. Between 2009 and 1993, he was the Director of Musical Development at Manhattan Theatre Club; prior to that he was the Assistant Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Among other things, he has been a critic for BACKSTAGE and published articles on the theater in various publications. He served as a dramaturg at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals and consulted during the creation of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. His vocal group Rudy’s Jukebox has performed all across the country and will become the vehicle for a theater piece about “maturity” in the next few years. As part of Wonder City Productions, he is creating a Broadway musical centered on the life of an American icon. CLJ3 is especially proud of participating in a citizen-scientist effort to discover new planets. So far, he has one to his credit. Spouse: Jane Kelley. Daughter: Sofia. Dwelling: Fairy Chasm, WI.