Rainbow Theatre Project

Christopher Janson (Justice Disordered)

Christopher Janson is a founding member of Catalyst Theater Company. He has directed Catalyst's critically acclaimed productions of No Exit, Endgame, and The Altruists. He has also performed at Studio Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Source Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Washington, Olney Theatre's National Players and The Smithsonian Institution. In addition to these acting credits, he has written and produced several plays for The Smithsonian Institution and The Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

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Julia Hurley (No Word in Guyanese for Me)

Julia Hurley is delighted to make her debut with The Rainbow Theatre Project. She is a director and actress who recently graduated from UVA. Her directing work includes Christopher Durang’s ‘dentity Crisis and a staged version of Mike Bartlett’s radio play Not Talking. Other directing work includes a staged reading of Nina Raine’s Tribes, which features the use of sign language, as well as a site-specific production of Caleb and Rita by Jessica Moss for Offstage Theatre’s Barhoppers Series. More recently, she has worked as an assistant director and projections designer for the Telluride Playwrights Festival’s production of The Hispanic Women’s Project. She made her D.C. theater debut in August 2016 as the lead actress in 4615 Theatre Company’s production of Aliens With Extraordinary Skills.

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Kevin Michael West (The DOMA Diaries)

Kevin Michael West has a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, and an MFA from the University of Southern California Film School.  He is a two-time semi-finalist for both the prestigious Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab.  His stage play The DOMA Diaries has its world premiere in July 2016 in Washington, DC.  Another stage play of his, Top and Bottom, enjoyed successful runs in Los Angeles and Provincetown.  The play was then juried into the NY International Fringe Festival and had its Off Broadway premiere.  The show was the most-attended non-musical of the festival that year.  Kevin's screenplay A Very Fair Deal was professionally produced and was an Official Selection of the Los Angeles Short Film Festival in 2011.  Kevin has taught at American University, Christopher Newport University, William and Mary and Northern Virginia Community College.  Comedy blog: www.kevinmichaelwest.com

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Tony Koehler (Historias)

Greg Stevens is a Helen Hayes Award nominee and has directed, designed, built or painted sets or costumes for 150 shows in the last 25 years. For Rainbow Theatre Project, he designed set and costumes for The Oldest Profession in 2015 and in 2016 will direct a staged reading of Suddenly Last Summer and design set and costumes for Get Used to It! A founding member of Helen Hayes Award-winning Factory 449, Greg designed scenery for Closet Land, The Amish Project (HH nomination), The Saint Plays and 4.48 Psychosis. For The In Series, Greg directed and designed Latino Music Fever, co-wrote, co-directed and designed The Cole Porter Project, directed and designed Debussy Tribute, co-directed and designed Cabaret Latino and designed La Clemenza di Tito, Viva Zarzuela, Noel and Cole, Love and War, Carmen, Fascinating Rhythm and The Magic Flute.

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H. Lee Gable (Get Used To It!)

H. Lee Gable is the Producing Artistic Director for Rainbow Theatre Project and has worked in the Washington theatre community for over twenty-six years. He has worked administratively for the Kennedy Center, Washington Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, and the Helen Hayes Awards. Artistically, he was the founding artistic director for Phoenix Theatre (1996–2000) and the resident assistant director/producer for Washington Shakespeare Company (2004–2006). He also served as Managing Director for Washington Shakespeare Company for the 2006–2007season. He directed The Night of the Iguana, The Children's Hour, and Private Lives for Washington Shakespeare Company; Inside/Out, The White House Murder Case, and 3 by Sylvia for Phoenix Theatre; God of Hell for Didactic Theatre; and Ballycastle for the Source Theatre Festival.

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