Khris Lewin (Denny) makes his MTC debut in A Steady Rain. His work in New York includes the Drama Desk-nominated Fêtes de la Nuit by Charles Mee at the Ohio Theatre, Deb Margolin’s Time Is the Mercy of Eternity at the West End Theatre, Talking to Terrorists at Culture Project, Private Life of the Master Race at Walkerspace, a trapeze version of Richard II at the Tank and appearances at Symphony Space on NPR’s Selected Shorts and Bloomsday on Broadway. Other recent work includes the revival of My One and Only at the Goodspeed Opera House, The Music Man at the Ogunquit Playhouse and the title role in Macbeth at Nebraska Shakespeare. Lewin’s film work includes The Eyes Have It, Isn’t She and Jim Cramer on CBS’s WallStrip. He is a graduate of Duke University (BA) and the National Theatre Conservatory (MFA).

Kevin Rolston (Joey) has appeared at MTC in the West Coast premiere of Happy Now?, world premiere of Sunlight and What the Butler Saw. Most recently, he was seen in Once in a Lifetime at A.C.T. His other regional credits include ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at A.C.T, Opus and Snow Falling on Cedars at TheatreWorks, Doubt and Noises Off at CenterREP and The Glass Menagerie and Enrico IV at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His theater work also includes three world premieres at Magic Theatre, including Rebecca Gilman’s The Crowd You’re In With, two tours with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and productions with New Federal Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Word for Word, foolsFURY Theater Company, PCPA Theaterfest and SF Playhouse.

Keith Huff (Playwright) is currently writing the film adaptation of A Steady Rain for Barbara Brocolli (EON Films), an original screenplay Kill Switch for Alexandra Milchan (EMJAG Films) and the cable series Why We Fight for Steven Spielberg/Dreamworks TV and AMC. He just completed a stint as writer/co-producer for Season 4 of AMC’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series Mad Men, for which he won a 2011 Writers Guild Award (Best Drama Series). Huff is also currently a writer/producer for the upcoming NetFlix series House of Cards, featuring Kevin Spacey. His recent theatrical productions include The Detective’s Wife at Writer’s Theater, A Steady Rain featuring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on Broadway and Pursued By Happiness and The Bird and Mr. Banks at Road Theater. Huff’s most recent stage plays include A Ride on the Wheel, which is in development with Chicago’s Regional Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theater, and Tell Us of the Night, which was selected for the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. A Steady Rain is currently being produced across the US and around the world, most recently in Paris, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Spain and Hungary. Huff has an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwright’s Workshop, is a long-time Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and is the recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award, the Cunningham Prize, the John Gassner Award, the Berrilla Kerr Award and three Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowships.

Meredith McDonough (Director) has directed the New Works Series reading of Silent Sky at MTC. She is the Director of New Works at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, where she directed the world premiere of Auctioning the Ainsleys, as well as Now Circa Then, [title of show] and Opus, which won the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for Best Director and Best Production. Her other Bay Area credits include The Lily’s Revenge at Magic Theatre and numerous readings with Bay Area Playwrights Foundation. Before moving to the Bay Area, McDonough was a freelance director in New York City, where she worked with the Atlantic Theatre Company, Keen Company, Ars Nova and the Women’s Project. Regionally, she directed the premieres of Fair Use at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hazard County at Actors Express in Atlanta and the Washington DC premiere of the musical Summer of ’42. She has also directed numerous premieres in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she was a resident director and teacher for three seasons. She has also served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Orchard Project, the New Works Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a Drama League Fellow and a Kesselring Award Panelist.

Andrew Boyce (Scenic Designer) makes his MTC debut with A Steady Rain. He is a scenic and production designer based in Brooklyn, New York, who works in theater, opera and film. His recent Bay Area credits include Annapurna and The Lily’s Revenge at Magic Theatre. His recent New York credits include Dreams of Flying, Dreams of Falling at Atlantic Theatre Company, The Judy Show at Daryl Roth 2, The Sporting Life at Studio 42, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Gene Frankel and Whore and The Ones That Flutter at Summer Play Festival, Anspacher Theatre. Regionally, Boyce has worked at Westport Country Playhouse, the Wilma Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Asolo Rep, University of Rochester, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival and Burning Coal Theatre, among others. He is a member of the Wingspace Design Collective and a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he is currently on faculty in the design department.

Lucas Benjaminh Krech (Lighting Designer) has designed lighting for MTC’s production of Lovers and Executioners. He is a multi-media artist working in light, video and code. He has designed over 300 operas, dances, plays and performance pieces across the U.S., as well as in Romania and the U.K. His work has been nominated for New York Innovative Theater and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Krech is the recipient of a Dancers’ Group 2011 Lighting Artists in Dance Award. His design work has been featured in American Theatre Magazine and his writing on aesthetics and performance has appeared in Stage Directions, On Stage Lighting, Parabasis Blog and PLSN Magazine. He has been a guest artist at University of California, Berkeley, Williams College and University of San Francisco. His installation work has been seen at SOMArts, Studio Gracia, Outside/Input and Black Rock City. Krech has a BA in art and politics from UC Berkeley and an MFA in design from New York University.

Maggie Whitaker (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for MTC’s production for Life x 3. Her design work in the Bay Area includes Little Rock for TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival, The Shape of Things and Fat Pig (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Choice Award nominee for costumes) at Aurora Theatre Company, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball at Magic Theatre, Lady Gray and Krapp’s Last Tape at the Cutting Ball Theater, Assassin and Jerry Springer: The Opera (SFBATCC nominee for costumes) at Ray of Light Theatre and #5 Angry Red Drum at Asian American Theater Company. She also designed Wildflower, Twelfth Night, Medea and Tango for the University of California, San Diego. Her presentation of Aristophanes’ The Birds was selected for exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial Scenofest and she won Theatre Bay Area’s Dean Goodman Choice Award for her design work on Lobby Hero at the Aurora Theatre. Whitaker has an MFA in costume design from the University of California, San Diego.

Chris Houston (Sound Designer) is a pianist, composer and sound designer. He has designed sound for MTC’s productions of The Glass Menagerie, Bellwether, Seven Guitars, Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice, Fuddy Meers, Seagull, Happy Now?, In the Red and Brown Water, Equivocation, Sunlight, boom, My Name is Asher Lev, Magic Forest Farm, Lydia, The Seafarer, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Love Person, A Streetcar Named Desire, said Saïd and Lovers & Executioners. Locally, his designs and compositions have been featured at A.C.T., Aurora Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, Center REP, Magic Theatre and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.

Seren Helday (Properties Artisan) is resident props artisan for MTC. She has provided props for all productions since 2008. She has also provided props for A.C.T., Center REP, Cal Shakes and SF Playhouse. She spent one year as Master Carpenter at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco, building some 30 shows for their season. Helday was also technical director of the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson in addition to working as a designer, performer and manager.

Jonathan Templeton (Stage Manager) has stage managed MTC's productions of The Glass Menagerie and Seven Guitars. He has worked in Chicago on Good Boys and True, Art and four seasons of First Look Reparatory of New Work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Trust, Fedra, Argonautika, The Brothers Karamazov, Great Men of Science, The Shaggs, 1984, The Old Curiosity Shop, Black Diamond and Around the World in 80 Days at Lookingglass Theatre Company, where he is a production affiliate; Loving Repeating, Execution of Justice and Wedding Play at About Face Theatre; and Orpheus Descending at American Theatre Company. He also spent two summers with Weston Playhouse in Vermont. Templeton is a graduate of Northwestern University.