Originally from Fort Worth, Jenny currently lives in Dallas where she is an Artistic Associate at Second Thought Theatre, a company member at Kitchen Dog Theater, and an award-winning actress. Theatrical credits include Second Thought Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Texas Shakespeare Festival, WaterTower Theatre, Theatre Three, Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Undermain Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, and Dallas Theater Center.  She is also a voiceover artist, playwright, and director. You can see her in an upcoming feature film by Tropic Pictures called HOWLER. Playwriting credits include THERESA ALICE presented by Spacegrove Productions, HELP presented by Kitchen Dog. She is represented by The Mary Collins Agency. She’d like to thank her partner Alex, without whom this play wouldn’t exist, and their Cat Brother who provide unending love and support, and Sarah Victoria from Kalliso PEM International for her coaching and support of this play.

DREW WALL is a local artist, actor, designer, and musician.  Currently he works for Zero Productions making window displays and art installations for luxury fashion companies. Drew is happy to be back at Second Thought where he served for many years as the Director of Operations.  Second Thought credits include One Flea Spare, Goat Song, Incognito, Empathitrax, Straight White Men, The Great God Pan, Belleville, Nocturne, Booth, A Behanding in Spokane, The Bombitty of Errors, Red Light Winter, A Skull in Connemara, The Country Wife, and Lobby Hero. Other credits include Gloria (DTC) Long Way Go Down, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Totalitarians, Macbeth (Kitchen Dog Theater); The Elephant Man, On The Eve, Defiance (Theatre Three); The Dog Problem (Undermain Theatre); Father Comes Home From The Wars (African American Repertory Theater).  BFA from Baylor University. Represented by the Kim Dawson Agency.  He would like to thank his friends and family for their constant support, but especially his incredible wife Abbey for her boundless patience and love.

FRANCISCO was born in Mexico City but is a Texan at heart. He has always aspired to share his unique story and experiences through his acting. In 2020, he graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Theatre at Southern Methodist University. It is an absolute honor for him to be working with Second Thought again. Some of his recent roles include Lenny from In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, Nelson from Cloud Tectonics, but his favorite role has been being a father to his beautiful son, Mateo. Francisco would also like to sincerely thank Sydney—his partner, best friend, and mother of his child for being the most amazing person in the world!

RHONDA is thrilled to lend her voice to this production of Your Wife’s Dead Body. Rhonda was last seen on Second Thought Theatre’s production of Here We Go by Caryl Churchill. Rhonda is a longtime company member with Undermain Theatre and has acted in many productions over the last few years Rhonda was last seen at UMT in Box and Exit The King. Rhonda is also a company member of Kitchen Dog Theater and was last seen as Faith Lester in Good Latimer. Directing credits Br’er Cotton at KDT and The Pastry King with ATT Elevator project.

DANIELLE is so happy to be back at Second Thought, lending her voice (quite literally) to supporting new works, local playwrights and working with some of her favorite long-time collaborators and friends. Danielle has performed in theatres across Dallas, including Second Thought (Othello; Cock), Theatre Three (Self-Injurious Behavior; The Farnsworth Invention; Amy's View; Murder on the Nile; Pygmalion), Undermain Theatre (10 Out of 12; Port Twilight), Shakespeare Dallas (The Taming of the Shrew; Othello), and Nouveau 47 Theatre (Measure for Measure; She Creatures; Alice in Wonderland), among others. Recently, she's taken a hiatus from theatre to focus on her role of "Sports Mom" for a very spunky 8-year-old, whom she loves with her whole heart.

ZAK has been pursuing Directing for the past two years and is extremely grateful to have this opportunity with the Associate Director Cohort Program. He has written and directed his own work with The Actor’s Collaborative with local Dallas actors, along with Assistant Directing The Importance of Being Earnest at Stage West in 2024. He’s been working professionally as an AEA member since 2014 and has been seen on stage around DFW, as well as Regional Theaters including Dallas Theater Center, Casa Manana, Geva Theater Center, Sierra Repertory Theatre, DCPA, and Lyric Theatre of OKC. www.zakisbald.com

JENNY is a Dallas based stage manager. She is very excited to be a part of the world premiere of Your Wife’s Dead Body and her first show at Second Thought Theatre! She holds a BFA in Theater with a concentration in Stage Management from Texas State University. Along with her passion for stage managing, Jenny’s experience spans across production management, non-profit general management. Jenny is the co-founder of Watering Hole Collective, a local artist collective driven by a passion to support DFW artists in their creative endeavors. Jenny would like to thank the creative team, cast, and crew for a delightful process. 

received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts Technology, with a focus in Sound Design from Howard University in 2012. Credits include: The Hatmaker’s Wife (Circle Theatre), SLEEPOVA (Olney Theatre Company), Shane (Dallas Theatre Center), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (University of Rochester), hang (Second Thought Theatre), POTUS (Everyman Theatre), Show Way the Musical National Tour (presented by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), One in Two (Mosaic Theater Company), The Mortification of Fovea Munson (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), The School for Lies (Constellation Theatre), Mojada (1st Stage Theatre), A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Intimate Apparel (Theatre J), Fabulation (Mosaic Theater Company), The Laramie Project (Duke Ellington School of the Arts), N (Keegan Theatre), Hope in the Hood (Amazing Grace Conservatory) and many more. Cresent is also a freelance Live Audio Engineer and Visual Artist. She has aspirations to design on Broadway and continue touring with various performing artists as their Audio Engineer, all while continuing to fill spaces with her original exhibits (www.linktr.ee/cresentrochelle)

LORI is delighted to be returning to Second Thought Theatre where her credits include Our Dear Dead Drug Lord. A Dallas-based lighting and scenic designer of dance and theatre, she has served as company technical director as well as the scenic and lighting designer for the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG) since 2014 and has worked as a theatre educator for the last 20 years. Her favorite credits include a Luchadora with Cara Mia, Stede Bonnet a F*cking Pirate Musical with Theatre Three, Stronger Than Arms and Things Missing/Missed with Undermain Theatre, and The Odyssey and The Importance of Being Earnest with Shakespeare Dallas. She currently teaches Scenic Design, Lighting Design, and Stagecraft at Ursuline Academy of Dallas.

Amanda is a Dallas-based costume designer and artist and is delighted to return to Second Thought after designing One Flea Spare, Dry Powder, Here We Go, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Lela & Co., Empathitrax and Martyr. Select DFW credits include Church & State (Stage West), An Octoroon, The Seagull (Meadows School of the Arts), Stronger Than Arms (DGDG/Undermain Theatre), Feeding On Light, Lonesome Blues, Hedda Gabler, Madame Bovary, Thanksgiving Play, Red Chariot, The Lady From the Sea, so go the ghosts of mexico parts 1 - 3, John, Galileo, 10 out of 12, Jonah, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, The Droll (Undermain Theatre), and others. She holds an MFA in Stage Design from SMU and a BFA in Theatre from Baylor University. /amandajcapshaw.com/

Noah is excited to be working with Second Thought once again! He has a degree in Directing/Playwrighting from Southern Methodist University and has sound designed many shows around the Dallas Metroplex. Recent credits include is Edward Snowden single?, Pass Over (Second Thought Theatre), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Dallas), God of Carnage and The Mystery of Irma Vep (Theatre Three). He works full time at Zero Productions as the Install Supervisor. When he is not working, he is most likely watching a movie with his cats.

Niels [they/them] is excited to be returning to Second Thought Theatre as the Master Electrician for Your Wife’s Dead Body by Jenny Ledel. Their last show with Second Thought was Wink in 2024. They work in the Dallas area as a Lighting Designer, Chief Lighting Technician (ME), and as an Assistant Technical Director. Some of their favorite credits include Scrooge In Rouge with T2, Note To Self with Muscle Memory Dance Theatre, Stede Bonnet A F*cking Pirate Musical with Theatre Three, and The Tempest with Shakespeare Dallas. They work their days with Dallas College doing technical production management.