Rob Bell (Playwright) Rob Bell is the New York Times Bestselling author of fourteen books and plays which have been translated into 25 languages. His visual art can be seen on Instagram @realrobbell, his band is HUMANS ON THE FLOOR, and his podcast is called The RobCast. Rob lives with his family in Ojai, California.

Kristin Hanggi (Director) is a theater, television, and film director, writer, and produced best known for directing and developing the international smash hit Rock of Ages, which received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Direction of a Musical. She has directed productions of Rock of Ages worldwide, including on Broadway and in the West End.

Kristin also developed, directed, and produced the acclaimed pop opera bare, which played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles and Off-Broadway before going on to have hundreds of productions internationally.

In film and television, she directed Accidentally Brave, produced by Steven Soderbergh and based on the award-winning Off-Broadway solo show by Maddie Corman, which Hanggi also developed and directed. The film premieres on MAX and HBO in February. She also co-wrote a television adaptation of Accidentally Brave with Corman, currently in development with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films.

Kristin directed an episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix musical series Julie and the Phantoms. Her other film directing credits include Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, an adaptation of Rachel Cohn & David Levithan’s popular novel, which debuted in Netflix’s top ten. She also produced the film. Her feature directorial debut was Grantham & Rose, starring Tessa Thompson. Additionally, she co-wrote and directed the musical film Dear Dumb Diary, based on the bestselling book series, produced under Executive Producer Jerry Zucker for Walden Media.

Most recently, she directed and co-wrote It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, a new musical about a family with a young daughter with epilepsy, created in collaboration with Emmy-winning composer Ben Decter in Los Angeles.

Her other stage productions include Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, Pirate La Dee Da at Atlantic Theater Company (which won the Alliance Award for Best Family Show), Atlantis by composer Matthew Lee Robinson, Darling Grenadine at The Goodspeed, and Pussycat Dolls Live at the Roxy, which featured Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, and Charlize Theron, among others. In 2020, Kristin published her poetry book God, Sex, Musical Theatre, which is now being adapted into an unconventional stage experience with music by Scottish singersongwriter
KT Tunstall.

Kristin holds a Master’s degree in Writing from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree in Theater from UCLA. She was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award by UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Michael Fitzgerald (Set Design) – FILM: OUT OF MY MIND (currently on Disney Plus by dir. Amber Sealey),THE LAST FIVE YEARS (dir. by Richard LaGravenese), FLORA & ULYSSES and TIGER HUNTER (dir. by Lena Khan), STUTZ (dir. by Jonah Hill), RARE OBJECTS, ALL WE HAD, and ALONE TOGETHER (dir. by Katie Holmes), SPACE ODDITY (dir. by Kyra Sedgwick), AROUND THE BLOCK (dir. by Sarah Spillane), ALASKA IS A DRAG (dir. Shaz Bennett), GBF (dir. by Darren Stein) TELEVISION: RUN THE WORLD (S.2 STARZ), FAKING IT (MTV), MEDAL OF HONOR (Netflix) THEATER: Premiere of David Mamet’s Henry Johnson (Los Angeles 2023, directed by Marja Lewis-Ryan,) We’ll Get Back to You (dir. Kristin Hanggii Iowa 24) Well Life Sucks (written and performed by Thomas Ellenson NYC April 2025) ONE IN THE CHAMBER (written and directed by Marja Lewis-Ryan) and Mamet’s The Anarchist (LA Premiere). Michael is a graduate of UCLA’S SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM, TV.

Kelly Shriver (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be Expanding Your Horizons™ with this team again! She recently stage managed The Thanksgiving Play at Theatre Cedar Rapids. Many thanks to her family for supporting her quixotism, including the ongoing Cherry Sisters obsession.

Sylvia Kocon (Assistant Stage Manager) is making her second debut with Crooked Path Theatre! She is currently studying at Cornell College and is majoring as a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Stage Management. She is absolutely electrified to be a part of We’ll Get Back To You and is so proud of everyone’s work put into the show. Her previous shows as Stage Manager include Pride & Prejudice, The Moors, Macbeth, and Hamlet. She would like to thank her parents, Monica and Shannon, for always being so supportive. As well Everett, for always being there for her. She hopes you can sit back,
enjoy and watch out for flying papers!!

Scott Olinger (Lighting) serves as the Head of Design and Production for the Cornell College Department of Theatre and Dance where he has worked since 2000. Recent designs include Pride and Prejudice for Crooked Path, Next to Normal, and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for Revival Theatre Company, Christmas with Wartburg on IPTV, Ordinary Days at UNI, Cendrillon, Tosca and Cosi Fan Tutte for Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Rock of Ages and Sponegebob: The Musical for TCR, The Wild Party and Sondheim on Sondheim at City Circle, and Macbeth and The Moors at Cornell. Upcoming designs include Head Over Heels at Cornell College, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at City Circle. He holds an MFA in Design from Penn State University and a BA in Theatre from the University of Northern Iowa. Scott also serves as lighting designer for the midwest band The Pork Tornadoes, and is the director of lighting for RGS Productions.

Kristen Olinger (Projection Design) is the Director of Design and Production at ICON Arts Academy in Iowa City. Her local work includes Video and Lighting Design for Theatre Cedar Rapids, Revival Theatre Company, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Riverside theatre, and more. Her National credits include Lexington Children’s theatre, Triad Stage Company, North Carolina Stage company, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Jobsite Theatre and more. She would like to thank her husband and family for all the late nights and the endless love and support.

Abigail Mansfield Coleman (she/her) is a costume designer and lover of all things textiles. She is the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at the University of Idaho and she is so excited to be back for round 2 of We’ll Get Back to You. She has designed costumes for more than 70 theatrical productions from large musicals, to intimate new works. Some favorites include Into the Woods (three times!), Little Women, String, Anything Goes, Tuck Everlasting: The Musical (2018 KCACTF Region IV Faculty Costume Design Nomination), Exit the King (2017 KCACTF Region IV Faculty Costume Design nomination), Shrek: The Musical, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Henry V, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and many more. Her work has taken her all the way to London, U.K, where she spent part of her summer in 2022 building costumes and large structural elements, and then walking in one of those costumes in Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Parade in partnership with Mahogany Carnival Designs. When not in production, you can find Abigail reading in her grandma-chic armchair, cooking new recipes with her partner, Kyle, in the air coaching University of Idaho’s Aerial Arts club, or performing across the Palouse with UIdaho’s Gem State Flyers. Check out her work at abigailmansfieldcoleman.com