Robert Dorfman (Director) is an actor and director who's worked in theater and film across the country. At Six Points Theater he appeared in Via Dolorosa and We Are the Levinsons. He was Festival Director for the New-Play Reading Festival and directed the production of Groupthink. He also directed Operation: Immigration, Oh my God! and the world premiere of Shul. Other credits include Guthrie Theater (The Tempest, Playing with Fire, Sense and Sensibility, Indecent, Choir Boy, Freud’s Last Session, Uncle Vanya), Dark & Stormy Productions (And So It Goes, The Hothouse), Children’s Theatre Company (Balloonacy), Classic Stage Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwright’s Horizons, The Public Theater, and Broadway (The Lion King, Social Security). Film credits include Fool’s Fire and It Could Happen to You. 

Michael Hoover (Scenic Design) returns to Six Points Theater after designing Two Jews Walk Into A War...,The People's Violin, Promise of America, O my God!, Shul, Actually, The Last Schwartz, Natasha and the Coat, Collected Stories, We Are the Levinsons, The Whipping Man, Dai (enough), Bad Jews, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, among others. Michael has designed for Guthrie Theater, Theater Latté Da, History Theatre, Torch Theatre, Girl Friday Productions, and Yellow Tree Theatre. Most recently, he was the Lead Scenic Artist at the Guthrie Theater.

Barb Portinga (Costume Design) is excited to be back at Six Points Theater, most recently having worked on Significant Other and many other Six Points Theater plays. Barb has been the costume designer for both Anoka-Ramsey Community College and Minneapolis Community and Technical College for more than two decades. She's also the proprietor for Portable Costumes.​

Dietrich Poppen (Lighting Design) is designing lighting for Six Points Theater for the first time, having been technical director and scenic artist for many other productions over the years (Significant Other, Oh my God!, Actually, The Whipping Man, among others). He is the Lighting Director for The Fitzgerald Theater, and has worked as a lighting, scenic, and/or sound designer, as well as an actor for Theatre in the Round, Classical Actors Ensemble, the Commonweal Theatre Company, Lakeshore Players Theatre, and many others around the Twin Cities. He has also been lead scenic artist for Theater Latté Da (Sweeney Todd, Six Degrees of Separation, Five Points, Ragtime, C.) and a scenic artist for the Guthrie Theater.

Peter Morrow (Sound Design) is delighted to be at Six Points Theater. He's been working as a composer, sound and video designer for 16 years and has been based in the Twin Cities since moving from Ireland in 2012. Peter keeps busy designing and composing for many theater and dance companies, colleges and independent artists.

Tom Burgess (Projections Design) is pleased to be returning to Six Points Theater after working on Chanukah in the Dark. He's faculty and Technical Director for Normandale Community College. Locally, Tom's been a set designer and technical director for the Guthrie/BFA program and the Guthrie Experience programs where he worked on His Girl Friday, The Great Gatsby, and The Real Thing. He's also worked at Penumbra Theatre. Most recently, he's designed scenery for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s Nat Turner in Jerusalem and designed and built the set for the film, Kitchen Dance Project. 

Casey Williams (Properties Design) is thrilled to be working with Six Points Theater for the first time! She received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Some recent productions include The Most Happy Fellow (Skylark Opera Theatre, St. Paul, Minn.), Don Giovanni (Lyric Opera of the North, Duluth, Minn.), Godspell (DalekoArts, New Prague, Minn.) and Seussical (Benilde-St. Margaret’s School, St. Louis Park, Minn.). She is also excited to be working as Normandale Community College's Theatre Season's Prop Master.

Jo Holcomb (Dramaturg) returns to Six Points Theater where she’s worked on Two Jews Walk Into A War…, The People's Violin, Promise of America, Operation: Immigration, Oh My God, and Shul. At the Guthrie Theater Jo was involved in more than 75 productions, including Indecent; Watch on the Rhine, and Native Gardens. She has also worked as a dramaturg at Ten Thousand Things Theater and Macalester College, and teaches in the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program and the O’Neill National Theater Institute.

Carl Schoenborn (Technical Director) returns to Six Points Theater excited to work with Robert and everyone else on Groupthink. A graduate of Saint Olaf College, he's made his home in the Twin Cities, working the last decade on the lighting staff at Children's Theatre Company. He's a founding member, actor, designer, and resident Technical Director for Gremlin Theatre in Saint Paul. A proud union member of both Actor's Equity and IATSE, he's busy acting, designing, and being a technician for theaters across the metro, as well as working with high school and college students to help train the next generation of theater artists.

Miranda Shunkwiler (Stage Manager) returns to Six Points Theater after working on the New-Play Reading Festival, Chanukah in the Dark, and The People's Violin. Born and raised in the Twin Cities, she has been blessed to be a part of the theater community, working with companies such as History Theatre, New Native Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Classical Actors Ensemble, and many more.

Constance Brevell (ASM/Production Assistant) returns to Six Points Theater having worked on Two Jews Walk Into A War… Constance is a BIPOC Twin Cities based stage manager. She’s worked locally with The Wildwood Theatre, 20% Theatre Company, Gadfly Theatre Productions, Shadow Horse Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, and Theatre Elision, to name a few, and in Wisconsin, Phipps Center for the Arts and St. Croix Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, both in Hudson. She's also worked on a show at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Constance holds a BA in Theatre Honors from Gustavus Adolphus College.

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Mathew Goldstein (Playwright) made his theatrical debut with ​Six Points Theater's New-Play Reading Festival ​staged reading of Groupthink and is excited about being back for the ​play's world premiere production. A native Minnesotan, he currently works as a speechwriter in Washington, DC. His previous writing experience includes at a health care advocacy group and a public relations firm, on the Hillary for America campaign, and as an intern in the Obama White House speechwriting office. He holds a BA from the University of Southern California. A special thank you to Robert Dorfman for his guidance and support.