Before beginning Vital, as a director, Stephen formed Sun Productions to produce and direct evenings of one acts at Theater 603, Trilogy Theatre, and Theatre On Three. Other directing credits include SHIRLEY VALENTINE; THE WILD DUCK; I HATE HAMLET; DEATH DEFYING ACTS; BAD HABITS and LADIES AT THE ALAMO. As a resident director with The Pioneer Playhouse, one of the country's oldest outdoor summer theatres, credits include: TOM JONES, A FLEA IN HER EAR, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.

Before becoming a director, Stephen was a working actor for over ten years. As a performer, he worked at Riverside Shakespeare Co. and was a company member with Capitol Repertory in Albany, NY. He has also appeared in a number of other productions both in New York and regionally. Film and television credits include "Ryan's Hope," "One Life to Live," BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, MALCOLM X, and CITY HALL. Stephen has a BA in Theatre from the Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania, trained in the Stanislavski technique with Sonia Moore, studied with Herbert Bergof and completed the two-year Meisner program with William Esper.

Stephen has served as a publicist on Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as Press Associate with Jeffrey Richards Associates. Sun Productions has also branched out into theatrical publicity. Sun Productions has represented many Off-Off-Broadway productions as well as the Off-Broadway production of AN EVENING with Quentin Crisp.

LINDA AMES KEY: Director of Education
Linda is a director, teacher and producer. She has worked at Vital Theatre Company as the Vital Signs Producer, Producing Director, and as Education Director since 2007, where she has designed and implemented residencies at schools such as Manhattan School for Children, PS 6, PS 24, PS 166 and PS 199, as well as overseen the intensive partnerships Vital has with Fordham High School for the Arts and Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School, where Vital was a founding partner. As a director: NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, Fringe NYC, 365 DAYS, 365 PLAYS, Makor/The Public, BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD, THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Fringe First Winners, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Cochrane Theatre, London, ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS, TWILIGHT LOS ANGELES,
1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, THREE DAYS OF RAIN, BRINK OF LIFE with Dreamcatcher Rep, EMBRACING FREEDOM, REMEMBER THE DREAM for the Ellis Island Foundation, LONE STAR GRACE, RITA FAYE PRUITTE, YOU MISS THEM.... by Suzanne Bradbeer and FLYER by Kate Aspengren for Six Figures Theatre Company, THE RISEN CHRIS, BETHLEHEM, MY WIFE'S COAT and OVERHEAD for Vital Signs, FULL BLOOM for Vital Theatre, THE KLEZMER NUTCRACKER, MY NEW YORK, and A (TOOTH) FAIRY TALE, VELMA GRATCH at Vital Theatre for Vital Children's Theatre, ALISON'S HOUSE and OF SLEEP AND SHADOW at the Mint Theatre Company, CLOWNING THE BARD and CLOWNING THE BIBLE at FringeNYC, DEGAS IN NEW ORLEANS at E.S.T's Oktoberfest. As a producer: Vital Signs 9 and 10, Andria Laurie's THE AWAKENING, Sherry Kramer's WALL OF WATER, Katt Lissard's DARK LANTERN, and five years of producing and directing plays by women as Six Figures' Artistic Director. Education: BS in Performance Studies, Northwestern University, MA in Applied Theatre at CUNY (2012).

KARRON KARR: General Manager
Before joining Vital Theatre Company Karron spent 3 years as General Manager of Women's Project, where she had the pleasure of working on a number of productions including: CROOKED by Catherine Treischman; the critically acclaimed OR, by Liz Duffy Adams; SMUDGE by Rachel Axler; LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING by Sheila Callaghan and the US premiere of Virginia Woolf's only play, FRESHWATER, directed by Anne Bogart. Her Off-Broadway Company Management credits include the Lortel Award winning production of DAI (enough) by Iris Bahr and held box office administration positions include the New York Musical Theater Festival and the Gen Art Film Festival. Karron is a graduate of New York University.

MICHAEL SCHLOEGL: "Untitled"
Michael Schloegl is a founding member of Vital Theatre Company.  He created the Vital Children’s Theatre Company with his productions of THREE BEARS AND A BABE, THE CHRISMOUSE STORY and HISTORY TIME HENRY.  He also wrote the book for CALLING ALL TOYS and created and performed in the hit holiday comedy, A COOKIE CORQUIE CHRISTMAS.  Michael also handled much of the sets, lights, costumes and other production aspects of early Vital shows.   He has directed and choreographed FOOTLOOSE, THE WIZARD OF OZ and MY WAY for the Millbrook Playhouse. Regional directing credits include: FAME, THE WIZ, ZOMBIE PROM, BYE BYE BIRDIE and IT'S UP IN THE AIR! Michael has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe in productions such as WEST SIDE STORY, OKLAHOMA, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, A CHORUS LINE and a featured dancer in Atlantic City’s Legends in Concert.  A teacher and theatre educator, Michael has worked with Demarest Middle School in Hoboken, NJ, Oyster Bay High School in Osyter Bay, NY and the Interprovincial Music Camp in Ontario, Canada. 

STEPHANIE USIS: Company Manager
is a native New Yorker and graduate of Pace University where she studied Theatre and majored in Stage Management. Since then she has had the opportunity to work alongside talented directors DJ Mendel and Bob Cucuzza, creating original works before finding a place at Vital. 

MATT WHARTON: Production Manager
Matt Wharton came into Vital Theatre Company as a sound engineer for Pinkalicious. A Florida native, he went to the University of Florida where he studied musical theatre. He graduated in 2007 with a BFA in Performance and paid his way through college by working freelance sound and lighting gigs. After college he worked at the Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, FL and Lake Dillon Theatre in Dillon, CO as a TD, Lighting and Sound Designer, and even the occasional actor. Matt took Manhattan in 2008 and worked freelance lighting and sound for several theatre companies, rental houses, and rental companies before joining the Vital family!