Kevin Lawler is a poet, playwright, producer, director, designer and actor.   He Producing Artistic Director for the Great Plains Theatre Conference, a co-founder of the award-winning Blue Barn Theatre and Artistic Director of the National Institute For The Lost. Since the 1980’s, he has helped to write, produce, direct, design and act in many seasons of theatre, including numerous premieres and original works.  He served as the Blue Barn’s Artistic Director from 1998 to 2002.  His plays have been produced across the country in theatres that include: The Kennedy Center, Here Space, Lied Center for Performing Arts, Baby D Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival, and Minnesota Fringe Festival.  His film “Seeing Beauty” was shot and premiered as part of the 2006 RipFest.  His poems have been published in The Cape Cod Literary Review, Zink Magazine and The Lake Region Review.  His travel writing was featured as a year-long journal in Medium Magazine.  He is a member of the first American Acting Program at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Lawler received a BFA from the Professional Theater Training Program at the State University of New York at Purchase.

Nevada Jones is a composer of music for a variety of theatrical and recording contexts. His melody-driven themes have appeared in stage plays, short films, dance and movement productions, and audio books.

Notable works from his collaborations with longtime friend, Kevin Lawler, include the soundtrack to Lawler’s original play, The Tulip (2008), performed at Omaha’s Blue Barn Theatre, and music for Lawler’s innovative production of Eugene O’Neill’s play, Hughie (2012), which transformed one of Omaha’s aging industrial locations into an experimental theater space. Their latest collaboration, Stranger From Paradise (2017), is Nevada's first opera and largest musical work to date.

Other select works include the original soundtrack to a world premiere play, The Caterer (2009); and the soundtrack for a web series pilot, Secret Bedfellows (2012); both productions written and directed by Brian Alan Lane.

Nevada is a self-taught composer. He has trained as a singer (countertenor) with Linda Brice in Portland, Oregon. He studied piano with Emil Vajda in New York City, and Janet Guggenheim in Portland. He also has a background in theater. He studied acting at The New Actor’s Workshop with George Morrison in New York City, and has performed in various community theater productions. He currently lives in Portland, where he works as a composer and voice teacher.