Gregory Allen  is the Artistic Director of 4th Wall and has directed or produced a production each year since the 03-04 season including: The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Big  River and La Cage Aux Folles.  Other directing credits include: The Music Man, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Tiny Island, and Betty's Summer Vacation.   He has been writing, directing and producing musicals, plays, reviews, and cabarets for over 20 years and is a member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP and former member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop.  He has won numerous awards and grants  including Best Score (Theatre Week Magazine: 1995) for his musical River Divine and has written over ten musicals for which he has served as composer/lyricist and/or author.  His most recent musical, Invisible Fences, with writing partner, Stephen Kitsakos, was featured in 4th Wall’s  M.I.D. Stage series during the 06-07  season. Educated at the American Musical & Dramatic Academy and  Hunter College in NY, Greg has had a varied background as a performer in summer stock, children's tours, television and professional theatre in New York.  He is the Managing Director for the Westminster Arts Center and serves on the Bloomfield Cultural Commission.

Gwen Ricks-Spencer has been the Executive Director of 4th Wall since 2005.  She has directed the past two season's of M.I.D. Stage shows at 4th Wall: Invisible Fences and Heaven Knows.  Other directing credits include: Bat Boy, the Musicall, Angels in America, Wine in the Wilderness, Alice in Wonderland and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.  She is a founding member of the company and has been involved with all aspects of the group including: producing, directing, performing, coordination with our Education wing and everything in between.  Gwen has worked professionally as a performer with The Negro Ensemble Company and Billie Holiday Theatres in NY, The PaperMill Playhouse and 12 Miles West in NJ in addition to Michigan Ensemble Theatre, The Attic Theatres in Michigan and Karamu House in Cleveland.  Gwen has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors from Smith College.  

Kate Swan moved to New York after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in theatre.  She was cast in the original Broadway production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and later served as dance captain for the national tour and Broadway production.  Eventually, she became the Associate Choreographer for all productions worldwide, mounting and/or maintaining all Disney Productions of the show.  Some directing and or choreography credits include work at: Wings Theatre in Manhattan, Fireside Theatre in Wisconsin, the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Surflight Theatre, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, and Purdue University Theatre.  She was co-choreographer of the Chicago World Premiere of Schoolhouse Rock Live!, which ran Off-Broadway shortly thereafter.  Kate has worked as a performer in numerous productions including the European tour of West Side Story and has trained in dance at the Etgen-Atkinson School of Ballet (Dallas Metropolitan Ballet), Dallas Ballet Academy, Krassovska Ballet Jeunesse, and the Chamberlain Ballet Company. Kate studied for two summers in New York City at Lee Theodore's American Dancemachine, a company dedicated to preserving Broadway theatre dance.   She is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. http://www.kateswan.net/