PRESTON CROPP

has an extensive background in theater from set building, lighting, and stage managing to acting. He has worked under the direction of notable Chicago theater artists including Chuck Smith, Gloria-Bond Clunie, Harry Lennix, Gregory Alan Williams, and Luther Goins in productions such as A Soldier’s Play, Fences, Master Harold . . . and the Boys, Guys and Dolls, Parade, Once on This Island, and many others. Preston also studied improvisation at The Second City.