The Living Room

Rusty Sneary graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre performance. In the spring of 2010 he co-founded The Living Room Theatre with partner, Shawnna Journagan, where he serves as the Artistic Director. Mr. Sneary has produced and served as Artistic Director on over fifty productions including over twenty five world premieres. He has also served as a lighting designer, sound designer, and has acted in numerous productions at The Living Room, and on many other professional Kansas City stages. Acting credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, The Mousetrap, The Real Inspector Hound (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Lot’s Wife, Roof of the World, A Christmas Carol, The Who & The What, Romeo and Juliet, The Foreigner, Death of a Salesman, August: Osage County, A Christmas Carol, Liliom, The Living Room Theatre’s Carousel (Kansas City Rep); Bastard, Bank Job, Equus, On An Average Day, Love Song, Master of the Universe, Burn This, Hurlyburly, Carousel, This Is How It Goes (The Living Room); ; Sci-Fi Triple Feature Flowers for Algernon (The Coterie); Venus in Fur, The Pillowman, Frozen, Take Me Out, The Exonerated, Omnium Gatherum, Distracted, Next Fall (Unicorn Theatre); Out of Order (New Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); The Importance of Being Earnest (American Heartland Theatre). TV/Film: Canterbury’s Law, Raising Jeffrey Dahmer, The Virgin Mattress, Suspension, Psychic Detectives, Charlie 13.Directing credits include the world premieres of The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe, Trigger Happy, and The Grave, as well as Milking Christmas, Hacks, Annapurna, Some Girl(s), Talk Radio, and Race. thelivingroomkc.com