Who we are
Board of Directors
Molly Weeks Crumbley - Artistic Director
Molly is a 2007 graduate of Washington College with majors in Drama and English and a minor in Creative Writing. Most recently, she served as dramaturg for Zero Hour's The Frustrations of Stoker Pratt at the Capital Fringe Festival in 2008 and directed a European premiere of Sheri Wilner's play Father Joy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. In her real life, she is a Public Services Librarian and a contributing editor for the online literary magazine Crunchable (www.crunchable.net). She lives in southern Maryland with her husband and their pug and a big room full of books.
Tess Pohlhaus - Artistic Director
Tess is a 2003 graduate of Washington College, with a BA in Drama and Secondary Teaching Certification (so she is employable). She currently lives in Bel Air, MD and teaches theatre at Rising Sun High School in "nearby" Cecil County. (She realizes that Cecil County is actually nowhere nearby to pretty much anything.) At RSHS, Tess has directed a plethora of plays and musicals including (in no particular order) Little Shop of Horrors, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Kiss Me Kate, and The Importance of Being Earnest. She has also appeared in Amadeus as Constanze Weber, Dracula as Lucy Seward, Father Joy as Abigail at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in Zero Hour Theatre's production of The Frustrations of Stoker Pratt as Mrs. Troeffel at the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival. Tess has no free time, but if she did she would probably sleep and read lots of good books.
Kevin Brotzman - Marketing Director
Kevin is a 2004 graduate of Washington College in Chestertown, MD. He currently lives in Chase, MD and works in Washington, DC as a data researcher for US News and World Report. In the pre-Zero Hour days, Kevin performed with the Rude Mechanicals and Mobtown Players. One reviewer praised his acting style as "charmingly wooden", which is pretty much Kevin in a nutshell. He spends his precious few hours of free time talking, watching, blogging, and webmastering Orioles baseball. Thanks to his bachelor's degree in English, Kevin is fully aware that "webmastering" is not technically a word.
Mike Meagher - Technical Director
Mike is 2004 graduate of Washington College with a BA in Drama and History. He is currently a middle school teacher in the District of Columbia, where he also runs a Drama Club. Mike has played many parts in his life including a dead Laertes, a transvestite singer, a drunken professor with a French-German-Russian accent, and a technical director for Zero Hour Theatre (perhaps he's said too much). Also, he dabbles in writing for Crunchable. Most recently, his play The Foley Artist was performed as part of the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival. He resides in Columbia, MD with his wife and his insatiable yen for cookies.
Michael Ridgaway - Business Director
Michael is a 2005 graduate of Washington College, majoring in Physics and Drama, and is the acting treasurer/legal monkey for Zero Hour Hour Theatre. Currently he is employed in the aerospace industry and living with his girlfriend, two cats, and beagle in lovely (seriously) Baltimore. When not trying fix the world's ills, he enjoys relaxing by cooking, watching bad horror movies, and playing video games.
