Cast Member: Brent McKinley

D. Brent McKinley lives in Elkhart, Kansas where he works as a Billing and Credentialing Specialist for Morton County Health System.

When he's not on the clock there, he serves on the Elkhart Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is also one of the founding members of the Morton County Community Theater Group which was established in 1998. Brent has performed in and helped produce numerous productions with the theater group, including Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, You Can't Take it With You, Daddy's Dyin', Who's got the Will, The Foreigner and many others.

Brent made his jump from stage to screen in Spring of 2006 when he auditioned and got the lead role in JFT Production's "Dusk of the Living Dead."  "There's a lot of difference between acting in front of a camera and acting in front of a live audience," Brent says, "But they are both equally fun and challenging and rather than choose one over the other, I'll just stick to doing them both."  Brent is currently working on JFT Production's sequel to "Dusk" titled "Fields of the Living Dead."
 
 
The Morton County Community Theater Group performs between 3-4 productions a year.  They perform in various venues in Elkhart, Rolla & Richfield and have also taken a few productions on the road to Santana, Ashland & Oberlin, KS.  They produce a variety of different genres ranging from comedy, mystery, historical and melodramas.  They purchased the old Doric Theater in downtown Elkhart in 2000 and are currently trying to raise funds to renovate it into a working theater.