Actor Spotlight

Regan Adair doesn't mind wearing a dress, but don't ask him to dance

Regan Adair currently stars in WaterTower Theatre's two-actor The Mystery ofIrma Vep.
Photo courtesy of WaterTower Theatre
Adair as one of his female characters in The Mystery of Irma Vep.
Photo by Mark Oristano Photography
Quick change! Adair switches characters with lightning speed.
Photo by Mark Oristano Photography

Regan Adair, starring in WaterTower Theatre's two-actor — but eight-character — madcap melodrama The Mystery of Irma Vep, is a familiar face to Dallas audiences. An onstage regular at Dallas Theater Center (The Misanthrope, Reasons to be Pretty, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol), Stage West, Circle Theatre, Uptown Players and Theatre Three, as well as an acclaimed director (Red Light Winter for Second Thought Theatre and Talk Radio for Upstart Productions), he took the time to fill out our survey of serious, fun and sometimes ridiculous questions.

Full name: Regan Adair

Role(s) in The Mystery of Irma Vep: Jane / Lord Edgar / Irma Vep

Previous work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area: The last thing I did in Dallas was direct Red Light Winter for Second Thought Theatre.

Hometown: Raised in Austin

First theater role: The Wizard in the The Wizard of Oz, at age 10

First stage show you ever saw: Charley's Aunt

Moment you decided to pursue acting/directing: The pursuit of acting has always been a passion of mine.

Most challenging role you’ve played: I think every role an actor takes on is as challenging as the last role he played. They're all challenging in different ways.

Most challenging show you’ve directed: Well, I won't name the show out of respect for everyone involved, but I can tell you that I made several missteps.

Special skills: Pattern-making and sewing. Oh, and I'm a pretty good cook as well.

Something you’re REALLY bad at: Dancing ... and sometimes acting.

Current pop culture obsession: I have no real obsession with pop culture.

Last book you read: Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Alexandra Wentworth

Favorite movie(s): Chinatown

Favorite musician(s): I'd say Beach House as of late.

Dream role: I don't really have a "dream role," but I'd love to do some Tennessee Williams. I haven't done that yet.

Favorite play(s): Most anything by Tennessee Williams and Tracy Letts

Favorite musical(s): Sweeney Todd

Favorite actors/actresses: Glenn Close, Joan Allen, Natalie Portman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day Lewis

Favorite food: Quiche Lorraine (Yes, I know.)

Must-see TV show(s): Mad Men and The Walking Dead

Something most people don’t know about you: I bit my nails.

Place in the world you’d most like to visit: Egypt

Pre-show warm-up: Ginger root tea and screaming at the dressers. (Kidding!)

Favorite part about your current role(s): It's all crazy fun! But I do get to wear a dress — so there's that.

Most challenging part about your current role(s): Quick changes! Quick changes! Quick changes!

Worst onstage mishap: The ONE and ONLY time I missed an entrance during a scene. Horrible feeling.

Career you’d have if you weren’t a performer/director: No one has died from my cooking thus far. So maybe a chef.

Favorite post-show spot: Home

Favorite thing about Dallas: Space! So much space! And of course family and friends.

Most memorable theater moment: "Places!"

The Mystery of Irma Vep runs September 28-October 21 at WaterTower Theatre.

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Mural News

Netflix House will debut in Dallas with murals from acclaimed artist

Netflix House

Jeremy Biggers at Netflix House

A long-awaited immersive venue is opening in Dallas, and it will debut with local art on its walls: Netflix House, a year-round exhibit revolving around Netflix shows and movies, will open at Galleria Dallas on December 11, with two murals from award-winning Dallas multi-medium artist Jeremy Biggers.

Netflix House is an immersive dive complete with merchandise store, film house, arcade, and restaurant-bar. When it opens, Dallas will be the second location in the U.S., following Philadelphia, where it debuted in November 2025, also with murals from a local artist.

A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Biggers is a renowned artist whose murals can be found spashed on walls across Dallas. Many, such as the Selena portrait on the wall outside Top Ten Records at 306 S. Bishop Ave., have become local landmarks.

He's a logical choice, having worked with a number of corporations including Nike, Adidas, the Dallas Mavericks, and IBM, for whom he created the "THINK" mural in their Dallas corporate office. His works have also been exhibited nationally, including a 2024 solo exhibition "be safe out there bro" at Band of Vices, a gallery in Los Angeles.

"Being chosen to be the artist to paint this mural, it would have been a disservice to myself, as well as the art scene in the city, not to try to infuse myself into it," he says.

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Biggers did two murals featuring his interpretation of Netflix figures including the Squid Game Young-hee doll, characters from KPop Demon Hunters and megahit series Stranger Things, plus Pandy and DJ Catnip, the best friends in the interactive series Gabby’s Dollhouse.

Both murals are intensely colored works that incorporate Biggers' signature motif: a grid of polka dots spread across the image.

One is on the exterior of Netflix House, at the parking entrance, a colorful collage of characters, measuring 38 feet x 50 feet — the tallest mural Biggers has tackled. He painted it with aerosol; it took him two months to complete.
The other is on the interior, on the mall side entrance of Netflix House, measuring 57 feet x 12 feet — a study in moody blacks and blues, with accents of neon-red that give it a 3D effect.

“I'm trying to tell the story of Netflix, and the story of where Netflix has been historically, where Netflix is headed in the future, and then also infusing my own narrative and my own language visually into that story,” he says.

“They could have opened this anywhere, so for Dallas to be one of the very first locations — that’s a testament to us as a market, as consumers of arts and consumers in general," he says.

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