About Us
Shaking Fist Productions strives to offer opportunities for emerging talents to
entertain and educate the West Michigan Community through the Arts.  It is
through the vision of the founders Rebecka Wenzel and Matthew T. Allan and the
guidance of the 5 member board of directors to see this purpose through.  What
qualifies Rebecka and Matthew you ask...  


Well, both are graduates of Grand Valley State University's  Theatre program.  Both
were also recipients of GVSU's Shakespeare Scholarship.  Beyond the hundreds of
hours they dedicated to Grand Valley's Theatre Department, they also spent some
time working with numerous Grand Rapids community theatres.     


Shaking Fist Productions successfully debuted with Bruce Kane's Opposites
Attract at the 10 Weston Theatre in Grand Rapids, MI.
Shaking Fist Productions strives to offer opportunities for emerging talents to entertain
and educate the West Michigan Community through the Arts.
Rebecka Wenzel
Production Manager      
Matthew T. Allan
Artistic Director
Matthew is a 2001 graduate of Grand Valley State University with a B.A. in Theatre.  He was a
Shakespeare Scholarship recipient as well as a nominee for the American College Theatre
Festival's Irene Ryan Award.  Some of Matthew's Grand Rapids production credits include:
GVSU - A Comedy of Errors, Durang! Durang?, The 4th Accomplice, Macbeth; Shaking Fist
Productions - Opposites Attract, The Guys, I Hate Hamlet, Baby With the Bathwater; Lost in
the Cove Productions - Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Heritage Theatre Group - The Three
Musketeers.  Matthew has also taken classes at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago as well as
played the role of Mr. Henderson in You Can't Take it With You.  He is looking forward to
working with the emerging talent in the Kentwood area.
Rebecka Wenzel studied Theatre at Grand Valley State University and received her Bachelor
of Arts degree in Theatre in 2002. Her GVSU credits include Much Ado About Nothing,
Major Barbara, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Adrift, and HurlyBurly .She co-founded
Shaking Fist Productions in 2002, operating out of the small venue of 10 Weston Theatre.
Rebecka's Shaking Fist Production credits include Opposites Attract, I Hate Hamlet, Baby
with the Bathwater, The Guys, and Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune. Her work has
been seen on multiple West Michigan stages including Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company,
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Wealthy Theatre, 10 Weston Theatre, Louis Armstrong
Theatre, and Greenville Community Center. Her most recent production was seen on the
Greenville Community Center stage directing the Christmas production of Toy School. She
is excited to bring the joy of Theatre and the Arts to Kentwood and the surrounding areas.