Adam Webster Artistic Director
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Adam Webster (Artistic Director) founded the side project in 2000, guiding the company to the 2006 Spirit of Rogers Park Award and the 2009 Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theatre Award. For the company, he has proudly directed over 25 plays, including the world premieres of Smart, Slipping, The Bird Sanctuary, Strangers Knocking and People We Know (2010 Jeff Award nominee for Best New Script); the Midwest premieres of style of sympathy, Innocent Thoughts and The Paranormal Review and a handful of sketch comedy shows and oneacts; penned two adaptations (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Lysistrata) and a handful of original one acts; and produced the company's 34 full-length productions, its 15 evenings of one acts featuring 100 plays, its seven seasons of staged readings, featuring over 36 plays, and its four forays into sketch comedy.
Other local directing credits include gigs for: Red Twist, New Leaf, Polarity, Fury Productions, Tympanic, ExPats, Rogue Theatre, Boxer Rebellion, Speaking Ring, Theatre-Hikes, North Lakeside Players, Chicago Dramatists, the Chicago Humanities Festival and WBEZ. In March, he will direct the U.S. premiere of Fall of Man for The Right Brain Project.
As a playwright, other produced plays include adaptations of Lysistrata, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Hippolytus and Life Is a Dream; and a handful of original one acts, including an entry in the upcoming Deliver Us from Nowhere (Tympanic).
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Adam co-founded the Rodney & Myrtle Acting Troupe ("We Dare to Act...wanna watch?"); and in Los Angeles, wrote and directed for Theatre of NOTE and The Hudson Guild, and co-founded the Active Culture Theatre Group, co-producing their inaugural three-show season.
Elliot Fredland Business Manager
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Elliott Fredland (Business and Box Office Manager) began his association with
the side project in 2003, appearing in one-acts and as Carr Gomm in The Elephant
Man and is an original member of the Company. He has been acting in Chicago since
2003, performing with Provision (Shadowlands), Infamous Commonwealth (The
Crucible), Quest Theatre Ensemble (People's History of the United States); Beverly
Arts Center (Amadeus); Bailiwick Repertory (Dangerous), the North Lakeside
Cultural Center (The Mousetrap); Theater Hikes, (Frankenstein and Treasure
Island); and Rogue Theater (The Importance of Being Earnest), among others, in
addition to the side project (Galileo).
Elliott was cast in Contagion (Steven Soderbergh) and has appeared in
independent films and television commercials. In a previous millennium in a distant
land, he worked - however briefly - as a radio and television newscaster. Prior
to acting full-time, Elliott enjoyed careers in Education, Law Enforcement, and
Corporate sales and marketing. He lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and
Massachusetts before coming to Chicago ("I'm not leaving!"). He was a Math major
(go figure).
Anna Bahow Literary Associate
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Anna C. Bahow is the 2011-2012 Michael Maggio Directing Fellow at the Goodman Theatre, an Associate Artist at the side project, Premiere Theatre and Performance and Chicago Dramatists. Committed to the development of new work- world premieres include side project productions of; 2009 JEFF recommended The Rocks, Laura Eason's Rewind and Mark Young's New Orleans -Top Five Fringe 2006 Chicago Tribune.
Krista Damico Company Manager
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Krista Damico began serving as the Company Manager at the side project in 2010. She is actively involved in arts advocacy and administration with the Chicago theatre community, and serves on the staff at Redtwist Theatre. As an actor, Krista's favorite past roles include: Kindertransport (Eva), Black Comedy (Clea), Once Upon a Mattress (Winnifred), Curse of the Starving Class (Emma), Galileo (Andrea), Servant of Two Masters (Clarice), and Catch Me if You Can (Elizabeth).
Abigail Akavia Literary Associate
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Abigail is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Literature at The University of Chicago and continues to voraciously read scripts for the side project.
Alysa Turner Marketing Manager
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Alysa Turner (Marketing Coordinator) is pleased to be working her first season at the side project! Originally from Utica, New York, Alysa holds a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts Management from Ithaca College. Since moving to Chicago in 2010, Alysa has done work for various organizations in the Chicago theater community including Shattered Globe Theatre Company, Provision Theater Company, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Oracle Productions' Tonight it's Live, Chicago Shakespeare and the Goodman. She loves the Chicago Theatre scene and enjoys getting the word out about great performances in Chicago. Don't forget to "like" the side project on Facebook!
Jacob Watson Webmaster
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Jacob Watson recently received his B.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University. Originally from Boston, MA, he currently lives and works in Chicago as a freelance director, scenic designer, and teaching artist. He has worked with many Chicago-area theatre companies, including The Goodman, Shattered Globe Theatre, The Music Theatre Company, and Redmoon.
In his free time, he designs graphics and websites.
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