Adam Webster Artistic Director
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Adam founded the side project in 2000. Since then he has produced over 35 shows for the company, directing 15, including Strangers Knocking, Innocent Thoughts, style of sympathy, and numerous one acts. Regional directing credits include stints in Los Angeles (The Belonging, Resurrection Theatre Company; Blue Window, Active Culture Theatre Company; and numerous one acts) and Portland, Oregon (True West, The Paranormal Review, Come Blow Your Horn – all for Rodney & Myrtle, which he co-founded in 1990). Other local directing projects include work with Rogue Theatre, Stage Left, New Leaf Theatre, North Lakeside Players, Theatre-Hikes, Fury Productions and Speaking Ring Theatre. This year, he will direct the side project’s world premieres of Smart in November and Slipping in March.
Jimmy McDermott Ensemble Member
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Jimmy has directed five side project productions, including The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide by Sean Graney, Elephant Man, Salome and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Artistic Director Adam Webster. Last season, he helmed Jesse Weaver’s Sweet Pretty Love Jam. He has also been onstage with the side project in Lysistrata, The Paranormal Review and Fifedom: Pair O’ Dese (and One o’ Dose), for which he also directed. The Artistic Associate at Writer’s Theatre, McDermott helmed their critically acclaimed production of The Puppetmaster of Lodz. Other area credits include directing for The Hypocrites and Collaboraction.
Stephen Cone Ensemble Member
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Stephen has written and directed three plays for the side project, including The Dancer, Henry Hettinger and Raised. Additionally, as a playwright, his one act The November Boy was also produced at the side project and, as a director, he helmed the company’s Chicago premiere of Sarah Kane’s Crave. He has twice been a Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist and The November Boy was a finalist for the Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon. As a filmmaker, Stephen has written and directed the short films Church Story and Young Wives (co-production with Collaboraction, world premiered at the 2007 LA Shorts Fest) and is in post-production on his first feature, The Christians, a co-production with Chicago film company Split Pillow. Other stage directing credits include readings and productions for Bailiwick and Dog & Pony. Next up, he’ll be directing the world premiere of Philip Dawkins’ Perfect for the side project’s 2007/2008 season.
Elliott Fredland Ensemble Member
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Elliott Fredland began his acquaintance with the side project in 2003, appearing in several one-acts and as Carr Gomm in The Elephant Man and in Galileo. When the ensemble was formed in 2004, he was one of the original members, and currently serves as the box office manager. He has been acting in Chicago since 2002, performing with Theater Hikes, (Frankenstein and Treasure Island); Quest Theatre Ensemble (Ghost Pirates of the Lake); Beverly Arts Center (Amadeus); Bailiwick Repertory (Dangerous), the North Lakeside Cultural Center (The Mousetrap); and Rogue Theater (The Importance of Being Earnest). Elliott has also appeared in several independent films and television commercials. 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.
J. Kingsford Goode Ensemble Member
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J. Kingsford Goode has appeared as Mary in the side project’s
critically acclaimed Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and as Lisa in the
one-person onceact Bad Language as part of Barebones and Skin II. As a
director, she has helmed Salt Ink in that same evening of one acts as well as a staged reading in Harvest 2005. She has appeared in other local productions such as The Good Doctor and Dancing at Lugnhasa. Her other
local directing projects include productions at Bailiwick, Northeastern
and Bowen Park. Her work in New York includes productions at The Samuel
Beckett Theatre, The Greenwich Street Theatre and The 13th Street Rep,
among others. Jen teaches at DePaul University.
Jesse Weaver Ensemble Member
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Jesse recently moved to Ireland. Before then, he wrote and starred in Sweet Pretty Love Jam at the side project and he also directed their 2007 production of Katzelmacher. Other side project acting credits include the one act Futon Dialogues. His plays Bernie Ward and The Artist Needs a Wife have been produced in Ireland. This season, the side project will world premiere another one of his plays, On My Parents’ One Hundredth Wedding Anniversary, and continue missing him. And the Fool.
Steven Marzolf Ensemble Member
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Steven has appeared in the side project’s Salome as well as assistant directed their productions of Crave and Katzelmacher. Other local acting credits include numerous roles at Chicago Shakespeare, understudying August: Osage County at Steppenwolf, and the upcoming Twilight of the Golds at Apple Tree. This season, he will understudy and assistant direct Smart, opening in November.
Nick Keenan Graphic Design
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Nick Keenan is a graphic and sound designer, and has been designing graphics for the side project since 2004. He has also designed sound for the side project productions of Crave, Katzelmacher, and Thief River and assisted on the side project's expansion and renovation as a technical consultant. Nick has designed sound and composed for Raven (Book of Days, A Few Good Men, Dancing at Lughnasa), Metropolis (Streetcar, The Nerd, War of the Worlds, The Odd Couple), Dog & Pony (Mr. Marmalade, Dead City), and New Leaf (Vox Pandora, The Permanent Way, The Master Builder, Accelerando, Limbo Tales, As It Is in Heaven, Reckless). His original audio performance piece, Lexicon, was featured as part of New Leaf’s 2005 In the Spotlight series. Nick is the sound operator at the Goodman Theater's Owen stage, and recently served there as assistant sound designer for Frank Galati's Oedipus Complex and Mary Zimmerman's Mirror of the Invisible World.
Gina LoPiccolo Ensemble Member
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Gina LoPiccolo is a proud new ensemble member of the side project, where projects include directing the world premiere of Butt Nekkid this fall, directing for Harvest Festival and assistant directing Raised and Henry Hettinger. Gina’s other credits include The Halloween Show (also contributing writer and designer), Mrs. Keckley/Mrs. Lincoln (365 Plays/365 Days), both with The Gift Theatre, and Contents May Be Extremely Hot (costume and prop design) with Phalanx Theatre. As an assistant director, she has worked with Sean Graney (Mud, The Hypocrites; References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Bailiwick), Sheldon Patinkin (The Glass Menagerie, The Gift Theatre and Theater on the Lake), and Ron OJ Parson (Short Eyes, Urban Theater Co.). Film credits include Young Wives (producer and costume design) and The Christians (producer). She holds a BA in Theater Directing from Columbia College Chicago (2005).
Sadie Rogers Ensemble Member
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Sadie appeared as C in Crave and Ingrid in Katzelmacher. Originally from Tennessee, Sadie has been acting in Chicago for almost five years with various companies, including: Light Opera Works, Collaboraction, Dog and Pony Theatre Company, The Mill, Thunder and Lightning and many others.
Will Schutz Ensemble Member
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Will received his M.F.A from the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University. He was a member of Defiant Theatre (R.I.P.), and served on their administrative staff for 4 years. Will appeared in over half of Defiant’s productions including Action Movie: the Play, Godbaby, Caligula, The Pyrates, Dracula, MacBeth, The Skriker, A Clockwork Orange, and Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage. He first worked with the side project as A in Sarah Kane’s Crave, and then as Jeremy in Mr. Cone’s Henry Hettinger, and was honored to join their ensemble in 2007. His other Chicago credits include roles in End Game, Marat/Sade, Arcadia, Happy Days, and Camille/La Traviata (The Hypocrites Theatre), Waiting for Godot, and The Fair Maid of the West (CT20 Ensemble), Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Holmes & Watson, Tartuffe, and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (City Lit Theatre), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Next Theatre), The Night Heron (Steep Theatre), The Ruling Class (Backstage Theatre), and Detective Story (Strawdog Theatre).
Anna Bahow Artistic Associate
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Anna directed the world premiere of Mark Young’s New Orleans and Drive for the side project, the latter as part of the 2007 Rhino Fest, for which she has also directed Chameleon with a Stigmata and Feeling Sorry for Roman Polanski. Other work includes Gray City by Keith Huff, and St. Colm’s Inch and Vintage Red and Dust of the Road, by Rob Koon. The latter was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg Award for the “Best New Play Produced Outside of New York” and received a Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation for best new play. She also directed the Jeff recommended premiere of Martin Furey’s Shot at TimeLine Theatre. She has written radio pieces, shot photographs, and has worked on video and film. Bahow is also an Associate Artist at Chicago Dramatists and Premiere Theatre & Performance.
Sean Bolger Artistic Associate
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Sean recently joined the side project after finishing up his third side project production in as many years. He first appeared in Adam Webster’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets followed up by Jesse Weaver’s Sweet Pretty Love Jam, both world premieres and both directed by Jimmy McDermott. Most recently he appeared at the side project in Katzelmacher directed by Jesse Weaver. He has also worked with numerous other Chicago theatres including; Steppenwolf Theatre, Azusa Productions, Steep Theatre, Thunder & Lightning Ensemble, Uma Productions, and Redmoon Theatre. His current project is Griffin Theatre’s Journey’s End, which opens this winter.
Jarrett Dapier Artistic Associate
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Jarrett directed the side project’s critically acclaimed Chicago premiere of Lee Blessing's Thief River and Gabrielle Reisman’s Brian and Shevat. Also a company member with Dog & Pony Theatre Company, Jarrett recently directed Sheila Callaghan's Dead City, which was named one of the top 6 best productions of 2006 by Chicagoist.com. His production of Callaghan's Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), which he co-directed for Dog & Pony, was named one of the top 5 best productions of 2005 by New City, top 10 best “storefront” productions by the Chicago Tribune, and was later remounted at the City of Chicago's Theatre on the Lake. Before moving to Chicago, Jarrett was a company member with the inimitable Station Theatre in Urbana, IL, where he currently serves as an artistic associate. Directing credits at The Station include The Laramie Project, (2001 Best Theatre Production – The Octopus magazine), A Delicate Balance, Collected Stories and Skylight. Other local credits include assistant directing Orange Flower Water and A Tale of Two Cities at Steppenwolf and dramaturging Back of the Throat at Silk Road Theatre Project. When he's not at home with his daughter, Jarrett works as the assistant publisher at In These Times magazine. This season, he will direct the side project’s Midwest premiere of Faster by Adam Rapp.
Marsha Villanueva Artistic Associate
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Marsha has designed costumes for the side project’s productions of Sweet Pretty Love Jam, Katzelmacher and Raised, as well as their Rhino Fest entry, Drive. Local acting credits include The Actor’s Voice at The Side Studio and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Bailiwick). This season, she will be designing costumes for Butt Nekkid, opening in November.
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