Bastards Of Young

The Plays

The Elf King

A blacker than black fairytale that shows the consequences of parents who don’t listen to their sick children.

Featuring:

Kasia Januszewski - Child Kasia Januszewski is excited to be working with Tympanic Theatre, having last appeared as another youngster in Signal Ensemble Theatre's THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. Other recent Chicago credits include Simone in COLD COLD FEET (Attic Playhouse) and Tara in THE HEART OF THE MATTER AND OTHER PLAYS (Playing Space Theatre). Recent on screen appearances include national commercials for Budweiser and WWE. Kasia attended the School of Theatre at Illinois State University as well as Advanced Scene Study at Profiles Theatre. Some of her favorite roles have included Thomasina Coverly in ARCADIA, Mary Lennox in THE SECRET GARDEN, and Karen in SPEED THE PLOW. Kasia is represented by Lily's Talent Agency - www.lilystalent.com.	Greg Callozzo - Father Greg Callozzo, Chicago-born and bred, loved live theater the moment Blanche kissed the innocent paper boy (Greg, acting) in A Streetcar Named Desire at Rockford College. He first improvised professionally with ComedySportz, Madison and has since performed in The Second City's Director's Showcase (PorkchopCo and Rock, Paper, Strippers), played and directed works at the Annoyance Theater (Triple Features: Teddy Machete and $2.38 Fancy and others) and Big News Chicago. He continues to learn and play as part of the ensemble Neapolitan, currently at the iO Theater. He's also the world's oldest intern at the Second City Training Center. Above all, Greg loves his wife and kids (Susan, Veronica and Peter) for supporting his passion for live theater.	Jonathan Harden - Elf King Jonathan Harden has come to Chicago from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he spent all his time with Shakespeareans and like ruffians. He is overjoyed to be working with Tympanic, especially since they have created plays of such a darkly mythopoeic nature, and looks forward to frightening the life out of any small children you happen to have with you.	Lyn Scott - Elf King Lyn Scott is psyched to finally work with her friends at Tympanic. Assuming it was her birth-right as an FSU SOT Grad was not enough, many a bribe and favor exchange went into securing this role. It was hard work. She is also a graduate of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL & the Florida State University School of Theatre in 2007. Her Theatre credits recently include Mommy in InnavEvolution's The Zoo Story & The Sandbox, as well as roles in Dream Theatre's production of Theatre of Women IV, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Stella), Three Tall Women (C), and Agnes of God (Agnes). Lyn also appears in the 2008 HBO film Recount as a Student Democrat.	Megan Gotz* - Elf King Megan Gotz moved to Chicago in 2007 after graduating from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. Chicago Credits include The Alycone Festival: The Massacre, House of Weird Death (Film Making Lizzie Borden), Splintered Crosses (Mary), Gregor and the Squonk (Squonk), and The 6th Annual WTA Showcase (Melancholy Play). She was most recently seen as Lynn in the Jeff Nominated show All My Love with Diamante Productions.
Chris Acevedo* - Director Christopher Acevedo is a founding member of Tympanic Theatre Company. He moved to Chicago in 2007 and since has appeared in Pavement Group's fracture/mechanics, the Genesis Ensemble's The Secrets Project, Red Tape Theatre's inaugural CFAN Festival (with Genesis Ensemble), Drangoncello's And Time Runs On, Dramatis Personae's Feats of Strength and The Side Projects Splayed Verbiage (Cut to the Quick Festival). With Tympanic Theatre Company, he has appeared in Splintered Crosses, The House of Weird Death, Gregor & the Squonk, and most recently in Bastards of Young. Next he will be appearing with Tympanic in Curious Theatre Branch's Rhinoceros Festival, in January and with the Genesis Ensemble in Red Tape Theatre's CFAN Festival in February. He earned his B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University.	Susan Myburgh* - Playwright Susan Myburgh moved to Chicago in 2008 after graduating with a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University. Some of her college credits include: The Birds (Ostrich/Inspector), Rabbit Hole (Izzy), Uncle Vanya (Sonya) and Amadeus (Ensemble/Understudy). In Chicago she has been seen in Gorilla Tango Theatre's LEA: A Nightmare, The Mammal's Devil's Don't Forget, Red Twist Theatre's Ride Down to Mount Morgan, and Apple Tree's Orchard Series. With Tympanic Susan has directed Morality Play (Splinttered Crosses), Gregor and the Squonk, and The Great Black Vulture (Bastards of Young). Next she can be seen at Oracle Theatre in Disturbed. Susan is represented by Lilly's Talent Agency for On-Camera and Commercial work. More info can be found at http://www.susanmyburgh.info/.

Folkfire

In the wake of a deadly forest fire, two American legends meet up to settle old scores.

Featuring:

Warren Feagins - J.H.	Adam Schulmerich - P.B. Adam is happy to be a part of "Bastards of Young" and would like to extend many thanks to the excellent members of Tympanic Theatre. A 2005 graduate of Purchase College's Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film, recent credits include "One Night Stand," "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Laramie Project."
Daniel Caffrey* - Playwright Daniel Caffrey is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Tympanic Theatre Company. Writing and directing credits with Tympanic include Splintered Crosses, The House Of Weird Death, and Gregor And The Squonk. His short plays have been produced in Chicago by ARFTCO, Chicago Dramatists, Dramatis Personae, Dream Theatre Company, Hobo Junction, iO, and WildClaw. Occasionally an actor, he has performed with The Side Project (Slipping), Tympanic, and WNEP (this year’s SKALD storytelling competition). He has also directed with The Side Project in their Cut To The Quick festivals. Upcoming projects include his short play "Wishbone" in Dramatis Personae’s Feats Of Strength festival, "Yukon Cornelius, Greatest Prospector In The North" with ARFTCO’s Christmas Spectacular, and writing and directing "Pogo" for The Ruckus' Tell It & Speak It & Think It & Breathe It. He holds BA degrees in Creative Writing and Theatre, and is a graduate of the Training Center at iO.	Dan Pfleegor - Playwright Dan Pfleegor - A Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. Dan was eight when he wrote his first play, Amelia Bedelia Learns to Drive. The script's subversive undertones deconstructed the vaudevillian paradigms of literalism that plague the domestic servant profession. Dan graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Political Science and European Union Studies. Despite these strong credentials he has yet to be elected to high office in Europe. Dan’s love of dank basements and frostbite motivated him to move to Chicago, where he lived for a year, portrayed a monster in Tympanic's House of Weird Death, and ate a fair share of poppy bun hotdogs. Dan has since moseyed back to the Sunshine State to pursue a career that combines his love for sharks, neckties, and ambulances. He starts his second year of law school this fall.	Aaron Henrickson - Director

The Great Black Vulture

Two castaways are torn at the seems by paranoia of death before meeting a most unlikely maker.

Featuring:

H.B. Ward - Conroy Stage: With Curious Theatre Branch: Beau O’Reilly’s "Hit Me Like a Flower," "The Turtle at Play," and "The Madelyn Trilogy;" Jenny Magnus's "Round and Round;" and "Texts for Nothing" and "Waiting for Godot," both parts of Curious's yearlong tribute to Samuel Beckett. With the Prop Thtr: Mark Chrisler's "The Observer" and Dorothy Tristan's "Bohemian Nights." With Collaboraction: "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow" and Seth Bockley’s adaptation of “Jon.” With DOG, a Theater Company: "Being Shown as a Work in Process" and “Vitrine.” With The Magpies: Shawn Reddy's "The Art of Unbearable Sensations." With Teatro Vista: "Dreamlandia." With WNEP, "Metaluna" at the Red Orchid. And with Theater Oobleck: “Strauss at Midnight” at the DCA. Film: Stephen Cone’s “In Memoriam: A Comedy.” H.B. is a Curious Theater company member and an Associate with Collaboraction.	Chris Acevedo* - Earnest Christopher Acevedo is a founding member of Tympanic Theatre Company. He moved to Chicago in 2007 and since has appeared in Pavement Group's fracture/mechanics, the Genesis Ensemble's The Secrets Project, Red Tape Theatre's inaugural CFAN Festival (with Genesis Ensemble), Drangoncello's And Time Runs On, Dramatis Personae's Feats of Strength and The Side Projects Splayed Verbiage (Cut to the Quick Festival). With Tympanic Theatre Company, he has appeared in Splintered Crosses, The House of Weird Death, Gregor & the Squonk, and most recently in Bastards of Young. Next he will be appearing with Tympanic in Curious Theatre Branch's Rhinoceros Festival, in January and with the Genesis Ensemble in Red Tape Theatre's CFAN Festival in February. He earned his B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University.	Jonathan Harden - Vulture Jonathan Harden has come to Chicago from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he spent all his time with Shakespeareans and like ruffians. He is overjoyed to be working with Tympanic, especially since they have created plays of such a darkly mythopoeic nature, and looks forward to frightening the life out of any small children you happen to have with you.
Joshua Mikel - Playwright Joshua Mikel from Conyers, GA graduated in 2007 with honors from Florida State's Theater and Creative Writing programs. His play The Monster Hunters won the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival's Theater for Young Audiences award in 2007, and was published by Playscripts publishing in 2008. His play, Quentin G, was a runner up for the 2006 John Cauble Short Play award at the KCACTF and was recognized by the Atlantic Costal Conference as one of the best undergraduate honors thesis projects of 2006. His play, Bethlehem Motor Community, won the 2006 KCACTF southeastern region’s short play award. His play full length My Brother's Knife premiered in July at Endstation theater in Amherst, VA. Aside from writing, he acts, does freelance art and design (http://myspace.com/sharkguts), and tours full time as the drummer for the rock band Look Mexico on Suburban Home Records (http://www.myspace.com/lookmexico) who are releasing their sophomore full length record this fall	Susan Myburgh* - Director Susan Myburgh moved to Chicago in 2008 after graduating with a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University. Some of her college credits include: The Birds (Ostrich/Inspector), Rabbit Hole (Izzy), Uncle Vanya (Sonya) and Amadeus (Ensemble/Understudy). In Chicago she has been seen in Gorilla Tango Theatre's LEA: A Nightmare, The Mammal's Devil's Don't Forget, Red Twist Theatre's Ride Down to Mount Morgan, and Apple Tree's Orchard Series. With Tympanic Susan has directed Morality Play (Splinttered Crosses), Gregor and the Squonk, and The Great Black Vulture (Bastards of Young). Next she can be seen at Oracle Theatre in Disturbed. Susan is represented by Lilly's Talent Agency for On-Camera and Commercial work. More info can be found at http://www.susanmyburgh.info/.	Ali Delianides* - Director Ali Delianides graduated from Florida State University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre. After graduation she originated the touring role of Mama in Omaha Theater Company for Young Audiences first national tour of Old Yeller. Most recently she has been seen in Tympanic’s Gregor and the Squonk (Margaret), with Point of Contention in their annual CHAOS play festival, and with Chicago Kid’s Company in their productions of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Ali is also a teaching artist with Victory Gardens Theater’s educational outreach program.

May Is A Special Time Of Year

Love is in the air as two government assassins find themselves in the middle of what may be their last job.

Featuring:

Adam Swalley - Connor	Jennifer Betancourt - Megan Jennifer is happy to be working with Tympanic for the first time! She graduated from Notre Dame in 2008 and has since been working in Chicago. Recent credits include: The Ruby Sunrise at The Gift Theatre, Stage Door (a staged reading) with Griffin Theatre Co., and Hermione in The Winter's Tale.	Shannon Hollander - Tiffany Shannon Hollander is a very recent graduate of Loyola University in Chicago where she earned a B.A. in Theatre and Communications. Some of her favorite college credits include ARCADIA, BURIAL AT THEBES, MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE, and NEW WORLD ORDER. She was last seen in Chicago in Hangar 9's production of HESPERIA.	Kroydell Galima - Todd Kroy is happy to be joining Tympanic Theatre Company for his very first show in Chicago. He recently received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Credits there include Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland directed by Sean Graney, Dr. Dorn in the Seagull directed by Christopher Garcia Peak, Lord Stanley in Richard III, directed by Catherine Weidner, and Orlando in The Conduct of Life, directed by jen BeVard. He thanks his family friends and Erica for all the love and support...of being a starving artist.
Rob Matsushita - Playwright Rob Matsushita is a Madison, Wisconsin-based playwright, actor and filmmaker who has written and produced ten full-length shows in Wisconsin, including Orange Murder Suit, which was produced off-off-Broadway for the first annual New York Frigid Festival. He is also a staff writer and actor on the internet series Chad Vader." Last year he was the editor and co-writer on the short film "MASSACRE (the musical)," based on the play "Discordia's Sunshine Death," which he co-wrote with Moritz Burnard. Currently, he is shooting the hour-long film "The Girls," which is the second half of a double feature titled "Wasted Youth," which is co-created by Will Gartside (director of "MASSACRE"). His most recent play, "1 SW33T R1DE" will be getting a Madison production this November. Visit his YouTube page at http://youtube.com/rmmatsus.	Timothy Bambara - Director Timothy Bambara is thrilled to be working with Tympanic Theatre! He has been producing, directing and acting in Chicago for the past 3 years. Timothy is a founding member and Artistic Director of Dramatis Personae, Inc. He received his MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. He is a recipient of the 2008 CAAP Grant and was a participant in the 2008 Chicago Director’s Lab. Favorite directing credits include Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Of Mice and Men, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cook (asst. dir. to Henry Godinez, Goodman Theatre), Twelfth Night (asst. dir. to Jay Paul Skelton, City Lit), Ass Over Tea Kettle, Three One-Acts by David Lindsay-Abaire, Den of Thieves, Burrowing Anxiety (part of TRANSITions), Where’s My Money ?, Your Typical, Everyday, Lighthearted, Romantic Comedy and The Right Regrets for the 24 Hour Plays: Chicago. As an actor, he was most recently seen in Chicago Fusion Theatre’s 12 Hungry Men.

Night Vision

A prostitute gains the ability to see the true monsters lurking beneath her customers’ skin. But is it a blessing or a curse?

Featuring:

Sarah Mayhan - Ashley Sarah Mayhan grew up as a theatre nerd in Nashville, TN. She spent four happy years with other theatre nerds at Northwestern and is now a proud Chicagoan. Previous gigs include appearing in Gorilla Tango Theatre's Experimental Series (What We May Be) and tech-directing for Filament Theatre Ensemble's Sleepy Hollow. Sarah is absolutely thrilled to be in her first show with Tympanic!

S.L. Daniels - Playwright NIGHT VISION has been performed this year in New York at the Vortex Theatre and at the Gene Frankel Theatre in "Vignettes for the Apocalypse," where it won a Serling Award for Best Script; in Los Angeles at the Lex Theatre produced by Circus Theatricals; and in Australia at the Newtown Theatre in Sydney and Defector Art Theatre in Melbourne. NIGHT VISION was a winner of the Theatre Oxford Short Play Competition, and was recently published in the StageTHIS! III collection of short plays. Other work has been seen around the country at EBE Ensemble, New York Theatre Workshop, Harold Clurman Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, West End Theatre, Moving Arts, Victory Theatre (Los Angeles), ABT, Mary-Arrchie, Rivendell, and Victory Gardens. Credits also include: Illinois Arts Award for Playwriting, winner in the Samuel French One-Act Competition, and finalist for Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award, the O'Neill Playwriting Conference, and the Cunningham Prize. Television and film work include: Writer for the Canadian animated sit-com, "Committed" (starring a Kids in the Hall idol, Dave Foley), Co-Writer for the HBO IND/FOX TV show "ROC", Executive Script Consultant on "Workout", a pilot for NBC, and writer of the short film, "Mr. Peach's Dinner Party."

Casey Franklin - Director Casey would like to thank Dan and Tympanic for giving him his first Chicago Directing gig. Having just moved to Chicago a year ago he has been keeping busy working are various theatre's around town and soaking up the Chicago Theatre scene. He is extremely excited to bring this work to Chicago and to get to play the the Tympanic Crowd.

Northstar Navigation

A pair of two bit thieves are aided by their GPS in a robbery gone horribly wrong.

Featuring:

Patrick Bromley Jigger Patrick is excited to be making his Tympanic Theatre debut. He was last seen in Transitions with Dramatis Personae. Other credits include /As You Like It /and /Tempest /with the Richmond Shakespeare Festival and /The Spanish Tragedy/ wiht the Henly Street Theater Co. He is a Virginia native and is oddly excited by the coming of winter.	Patrick Winegar Stosh Patrick Winegar is a newcomer to Chicago from Opelika, AL. He graduated with a B.A. in History and minors in Russian and Theatre from the University of Alabama in 2008. Some of his previous roles include Henry V (Williams/Canterbury), The Government Inspector (Judge) and Romeo and Juliet (Paris). He is currently studying at the iO Theater. He would like to thank Tympanic Theatre Company for providing him with the wonderful opportunity of performing on a Chicago stage for his first time.	Carolanne Vann Brooke Carolanne Vann moved to frigid Chicago this year from sunny Orlando where she graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Hospitality Management. She is a proud member of the Windy City Darters and is currently honing her harmonica skills. Right now. This is her first professional production and would like to thank Tympanic Theatre for this incredible opportunity!
Michael Greco* - Playwright Michael "Mick" Greco (Jim / Rain) appears for the third time on stage with Tympanic Theatre Company, after House of Weird Death and Splintered Crosses. TTC also staged his short play Northstar Navigation as part of Bastards of Young. Mick has performed elsewhere in A View From The Bridge (Actors Workshop, now redtwist Theatre), and in classical productions for Chase Park Theatre, LiveWire Theatre and St. Sebastian Players.	Tracy Wray - Director Tracy Wray is delighted to be making her Chicago directorial debut with her fellow Florida State University alumni. In 2007, Tracy graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Theatre for both acting and directing, and with minors in communication, philosophy of human nature, and ethnomusicology. Some of her previous directing credits include Wendy Wasserstein's Heide Chronicles, Nicky Silver's Pterodactyl, and Josh Mikel's Bethlehem Motor Community featured as the opening show for American College Theatre Festival in 2007. Her favorite acting roles include Elaine from Nature and Purpose of the Universe; Bella from Charles Mee's Big Love; Marina from Joe Cacaci's production of History of Cardenio - The Lost Shakespeare Play; & Mother from Machinal. She'd like to extend her thanks to Tympanic Theatre Company for this wonderful opportunity - it was an absolute pleasure!

Personal Apocalypse

A low level employee is viciously interrogated about a vague mental breakdown.

Featuring:

Danielle Forrester - A Born in the scrub savannas of Africa and abandoned just after birth by parents unknown, Danielle E. Forrester was quickly adopted by a family of wild dogs and taught to hunt zebras and scavenge with her pack. At the age of fourteen, she became tangled in a fishing net and was abruptly returned to civilization where a kindly Indiana couple raised her as her own. The loving man and his adoring wife patiently taught Danielle English, table manners, and how to walk upright in very high heels. Years later she attended Indiana State University where she was trained in Meisner Technique and graduated nearly at the top of the lower middle of her class. Today, she works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and writes and acts in a sketch comedy troupe, which (coincidentally!) was founded by two of her wild dog brothers from so many years ago. Their reunion was a happy one. Danielle also owns a parrot and rides a motorcycle.

Adam Cobb - B Adam Cobb graduated from Florida State University in 2008 with a BA in Theatre. He was most recently seen as the rappin' Baby Bear in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with Chicago Kids Company. Past credits include Bruce in "Beyond Therapy" and Reed in "The Complete History of America (Abridged)". He is excited for his first Tympanic Theatre production and he hopes everybody enjoys the show.

Bob Fisher - Playwright Bob Fisher (Playwright) has been writing and directing theatre for the past eighteen years. Bob is a co-founder of the Chicago Mammals, as well as a company member of WNEP. His Chicago directing credits with the Mammals include FATETHEFT, HORROR CHAMBRE OF PERFECTION, FIRST EPISHANY, DREAM PLAY DISTORTED, AMHERST UNDEAD: EMILY DICKINSON WAS A VAMPIRE, CLAY CONTINENT, THE DEVIL VET, BREED WITH ME, MEXICAN WRESTLING MACBETH, NO SEXIT, SAVE ME FROM MYSELF and DEVILS DON'T FORGET. Bob has also written and/or direction with Collaboraction, the Side Project, Right Brain Project, WNEP, and now Tympanic. While living in New York, Bob participated in a number of theatrical festivals including the Mac Wellman Festival, Big Art in Small Places, and HERE'S American Living Room DirectorFest. He also had the good fortune to work among many acclaimed and respected off-off-Broadway theatre companies such as Peculiar Works Project, HERE, and the Flea Theatre.

Sean Kelly - Director Sean Kelly: Directing Credits include The Fantasticks (Porchlight Music Theatre), Aesop and Icarus (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Jack and the Giant (Steel Beam Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (UIC Theatre), Under America (Artisan Theatre Project), Romeo and Juliet (Aristan Theatre Project) and the upcoming Single Flower House (Artisan Theatre Project). Assistant Directing Credits include The Tempest (Steppenwolf), The Snow Queen (Victory Gardens), Superior Donuts (Steppenwolf), Old Times (Remy Bumppo). Thank you to Tympanic for inviting me to be a part of this great project and theatre family.

Zachary Zwillinger Eats People

A well-meaning romantic copes with the fact that he eats every woman he loves.

Shannon Hollander - Lauren Shannon Hollander is a very recent graduate of Loyola University in Chicago where she earned a B.A. in Theatre and Communications. Some of her favorite college credits include ARCADIA, BURIAL AT THEBES, MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE, and NEW WORLD ORDER. She was last seen in Chicago in Hangar 9's production of HESPERIA.	McKenzie Gerber - Zachary McKenzie Gerber came to Chicago after graduating from Florida State University's School of Theatre with a BA in 2006. He recently became a company member of Tympanic Theatre. Playwriting and Directing credits for Tympanic include Splintered Crosses "What King?" and The House of Weird Death: Something out there (Assistant Director/ co-writer / sound designer). Acting credits include Splintered Crosses and has performed with Tympanic's resident improv troupe Tymprov. McKenzie is currently working on the sound design for Gregor and the Squonk along side the Co-Artistic director, Daniel Caffrey	Lindsay Blake - Sugar Plum Fairy Having just graduated with a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University, Lindsay Blake is proud to finally call the Windy City her new home. Some of her college credits include: A Very Unmerry Birthday (Mom), American Lights (Hilary Clinton) and The Tamer Tamed (City Wife). This is Lindsay's Chicago debut and she is thrilled that it's with Tympanic.
Lauren D. Yee - Playwright Lauren D. Yee is a 2009 MacDowell Colony fellow, a 2008/09 Dramatists Guild fellow, and a member of the 2009 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. She has been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Jerome Fellowship, the PONY Fellowship, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, and the Heideman Award, as well as a nominee for the Wasserstein Prize. She has received commissions from PlayGround, the Playwrights Foundation, and the O’Neill Studio at Yale. Other honors include Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Pacific Rim Prize and the Yale Playwrights Festival. She has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat, and the New York Mills Arts Retreat, and funding from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Theatre Bay Area. A recent Yale graduate, Lauren is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at UCSD.	Hollis Rabin - Director Hollis is a nomad from Northern Virginia, Belgium, Pittsburgh and now calls Chicago home. She most recently directed Fostered Ideal with Team Venture Productions. Other Chicago directing credits include Lea. A Nightmare (Gorilla Tango Theatre Production) The Vagina Monologues (V-Day Chicago 2008 director/producer) Death Masque (Simple Theatre) and Everybody Else… (Chicago Her-Rah! 2007) She received her B.A. in theatre from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.