Scott Sawa, Co-Host, Creator
Scott Sawa (Co-Host, Creator) is elated to share this podcast with the world! As understudy, he’s worked on Birthday Candles (Northlight Theatre), I Promised Myself to Live Faster (Hell in a Handbag), Casa Valentina (Pride Films and Plays), Poseidon! (Hell in a Handbag), and Private Eyes (Piccolo Theatre). No big deal, but he was nominated for a Non-Equity Jeff Award for Solo Performance for his performance in Interrobang Theatre Project’s Here Lies Henry - really, it’s no big deal… (stop it!). Recent work includes Rosenberg (Open Space Arts), and Dooby Dooby Moo (Lifeline Theatre). Favorite roles include Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret (Cowardly Scarecrow); Bob Neal in Ten Dollar House (Pride Films & Plays); and Pete “TV Ugly” Rathbone in Hey! Dancin! Hey! Musical! (Factory). Other favorites: Poseidon, Bewildered! (Hell in a Handbag); We Found a Hat, Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters (Lifeline); Nightmare in Paradise, Fight Night, The Most Ado: A Party Play (Nothing Special). TV/Web: Chicago Fire, RedLine to Howard. Thanks and Love to Mom, Charlotte, Elana, LMac, our PATRONS, and anybody who’s listening. When pronounced correctly, Scott Sawa rhymes with "Hot Lava". www.ScottSawa.com |
Elana Elyce, Co-Host
Elana Elyce (Co-Host) is so thrilled to have been flattered into agreeing to do this podcast! Her very first theatre experience at the age of 7 was being an understudy, although that lasted only until her overstudy was absent one rehearsal. No no no, she didn't steal the role! She just got to do the role with the gal, as her twin! They moved and talked in unison and theatre magic was made. As a grownup about 100 years later, she had a great time understudying Defamation a couple times and also Love and Information with Remy Bumppo. Elana is an ensemble member and artistic producer with Interrobang Theatre Project, a company member with The House Theatre of Chicago and the business manager of The Chicago Inclusion Project. Sometimes she updates her website: www.elanaelyce.net. Jokes about flattery aside, serious gratitude to Scott for so generously including her on a project that is so near and dear to him. |
Laura McKenzie, Composer
Laura McKenzie (Composer) was an understudy once, and let's just say she got some really bad advice about how to be a good understudy. Which is why the show and theater will go unnamed. When Laura isn't ruining plays as an understudy, she is making weird shows like Songs From My Ass (Working Title), music videos ("Love Hole") and segments for the Paper Machete (H.A.M. aka High Anxiety Masturbation, a commentary on being single during the pandemic). Some previous projects Laura has composed and written lyrics for include: Hey! Dancin! Hey! Musical! (Factory Theater), Sparky! and You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? (Lifeline Theater) and The Laura ON Laura Comeback Tour (check out the youtubes for a few music vids!). |
Connar Brown, Ep 24 Guest
Connar knew she was meant for the stage when she performed, what would now be called interpretative, dances in her bedroom as a child. Connar now as an adult, is an actor, producer, puppeteer, video editor, and overall a multiple-hat-wearing creative! As an understudy, she has performed as Cow in Dooby Dooby Moo! (Lifeline Theatre), Nun 2/Puppeteer in I Promised Myself to Live Faster (Hell in a Handbag), and even Spongebob Squarepants in The Spongebob Musical (Kokandy Productions). You may have seen her in a few Theatre Above the Law performances, Surging Film and Theatrics shows, or just walking around Chicago. When she wrote this shortened bio, she was having a basic bowl of oatmeal and a cup of warm lemon water (she would rather be eating candy). Follow her on IG @JGCBrown97! |
Derek Czaplewski, Ep 23 Guest
Derek Czaplewski has worked as an actor, voice over artist, director, artistic director, associate artistic director, playwright, educator, producer and a few other jobs he’s either blocked out or can’t recall. (They say the mind is the first thing to go-go-Gadget helicopter!) As an understudy, he’s worked with Hell in a Handbag Productions, American Theatre Company, About Face Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and The Baum House. Derek is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory and The School at Steppenwolf. Favorite roles include “Farmer Brown” in Click, Clack, Moo, "Mellersh" in Enchanted April, "Reverend Scott" in POSEIDON! An Upside-Down Musical and “Husband and Dog Dad” to Josh and Leo (respectively) in Real Life. When not trying to understand and re-interpret Real Life, Derek enjoys collecting vintage toys, watching horror movies and kicking ass at game night. He is currently available for work. |
Manatsu Tanaka, Ep 22 Guest
Manatsu Tanaka (they/them) is a Japanese nonbinary Performer and an Artist with many creative outlets; dance, acting, singing, Tate (Japanese Sword Stage Combat/Fighting), improv on the piano, aerial silks, drawing and recently they have started practicing hand poke tattoos. Their very first time swinging into learning multiple roles and being ready at any moment was for a BIPOC Immersive Murder Mystery The Art of Killin’ It, covering 4 roles in that production which had multiple endings. One night as a detective, another night as the killer/suspect/an influencer who is here to stir the pot.... Everything that they have learned and earned on how to keep multiple tracks organized and learn in a short amount of time at that Murder Mystery has surely prepared them to take upon on a bigger responsibility: being an Understudy and an Offsite Standby for all 5 leading roles for The Nosebleed by Aya Ogawa, a contemporary play at Woolly Mammoth in DC. |
Tania Richard, Ep 21 Guest
Tania Richard has understudied on Broadway at The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre,The Second City, and Writers Theatre. When she stepped into a role created by Cheryl Lynn Bruce at Steppenwolf Theatre (Everyman directed by Frank Galati) the Windy City Gay Chorus sang a personalized version of Hello, Dolly to celebrate her first show. She will be understudying and performing in a show in the 2023/24 season. (She can’t say what the show is yet.) Check out her podcast Tania’s Take race, culture, and the culture of race. www.taniarichard.com |
Juan Francisco Villa, Ep 20 Guest
Juan Francisco Villa (he/el/his) is a New Yorker living in LA proudly by way of Chicago as an actor/writer/director. He understudied Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis at Steppenwolf Theater where he promptly went on without rehearsal then immediately understudied Electricidad by Luis Alfaro at The Goodman Theater where he was introduced to Teatro Vista. He'd gone thru the Improv Olympic (iO) program and performed in SALSATION’S hit sold out Sketch show, My Big Fat Quinceañera, where he also understudied other roles! Eventually he would write and perform his own solo show Empanada for a Dream with NO UNDERSTUDY! He worked with Luis Alfaro and Chay Yew, once at VG and once at The Public Theater in NYC. (Yes, there’s a support group for those that have survived Chay:) By the time this interview airs he will have recurred on "General Hospital". Since he’s got a face that’s good for podcasts, you can check him out as a recur on the animated series "Little Demon" with Aubrey Plaza and Danny Devito, AND his voice has worked opposite Minnie Driver, Ethan Hawke, Vivica Fox, and Judy Reyes. He recently worked opposite an Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie! |
Kaleigh Cronin, Ep 19 Guest
Kaleigh got her start on television as an awkward pre-teen on PBSKids' "ZOOM," and has been dancing, singing and understudying on stage ever since! She fell in love with the thrill of understudying when she was thrown on last minute for Olive Octopus (a role she did not cover) in a summer theater production in her home state of NH and the rest is history. On Broadway, she stepped in for Emma Stone as Sally Bowles in Cabaret when she left to attend the Oscars (no pressure), has understudied and performed as a Mom twice her age (the deep voice comes in handy), has had to learn how to play accordion (apologies to her husband who had to deal with her practicing daily) and rehearsed yet did not go on for a stern lady-boss in a killer power suit (Boo, Covid). Her non-understudy credits on Broadway include Sexy Soccer Lady/Helga (Yes. Seriously.) in Mrs. Doubtfire, Giorgio Moroder in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Marie in A Bronx Tale, Lulu / Two Ladies in Cabaret and Lorraine in the National Tour cast of Jersey Boys. Regional faves are Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone and Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard. Kaleigh did a pandemic pivot and got her NH real estate license in 2020 and now balances selling homes with her career on the stage. Hit her up if you are in need of a hard-working ensemble member OR a lake house! |
Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Ep 18 Guest
Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, Travesties, The Mountaintop, Radio Golf, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson, Mule Bone. Off-Broadway: Breakfast with Mugabe, Zooman & The Sign (Signature); Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate), Breath Boom (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Native Son, Women in Jeopardy!; Julius Caesar; Levee James, Things of Dry Hours. Film: Kind of A Funny Story, Vanilla Sky, Our Song, Music of the Heart, The Opportunists. TV: "Bull," "Madame Secretary," "Blue Bloods," "Elementary" (CBS); "White Collar;" "Nurse Jackie." www.rosalyncoleman.com |
Darren Jones, Ep 17 Guest
Darren is a stage, television and film actor born and based in Chicago. His recent stage credits include Hamlet (Invictus Theatre); American Son (Beverly Arts Center); Labyrinth (Broken Nose Theatre); King Lear (Redtwist Theatre); One 4 The Road, Never the Milk and Honey (MPAACT); Crime and Punishment, The Heavens Are Hung In Black (Shattered Globe Theatre Company), where he is an Artistic Associate. Television credits include Chicago PD (NBC), Chicago Fire (NBC). Movie credits include Hyde Park, Runner, Chi-Raq, Hood, Road to Freedom, Mo' Money. He’s done commercials for Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anheuser Busch, State Farm, Northwestern Medicine, Rivers Casino, Brookfield Zoo and MetLife along with training and industrial films for CareerBuilder, Accenture, Walgreen's, and Sears Auto Center. Darren is represented by Lily’s Talent Agency. |
Kim Fukawa, Ep 16 Guest
Kim Fukawa is an actor, an occasional fight designer, and an artistic affiliate with Babes With Blades Theatre Company. Over the course of her understudying career she has played almost every fighting role in Romeo and Juliet (Babes With Blades Theatre Company), went through a plane crash (United Flight 232, The House Theatre), had to memorize lines in Prussian (The Lady Demands Satisfaction, Babes With Blades again), and toured the magical world of London Below as the world's fiercest warrior (Neverwhere, Lifeline Theatre) to name a few. When not onstage she does a ton of crafts, depending on what she feels like. This includes knitting, chain mail, whipmaking, embroidery, pour painting, drawing, and basically anything that keeps her hands occupied. She gets bored easily is what she's saying. Over the course of the pandemic she's also gotten really into D&D and recorded a 13 episode audio play that follows the first arc of one of the campaigns she played. This will hopefully be released someday soon after editing is complete so keep an ear out for Something Wicked and her original character, Dr. Montana Armitage. |
Greg Geffrard, Ep 15 Guest
Greg Geffrard is an Assistant Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education, Ensemble Member with Sideshow Theatre, an educator at Columbia College Chicago, a spoken word artist, and a human that sleeps occasionally. As an understudy, Greg has been a giant lizard named Leslie in Edward Albee’s Seascape @ Remy Bumppo Theatre, a bully & best friend in Bud Not Buddy @ Chicago Children’s Theatre, an affable loser in Superior Donuts @ Royal George Theatre, an artist seeking validation from his father and himself in Stick Fly @ Windy City Playhouse, a pirate that rolled the old chariot along in Treasure Island @ Lookingglass Theatre, has died on stage as a Black modern facsimile of a Godot character and a paranoid schizophrenic experiencing folie au deux in Pass Over & Bug @ Steppenwolf Theatre, been a real dumb doctor in Smart People @ Writers Theatre and lastly has been filled with holiday cheer, had a store full of questionable meats, been a Black Republicans best friend and a bellhop with more physical bits than speaking parts in A Christmas Carol, Lottery Day, Carlyle & The Upstairs Concierge at the Goodman Theatre. Proudly represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. All the love to his two I’s (Irena and Isaiah), the first women who loved (Cassandra & Gertrude), and to all those who hold him accountable to the principles printed on his hoodies and shirt. |
LaNisa Frederick, Ep 14 Guest
LaNisa is is an award-winning actor, writer, content creator & voiceover artist based in Los Angeles. The comedic powerhouse has been seen on the screen in such shows as Brooklyn 99, Young Sheldon, The Goldbergs, and Mom. Frederick honed her craft in Chicago, working and training as an improv and sketch artist at Second City Chicago, performing at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and Steppenwolf. She has also worked on stages in Europe and Southeast Asia receiving international acclaim. She is the co-creator of Hashtag Booked. The groundbreaking Instagram sketch series which started in 2018, examines the joys and heartaches of being an actress of color in the entertainment industry. A 2020 Webby Award Honoree, Hashtag Booked has set the online world ablaze with viral laugh-out-loud sketches, memes and celebrity IG LIVE interviews. Currently, in television development, Hashtag Booked’s content has reached millions of views and has received national acclaim from media outlets including Forbes, Essence Magazine, and Shondaland. A prolific voiceover artist, LaNisa has voiced video games, including and most notably “Syd” the first black woman to be a major playable character in Call of Duty. She is a recurring VO artist on several animations on networks including Apple TV+ and Nickelodeon. |
Michael Turrentine, Ep 13 Guest
Michael Turrentine is the epitome of a Pisces, roaming the streets of the Windy City empathically talking to every random dog he sees and therefore ignoring their owners. He has worked as an actor in Chicago for, he wants to say, seven years (But we all know 2020 don't count as a year :D). He is an actor, singer, writer, activist, and all around sweetheart. He's worked with theaters like Steppenwolf, The Lyric Opera, Remy Bumppo, The Gift, Firebrand, Griffin, and many others and has received a Jeff Award. But enough about him.....let's talk more about HIM! He is the proud twin brother to Robert Turrentine, proud Uncle of 7 Niblings, proud son to Mama Lisa Turrentine (Errybodies Mom!) and proud plant dad! Right now he wants to sit down, drink hot chocolate, and binge any new Netflix cooking show. ALWAYS LOOKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS! I luh you ALL! |
Honey West, Ep 12 Guest
Honey West has starred in Dirty Dreams of a Clean Cut Kid, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Diva Diaries, Jerry’s Girls, Pussy on the House (Best Actress Award from BroadwayWorld.com), and Tony and Tony’s Wedding. Received a Jeff Nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won a Best Actress award from BroadwayWorld.com for Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Recently seen in Porchlight’s production of Gypsy as Electra and Mrs. Cratchitt, she also landed a co-starring role on FOX’s Proven Innocent which aired earlier this year. Honey earned her Degree in Musical Theater from Indiana University. In 2012, Honey was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. Currently, she is working on a new Cabaret Act, and an autobiographical one woman show. www.facebook.com/honeywest www.youtube.com/honeywestchicago |
Kat Evans, Ep 11 Guest
Kat Evans was the swing understudy for Psyche and Venus at Jedlicka's midwest premiere of Cupid & Psyche; she also understudied Natasha in First Folio's Rough Crossing. Before the pandemic, Kat was in previews playing Bobby Kennedy in the world premiere of 13 Days at City Lit. Kat is an ensemble actor and writer of audio comedy and songs for Starlight Radio Dreams, which has pressed on (in isolation) for its 5th season during the pandemic. She is the proud author of Truth Kittens, Interstellar Intercourse, and Slay Belles. With City Lit Theatre, she has performed the roles of Bridgett in The Safe House, Grace Harkaway in London Assurance, Io in Prometheus Bound, and Anne Morrow Linberg in Hauptmann. She performed the roles of Parker and Harris in both productions of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde with Promethean Theatre Ensemble. With Black Button Eyes, she has played in the creepy ensembles of Shockheaded Peter and Nightmares and Nightcaps. Other favorite musical theatre roles include Mercury in Thespis (The Savoyaires), Lucy Brown in The Three Penny Opera (The Hypocrites) and Trix in Fanatical (American Demigods at the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival). She was part of the all-female Grand Guignol: Bad Milk at Io Chicago. On camera work: feature film NONTRADITIONAL, web series Lucky Jay Seasons 1 & 2, Why Don't You Like Me, and Geek Lounge. Podcasts: Our Fair City, Unwell. |
Echaka Agba, Ep 10 Guest
Echaka Agba is an award winning actor based in Chicago having performed on stages including Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. For TV/Film, she has appeared on several network and cable programs including Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy series Work In Progress. While acting and new work development have been her primary focus over the course of her career, the paradigm shift the world experienced in 2020 has helped her recognize the need and importance of finding new ways to create and engage with storytelling. In short, Echaka decided to get hyphenated. She's now an Actor - Writer - Director - Producer. This essential step towards expansion in skillsets has led her to collaborations with some of the most highly artistic and talented creatives. Currently, she is in pre-production for her short film 3.14. Find out more info about Echaka's work here and here. |
Gaby Labotka, Ep 9 Guest
Gaby Labotka (she/they/anything respectful) is an actor, director, choreographer, and more based in Chicago and working across the country. Gaby is a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors International, an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, a proud member of the Alliance of Latinx Theatre Artists (ALTA), and the chair of Illinois Theatre Association's Professional Division. In her tenure as an understudy, she has been a fox, a bird, a dragon's tail, two witches, a chessmaster (Hammer Trinity, Rose and the Rime, The House Theatre of Chicago), several orphans, a starcatcher, a sea captain (Peter and the Starcatcher, Metropolis Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), a champion southpaw boxer (Wolf Play, The Gift), and a designer of lamps (A Story Told in Seven Fights, The Neo-Futurists). Lots of animals in that list, huh? No qualms there! She loves animals, especially bats. |
Nicholia Q. Aguirre, Ep 8 Guest
Nicholia Q. Aguirre is excited to be on You're On In Five! podcast. She has understudied, but not performed, for Her Honor Jane Byrne (Lookingglass Theatre), The Roommate (Steppenwolf), and Surely Goodness and Mercy (Redtwist Theatre). Recent work includes Casa Valentina, A Home on the Lake, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 2018's Black Theatre Alliance Awards (BTTA) she was nominated for the Ruby Dee Award, Best Leading Actor in a Play. She is grateful for the support and love of her family and friends, especially fellow actor Charli Williams, who has always been there. |
Patrick Byrnes, Ep 7 Guest
Patrick Byrnes is a proud Chicago-born actor, and has been performing around town for about twelve years. Patrick has understudied roles on large and small stages throughout Chicago, including Steppenwolf Theatre (in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter), Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Sunday in the Park With George), Northlight Theatre (A Civil War Christmas), Music Theater Works (though in his day known as Light Opera Works; in Man of La Mancha), Route 66 Theatre (A Twist of Water), Boho Theatre (Amadeus, Marie Christine), and Griffin Theatre (Bat Boy). In his free time, Patrick likes to consider himself a light "Gaymer", which is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community who enjoys playing video games. With a modest budget and currently saving for his pandemic-postponed wedding, he's currently playing some of his old games from his youth. Right now, it's Mega Man and Final Fantasy. Patrick just completed his work on an audioplay about Jane Addams, called Saint Jane and the Wicked Wicks, and is currently working on a filmed/staged production of Ragtime playing Tateh at Art 4, which will be available to stream in April. |
Jennifer Glasse, Ep 6 Guest
Jennifer Glasse hails from the West Side of Chicago, IL. She is an Ensemble Member at The Gift Theatre and a seasoned teaching artist who has taught all over Chicago in some of the top training studios and theatres in the city. As an understudy she’s performed as a small-town cop under siege (The North Plan, Theatre Wit), a barmaid, and the star victim in a murder mystery (A Life Extraordinary, The Gift Theatre). She has also had the opportunity to do the work of an understudy that no one ever saw such. She has been a myriad of 17th century characters including an Aristocrat, love interest, the sarcastic maid, the wife of a hypocrite, a young lover, and the feisty maid (The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, Court Theatre). She got to visit MLK on the last night before his death (The Mountaintop; Court Theatre), and finally she played over a dozen different civil rights activists in a one woman show (The MLK Project, Writers Theatre). Although she is a full-grown woman, she is a sucker for unicorn funfetti inspired desert. Her favorite is the halo cone at the Minnesota state fair. The halo cone is a soft serve blue raspberry ice cream cone orbited by rainbow sprinkles, gummy bears, fruity pebbles, and nested in a halo of cotton candy. “Hungry is my state of mind”- Leon Bridges |
Alberto Mendoza, Ep 5 Guest
Alberto Mendoza is a commercial video producer, videographer at The Goodman Theatre, and co-founder of Abraham Werewolf. After 13 years, he thinks he gets to just call himself a Chicagoan now and is done clarifying that he was raised in Winter Springs, FL so stop asking…though it was a nice place to grow up, honestly. Alberto has performed with First Folio Theater (All Childish Things, 2019), 16th Street Theater (The Wolf at the End of the Block, 2018), BSP Film (Graham Cracker, 2017), The Grelley Duvall Show, and is a proud member of The Hive (The Fly Honey Show). Alberto also got a role as "Dad" in a Wingstop commercial once, but he's missing the stage in particular real hard right now. Thanks to YOIF for letting him openly gush about his understudy experiences in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Red Theater, 2017) and The Light Fantastic (Jackalope Theatre, 2018) and he hopes to see your full faces IRL soon. |
Nancy Payne, Ep 4 Guest
Nancy Payne is pumped to geek out about understudying! As an understudy, she got to live out her alter-ego as a British girl in Out of Love (Interrobang Theatre Project) and sang/danced/cried as a sad-boy boyband member in Boyband: The Musical (Annoyance Theatre). She deeply misses performing with her sketch/improv group The Supreme Court, and seeing her pals at Interrobang Theatre Project where she's on the marketing team. She's excited about recently getting some representation with 10 Talent Agency to try to, ya know, be on TV hopefully. In her spare time, she rearranges her apartment on a whim and unfortunately has become a coffee snob in quarantine. |
Sarah Gise, Ep 4 Guest
Sarah is a native San Antonian living in Chicago with a thousand different jobs and gigs because she suffers from FOMO and dips her toes into everything. She got her BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California and then spent a couple years bathing in the sunshine and smog before moving to Chicago in 2013 to find what was described to her as a “Theatre Mecca”. She found her artistic home in Interrobang Theatre Project in 2014, after she understudied in their production of Owners. She has since appeared in several shows with Interrobang including The Spin, Out of Love, For the Loyal, Still, and The Amish Project (nominated for Best Solo Performance at the 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards). Sarah started a podcast during 2020 during quarantine that explores the lives of ADHD artists, The ADHD Artist Podcast, which can be found on Spotify, Stitcher, and Apple Podcasts. If you don’t like her podcast or her other work, don’t tell her because she is very sensitive and desperately wants you to like her. http://sarahgise05.wixsite.com/sarahgise |
Joe Lino, Ep 3 Guest
Joe Lino is a Chicago actor, playwright and an ensemble member with Interrobang Theatre Project. As an understudy, Joe has been fortunate to obsessively watch and observe (it’s not creepy ok?) many amazing actors in such amazing places as Steppenwolf, Goodman and Drury Lane to name a few. Rumors are currently circulating about the speculation that Joe is in fact a cyborg, and we’re happy to put those rumors to rest and indeed confirm that yes he is. He can’t been seen in anything upcoming, which has nothing to do with being a cyborg, he’s just enjoying the time off. |
Emjoy Gavino, Ep 2 Guest
Emjoy Gavino is a 3Arts Make a Wave grantee, associate artistic director and casting director for The Gift Theatre and the founder of The Chicago Inclusion Project. As an understudy, Emjoy has gotten to play princesses (Mirror of the Invisible World, Goodman Theatre), a teacher and her student (Hana’s Suitcase, Chicago Children’s Theatre), a teenage runaway, a savvy cat and a singing ghost (Kafka on the Shore, Steppenwolf Theatre), a strong willed ex-girlfriend, a loving little sister, and a flying ghost (A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre). Last night she dreamed that the Culinary Institute of America rejected her application and to make herself feel better she ordered a pizza and then the rest of the dream was just her eating the pizza. She currently wants pizza. Students, parents and teachers can hear her on the Animal Farm radio play (Steppenwolf for Young Adults) where she voices a hen and a goat. |
Josh Kemper, Ep 1 Guest
Josh Kemper is a Chicago-based actor, an out-of-work waiter, and a not-making-money-yet entrepreneur. He most recently, and by that he means a year ago, understudied the title role in Here Lies Henry (Interrobang Theatre Project) with co-hosts Scott and Elana. He has also performed/understudied with many Chicago storefronts such as Hell in a Handbag, Black Button Eyes Productions, and Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Arlington Heights. When not dreaming about the dismantling of the patriarchy of both politics and theatre, Josh spent his 2020 pandemic creating a strategic storytelling party card game called It's Kind of a Fun Story. It will be released in April 2021 and can be pre-ordered on itskindofafunstory.com. |