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Josh Altman
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Josh’s Chicago directing credits include The Glass Menagerie, with Redtwist, Iphigeneia at
Aulis, with Lights out Theatre
Company and The Narrows with Red Tape.
Josh has had the pleasure of assisting
directors like David Cromer, Pam MacKinnon,
Charles Newell and William Brown at
Steppenwolf, Court, Writers’ and TimeLine.
He is also a Teaching Artist with TimeLine
Theatre and was previously the Media
Relations Associate at Redmoon Theater. Josh
has also worked with Next, Piven and Mary
Arrchie and is a graduate of Tufts
University, where he adapted and directed
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Olivia Leah Baker
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Olivia recently designed the costumes for Redtwist's production of A Body of Water. She is currently attending the Illinois Institute
of Art in Chicago for fashion design and interning with Anna G Costumes
with hopes of becoming a costume designer. She worked with the St. Louis
Backdoor Theatre Gang on Guys & Dolls, Pajama Game, Macbeth, and Timeless Clock; Equus(2010), A Delicate Balance, Man From Nebraska, Bug, That Face, Elling, Opus, Cripple of Inishmaan, The Glass Menagerie, Broken Glass, Purple Heart, and Reverb at Redtwist Theatre, Opus at Theatre on the Lake, The Last Night of Ballyhoo with Project 891 Theatre, worked in the costume department for Redmoon Theatre’s 2012 Spectacle Lunatique, and made costumes for The Stagedoor Johnnies.
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Christopher Burpee
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Redtwist design credits include A Body of Water, Purple
Heart, Broken Glass, Opus, The Laramie Project, Ten Years Later, Man
From Nebraska, Shining City, Lobby Hero, Dracula, A Delicate Balance,
Equus, The Pillowman, Lettuce and Lovage, Waiting for Godot, The Ride Down Mt Morgan, Aura, The Goat, and Marvin’s Room. Other recent designs include Avenue Q
for NightBlue at Stage 773. Chris is a
graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul
University. In addition to designing, Chris
is the Auditorium Technical Director at Northeastern Illinois
University.
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Michael
Colucci
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Michael is the
founder and Artistic Director of Redtwist
Theatre, and has directed many of the plays
here, including That Face, Equus (2010), Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Hotels, A
View from the Bridge, Les Liaisons
Dangereuses, All My Sons, Broken Glass and Praying Small.
He has also been seen on stage at Redtwist
as Dr. Hyman in Broken Glass, Martin in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, George
in Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Eddie
Carbone in A View from the Bridge and
Joe Keller in All My Sons. In
addition, Michael has worked at various
theatres in Chicago, including
Court, Victory Gardens, TimeLine, and
ATC. He is also a member of the Jeff
Committee's Artistic and Technical Team.
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Johnny Garcia
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Johnny is
the Development Outreach Coodinator and has
been associated with the company since its
itinerant days. He has appeared in Dracula: A
Tragedy, The Pillowman, Praying Small,
Extremities, A View from the Bridge,
and True
West, co-directed Three Hotels
and worked behind the scenes throughout the
years on various productions. He was a major
force in preparing the theatre for its Grand
Reopening.
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Jacqueline
Grandt
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Jacqueline's
roles at Redtwist include Sylvia in Broken Glass, Mother in The Glass Menagerie, Martha in That Face,
Agnes in Bug (Jeff Award for Principal Actress),
Julia in A
Delicate Balance, Joy Gresham
in Shadowlands
(Jeff recommended), Roma in Glengarry Glen
Ross, Merteuil in Les Liaisons
Dangereuses (Jeff recommended),
Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane,
Claire in Proof,
and Sylvia in Broken Glass. Other
favorite roles include Stella in A Streetcar
Named Desire and Audrey in Little Shop of
Horrors. most recently, she
portrayed Leah in The Ride Down Mount Morgan.
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Jan Ellen Graves
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Jan is
Redtwist's Managing Director and does the
advertising and design, oversees the
technical/physical aspects of the theatre,
and has appeared in a number of Redtwist
shows including A Body of Water, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Man from Nebraska, A Delicate
Balance, Lettice and Lovage, The Ride Down
Mount Morgan, Three Hotels (Jeff
recommended), Marvin's Room, A View from the
Bridge, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Doubt,
Equus
(Jeff nominated), The Last Yankee, Praying Small,
Liars & Angels, Praying Small,
and All
My Sons (Jeff recommended). She
directed Arthur Miller's The American
Clock and the world premiere of the
Jeff Nominated Aura at Redtwist.
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K.C. Karen Hill
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K.C. recently
appeared as R.C. in Redtwist's production of
Purple Heart (Jeff Recommended) Tracy Lett's BUG (Jeff Recommended).
Other Redtwist roles include Mm. De Volanges
in Les
Liaisons Dangereuses (Jeff
Recommended), and Lee in Marvin's Room.
Other Chicago credits include Caliban in The Tempest,
Paulina in The Seagull, and Egeus in
Midsummer
Night's Dream, with GroundUp
Theatre, Lady Capulet in Romeo and
Juliet with Two Pence Shakespeare
Theatre. Julia in The Last Judgement, and
Donna in The
Potato Chip Eater (A new works
festival created for Second City's
former AD the late Martin De Maat) Boxer
Rebellion Theatre. Lady in The Peep Hole/Second
City in Donny's Sky Box directed by Michael
Pieper. Union house
credits include Kansas City Repertory
Theatre and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City.
She has Bachelor's degree in acting from
University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Tommy
Lee
Johnston
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Tommy Lee last
appeared on stage at Redtwist in Bug. He has
also appeared his original Jeff-nominated
play Aura
as well as Marvin's Room, Family
Malfunction, and the world premiere
of Praying
Small with Redtwist/AWT. He's
written and performed in Life's Tremors,
Gifted,
Time Frame.
He recently appeared in an episode of The Beast
on A&E television and on assorted TV
commercials.
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Christopher
Kriz
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Christopher works nationally as a composer and sound designer. Previous Redtwist designs include Purple Heart The Cripple Of Inishmaan, Bug and Opus
(Non Equity Jeff Award - Best Sound Design) and nearly 20 others. In
Chicago, Chris has designed for companies including Writers Theatre,
Northlight, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Remy Bumppo, Next,
Gift, First Folio, Timeline, Chicago Dramatists, Lifeline, Teatro Vista,
Theatre Wit and many more. Chris has been nominated for 9 Joseph
Jefferson Awards and has received 2, most recently the Equity Jeff Award
for Best Sound Design for Turn Of The Screw at First
Folio. Chris is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
To hear more of his work, please visit www.christopherkriz.com
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E. Malcolm
Martinez
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Malcolm has
served at Redtwist Theatre as co-director of
Otherwise
Engaged, A View from the Bridge,
and Who’s
Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,
assistant director of Proof
and Waiting
For Godot, and stage manager of The Beauty
Queen Of Leenane and The Ride Down
Mount Morgan. He has also written
and directed for Theatre Under The Influence
and Theatre On The Rocks in the great city
of Seattle, as well as working in film and
video in Milwaukee, Seattle, New Orleans,
Los Angeles and Chicago. He is frequently assists at Redtwist's box office.
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Dan
McNamara
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Dan has appeared
in Redtwist's Liars and Angels one-acts,
The
American Clock, All My Sons, Proving Mr.
Jennings, and Otherwise
Engaged. When not on stage, he can
be found in the audience checking out other
shows around town.
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Peter
Oyloe
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Peter made his
Chicago dramatic debut at Redtwist as Alan
in Equus
for which he received the Jeff Award for
Best Actor in a Lead. He was also Jeff
Nominated for his work on the score for Equus.
Recently, he received the Jeff Award for
Best Supporting Actor in The Pillowman
at Redtwist and also nominated for his role in Elling.
Since then Peter has worked with Porchlight
in their productions of Ragtime
and Phantom,
La Costa Theatre Company, Theatre Building
Chicago, and AMTP at Northwestern. He has
been in several independent films, one of
which is on its way to the Cannes Film
Festival in May. He is represented by Aria
Talent. Peter also spends much time as a
Folk/Rock Singer/Songwriter. He can be seen
performing around town when not in plays.
www.peteroyloe.com.
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Brian
Parry
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Brian recently
appeared on the Redtwist stage as Moss in A Body of Water, as JohnnyPateenMike in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Carl in
Opus, Alfons Jorgenson in Elling.
Other Redtwist roles include John in Shining City
(Jeff Award, Best Actor in a Supporting
Role), Tobias in A Delicate Balance (one of
three Redtwist nominees for Best Production
in 2011), Martin Dysart in Equus (2010),
Ken Hoyle in Three Hotels, Shelly
Levene in the gender-bent Glengarry,
Glen Ross, Jack Lewis in Shadowlands
Agent Psmith in the U.S. premiere of Proving Mr.
Jennings (named one of the Top 5
Stage Productions of 2006 by NewCity),
Robert in Proof,
and Dysart in Equus (2007-nominated for
5 Jeff Awards including Best Production.)
Elsewhere he’s been seen as Snelgrave in
Eclipse Theatre's production of One Flea Spare,
Pere Marriott in Lifeline Theatre's original
adaptation of Mariette in Ecstasy and as
Bobby's Father in Steep Theatre's Coronado.
Brian has also worked with The Goodman,
Court, Northlight, and Wisdom Bridge as well
as the Oak Park and Illinois Shakespeare
Festivals.
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Allison Queen
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Allison served as the stage manager for Reverb, Purple Heart, The Glass Managerie, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, and Opus. She was also a production assistant for The Cripple of Inishmaan.
After receiving her BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Stage Management
from The University of Oklahoma in 2008, she moved to Chicago to begin
her career. She has worked with many other Chicago companies including
Oak Park Festival Theatre, Theatre-Hikes, Oracle, Raven Theatre, Theatre
Wit, Factory Theatre, Emerald City Children’s Theatre, Lincoln Square
Theatre, and Collaboraction.
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Mary Reynard
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Mary often serves as vocal coach for Redtwist
productions. She recently directed A Body of Water at Redtwist. She received her training from legenday acting coach and
voice over talent Ted Liss, Del Close of Second City, Geoffrey Conner,
vocal coach to the National Theatre of Great Britain, David Parry,
Malcolm McKay, June Kemp, and Robert Palmer of RADA, Norman Gulbrensen
at Northwestern University and Gisela Goettling at the American Academy
of Music.
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Debra Rodkin
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Debra is a
member of the acting company and you've seen
her here in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Equus x 2
(Dora), Glengarry Glen Ross (Aaranow), Beauty Queen
of Leenane (Mag), and others. You
can find her this fall as the title
character in Miss Fortune for Lincoln
Square Theatre in the Fringe Festival.
Recently onstage in Steel
Magnolias for SSP, Beau Jest
for Big Noise Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre's
TYA company in The Devil's Arithmetic,
and as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and
Nat in Rabbit
Hole, both for NightBlue Theatre.
Debra voiced a training series for Walgreens
and did a webisode for HBO's True Blood.
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