Pat Whalen hails from Buffalo, New York and is thrilled to be working with Sideshow. He is a company member at Jackalope Theatre Co., and hosts Chicago's only late-night talk-show news alternative, Good Evening with Pat Whalen (besteveningever.com). Past productions include Jackalope's Exit Strategy, Clybourne Park at Redtwist, and Steep Theatre's The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle. Pat is proud to be represented by Stewart Talent. Magic is Real. The End.

McKenzie is pleased to return to Sideshow after appearing in Idomeneus in 2012. She recently appeared in the world premier of Bobbie Clearly at Steep Theatre Company, and has worked with A Red Orchid Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company, Artemisia, Stage Left, and Pavement Group. She has performed original spoken word poery at Constellation, Salonathon and The Fly Honey Show. She is a 2015/16 Leonore Annenberg Fellow and her feature film Olympia (writer, producer, actor) is currently in post-production. She is represented by Actors Talent Group.

Mary Williamson graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in acting and is a member of the multi-disciplinary arts organization The Inconvenience. She has worked with several companies around Chicago including: Steppenwolf, Goodman, The Hypocrites, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Next, TimeLine, Griffin, Redtwist, ATC, Redmoon, About Face, Dog and Pony, Jackalope, Red Tape, Stage Left, Emerald City, Lifeline, Strawdog, Sideshow, Haven, LiveWire and The New Colony. Most recently she could be seen in the world premiere of Ike Hotler's Sender at A Red Orchid Theatre, and as the host of The Fly Honey Show with The Inconvenience. When she is not acting she is working as a designer, writer, producer and visual artist.

Lindsey is thrilled to be making her Sideshow debut. Some previous credits include: Love's Labour's Lost (The Commission Theatre Co.), Funnyman (Northlight Theatre), Grizzly Mama (Rivendell Theatre), Psychodramatic (Sick by Seven at A Red Orchid Theatre), Dictionary Project (Strawdog Theatre). She was a member of the Apprentice Company at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, is a founding member of The Commission Theatre Co and is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent. Much love to Conner.

Paloma is happy to be returning to Sideshow Theatre Company where she appeared in the 2015 production of Antigonick. Recent theatre credits include Bobbie Clearly (Steep Theatre), Our Lady of 121st Street (Eclipse Theatre) and The Play About My Dad (Raven Theatre). TV credits include Chicago Med (NBC), Chicago PD (NBC), Empire (FOX), and Underemployed (MTV). Paloma is represented by the wonderful people at Stewart Talent and NV Talent, and is a proud company member of Jackalope Theatre. Thank you to Marti, Calamity, Sideshow, my family and friends, and to Ryan.

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Matt proudly serves as producing artistic director of Sideshow Theatre Company, where he was last seen in Mai Dang Lao and both iterations of Stupid Fucking Bird. Other performance credits include Idomeneus (Jeff Award for ensemble), The Golden Dragon, Tyrant, Heddatron, Theories of the Sun, Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), and others (Sideshow Theatre Company); The Killer Angels (Lifeline Theatre); Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens); Common Hatred (The Ruckus); As Told by the Vivian Girls (Dog & Pony); Chicago Fire (NBC) and two seasons with The Lost Colony on Roanoke Island, NC. Matt received his BA in drama at the University of Virginia.

Marti Lyons

director

Marti most recently directed The City of Conversation by Anthony Giardina for Northlight Theatre Company; Prowess by Ike Holter for Jackalope Theatre Company; Wondrous Strange by Meg Miroshnik, Martyna Majok, Jen Silverman, and Jiehae Park for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, starring the theatre's Apprentice Company; and a reading of Meg Miroshnik's Lady Tattoo for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory Theatre. Marti has also directed Will Eno’s Title and Deed for Lookingglass Theatre Company and a reading of Martín Zimmerman's On the Exhale for the New Stages Festival at Goodman Theatre where she received the 2015 Maggio Directing Fellowship. Other projects include Laura Marks’ Bethany, Marks' Mine and Will Nedved’s Body and Blood for The Gift Theatre where she is an ensemble member; Catherine Trieschmann’s Hot Georgia Sunday and Theresa Rebeck's Seminar for Haven Theatre; The Peacock by Calamity West and The Last Duck by Lucas Neff for Jackalope Theatre; The Play About My Dad by Boo Killebrew for Raven Theatre; Mai Dang Lao by David Jacobi, 9 Circles by Bill Cain, Maria/Stuart by Jason Grote, and co-directed The Golden Dragon for Sideshow Theatre, where she is an artistic associate. Later this season Marti will direct Wit by Margaret Edson for The Hypocrites, Short Shakes! Romeo and Juliet for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Mystery of Love and Sex by Bathsheba Doran for Writers Theatre, and Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías for Victory Gardens Theatre. Marti is a proud member of SDC.

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William Boles

scenic designer

William is a Jeff-nominated Chicago-based scenic designer. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites (community member), American Theater Company, A Red Orchid Theatre, About Face Theatre (associate artist), Chicago Children's Theatre, Sideshow (artistic associate), Emerald City, Steep Theatre Company, Step-Up Productions, First Floor Theatre, Opera Northwestern. Regional: Children's Theatre Company, Wolftrap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Rep, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Arizona Broadway Playhouse. International: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. Upcoming productions include The Sneetches at Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis and King of the Yees by Lauren Yee at Goodman Theatre. MFA, Northwestern.

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Izumi Inaba

costume designer

Izumi Inaba is excited to be working again with Sideshow after designing No More Sad Things and The Ugly One. Her recent credits include Learning Curve 3.0 (Albany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects), Comedical Tragedy for Mister Punch (House), You on the Moors Now (The Hypocrites), and Thumbelina (Lifeline). Izumi is thankful for all Chicago companies for their supports and opportunities to work on new plays. A recipient of 2014 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, and MFA in stage design, Northwestern University.

Michael Stanfill

lighting designer

Michael Stanfill is glad to be back with Sideshow having designed last season's Mai Dang Lao. Favorite designs include: Becky Shaw, The Mandrake (Red Orchid); State of the Union (Strawdog); Sunset Blvd, Footloose, Cabaret (Timber Lake Playhouse); Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret (Silk Road Rising); After the Revolution (Portland Playhouse); Dirty, Thinner Than Water, Bethany,The Royal Society of Antarctica, Body and Blood (The Gift); Seminar, Hot Georgia Sunday (Haven Theater); Bad Jews (Theater Wit); Barefoot in the Park (Step Up); The Play About My Dad (Raven), In the Heat of the Night (Shattered Globe, Jeff Nominated), Prowess (Jackalope). His work has been seen with the Chicago Humanities Festival as lighting designer and technical liaison. Michael is also a Jeff-nominated projection designer. He has taught at Columbia College Chicago, The Governor’s School of North Carolina, and is currently a Professor at Southern Oregon University. He holds an MFA in lighting design from Northwestern University.

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Matthew Chapman

sound designer

Matt's recent work includes The Burials (Steppenwolf SYA), Prowess (Jackalope), American Beauty Shop (Chicago Dramatists), The Few with Steep Theatre, where he is an artistic associate and has also designed for Posh, The Cheats, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, Motortown, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, The Knowledge, 2000 Feet Away and Harper Regan. Other recent work includes Kill Floor (ATC), Ten 2016 (Gift), The Orchestra(Akvavit), Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Backroom Shakespeare), Butcher (Signal), Body and Blood (Gift) and Balm in Gilead (Griffin). You can next hear his work in Earthquakes in London (Steep).

Jamie Karas

properties designer

Jamie Karas is excited to be working with Sideshow Theatre for the first time! She is the prop shop supervisor at Loyola University and freelances around Chicago. Some of these theatres include: Steep Theatre, About Face Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf, House Theatre, Rivendell Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, Haven Theatre, and Windy City Playhouse.

Colleen Layton

stage manager

Colleen is excited to be working with Sideshow Theatre again after stage managing Mai Dang Lao, Caught, and Give It All Back. Colleen's other stage management credits in Chicago include Troll (Fraud and Phony Theatre Collective), The Lisbon Traviata (Eclipse Theatre Company), and Feathers and Teeth (Goodman Theatre). She has also had the pleasure to work the Repertory Theatre of St Louis, the Byre Opera, and the Royal Ballet.

Jennifer Aparicio

production manager

Jennifer Aparicio is excited to be working with Sideshow for the first time. She has been working in the Chicago theater scene for the past few years as a production manager and a stage manager. Previous production manager credits include work with Teatro Vista (Parachute Men, In the Time of the Butterflies, Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, My Mañana Comes, Between You, Me, and the Lampshade, Tamer of Horses, A View from the Bridge), Pegasus Players (Blacula, The Youth Playwright’s Festival) and 16th Street Theater (Book Club Play, Living Large in a Mini Kind of Way). As a stage manager, credits include work with 16th Street Theater (Carroll Gardens, Book Club Play, Mariposa Nocturna, Graveyard of Empires, The Gun Show and Empanada for a Dream), Lifeline Theatre (Sparky!, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Arnie the Doughnut, Last of the Dragons), and Teatro Luna (Machos, S-E-X Oh!). She is also an artistic associate with Teatro Vista and 16th Street Theater.

Bobby Kennedy

dramaturg

Bobby is the literary manager at Writers Theatre, where he oversees the company's new work program and curates its audience engagement series. Dramaturgy credits at WT include Julius Caesar (world premiere adaptation), Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf (world premiere), Arcadia, Marjorie Prime, Isaac's Eye, Hedda Gabler, Port Authority, The Letters and Do the Hustle (world premiere), among others. Other dramaturgy credits include: Body & Blood (The Gift Theatre, world premiere), American Beauty Shop (Steppenwolf First Look), The Luck of the Irish (Next Theatre Company) and the world premieres of two Calamity West plays: Ibsen Is Dead (Interrobang Theatre Project) and The Peacock (Jackalope Theatre Company). Kennedy co-founded The Spontaneous Theater Project in Boston and is an alumnus of Boston University.

Brian Sprague

technical director

Brian Sprague graduated from Northern Illinois University with his MFA in acting. He received his BA in theatre from the University of Kentucky. He has performed and studied internationally at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Adana State Theatre in Turkey. Technical direction credits include Give It All Back, The Happiest Place on Earth (Sideshow Theatre), Earthquakes in London (Steep Theatre), Beauty and the Beast Jr. (ACE), Breathing Corpses, The Seafarer, November and The Clean House (Actors Guild of Lexington).