John Bonner grew up in Virginia and received a degree from the University of Virginia. He has worked multiple jobs and lived in multiple cities, occasionally acting in independent and student films. He’s extremely happy to be working with his friends at Sideshow again and loves living in Chicago. Recent credits include Hamlet (Firebelly Productions) and Everything Freezes: another winter's tale (Sideshow).

Lea is thrilled to be a part of this amazing play. Other Chicago credits include: Henry V (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Medea with Child (Sideshow Theatre Company); The Arsonists (Strawdog Theatre Company); 500 Clown Trapped (500 Clown); Lighthousekeeping (A New Leaf Theatre); The Improv Play (InFusion Theatre Company); and The Elephant and the Whale (Chicago Children's Theatre), as well as productions with Lucky Plush Dance Company, Redmoon and About Face Theatre. Ms. Pascal received her MA from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, she is a graduate of L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France, and the Second City Conservatory. Lea also writes comedy, is adapting a novel for stage, and has upcoming performances with Miss Spoken: Live Lit by Females.

Andrew is thrilled to make his Chicago theatre debut with Sideshow. Originally from California where he studied acting at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, he spent the last two years in Portland, Oregon where he spent most of his time painting. He would like to thank his friends and family for their endless support.

While working as an actor in New York City, Richard appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, the W.P.A Theater and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. He has acted regionally in over eighty roles in such theatres as The Hippodrome State Theater, GEVA, Florida Studio, Paper Mill Playhouse, P.A.F. Playhouse, Olney Theatre, TheatreVirginia and Heritage Repertory. Performances include roles in: All My Sons, The Price, A Moon for the Misbegotten, King Lear, A Man for All Seasons, Life x 3, Art, Moonlight and Magnolias, Rounding Third, Educating Rita, Later Life, La Bete, Two for the Seesaw, Same Time Next Year, The Foreigner, The Nerd, The Boys Next Door, Rumors, The Dining Room, Little Footsteps, Fools, Absurd Person Singular, How the Other Half Loves, Da, Crucifer of Blood, The Mousetrap, Wait Until Dark, Blithe Spirit, The Rainmaker, Greater Tuna and Sylvia. Film credits include Patriot Son, winner of the 1998 LA Film Fest’s independent short category and selected to screen at the Telluride Festival. He appeared as L.P. Everett in the episode, “The 20% Solution” for the television drama Homicide: Life on the Streets.

Nicole is incredibly honored and excited to work with Sideshow. She hails from the good old Bluegrass state, Kentucky. After graduation from Northern Illinois she made her way to the Windy City. Her previous credits include The Dressing Room with Organic Theatre Company, Unsung Stars with Moving Dock, Teatime at Golgatha with New Found Objects, Salome with Ludicrous Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Artslane. She has been lucky enough to travel and study at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Romanian Theatre with Andras Visky. She wants to thank her family for their constant love and support.

Jonathan L. Green

director

Jonathan has been the artistic director of Sideshow Theatre since its founding in 2007. He has directed and assisted for Sideshow, Greenhouse Theater Center, Lookingglass, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Diversionary Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven of Chicago, Pavement Group and the Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre. Recent projects include truth and reconciliation, The Happiest Place on Earth, Antigonick, Stupid Fucking Bird, Idomeneus (Jeff Award for ensemble), and others. Recent dramaturgy credits include Blind Date, Objects in the Mirror, Gloria, War Paint, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, and Disgraced, all at Goodman Theatre. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Virginia, currently serves on the board of directors of the League of Chicago Theatres, and is the literary manager for Goodman Theatre.

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Joshua Lansing

scenic designer / technical director

Joshua Lansing is very happy to be working with Sideshow Theatre Company again, and is excited for his first design opportunity with the company. Recent theatrical credits includes Ekphrasis: Cave Walls to Soup Cans (Sideshow); Fedra: Queen of Haiti, Arabian Nights, Our Town, The Brothers Karamazov, Lookingglass Alice, Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day, Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass); A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas, Cinderella, Dr. Dolittle, Hansel & Gretel, If You Take a Mouse to School, Aladdin, A Fairy Tail Life, Frosty (Emerald City); Carters Way (Steppenwolf); Gees Bend (Northlight). Recently performed in Dance Chicago and with Innervation Dance Cooperative in Our Own Devices. Joshua has a degree in theatre production/design from Illinois State University.

David B. Hyman

costume designer

David Hyman is a graduate of Northwestern University. He has designed for Soho Rep in NYC (Orange, Hat & Grace directed by Sarah Benson) and, in Chicago, Next Theatre Company (A Very Merry Unauthorized Scientology Pageant), Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company (Cherrywood directed by David Cromer), Pavement Group (punkplay for the Steppenwolf Garage Rep and Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century), Sideshow Theatre Company (Medea with Child, Theories of the Sun and Heddatron) and Northwestern University (How Can You Run With a Shell on Your Back? and many other productions). He has worked as an assistant costume designer for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lookingglass, the Court, The Hypocrites, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Upcoming projects include Pony with About Face Theatre, where he is an artistic associate.

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Kimberlee Winters-Jones

lighting designer

Kimberlee is excited to be working on her second show and first design with Sideshow Theatre Company. She began working in lighting while at a television ministry, where she developed a deep passion for lighting and decided to pursue formal training in theatrical lighting. She graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 2006. Kimberlee has designed and managed electrics for: Don’t Dress for Dinner, Jekyll & Hyde, The Foreigner, Smoke on the Mountain, Over the Tavern, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, all at The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. Other projects include: Hickory Community Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, NC School of the Arts Performance Festival at the Outer Banks; West Stanly Players’ Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and Into the Woods; and Piedmont Opera Theatre’s abridged Cosi fan Tutti, which toured for elementary students throughout North Carolina. She and her husband of 5 years moved to Chicago in the fall of 2008, and have fallen in love with the city. They look forward to future years of involvement in the arts community of Chicago.

Christopher M. LaPorte

sound designer

Christopher's recent design and composition collaborations include Life Sucks, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth (Lookingglass Theatre Company), and Roof of the World (Kansas City Repertory). Chris has collaborated on projects with many local Chicago companies such as Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, 17 productions with Sideshow Theatre Company, Timeline, Porchlight, InFusion, Raven, University Of Illinois Chicago, Interrobang, Emerald City. Regional collaborations include Kansas City Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe (San Diego), Center Stage (Baltimore), Arena Stage (Washington D.C.), Arsht Theatre Center (Miami), Denver Center for the Performing Arts, NY United Solo Festival.

Makena Levine

properties designer

Makena Levine got her start in makin’ stuff as a half wild six-year-old, when, surrounded by her parents’ art supplies, she made her own toys. A playwright and jack-of-most-creative-pursuits, this is her Chicago debut as a props designer. More recently she has stage managed and costume, prop and puppet designed various pieces including Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief by Paula Vogel and The Frog Prince by David Mamet at Sarah Lawrence College. She also produced, devised, wrote and designed The List at Trinity College, Dublin. Makena graduated with her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008.

Jessica R. Fike

stage manager

Jessica is thrilled to be working with Sideshow for the first time. Jessica graduated with her degree in theater and film production from Oral Roberts University and works as a jack of all trades stage manager/asst. stage manager throughout Chicago. Some favorites include The Flu Season with Black Sheep Productions, Jitney with Pegasus Players, Smoke on the Mountain with Provision Theater, as well as The People’s Temple and the rotating repertory of Topdog/Underdog and True West at American Theater Company. She would like to thank her family for their never-ending support and office supply stores everywhere for all the fun, color coded organizational joys that this OCD stage manager lives for.

Jeffrey Gardner

dramaturg

Jeffrey Gardner is a freelance director and dramaturg based in Chicago, and the co-creator and director of Our Fair City, an audio-drama web series (ourfaircity.com). Sideshow dramaturgical credits include Maria/Stuart, The Gacy Play, Heddatron and Medea with Child. Other recent dramaturgical and directing credits include Arcadia (New Leaf Theatre), One Flea Spare (Eclipse Theatre), and G.I.F.T. (Collaboraction). In addition, Jeffrey is an operations manager for the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago.

Betsey Palmer

production manager

Betsey most recently served as Sideshow's production manager. She has applied her OCD to many productions as a stage manager, house manager and wardrobe mistress for companies all over the U.S. and Ireland, and works in both theater and opera. She made her Chicago stage management debut with Sideshow's Everything Freezes, and has since worked with such diverse companies as Collaboraction, Victory Gardens, and Porchlight Music Theatre. She has most recently worked with Collaboraction to stage manage their tenth annual Sketchbook, and she will be co-designing the upcoming workshop production of The Movement: An Evening of Lectures on Better Human Functioning at the University of Chicago's Summer Inc. Program. She also works as a performance artist, deviser and director. She received her BFA in theater studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.