Nina's credits with Sideshow include Chalk, Stupid Fucking Bird, The Ugly One and Heddatron. Nina was most recently seen in The Other Place (Profiles Theatre). Other credits include: Golden Boy (Griffin Theatre Company-Jeff Nomination for Best Supporting Actress); Bedroom Farce, After the Fall, Candles to the Sun and Democracy (Eclipse Theatre Company); Our Town (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Sketchbook 7 - "It's About Time" (Collaboraction) and work with About Face Theatre, Timeline, and Steep Theatre. TV/Film credits include Chicago PD, The Secret Santa, and The Discovery Channel. Nina is a proud graduate of the School at Steppenwolf and Millikin University. She is represented by Stewart Talent and an artistic associate of Sideshow Theatre. Love to Dad, Mom, Patrick, Erin and Erik.

Megan A. McGuane

director

Megan is a founding ensemble member for Sideshow Theatre. She served as the company's executive director from 2007 - 2016. She works with Sideshow Theatre directing world or Chicago premieres (Chalk, Tyrant, The Burden of Not Having a Tail, Theories of the Sun, Ekphrasis: Cave Walls to Soup Cans), and with Southern Illinois University (Joan's Laughter). Megan recently directed We Are Very Small, a sketch comedy show written by Tom McGuane at iO Chicago, and the world premiere of Target Behavior by Caity-Shea Violette with 20% Theater Company. Megan wrestles from time to time as The Cutting Edge for the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLLAW). She is a proud graduate of the Catholic University of America.

Megan Truscott

scenic designer

Megan is thrilled to be joining Sideshow for the first time with Chalk. Selected credits include Blues in the Night, Ring of Fire, Forever Plaid (Milwaukee Rep); Good People, Next to Normal, A Christmas Carol (TheatreSquared); A Funny Thing Happened...Forum (Porchlight); Wild Party, Dessa Rose, Murder Ballad (Bailiwick Chicago); Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) (Jackalope); Harry and the Thief, Buddy Cop 2 (Pavement Group); Royal Society of Antarctica (The Gift); and Our Town (DePaul University). Upcoming productions include Once Upon a Mattress (Wilmette Parks District). Megan is a resident designer with Bailiwick Chicago and will be pursuing her MFA at Northwestern this fall.

Lauren Josef

costume designer

Lauren recently received her MFA in costume design from Southern Illinois University, and is very excited to be returning to Chicago to design costumes for Sideshow Theatre Company's production of Chalk. At SIU, Lauren worked with Megan A. Smith designing costumes for Joan's Laughter by Jacob Juntunen. Other designs include The Children's Hour, Clybourne Park, Fool for Love, and Reasons to Be Pretty. This summer she will be returning to Glimmerglass Festival in upstate New York, and will be moving to the Boston area in the fall. A huge thank you to Megan for thinking of her, and Julie and Tim for the awesome digs.

Eric Van Tassell

lighting designer

Eric is pleased to be working with Sideshow Theatre Company for the first time. Eric often works with Oracle Theatre including lighting design for Romulus, The President, The Mother (nominated Broadway World Chicago Award for Best Non-Equity Lighting), all three main stage productions of Radio Goggles, Woyzeck, Termen Vox Machina, and The Ghost Sonata (nominated Non-Equity Jeff Award for Lighting Design). Other Chicago lighting credits include Genesis (Definition Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Strange Loop Theatre), Bard Fiction (Commedia Beauregard), A Klingon Christmas Carol (2012) which he also directed, Beautiful Broken (Broken Nose Theatre), and They Are Dying Out (Trap Door Theatre). This fall Eric will be starting his first year at the University of Illinois where he will be earning an MFA in lighting design. Special thanks to Katie for, well, everything.

Michael Huey

sound designer

Michael is a composer for film and theatre who has had the pleasure of working with such companies as Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Sideshow, Adventure Stage, North Park University, Filament, and many others. Music and more can be found at officialmichaelhuey.com.

Mealah Heidenreich

properties designer

Mealah is happy to be back at Sideshow Theatre Company after propping Chalk in 2015. Some of her other designs include Caged Dames and Miracle! with Hell in a Handbag, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Ain't Misbehavin' with Porchlight Music Theatre, Really Really with Interrobang Theatre Project, Hello Dolly! and Carousel with Light Opera Works. Mealah would like to thank her real wife Debbie and her fake husband Isaac for always helping her carry the big props.

Shannon Golden

stage manager

Shannon Golden is very excited to be working with Sideshow Theatre Company for the first time on Chalk. Shannon recently moved to the lovely city of Chicago and has worked with theatres such as Strawdog Theatre, The Other Theatre Company, and A Red Orcid Theatre. Most recently she was the stage management intern on The Upstairs Concierge at Goodman Theatre.

Aaron Shapiro

production manager

Aaron Shapiro is a Chicago based freelance production manager. His recent credits include Disenchanted and Unspeakable at the Broadway Playhouse, Jeff-nominated productions of Heathers with Kokandy Productions, The Rainmaker with American Blues Theatre, Stupid Fucking Bird with Sideshow Theatre, Dreamgirls, Far from Heaven, Sweeney Todd, A Funny Thing Happened, Side Show, and Jeff Award-winning productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Sondheim on Sondheim with Porchlight Music Theatre where he is an artistic associate. Aaron was the founding artistic director for Oracle where he served for 4 years. He is also the co-founder of Studio BE/MCL Chicago in Lakeview where served as executive director for 5 years. Aaron has worked for over 80 different theatre and production companies, and educational institutions as an electrician, carpenter, sound engineer, designer, tech director, director, production manager, and producer.

Ryan Milosevich

technical director

Ryan is excited to return for his fifth production with Sideshow Theatre Company. Recent works include being technical director for Sideshow's Stupid Fucking Bird, Tyrant, The Golden Dragon, and 9 Circles, Profiles Theatre’s HellCab, and Citadel Theatre Company’s Little Women and Other People's Money. Additional credits include work with Lookingglass Theatre, Haven Theatre, The New Colony Theatre, and American Blues Theater. Meanwhile, Ryan has a full-time job working a Ravenswood Studio Inc. creating interactive museum exhibits both (local and traveling), building giant opera sets, and a lot of other cool stuff.