Ann James is a Sideshow ensemble member and has appeared in its productions Caught, Antigonick, Maria/Stuart and Idomeneus. Among the companies with whom she has also worked are Chicago Shakespeare, 16th Street, Goodman, Jackalope, Organic, Pivot Arts, Provision, Shattered Globe and Stage Left. She is the founding director of Chicspeare Production Company, which has brought Shakespeare alive for more than 100,000 Chicago area residents in the past 20 years.

Jennifer saw her first play at age 10 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. After graduating from Viterbo University with a BA in theatre arts, she moved to Minneapolis to be in her first professional play… at… the Guthrie! She and her husband, Garry Henderson, then moved to New York where she worked on television commercials and played the role of Detective Chris Egan on the soap opera, The Edge of Night. When the soap went off the air they moved to Los Angeles where Jennifer continued to work in commercials and in day player roles on television shows such as Highway to Heaven, The Bob Newhart Show and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. After their son Riley was born, they moved to Chicago. Signed with the Stewart Talent Agency, Jennifer continued in commercials, played Becky in the television show Prison Break, and was featured in films including Derailed, The Lucky Ones and Weatherman. After the birth of their daughter Lily, they decided to call Chicago home. Her most recent stage role was the lovely ‘Dinah’ in The Quality of Life at The Den Theatre. Jennifer also owns Painted Board Studio where she custom paints furniture.

Mary Anne was most recently seen in Backstage Theatre’s production of A Scent of Flowers. She has also worked with a number of other Chicago area theaters, including Project 891, Griffin Theatre, 13Carat Productions, Halcyon Theatre, Buffalo Theater Ensemble, Bailiwick Repertory (1.0), Prop Thtr, and Circle Theater. She is a member Emeritus of Babes With Blades, a company specializing in plays featuring stage combat roles for women. Mary Anne has recently studied acting with Black Box Studios, Jeffrey Carlson and Susan Hart.

Nate has worked in Chicago with Sideshow (Antigonick, Stupid Fucking Bird, Maria/Stuart, Idomeneus, Strangerland at Chicago Fringe Fest 2011, and Heddatron), the Goodman (Carlyle, New Stages Festival 2014), 16th Street Theatre (Pinoklandia), Jackalope Theatre Company (The Peacock), and The Ruckus (Common Hatred at RhinoFest). He has worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC) and in 2007 at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca) as a member of the Lab Company. Nate graduated in 2008 from the University of Virginia with a degree in drama and a minor in Afro American studies. He graduated high school in Guatemala City and grew up in Latin America. He is proud to be an ensemble member with Sideshow where he treads the boards as Charlie No Pants for the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers and helms Sideshow's new play development program, The Freshness Initiative. Nate sends love to his family, the gutter, the dirt, the youth of America and to Elizabeth Anne.

Scottie Caldwell is honored to be a part of this production! She is an artist-in-residence with The Ruckus. She was most recently seen in The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It, or The Train Play with Will Act for Food and Common Hatred with The Ruckus. She has also worked with Teatro Vista, Redmoon Theater, New Leaf Theatre, and The Gift Theatre Company, among others. She received her BA from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded the T. Braxton Woody award for French and the William Demoville Pettway Prize for Drama, and she appears in the web series The Scarlet Line.

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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Nick Sieben

scenic designer

Nick Sieben is excited to work with Sideshow Theatre Company for the first time! Past designs include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Bailiwick Chicago), 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Pancake Breakfast and 11:11 (The New Colony). He is a proud graduate of Loyola University. He would like to thank his cat, Button.

Kristen DeiTos

costume designer

Kristin is happy to be working again with Sideshow Theatre Company. Her past work with Sideshow includes 9 Circles, The Burden of Not Having a Tail, Maria/Stuart and Idomeneus. Her design work as also been seen at Lookingglass Theatre, Actors Gymnasium, Steppenwolf Garage, LiveWire Theatre, and American Blues Theater. Kristin is currently the costumer to the John G. Shedd Aquarium, as well as a costume technician for Paramount Theatre Company in Aurora. In 2010, along with Sarah E. Ross, Kristin was awarded the Mid-size Costume Design Joseph Jefferson Award for Tobacco Road. Kristin is a proud ensemble member of American Blues Theater.

Mac Vaughey

lighting designer

Mac is a Chicago based lighting designer. Mac is a two-time Jeff Award nominee for his work with the Sideshow Theatre Company (The Ugly One, Idomeneus). Additional credits include work with Chicago Dramatists, The Gift Theatre, Victory Gardens, About Face Theatre, Bailiwick Chicago, Stage Left Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company,The Piven Theatre Workshop, The New Colony, Collaboraction, The American Theatre Company, Renaissance Theatre Works (Milwaukee, WI), Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, the Steppenwolf Garage, The Oak Park Festival Theatre, Theater Seven of Chicago, the among many others. Mac is the resident lighting designer at the 16th Street Theatre in Berwyn, as well as an artistic associate at Teatro Luna and Premiere Theatre & Performance. Mac is also the master electrician for Timeline Theatre Company, The American Theatre Company, Light Opera Works and the Northwestern University School of Music.

Christopher Kriz

sound designer

Christopher works nationally as a composer and sound designer. In Chicago, Chris has designed for companies including Writers Theatre, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Victory Gardens and Timeline. Some recent Chicago credits include The Letters (Writers Theatre), The Whipping Man (Northlight Theatre), Vigils (Gift Theatre), The City and The City (Lifeline Theatre) and After the Revolution (Next Theatre). Recent regional credits include The Nerd (Peninsula Players), Fall of the House (Theatre Squared) and the national tour of America Amerique (Jena Company). Chris has received five Jeff nominations and two awards, most recently an Equity Jeff Award for Turn of the Screw (First Folio). Upcoming productions include Creditors (Remy Bumppo), Yellow Moon (Writers Theatre) and Big Love (Strawdog Theatre). Chris is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

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Peter W. Schmidt

properties designer

Peter grew up in rural Minnesota. After he received his BA in fine art studio at Southwestern Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota he went on to get his MFA in scenic design from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 2012. In 2010 he received a certificate for his studies at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. This is his second Sideshow production. He was the assistant TD on Idomeneus. He is currently working at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as the 2012/13 props apprentice.

Shelby Glasgow

stage manager

Shelby is excited to be working with her Sideshow family once again after cleaning up sand for the Jeff Award-winning Idomeneus, cleaning up food and broken dishes for Maria/Stuart, and cleaning up beach balls and other apocalypse survival supplies for The Burden of Not Having a Tail. Shelby has also had the pleasure of stage managing for Nebraska Theatre Caravan (A Christmas Carol), Lookingglass Theatre Company (Adventures with Aladdin!), The Strange Tree Group (The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen), and Lifeline Theatre (A Tale of Two Cities and The Killer Angels). Shelby received her BFA in stage management from the University of Central Florida.

Benjamin W. Dawson

production manager

Ben is an artistic associate with Sideshow and is overjoyed to be working with this talented group of miscreants once again. He has worked with the likes of the Goodman, the Santa Fe Opera and The History Channel, to name a few. He is currently the associate technical director at Lookingglass Theatre and the production manager at Lifeline Theatre. In his spare time he produces shows in his living room, for aliens and dogs, using only Lego bricks and mini figures.

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.

Shawn Rutledge

technical director

This is Shawn's second technical direction credit with Sideshow Theatre Company, though he has worked with them before in a construction capacity on several projects. Previous Chicago credits also include work with Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, and other small venues throughout the years. He is, as always, joyful to help bring the visions of the creative to life, so as to brighten our own reality from time to time.