Greg Geffrard is excited to be working with Sideshow Theatre for the first time. His previous Chicago credits include Another Jungle (Cloudgate Theatre); Smart People (Writers Theatre; u/s); Puff: Believe It or Not (Remy Bumppo), Pass Over (Steppenwolf; u/s), Earthquakes in London (Steep Theatre); BBC: Romeo & Juliet (Along The Way Productions); Carroll Gardens (16th Street Theatre); Our Lady of 121st Street (Eclipse Theatre); Carlyle and The Upstairs Concierge (Goodman Theatre), Treasure Island (Lookingglass Theatre); Coming Home (Erasing The Distance); Stick Fly (Windy City Playhouse); A Plank in Reason (Prologue Theatre); HAIR (American Theatre Company); one week in spring (Halcyon Theatre); And the Snow Came Down (Step Up Productions); Bud, Not Buddy (Chicago Children’s Theatre) and Seascape (Remy Bumppo Theatre). TV Credits: Chicago Justice. Proudly represented by Gray Talent Group. Forever grateful for his foundation.

Sigrid Sutter makes her Sideshow Theatre debut. Most recently, she played Klara Müller in Hinter at Steep Theatre. Other Chicago credits include Connie in 3C (A Red Orchid Theatre); Isabella in Measure for Measure, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Back Room Shakespeare Project);  Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oak Park Festival Theatre). Regional credits include Great River Shakespeare Festival, Tectonic Theatre Project, The Playwrights Center, New Jewish Theatre, Workhouse, Red Eye, The Cutting Ball, San Franscico Playhouse, and TheatreWorks. Television and film credits include Chicago Justice (NBC), and Colma: The Musical.

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Lili-Anne Brown

director

A native Chicagoan, Brown works as a director, actor and educator, both locally and regionally.  She is the former artistic director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she directed Dessa Rose (Jeff Award), Passing Strange (BTA Award and Jeff nomination for best director of a musical), See What I Wanna See (Steppenwolf Theatre Garage Rep), and the world premiere of Princess Mary Demands Your Attention by Aaron Holland. Other directing credits include Ike Holter's The Wolf at the End of the Block (16th Street Theatre), Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival), Marie Christine (Boho Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Metropolis Performing Arts), The Wiz (Kokandy Productions),  Xanadu (American Theatre Company), Jabari Dreams of Freedom by Nambi E. Kelley (world premiere, Chicago Children’s Theatre), American Idiot (Northwestern University); the national tour of Jesus Snatched My Edges; and Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Unnecessary Farce, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at Timber Lake Playhouse. She is a member of SDC, SAG-AFTRA, and a graduate of Northwestern University.

William Boles

scenic designer

William Boles is an artistic associate with Sideshow, where his previous design work includes The Golden Dragon, No More Sad Things, Mai Dang Lao, Give it All Back and You for Me for You. Chicago credits: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites, American Theater Company, Timeline, A Red Orchid Theatre, About Face Theatre (associate artist), Chicago Children’s Theatre, Steep Theatre Company, First Floor Theater, among others. Regional credits: Kirk Douglas, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Children’s Theatre Company, Wolf Trap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Repertory Theater Pig Iron Theatre Company, and the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. International credits: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. Boles received his MFA at Northwestern University.

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Izumi Inaba

costume designer

Izumi Inaba is very grateful to be a part of this production. Regional: The King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre in association with Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Who and the What, Animal Farm (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Faceless (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Chicago: Animal Farm, Constellations, The Crucible (Steppenwolf Theatre); An Issue of Blood, The House that Will Not Stand, A Wonder in My Soul (Victory Gardens); SS! A Midsummer Night’s Dream, CPS Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare); The Mousetrap, You Can’t Take It with You, Charm, Faceless (Northlight Theatre); Woyzeck, Adding Machine: A Musical, You on the Moors Now (The Hypocrites); Harvey (Court Theatre). Awards: Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award and Jeff Awards. Education: MFA in stage design, Northwestern University. A member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829.

Jared Gooding

lighting designer

Jared Gooding returns to Sideshow to after designing truth and reconciliation.  Design credits include the associate design of Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass), serving as the lighting assistant for The Wiz Live on NBC, designs for Milwaukee Rep, American Blues, UIC Theatre, Writers Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, The Hypocrites, Timeline Theatre, Madison Children's Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Definition Theatre, Windy City Playhouse, Sideshow Theatre, First Floor Theater, About Face Theatre, MPAACT, Pegasus Theatre, Next Theatre, Congo Square, Citadel Theatre, ETA, and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. He is a company member with MPACCT and an artistic associate at American Blues Theatre. He spends his off time managing a DJ company for Chicago area bars.

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Victoria Deiorio

sound designer

Victoria Deiorio's Off-Broadway credits include: 9 Circles at Sheen Center, A Christmas Carol at St. Clements, Two Point Oh at Primary Stages, The Bluest Eye with Steppenwolf at The Duke Theatre; Cassie’s Chimera at Joe’s Pub (The Public); Arnie the Doughnut at the NY Music Theatre Festival; Ophelia at the NYC Fringe Fest; The God of Hell at the Actor’s Studio (associate); Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams at Primary Stages (associate); Live Girls at Urban Stages (associate); Luminescence Dating at Ensemble Studio Theatre (associate); and Boy at Primary Stages (associate). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens, CenterStage Baltimore, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory and many other theaters in Chicago, Milwaukee, NY and LA. She is the first woman to have been nominated for 13 Joseph Jefferson Awards—winning seven—and she has received two After Dark Awards and a SALT Award. Victoria is the head of sound design at DePaul University.

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Paul Deziel

projection designer

Paul Deziel practices projection design out of Chicago and Washington D.C. Selected credits include: The Vagrant Trilogy (Mosaic Theater Company), Sotto Voce (Theater J), United Flight 232 (The House Theatre), Beauty’s Daughter (American Blues Theater; Equity Jeff nomination), Churchill (SoloChicago), The Glass Menagerie (The Hypocrites), Merge (The New Colony), and Mutt (Red Tape & Stage Left Theatre). Paul is an artistic affiliate with American Blues Theater and a third-year MFA candidate in projection and multimedia design at the University of Maryland. Outside of theatre, Paul enjoys tabletop gaming and fish tacos.

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Amy Peter

properties designer

Amy spends most of her time as the props master at The Theatre School at DePaul University. She was the props designer for TimeLine Theatre Company’s productions of The Price and The Audience. She has also been the props master at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre here in Chicago, Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, and an assistant at The Dallas Theater Center in Dallas, TX and The Skylight Music Theatre on Milwaukee, WI. She has her BFA in technical theatre from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theatre Training Program.

Noelle Simone

choreographer

Noelle Simone has been performing for over sixteen years. She has received all her dance training at the Joel Hall Dancers & Center, Northside Dance Theatre, and Gus Giordano Jazz Dance School. She has worked with multiple dance companies and youth dance companies throughout the Chicago land area, and loves teaching. She has performed with Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul, and has started a career in theatre after receiving her BFA in theatre arts with a concentration in theatre management and a minor in educational studies from The Theatre School at DePaul University. This is Noelle’s first time choreographing for Sideshow Theatre and working with Lili-Anne and Kristiana. Noelle has been working as a choreographer in Chicago for six years, where select credits include: A Little Princess with Windy City Performs, The Light with New Colony, and The Odyssey at the Actors Gymnasium.

Coco Elysses

composer / music director

Coco Elysses is a producer, musician, actress, voice-over artist, screenwriter and poet. Coco completed her MFA in creative writing and was a published poet before graduation. She was a featured musician in the critically claimed FOX drama Empire. In 2014, Coco was a semi-finalist in Lifetime Television's Unscripted Development Pipeline. Coco’s voice can be heard at the Adler Planetarium's Skywatchers of Africa exhibit as well as in several national commercials, and the video games "Saint’s Row," "EverQuest II" and "Watchdogs." In 2015 Coco was a featured actress in George E. Lewis’ film Afterword and in the opera of the same name at The Museum of Contemporary Art. She was also featured in exhibits at the AACM, the DuSable Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art. She performed at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival with Generation Now of the AACM and at the Made in Chicago Jazz Festival in Poznan, Poland with Voice Heard of the AACM. She recently appeared in the Midwest premiere of Detroit '67 at Northlight Theatre, directed by Ron O.J. Parsons. Coco was also a featured musician in the book Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues, and Jazz: A Documentary. Coco performed with the Great Black Music Ensemble of the AACM in Pisa, Italy, Chicago Jazz Festival. She’s performed with Chicago Modern Orchestra Project. She was a featured in Taiko Legacy 8, 10 & 11 at the MCA, and the Miyumi Project at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. A few of her noted recordings were in Chile, South America, with Raiza, on their album Latin Soul (EMI), Nicole Mitchell’s Afrika Rising, Skylanding: The Music of Yoko Ono, and Raw and Alive 1 & 2 with the Miyumi Project. Coco is a member of AFTRA-SAG, AEA, AACM and the AFM.

Melissa F. DuPrey

musician

Actor/playwright/comic/musician Melissa F. DuPrey is a Chicago native from Humboldt Park. After earning double bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston, she returned to Chicago to join the all-Latina theatre company, Teatro Luna. Her one-woman show, SEXomedy, debuted in 2012 and was Chicago Reader Recommended, a Member's Pick, and had a successful debut Off-Broadway in New York. Her second solo show, SUSHI-frito, has also been critically acclaimed and continues to tour nationally. Her full-length play, Brujaja, is currently in development and will be making a world premiere in 2019. She was selected as a new talent for the 2014 ABC Diversity Showcase in New York City. She has performed stand-up comedy in Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Regional theatre credits include: The Compass (Steppenwolf Theatre) and Luna Gale (Goodman Theatre). Other theatre credits include Good Friday (Oracle), American Beauty Shop (Chicago Dramatist), SUSHI-frito (Free Street Theatre), Adoration of the Old Woman (Urban Theatre Company), and A Citizen’s Anthology (Inconvenience Theatre), Forecast (ICAH/MCA), and PUTAS! (Teatro Luna). Film credits include: Two in the Bush (2017), The Way We Speak (2014), and Bromance (2014). TV credits include Chicago PD (NBC) and The Chi (Showtime). She is also a featured actor in the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls (2017), currently being developed for HBO. She is an artistic associate with Pegasus Theatre Chicago, an ensemble member at UrbanTheater Company, and the general manager of Free Street Theater.

Joyce Liza Rada Lindsey

musician

Joyce is a percussionist and a visual artist. She received her BA from Denison University in studio art. She also received mentorship and training as a dance accompanist for four years at the Denison Dance Department. From 2011 to 2014, she was a music intern at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. Since September 2017, Joyce has been apprentice studying with the Ayodele Drum and Dance Company. Currently, Joyce is academic and arts instructor through DMDL, Inc. She also  provides live percussion for modern dance classes in many places in Chicago such as the Lou Conte Dance Studio, Columbia College, The Chicago Academy for the Arts, ChiArts, and Northwestern University. In the of fall of 2018, Joyce will start graduate school through the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain, receiving her Master of Music in Music Production, Innovation and Technology degree.

Savannah Clements

stage manager

Savannah Clements is elated to make her Sideshow Theatre debut. A freelance stage manager, electrician, and UIC alumna, she has most recently assistant stage managed Anna Karenina at Lifeline, stage managed two consecutive seasons at Muse of Fire Theatre, and numerous productions at Oil Lamp Theater, including Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron. Special thanks to Ben Dawson, Ellen Willett, and Kirby Gibson. Savannah would like to thank her friends and family for their unwavering love and support, especially while she works nights and increasingly nothing but mismatched black clothing.

Benjamin W. Dawson

production manager

Ben is proud to be an artistic associate with Sideshow, as they were the very first company to welcome him to Chicago eight years ago. Tilikum, his tenth show as Sideshow's production manager, will also sadly be his last, at least for a while. At the end of this summer, he, his wife and their dog will head to the west coast for sunnier pastures. During his time in Chicago, Ben has most notably worked as the shop foreman at Goodman Theatre, the associate technical director at Lookingglass Theatre and the production manager at Lifeline Theatre. Elsewhere, he spent time with Santa Fe Opera, The Discovery Channel and PBS. He recently finished two years as the production manager and a faculty member at The University of Illinois at Chicago. In what little spare time remains, Ben intends to continuing producing shows for aliens and dogs, using only Lego bricks and mini figures. Chicago, you will be missed; Sideshow, you most of all.

Ellen Willett

production manager

Ellen Willett is thrilled to be working with Sideshow again after such fun with Antigonick, Mai Dang Lao, The Happiest Place on Earth, and You for Me for You. She is an artistic associate with Sideshow, a company member with The Inconvenience, and regularly makes theatre and events with the talented folks at Definition, Remy Bumppo, Steep, Strawdog, E.D.G.E. Theatre, the Grant Park Music Festival, and many more. For fun, she plays hockey with the South Side Storm, fosters hound dogs, and takes any opportunity to sail on the lake.

Isaac Gomez

dramaturg

Isaac Gomez is a Chicago-based playwright originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His play La Ruta will be receiving its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company this fall. He is currently under commission from South Coast Repertory, Goodman Theatre, The Theatre School at DePaul University (Cunningham Commission for Youth Theater), Steep Theatre, and StepUp Chicago Playwrights. His plays have been supported by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre, Albany Park Theatre Project, WaterTower Theatre, Haven Theatre, Teatro Vista, Greenhouse Theater Center, Jackalope Theatre Company, Pivot Arts, Definition Theatre Company, Broken Nose Theatre, Stage Left, The VORTEX, and Something Marvelous. He is the recipient of the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee, a member of the 2017-18 Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, co-creative director at the Alliance of Latinx Theatre, a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an artistic associate with Victory Gardens Theater, ensemble member with Teatro Vista, artistic associate with Pivot Arts, artistic curator for Theater on the Lake 2018/2019, a steering committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) and a core producer with the Jubilee. He is a professional lecturer at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and is represented by The Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion.

Chad Hain

technical director

Chad Hain is very excited to be working with Sideshow again.  Originally from Pittsburgh, he came to Chicago via North Carolina to join Lookingglass Theatre as their technical director. After three adventurous seasons at Lookingglass, Chad accepted the position of associate technical director at Steppenwolf Theatre.  In his spare time he enjoys hanging out with his dog Emmy.