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.

With Sideshow, Karie performs (The Burden of Not Having a Tail; Tyrant; Idomeneus; Everything Freezes; Ekphrasis), directs (Strangerland), and emcees (Rockke L Squelch, Mistress of Ceremonialisms for the Chicago League of Lady Arm-Wrestlers; Mariafe Ariadne Buckford-Westington-Washington-Taylor-Clais at the yearly Sideshow Gala). Karie is also an artistic associate with The Ruckus, with whom she performed/devised 15 Minutes and directed/devised Common Hatred. She holds an MFA from UVA, a BFA from NKU, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Theatre History, Theory and Performance at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Her research interests include audience, creative placemaking, and performance art.

Keith Neagle was last seen on the Dramatists stage in Theatre Seven of Chicago’s production of Yes, This Really Happened to Me. Other Chicago credits include: Arrangements, Lipstick Traces (Pavement Group); 13 Dead Husbands, Invisible Bob, The Watchmaker (Sansculottes); Ghost Watch (Polarity Ensemble Theater); Major Barbara, The Importance of Being Earnest, Miss Lulu Bett, Adam and Eve on a Ferry (Rogue Theater); 365 Days/365 Plays (Pavement Group/Sansculottes); The Bacchae (Bailiwick Director’s Fest); Her World Disappears (Dark Tag); Suit (Around the Coyote). Keith is a proud company member of Pavement Group and an artistic associate of Sansculottes Theatre Company.

Bruce is an actor and improviser in Chicago. He has a BA in drama and secondary education from The Catholic University of America in DC. He is an ensemble member of ComedySportz Chicago, and has performed with the Washington Shakespeare Company and at the Greenhouse Theater, The Annoyance, Donny's Skybox, iO, and in the Landmark Festival with Prologue Theater Company. Bruce made his Sideshow debut as Florizel in Everything Freezes: another winter's tale directed by Jonathan L. Green. He is also performed in and helped create The Boy Scout Musical: Knot Prepared directed by Mick Napier at The Annoyance Theater last year. He is a touring ensemble member of both Imagination Theater and GreatWorks Theatre Company. Bruce originated the role of Wilbur in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray aboard the largest cruise ship in the world - The Oasis of the Seas, with Royal Caribbean International in 2010. He is a Jeff Award winner for artistic specialization for his work designing the robots in Heddatron for Sideshow at the Steppenwolf Garage in 2011. He can currently be seen performing with Hitch*Cocktails, the improvised Hitchcock thriller, directed by Stephanie Vlcek at the new Annoyance Theatre, and weekends at ComedySportz. Learn about upcoming projects at www.brucetheactor.com.

Autumn began her acting career at the New Vic Theatre in Kalamazoo where she received her BA in theatre performance from Western Michigan University. She has trained with the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford and with SITI company members various times, and has performed in Edinburgh. She received her MFA from the University of Virginia where she wrote and performed her one woman show, on the corner of clark and vine. Previous acting credits include: Perdita, Everything Freezes; Jocasta, Oedipus; Viola, Twelfth Night; Raina, Arms and the Man; Cassandra, Women of Troy... Women of War; and Deb in Sideshow company member Walt McGough's Baggage. Directing credits include House by Daniel MacIvor. Autumn believes everyone has a story; she wants to hear yours.

Jonathan L. Green

director / playwright

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.

jonathanlgreen.com

Lisi Stoessel

scenic designer

Lisi Stoessel is a scenic designer, visual artist, and puppeteer. She has studied painting, drawing, sculpture, and print making at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and at the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Art. She also holds her MFA in scenic design from the University of Virginia. Lisi is currently based in Washington DC, designing locally and abroad. She has had the pleasure of working with many talented artists, including Pig Iron Theatre Company, Swim Pony Performing Arts, The Berserker Residents, Forum Theatre Company, Johnny Showcase, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, and Inis Nua Theatre Company.

lstoessel.com

Joshue P. Burns

costume designer

Joshua is a 2008 graduate of the University of Virginia receiving his MFA in costume design, previously receiving his BA in Scenic design from Ball State University. His most recent costume designs include Sideshow's Everything Freezes, Mud, Scapin, Hair, and The Voysey Inheritance. He has also worked professionally with Seaside Music Theater in Daytona, Florida as assistant designer. He currently resides in New York City where he works for Radio City Music Hall and the Metropolitian Opera as a mens tailor.

Justin Wardell

lighting designer

Justin Wardell has spent the last five years designing lighting for theatre and dance around the country. During the day, Justin is an account executive for Designlab Chicago. Some recent work includes The Sand Castle, Election Day, and Yes... with Theatre Seven, To The Young Ladies of... with About Face Theatre, Candide, It’s a Wonderful Life and Phantom with Porchlight Music Theatre, Jhondo Portraits with Clinard Dance Theatre, Fuerza with Flamenco Valero (NYC), Potholes... and Missing Man with Live Bait Theatre, Luna y Sol and Entresuño with Compania Arapacio, (DC/ Portland, Chicago), and Flamenco Pa’ Dos at The Symphony Space (NYC).

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.

Stephen Frost

composer

Stephen first transferred his pop sensibility to theater in 2008 when he composed and recorded the original music for Sideshow's production of Dante Dies!! In 2009 he went on to do the same for Sideshow's Everything Freezes, and for Firebelly Productions' Hamlet (in Arlington, Virginia). Stephen is currently a protege of Rick Baitz in BMI's screen-composition mentorship program. His music can be found in all the online stores you can come up with offhand, and his current indie-pop music can be found on his website as he finishes up his new album.

stephenfrostmusic.com

Betsey Palmer

stage 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.

Kyle Kevin Gettelman

technical director

Kyle is a technical director, sound designer and audio engineer. He is currently technical director for North Central College in Naperville, Illinois operating four performing arts venues including thrust, black box, proscenium theatres, and a state of the art concert hall. Technical direction credits include Theories of the Sun, Everything Freezes: another winter’s tale (Sideshow Theatre Company), Sound of Music and La Boheme (Ash Lawn Opera Festival), Voysey Inheritance, The African Company Presents Richard III, and Scapin (UVa Drama) and Enchanted April (Heritage Repertory Theatre). Sound design credits include Twelfth Night, Songs for a New World (UVa Drama), The Diary of Anne Frank, and Dixie Swim Club (North Central College). Kyle holds an MFA in technical direction from the University of Virginia.