Andrew is an artistic associate with Sideshow Theatre, where his credits include Give It All Back, Mai Dang Lao, and more. Other Chicago credits include: Prowess (Jackalope Theatre), Love & Human Remains (Cor Theatre), Dragons Love Tacos (Emerald City Theatre), Eat Your Heart Out (Rivendell Theatre), The Killing of Michael X ( Jackalope Theatre), The Drunken City (Steppenwolf's 2013 NEXT UP series), Hot 'N' Throbbing (Interrobang Theatre Project), Thirty Thousand One (Pursuit Productions), The Duchess of Malfi (Strawdog Theatre Company), Residue (Buzz22 Chicago), LOW (Slingshot Productions), The Big Meal (American Theatre Company), which won the 2010 Jeff Award for Best Ensemble, Roadkill Confidential (Dog & Pony Theatre Company) and She Loves Me (Writers’ Theatre). He is a graduate from The Theatre School at DePaul University and is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent.

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.

This is LaNisa's first show with Sideshow Theatre. A graduate of The School at Steppenwolf, her theatre credits include Soul Brother Where Art Thou (Second City Chicago); Measure for Measure, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Goodman Theatre); The Wheel (Steppenwolf Theatre); Jane Eyre (Lifeline Theatre), Blackademics and No Experience Necessary (MPAACT). You may have seen her on stellar webseries such as You're So Talented or Kam Kardashian or like thirty Wal-Mart commercials. "The only thing that separates women of color from anybody else is opportunity." Thank you for this opportunity.

Tyler is thrilled to be working with Sideshow Theatre Company for the first time. Other Chicago credits include: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Goldfish (Route 66 Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Vista); Celebration (A Red Orchid Theatre); Letters Home (Griffin Theatre Company); It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play (American Theatre Company); Twelfth Night, Top Girls (The Arc Theatre); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Muse of Fire Theatre Company); King John (Backroom Shakespeare Project); The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull (One Year Chekhov); and readings with Chicago Dramatists and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Tyler is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, The School at Steppenwolf, and holds a BFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is proudly represented by Paonessa Talent and is an artistic associate with Route 66 Theatre Company.

Jim is delighted to be working with Marti and Sideshow in this production. A member of Steep Theatre where, among other roles, he was Harry in The Knowledge, Roote in The Hothouse, Stephen in Dealer’s Choice, and Col. Cathcart/Major Major in Catch-22, Jim’s also performed at Route 66, Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, Theatre Wit, Redtwist and Strawdog. Regionally, Jim embodied Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow at the Key West Fringe Theatre under the direction of Dennis Zacek last winter. He’s also performed repertory summer theatre in Indiana, Wisconsin and New York. As a voice actor, Jim is most known as the voice of Scooter in the VeggieTales animation series and has just completed three feature films: Absolution, He Sends Rain, and Your Holy Eyes.

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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William Boles

scenic designer

William is a Jeff-nominated Chicago-based scenic designer. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites (community member), American Theater Company, A Red Orchid Theatre, About Face Theatre (associate artist), Chicago Children's Theatre, Sideshow (artistic associate), Emerald City, Steep Theatre Company, Step-Up Productions, First Floor Theatre, Opera Northwestern. Regional: Children's Theatre Company, Wolftrap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Rep, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Arizona Broadway Playhouse. International: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. Upcoming productions include The Sneetches at Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis and King of the Yees by Lauren Yee at Goodman Theatre. MFA, Northwestern.

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Sally Dolembo

costume designer

Sally is a Chicago-based costume designer and adjunct lecturer at Columbia College and Northwestern University. Design credits include productions with The Second City, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Paramount Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Steep Theatre, The Gift Theatre, The Hypocrites, and Northwestern University. Dolembo was a 2007 Fulbright Scholar to Italy, where she researched and worked at Tirelli Costumi in Rome. Sally has her MFA from Northwestern University.

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Michael Stanfill

lighting designer

Michael Stanfill is glad to be back with Sideshow having designed last season's Mai Dang Lao. Favorite designs include: Becky Shaw, The Mandrake (Red Orchid); State of the Union (Strawdog); Sunset Blvd, Footloose, Cabaret (Timber Lake Playhouse); Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret (Silk Road Rising); After the Revolution (Portland Playhouse); Dirty, Thinner Than Water, Bethany,The Royal Society of Antarctica, Body and Blood (The Gift); Seminar, Hot Georgia Sunday (Haven Theater); Bad Jews (Theater Wit); Barefoot in the Park (Step Up); The Play About My Dad (Raven), In the Heat of the Night (Shattered Globe, Jeff Nominated), Prowess (Jackalope). His work has been seen with the Chicago Humanities Festival as lighting designer and technical liaison. Michael is also a Jeff-nominated projection designer. He has taught at Columbia College Chicago, The Governor’s School of North Carolina, and is currently a Professor at Southern Oregon University. He holds an MFA in lighting design from Northwestern University.

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Matthew Chapman

sound designer

Matt's recent work includes The Burials (Steppenwolf SYA), Prowess (Jackalope), American Beauty Shop (Chicago Dramatists), The Few with Steep Theatre, where he is an artistic associate and has also designed for Posh, The Cheats, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, Motortown, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, The Knowledge, 2000 Feet Away and Harper Regan. Other recent work includes Kill Floor (ATC), Ten 2016 (Gift), The Orchestra(Akvavit), Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Backroom Shakespeare), Butcher (Signal), Body and Blood (Gift) and Balm in Gilead (Griffin). You can next hear his work in Earthquakes in London (Steep).

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.

Colleen Layton

stage manager

Colleen is excited to be working with Sideshow Theatre again after stage managing Mai Dang Lao, Caught, and Give It All Back. Colleen's other stage management credits in Chicago include Troll (Fraud and Phony Theatre Collective), The Lisbon Traviata (Eclipse Theatre Company), and Feathers and Teeth (Goodman Theatre). She has also had the pleasure to work the Repertory Theatre of St Louis, the Byre Opera, and the Royal Ballet.

Ellen Willett

production manager

Ellen is happy to be working with Sideshow again after production managing Antigonick and Mai Dang Lao. She regularly works with the talented folks at The Inconvenience, Remy Bumpoo, Steep, Route 66, and the Grant Park Music Festival, making theatre and events. For fun, she serves on the board of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), fosters coonhounds, and takes any opportunity to sail on the lake.

Rebecca Adelsheim

dramaturg

Rebecca is thrilled to be working with Sideshow Theatre Company for the first time. Rebecca is a Chicago-based dramaturg and producer and recently completed the Artistic Apprenticeship at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She has also worked with Victory Gardens Theater, Goodman Theatre, The Hypocrites, Haven Theatre, and The Gift Theatre Company. Rebecca currently serves as the programming manager for 2nd Story and is a Hypocrites Community Member. Many thanks to Marti, David, the amazing Sideshow team, and the McDonald’s across the street (for research, guys).

Michael Trudeau

technical director

Michael is thrilled to be working with Sideshow Theater. Previous Chicago productions include technical director for Route 66, American Blues Theater, Emergent Theater, Livewire Theater Company and American Theater Company, as well as master electrician for Shattered Globe Theater. He has designed lights for several shows at Kaukauna High School and Musical Masquers in Wisconsin, as well as many productions at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. During the summer, he is the master electrician for Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.

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