ABOUT THE ARTISTS

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

MANNY BUCKLEY (Philips) is a proud Artistic Affiliate of American Blues Theater. He was last seen in The Cherry Orchard at Raven Theatre. Other productions include The Piano Teacher at Next Theatre, Lost Boys Of Sudan (u/s) at Victory Gardens Theatre, The Rant at Mary Arrchie Theatre, Of Mice And Men at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Streamers and The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot at Gift Theatre, the latter being remounted at Victory Gardens Theatre. Manny has also performed at the Kennedy Center and in the English Language Theatre Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia.

SARAH BURNHAM (Chorus) joined the Ensemble of American Blues Theater in 2011. She’s a Chicago-based designer and production manager. Her most recent work includes properties design for Peninsula Players: The Importance of Being Earnest, A Few Good Men; American Blues Theater: Rantoul and Die; Steep Theater: Festen, Lakeboat ; Theater Seven of Chicago: The Chicago Landmark Project, Hunting and Gathering, Mimesophobia; Northwestern University: State(s) of America: The Regina Taylor Project. Technical Direction and Production Management include shows such as Rantoul and Die, It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!, and Tobacco Road.

JOHN BYRNES (Fayette) happily makes his ABT debut with this Waiting For Lefty. Recent credits include This (Theater Wit), Port (Griffin), Thieves Like Us (The House), All My Sons (Timeline) and The Overwhelming (Next). John has also appeared in Frankenstein, The Hairy Ape, Our Town, 4.48 Psychosis, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and numerous other projects for The Hypocrites, with whom he is a proud company member. Regional credits include work with Montana Shakespeare In the Parks, the Minneapolis and New York fringe festivals, the Huntington Theatre, New Rep, Boston Playwrights’ and the Vineyard Playhouse. When not on stage, John can be found teaching theater at various venues throughout Chicagoland.

RINSKA CARRASCO-AMAZING (Edna) graduated from Columbia College’s Directing program and is proud to be a part of Gray Talent, Collaboraction, Teatro Vista and a new voice at 2nd story. She’s done some pretty cool plays around Chicago, top favorites include, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings were she was nominated for Jeff, as supporting actress and won for ensemble, she’s also played Shaquille O’Neil in Shaquille O’Neil And Christian Laettner Discuss written by Pulitzer Prize nominee Kris Diaz and has recently been seen in Silk Road’s production of Scorched, as Young Nawal and Za Guide.  Her next big project is Fishmen at Goodman AD’ing The Amazing Eddie Torres. Rinska sends love and thanks to everyone who has helped put this amazing project together, extra thanks goes to Kimberly, Wendy and the cast… To my mother, grandmother and the Prestinary family, Dawn, Brooke, ET, Friends, Taco and Rinsky. And my co-workers thanks for not letting me get fired, I mean for covering my shifts.

DEREK GASPAR (Joe) is thrilled to be working with American Blues for the first time on such a great play. Around Chicago he has worked with Timeline, Next, Court, Pine Box, Trap Door, the dearly departed Greasy Joan & Co. and Uma productions – where he was an artistic associate. A recent graduate of DePaul’s MFA Acting program, he originated the role of Marc in Carlos Murillo’s play Mayday Mayday Tuesday (penned for the MFA ’11 class) directed by Dexter Bullard. When he is not acting he is having fun with his wife and two “blondie” daughters! He is proudly represented by Paonessa Talent Agency.

JEREMY GLICKSTEIN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his debut with American Blues Theater.  He was last seen on stage in The Hot L Baltimore directed by Tina Landau at Steppenwolf Theatre. Other Chicago credits include The Farnsworth Invention and Paradise Lost (Timeline Theatre); A Still Life In Color (TUTA); A View From The Bridge, Golden Boy, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Marvin’s Room, Six Degrees Of Separation and Laughter On The 23^rd Floor (Raven Theatre); Our Country’s Good (Piven Theatre); Poppin’ and Lockdown 2 (Factory Theater); Serendipity and Disturbed (Half Cocked Productions). Film credits: Pearl Diver and Families. Thanks to everyone at American Blues Theater, Gray Talent Group, Clifford Odets, family and friends

CHERYL GRAEFF (Dr. Benjamin) joined the Ensemble of American Blues Theater in 2002; she was last seen in ABT’s Rantoul And Die.  She has worked at regional and Chicago theaters including: Victory Gardens, Court Theatre, Missouri Repertory, Piven Theater,  Mary-Archie, Folio Theatre, Nebraska Repertory, Trap Door, Kansas City Repertory, Oregon Stage Company, Profiles Theater, Spokane Interplayers, Idaho Theater for Youth, Oregon Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory, Madison Repertory, Chicago Dramatists,  Public Trust, Strawdog, Famous Door, New American Theatre Company, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company.  She has also performed at the Kennedy Center and toured throughout the U.K.  Recent productions include:  Body Awareness, Mercy Seat, Graceland, and Love Person.  TV and Films credits include:  CHICAGO CODE, ALLEYBALL, TINSEL, WHIRLYBIRD, and STRANGER THAN FICTION. Big thanks to Blues and the RC!

TERRY HAMILTON (Fatt/Grady) is very happy to be making his debut at American Blues Theater with Waiting For Lefty. Hamilton is an associate Artist at TimeLine Theatre since 2005. TimeLine credits include, The Front Page, Mastering The Art, Frost/Nixon, This Happy Breed, Pravda, Martin Furey’s Shot,  Copenhagen, The General From America, Fiorello–(twice), The Widower’s Houses, Weekend, Not Enough Air and The History Boys. Other Chicago credits include Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at Writer’s Theatre, The Three Musketeers and The Taming Of The Shrew at The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Killer Angels at Lifeline Theater, Hamlet for a co-production with Rivendale/Powertap, Macbett for a co-production with 13th Tribe/Greasy Jones and Company and The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon for Running With Scissors. Hamilton is a three time recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Citation for excellence in acting. Special thanks to Gwendolyn Whiteside and Kimberly Senior.

ZACHARY KENNEY (Sid) is excited to make his American Blues Theater debut. Most recently, he performed in The Gospel According To James (Victory Gardens Theatre), directed by Chuck Smith. Other credits include Mary’s Wedding (Indiana Repertory Theatre), The Farnsworth Invention and Not Enough Air (TimeLine Theatre) and the U.S. tour of Letters Home (Griffin Theatre).  At the Theatre School at DePaul University, Zach played Orpheus in Eurydice and Rusty in Hurrah For The Next Who Dies, directed by former ABT Artistic Director Damon Kiely. A San Francisco native, Zach studied at American Conservatory Theatre.  As part of A.C.T.’s New Plays Program, he originated the title role in The Actor by Horton Foote (in collaboration with the Royal National Theatre, London).

WARREN LEVON (Agate) joined ABT as an Artistic Affiliate in 2011. He was last seen on the ABT stage in RIPPED 2010 series. Since then he has garnered roles in Sketchbook Festival (Collaboraction), Doo Lister’s Blues (National Pastime Theatre), and Radio Golf (Black Theater Alliance Award nomination for Best Featured Actor, Raven Theatre) among other small endeavors that keep the bills paid . He is also a company member with Halcyon Theatre. Warren wants you to enjoy the show, be encourage, be inspired, and be blessed! “(I Corth 15:10-But by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.)”

BRADFORD R. LUND (Irving) is honored to make his American Blues Theater debut. Chicago and regional credits include The Invasion of Skokie (Chicago Dramatists), Mauritius (TheatreSquared),  All My Sons and Not Enough Air (TimeLine Theatre, u/s), The Philadelphia Story (Remy Bumppo, u/s),  An Ideal Husband (Non-Equity Jeff nomination: Best Supporting Actor), Escanaba in Love, Hay Fever, Design for Living, and The Judas Kiss (Circle Theatre); Assassins (Porchlight Music Theatre), Gaudy Night (Lifeline), Twelfth Knight and Romeo & Juliet: TYA (First Folio Shakespeare), A Christmas Carol (Provision, u/s), Prairie Lights(Stage Left), and The Sound of Music (Chicago Chamber Opera). Film credits include October Sky. Bradford is a proud graduate of the School at Steppenwolf and the Second City Conservatory. He received a B.F.A in Acting from Wright State University.

MECHELLE MOE (Miller) is a founding member of The Hypocrites, and works as an actor, director and teaching artist. She has been featured at TimeLine: The Children’s Hour, Paradise Lost, Not Enough Air, The Front Page; The Hypocrites: The Bald Soprano, Angels In America, The Glass Menagerie, Arcadia, etc; Court Theater: What The Butler Saw; and, Griffin Theater: Stage Door (Jeff Nominated, Actress in Principal Role), Letters Home. She has also worked with Lifeline, A Red Orchid, Steppenwolf, Writers, among others. Mechelle was awarded a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Principal Actress and After Dark Award for her performance as the Young Woman in The Hypocrites’ production of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. For more information, visit http://mechellemoe.tumblr.com/. Love to Jeremy.

JOHN MOHRLEIN (Dr. Barnes) joined American Blues Theater Ensemble in 1997. He’s appeared in Half of Plenty, It’s a Wonderful Life, A View from the Bridge, Strictly Dishonorable, American Dead, The Hairy Ape, A Lie of the Mind, Endgame, American Buffalo, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Threepenny Opera, A Stone Carver (Joseph Jefferson nomination for Best Actor, After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance), and director on Catch-22. Other credits: The Glass House at the Art Institute of Chicago; nine productions at Goodman Theatre, Cripple of Inishmaan, Heart of a Dog, and Murder of Cardinal Tosca at Northlight Theatre. His extensive television and film work includes GOLDEN BOY, GOOD NIGHT SWEET WIFE, DILLINGER, KILLING FLOOR, EARLY EDITION, CRIME STORY (recurring role), UNTOUCHABLES, DEVIL’S DOMINOES, STRANGER THAN FICTION, NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY, HELLCAB, HERO, and COLD JUSTICE.

SUZANNE PETRI (Stenographer) joined the Ensemble of American Blues Theater in 1998.  She played Grandma in the Jeff nominated Tobacco Road with ABT. She was seen in Zorba, Twelfth Night, Book of Mercy, Kid-Simple, The Hairy Ape, Two Rooms, A Lie of the Mind, The Threepenny Opera, The People’s Temple and Oklahoma! She has appeared in many Bernie Sahlins productions for the Poetry Foundation including Lysistrata and Under Milk Wood. She performed her cabaret tribute to “Marlene Dietrich at Millennium Park, She torched the place” (Chicago Tribune,) was honored with the After Dark Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist, Gold Coast Award, and is a founding member of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals and President for thirteen years. Her film and TV work includes  WEDNESDAY’S CHILD, LAC DU FLAMBEAU, JUST VISITING, MILWAUKEE, MINNESOTA, EARLY EDITION and EVIL HAS A FACE. Suzanne and her husband Bob Breuler (SuzBo Entertainment) are produced the original musical Duo at Steppenwolf Upstairs Theater.

ANDREW BURDEN SWANSON (Clayton) recently completed his fifth semester at Columbia College Chicago with a focus in acting. He hopes to graduate within the upcoming decade. He is thrilled to be the Resident Playwright and Head of Development for Jackalope Theatre Company. Most recently, Andrew stage managed and assistant directed Jackalope’s production of Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City. Chicago Acting credits include: The Death of Print w/ Jackalope Theatre, Effie w/ The Neapolitans, A Streetcar Named Desire w/ Writers’ Theatre (where he is excited to be assistant directing Stuart Carden this coming January), and Port w/ Griffin Theatre. Writing credits for Jackalope Theatre Company include;  The Last Exodus of American Men, Sic Transit Mundi, An Eve at Mctavish’s, The Death of Print, Moonshiner & Under Construction (co-writer). Other writing credits include Itty Bitty Doorway for Steep Theatre, Flat Penny Blues for the Artistic Home & The Space Between for Columbia College Chicago. He’d like to thank his family and cohorts for their immaculate support, and the often necessary teasing.

GWENDOLYN WHITESIDE (Florrie) joined the Ensemble of American Blues Theater in 1997 and serves as the Producing Artistic Director. Theater: Mary’s Wedding (Mary), Rabbit Hole (Izzy), A Christmas Carol (Belle/Fan), and Our Town (Emily) at Indiana Repertory Theater, work at American Blues Theater, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, Northlight Theatre, About Face Theatre, Chicago Humanities Festival, and Los Angeles theaters. Television: COLD CASE, SIX FEET UNDER, DAWSON’S CREEK, JACK & JILL, CUPID and recurring role on THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD. She helped lead the transition during the rebirth of ABT in 2009. She ushered in the annual Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Blueprint Play Development, and implemented community outreach as central to the company’s mission. She led the company from zero funding to a quarter-million dollar organization in two years. She’s served two terms on the theater panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. She sits on the National Board of Directors for Network of Ensemble Theaters. She is a cum laude graduate of Northwestern University and received her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was included in the top 5 performances (Mary’s Wedding) of 2010 by Indianapolis Star. She’s received seven (7) Joseph Jefferson Awards, Citations, and nominations.  She’s the recipient of two (2) After Dark Awards.

WHO’S WHO

CLIFFORD ODETS (Playwright) was born to a working-class family in 1906. Raised in the Bronx, New York, Odets left school at the age of fourteen and pursued an artistic career, much to the chagrin of his father who wanted his son to continue in the family printing business. Young Odets worked as an actor and writer in vaudeville, radio and stage. With the Group Theatre, a socialist and leftist ensemble of artists, Odets first achieved fame as a playwright with his 1935 short play, Waiting for Lefty. He continued writing until his death with varying success for New York and Hollywood with plays like Awake and Sing, Till the Day I Die, Paradise Lost, and the screenplay The General Died at Dawn. Odets’ plays are notable for their Depression-era, working-class characters in search of a dream, working to fight against the oppressive injustices existing in their world. Odets stated that his plays are concerned with “the struggle not to have life nullified by circumstances, false values, anything.”

KIMBERLY SENIOR (Director) Waiting for Lefty, American Blues debut.  Chicago credits include: The North Plan (Steppenwolf), Madagascar, The Overwhelming, and The Busy World is Hushed (Next Theatre), The Conquest of the South Pole, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Fuddy Meers, and Knives in Hens (Strawdog), Bad Dates and Mouse Cop (Fox Valley Repertory), Bug and The Pillowman (Redtwist Theatre), Thieves Like Us (The House Theatre), All My Sons and Dolly West’s Kitchen (TimeLine Theatre) among others.  Regional: Mauritius (Theatre Squared, Fayetteville, AR) and A Few Good Men (Peninsula Players). Upcoming: Want (Steppenwolf), Old Times (Strawdog), The North Plan (Theater Wit), After The Revolution (Next Theatre) and Cripple of Inishmaan (Redtwist).  Kimberly is an Artistic Associate at Next Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists.  She is on the faculty of Columbia College Chicago (2010 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner), DePaul University, and University of Chicago.  Kimberly is a proud member of SDC.

KAYLA MAE ANDERSON (Assistant Director) is a recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s directing program, where she directed, wrote, and performed in many pieces.  Her favorite and most recent being Rag and Bone by Noah Haidle.  Recent credits include directing for The Naked 24-Hour Project at Stage773, her solo performance Of Mice, and directing Ceremony by Mark Schultz at the side project theatre.  She wants you to know how fortunate she feels to be working on such a groundbreaking rendition of this American classic.  Thank you, Kimberly, Kortney, Zan, and all of my talented and gracious friends and family.

JACK MAGAW (Scenic Design) recent Chicago and regional theatre design credits include: Gee’s Bend (Cincinnati Playhouse), Samuel J & K (Steppenwolf Theatre Co.), Eclipsed and A Life (Northlight Theatre), Importance Of Being Earnest and A Few Good Men (Peninsula Players Theatre), Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and Home (Court Theatre), Funny Girl (Drury Lane Oakbrook), Mauritius (TheatreSquared), She Loves Me, The Old Settler and Picnic (Writers Theatre), All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre), Radio Golf (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Cabaret, A Flea In Her Ear and Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas City Repertory) and Bug (Redtwist Theatre) which he co-directed and designed with Kimberly Senior.  He received Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Picnic and Bus Stop (Writers’ Theatre), Fences (Court Theatre) and Seven Guitars (Congo Square).  Upcoming projects include The Caretaker (Writers’ Theatre) and Broke (Alliance Theatre).  Jack lives in Chicago with director Kimberly Senior and teaches design at both DePaul and Northwestern universities.

ELIZABETH FLAUTO (co-Costume Design) design credits include, in Chicago: Snapshots (upcoming, Northlight Theatre), Enron (upcoming, Timeline Theatre), First Look Repertory of New Works 2010 (Steppenwolf Theatre), Lost Boys of Sudan (Victory Gardens), Funny Girl (Drury Lane), Married Alive (Noble Fool Theatricals/Fox Valley Rep), John and Jen (Apple Tree Theatre), Farragut North (current), An Enemy of the People, Here Where It’s Safe, (Stage Left Theatre).  New York: Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); Secrets of a Soccer Mom (Jerry Orbach Theatre/Snapple Center); Captain Louie (York Theatre, Little Shubert).  Hope Summer Repertory Theatre: Children of Eden, Taking Steps, Into the Woods, Room Service, Lost in Yonkers, The Hypochondriac.  Barrington Stage Company: A Streetcar Named Desire, Private Lives, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Uncle Vanya, Ring Round the Moon, Importance of Being Earnest. Proud Member United Scenic Artists 829. Love to K.

SAMANTHA C. JONES (co-Costume Design) joined the Ensemble of American Blues Theater in 2011. Her work for ABT for this production, where she is a proud ensemble member. As a designer her work has been seen at American Blues Theatre (Rantoul & Die, It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!) 16th Street Theatre (Menorca, Fires in the Mirror, Unveiled, and The End of the Tour), Chicago Dramatists (Hickorydickory, Jade Heart), Remy Bumppo Theatre Co. (American Ethnic, Heroes, Night and Day), Peninsula Players Theatre (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Wait Until Dark, Around the World in 80 Days, Heroes, Over the Tavern), Congo Square Theatre (Brothers of the  Dust, A Colored Museum BTAA nominated for Best Costume Design), and Florida Studio Theatre (Playmakers). Her work can next be seen with Remy Bumppo Theatre Co. production of Mourning Becomes Electra.

HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Design) Chicago credits include: The Detective’s Wife, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Old Settler (Writers’ Theatre) Home, Comedy of Errors, and The Mystery of Irma Vep, (Court Theatre), Honus and Me, Esperanza Rising, and The Hundred Dresses, (Chicago Children’s Theatre), The Front Page, Master Harold and the Boys and Not Enough Air (Timeline Theatre), Our Town and Cabaret (Hypocrites) and A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Regional credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre) and Off-Broadway credits include Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre). Upcoming projects include The Caretaker at Writers, Our Town at the Broad Stage in LA and The Better Half for Lucky Plush Productions in Chicago. Heather was a 1999-2001 recipient of the NEA/TCG Development Program Award.  She serves as the Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College and received her MFA from The Theatre School at DePaul.

VICTORIA DEIORIO (Sound Design & Original Music) is so pleased to be making her American Blues debut. Her Off-Broadway Productions: Cassie’s Chimera – Joe’s Pub, The Public Theatre, The Bluest Eye – Steppenwolf Theatre @ The Duke Theatre, and Ophelia – NYC Fringe Festival. National Tour: Private Lives – LA Theatre Works. Productions with: The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Center Stage, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, and many other theatres in and around Chicago, NY, and LA. She has been nominated for 10 and has received 6 Joseph Jefferson Awards, as well as 2 After Dark Awards. She is the head of Sound Design for The Theatre School at DePaul University. For more information visit www.victoria-sound-design.com.

SARAH BURNHAM (Props Design) see cast.

KELLI MARINO (Dramaturg) is an Artistic Affiliate of American Blues Theater where she is the Literary Associate and Dramaturg. She recently dramaturged The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek with Eclipse Theatre, and three new plays for Stage Left Theatre’s Leapfest: Thirst; Make Sure It’s Me; and Underneath; and A Red Orchid Theatre’s Youth Ensemble piece, My iPhone and Me. This summer, she worked in Colorado on One for My Baby; Dames at Sea; Nixon’s Nixon; The Odd Couple: Female Version;and The Music Man at The Little Theatre of the Rockies. For the 2010-11 season, Kelli was the dramaturg for Remy Bumppo’s productions of Night and Day; The Importance of Being Earnest; and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia; as well as A Red Orchid’s productions of The Mandrake and Craig Wright’s new adaptation of The Iliad.  Kelli has worked with Chicago’s Court, TimeLine, Northlight, Collaboraction, and Citadel Theatres. Kelli holds an M.A. from the University of Arizona and a B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado. She is the Regional Vice President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America—Chicago and the proud coordinator of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Artistic and Technical Team.

JONATHAN NOOK (Stage Manager) is excited about working with American Blues Theater for the first time. His stage management credits include Animals Out of Paper, The North Plan, Sex with Strangers, and The 3rd and 4th Annual First Look Repertory of New Work (Steppenwolf) Orlando, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson (Court), Radio Macbeth (Court/SITI) He has also worked with American Players Theatre and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.

RUPERT PRINISKI (Assistant Stage Manager) is glad to be joining the team at American Blues for the first time.  He has been working in Chicago for the last four years at companies like Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Northwestern University Opera, and Court Theatre.  Regional credits include B St. Theatre, (Sacramento CA,) Sacramento Theatre Company, (Sacramento CA,) Theatre West Virginia (Beckley WV,) and The Lost Colony (Manteo NC.)  Rupert is a proud graduate of Northern Michigan University.

KORTNEY KWONG HING (Assistant Dramaturg) has her B.A. in Theatre with a concentration in directing from Columbia College. A few directing credits include No Exit and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. She recently dramaturged The Neapolitans Off-Chekhov Festival. Up next Kortney will be stage managing Keep a Song in Your Soul directed by Andrea Dymond. She is a member of Nothing Without a Company.

CHRIS RICKETT (Fight Director) is a proud member of the MFA ’11 Acting Ensemble of The Theatre School at DePaul. Recent fight direction includes About Face Theatre’s production of Pony and Redtwist Theatre’s Bug (both with fight collaborator Derek Gaspar). He also choreographer the violence for The Theatre School production of Cabaret. He is an Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

JILL SWARTZMILLER (Business Manager) recently worked on the new musical White Noise. Most recently she was the General Manager of Victory Gardens Theater, and Company Manager of Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Royal George. Before relocating to Chicago, she toured the country as the Company Manager of several tours including August: Osage County, Movin’ Out, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Little Shop of Horrors.