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Christopher Burpee
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Chris designed
the lights for Opus, Man From Nebraska, Shining
City, Lobby Hero, A Delicate Balance,
Equus (2010), The Pillowman, Lettice and
Lovage, Waiting for Godot, The Ride Down
Mount Morgan, Aura, Marvin's
Room, and The Goat. He
recently worked on The Terrible Head with
Mythic Proportions Theatre. Chris is a
graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul
University. He also works as an event and
portrait photographer.
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Michael
Colucci
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Michael is the
founder and Artistic Director of Redtwist
Theatre, and has directed many of the plays
here, including That Face, Equus (2010), Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Hotels, A
View from the Bridge, Les Liaisons
Dangereuses, All My Sons, Broken Glass and Praying Small.
He has also been seen on stage at Redtwist
as Martin in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, George
in Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Eddie
Carbone in A View from the Bridge and
Joe Keller in All My Sons. In
addition, Michael has worked at various
theatres in Chicago, including
Court, Victory Gardens, TimeLine, and
ATC. He is also a member of the Jeff
Committee's Artistic and Technical Team.
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Johnny Garcia
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Johnny is
the Development Outreach Coodinator and has
been associated with the company since its
itinerant days. He has appeared in Dracula: A
Tragedy, The Pillowman, Praying Small,
Extremities, A View from the Bridge,
and True
West, co-directed Three Hotels
and worked behind the scenes throughout the
years on various productions. He was a major
force in preparing the theatre for its Grand
Reopening.
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Jacqueline
Grandt
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Jacqueline's
roles at Redtwist include Martha in That Face,
Agnes in Bug,
Julia in A
Delicate Balance, Joy Gresham
in Shadowlands
(Jeff recommended), Roma in Glengarry Glen
Ross, Merteuil in Les Liaisons
Dangereuses (Jeff recommended),
Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane,
Claire in Proof,
and Sylvia in Broken Glass. Other
favorite roles include Stella in A Streetcar
Named Desire and Audrey in Little Shop of
Horrors. most recently, she
portrayed Leah in The Ride Down Mount Morgan.
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Jan Ellen Graves
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Jan is
Redtwist's Managing Director and does the
advertising and design, oversees the
technical/physical aspects of the theatre,
and has appeared in a number of Redtwist
shows including Man from Nebraska, A Delicate
Balance, Lettice and Lovage, The Ride Down
Mount Morgan, Three Hotels (Jeff
recommended), Marvin's Room, A View from the
Bridge, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Doubt,
Equus
(Jeff nominated), The Last Yankee, Praying Small,
Liars & Angels, Praying Small,
and All
My Sons (Jeff recommended). She
directed Arthur Miller's The American
Clock and the world premiere of the
Jeff Nominated Aura at Redtwist.
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Kate
Guthrie
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Kate is
originally from St. Louis and is a recent
graduate from Loyola University. Kate served
as stage manager for Bug, Shining
City, The Pillowman, Waiting for
Godot, True West, and Aura.
She also assistant directed Elling.
Kate stage-managed several shows at Loyola
including Intimate
Apparel, The Blue Hour, and Icarus's
Mother.
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K.c. Karen Hill
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K.c. recently
appeared as R.C. in Redtwist's production of
Tracy Lett's BUG (Jeff Recommended).
Other Redtwist roles include Mm De Volanges
in Les
Liaisons Dangereuses (Jeff
Recommended), and Lee in Marvin's Room.
Other Chicago credits include Caliban in The Tempest,
Paulina in The Seagull, and Egeus in
Midsummer
Night's Dream, with GroundUp
Theatre, Lady Capulet in Romeo and
Juliet with Two Pence Shakespeare
Theatre. Julia in The Last Judgement, and
Donna in The
Potato Chip Eater (A new works
festival created for Second City's
former AD the late Martin De Maat) Boxer
Rebellion Theatre. Lady in The Peep Hole/Second
City in Donny's Sky Box directed by Michael
Pieper. Union house
credits include Kansas City Repertory
Theatre and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City.
She has Bachelor's degree in acting from
University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Tommy
Lee
Johnston
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Tommy Lee last
appeared on stage at Redtwist in Bug. He has
also appeared his original Jeff-nominated
play Aura
as well as Marvin's Room, Family
Malfunction, and the world premiere
of Praying
Small with Redtwist/AWT. He's
written and performed in Life's Tremors,
Gifted,
Time Frame.
He recently appeared in an episode of The Beast
on A&E television and on assorted TV
commercials.
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Christopher
Kriz
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Chris recently
designed sound for Opus, Elling, Man from Nebraska,
Shining City, Lobby Hero, A Delicate
Balance, Equus (2010), The Pillowman,
Lettice and Lovage, The Ride Down Mount
Morgan, Aura, Glengarry Glen Ross and
Marvin's
Room. Although he has
been designing professionally for
almost 20 years, Chris recently had a moment
of clarity (or delusion) and left a 15 year
career as the technical director of a fine
arts center. Chris is now making art full
time as a freelance sound designer/composer.
In addition to Redtwist, Chris has recently
worked with Victory Gardens, Shattered
Globe, Pegasus Players, City Lit, Side
Project, Piccolo Theatre, Infamous
Commonwealth and many others. He is
currently in the midst of writing an
opera/musical theatre/free jazz/sitcom type
thing.
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E. Malcolm
Martinez
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Malcolm has
served at Redtwist Theatre as co-director of
Otherwise
Engaged, A View from the Bridge,
and Who’s
Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,
assistant director of Proof
and Waiting
For Godot, and stage manager of The Beauty
Queen Of Leenane and The Ride Down
Mount Morgan. He has also written
and directed for Theatre Under The Influence
and Theatre On The Rocks in the great city
of Seattle, as well as working in film and
video in Milwaukee, Seattle, New Orleans,
Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Dan
McNamara
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Dan has appeared
in Redtwist's Liars and Angels one-acts,
The
American Clock, All My Sons, Proving Mr.
Jennings, and Otherwise
Engaged. When not on stage, he can
be found in the audience checking out other
shows around town.
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Peter
Oyloe
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Peter made his
Chicago dramatic debut at Redtwist as Alan
in Equus
for which he received the Jeff Award for
Best Actor in a Lead. He was also Jeff
Nominated for his work on the score for Equus.
Recently, he received the Jeff Award for
Best Supporting Actor in The Pillowman
at Redtwist and also appeared in Elling.
Since then Peter has worked with Porchlight
in their productions of Ragtime
and Phantom,
La Costa Theatre Company, Theatre Building
Chicago, and AMTP at Northwestern. He has
been in several independent films, one of
which is on its way to the Cannes Film
Festival in May. He is represented by Aria
Talent. Peter also spends much time as a
Folk/Rock Singer/Songwriter. He can be seen
performing around town when not in plays.
www.peteroyloe.com.
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Brian
Parry
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Brian recently
appeared on the Redtwist stage as Carl in
Opus, Alfons Jorgenson in Elling.
Other Redtwist roles include John in Shining City
(Jeff Award, Best Actor in a Supporting
Role), Tobias in A Delicate Balance (one of
three Redtwist nominees for Best Production
in 2011), Martin Dysart in Equus (2010),
Ken Hoyle in Three Hotels, Shelly
Levene in the gender-bent Glengarry,
Glen Ross, Jack Lewis in Shadowlands
Agent Psmith in the U.S. premiere of Proving Mr.
Jennings (named one of the Top 5
Stage Productions of 2006 by NewCity),
Robert in Proof,
and Dysart in Equus (2007-nominated for
5 Jeff Awards including Best Production.)
Elsewhere he’s been seen as Snelgrave in
Eclipse Theatre's production of One Flea Spare,
Pere Marriott in Lifeline Theatre's original
adaptation of Mariette in Ecstasy and as
Bobby's Father in Steep Theatre's Coronado.
Brian has also worked with The Goodman,
Court, Northlight, and Wisdom Bridge as well
as the Oak Park and Illinois Shakespeare
Festivals.
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Debra Rodkin
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Debra is a
member of the acting company and you've seen
her here in Equus x 2
(Dora), Glengarry Glen Ross (Aaranow), Beauty Queen
of Leenane (Mag), and others. You
can find her this fall as the title
character in Miss Fortune for Lincoln
Square Theatre in the Fringe Festival.
Recently onstage in Steel
Magnolias for SSP, Beau Jest
for Big Noise Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre's
TYA company in The Devil's Arithmetic,
and as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and
Nat in Rabbit
Hole, both for NightBlue Theatre.
Debra voiced a training series for Walgreens
and did a webisode for HBO's True Blood.
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