HARBAUGH STARTLES US BY GENERATING SYMPATHY FOR HIS RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC TOILANE; WE EMPATHIZE WITH HIM EVEN AS HE DESCRIBES THE VICIOUS WAY HE KICKS A GAY MAN, PERHAPS TO DEATH.
— JENNIFER VANASCO, CHICAGO FREE PRESS

Theatre (select)

*Pulled Punches

Invisible

The One and Only Ivan

The Book Club Play

*Comrades Mine

*The Crowd You’re In With

Bread & Salt

It’s Okay to Be Rude

Completely Hollywood

The Bible

A Christmas Carol

†*True West

*End of the Tour

Unspoken Prayers

Cahoots

Adventures of Kid Zero

Xena: Live!

I Am Yours

Wake of Jamey Foster

*The Art of Dining

Deeper Shade of Blue

Blood On the Cat’s Neck

*The Mandrake

Comedy of Errors

King Lear

Julius Caesar

Taming of the Shrew

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Romeo and Juliet

Charles

Tom Carson

Mack/Bob

Rob

Colonel Poe

Dan

Carl Sandburg

Various

Dominic

Matt

Bob C.

Austin

David

Doctor

Jerry

Mayor

Joxer

Toilane

Leon

Cal

Dexter

Teacher

Chorus

Dromio

Oswald

Cassius

Lucentio

Billy

Romeo

MPAACT

Her Story Theater

Lifeline Theatre

16th Street Theater

City Lit Theatre

16th Street Theater

Chicago Humanities Festival

Second City Skybox Theater

Reduced Shakespeare Co.

Reduced Shakespeare Co.

Provision Theatre

Hypocrites

Victory Gardens Theatre

Victory Gardens Theatre

Victory Gardens Theatre

DBA Studios

About Face/greasy joan & co.

Cobalt Theatre Ensemble

Footsteps Theatre

Footsteps Theatre

Footsteps Theatre

TrapDoor Theatre

greasy joan & co.

Shakespeare’s Motley Crew

Shakespeare’s Motley Crew

Borealis Theatre

Shakespeare’s Herd

Lifeline Theatre

Arts Lanes

Lauren Wells-Mann

Cecilie Keenan

Dorothy Milne

Kevin Fox

Anna Bahow

Anish Jethmalani

Charles Gerace

Ric Walker

Austin Tichenor

Reed Martin

Tim Gregory

Geoff Button

Sandy Shinner

Dennis Zacek

Sandy Shinner

Ann Filmer

Scott Ferguson

Robin Stanton

Jean Gottlieb

Cheryl LeSage

Jean Gottlieb

Andrew Wasser

Kevin Theis

Michael Barto

Robert Scogin

Jeff Baumgartner

Holly Hornlien

Amy Fenton

Geoff Steele

* Jeff recommended                            † Jeff nomination, principal actor

Choreography

ON Camera

Hannah Free | Director: Wendy Joe Carlton

The Visitors | Director: Jean-Marie Gaubert

Early Edition | Director: Gary Nelson

National Commercial: Lens Express

National Commercial: Kahlua, Club Patron

Military Families: U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service

Second City: It’s Okay to Be Rude

Victory Gardens Theatre: Hanging Fire

Victory Gardens Theatre: Cahoots

Footsteps Theatre: Twelfth Night

Wavelength, Inc: Musical Staff & Educationally Impolite

Industrial (select)

Training

Actor/Writer/Facilitator, Wavelength Inc., Chicago, IL

Delivered keynotes in 40+ states at regional and
national conferences

Led 100+ workshops for over 25,000 K-12 educators on Communication, Conflict resolution, Collaboration, Learning Communities

Wrote and facilitated customized training for Fortune
500 companies, including:

  • Kraft

  • Allegiance Health

  • Ameritech

  • Siemens 

  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers

  • Phillips

  • International

  • Allstate   

Improvisation, Wavelength, John Hildreth, Chicago, IL

Improvisation, Wavelength, Martin de Maat, Chicago, IL

Speaker Training, Making it Count, Indianapolis, IN

On-Camera for the Actor, Actor’s Studio, Catherine Head Chicago, IL

Stage Combat, About Face, David Woolley, Chicago, IL

Scene Study, Act One Studios, Steve Scott, Chicago, IL

Shakespeare Workshop, SMC, Michael Barto, Chicago, IL

Improvisation, IO (formerly Improv Olympic), Del Close & Charna Halpern, Chicago, IL

Ballroom Dance Training/Instructor, Studio 33, Kalamazoo, MI

Kalamazoo College: Theatre, Ed Menta, Theresa Davis, Kalamazoo, MI