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SEBASTIAN AGUIRRE

birthplace: El Paso, TX
primary specialty: Photography/Design
secondary specialty: Drinking
Personal Quote: "If you ever drop your keys into a vat of molten lava, let 'em go. Because man...they're gone"
-- Jack Handy

Groundbreaking Performances: "Buried Child" by Shephard did it for me.

ERIN BARLOW

birthplace: Tulsa, OK
primary specialty: Acting
secondary specialty: Selling clothing
Personal Quote: "I'm a, uh... theatre person."
-- Laura Linney in "The Savages"

Groundbreaking Performances: Marlowe's "Edward II" at Chicago Shakes

SUZANNE BRACKEN

birthplace: Cleveland, OH
primary specialty: Characters
secondary specialty: Helping
Personal Quote: Live today, hope for tomorrow, learn from the past.

Strandard Island Play: "Twelfth Night"

ERIC BRANSON -- Resident Lighting Designer

birthplace: Fort Ord, CA
primary specialty: Lighting
secondary specialty: Sound
Personal Quote:"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think." -- Dorothy Parker

Stranded Island Play: "Happy Days"

BRIAN CICIRELLO -- Patron Manager

more info to come

CORY CONRAD -- General Manager

birthplace: Carlye, IL
primary specialty: 5' 6"
secondary specialty: Not a midget.
Personal Quote: "Who are these people?"

Stranded Island Play: "Richard III"
Other Active Companies: Steppenwolf

JOEL EWING -- Artistic Director

birthplace: The Women's Sanitarium in Independence, MO
primary specialty: Baking Pies
secondary specialty: Eating Pies
personal quote: "Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes, well, he eats you." -- The Stranger

Groundbreaking Performance: My fourth grade Just Say No/D.A.R.E production in which I played not the young hero who found the strength to not succumb to the pressures of drugs, but rather the peddler and pusher Jake "The Snake In The Grass". I would like to think that the depth and complexity that I brought to this role is directly tied to the large Meth Lab base found in rural Missouri today.
Other Active Companies: Open Cage Ensemble

ERIN FAST

birthplace: Kansas
primary specialty: Costume Design
secondary specialty: Container gardening
personal quote: "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -- Oscar Wilde

Groundbreaking Performance: the dream ballet in "Oklahoma!"
Other Active Companies: Red Twist Theatre, Resident Costume Designer

AMBER HILGENKAMP -- Collective Representative

birthplace: Dodge County Memorial Hospital -- Freemont, NE 68025
primary specialty: Production Management
secondary specialty: Vacationing as often as possible
personal quote: "Don't worry about tomorrow - it's already tomorrow in Australia" -- Charles Schultz

Groundbreaking Performance: Seeing "Where the Wild Are" at The Emmy Gifford Children's Theatre in the third grade.
Other Active Companies: Goodman Theatre
and I root for Writers' Theatre & New Leaf

ANDERS JACOBSON -- Resident Scenic Designer

birthplace: Evanston, IL
primary specialty: Scenic Design
secondary specialty: Painting
Personal Quote: Personal quotes stress me out.

Groundbreaking Performance: "Streetcar Named Desire"
Other Active Companies: Family

BECCA LASSER

birthplace: Lincoln, NE
primary specialty: Acting
secondary specialty: rhythm tap dancing
Personal Quote: "Ninety percent of the game is half mental." -- Yogi Berra

Groundbreaking Performances: "Crave" by Sarah Kane
Other Active Companies: Child's Play Touring Company

MADELINE LONG

birthplace: Washington, D.C.
primary specialty: Acting
secondary specialty: Public Relations/Development
Personal Quote:"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." -- Charlie Chaplin

Groundbreaking Performance: Janet Ulrich Brooks in "The Seagull," "All My Sons" and basically every play she's in.

ALLISON MCNEELA

birthplace: Joliet, IL
primary specialty: Acting
secondary specialty: Shopping
Personal Quote: There is no such thing as probablity.

Groundbreaking Performance: "Annie" - The 1983 movie with Aileen Quinn

DEBORAH PROUD

birthplace: Minnesota
primary specialty: Acting
secondary specialty: Procrastinating
Personal Quote: "Sweet pants!" or "If you use it often enough it will become intuitive"

Groundbreaking Performance: Miss Adelaide, "Guys & Dolls"
Other Active Companies: Piccolo Theatre

JUDY RADOVSKY -- Resident Scenic Designer

more info to come

GLENN PROUD -- Company Manager

birthplace: Chicago Heights, IL
primary specialty: Acting/directing
secondary specialty: SPY
personal quote: Fuck!!!

Strandard Island Play: "The Crucible"
Other Active Companies: Piccolo Theatre

JOSHUA AARON WEINSTEIN -- Executive Director

birthplace: Washington, D.C.
primary specialty: Playwright
secondary specialty: Film
Personal Quote: "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." -- Charlie Chaplin

Stranded Island Play: "Arcadia"
Other Active Companies: WCProductions

CHRIS ZDENEK -- Associate Artistic Director

birthplace: Kennesaw, GA
primary specialty: Actor
secondary specialty: Physical Theater
Personal Quote: "A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly." -- Pooh

Groundbreaking Performances: Mud: first by reading it, then by seeing the Hypocrites production of it. I was reminded, at a crucial time in my life, that theater is awesome.