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DAVID CROMER is a Chicago based director/actor/and educator, whose productions have won a total of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Production and Best Director for "The Cider House Rules", "The Price", and "Angels in America." His world premiere of Austin Pendelton's "Orson's Shadow" for Steppenwolf Theatre had successful runs 0ff-Broadway, at Wiliamstown Festival, Westport Playhouse, and the Alley in Houston (where he recently directed "The Clean House.") Most recently he staged the world premiere of "The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical," by Josh Schmidt and Jason Loewith (based on the play by Elmer Rice) at the Next Theatre.
Other Chicago productions for: Shattered Globe, Famous Door, Steppenwolf, Seanachai, Mary-Arrchie. Writers Theatre, Northlight, The Journeymen, Big Game Theatre, and Strawdog. He teaches acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago, and directing at Act One Studios. He made time to direct "Picnic," the first term-end-production for The Conservatory at Act One.
Award winning Chicago Director, Kimberly Senior (named one of the top 5 Chicago directors by New City in 2001,) is deeply involved in Chicago theatre at myriad levels: founder of Collaboraction Theatre Company and an Artistic Associate with Strawdog Theatre Company and Next Theatre Company, she was part of the writing team of "No Place Like Home," in which she also performed in Steppenwolf Theatre.She recently directed Strawdog's world premiere Curt Colombus translation of "The Three Sisters" and their "Fuddy Meers" and Collaboraction's "Casanova."
Some of the other theatre companies for which she has directed are: Seanachai, Blackbird Productions, Noble Fool, Rivendell Ensemble, Shakespeare's Motley Crew, Northlight, Roadworks. Also noted as a gifted teacher, Kimberly has taught classes for Act One, Redmoon Theatre, Victory Gardens, Audition Studio, Metropolis Center for the Performing Arts and others. For The Conservatory at Act One she has directed productions of Lanford Wilson One-acts, Jose Pintare One-acts, and "The Laramie Project."
Ann Filmer -- 2004-05 recipient of the Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship at the Goodman Theatre, created Chicago's theatrical Estrogen Fest, co-founded & was Artistic Director of The Aardvark (through 2001) -- is an always-in-demand freelance director/choreographer. As Producing Director of Chicago Dramatists (2000-04), she is known for developing and directing new works by Chicago playwrights, such as Brett Neveu and Rebecca Gilman. She received an After Dark Award for her direction of John Green's Jeff-Award winning "The Liquid Moon" at Chicago Dramatists.
Her exciting work has been noted at: A Red Orchid, Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, Live Bait, Stage Left, Circle Theatre, Visions & Voices, Famous Door’s Women at the Door, CollaborAction, Theatre on the Lake, Porchlight, Prop Thtr, Strawdog, and 29th Street Rep in New York.
Ms Filmer will be directing The Conservatory's end-of-term project for First Year Students in the spring of 2008.
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