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Todd Freeman - Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member for over 12 years
and adjunct professor with The conservatory. Broadway credits include:
The Song of Jacob Zulu (1993, Tony Nomination and Outer Critics Circle
nominations for Best Actor), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2001)
Off-Broadway credits include: Drama Dept. (founding member): Uncle
Tom’s Cabin; Public Theatre: Spunk; Lincoln Center: Ubu; Theatre Row
Theatre: Freefall. Regional Theatre credits include: Alley Theatre -
Topdog/Underdog, The Invention of Love, Of Mice and Men, A Christmas
Carol, Art, Romeo and Juliet; Steppenwolf Theatre (Company member since
1993): Master Harold and the Boys (director - Steppenwolf for Young
Adults), Topdog/Underdog (Black Theatre Alliance Award Best Actor), We
All Went Down to Amsterdam, Libra, A Clockwork Orange; Mark Taper
Forum: Angels in America; Baltimore Center Stage: Miss Evers’ Boys;
Dallas Theatre Center & Hartford Stage: Topdog/Underdog |
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 Austin Pendelton is a member of the Steppenwolf Company and an adjunct professor with
The Conservatory. His feature film credits include: The Civilization of
Maxwell Bright, Dirty Work, Christmas with the Kranks, Piccadilly Jim,
Finding Nemo, A Beautiful Mind, 2 Days in the Valley & My Cousing
Vinny. Television credits include: Law & Order: Criminal Intent,
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Joan of Arcadia, Touched by an
Angel, Oz, The West Wing, The Practice & Homicide: Life on the
Streets. Stage credits include: Numerous On & Off Broadway
productions, such as The Diary of Anne Frank, Hail Strawdyke, &
Hamlet; numerous Steppenwolf productions such as Uncle Vanya &
Valparaiso. Awards & nominations include: Tony Nomination for
Direction of The Little Foxes Off-Broadway, LA Drama Critics Award -
Best Writing for Orson's Shadow |
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Nationally and internationally respected, award-winning actress, Rondi Reed, has had great success across all media. A long time Steppenwolf Ensemble member, (most recently "August: Osage County") (after a long Chicago run in "Wicked"), she received a Joseph Jefferson award for "The Fall to Earth," and took the company's "Side Man" to Australia & Ireland, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" Off-Broadway and to Los Angeles & San Francisco and "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" to Broadway.
Rondi has also directed at Steppenwolf, including "Lydie Breeze" which was also performed in Australia at the Festivals of Sydney and Perth. Her acting includes film ("The Astronaut's Wife:, "Eye for an Eye"), and TV (Fargo, Seinfeld, Normal, Grace Under Fire and many more). A stimulating and dedicated teacher, her students are always wowed by her generosity of spirit and depth of knowledge.
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Annabel Armour makes time to share with student actors the depth of artistry and industry knowledge she has developed in her constantly busy career. She is a company member with Remy Bumpo Theatre (where she has appeared in "Heartbreak House", "Hapgood", "Top Girls",
"A Delicate Balance", "Humble Boy", "Aren't We All",
"Power", "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and others). In demand by other theatres some of her favorite work includes, "Angel's in America"(Journeymen), "Long Day's
Journey" (Irish Rep and Galway Arts Festival), "Sunday in the Park with
George" (Chicago Shakespeare),"Before My Eyes" (Victory
Gardens), "Butcher of Baraboo " (Steppenwolf ), "Grapes of Wrath" (Ford's Theatre,
DC), "The Suicide "(Goodman Theatre), "Glass Menagerie" (Cincinnati
Playhouse), "Fallen Angels" (Writers Theatre).
This award-winning (multiple Jeff's, multiple After Darks) actress's film credits include "The Amityville Horror", "Lifelike", "Stolen Summer", "White Boyz", "Mercury Rising", and "Men Don't Leave," and on television you many have seen her in "Prison Break", "In the Company of Darkness", "Missing Persons", "The Untouchables", "What a Dummy" (series regular).
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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.
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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."
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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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