Laura Lodewyck earned an M.F.A. in Performance from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts and a B.A. in Psychology and Communication & Theatre from the University of Notre Dame. She is an Equity Membership Candidate, and her theatrical work includes productions with Illinois Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, as well as the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Hothouse Theatre (now HotCity) in St. Louis. She is featured on the television show Nude Hippo on www.nbc5.com and is a member of the NBC5 Street Team. Her voice can occasionally be heard weekday mornings on 93.9 WLIT and 103.5 KISS FM, where she fills in doing the news, weather and traffic.
Bridget Marcotte (Stage Manager - bobrauschenbergamerica) is currently residing in Tinley Park, Illinois. Bridget is thrilled to be working with CFT. bobrauschenbergamerica marks her 20th production in her theatre career. Some favorite productions include: Moraine Valley Community College’s Dracula (Sound Board) and Tartuffe (Assistant Stage Manager), Steep Theatre’s Bang the Drum Slowly (Sound Board Op), and Purple Bench Productions The Big Funk (Stage Manager). In 2009, Bridget hopes to be attending SIUE to finish school and get her degree in Technical Theatre.
Jack Tamburri (Director - bobrauschenbergamerica) is thrilled to be an Artistic Associate with CFT! During the day he works at Court Theatre, where he is also an Artistic Associate, having assisted Artistic Director Charles Newell in directing and dramaturgy on such productions as Travesties, The Glass Menagerie, Arcadia, and Carousel, as well as What the Butler Saw with Sean Graney. Jack has also assisted on productions for the Around the Coyote Arts Festival, the Neo-Futurists (Picked Up), and the Hypocrites (The Bald Soprano). He has directed for Mary Arrchie Theater (7 Blowjobs) and the University of Chicago, where he is an alumnus. He directed his own script, Eating Cold Pizza, as a Resident Artist in the University's 2007 Summer Arts Incubator program, and his play Two-Fisted Tales From the Four-Color City won the Olga and Paul Menn Prize for playwrighting in 2005. Jack is also a freelance musician who has performed with the House Theatre of Chicago, the Building Stage, the Hypocrites, and the avant-garde rock ensemble, the Dead Superheroes Orchestra. He loves Oscar Wilde, comic books, and loud music more than most other things. If you regularly attend live theater performed by people you have never met, he also loves you.
Christopher Kriz (Sound Designer - bobrauschenbergamerica) has worked in Chicago for nearly two decades as a composer, sound designer and audio engineer. Chris is especially pleased to be working with CFT again, having designed sound for Hugging the Shoulder last season. Other recent theatre credits include A Taste of Honey at Shattered Globe Theatre, Golda’s Balcony at Pegasus Players, Glengarry Glen Ross at Redtwist Theatre, Perfect at Side Project Theatre and Jitney at Pegasus Players. Other past credits include Two Trains Running, Pantomime and Still Life at Pegasus Players. To hear more of his work, please visit www.christopherkriz.com.
