The cast features eight of North Chicagoland's most talented young performers!

Jennifer Baker	John Compton	Lauren Delfs	Sara Geist
Shaina Jones	Jason Krause	Nicole Rudakova	Kevin Wyant

Author Kyle Jarrow is a writer and musician based in New York City. He writes for the stage as well as film and television, and he plays in the bands The Fabulous Entourage and Super Mirage. He won the prestigious OBIE Award at age 24 for his Off-Broadway hit A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle's play Armless won the Overall Excellence Award at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other plays include Love Kills, Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open (co-writer), Hostage Song (music & lyrics), Gorilla Man, and the upcoming Big Money and The Consequences (both with Nathan Leigh) and Whisper House (with Tony-winner Duncan Sheik, record now available from RCA/Victor).

Kyle's playwriting work encompasses both music theater and straight plays, and has been presented at New York Theatre Workshop, Performance Space 122, The John Houseman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Abron Arts Center, HERE Arts Center, Boston Theatre Works, New Dramatists, The Flea, The Hangar Theatre, and Dad's Garage in Atlanta among others. He's particularly well known for incorporating rock and pop music into the theater, a topic that he's written and spoken about widely. Kyle was a 2005-2006 Dramatists Guild Fellow. He was nominated for a 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award and a 2004 Backstage West Garland Award, and was runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Playwriting Award. He was winner of the 2001 John Golden Prize. He's a co-founder of the independent publishing company Awkward Press. Kyle has guest-lectured at Juilliard, Pratt, and the Actors Studio. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in religious studies.

Director Kathryn Walsh most recently directed the Midwest premiere of David Harrower's Kill the Old Torture Their Young at Steep Theatre. Kathryn just completed course work forNorthwestern's MFA Directing program. While at Northwestern, she directed Tony Kushner's adaptation The Illusion, Lanford Wilson's Burn This and Tom Stoppard's Travesties. In Chicago, she has assisted Anna D. Shapiro and Jessica Thebus on Our Town (Lookingglass), and also assisted Shapiro on the world premiere of August: Osage County, Thebus on Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone and Laura Eason on When the Messenger is Hot (Steppenwolf). Favorite past projects include directing The Maids and 4.48 Psychosis in Boston, where she will direct Marivaux's Island of Slaves this winter with Orpheo Group. She has studied and worked at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, and received her B.A. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.

Music Director Jeremy Ramey served as the music director for Next Theatre's world premiere of Adding Machine: A Musical as well as The American Dream Songbook. Most recently Jeremy was the conductor and pianist for C'est La Vie at Light Opera Works and Minister's Wife at Writers' Theatre. In April of this year, Jeremy was nominated by the Jeff Committee for best music director. Some recent projects include the Chicago production of Altar Boyz at Drury Lane Water Tower, and Hats! starring Grammy Award winner Melissa Manchester under the direction of Tony nominated Lynn Taylor Corbett. Jeremy received his training as a concert pianist and conductor at Rhodes College, Northwestern University, and The Juilliard School of Music. He is also the music director for Unity Church on the Northshore in Evanston.

The production team includes Set Designer Grant Sabin, Costume Designer David Hyman, Lighting Designer John "Mac" Vaughey, Sound Designer Nathan Leigh, and Stage Manager Michelle Rossi.