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JILL NACKE - (actor) - [New York]
BA 92. AEA. email: nackojacko@aol.com
SALLY NACKER - (actor) - [New York]
I'm a University of Iowa Alumni (B.A. in Theatre Arts) in the New York
City area (residing
in Connecticut). Since1992 I have earned my living through principal
SAG work (national,
network commercials, mainly--I have nine). I am signed with Cunningham,
Escott, Dipene NY,
LA and Chicago. Though my homebase is in Connecticut with my guy and
two cats, I would
love to do some theatre in Chicago. I have a friend there to stay with,
and I'm thinking
of exploring the area.
email: snacker7@yahoo.com
BRETT NEVEU - (playwright, actor, director, puppeteer)
- [Los
Angeles]
('92)
Born in California and raised in Iowa, production credits include the
go
with the Terrapin Theatre Company (Chicago), Eric LaRue with A
Red Orchid
Theatre (Chicago), Empty with Stage Left Theatre (Chicago), Eagle
Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing with Spring Theatreworks (New
York) and
The Factory Theatre (Chicago), Drawing War with Chicago
Dramatists and The
Last Barbecue with the Asylum Theatre (Las Vegas), The Aardvark
(Chicago)
and 29th Street Rep (New York). His play Eric LaRue has
been
workshopped at The Echo Theatre Company (Los Angeles), The New Group
(New York),
Here (New York) and The 42nd Street Workshop (New York). He has
also
worked with various midwest play development groups such as The
Playwright's
Center in Minneapolis, No Shame Theatre in Iowa City and Chicago, and
is
currently a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. His play American
Dead will be produced by American Theatre Company (Chicago) in
February and
his plays twentyone and Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle
Landing
will be shown in reperatory with Spring Theatreworks (New York) in
June. Brett
has been commissioned twice by Steppenwolf for their New Plays
Initiative (2002
& 2003) and is also the recent winner of the Goodman Theatre's
Ofner Prize
for New Work. Brett currently lives in Chicago with his wife,
artist
Kristen Neveu.
email: bneveu@earthlink.net
MOLLY NEYLAN - (actor, lighting designer, set designer,
stage manager)
- [Los Angeles]
Molly has been living in Chicago
for the last 5 years. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of
GroundUp Theatre. Most recently, she was seen playing Masha in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, performed at National Pastime
Theatre. Molly is also the current Resident Lighting Designer for the
critically acclaimed, equity theatre house, The Artistic
Home. She has also worked with such notable Chicago
companies as Timeline Theatre, Shattered Globe, Prop Theatre, and The Gift
Theatre Company. She just finished lighting The
Miss Firecracker Contest at The Artistic Home. In terms of the rest of
her life: she’s obsessed with watching Hawkeye sports, she still loves to
hang out with Erika Winters, Mark Swaner, Jeff Ramnani, Ryan Bollettino, and
Dana Green; and she’s living in a “dead-sexy” apartment with her own
garage! (…so….not that much has
changed!) In 2004 she will be playing Mathilda in the fabulous George
Walker play Zastrozzi, as well as performing in
GroundUp Theatre’s upcoming cabaret show,
Letters/X. It’s an all-new piece based upon the comedic interpretation
of actual letters written amidst the course of a break-up. So you know
she’s got plenty of material. Heh heh…
email: mjneylan@hotmail.com
OLIVER OERTEL - (director/sometimes
actor/fledgling filmmaker) -
[Los Angeles]
Graduated University of Iowa in Dec. 1990. Artistic director of
Moveable Feast Theatre
Company 1992-1997. At Iowa, headed up No Shame Theatre board 1989-1990.
In Chicago,
started No Shame Theatre, Chicago, directed the dreamer examines
his pillow by John
Patrick Shanley, Tales from the Back Seat, The Big
Conspiracy by Peter
Ullian, and Death by Woody Allen. Studied with Del Close at the
ImprovOlympic, and
performed on a house team there for two years. ... Now lives in Los
Angeles and works at
Di Novi Pictures.
email: ooinla@gateway.net
ANDREA ONSTAD (nee KIRCHMEIER) - [San
Francisco]
email: Onstad_aj@pillsburylaw.com
AARON OSTER - [Philadelphia]
email: loveslinky@aol.com
SKY PALKOWITZ - - [Los Angeles]
email: ryckisky@hotmail.com
TIRA PALMQUIST - (playwright, director,
actor, poet) - [Irvine,
CA]
U of I student (actor and poet) from 1983 to 1985 (BA), UCI Creative
Writing (MFA).
Tira is teaching freshman composition at UCI. Formerly Artistic
Director of Total Theatre,
Tira's adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau won many kudos,
among them, the Sunny
Award for Best New Work. Tira was also named as a finalist for Best
Director of a Musical
for Total Theatre's Deirdre. Tira is married to Phil Thompson
(BA U of I '86), and
they have a daughter, Maja
email: hiredpen@email.msn.com
MARK PETRAK - - [Seattle]
email: mpetrak@ix.netcom.com
AMY LYNN PIGOTT - (Director/Producer/Educator)
- [Los Angeles]
Amy has worked in all aspects of theatre with directing, acting and
technical credits from
theatres as diverse as Bailiwick Repertory, The Unusual Cabaret and
Cafe Theatre Upstairs
in London. She is the Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre
and film company,
Pantechnicon Artworks, through which she produced and directed the epic
multi-media piece,
Oedipus Goes to Hollywood and the live serial, Larry and
the Werewolf. Other
directing credits include Arthur 33 at the Circle Rep. Lab in
New York, Smiley at
Cleveland Public Theatre and Mystery at Midnight at Stage Two
Theatre in Highwood.
Amy works as the Associate Producer for Heartland Films, through which
she has produced
such industrial wonders as True Grit or Butler Cleans Up and
the multi-media dental
products sales meeting piece titled, Supra Man. She has worked
on industrials for
Coca-Cola, The Farm Bureau, Reynolds Aluminum and Motorola and served
as the script
supervisor for the independent feature, Anticipation. Amy also
produced a film for
Art Resources in Teaching, for which there has been an A.R.T.
scholarship awarded to the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently producing a
documentary titled A
Sled Dog's Tale, which she hopes will air on PBS in January of
2000. Amy is the
Co-Founder and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Albany
Park Theater
Project, which brings together teens from Chicago's Albany Park
neighborhood to create and
perform theatre that comes out of their personal experiences, their
neighborhood and their
diverse native cultures. Prior to that, she spent time directing,
program designing and
teaching for SOUL: Stories of Urban Life, which is a
community-based oral history
performance project in Chicago's Uptown/Edgewater neighborhood and for
After School Action
Programs' Girl University, which was for young female residents of a
HUD building in
Uptown. Amy is the Immediate Past Vice President of the Board of the
Women's Theatre
Alliance, which is a service organization dedicated to promoting
women's leadership in the
theatre arts. Amy is married to filmmaker and fellow Iowa alum, Eric A.
Pot. They have one
son, Liam Christopher Pot, and are looking forward to the birth of
their second child in
April of 2000.
email: amylynn@ripco.com
LARRY PONTIUS - (playwright) - [New York City]
email: muijo@juno.com
ERIC A. POT - (film maker, actor) - [Los Angeles]
Eric is a
card-carrying member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) and recently
wrapped Season One (and the only season) of NBC's slightly misconceived
retelling of KNIGHT RIDER. Before that odysee he spent 6 months in Post
Katrina New Orleans crafting the long overdue Final Destination 4 in
3-D! Other time passers of the last five years include Die Hard 4, House
Broken (w/Danny Devito), Finding Amanda (w/Matthew Broderick), Shoot 'em Up
(w/Clive Owen), Sex and Death 101 (w/Wionna Ryder), Snakes on a Plane,
Bonneville (w/ Jessica Lange), Ask the Dust (w/Selma Hayak), Just Like Heaven
(w/Reese Witherspoon), Cellular, Syriana, Freaky Friday and Barbershop.
Eric lives in the Valley with his wife, Fellow Room 41er Amy Lynn Pigott
and their 3 Children Liam, Rileigh and Madailin. The above has kept him
occupied for the bulk of the 21 century and he expects will continue to do so
for the remainder.
email: ericpot@earthlink.net
JONATHAN PRICE - (composer)
- [Los Angeles]
BA
'92; BM '96
Jonathan Price has recently
returned to composing for musical theatre after a fourteen-year hiatus during
which he composed and produced soundtracks for film and television. His first
musical theatre outing, since composing four Unusual Cabaret musicals in the
early nineties, was Lao Jiu: The Musical which opened in 2005 at The New Drama
Centre in Singapore to overwhelmingly rave reviews. Jonathan's music for
television has been heard on The Disney Channel, Showtime, The Discovery
Channel, TLC, PBS, and Fox. He collaborated with Jeff Goode on the song "Hubba
Hubba Hula" for Disney's number-one animated series American Dragon: Jake Long,
created by Goode. His music for film includes the features Rustin, Cyber Wars,
and Dark Woods. His work as a soundtrack producer and synthesist can be heard in
An Unfinished Life, The Grudge, Runaway Jury, Shade, The Core, The Country
Bears, The Shipping News, and Bandits.
email: jonathan@jonathanprice.com
TOM PUCKETT - (graphic
designer/actor/bartender) - [Denver]
BA '92
email: puck70@comcast.net
LAURA QUINN - [New York]
MFA playwrighting student from 89-92
Living in New York, NY
email: quinnlq7@aol.com
CHRIS RAGNER - [Des Moines]
BA '90
Extensive work in the early 90s in the DSM area including such roles as
Mozart in Amadeus,
The Herald in Marat/Sade, industrial and commercial work. Set
his first love aside
after his first child, Alyssa Jean was born July 29, 1995. Chris has
two sons - Ethan
Anders, born December 2, 1997, and Caleb Anthony, born December 21,
1998. Active in
supporting families of children with Congenital Heart Defects. Chris is
working on a
documentary film about Hypo Plastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), a fatal
defect which Ethan
has. Future projects include Ethan's story and Iowa Arts for Baby
Hearts. Chris and his
wife Jean are presently at Drake University.
email: Ethanheart@aol.com
SARAYU RAO - [Los Angeles]
email: sarayu_@excite.com
STEVE RAWLEY - - [Portland,
OR]
Steve only spent one year
(84-85) and one summer (85) at the UI theatre dept. Steve did a little No
Shamin' with the Portland chapter's 2004 run.
Steve blogs somewhat regularly at the website listed below. Steve lives in Portland, Ore., with his wife and
two kids, ages 4 and almost-7. He enjoys a pretty decent Portland theatre scene from the cushy seats of the house (no rehearsals! no builds!); Steve's looking forward to a mini- package at Artists Repertory
Theatre this coming season. Steve is also looking forward to a mini-package at the Portland Winter Hawks (Canadian Major
Junior hockey) this season. He tries to play pickup hockey at least three days a week (though he's taking the month of August off), and tries to write daily to complete my science-fictionalized memoir.
email: rm41@rawley.org
web: http://morehockeylesswar.org/
TODD RISTAU - [Roanoke, VA]
Currently teaching theatre courses as an Asst. Professor for Mary
Baldwin
College and helping to coordinate the national network of No Shame
Theatres
while in charge of No Shame at Mill Mountain Theatre of Roanoke.
Married,
happily, to the University Librarian of Hollins University. Have
a guest
room, would love for you to come on down and visit, but you may have to
write
and perform a piece at No Shame to pay for your supper.
email: noshametheatre@aol.com
web: http://www.ristentltd.com
JENNIFER RIVES - (Actor) - [Knoxville,
Tennessee]
BA acting student at Iowa 1986-92 give or take
Jennifer has just finished her first year at the International Actors
Training Academy at
the University of Tennessee. Last year she played Arkadina in The
Seagull, which
was taken to an international theatre festival in Budapest, Hungary.
She went to another
festival in June to Bratislava, Slovakia. Jennifer received her equity
card this past
summer in Dancing at Lughnasa, in which she played Agnes at the
Clarence Brown
Theatre. This fall she will be performing in the American premiere of Dance
In Time,
created and directed by Hungarian director Laslow Marton. In the spring
she will be seen
in Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Liviu Ciulei. In
between she will be
performng in Three Penny Opera and Caberet. Next
summer she will be intently
looking for work outside of this coddled MFA world.
email: jennrives@prodigy.net
TASHA ROBINSON - [Chicago]
Former No Shame Board member and Arts Editor of the UI's Daily
Iowan ... Currently
Associate Entertainment Editor of the satirical newspaper The Onion
(www.theonion.com).
Conducts interviews, writes book and movie reviews, and manages the
Chicago-area theater
and reading "event picks." So if you've got a show going up in Chicago,
drop her
a line a couple of weeks before opening night.
email: tashar@theonion.com
BRIAN ROCHLIN - (writer, director, producer,
dramaturg) - [Miami
Beach]
email: BRochlin@aol.com
STEVE ROSSE - [Iowa City]
'80
"...did regional theatre for three years, off-off B'way for two, worked
in the film
industry for five (Best Credit: Set Decorator on Do The Right Thing)
then went to
Thailand on a holiday in 1990. Stayed until 1997. Came home with a wife
and two kids,
became the Theatre Critic for the Press Citizen for a year, now I'm in
the Nonfiction
Writing Program at the U, living in my Mom's old house, writing
articles on No Shame for
Spectator.
email: SteveRosse@aol.com
MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD - (writer, producer) [Los Angeles]
(BA '00)
Mike moved to LA and is currently working as a content producer for AOL Television. Mike is also a writer and producer for No Shame LA and was a writer and associate producer on Jeff Goode's FIN48 project. Mike is also doing some freelance sketch writing for Esther's Follies in Austin, Texas (thanks to fellow alum Sommer Austin). Also working on some scripts of his own and spending a lot of time perfecting his poker face.
email: rothschildmd@gmail.com
DAVID RUSH - (playwright) - [Chicago]
email: darush@siu.edu
CHAD ROYAL-PASCOE - [New York]
I am now in New York City and am continuing my fundraising
career.
Although not active in theatre, god knows that I see enough shows (both
good and
bad).
email: chadroyalpascoe@hotmail.com
SAMIR SABOURA - [Los Angeles]
email: samiaminla@aol.com
JENNIFER SAVARIRAYAN - (actor/dancer &
movement
teacher/choreographer) - [Chicago]
Jennifer is an active member of Gestic Theater Company, Paint Box
Children's Theater, and
TinFish Productions. You can contact her at Shakti Dance, ph#: (773)
348-4860 or through
email:
email: jensav@hotmail.com
JON SCHROEDER - - [Seattle]
email: jonbox@u.washington.edu
SARAH LAUREL SCHROEDER - (stage manager, set
designer) - [Iowa
City]
email: slschroe@icaen.uiowa.edu
BRAD SCHNURR - (actor) - [New York]
email: BASchnurr@aol.com
JERI LYNN SCHULKE - (actor) - [New York]
BA '90
Recently graduated from MFA program at University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hill.
email: jerilynn67@earthlink.net
MEGHAN SCHUMACHER - (director) - [Los
Angeles]
Currently the Managing Director of Moveable Feast Theatre Company. Most
recently she
directed Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit and produced Woody Allen's
Death directed
by Oliver Oertel. On June 8, 1996 Meghan married Oliver Oertel. They
recently moved to Los
Angeles, California.
email: meginla@aol.com
LIBBY SIMEON - [Seattle]
email: iskwesis@aol.com
DOUG SIMPSON - (actor) - [Chicago]
email: simpson@bases.com
LISA SCHLESINGER - (playwright) - [Iowa City]
email: LiSeana@aol.com
LAURA SLATER - (actor) - [Chicago]
('98)
email: lslater23@hotmail.com
JOHN SMICK - (actor, director, playwright) -
[Iowa City]
email: jsmick@bigfoot.com
SARAH SMILEY - (stage manager) - [Chapel
Hill]
MFA '05
Relocated to the beautiful state of North
Carolina and is now a stage manager for the PlayMakers Repertory Company. It
appears that there are not many alum south of the Mason Dixon line, so if you're
ever in the area, drop her a line.
email: sesmiley@unc.edu
CHARLES SMITH - (playwright) - [Athens, OH]
A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Charles Smith is a member
of New Dramatists
and playwright-in-residence at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. His
most recent work
includes Les Trois Dumas, which was commissioned and produced
in 1998 by the
Indiana Repertory Theatre and translated into Croatian for Croatian
Radio; and The
Sutherland, which received its world premiere production at Victory
Gardens in 1997
after receiving the 1997 Illinois Arts Council s Governor s Award for
New Plays. Other
plays by Charles Smith include Jelly Belly, Cane, Takunda,
Freefall, Black
Star Line, City of Gold, Tales of South Africa, Young
Richard,
and Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues. Mr. Smith teaches playwriting in
the School of
Theater at Ohio University.
email:
smithc4@ohiou.edu
SCOTT SMITH - (actor, director, playwright,
composer, sound
designer) - [Chicago]
email: drshaden@aol.com
CHERYL SNODGRASS - (actor, director) -
[Chicago]
U of Iowa student (actor) until 1990. MFA from University of Wisconsin
- Madison. ....
Brief stint as artistic director of Les Enfants du Maïs Theatre
Collective (Des Moines /
Chicago). Current artistic director of C'est Destine (Chicago /
Madison).
email: chitowncheryl@aol.com
MICHELE ULLIAN (née SOHNER)
(BA, 1991)
Michele is the Program Coordinator for the Training and Development
program at Korn/Ferry
International. At home she creates a variety of original American
crafts. She
and her husband, Peter, live in the relatively undiscovered
neighborhood of Inwood, at the
Northern Tip of Manhattan, across the street from Inwood Hill Park, and
the last old
growth forest on the island of Manhattan. Their son, Alexander,
born February 1st,
2001, likes to talk to their two cats, Beethoven and Gershwin.
ASHLEY SOVEREIGN - (actor) - [Minneapolis]
(BA)
Ashley Sovereign has recently completed a doctorate in counseling
psychology and
is working as a psychologist in the Minnesota state prison system.
email: ashleysovereign@yahoo.com
DOUG STECKEL - (actor) - [Chicago]
University of Iowa student (BA '93)
Mercenary and soldier of fortune. Has worked extensively with
Pantechnicon Artworks,
Kaleidoscope Childrens Theatre, Room 41, Les Enfants du Ma‹s, Act One
Studios. Was
member and Literary Manager of Moveable Feast Theatre Company. Has done
voiceover work for
Literature Selections on Tape through ScottForesman/Addison Wesley
Publishing; yes,
students around the country will hear him read them stories. Still
thinks he's that Number
One Starting Pitcher the Cubs need to make it to The Big Dance.
email: doug_steckel@hotmail.com
KARLA STEFFENS-MORAN - (playwright) - [Iowa]
Karla M. Steffens-Moran has moved to Mount Vernon, IA with her husband
Mike and her three
kids, Grace (8), Zak (5), and Luke (1) and of course Sam, the aging but
still graceful and
beguiling Wile E. Coyote of the brood--in order to get back to
basics. After eight
years of birthin' babies and paying her dues in Arts Administration,
she has decided to go
back to writing...stay tuned.
email: steffran@aol.com
JILL STEWART
Jill spent 8 years in Charlotte, NC working for
Barbizon Lighting. She was lucky to learn the game with all the other
beginners on Dawson's Creek & One Tree Hill and worked on many feature films
(28 Days, Domestic Disturbance, The Patriot, Black Knight...etc). In 2005,
Jill returned to Chicago where she discovered that not taking any business
classes in college was a huge
mistake! Jill currently manages Barbizon Chicago. So, if you need a gig or are
in the need for lights!...contact Jill!!
email: jgrips@comcast.net
email:
jstewart@barbizon.com
MICHAEL STONE - (carpenter, electrician,
rigger, movement coach,
actor) - [Iowa City]
Mike Stone is a freelance computer programmer and unix network
administrator. He began
writing code at the age of nine, in a back room at school, on a
DECWriter teletype
connected via 300-baud acoustic modem to an HP3000 mainframe named
'Huey'. Since 1995,
Mike has been a member of the Web Consultants' Association, a community
of online
consultants sharing ideas, technical information, and war stories from
around the world.
He has consulted with such organizations as Demon Internet UK, Boeing
Aircraft, American
College Testing Services, and the United Nations Foundation and Better
World Fund. He
spent a year on salary as technical team leader for the Internet
Products Center of Lee
Enterprises, a half-billion dollar media company which owns 22 daily
newspapers, 14
television stations, and approximately 50 specialty publications. He is
currently writing
a book on software design and development, to be published by Addison
Wesley in the spring
of 2000. Mike has been a stagehand for 15 years, and a high
rigger for 10. In that
time, he has worked hundreds of concerts and dozens of musicals,
including at least three
"this time we really mean it" final road tours of Cats. He
juggles, bakes
a mean cheesecake, and does a wicked backrub.
email:
michael@yawp.com
web:
http://www.yawp.com/
ERIC & VICKI SUMMERS - [Des Moines]
email: summers@tcpa.com