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David is one of the founding members of A Crew of Patches. He has worked at such theatres as the Goodman, the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington D.C., Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, First Folio Shakespeare Festival, and the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, where he was an Artistic Associate. His roles include the title roles in Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Edward III, as well as Laertes (Hamlet), Petruchio (The Taming of the Shrew), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Kent (King Lear), Orsino (Twelfth Night), Antipholus of Ephesus (A Comedy of Errors), Exton (Richard II), Pistol (Henry V), as well as every male role in Romeo & Juliet save the Prince and Paris. His directing credits include Othello, Richard III, Julius Caesar, and eight productions of Romeo & Juliet. David’s ties to R&J are not accidental. In 2007, David’s first novel, The Master of Verona, was published by St. Martin’s Press. Inspired by a single line in the play, the novel explores the origins of the famous Capulet/Montague feud. The sequel has been purchased by St. Martin’s. Meanwhile, David’s next novel is set in Rome. Having just finished playing the Captain in Bob Falls’ production of King Lear starring Stacy Keach, David is delighted to return on a limited basis for this season’s production of Macbeth, and to provide the stage combat choreography as well. The rest of David’s time is taken up editing his next novel, and looking after his two children, Dashiell & Evelyn.

Jan is a Founding Company Member and serves as the Artistic/Executive Director for A Crew of Patches. Jan has appeared at City Lit Theatre as Doreen in Tartuffe, as Connie and Maudie in Pigs with Wings, and as all four women in Cocktail Time. She has worked at Timeline Theatre, The Next Theatre, First Folio Shakespeare, and Bowen Park Theatre Company in the Chicago area and was a regular at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Regionally, she has played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Germaine in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Artemis is Eleemosynary, and Ismene in The Theban Cycle. She has an MFA in Classical Acting from the Hilberry Repertory Theatre in Detroit… and now a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter.

John is very excited to be starting his third season with the Patches and his second season as the oldest active Patch. He is currently performing in The Count of Monte Cristo at Lifeline Theatre, marking his 10th show with them, including Watership Down, Treasure Island, Flight of the Dodo, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Mark of Zorro, Talking It Over, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and The Killer Angels. Following right at the heels of Monte Cristo, he will be performing in Opus, directed by Jason Gerace at Red Twist Theatre. This summer he will play the supporting role of the Groom to Chelsea Paice’s magnificent Bride. Shows you may have seen him in at Strawdog (where he has been a proud ensemble member since 2001) include Red Noses (original and remount), Conquest of the South Pole, Brett Nevue’s Old Town (After Dark Award-Best Musical), Three Sisters, Marathon ‘33 (Non-Equity Jeff Award:Best Ensemble), Tooth of Crime (Second Dance), Julius Caesar, Fuddy Meers, Knives in Hens, The Green Bird, and Our Country’s Good. This past year or so he also worked with Stage Left on Andrew Hinderacker’s Kingsville, with the side project on The Artist Needs a Wife, with The Hypocrites on Cabaret (Non-Equity Jeff Award: Best Musical), directed by Matt Hawkins, and he most recently was made an Artistic Associate of the DIVISION theater company. Some other theatres John has performed with include: Goodman, Court, Eclipse, Famous Door (RIP), About Face, National Jewish, and Roadworks (RIP). John is a member of both SAG and AFTRA and has been lucky enough some years to make more money as an actor than at his survival job where he is the General Manager of Ravenswood Fitness Center. A graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, John holds a BFA in Acting. John loves to act and thanks you for supporting live theatre.

Greg is delighted to be returning to Patches this season. He is originally from the middle of Georgia but has been living in Chicago for almost 15 years. Recent stage credits include Macbeth and Dashiell Hamlet at City Lit, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and The Exonerated at Raven Theatre, and Bang the Drum Slowly and Otherwise Engaged at Steep Theatre. Much love to Kelly, Max, Ash, and Scarlett.

Matt returns for his 4th season with A Crew of Patches, and is very happy to be here. An actor in Chicago, he has performed for a variety of different theatre companies over the years, including The Court, Lookingglass, Provision, T.U.T.A., Writers’ Theatre, The Goodman, The House, The Hypocrites, Collaboraction, Eclipse, Pegasus, Congo Square and Chicago Children’s Theatre, to name a few. He is a company member of Strange Tree Group, where he has appeared in multiple productions, and is a teacher for Emerald City Children’s Theatre Company.

Robert is pleased to return for his eighth season with A Crew of Patches. He is an ensemble member of Lifeline Theatre, where he has appeared in numerous productions, including Around the World in 80 Days (Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards: Supporting Actor-Play and Ensemble), The Mark of Zorro (After Dark Award: Outstanding Production), A Room with a View, The Killer Angels, The Return of the King, Neverwhere, and The Count of Monte Cristo. He is also an ensemble member of Seanachaí Theatre Co., where he has appeared in A Whistle in the Dark, War, Our Father, and Mojo Mickybo. Other Chicago-area acting credits include work with Greasy Joan & Co., Strawdog Theatre, The Hypocrites, City Lit, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, New American Theater, Theatre at the Center, Lakeside Shakespeare, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Robert is also a published playwright, and his scripts have been produced in eighteen states across the U.S., as well as in Ireland, England, and Canada. His stage adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau received five Non-Equity Jeff Awards, including New Adaptation and Best Production-Play; his adaptation of Neverwhere received the Non-Equity Jeff Award for New Adaptation; his adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray was nominated for New Adaptation; and his adaptation of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers received its world premiere at the 2010 Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

Maggie is happy to be joining the Patches this season. She most recently appeared as Mrs. Grigson in The Shadow of A Gunman at Seanachaí Theatre, Lady Percy in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 for the Oak Park Theatre Festival, and as Lady Capulet in two productions of Romeo & Juliet: one for Babes with Blades, the other – along with Adriana in Comedy of Errors – for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Other Chicago credits include Cathy in Orange Flower Water with Backstage Theater, Lady MacDuff for First Folio, and Sylvia in Private Lives for City Lit. Regionally, she appeared in 9 Parts of Desire at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and Inherit the Wind for Warehouse Theatre. She holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program, is a founding member and former Artistic Associate for Mythmakers Theatre Company.

Marco is extremely excited to be starting his first full season with A Crew of Patches. A recent graduate of Northwestern University, Marco has oft been seen on the Chicago stage; some credits include: Bury the Dead and Measure for Measure (Promethean), Macbeth (City Lit), Choose Thine Own Adventure (Filament), Quills (Shadowmen), and understudy work with Chicago Shakespeare. Marco also attended the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, England where he studied classical theatre with John Barton, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Brian Cox. In addition to theatre, Marco does voiceover work, and is currently the voice of Ruffino Wine.

Erin has been acting in Chicago for 8 years. From northeast Ohio, she studied vocal performance at the University of Cincinnati, worked as an actor and singer in the Cleveland area for two years, where she worked with Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Theatre, and Lyric Opera Cleveland, and finally went to graduate school at Kent State, where she earned her MFA in acting. Here in town, Erin has been privileged to work with the Hypocrites, Lifeline, Redmoon, Live Bait, Irish Repertory Theatre, City Lit and Signal Ensemble Theatre, among others.

Shawn is a Chicago-based actor, playwright and musician. He is proud to be a company member of Lakeside Shakespeare (Henry V in King Henry V, the King of Navarre in Love’s Labors Lost, Edmund in King Lear, and Oliver and Amiens in As You Like It) and The House Theatre of Chicago, where he has performed in a dozen shows during its ten year history, including this fall’s Thieves Like Us, as well as written two shows for them (The Attempters and Hatfield & McCoy). In and around the city he has had the opportunity to perform at Steppenwolf (Theatrical Essays), Signal Ensemble (as Stephen Hoffman in Old Wicked Songs), Sandbox Theatre Project (as Shaun in Multipurpose Doom), and EP Theater (as Ekart in Baal).

Brandon studied Theater Arts at Southern Oregon University. Having been born and raised on the West Coast, he is a recent Chicago transplant and is proud to call Chicago home. Brandon has worked for many companies, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, and the Rubicon Theater. Some favorite roles include Alonzo/Franciscus in The Changeling, Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet, Paul in Six Degrees of Separation, and Mark in Dream of a Common Language. He has also been a dancer in productions of Swing and Cabaret. A Crew of Patches is Brandon’s first company to work for in Chicago and he is quite proud of this fact and privilege

Wesley is happy to be joining the Patches this season. He has just returned to Chicago from a season at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, where he was seen as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He has appeared in numerous productions all across the United States. Some of his favorite roles include Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac (Oak Park Festival Theatre), Commodore Reynard Eaton in Bloody Bess (Backstage Theatre), Philip in You Never can Tell (The Village Players), Raleigh in the regional premiere of See Rock City (Orlando Repertory Thetare), Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter (Impact Theatricals), and Max in Lend Me A Tenor (Mark II Theatre).

Christopher is very excited to be joining A Crew of Patches this season. He is an ensemble member at Lifeline Theatre, where he has appeared in several productions, including Watership Down, Neverwhere, Treasure Island, Busman’s Honeymoon, and The Mark of Zorro. Other Chicago-area acting credits include work with Signal Ensemble Theatre, A Red Orchid, Black Sheep Productions, Backstage Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Right Brain Project, City Lit, The Building Stage, Circle Theatre, and Defiant Theatre. Christopher is a continuing student at Black Box Acting Studio. His first stage adaptation, The Count of Monte Cristo, received its world premiere this fall at Lifeline Theatre.