Don is an honors graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and has been acting in Chicago for more than twenty-five years. As a company member of Shakespeare’s Motley Crew, he played Titus in Titus Andronicus, Ferdinand in the The Duchess of Malfi, Iachimo in Cymbeline, Polixenes in A Winter’s Tale, and Laxton in The Roaring Girl. He has played King Lear for Vitalist Theatre and Oscar Wilde in Circle Theatre’s production of The Judas Kiss. He appeared in the U.S. premieres of Nick Whitby’s To the Greenfields Beyond at Writers Theatre and Yousef El-Guindi’s Our Enemies at Silk Road Theatre Project. He appeared in the critically-acclaimed productions of The Mark of Zorro and The Picture of Dorian Gray at Lifeline Theatre. Previously, he appeared in Seanachaí Theatre Company’s world premiere of The Pagans and Calamity Meat, as well as their production Dylan. With The Hypocrites, he played Mr. Biedermann in The Firebugs, Germont in Camille/LaTraviata, and Nightengale in Arcadia. With Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, he played Gary Essendine in Private Laughter and appeared in their production of The Deep Blue Sea. He has also worked with Next Theatre, Shattered Globe, Raven Theatre, Stage Left, Live Bait, The Journeymen, Signal Ensemble, and American Theatre Company. He is regularly seen at City Lit Theatre as Sherlock Holmes and various P.G. Wodehouse characters. This past season he received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for Best Performance in a Leading Role for his portryal of Deely in Harold Pinter’s Old Times at City Lit.

Breon, an Emporia State University alum, is a founding member of A Crew of Patches. Breon has also taught and directed children’s theatre for nationally acclaimed Missoula Children’s Theatre. Breon, a Kansas transplant, has now been performing theatre professionally in Chicago for 11 years; before that, he played Jake in the national tour of The Blues Brothers Act. You might have caught him here in Gutenberg! The Musical!! at the Royale George, or Madame X at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts or maybe even in Twelfth Night at Noble Fool Theatre in Pheasant Run. In his free time Breon writes music and is a voracious reader.

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.

Andy is returning for his fourth season as a Patch. He received his B.F.A in Theater Arts from the University of Idaho and has performed, taught and toured with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Since coming to Chicago, he has trained at the Second City Conservatory, the Annoyance and the iO Theater, where he currently teaches and performs. In addition to A Crew of Patches, he has performed with The Next Theater, Theater Wit, and the Sandbox Theater Project. He can currently be seen in the long-running improvised shows Baby Wants Candy and The Improvised Shakespeare Company.

James is proud to be performing with A Crew of Patches Theatre Company for a sixth consecutive year. A graduate of Northwestern University, James has performed all over Chicago for the past nine years. Most recently he played the title role in Lifeline Theatre’s twenty-one week run of The Mark of Zorro. Other credits include Pangs of the Messiah and Our Enemies, Lively Scenes of Love and Combat at Silk Road Theatre Project; Phedre at Court Theater; World Set Free at Steppenwolf; The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer at Next Theater; Catch-22 at Steep Theater; Twelfth Night at Noble Fool; and Detective Story at Strawdog. James is also an SAFD certified fighter and received the prestigious “Best Male Actor Combatant” award at the Society of American Fight Directors three-week workshop in Las Vegas. James has taught acting at the Chicago Center for Performing Arts high school.

Tom is a member of Strawdog Theatre Company. Productions he has appeared in there include: St. Crispin’s Day, Cherry Orchard, Aristocrats, Three Sisters, Marathon ‘33, Detective Story and Julius Caesar. He has also worked with Seanachaí, Steep, Remy Bumppo, The House and Silk Road theatre companies.

Matt is an actor in Chicago and a proud Patch. He was most recently seen in Strauss at Midnight, with Theatre Oobleck at the Gallery 37 Storefront Theatre. Other recent credits include Romeo & Juliet with TUTA, Our Town with Lookingglass, and The Flu Season with Black Sheep. He has worked with various other Chicago theatre companies over the years, including The Goodman, Writers’, Pegasus, The House, Collaboraction, Eclipse and Congo Square. He is a company member of The Strange Tree Group, where he has appeared in several productions, and teaches for Emerald City Children’s Theatre Company.

Robert is pleased to return for his sixth 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, and The Return of the King. 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 a dozen states across the country. His stage adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau received five Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, including New Adaptation and Best Production-Play, and his adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray was nominated for New Adaptation.

Robert has been with A Crew of Patches for 4 years now. He went to high school in Geneseo, IL and competed in IHSA Individual Events and Contest Plays from 1983-1987. He received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa, and has been working as an actor, producer, fight choreographer, fight captain and graphic designer in Chicago since 1992. Rob is a member of the critically acclaimed company The Hypocrites, where he has appeared in such plays as The Hairy Ape, Three Penny Opera, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Equus, Rhinoceros, and Balm in Gilead, to name some favorites. He has also worked at such Chicago companies as Steppenwolf, Writers Theatre, Eclipse Theatre Company, City Lit, Lifeline and Strawdog, among others.

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.

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jeff has performed in multiple seasons of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, which included roles in Macbeth (Porter/Caithness), Richard III (Earl of Derby), and A Comedy of Errors (Ensemble). He has also performed in productions of The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry), Hamlet (Horatio), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), and As You Like It (Forest Lord/William), which was helmed at EMU by the Stratford Festival’s late, great Nicholas Pennell. Jeff has been involved in many incarnations of The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) over the years, the most recent of which was the flagship show by A Crew of Patches. During the past three years, he has performed in many shows in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area, including Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (Giles Ralston), Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Charles Condomine), Ibsen’s Ghosts (Oswald Alving), and was critically-acclaimed for his role as Richard Roma in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.

Zeke is thrilled to be a part of Crew of Patches. Recent Chicago credits include Treasure Island (Lifeline Theatre), Rose and the Rime (House Theatre), Hunchback (Redmoon Theatre), and Much Ado About Nothing (Oak Park Festival Theatre). Zeke is a proud ensemble member of Barrel of Monkeys. In his spare time, Zeke teaches drama and music to children. Check out his musical alter-ego, cLAss, on a club tour of Chicago this Fall.

Alice is a member of TUTA Theater and most recently appeared as Juliet in TUTA’s Romeo and Juliet. Other TUTA credits include: It’s Only the End of the World, Tracks, and Still Life in Color. Elsewhere around town, Alice has performed in The Shape of a Girl with Pegasus Players, Three Penny Opera with the Hypocrites, Boneyard Prayer with Redmoon, and Feast with Chicago Dramatists. She received her BFA in Drama from Syracuse University and studied physical theater at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France.