In So Many Words

The Artists

In So Many Words
(four plays about language)

(all photos by Scott Everett)	Margot Bordelon (Love, Valor and Technology, director for Word Perfect) is a writer, performer and director; she has performed her work for Serendipity Theatre's 2nd Story, Around the Coyote and Theatre Seven. In Chicago she has directed for Collaboraction, Pavement Group, Live Bait, Around the Coyote, Bailiwick, Hell in a Handbag and Appetite Theater; she has assisted directed at Steppenwolf and Timeline. Margot is originally from Seattle where she received her BFA in Theatre from Cornish College of the Arts. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago and crrently serves as Literary Associate at Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Christopher Devine (Word Perfect) graduated from Vassar College in 2005 with a degree in English. In the fall of 2003, he trained at the London 's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he played Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice . While at Vassar, Christopher appeared in The Winter's Tale, Titus Andronicus, All My Sons, and The After Dinner Joke. Directorial credits include Never the Sinner, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Cowboy Mouth and several one-act plays by Samuel Beckett. Christopher has just completed his first book, Of No Fixed Address: A Collection of Voices from the Streets of Chicago . He lives in Old Town with Sarah Horowitz, Franny and Zooey.
	Brian Lobel (The View from My Side of the Nose - Redux) is thrilled to be back at Fillet of Solo this year with this amazing group. Brian's full-length play Other Funny Stories About Cancer premiered at Fillet of Solo in 2006. For the past two years, Brian toured his first play BALL to 45 cities throughut the world and performed theatrically at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Galapagos Art Space and Makor in NYC, First Person Festival in Philidelphia, Empty Space Theater in Phoenix and Speakeasy, DC. Brian is a two-time recipient of teh Chicago Cultural Center CAAP Grant for New and Emerging Artists and most recently spent June at Lincon Center Theater's Directors Lab in NYC. He will begin his MA in Performance at Queen Mary University of London in the Fall. Special thanks to Margot Bordelon.
Arlene Malinowski (Til Deaf Do Us Part) is an actor/playwright whose 4 solo shows have been produced and performed in venues nationwide. Her work has been honored with an LA Theatre Ovations nomination, an LA Weekly Award and a Garland Award. As an actor she has appeared on stages both here and in LA. Her television credits include: ER, CSI, The Practice, The Division & X Files. She currently teaches solo writing/performing in LA, San Francisco and Chicago . She was a contributing writer for the book Selling Lemonade for Free and was most recently named “Supreme Skald 2006/2007” at the Cultural Center 's storytelling week. She is thrilled to be a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists.
Kristin Toerpe (Stage Manager) is a junior Theater Tech and Design, with an emphasis in Stage Management, and Spanish major at Coe College . During her high school career, she worked on 15 productions. She started out her career at Coe by doing crew work for numerous shows, assistant stage managing The Learned Ladies , and stage managing The Lesson, Gypsy, and Aunt DAN AND Lemon. She also held her first role in a college production as Katya in A Month in the Country. Stage Managing here at Live Bait Theater is another very exciting experience for her. She is incredibly hapy to have this opportunity to do what she loves in a professional theater's atmosphere.	Justin Wardell (Lighting Designer) has been living and working in Chicago for the past three years designing theatre and dance. Justin moved to Chicago after receiving his Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis He is now working as the Rentals Coordinator for Designlab Chicago. Justin is happy to be returning for his second year with the Fillet of Solo. Some of his recent work includes light designs for Flamenco Pa' Dos at The Symphony Space in New York, The Landry News at Lake Forest College, Is Chicago with Theatre Seven, Las Guitarras de Espana (multiple venues), Entresueno (Chicago and Pittsburgh productions) and Unraveling Rhythms with Clinard Dance Theatre (2005-6 Tour). Some upcoming designs include Killing Women with Theatre Seven at Chicago Dramatists and Jhondo Portraits with Clinard Dance Theatre at the Chicago Cultural Center .
Miles Polaski (Sound Designer) is one of Collaboraction's newest company members. He has sound designed their roduction of Trueblinka by Adam Rapp as well as Sketchbook 6 & 7 . Miles has been working with Serendipity Theatre for the past two years He sound designed 2 nd Story's 2006 and 2007 Festival as well as Deloris Dogan directed by Adam Belcoure. Miles was recently nominated for two Jeff Citations for his design and composition of Actor's Workshop's production of Equus by Peter Shaffer. Miles has also worked with Strawdog Theate, Appetite Theatre, Light Opera Works, The Gift Theatre and many others. Before moving to Chicago , Miles worked as an actor and sound designer at The Barter Theatre, state theater of Virginia, for 3 years.	Ann Filmer (director, Til Deaf Do Us Part) returns to Live Bait where she directed Sharon Evans' adaptation Us and Them and Tekki Lomnicki's Blurred Vision. A director and choreographer whose passion lies in new work, Ms. Filmer was Producing Directo of Chicago Dramatists (2000-2004) receiving an After Dark Award for direction of John Green's The Liquid Moon . She also has directed for the Goodman, Shattered Globe, Red Orchid, Collaboraction, Northwestern University , Prop Thtr, The Aardvark, UIC, 29 th Street Rep in New York and Estrogen Fest ( of which she is founder and artistic director). Next she will direct Mia McCullough's Spare Change for Stage Left. Ms. Filmer is the co-editor of Chicago 's first-ever anthology of plays “New Plays from Chicago .”
Cassy Sanders (director, Love, Valor and Technology) recently moved to Chicago from sunny Seattle . Cassy has a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts. Before leaving Seattle , she produced a staged reading of her full length play, Conversations with Fish . In Seattle , she worked with such groups s Implied Violence, The Playwriting Team, and The School of Big Ideas. In Chicago , Cassy is the Assistant Artistic Director at Collaboraction. Her short play, Lesson One , just finished running in the 7 th annual Sketchbook at the Steppenwolf Garage.

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