Lisa Portes is an award-winning Chicago-based director, educator, leader and advocate whose aim is to define and promote a new American theatre that is driven aesthetically and politically by the world we are becoming rather than the world we’ve been. She is a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons and serves on the board of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), …
JC Widman
JC is a Chicago-based AEA stage manager. She has stage managed several shows with Firebrand, including 9 to 5, Caroline, or Change, Queen of the Mist, and Always …Patsy Cline. JC recently got to work with Drury Lane, The Goodman Theatre, The House Theatre of Chicago, and Victory Gardens. She got to work on Cabinet of Curiosity’s Tabletop Tragedies as …
Tyler Symone
Tyler Symone is a Chicago based actor. She is originally hails Shelby Township Michigan and is currently a Senior in Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Musical Theatre Performance program. Regional and Chicago credits include Annie, A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, and The Full Monty (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater), Caroline Or Change and 9 to 5 (Firebrand Theatre), A New Brain (Theo …
Liz Chidester
LIZ CHIDESTER is beyond honored to work with Firebrand Theatre again as a Firebrand Company Member! Chicago theatre credits: LIZZIE (Firebrand Theatre), BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY (American Blues Theatre, Best Mid-Sized Musical and Best Ensemble – Equity Jeff Awards 2018), FREDERICK(Chicago Children’s Theatre), HIGH FIDELITY (Refuge Theatre Project, Best Musical – Non-Equity Jeff Awards 2017) TABLE TOP TRAGEDIES (Cabinet of Curiosity), BIG RIVER and PUMP BOYS …
Andra Velis Simon
Andra Velis Simon is a music director, adapter, arranger, vocal coach, and pianist based in Chicago. Regionally, her work has been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, A.R.T. in Cambridge, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, Olney Theatre Center in Maryland, and Three Oaks in Michigan. In Chicago: The Goodman Theatre (The Iceman Cometh and Camino …
Jon Martinez
A Chicago native and hailing from Bridgeport. Firebrand credits include No One Here But us Witches: The Election Year (Director), Pink Ladies! (Co-creator/Co-Director). He served as Bailiwick Chicago’s Director of Artistic Development for 3 years. Jon mainly directs and choreographs in Chicago and regionally, credits include: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Pride Films & Plays); Rock of Ages (Timberlake Playhouse); …
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