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ARTIST PROFILES
TRACY CANTIN
(
Valerie
), a recent alumna of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s
Ryan Opera Center, earned critical acclaim at Lyric as Berta/
The Barber of Seville
(new production)
.
The soprano has also appeared in the company’s
Elektra,
Rigoletto, Parsifal,
and most recently
Anna Bolena
. Among the highlights of her
concert appearances (which have included Ravinia, the Grant Park Music Festival,
the Oregon Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic, and the Civic Orchestra of
Chicago), is Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9
for her Australian debut with Bryn
Terfel, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Sir Andrew Davis. She will make her Canadian
debut with Edmonton Opera in 2017. Among her numerous honors are a Sullivan Foundation Award
and a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award.
JESSE CASE
(
Richard Wagner
,
Original Music, Musical Director, Sound
Designer
) is thrilled to be making his Chicago acting debut. At The Second
City, he’s served as musical director for five original revues on both e.t.c. and
Mainstage. His numerous theatrical productions there include composing and
co-writing
The Second City Guide to the Opera,
the first collaboration with Lyric
in 2013. He’s made music and sound for a wide variety of plays, short films, pilots,
web series, and documentaries. His production credits include a bloated, over-indulgent rap album
by T.J. Miller for Comedy Central Records.
RANDALL HARR
(
Dirk
) has been working with The Second City as an actor,
writer, and communications facilitator since 2003. He also spent two years in
Amsterdam performing with the comedy theater Boom Chicago! Some of
Randall’s Second City credits include
Who’s yer Baghdadi?
and
No Shirt, No
Shoes, No WMDs (
Second City Cleveland
), American Mixed Tape
(Denver’s
Garner Galleria Theatre),
Sex and the Second City (
national tour
)
,
Rod Blagojevich
Superstar
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater),
Peach, Drop, Stop and Roll
(Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre),
and
#DateMe
(UP Comedy Club). You can also see Randall performing with the Improvised
Shakespeare Company at the iO Theater.
SAYJAL JOSHI
(
Margueritte
) hails from North Carolina, where she earned her
B. A. in theater from UNC Greensboro and cofounded Greensboro’s first improv
comedy club, The Idiot Box. For 15 years she has been writing, performing, and
teaching theater, sketch, improv, video, guitar comedy, and stand-up all over the
universe. Credits include The Kennedy Center, The Goodman, Woolly Mammoth
Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Zanie’s Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory,
The Second City Touring Company, The Annoyance Theatre, iO Theater, ComedySportz, Laugh
Out Loud Theater, and the critically acclaimed Asian-American sketch ensemble, Stir-Friday Night!
TIM RYDER
(
Fred Wagner
) was previously seen in
Apes of Wrath
and
Soul
Brother, Where Art Thou?
on The Second City e.t.c. Stage. An alumnus of The
Second City Touring Company, he has performed in
The Second City Guide to the
Opera
at Lyric,
The Second City Improv All-Stars
,
Baby Wants Candy
,
The Beatbox
,
and in shows at iO Chicago (The Improvised Shakespeare Company,
Chaos Theory
,
The Deltones
) and ComedySportz. You might have seen him in videos for
The
Onion
, the webseries
Game Bros
, or on
Chicago Fire
and
Sirens
. He also voices
the Elvish archer DQ in the popular podcast
Hello From the Magic Tavern.