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ALICE STANLEY JR.
(
Karen
) is a proud South Side native. Her plays
have been performed in eight states and counting – including with Alaska’s
Last Frontier Theatre Conference and at The Goodman as a winner of Chicago
Dramatists’ New Play Bake-Off. Previous comedy credits include the Chicago
Funny Women’s Fest, Chicago Sketchfest, CHIMIF, ImprovAcadia, iO Theater,
and Second City Boat Co.
TRAVIS TURNER
(
Gunthe
r) returns to The Second City, having previously
appeared in revues at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Hubbard Street Dance collaboration,
The Art of
Falling
. He also understudied the role of Puck in Lyric’s 2010 production of Britten’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
. Other recent Chicago credits include
The Flick
at
Steppenwolf Theatre and
Thaddeus and Slocum
at Lookingglass Theatre.
JONAH D. WINSTON
(
Morgan
) made his Lyric debut last season as the Maître
D’/
The Merry Widow
. The Indianapolis native recently appeared as Judge Luca
Van Deelsteldonk/Leo Fall’s
The Girl on the Train
with Chicago Folks Operetta.
He has performed with numerous theater companies in the Indianapolis area,
including the Sapphire Theatre Company (
Lysistrata
), the Indiana Repertory
Theatre (
Wild Horses
), and the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre (
Oklahoma!
,
Camelot
,
A Christmas Carol
). Among his numerous Chicago credits is Antonio/
Twelfth Night
(First
Folio Theatre). He will appear in the Goodman Theatre’s production of
A Christmas Carol
this winter.
Jonah is a graduate of Flinders University Drama and Film Center in Adelaide, South Australia, and
Indiana’s Butler University.
TIM SNIFFEN
(
Writer
) has worked with The Second City since 2006, traveling
with The Second City Touring Company; co-writing
The Second City Guide
To The Opera
in collaboration with Lyric; co-writing
Realish Housewives:
A Parody,
which recently toured the U.S.; and writing
Death of a Streetcar Named
Virginia Woolf,
which premiered at Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois, earlier
this year. Find him on Twitter at @MisterSniffen. Barrels of love to his husband,
John, who graciously endured many months of an apartment filled with the sounds of Wagner.
ANNELIESE TOFT
(
Director
) is the director of The Second City’s
Fast, Loud,
and Funny
(currently running in the Up Comedy Club) and often directs
for The Second City aboard Norwegian Cruise Line. She also directs sketch
comedy in venues all over Chicago including the Annoyance Theatre, Theater Wit,
Stage 773, The Public House Theatre, and iO Theater. Anneliese has also directed
dozens of plays, including the critically-acclaimed world premiere of
Tammy:
a Coming of Age Story About a Girl Who is Part T-Rex
(now published by Playscripts, Inc).
HEATHER SPARLING
(Lighting Designer
), is in her fourth season as assistant
lighting designer for Lyric Opera of Chicago. Before Lyric, she was lighting
supervisor at Florida Grand Opera. Heather has collaborated with several
Chicago theater companies including The New Colony, First Floor Theater, Solo
Chicago, and Greenhouse Theater. Most recently she had the pleasure of lighting
“The Fly Honey Show” with The Inconvenience. Heather also lights the annual
“Labapalooza” puppetry festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York. She is a proud alumna of
Boston University.