THE WRITERS. THE ACTORS. THE DIRECTOR.
Sara Sevigny is a Chicago bred actor, singer, improviser, and playwright who is best known as Edna Bunnin on EMPIRE (FOX). Sara is also half of the comedic duo, "Corri and Sara," whose YouTube series, GET IN THE CAR, is available here. Their new web-series, CORRI AND SARA ARE FAMOUS, drops in 2021. Sara also starred as Grace in the film ROGERS PARK (Critic's Pick New York Times, 100% Rotten Tomatoes). Other credits include PopTv's HOT DATE, and Comedy Central's SOUTH SIDE. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor's Equity, Sara theater credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lyric Opera, and Paramount. Big thanks to Barbara Hobart for the opportunity to create during a time of chaos. Sara is repped by Gray Talent Group and Artists First. She also likes unsweetened green tea lemonade, in case you wanted to get her one. It tastes like sunshine. Mex3
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Barbara Hobart is a television writer/producer and playwright. She currently resides in Chicago, after a 27 year "stint" in Los Angeles. Of the various television scripts she wrote, she is most proud of her very first which won the AGLA Award (GLAAD) where she wrote one of the first lesbian characters portrayed in a positive light... 9 years before Ellen's coming out episode aired. When Barbara's not busy creating a virtual theatre company in the middle of a pandemic, she continues her 30-year history working with those incarcerated. She looks forward to attending the premieres of her two new plays when the pandemic is over and it is safe to return to seeing live theatre. She is a member of the WGA. She is excited to present the next episode in The Quarantine Diaries which is currently in the works.
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Robert Cornelius (he/him) is a multi-disciplined artist born and raised on the south side of Chicago, and a veteran of over three decades in the Chicago and national arts scenes. He is an actor, singer, writer, educator, and activist that has spent much of his career trying to achieve equity in the arts for Black artists and technicians. Most recently he was seen onstage in Her Honor, Jane Byrne, written and directed by J Nicole Brooks at Lookingglass Theatre, and Lottery Day by Ike Holter at The Goodman Theatre-both world premieres. He spent over a decade as Arts Education Director at Victory Gardens Theater, working to help young people find their voices. He is a member of the band Poi Dog Pondering, currently working on new music. Robert is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful project for Artist Relief.
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Corrbette Pasko is a writer, actor, singer, comedian, producer, VO artist, professional swearer, royal food taster, parent, eyebrow raiser, and magnificent injury-haver. She is creating a digital comedy series, Corri and Sara Are Famous with her writing partner, Sara Sevigny, and is producer/host for Write Club, where literature is bloodsport, and the next show is 10/20 via Hideout Chicago. Corrbette also thinks whatever you're doing is great, so long as it's inclusive and you aren't a dickpaddle. You might have seen her face on your tee vee. Check out her stuff at www.corrbette.com
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JANET ULRICH BROOKS (actor/teaching artist) Chicago theatre: TimeLine Theatre
(Company Member), Goodman, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Norhtlight, Drury Lane, Theatre at the Center and others - received Joseph Jefferson award for principal role as Maria Callas in TimeLine’s production of Master Class. Television credits include: Fargo S4(FX), Sense8 (Netflix), Proven Innocent (FoxTV), Boss (STARZ) & NBC’s Playboy Club & Chicago Fire/Med/Justice. Films include: Divergent, Conviction, M.O.M., One Small Hitch, Fools, Polish Bar, The Middle Distance, Market Value and several Shorts. A proud member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA, Janet is represented by Gray Talent Group. |
Stephanie Diaz is an actor and puppetry artist based in Chicago. She was seen most recently
onstage as Connie Gonzales in Roe at the Goodman Theatre, and will appear next as Teiresias in The Bacchae with Court Theatre. Select acting credits include work at The Gift Theater, Remy Bumppo, Lookingglass Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, Mixed Blood, First Stage Milwaukee, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Creede Repertory Theatre. As a puppeteer, she specializes in Bunraku-style tabletop and shadow puppetry, and has designed for numerous Chicago theatres in addition to her own critically-acclaimed full-length piece, Mariposa Nocturna: A Puppet Triptych, which opened the 2015 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and enjoyed several successful runs in Chicago, most recently in the Chicago Physical Festival. Her voiceover work in Spanish and English spans radio, TV, video games and audiobooks, notably as Agent Morales in The X-Files: Cold Cases for Audible (opposite Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny), and as Sonia Proud in Season 3 of The Dark Tome series, soon to be available through Sirius. The recipient of numerous artistic grants and residences, she was honored in 2019 with a 3Arts Award in Theatre. She is a founding member of The Chicago Inclusion Project and a proud Guatemalan-American. BLACK LIVES MATTER. |
SHARIBA RIVERS is a Chicago-based actor who has a new love--writing. But…not so fast! She still has major insecurities about it, so don’t ask her to write too much too soon. She is an ensemble member in three companies: First Floor Theater, The New Colony, and MPAACT, where she is also the casting director. In addition to theater credits, Shariba has TV, commercial, film, web, and audio credits. She recently won an AudioVerse award for her work as Lily Harper in the audiodrama Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery. She is represented by Gray Talent Group. More at www.sharibatheactor.com.
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Jen Bosworth-Ramirez is a writer and actor based in Los Angeles. She is the current recipient of the Jan Marino Scholarship at Stephens College where
she is earning her MFA in TV and Screenwriting. As a Latinx artist, Jen is committed to bringing stories to the screen that shine a big, bright light on underrepresented people and the worlds in which they live. She is also a huge advocate for showing bigger bodies on screens large and small. Jen lives in a very small apartment in Pasadena with her skateboarding, lawyer husband and like everyone else right now, she is just trying to make it through each day. Hang on. Hang in. Resist. |
Michael Davidoff is a television writer and producer whose credits include creating and executive-producing the sitcom “Working” for NBC, serving as a writer and co-executive producer on the Emmy-Award-winning “Nurse Jackie” on Showtime, and writing on staff of a dozen network and cable comedies.
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Vasily Deris is a singer and actor around the Chicago-land area. You may have seen him on Chicago Fire and Shameless and throughout many of the theater houses in town. He was in such hits like The Buddy Holly Story as the Big Bopper with American Blues Theater and singing and dancing in the new work, The Secret of My Success out at the Paramount Theater in Aurora. He is also an active member in the cabaret scene, writing and performing shows with his partner, Sophie Grimm and performing under the couple name “SoSily”. He is represented by DDO Chicago and you can stay up to date with him on IG at truth_or_deris.
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Rachel Sullivan is thrilled to be a part of The Quarantine Diaries! When not in pandemic isolation, Rachel has been seen on Chicago Fire, The Chi, and the feature film Soul Sessions. Rachel has appeared on stage in Jackalope Theater's Ideation and About Face Theatre's Dada Woof Papa Hot. She has three phenomenal kids and a miracle of a husband. No joke. Huge thanks to Sara and Barbara for making this incredible series and for their fabulous work.
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Kevin Alves is a Chicago based actor, writer, and cookie lover. Some of his favorite credits include Harold Bloodstone in Hotel Aphrodite, Edward Reeve in Fields of Valor: Civil War, and Squja’ (Scrooge) in A Klingon Christmas Carol. But that’s his acting stuff. He writes, too! His writing credits include the one-act musical comedy, Bernie Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…..’s Brother, the award winning video short, Killing Time, and he has written for the noir podcast Neon Nights: The Arcane Files of Jack Tracer. He is also a 3 time winner of the live lit smackdown, Write Club and he was a 2014 finalist in WildClaw Theatre’s horror radio short competition, Deathscribe. Did you know that, although it appears white, a polar bear’s fur is actually transparent? It’s true. Look it up. I’ll wait.
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Taylor Raye is honored to be a part of The Quarantine Diaries 3 and grateful to be a part of this benefit. She is a Chicago-based actor who was most recently (but what even is time anymore?) seen onstage as the understudy for Tina/Candice in Death Tax at Redtwist Theatre. Taylor represented by Big Mouth Talent.
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Carisa Gonzalez (She/Her) is a currently very unemployed but otherwise pretty healthy and safe Chicago based actor! She couldn’t be more stoked to be participating in the The Quarantine diaries, as she fully gets what it means to be an artist in need of some relief. Previously seen in the very short run of Secret of My Success at the Paramount Theater in Aurora, she's frequently performed in a handful of Chicago’s storefront theaters!If everything goes to plan and the world doesn’t get swallowed into a giant hellmouth you can catch her next in Kinky Boots at Paramount! Proudly repped by the badasses at Shirley Hamilton Talent. Now get your butts to the polls, babes!
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Esteban Andres Cruz is an LA based-Chicago bred artist (born in Berwyn and raised in Cicero, IL). They were recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award in their Off Broadway debut of the world premiere Stephen Adly Guirgis play Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven originating the role of Venus Ramirez. Esteban also won a Jeff Award for their portrayal of Angel Cruz in another Guirgis play, Jesus Hopped the A Train. They have worked at Steppenwolf, Writers' Theater, Victory Gardens, the Factory Theater, 16th Street and dozens of other Chicago Theaters. Esteban played Puck in the opera of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. They have performed on the West Coast at Pasadena Playhouse, Celebration Theater, Cygnet Theater and Sacred Fools. Regionally Esteban has worked at Theater at the Center, Peninsula Players, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Milwaukee Rep and Miami New Drama. Select film: Spa Night (Cassavetti Independent Spirit Award Best Feature), Valley of Bones, The Thin Line and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and some television credits include Chicago Fire, Awkward, Easy, Idiot Sitter, The Bridge, You're The Worst. Trained in Cecchetti and Vagonova Ballet technique, as well as Horton, Limon, Cunningham, Klein/Mahler and being 3rd generation Graham-they have also had a career in dance. Esteban started their professional life in dance with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, RTG Dance, Hedwig Dances (in the Chicago Cultural Center) and freelanced all over the city as a "ballerino for hire" and the greater Chicagoland area and danced in the Corps de Ballet with the Cincinnati Ballet. Esteban had always studied opera but their musical interests flourished in college when they studied jazz improvisation and became the lead vocalist for the U of I Big Band. That turned into gigging with combos throughout school at Urbana Champaign and continued by performing in Chicago. One spot they frequented was the New Apartment Lounge on 79th and MLK, under the guidance and mentorship of the city's beloved jazz legend Von Freeman. Additional awards include the 2018 Fox Resident Actor Fellowship Award from the Theater Communications Group, the national conglomerate of professional US Theaters. The 2009 Joesph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a leading role; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis for the role of Angel Cruz and an After Dark Award for choreography.
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Blu is a Chicago based singer/actor. Most recently he was seen stepping into the role of ISA in Timeline Theatre's production of Kill Move Paradise. Other notable credits include Five Guys Named Moe (Court Theatre), Memphis (Porchlight), and The World Premiere of The Watson/s Go To Birmingham (Chicago Childrens Theatre) Blu is Represented by Big Mouth Talent Instagram : HeyBluBoy
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Josh Zagoren is an actor/writer living in Chicago and originally from Iowa. He has worked with Steppenwolf, Interrobang Theater Project, WildClaw Theatre to name a few, was last seen on Chicago Med and you used to catch him every Saturday as Chad the Bird at the Green Mill Lounge for The Paper Machete but now you'll find him online doing many things so please follow Write Club Chicago , all things Chad the Bird and be on the lookout for more!
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Barbara Figgins is an ensemble member with the Irish Theatre of Chicago, Lakeside Shakespeare and also works as a film and voice over actor. Her credits include: Pipeline (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); My Brilliant Divorce (Jeff Nomination, Best SoloPerformance), In Pigeon House, The Shadow of a Gunman, Dancing at Lughnasa, Our
Father, Scenes from the Big Picture, WAR and Bold Girls (Irish Theatre of Chicago);Barbecue (Strawdog Theatre at Steppenwolf); Pam in Exit Strategy (Jackalope Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Writers Theatre); The History Boys (Timeline, Jeff Award Best Ensemble). Film & TV: “Chicago Justice”, “The Chi”. For more information visit www.barbarafiggins.com |
Kim Boler is a Chicago actor & director. She is an Ensemble member with The Factory Theater and recently directed their last show LAST NIGHT IN KARAOKE TOWN. She is also an Ensemble member with Broken Nose Theatre and received a Jeff Nomination in 2016 for Best Actress in their production of HUMAN TERRAIN as well as the 2018 Jeff Award for Best Ensemble in PLAINCLOTHES. She is excited and scared to explore the new realm of digital storytelling and is truly tickled to be working with Sara Sevigny! Other Chicago credits include Lifeline Theatre, Akvavit Theatre, and New Colony before COVID shut it down.
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Sophie Grimm is an Equity/SAG actor & vocal musician, including playing Trevor’s Mom in Writers Theater's musical, TREVOR, based on the 1994 Oscar winning Best Short Film inspiring the Trevor Project (a national 24 hour, toll free confidential crisis hotline for LGBTQ youth - 1-866-488-7386), Desdemona in the critically acclaimed OTHELLO: THE REMIX (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and additionally across the country in jazz, cabaret & concert settings (including Carnegie Hall, The Green Mill, Artist’s Quarter). Passionate about assisting & teaching, Sophie asks all to practice true (self) love every day. Reach out! - www.SophieGrimm.com & [email protected]
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ANDREW GUERDAT is a film and television writer-producer whose credits include the series Archie Bunker’s Place; Mork & Mindy; Head Of The Class; Sister, Sister; Boy Meets World; Empty Nest; and Herman’s Head, which he co-created. His films include Fourth Story and Dance ‘Til Dawn. He currently writes animated television series for Disney Junior and Nickelodeon. His play, Red Remembers, starring David Garrison and directed by John Rando, premiered at the Berkshire Theater Festival.
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Bear Bellinger is an actor, writer, mover, facilitator, and troublemaker based out of Chicago. On stage, you may have seen him with Chicago Children's Theatre, The Fly Honey Show, Teatro Vista, The Hypocrites, and Court Theatre among others. His writing has been featured in Vox, Rescripted, Windy City Times, Stage and Candor, and others but most commonly on his own Facebook page causing trouble. He'd like to thank ya'll for watching and, as always, #BLM!
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Noelle Krimm is a writer/director/performer of experimental theater with a particular interest in art as a means of community building and place-making. Noelle holds degrees in theater and performance from The Florida School of the Arts and Florida State University. She moved to Chicago in 1998 and became a Neo-Futurist ensemble member in 1999. Noelle wrote for and performed in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) for about 9 years and created three full-length original shows for The Neo-Futurists as well: City Girl! (2002), Alice (2004), and Fear (2009). After leaving The Neo-Futurists, Noelle launched her own company, Upended Productions, and produced new versions of Alice in 2014 in Andersonville and 2018 and 2019 in Evanston. And then Covid happened
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