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COMPANY PROFILES Seth Bockley is a Chicago-based playwright, director and performer. He won a 2009 Equity Jeff Award for Best New Adaptation for Jon, from a story by George Saunders. He has created design-focused theater with several notable Chicago companies including Walkabout (Impossible Cities), Collaboraction (Jon, Deep Blue Sea), and Redmoon (Boneyard Prayer, Laika’s Coffin), where he spent two years as a directing apprentice through TCG's New Generations program. Current commissions include the book for February House, a collaboration with lyricist and composer Gabriel Kahane for the Public Theater's Musical Theater Initiative, and an adaptation of CommComm by George Saunders, for The Goodman Theatre’s Ofner Prize. His collaboratively devised new work, The Twins Would Like To Say, produced by Dog & Pony Theatre Company, premiered at Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre in February 2010. Loren Crawford is a playwright, performer, filmmaker and educator. Her stage plays include Prelude: The Life and Work of Katherine Mansfield, Missing Memaw, Dye Frye & Wicked John and the Devil published by New Plays, Incorporated, Mama: A play for Voices , The Unembarrassed Mind with Stephan Mazurek and most recently The People Could Fly. As a performer she has worked with Itinerant Theater Guild, Walkabout Theater, Next Theatre, Piven Theatre and XSight! Performance Group. She has worked extensively throughout Kentucky as an artist-in-residence developing and directing original work with students as well as designing and implementing an after-school theatre program for youth at risk. In Chicago she has taught theatre, humanities, language arts, writing and ecology at Triumphant Charter School. With Stephan Mazurek she formed Ruffian Pictures whose first full-length documentary "Under Kentucky Skies: 25 years of the Kentucky Music Weekend" has become a staple of KET, Kentucky's PBS station. Michael Karrys (Business Manager) is a writer, software consultant, and businessman. He worked for 15 years as the MIS manager of Polak and Skan and currently has his own office software and accounting firm, Karrys Computing Incorporated. If you ever have an emergency and need to call 911, you can partially thank Mike for a quick response time. Stephan Mazurek is a director and visual designer for the theater as well as a Director of Photography, Photographer and a Filmmaker. For Walkabout Theater Stephan has created and directed the world premiere of Godbrick, music and lyrics by Jon Langford, written by Loren Crawford and produced by Walkabout Theater and Collaboraction (at The Building Stage). Other Walkabout credits include: An Unembarrassed Mind (Storefront Theater); Voyaging (co-production with Lucky Plush at the Atheneum Theater); Downsize (fourteen-month run in twelve bathrooms throughout Chicago, [world premiere in Steppenwolf Garage Men’s Room], plus productions in Brazil and Argentina); People Can Fly (Vittum Theater); Prelude (Chopin Theater) and Missing Memaw (Louisville, Chicago and Edinburgh Fringe Festival)m all world premieres.

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