Division 13’s Artistic Associate membership is comprised
of performers, directors, visual and sound designers, technicians
and other theatre professionals who have a longstanding
and ongoing commitment to Division 13 Productions.
Eve Alexander
She has performed with Division 13 Productions, under the
direction of Joanna Settle, as the Lemonade Seller in
Macbett, Little Eva in The Enduring Legend of Marinka
Pinka and Tommy Atomic, and as Young Ismene in BLOODLINE:
The Oedipus/Antigone Story. Other credit's include Rennie
in The Most Massive Woman, Mrs. Simpson in A Street Scene,
and the title role in Peter Pan. She is now a sophomore
in the International Baccalaureate program at Lincoln
Park High School in Chicago and a rower with the Lincoln
Park Juniors.
Alex Blunt
Production and stage management credits with D13 include
in BLOODLINE: The Oedipus/Antigone Story, Play, The Mustache,
How to Be Sawed in Half, Macbett, and the short film
Night, Night. Blunt was resident Production Manager from
1999-2001. Credits outside of Division 13 include work
at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, and Steppenwolf.
Heather Lee Chappell
Chappell has many management credits in theatre, opera,
and dance in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Connecticut.
She is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston.
David Divita
Divita appeared in D13’s Macbett, The Mustache, and
The War and has been working as a research assistant and
translator on The Genet Project. Other Chicago credits
include work with The Hypocrites, Trap Door Theatre, Bailiwick
Repertory, and at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of
its Emerging Artists series. In New York he has worked
at the Westbeth, Synchronicity Space, the Access Theatre,
and Surf Reality.
Obadiah Eaves
Composer and Sound Designer Obidiah Eaves is a recipient
of the NEA/TCG Career Development Grant for Designers.
He recently worked with Joanna Settle at The Juilliard
School on The Trojan Women, and is the composer for D13's
currently in-development production of Samuel Beckett's
Cascando. Other credits include: Fucking A, References
to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and Hamlet at the New York
Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, Oedipus at Classic
Stage Company, Blues Clues Live at Radio City Music Hall,
and work for the Acting Company, Blue Light, Women’s
Project, and La Mama ETC, among others. Obadiah’s
music for television can be heard on HBO Family, Nickelodeon,
and Noggin. He has appeared as an acoustic and electric
violinist in numerous film and television scores, and
his band Big Hair has released two nationally distributed
CDs.
Mike Frank
Mike Frank is a filmmaker and freelance production sound
mixer and sound designer. He has done sound work for
theatre, film, television and documentary productions.
He enjoys collaborating creatively on ambitious new projects.
His sound design work for Division 13 includes The War,
The Mustache, The Genet Project and Macbett (for which
he won a Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago for sound
design). He feels fortunate to be an associate artist
of Division 13 and looks forward to working with them
in the future.
Lisa
Gavaletz
Gavaletz began her
association with Joanna Settle and Division 13 members
Anne DeAcetis and Katie Taber at The Juilliard School with
their production of The Trojan Women, and subsequently
stage managed the reading at New York Theatre Workshop.
She is currently working on the development of Ionesco's
Journey's Among the Dead. New York City theatre credits
include work with The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare
Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Classic Stage Company,
The Juilliard School, and over a dozen shows with New York
University's Graduate Acting Division. Gavaletz is also
a substitute assistance stage manager for the national
tour of 42nd Street.
Gwen Grossman
Lighting design credits with D13 include: The Genet Project,
Macbett, and How to Be Sawed In Half. For five years
Grossman has designed for Malashock Dance, including
the world-premieres of Misjudgment in Paris, Together
in the Fires of Delight, and Blessings and Curses. With
The Civilians (company member): The Ladies, and Canard,
Canard, Goose?; with NY Classical Theatre: The Taming
of the Shrew, and King Ubu, 16 Spells to Charm the Beast
(Clubbed Thumb), The Right Way to Sue (New Georges).
Grossman holds a MFA from the University of California
- San Diego, a BFA from the University of Cincinnati,
is a member of United Scenic Artists, and maintains a
full time career in Architectural Lighting Design.
Nathan Guisinger
Guisinger, a founding member of Division 13 Productions,
is an actor and playwright who has worked with D13 on
a number of projects in various capacities. He is also
a trapeze artist and apprentice builder of inflatable
structures.
Youssef Kerkour
While a student at Bard College, Kerkour player the role
of Achilles in Settle's production of Penthesilia. New
York credits include D13's The Genet Project and Richard
Foreman's Maria Del Bosco at the Ontological.
Miriam A. Laube
Laube recently portrayed the role of Lydia in the Dallas
Theater Center production of Big Love. Off-Broadway at
the Joseph Papp Public Theater she played the role of
Marina in their production of Pericles. Other roles include
Electra in the The Oresteia as well as Lisette in Stephen
Wadsworth's production of Changes of Heart at Berkeley
Rep.; Cordelia in King Lear and Yasmin in Pentecost at
the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Aglaia in Dominique
Serrand's production of Triumph of Love, The Story in
the US premiere of Naga Mandala, Solveig in Peer Gynt,
Valeria in The Rover and Belle in Christmas Carol at
the Guthrie Theater; the Step-Daughter in Six Characters
in Search of an Author, and Jessica in Hysteria at Milwaukee
Rep Theatre; Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream at Virginia
Stage; Rahmi in Gum at Baltimore Center Stage and the
title role in Yerma at the Cleveland Playhouse. Miriam
spent last summer at the Breadloaf School of English
where she portrayed the role of Beatrice in Much Ado
About Nothing. Laube is currently involved in several
D13 projects-in-development.
Morgan
LaVigne
LaVigne is a video/digital
artist whose work has shown in galleries across the United
States. He has been the recipient of the New Mexico film
achievement grant twice. He currently lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
Andrew Lieberman
Previous scenic design work with director Joanna Settle
includes: The Trojan Women (Juilliard); Macbett (Division
13); Penthesilia (Bard College). Recent opera projects
include: Tears of the Knife and Voices of the Forest
(Henry St. Chamber Opera); L’etoile (Glimmerglass,
New York City Opera); Powder Her Face (Long Beach); Roberto
Devereaux (New York City Opera); A Missummer Night’s
Dream, Italian Girl in Algiers, The Rake’s Progress
(Wolf Trap). Recent theatre projects include: Jaques
Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Santa Fe
Stages); Flesh and Blood (Portland Center Stage); Rave
Mom (P.S. 122); The Importance of Being Earnest (Indiana
Repertory); Love’s Labor’s Lost, Cymbeline
(Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Lieberman is the recipient
of a 2002 Princess Grace Theater Fellowship as well as
the Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s Fabrege Theater
Award. Lieberman's current position as D13 resident set
designer is supported by the Princess
Grace Foundation.
Mark Messing
Messing composed and designed sound for Redmoon Theater's
Galway's Shadow, Lookingglass Theater's The Idiot and
D13's BLOOD LINE: The Oedipus/Antigone Story. As musical
director for Redmoon Theater, he founded The Redmoon
Big Band, a 16-piece marching band featuring homemade
instruments, musicians on stilts and marching choreography.
His innovative design of musical instruments was seen
in Redmoon's Winter Pageant and in WTTW's Artbeat's feature
on Ten Tongues. As co-founder of Maestro Matic (a music
and sound design company) he scored several feature films:
Temporary Girl, The Unspoken and Danny's Wish and designed
sound for Design, Compensation and Night, Night. As a
musician, he performs with Ten Tongues, Maestro Subgum
and the Whole, Dimensional Holophonic Sound (DHS) and
co-founded The Loofah Method, a multimedia performance
group. Mark received extensive training of the ear, thumb,
and left foot from The Peabody Conservatory and bebop
saxophonist Joe Daily.
David Neumann
Credits include choreography commissions from the Whitney
Museum, PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop and Symphony Space,
among others. Choreography for theatre includes work
at Yale Repertory Theatre, the Public Theater, The Juilliard
School and Hartford Stage.
Orlando Pabotoy
Performance credits with D13 include The Genet Project
and Cascando. Other credits include The Most Fabulous
Story Ever Told, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Utopian
Watcher, Zibaldone, Middle Finger, and Romeo & Juliet.
His film and television credits include: Strangers with
Candy, In the Weeds, The Beat, and City by the Sea. Pabotoy
is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
Jesse J. Perez
Performance credits with D13 include The Genet Project
and Cascando. Other credits include: Jerome in Up Against
the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop), Kafka in In the
Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), Mortimer In Mary
Stuart (The Court Theatre in Chicago), Romeo in Romeo
and Juliet (Great Lakes Theatre Festival In Cleveland),
and Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew (Yale Rep.) Television
and Film: Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims
Unit, Third Watch, The Job, Kazaam, Playing God, and
American Splendor. Perez is a graduate of The Juilliard
School.
Steven Rishard
Performance credits with D13 include The Genet Project
and Cascando. Other credits include: Big Love (Wilma
Theater) and In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company).
At Court Theater in Chicago where Rishard was a 1999-2000
Artistic Apprentice, credits include: Learned Ladies,
The Real Thing, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards,
Life's a Dream, La Bete, Gross Indecency, and A Midsummer
Night's Dream. TV credits include: Law and Order, The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and ED. Dance credits include:
Oyinbo with choreographer David Neumann (Whitney Museum)
and Best Western with choreographer Stacy Dawson (PS
122).
Megan Rodgers
Performance credits with D13 include: The Balcony, The
War, BLOOD LINE, and Play. Also with D13, Rodgers wrote
and performed the one-woman play Bombs in the Ladies
Room, directed the staged reading of Neverland, and served
as dramaturg on The Enduring Legend of Tommy Atomic and
Marinka Pinka. Currently Rodgers is an MFA student (performance
studies) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
performing at G2 Gallery, Artemesia Gallery, 1926 Exhibition
Space, and TIC TOC Performance Festival.
Nicholas Rudall
Rudall is the founding director of the Court Theatre in
Chicago, where he served as artistic director from 1971
to 1994. Rudall is a professor of classics at the University
of Chicago. His translations include The Trojan Women,
Antigone, and Oedipus the King (all three directed by
Joanna Settle). He has recently added Oedipus at Colonus
which, along with Oedipus the King and Antigone, will
be performed in Athens in the summer of 2003 under the
direction of Michael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare
Theatre in Washington D.C. His translations of these,
as well as The Bacchae, Lysistrata, Electra, The Iphigenia
plays, Ghosts, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Woyzeck,
and other plays have been published as part of the Ivan
R. Dee publishing company's Plays for Performance.
Rachel Sledd
Sledd is a founding member of D13 and her performance credits
with the company include: Opener in Cascando¸ Madame
Irma in The Balcony, and Calibana in How to Be Sawed
in Half. Other favorite roles include: the title role
in Diana of Dobson's (Mint Theater Company), Anne is
Sleepwalker (78th St. Theatre Lab), Jenny in Neil LaBute’s
Shape of Things (St. Louis Repertory), Emily in Our Town
(Delaware Theatre Company), Juliet in Romeo & Juliet
(Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Ariel in The Tempest (StageWest).
Film/TV credits include: Third Watch (NBC),The Artist
(Showtime), and the indie films Lady Lovelace and The
Score. She holds an MFA from The University of Washington’s
Professional Actor Training Program.
James Stanley
Stanley is a writer, designer, director, and performer
with the National Theater of the United States of America,
with whom he created Garvey & Superpant$: Episode
#23 and Placebo Sunrise. Performance credits with D13
include Oedipus in BLOOD LINE: the Oedipus/Antigone Story.
In addition, he has worked collaboratively as a member
of Phil Soltanoff's Mad Dog, and has worked as a performer
with Hal Hartley, Richard Maxwell, Darko Tresnjak, Nicholas
Martin, and Julie Atlas Muz. He continues to write songs
and play music with Jesse Hawley.
Kameron Steele
Performance credit's with D13 include the Bishop in The
Balcony and Rabier in The War. Other credits with Joanna
Settle include Odyssues in Penthesilea and Ben in The
Dumb Waiter. Other performances of note include Chistopher
Isherwood in Will Pomerantz' Prater Violet at The Culture
Project and the title role in Robert Wilson's Prometheus,
which premiered at the Olympic Arts Festival in Athens
and will tour to Italy later this year.
Emily Stone
Writer and dramaturg Emily Stone has worked with D13 on
BLOOD LINE: the Oedipus/Antigone Story and The Genet
Project, and with Settle on Penthesilia. Stone is a teacher
of Latin and English at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn
Heights. Her first novel, Whore of Babylon, is currently
on the verge. Up next: a work of non-fiction, The Whole
Hole. Emily is on the board of the National Foundation
for Jewish Culture, the Chair of the Samuel Goldberg
prize for Fiction by an Emerging Jewish Writer, a member
of Fred's Team and a founding member of EDNA, a writers'
collective. This semester Emily is delighted to be directing
Steel Magnolias at Stern College for Women in NYC.
Mark Ulrich
Performance credits with D13 include Creon in BLOOD LINE:
the Oedipus/Antigone Story and Herr Faust in The Enduring
Legend of Marinka Pinka and Tommy Atomic. Recently Ulrich
performed in Between East And West at Next Act Theatre
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ulrich makes his home in Chicago,
but often gazes eastward wistfully toward New York and
D13. As an author, Ulrich's play The Menace of '64 will
be produced by Bloomington Playwrights' Project in April.
Peter West
Recent lighting design credits include: Cascando with D13
at HERE Arts Center and The Trojan Women at The Juilliard
School, directed by Joanna Settle. Other credits include
Billy Nijinsky (dir. Richard Colton and Randall Jaynes)
at the NY Fringe Festival (Voted Best production 2002),
Black Sheep at Barrington Stage Company, Twelfth Night
at The Juilliard School (dir. Daniel Fish), Byrd's Boy
at Primary Stages (dir. Arthur Masella) and Up Against
the Wind at New York Theatre Workshop (dir. Rosemary
Andress). Internationally he has designed in Tokyo, Amsterdam,
Verona, Italy, and Buenos Aires, among others. He designed
the NETworks American and Japanese tour of Kiss of the
Spiderwoman.
