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Eve Alexander as the Lemonade Seller in Macbett.
 
 
Lighting designer Peter West and composer Obadiah Eaves during a Cascando rehearsal.
 
 
Nathan Guisinger as The Judge in a scene from The Balcony.
 
 
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Andrew Lieberman receives his 2002 Princess Grace Award to be in residence with D13. Pictured, from left to right, are H.S.H. Crown Prince Albert of Monaco, Andrew Lieberman, and H.R.H The Princess of Hanover.
 
 
Director Joanna Settle working with Orlando Pabotoy's make-up during Cascando technical rehearsal.
 
 
Jesse Perez and Steven Rishard in a workshop for The Genet Project.
 
 
 
Rachel Sledd as Irma during a fantasy sequence from The Balcony.
 
 
Tom Groenwald as the soon to be murdered Duncan.
 
James Stanley as Oedipus in BLOOD LINE: The Oedipus/Antigone Story
 
Artistic Associates

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
Alex Blunt
Heather Lee Chappell
David Divita
Obadiah Eaves
Mike Frank
Lisa Gavaletz
Gwen Grossman
Nathan Guisinger
Youssef Kerkour
Miriam A. Laube
Morgan LaVigne
Andrew Lieberman

  Mark Messing
David Neumann
Orlando Pabotoy
Jesse J. Perez
Steven Rishard
Megan Rodgers
Nicholas Rudall
Rachel Sledd
James Stanley
Kameron Steele
Emily Stone
Mark Ulrich
Peter West

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.