CAST & CREW

BRENTON ABENS (Student 2) is a recent graduate from The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University (Theatre Conservatory). His educational credits include Ah, Wilderness!, Henry V, Peer Gynt, All In A Days Work, Sin, Can You Hear Me Now? and Opening Doors. The Journeymen’s production of Shakespeare’s R & J marks Brenton’s professional debut.


LUKE DAIGLE (Student 1) Chicago credits include Rumors (Sheil Park Theatre) and Picasso At The Lapin Agile & Moon Over Buffalo (Saint Sebastian Players).  Regional credits include The Tempest, Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Montana Shakespeare in Parks), Much Ado About Nothing, Taming Of The Shrew, King Lear (Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Romeo & Juliet (Idaho Theater for Youth), Shakespeare’s R & J (Student 4), Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Lord Of The Flies (Mill Mountain Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors, School House Rock Live!, Seagirl, Paint, Sydney (Idaho Repertory Theatre).  Luke is a graduate of The University of

                                 Idaho and his educational credits include Macbeth, Waiting For Godot, A Flea In

                                 Her Ear, A Chorus Line, Tracers, Wit and Mr. Smith’s Bowl Of Notes. "Luke would

                                 like to thank his family, the Cikanek's, and Katharine for their love and support."


CHRIS NECKER (Student 3) credits include Orphans (The Theatre Group), Rumors (Indignant College Unit), Journey Of Man (Word of Mouth), War of the Currents (Gorilla Theater) & Show Choir (Cornservatory).  Chris is a recent graduate from The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University (Theatre Conservatory) and his educational credits include God’s Country, Destiny At Star Rock Cave, Cirque Noir and S.S Esperanza.


ADAM KANDER (Student 4) Chicago credits include Black Comedy (Piccolo Theatre), The Tempest, Playing With Fire and The Merchant Of Venice {After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance} (BoHo Theatre), When Jaina Met Jared (Livewire Theatre).  Regional credits include Arcadia (Kearsley Park Theater Festival), The Glass Menagerie (Michigan Youth Theater) and The Faust Project & The Zoo Story (London, ON Fringe Festival). Adam is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he was a recipient of the Nash Drama Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theater. His educational credits include The Pillowman, Romeo &

                                 Juliet, Tales From Ovid and Rhinoceros.




 

FRANK PULLEN (Director) received his degree from Columbia College Chicago with a double major in Directing and Arts Administration.  As founding member and Artistic Director, Frank has directed over 30 productions for The Journeymen Theater Company.  Some of his favorite credits include The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Jeff Citation), Edward II (Jeff Citation), In the Belly of the Beast– Letters From Prison (Jeff Nominated and After Dark Award recipient), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (Jeff Nomination, After Dark Award & Black Theater Alliance Award for Best Ensemble), Master Harold…and the boys (Jeff Nominated for Best Ensemble). Other directing credits include The Cryptogram, Steel Kiss and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (all Chicago Reader’s Critic Choices), Vincent In Brixton and Lilies: or the Revival of a Romantic Drama (both Jeff Recommended productions) Othello, Agnes of God, On The Open Road, and The Colonel Bird. He also adapted and directed Jean Cocteau’s Le Livre Blanc | the white book which premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival and later in Chicago.


Other credits include The Servant of the People: The Rise & Fall of Huey P. Newton (National Pastime Theatre, Mirette (Storefront Theater), Faith & the Good Thing (City Lit Theatre & Chicago Theater Company), The Wiz, Bent, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The Tap Dance Kid, The Sea Lion and David: A Rock Opera. 


Frank has also been a lead theater instructor for the City of Chicago’s After School Matters Program | Gallery 37 Center for the Arts for the past fourteen years.  His some of his educational directing credits include The Joint is Jumpin’, The Wiz, Godspell, West Side Story, Pippin, Arabian Nights, Seussical The Musical, School House Rock Live!, and this summer’s production of the new musical Thirteen.



JOE CALARCO (Adaptor) directed the first production of Shakespeare's R&J which ran for a year in New York and earned him a Lucille Lortel Award. He also directed the play's premieres in Chicago (5 Jeff Award nominations including Best Play and Best Director) and Washington, D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nominations for Best Play and Best Director). R&J completed a celebrated run on London's West End in late 2003. He directed the critically acclaimed world premiere of the musical Sarah, Plain and Tall at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. He also directed Julia Jordan's The Summer of the Swans at the Lucille Lortel, and directed Ms. Jordan's play Boy at Primary Stages. He is an Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, where he directed the world premiere of Norman Allen's Nijinsky's Last Dance (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Play and Best Director), Side Show (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical and Best Director), and the world premiere of ...in the absence of spring..., which premiered in New York at Second Stage under his own direction.


Other regional directing credits include: The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore nomination), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre), My Fair Lady, Edward II, Suddenly Last Summer, To Kill A Mockingbird, Keely & Du, Educating Rita, How I Got That Story, Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet, Babes In Arms, and Godspell. He served as resident playwright at Expanded Arts, Inc. for two years. He is one of New York Theatre Workshop's "usual suspects," a Drama League directing fellow, and has been a Joseph Papp artist in residence at Second Stage. He is a graduate of Ithaca College.