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Justin D. M. Palmer

Guest Director (and Storyteller) 2008 // Justin D.M. Palmer is Artistic Director of Sandbox Theatre Project, which premieres new site-specific plays all over the city of Chicago. Justin has co-written/directed all of STP’s site-specific work including Can You Spot Me? (a fitness center), Bottle Can Draft (a bar), and Where We Live (an apartment). Justin's play Melinda & Roger recently premiered in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Justin has also worked with The House Theatre of Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theatre 7, Healthworks Theatre, Silk Road Theatre Project, Collaboraction, and Next Theatre. Justin is currently pursuing a MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute Chicago.

Aimee Perkins

Company Member // Aimee Perkins studied theater in college but had to get a real job to pay the rent. Lucky she liked the job so much- mostly because it allowed her to do fun things like tell stories in her free time. She’s done a little bit of everything and is apt to try anything once, which is mostly where the stories come from. She uses too many words to say simple things so she’s working on that, too.

Lauren Pesca

Company Member // Lauren Pesca hails from Long Island, N.Y. half a mile from the auto body shop where Amy Fisher met Joey Buttafuoco. Lauren is both the Artistic Director and a founding member of Serendipity, as well as appearing in Being 11, The Outfit and The Day Maggie Blew Off Her Head. She has also worked with The Goodman Theatre, Famous Door, CollaborAction and various other local companies.

Eric Pogrelis

Eric Pogrelis is a part-time actor and full-time misanthrope. You haven't seen him in anything recently, but you may have heard him in Iconoclast Theater Project's Seven Sisters. He holds a degree bitterly wrested from the University of Chicago.

Chris Pomeroy

Guest Director 2008 // Chris is a writer and director. Much of Chris’s time in Chicago has been spent as artistic director of Reverie Theatre Company, where he directed Emma, Wintertime, The Game of Love and Chance, All’s Well that Ends Well, Fool for Love, and Curt Columbus’s new translation of The Cherry Orchard. Chris’s plays include Born Lucky, My Affair with Lady Macbeth, and Courting the Wild Man.