Neither Joyce nor Amy have submitted a bio yet. Who are these people? Stay tuned to find out!
Santoro's yearly gamble-balancing fame, career advance, and personal liability against a few quick bucks-is paying off. He's recently been able to afford a 10 year-old car, a new computer and his rent. From the carefree days as a combat actor with the U.S. Air Force across hippy-plagued Europe, to casting for TV's All My Children (in Chicago?), to directing and dramaturging (without ever being caught at it!) for the Organic Theater...he's come a long way. With gainful employment-in a department of city government so secret, not even HE is allowed to know what he's doing-a happy and satisfied life with his ladyfriend and his cats, and a seventh Gridiron Show behind him, he no longer falls asleep at his own parties.
Linda has been creating melody out of mayhem with the tone deaf Gridiron cast for a while now. She'll be leading The TV Guys as this year's house band, an outfit Linda describes as great and groovy! When not working with the Gridiron folks, she regularly appears with her band, The Twigs, whose debut CD release Bring Me the Head of Eternity is available on Whirl-i-gig records. Linda looks forward to the day when the Gridiron "songwriters" realize that three-syllable words don't jibe with quarter notes.
Sarah Downey is a (barely) managing editor of four of Lerner's weekly newspapers. When she isn't developing innovative new ways to write yet another cute catchphrase or a sensational headline, she likes to play the blonde du jour in the Gridiron Show: Liz Phair in 1995, Patsy Stone (of Ab Fab fame) in 1996; Jenny McCarthy in 1997. Next year--Marge Schott?
Reporter-turned-production-person, Kate Campion has written skits for and performed in the past eight Gridiron Shows. Last year she produced McDome and Domer's videos, a task she repeats this year. When she's not wrangling copy, illustrations and photos at Playboy magazine, Kate cranks out the occasional freelance feature. Her byline has appeared in the Tribune, Sun-Times and Chicago magazine, and she has written copy for The Official Chicago Bar Guide, and the Access Chicago and Michelin guide books.
Kitty Kurth, President, is one of Chicago's leading political consultants. As president of Kurth/Lampe, a political consulting/public relations firm she founded in 1996 with Kevin Lampe, her husband, ornament and cheerleader, she works with prominent political, corporate and theatrical clients, including Rosa Parks and Clinton / Gore 96. In the past, Kitty has worked with Governor Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas and Ron Brown. Now that she's served as top publicity hound for the Gridiron, Kitty says she's ready to play with the big boys.
Maria has been tinkering with our program book for several years, in between making things happen for the Bucktown Art Fest and the Bucktown Community Organization. Enough about Bucktown, what about bucks? Maria, known to her friends as "the goddess," pays her rent by designing graphics, books, logos and brochures. Like our program? Hire her to do yours!
Fell has been with the Grid gang for six years now. Although not appearing on stage this year, he designed this web site you're now visiting (cool, eh?), some of the graphics and animations you'll see on the Big Screens, and runs a small web design and Macintosh consulting firm called Phase Shift. He also acts, and can be seen right after Gridiron in The Marquee Theatre Company's production of Noel Coward's The Marquise. None of these things make him any money, so he works as a TV news associate producer in order to live.
