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Bios
Producer: Joyce Fox
Co-Producer: Amy Brierly
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.
Head Writer: Sarah Downey
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!
Webmaster/Video Graphics:
David Fell
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.
This silken thread on the World Wide Web
is provided by Phase Shift
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