Meet the Cast & Director of THE RANT!
We would like to introduce you to the cast and director of the Midwest Premiere of Andrew Case’s THE RANT produced by Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. The Rant opens February 18th and runs until March 28th, 2010.
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Emanueal Buckley (Simmons) is delighted to be joining Mary-Arrchie Theatre for The Rant, his debut production with the company. He last appeared as Crooks in Of Mice and Men at Steppenwolf Theatre. He also appeared in Streamers and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot with the Gift Theatre, the latter having also been restaged at Victory Gardens. Previous to coming to Chicago, Emanueal toured with ArtReach, a division of Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, where he appeared in multiple roles, including Satchel Paige in The Satchel Paige Story. He also toured with Theatre IV, traveling from Miami to Manhattan with shows that included The Adventures of Lewis and Clark and A Christmas Carol. Emanueal has also performed in Bratislava, Slovokia as a part of the English Language Theatre Festival and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Emanueal was honored to be hailed by the Chicago Tribune as one of six hot new stars to watch on the Chicago theater scene.
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Earl Pastko (Stern) Returns to Chicago theatre for the 1st time in over 20 years. A founding member of Remains Theatre (THE TOWER; HARRY,NOON & NIGHT; MOBY DICK) - I’ve been living in Canada (mostly Toronto) and working in theatre, film & television for longer than I’d like to contemplate. I am very pleased and excited to be doing this play at the Mary-Arrchie, here in the birthplace of both me & my borderline career. Notable stage roles have included Heathcliff (WUTHERING HEIGHTS), Robert Mapplethorpe (BAN THIS SHOW), Creon (ANTIGONE), Nicola Tesla (TESLA ELECTRIC), Queequeg (MOBY DICK), Svengali (SVENGALI’S) & the artist/writer in LA RONDE. Those with further interest in my film work can check out HIGHWAY 61 by Bruce McDonald, THE SWEET HEREAFTER by Atom Egoyan and ECLIPSE by Jeremy Podeswa.
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Lindsey Pearlman (Mahanaz) is very happy to work with Mary Arrchie Theatre Co. for the first time! She has worked with Ouroboros Theatre Company, New Millenium Theatre Company, Stage Center Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre Wit (Two for the Show, Jeff Nomination/Best New Musical, After Dark Award/Best New Musical), Noble Fool Theatricals, The Gift Theatre Company, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and Northlight Theatre. A graduate of The Second City Conservatory Program, Lindsey taught improv at St. Martin’s Episcopal School in New Orleans during the summer of 2009. She also tours the United States, performing in Sex Signals, a two-person play that utilizes improv and sketch comedy as tools to address the important issue of sexual assault and non-stranger rape. In 2007, Lindsey won the Chicago Monologue Match competition. Commercial work includes Pepsi Co., Boeing, American Dental Association, and Marriott. She is also the proud owner of Sit and Stay, a Chicago pet care company. Lindsey loves, worships, and cherishes her beloved family, friends, and four-legged babies. This one’s for my very missed grandfather, Mac Pearlman, who faithfully served as a NY fireman.
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Shariba Rivers (Reeves) is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she got her first taste of being on stage as a dancer for the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, the Newcomb Dance Company and the LSU Dance Ensemble. Shariba has lived in the Chicago area for the past five years and considers Chicago not only as her new home, but also the place for a new phase in her life. Shariba made her theatrical debut as Lillie the Librarian in Elizabeth Nonie Sanders’s production of Rich Man, Poor Man at the Laugh Out Loud Theater in Schaumburg. Shariba is proud to add Denise Reeves as her second theatrical role. Shariba thanks her family and friends for their love and support.
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Sharon Evans (Director) co-founded Live Bait Theater in 1987 with John Ragir. She directed Memento Mori, inspired by the essays of Dr. F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Looking for a Soft Place to Land; written and performed by the Loofah Method and Anna Christie, all at Live Bait Theater. Her direction of solo works include Frankie’s Boy, written & performed by Tom McNamara, My Uncle Freddy, written & performed by Gloria Coco and Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial and Plastic Surgery or A Really Good Haircut? both written & performed by Nicole Hollander.
Evans also oversees Police-Teen Link, a ten-year-old program that brings together Chicago police officers and local youth through improvisation classes and creative writing. In 2006 Sharon Evans was hired as a consultant by the Chicago Police Department to help create and implement a series of Youth Forums, using many of the ideas she developed through the PTL program. Police-Teen Link has been featured on WTTW’s, Art Beat, CNN, and in USA Today.
In 2009 she was an artist in residence at Sullivan High School, (Rogers Park. Her students created original monologues inspired by their personal biographies which were later staged and performed at Raven Theater. She has taught at Chicago Dramatists and has guest-lectured at the School of the Art Institute, Loyola University and Columbia College. Evans holds a Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her play, Blind Tasting, received a Chicago Jeff Citation award for best new work in 2003.
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