Author: bwoodard

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Doug is an original ensemble and has performed in numerous SGT productions as well as assisting with sound design, direction and set construction. His SGT credits include Talk Radio, The Price, Dealer’s Choice, The House of Blue Leaves, The Manchurian Candidate (Jeff Award Recipient), A View from the Bridge (Jeff Award Nomination), Warhawks and Lindberghs (Jeff Award Nomination). Doug shares several Jeff (Equity and Non-Equity Wing) and After Dark awards for Ensemble with SGT, American Blues Theatre and Next Theatre productions. He most recently appeared with Michael Keaton in Keaton’s directorial film debut, The Merry Gentlemen. Doug’s directing credits include stage works for SGT, Northside Story Productions, the touring company of Koch-Cohen Productions, Kalibre Productions, The Gurnee Theatre Company and Clockwise Theatre Company. He has also directed projects for video and television and is slated to direct an independent film in the fall of 2012. His most recent directorial work, the short film, CUTEeGRL which he directed with writer/composer, Jeton Murtishi received Best Short Film Thriller at The 2011 Illinois International Film Festival and is currently enjoying widespread attention at numerous film festivals worldwide. Doug’s previous outing as film director was for the short film, The Beautiful People which was screened in the U.S., Canada and Albania. He also serves on the boards of Coincidence Films, WinsomeMuse Entertainment and is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of Waukegan’s Clockwise Theatre Company. Doug is one of the premier film acting / theatre coaches in Chicago and serves on the staff of Acting Studio Chicago and the Actors Training Center in Wilmette. In 2006, Doug received a Volunteer of The Year Award for his work with the developmentally disabled for an acting program he developed for Northpointe Resources in Zion, IL.

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Kate moved to Chicago in 2010, and in addition to Shattered Globe, has also had the good fortune of working at the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, First Folio Theatre, Two Pence Theatre Company, and The Shakespeare Project of Chicago. A native of Buffalo, NY, she has performed there, NYC, LA, London, Spain, and Venezuela, and has both Off-Broadway and Regional credits. Kate holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she received the Bob Hope Fellowship, and was a faculty member of SUNY Buffalo and Niagara University, as both lecturer and director. Here in Chicago, she is on the faculty of Acting Studio Chicago, represented by the excellent Actors Talent Group, and a proud member of AEA.

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Shelley’s first lighting design for SGT was for Talk Radio in 1992. She was hired at the last minute and has remained ever since! Since joining the company in 1993, Shelley has designed numerous productions at our various locations. Some favorites include Talk Radio, The Manchurian Candidate, A Streetcar Named Desire, All My Sons, Judgment at Nuremburg and The Glass Menagerie. In addition to lighting shows for Shattered Globe, Shelley recently joined the SGT grant writing team. Shelley holds an MFA in Lighting Design from Northwestern University and a BS in Mathematics and Theatre from Eureka College. Ms. Holland has recently returned to teaching and is an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Northwest. She and her husband Bruce have 2 girls (Mary and Kathryn). In her spare time, Shelley is a fitness instructor, enjoys riding motorcycles with Bruce and takes great pleasure in working on her 100+ year old home.

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Hailing from England, Roger is one of the original members of SGT, performing in the first production of Frozen Assets, before going on to direct and design Talk Radio and a number of other productions for the company. He has directed extensively in Chicago and Southern California. Credits include A Streetcar Named Desire; Saint Joan; The Road to Mecca; The Trial; In a Pig’s Valise; Œdipus; Scenes From an Execution; The Life of Galileo; Dylan; The Women; Road; subUrbia; Duet For One; A Map of the World, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Julius Caesar and Romeo & Juliet. Roger has also served as the Director of Education & Training at Court Theatre.

Roger has an MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently completing PhD research into psychophysical modalities of training actors at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and has taught directing, acting and voice in theatre programs in England and the States.

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Judy holds a BA in Sociology with a minor in Music Theory from Northeastern Illinois University. She starting hanging around the theatre department her final year of college and became hooked. Judy became an Ensemble member during Shattered Globe’s first year. She has had a hand in practically every SGT show since she joined either as the Stage Manager, hanging lights, building sets to just helping out wherever needed. She has most recently tried her hand at Production Manager. Judy is most happy, however, in the booth running sound and lights for the show. Some favorite SGT shows include both productions of Frozen Assets, Talk Radio, God’s Country, For the Love of a Good Man, Manchurian Candidate, Peter Pan, Bondagers, All My Sons, Coyote on a Fence, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Of Mice And Men, Come Back Little Sheba, Suddenly Last Summer and Little Foxes.

Judy is employed as the Accounting Manager for CenterStage Productions of Illinois, Inc., a Design and Production Management company for Corporate Events.

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David currently resides in Los Angeles, California but sends all the positive vibes he can spare Shattered Globe’s way. His SGT credits include Suddenly Last Summer, The Glass Menagerie and Buried Child. Other theatre credits include As You Like It and Othello (Writer’s Theatre), Metaluna and the Amazing Science of the Mind Review (WNEP), Sailing to Byzantium, The Cure at Troy (Caffeine Theatre), Laverne and Gianni Get Married, Hamlet the Hamlet (Collaboraction). Film and TV credits include Sushi Girl, The Employer, Cass and The Dark Knight.

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Brad has been an ensemble member Shattered Globe Theatre since early 2011 and has appeared in a number of productions including the Friar and Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Dr. Frank Geraty in Educating Rita and as Burton in Burn This. He also appeared in the “Greatest Hits” staged reading series as Oscar Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremburg and as Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. In addition to Shattered Globe, Brad has appeared on stage or collaborated on numerous productions at regional and Chicagoland theaters including Steppenwolf, Northlight, Stage Left, American Blues, American Theater Company, Raven and Idle Muse. He has also appeared in several small, independent films including the award winning short film, The Tin Whistle and pitching various products on the small screen. Brad arrived in Chicago in 1996 after being awarded his MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois.