Cast-and-Crew-etc
Performed by:
Anna Bortnick
Annie Sullivan
Chas Lilly
Kennedy Baldwin
Max Thomas
Riley Woollen
Director: Anne Libera
Stage Manager & Lighting Designer: Abby Beggs
Music Director, Original Music & Sound Design: John Love
Understudies:
Claire Favret
Rudy Mendoza
C.J. Tuor
Understudy Music Directors:
Bryce Halliday
Brian K. Cooper Jr.
Sam Scheidler
Senior Producer: Nick Solideo
Producer, Resident Stages: Thomas J. Troup II (Tom2)
Lead Technical Director: John Kelly
Assistant Technical Director: Daniel Parsons
Set Designer: Shayna Patel
All actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association,
the union for professional actors and stage managers.
All musicians are members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208.
Ensemble
ANNA BORTNICK
ANNA BORTNICK is so excited to join The Second City ETC 50 ensemble! She has performed across the country with The Second City National Touring Company. Anna is also a member of the musical improv company, BABY WANTS CANDY and SHAMILTON (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Second City.) She received her B.F.A. from Boston University and has trained at the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute. She is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent. www.annabortnick.com
ANNIE SULLIVAN
ANNIE SULLIVAN (she/they) is a writer, performer, and all-around sweetheart originally from Kansas City and an alum of Columbia College Chicago. She’s absolutely stoked to be performing with The Second City’s E.T.C. cast. Annie is also a former ensemble member of The Second City’s National Touring Company (GreenCo forever!). Other comedy credits include Blast! (iO Theatre), Devil’s Daughter (iO Theatre), HOLY F*CK (The Annoyance Theatre), and Hot Reads (Logan Square Improv). Annie is currently represented by BMG Talent. Follow them on Instagram @whitemystery95 or follow her to a record store and buy her a new album!
CHAS LILLY
CHAS LILLY (He/Him) is originally from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but has been living and performing in Chicago for over a decade. When not on the ETC stage, you’ll find him playing music with his band (@KidCopter) or improvising with his friends at Logan Square Improv. You can follow him on Instagram @Chas.Lilly
KENNEDY BALDWIN
Kennedy Baldwin (she/they) is a performer born and raised in Chicago, IL. They started taking improv classes in 2016 at The Second City, CIC, iO and The Chicago Improv Den. They toured with The Second City Touring Company for 2.5 years where they had some of the best times of their life. In 2018, they became a founding member of Logan Square Improv where they produce shows and perform with their best friends. When they aren’t on stage, you can find them gaming on PlayStation or lifting weights at the gym.
MAX THOMAS
Max Thomas is a lighting rod of a comedian. Max has been featured on Comedy Central, The Comedy Store West Hollywood, The NBC Break Out Comedy Festival at The Second City Chicago & Hollywood, Zanies Chicago & Rosemont, Tiny Cupboard Brooklyn, Laugh Factory Chicago, Steppenwolf Theater:1919, Black & Funny Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater:Othello, Berkeley Rep: Comedian Rhapsody, Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Dance Like There’s Black People Watching, Kenan Thompson: The Ultimate Comedy Experience and Lollapalooza Music Festival. He is The Chicago Reader Best Stage Actor 2022. Laugh with him on all socials at @ThatsMaxThomas
RILEY WOOLLEN
RILEY WOOLLEN (he/him) is thrilled to be joining ETC’s 50th revue! He is a comedian and playwright from Brooklyn, New York. Beyond Second City, he’s also a founding producer and ensemble member of “The Orbit,” Chicago’s only improvised show in the round. You can follow him on instagram (@Riley_Woollen) and/or approach him at any time to talk about the New York Mets.
Production & Creative Teams
ANNE LIBERA
Anne Libera is Director of Comedy Studies at The Second City where she also serves as Artistic Consultant. She is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago where she created and coordinates the Comedy Writing and Performance BA. She served as the Executive Artistic Director of The Second City Training Centers from 2001 to 2009. Directing credits include Stephen Colbert’s one man show Describing a Circle, Arrivals and Departures, The Madness of Curious George, Computer Chips and Salsa, The Second City Goes to War as well as Second City multiple Second City touring touring productions all over the world. Her recent book Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy is published by Northwestern University Press who also published her first book The Second City Almanac of Improvisation. She served as Director of Improv Pedagogy for the Second Science Project (Second City and UC Chicago CDR) which married the studies of improvisation and behavioral science and co-created the Improvisation for Caregivers program with Caring Across Generations. The long list of her former students who have gone on to success in improvisation and comedy includes (just to name a few): Ashley Nicole Black, Aidy Bryant, Kay Cannon, Chelsea Devantez, Jordan Klepper, ,Amy Poehler, Kristen Schaal, Asha Ward and Steven Yeun. Anne has presented on topics in improvisation and comedy at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Chicago Ideas Week, Twitter, Code Conference, and guest lectured at the Stanford Business School.
ABBY BEGGS
Stage Manager & Lighting Designer (she/her) is happy to be back working with the Second City again! Originally hailing from Boston, she moved to Chicago in 2015 to pursue design, production management, and stage management. Her past credits include: Legendary Laughs, She the People, Deck the Hallmark. Gaslight District (The Second City); Bagatelle, Cunning Little Vixen, L’Enfant et les Sortileges, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Roosevelt University); Blue Window (Brown Box Theatre Project); Gallo (Guerilla Opera), Boeing Boeing, Barefoot in the Park, Good People, The Scene (Dorset Theatre Festival), and Fen (Whistler in the Dark,) among others. abbybeggs.com @scworker
JOHN LOVE
Music Director, Original Music & Sound Design (he/him) plays music for a living. This is his third ETC revue as music director, following ETC 47 – “Oh, the Places You’ll Glow” and ETC 48 – “Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone.” He toured with The Second City’s National Touring Company and has played pianos (mostly good, some bad) all across the country and Chicago. He works as a studio musician for Ersatz Records and a band member for Kid Copter and Vienna. All his love to his family and friends; especially to Mom, to Wendy, E & A, and dear friend KB. Amateur but pretty good photography/Instagram : @johnnylove34 Spotify/Social media : John Love, Kid Copter, Vienna, Ersatz Records, The North and Wells Band
JOHN KELLY
Lead Technical Director (he/him) is excited to lead the technical and design team for the Second City’s 113th Revue. He has been the technical director at the Second City in Chicago since 2022 and has overseen the last years worth of revues on the Chicago MainStage, e.t.c. stage, Toronto and New York MainStage venues. The 113th revue marks John’s ninth revue on those stages. John would like to specifically thank the amazing Technical Direction staff, stage managers, the designers, carpenters, electricians, painters and technicians who made this show possible. Outside of Second City, John has worked as a lighting designer since 2010. His design and technical portofilo can be found at www.johnkellydesigns.com
DANIEL PARSONS
Associate Technical Director (he/him) While new to the Second City, Daniel has been a theatre technician in Chicago for the past 8 years. As an Electrician, Run Crew Member, Production Manager and Stage Manager Daniel has supported a number of productions with various storefront theatres, Teatro ZinZanni, Blue Man Group and is a company member with Playmaker’s Laboratory Theatre. Daniel is originally from Ohio and has a Bachelors in Technical Theatre from Kent State University.
SHAYNA PATEL
Scenic Designer (she/her) is grateful to design at The Second City. Her credits include A View From The Bridge (Shattered Globe), Junie B. Jones and Dory Fantasmagory (Young People’s Theatre Chicago), That Must Be The Entrance To Heaven and Sancocho (Vision Latino Theatre Company), and National Merit (Boho Theatre Company). Born in England, she later moved to Chicago for college and fell in love with the city. She holds a BA, Summa Cum Laude- Theatre Design. shaynadesigns.com
THOMAS J. TROUP II (Tom2)
Producer, Resident Stages (he/him) is the Producer The Second City Chicago’s Resident Stages; the Mainstage and the e.t.c. Theater. He joined the production team from his previous role as Managing Producer of the legendary Annoyance Theatre. The Second City producing credits include: the Joseph Jefferson Award winning 111th Mainstage Revue: Don’t Quit Your Daydream, the Jeff Nominated 47th e.t.c. Revue: Oh, the Places You’ll GLOW!, the 109th Mainstage Revue: Together at Last, the Jeff Recommended 113th Mainstage Revue: This Too Shall Slap and the 48th e.t.c. Revue Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone!, the 46th e.t.c. Revues: Great Altercations & Eat, Pray, Bigfoot in Love, Queer Eye: The Musical Parody, Sing Out (The Best Friggin’ Songs of the Second City), Late Night Date Night and She’s Giving: The Second City Supports Trans Rights. He thanks his incredible husband for the endless love and support. “Dream Big. Only you can limit your dreams.”
NICK SOLIDEO
Producer Nick Solideo is a producer and performer based in Chicago. He has a background in virtual and live event production, venue operations management, and project management. As Senior Producer, Nick manages The Second City’s e.t.c. Theatre as well as a multitude of projects within Second City Works, the business-to-business arm of The Second City.
Understudies
CLAIRE FAVRET
Claire Favret is a Chicago-based improviser, writer, and standup. She has contributed headlines for The Onion and Clickhole and toured with The Second City’s National Touring Company.
RUDY MENDOZA
Rudy Mendoza is the founder of Bilingual Improv School, where students can take an improv class and practice their Spanish… sin pena! He’s the founder of Antojitos Fest: Chicago’s Only Bilingual Improv Festival, showcasing the best improvisers from Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. He is an understudy for The Second City performing in the etc theater’s 49th revue “Chaos Theory of Everything” and 48th revue “Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone”. He’s a teaching artist with Laughing Together, a non-profit that brings improvisation to school-based mental health programming. He also teaches improv and sketch comedy at CIC Theater and Mudlark Theater.
C.J. TUOR
C.J. Tuor graduated from the Illinois State Theater Education Program and the Second City Conservatory. He has performed with Second City Theatricals since 2015. C.J. founded Hitch*Cocktails and performs improvised suspense/comedy every Friday at The Annoyance Theater and made up murder mysteries right here – in this building – as part of Clued In. By day, he writes trivia and comedy for Jackbox Games. He would like to thank his friends, family, wife and children.
Bryce Halliday is an Australian musician and comedian, now living in Chicago. Since completing a Bachelor of Music at the Australian Institute of Music in 2012, Bryce’s versatility as a composer and improviser has allowed him to contribute to a wide variety of projects.
Brian K. Cooper Jr. is a Chicago-based pianist and music director specializing in improvisation, collaborative performance, and contemporary theatrical styles. He holds a Master’s degree in Piano Performance and works as a performer, educator, and creative partner.
Sam Scheidler is a musical director, composer, and producer based in Chicago’s North Side. He is the music director for one of The Second City’s national touring companies, and teaches in the training center. Sam can be found playing for any number of improv shows across Chicago, such as Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton, RIFF, Deep Schwa, and many more. You can hear his piano stylings each week on the musical improv podcast Charm Scene and on various episodes of Off Book.
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