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Written & Performed by:

Meghan Babbe

Jenelle Cheyne

Spencer Hodges

Javid Iqbal

Tim Metzler

& Max Thomas 

Director:
Anthony LeBlanc

Associate Director:
Julia Morales

Stage Manager, Lighting Designer
& Associate Technical Director:
Abby Beggs

Music Director, Original Music
& Sound Design:
John Love

Lead Technical Director:
John Kelly

Set Designer:
Shayna Patel

Lead Carpenter:
Stan Hicks

Carpenter:
David Moreland

Assistant Technical Director:
Daniel Parsons

Painter:
Rain Foiles

Choreographer:
Carisa Barreca

Fight Choreographer, SDC:
David Woolley

Wardrobe Stylist:
Chelsey Carter

 

Producer, Resident Stages:
Thomas J. Troup II (Tom2)

 

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

MEGHAN BABBE

MEGHAN BABBE
(she/her) is from Rapid City, South Dakota and she’s extremely proud of that. She’s beyond honored to be a part of her third resident stage revue on ETC. She’s been doing sketch, improv and stand-up in Chicago for over ten years. She’s a member of the legendary improv group Virgin Daquari. You can sometimes catch her at Paper Machete or performing with her comedy soulmates The Late 90s. But her favorite thing is being Oscar’s mom! She’s repped by Paonessa and you can follow her at @meghanbabbe on tiktok or @mbabbe on instagram. All her love to Chan and her family.

JENELLE CHEYNE

JENELLE CHEYNE
(she/her) originally hails from Vancouver, Canada. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and Comedy Studies. She has performed in The Holy F*** Comedy Hour and Trigger Happy at The Annoyance, improvised on a number of teams at iO, and currently performs every week at Logan Square Improv with Real Angels. While working at The Second City she has sailed the seas, toured the country, and been an ensemble member of ETC 48: Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone, and ETC 48: Chaos Theory of Everything. She is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency and you can find her on social media @jamealchameal.

SPENCER HODGES

SPENCER HODGES
(she/her) is an actress, writer, and improviser from NC. She’s done commercials, TV, and more unpaid (or terribly paid) comedy shows than she’s willing to admit. But her favorite accomplishment is joining the 49th ETC revue as a former Second City host, bartender, server, CCO, Black Excellence Revue cast member, Bob Curry fellow, and Comedy Studies Semester student. This is for everyone who said she could and everyone who taught her how to. Elon University grad, repped by Stewart Talent. 

JAVID IQBAL

JAVID IQBAL
(he/him) is writing this about himself. Javid is an incredible talent, an angelic singer, a gifted actor, a flawless dancer, a brilliant mind, and a humble soul. He wishes to send endless love and thanks his family for the sacrifices they make in order for him to selfishly pursue his dreams and passions. Special shout out to Jamil and Jamilah! Javid is represented by the great folks at Paonessa Talent.

TIM METZLER

TIM METZLER
(he/him) was raised in Onalaska, Wisconsin by the most loving parents ever, and is represented by the spectacular Paonessa Talent Agency. He’s performed with Baby Wants Candy, multiple iO Harold Teams, the legendary Garden Boys, and he’s featured in several Just For Laughs and SNL final showcases. An alumni of the Second City National Touring Company (BlueCo), he has written and performed in multiple Jeff Awards recommended revues, including ETC 47: “Oh, The Places You’ll Glow!” And ETC 48: “The Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone.” His on-screen work can be seen in Deli Boys (Hulu), Mr. Throwback (Peacock), Hot Mess Holiday (Comedy Central), My Grown Up Christmas Wish (GAF), American Schemers, and in ads for Old National Bank, Amazon, Zenni, CDW, JobsOhio, Cellcom, Cigna and more. He has a degree in English from Viterbo University. He spends his free time with Harlan, his miracle boy, and with Beth, his absolutely bangin’ bombshell of a wife. Follow @timmy_the_metz

MAX THOMAS

MAX THOMAS
(he/him) is a lighting rod of a comedian that will have you laughing from start to finish & leave you excited for more. 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.

 


Production & Creative Teams

ANTHONY LEBLANC
Director (he/him) works at Nickelodeon/Paramount doing talent development and as an on-set acting coach on such hit shows as The Reboot of All That and The Really Loud House. He acted as Interim Executive Producer of The Second City in 2020. Previously, LeBlanc served as an Artistic Director for The Second City Inc., as well as a part-time faculty member at Columbia College Chicago. Anthony is a Second City alum who wrote and performed in two original Chicago Mainstage revues, Taming of the Flu and the Jeff Award-nominated America: All Better! He has been a teacher and resident director for Second City, directing several resident stage and theatrical productions in Chicago and Washington, D.C., including The Winner … of Our Discontent (Chicago Mainstage), Soul Brother, Where Art Thou? (The Second City e.t.c.), Generation Gap at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Helen Hayes-nominated Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. And Independently including The Magic Negro and Other Blackity Blackness as Told by an African-American Man Who Also Happens to be Black at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  A native of Beaumont, Texas, Anthony holds a degree in Computer Science and Physics from Loyola University New Orleans.  Anthony is an autistic Blerd dedicated to promoting Neurodiversity and DEI in comedy. 

JULIA MORALES
Associate Director (she/her) is a performer, writer, director, teacher, and mentor originally from Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Houston – School of Theatre & Dance and graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Jules first studied improv comedy in Houston and later moved to New York in 2008 after receiving the NBC Diversity Scholarship to study both sketch and improv comedy. She later moved to Chicago in 2015 while performing with the Second City Theatricals on the Norwegian Cruise Line. She was a 2018 Bob Curry Fellow and was later cast as an ensemble member of the Second City Green Co Touring Company. She is a Second City alum having completed two Mainstage revues, Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not and Don’t Quit Your Daydream. Most recently, she directed the 2025 Bob Curry Fellowship Showcase, Minority Report: What Had Happened Was… and she was the Associate Director for the Black Excellence show, We Always Bounce Black at Second City. Jules performs, directs, and teaches at various theaters in the Chicago community. She is also an adjunct teacher and director at The Theatre School at DePaul University Comedy Studies program. Jules is a master movie buff, a self care enthusiast, and an avid traveler. Follow her journey on IG @callmejules.

ABBY BEGGS
Stage Manager, Lighting Designer & Associate Technical Director (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

STAN HICKS
Lead Carpenter (he/him) has served as Lead Carpenter on numerous productions here at The Second City.

DAVID MORELAND
Carpenter (he/him) is a carpenter and performer in the Chicagoland area. He’s built many productions over the years for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Timeline Theater, Second City, Kokandy Productions, Shattered Globe, and many others. Recent on stage credits include: Waitress, The Full Minty (Paramount Theater) Rock of Ages (Mercury Theater Chicago) American Psycho, Cruel Intentions (Kokandy Productions) Sunday in the Park with George, Rent (Porchlight Music Theater) Thank you and enjoy the show!

DAVID WOOLLEY
Fight Choreographer AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC (he/him) is a veteran of Chicago Theatre and a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has staged fights for over 400 productions since 1982 earning 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Fight Choreography. He is a Professor of Instruction and the Combat Coordinator at Columbia College Chicago overseeing violence, mayhem and the stage combat minor in the School of Theatre and Dance. And, he performs as Guido Crescendo in Dirk and Guido the Swordsmen! preparing for their 36th season at the Bristol and Ohio Renaissance Faires.

CARISA BARRECA
Choreographer (she/her) is honored to be Choreographing The Second City’s 49th e.t.c. Revue! She is an alum of The Second City’s e.t.c stage, where she wrote and performed in three critically acclaimed revues. Most recently she was honored to direct The Second City’s 48th e.t.c. Revue: Best Kept Secret, Tell Everyone and The Second City’s National Touring Company; Blue Co. and the 111th Mainstage Revue,
Don’t Quit Your Daydream! She’s also directed the award-winning show She The People, Second City’s SING OUT and Deck The Hallmark. She has had the honor of performing at Lyric Opera of Chicago with Sir Patrick Stewart and Reneé Fleming in The Second City’s Guide to the Opera at Goodman Theatre; The Kennedy Center with Twist Your Dickens; and wrote and performed in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Second City’s collaboration The Art of Falling. Follow her @Cinderisa.

 

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.”


Understudies

AMANDA LEO
Stage Manager (they/them) Leo has been involved in theater since birth, and has been thrilled to spend the last few years acting, directing, and stage managing with various productions around the city. Most recently they have started their own production company, Destined for Chaos, and have been enjoying producing and directing those shows. Leo is so happy to be a part of this amazing production and hopes you enjoy the show!

SEAN SYKES
Music Director
(he/him) is excited to be behind the keys playing live shows again! Sean has done musical direction for the Second City e.t.c. Mainstage, and touring company as well as the Bob Curry and NBC universal showcases. Sean earned a bachelors in music music education at the University of Mississippi, and is happily still using that amazing diploma to teach fourth grade music at the university of Chicago laboratory schools in Hyde Park. Sean gives a special thanks to producers role, the amazing cast, everyone behind the scenes, and you our audience members . Enjoy the show!

SOPHIA BRAZDA

SOPHIA BRAZDA
Roles of Meghan Babbe and Jenelle Cheyne
(she/her) Born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, Sophia has been
calling Chicago home for the past year. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the
Second City Conservatory, her regional credits include Mary in Jersey Boys (Mountain Theatre
Company), Zoe in Airline Highway, and Paige in Voices on the Bayou (Swine Palace Theatre).
Sophia is so deeply grateful to Logan, Mom, Dad, and Nick for their endless support. Keep up
with all her goofs and gags over on Instagram @sophiabrazda!

E.J. CAMERON

E.J. CAMERON
Roles of Max Thomas and Javid Iqbal
(he/him) is an alum of Second City’s etc (Grinning from Fear to Fear and The Best Decision You Ever Made) and the Mainstage(Do The Right Thing, No Worries If Not.). He’s also performed and trained at: iO and ComedySportz. He is an avid pro-wrestling fan and his favorite color is purple! If you enjoyed his performance his Venmo is @EJ-Cameron and if you didn’t he’ll use the money to get better!

 

ASYA MEADOWS

ASYA MEADOWS
Roles of Spencer Hodges
is an actor, writer, producer, and performer from Chicago’s west suburbs. They’ve trained at Actors Studio Chicago, Vagabond School of the Arts, and Logan Square Improv. In 2024, Asya was an OTV Hall Recipient and featured in What Happened to Dorothy Bell?, a Fantastic Fest selection. They’ve performed with the improv team Satirical Race Theory, won Improvised Survivor at IO Theater, and recently Recipient of Bob curry Fellowship 24/25. Off-stage, Asya enjoys learning ASL and Spanish, Italian food, reality TV, and cherishes their family and community.

CJ TUOR

CJ TUOR
Roles of Tim Metzler
(he/him) Illinois State Theater Education Program and Second City Conservatory graduate. He has appeared in Second City’s Life Hacks, After Hours & Star Wars Tribute Show. C.J. works for Jackbox Games where he writes trivia, comedic prompts and sinister game setups. He co-founded High Stakes Productions and performs improvised suspense/mystery/horror in Hitch*Cocktails, Clued In, etc. His parents always supported him and his wife and son are spookier and funnier than him.


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