Cast-and-Crew-etc

Ensemble

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.”