Vance has been working in Chicago as an actor, director and producer since 1997. In 2007, he founded Black Sheep Productions, where he served as Artistic Director and directed Steve Spencer’s Another Day in the Empire and Camp Freedom!, Andy Gershenzon’s The End and produced Will Eno’s The Flu Season. He has also directed workshops, one-acts and readings at Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists and the side project. As an actor Vance appeared at Stage Left in M.E.H. Lewis’s Fellow Travellers and worked with Lifeline, Timeline, Hypocrites, Remy Bumppo, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Collaboraction, Factory, and many others. Vance attended the School at Steppenwolf in 2005 and graduated from Tulane University. |
| Laura is a theatre director and administrator who came to this position in August 2008, after serving as Stage Left's Literary Assistant, and with several years of experience with the consulting firms Exxceed, Inc. and Zwell International. In 2008, she produced the world premiere of Gemma Cooper-Novack's Blindside (in collaboration with Stockyards Theatre Project). Before moving to Chicago, she completed internships with North Shore Music Theatre, in Beverly, MA, and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. While completing her degree at Lawrence University, in Appleton, WI, she produced an evening of music-theatre performances and two Madrigal Dinners, as well as coordinating fundraising and public relations efforts for two other campus groups. Artistically, Laura has directed a few readings, and three LeapFest projects with Stage Left (Hungry Ghosts, Electrocution and Safe House), and served as assistant director for Fellow Travellers in LeapFest and in its world premiere. She directed the world premiere of Blindside which was developed, in part, at Stage Left. Her other directing credits include Seussical (Bartlett Park District), Selkie (Chaos Festival with Point of Contention), His Critical Condition (Vitality Festival with Speaking Ring), and two productions for n.u.f.a.n. theatre ensemble (7Love and After the Ball). |
