OC - Second City

The Second City Laugh Out Loud Stage Manager

JACKIE ANDERSON

Director and Musical Director T. J. SHANOFF

Talent

SHAD KUNKLE* KATE LAMBERT EDDIE MUJICA NICK REES EMILY WALKER *denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union for actors and stage managers.

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A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY It all started in a converted Chinese laundry on Chicago’s north side in 1959. No one could know that by the next century, The Second City would have established itself as the premier comedy institution in the world. With theaters in Chicago, Toronto, Detroit, and Las Vegas; training centers in each of those cities as well as Los Angeles; a corporate division that offers creative services to the business world; a TV and film division; and touring troupes that bring its unique brand of improv-based sketch comedy all over the world, The Second City has become, in the words of the New York Times, “A Comedy Empire.”

The touring troupes at The Second City have been the springboard for generations of the comedy world’s best and brightest.

Its alumni list includes Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, Peter Boyle, Harold Ramis, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, John Candy, Martin Short, George Wendt, Julia Louis

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Dreyfus, Chris Farley, Ryan Stiles, Mike Myers, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey and more.

In addition to stellar talent, Second City’s other chief export is comedy that is both hilarious and thought provoking; smart and silly; sophisticated and wild. The concept is simple: six actors augmented by a musical accompanist and a sound and lighting director perform a two-act revue featuring sketch comedy, songs and improvisation.

Drawing from the vast archives of material that Second City has created over 40 plus years, The Second City touring companies are also creating on-the-spot, topical comedy that changes with every performance.

The diversity of Second City performances are matched by the diversity of its venues, as the company has taken its act on the road to theatres, festivals, colleges, and performing arts centers in every state of the union and to international audiences from Singapore to Vienna.

Whose Live Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? brought improv to TV, and now a foursome of alumni are taking the show on the road. It’s a new show every night!

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“The Addams Family is full of charm, wit and surprises that explain why it’s A HIT on its national tour.”

—DOMINIC MASSA, WWL/CBS New Orleans

“A visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical which will entertain you to death!”

—RICHARD OUZOUNIAN, Toronto Star

—ALLAN GOULD, Toronto Post City

Photo: Matt Hoyle

“The Addams Family is a wakily entertaining musical with a lot of laughs and a lot of heart!”

Tue, may 1 – sun, may 6

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BIOGRAPHIES SHAD KUNKLE* has been touring and performing with The Second City for the last 4 years. He has been improvising in Chicago for over 8 years and would like to thank iO Chicago and ComedySportz Chicago for giving him the opportunity to perform and learn the craft of improvisation. He currently performs with Carl and The Passions and the Armando Diaz Experience. He is a proud coach of Chicago’s best Harold team, The Reckoning, at iO Chicago. Shad loves his wife Kate, their new daughter Anna Jane, and their belligerently drunk cat Azul.

KATE LAMBERT is thrilled to be performing with The Second City Touring Company. A graduate of Wake Forest University (BA, Theatre), she is a member of the sketch group Cell Camp and the improv groups The Katydids, Rick, and Virgin Daiquiri at the iO Theater. She previously toured with The Second City as a cast member aboard the Norwegian Pearl. Kate has also performed at various theatres and festivals throughout the country.

She would like to thank her teachers and mentors at The Second City and iO, her friends, and her wonderful family. You can visit her website at www.katelambert.net.

EDDIE MUJICA hails from Hialeah, Florida, and moved to Chicago in 2010 after being awarded a scholarship through Outreach & Diversity. He has trained in The Second City’s Conservatory and at iO, and performs around town with his independent team Promise Ring. Recent credits include Six Degrees of Desperation with BenchCo. Eddie thanks Dionna GriffinIrons for EVERYTHING as well as his family and friends for their relentless support.

NICK REES was raised in Iowa and drove a tractor during the summers. After earning a degree in creative writing that took him back to Iowa and a job at a gas station, he moved to Chicago to try improv. Nick’s girlfriend convinced him to move to Chicago, so she gets some of the blame for all of this. In addition to the University of Missouri, he is also a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and iO. Nick has performed with the Second City Training Center House Ensembles as well as with several groups at iO and The Playground.

EMILY WALKER hails from Kentucky.

She has studied improv, sketch comedy and musical improv with The Second City and I.O. She’s performed in numerous sketch and improv shows all over Chicago and in NYC, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Louisville and Nashville. She is a part of the The Second City’s Training Center’s House Ensemble, with whom she performed Six Degrees of Desperation. She is honored to spend her endless summer performing for The Second City on The NCL Spirit and EPIC. She and Chelsea Devantez make up the musical comedy duo Ding!. She would like to thank Second City for this amazing opportunity.

JACKIE ANDERSON (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with Second City.

Her most recent credit was producing “SCARRIE–The Musical” with Hell in a Handbag Productions. Jackie has stage managed for Live Bait Theater, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Emerald City Theatre, SmashTheatre, Defiant Theatre, and most recently the Jeff-recommended Black Nativity at Goodman Theatre. Jackie also had the opportunity to work as a production assistant at Ravinia Music Festival and is fortunate to be managing for a local a cappella choir, Bella Voce. She’d like to thank her friends, who are all too understanding of her never being around.

T. J. SHANOFF (Director/Music Director) has been with The Second City since 1997.

Composer/lyricist credits include: Rod Blagojevich, Superstar, Rush Limbaugh: The Musical, Jewsical!, Barackstars, Sex & The Second City and customized revues in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Atlanta. Directing credits include: Chicago Live!, The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Tour, One if By Land, Late if By T and many productions aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line. Musical Direction includes An Evening with Martin Short, Songs Of The Second City, The Chicago Emmy Awards and The Roof Is On Fiddler (also co-writer/ director). T.J. has hosted talk shows on Sporting News Radio and WCKGFM, and performs customized musical entertainment and hosting for corporate events worldwide. T.J. attended the Latin School of Chicago, trained and taught at Harand Theater Camp and graduated from Emerson College in Boston, MA. The Second City | Overture Center

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