Mary Scruggs wrote The Fairy Trials, a series of plays for the Circuit Court of Cook County designed to teach the public about their court system and they have played for audiences of all ages throughout Cook County and beyond for twenty years. Mary's other playwriting credits include What Every Girl Should Know, a co-adaptation with Susan Messing (The Annoyance Theater), Karma, developed at the Lakeside Writing Studio (Live Bait Theater), Bedtime Stories (Skybox Theater), Off The Grid and War Times (Boxer Rebellion Theatre), and Revelations, winner of the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Contest. Mary was the lyricist and co-librettist for Camp Nimrod For Girls (Live Bait Theater). While in Los Angeles, she sold a script for Designing Women, developed a sitcom for Hearst Entertainment and wrote a handful of jokes for Barry Manilow. Acting experience includes performing in Hellcab (Famous Door Theater) and playing various battered women seeking justice for Circuit Court public service videos. Mary is the Head of Writing and Education Programs at The Second City Training Center. Her book Process, co-written with Michael Gellman, is being published by Northwestern University Press. Mary would like to thank Richard and William Scruggs, Andy Miara, Daniel Coyne, Julie Miller Romeo, Bob "Easy" Vollmar, Anne Libera, Sheila Flaherty, Mike East, Ron Young, Scott Kennedy, Elise Glickman, Sharon Evans, Don "Recon" Morrill, John Ragir, and Catriona Johnson.
Edward Thomas-Herrera has worked on many Live Bait productions, both solo and otherwise. He is the author/performer of Cocktail Confidential and Fun While it Lasted: A Farewell Tour. As a solo show director, he has directed Stephanie Shaw’s Materia Prima and David Kodeski’s And Some Can Remember Something of Some Such Thing for previous Fillet of Solo festivals. Edward’s playwriting credits include Of Diamonds and Diplomats, Mondo Edwardo and Death on a Pink Carpet. He is also one of the founding members of BoyGirlBoyGirl, a solo performance collective with whom he recently performed XV-XVI Century Northern Drawings From the Robert Lehman Collections 1978 as part of Curious Theatre Branch’s 2007 Rhino Fest. Edward would like to thank John Ragir and Sharon Evans for their invaluable support.
Mary Griswold’s design work with Live Bait Theater includes Escape, Blind Tasting, Death on a Pink Carpet, The Tall Ships, Starving Artists, Zap, Telethon and Night Battles. Fragments of her set for 1001 Afternoons in Chicago were reworked into murals for the Sheridan Road Red Line station.
Justin Wardell moved to Chicago after receiving his Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He is now working as the Rentals Coordinator for Designlab Chicago, and the Managing Director for Theatre 7. Some of Justin's recent projects include Jhondo Portraits (Clinard Dance Theatre), Starting Here Starting Now (Roosevelt University), It's A Wonderful Life (Porchlight Music Theatre), Luna y Sol (Compania Arapacio, Portland), Phantom (Porchlight Music Theatre), A Murder of Crows (GroundUp Theatre), Killing Women (Theatre Seven), Shrink! (Tellin' Tales Theatre), Fillet of Solo Festival '07 (Live Bait Theatre), Flamenco Pa' Dos (Symphony Space, New York City), and Entresueño (Compania Arapacio, Chicago and Pittsburg).
Boaz Reisman has been writing and performing music since before it was cool. He has written and produced several musicals including San Francisco's wildly popular Bruce Thunderkiss. Most recently he was the Music Director for the vaudeville/sketch/ improv show Ugly House at Live Bait Theater, and currently works as a Musical Director with the Second City Touring Company.
Ewa Niezgoda is an exchange student from Poland who is currently doing an internship at Live Bait Theater. In Krakow, where she is from, she graduated from Singing and Acting School and did some performances during the school years. This year as an exchange student at Antioch College in Ohio, she appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire at Antioch Area Theatre and became even more interested in theater, also in its technical field. In the future Ewa plans to continue her sociology studies in Poland and work in one of the theaters in Krakow.
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