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Jeremy thompson- hampton fawx
Jeremy Thompson is a regional theatre actor and teacher based out of Chicago but also often found in Seattle or the Mountain West. Recent credits include four seasons and multiple educational tours with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. His favorite day-jobs also include an element of performance, like leading tours at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago or slinging bagels at the old Bagel Deli in Seattle as a "sandwich artist".
@jeristophanes
chris vizurraga - james stallion
Christopher Vizurraga is an actor and artist working out of Chicago. Other voiceover work includes Sense & Sensibility (Lifeline Theater), Captain Hero (independent), and The Vanishing Act. He is an ensemble member at Lifeline Theater, and has appeared on stage at Illinois Shakespeare, First Folio Theater, Remy Bumppo, and Milwaukee Rep among others. He would like to thank his lovely bride-to-be, Cat, and his puppy, Cooper, for their enduring love and support.
Website: christopherviz.weebly.com
KATIE MCLEAN HAINSWORTH - MADGE STALLION
Katie is a Chicago actor, writer, tabletop role-player, introvert, and day job aficionado. She has been an ensemble at Lifeline Theatre since 2006, and there she will reprise her role as Sherlock Holmes in their Fall 2022 production of Christopher M. Walsh's MISS HOLMES RETURNS. Katie will also appear this fall as one of four hapless amnesiac adventurers in the first season of the Actual Play weird horror podcast Dark Nexus.
Twitter: @janefury, Instagram: @mcleanhainsworth, Dark Nexus: www.darknexuspod.com, Lifeline Theatre: www.lifelinetheatre.com
SHAWN PFAUTSCH - aRCHIE CARTWRIGHT
Shawn is a Chicago-based actor, writer and musician. As a stage actor, he’s performed all around the US (and recently on the high seas). He’s done some TV, some podcasts (hey there, Vanishing Act!). Currently, he is the producer of the 2022 season of Chicago Children’s Theatre’s original audio tour theatre series for families: Walkie Talkies. Catch ‘em in your pod-catchers!
lAUREN GRACE THOMPSON - SARAH FLETCHLEY
Lauren is an actor, podcaster, dialect coach, producer, writer, and all-around audio drama enthusiast. She was the producer of Rusty Quill’s short form anthology series Neon Inkwell. Audio drama voice acting credits include: That Vampire Show (Kat), Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason (Gayle), The Pasithea Powder (Dir. Moon), Voiders (Artemis), Forgive Me! (Dame Judi Dench), and others yet to be announced. She is also a theatre actor, often seen at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival.
tommy malouf - s1: jonathan crimeria
Tommy Malouf is a teaching artist and musician in the city of Chicago. When he's not begging his students to get off their phones, he is usually enthusiastically researching D&D books or contemplating whether or not he should try to propagate his plants even though he is running out of room in his studio. You might be asking yourself, "Wait, is that the guy who played the antagonist in that one show?" The answer is, probably. He is represented by Stewart Talent, and is in that weird gray area between being "must join" and finally paying off his dues slowly to the union.
Allie Babich - s2: weatherby
Allie Babich is a Shakespeare and musical theater actor and lover of audio entertainment. Due to her love of scenic vistas, fresh air, and quiet, Allie resides primarily in New York City. Her stage career has spanned many fine theaters across her home state of Wisconsin, two seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, several years in residence at the American Shakespeare Center, and a Disney concert tour of Japan. Allie adores gummy candies, paper calendars, and making friends with dogs. www.alliebabich.com
TINA MUÑOZ PANDYA - s1: FURINA SAZARAC / s2: Margery
Tina is an actor, musician, and teaching artist based in Chicago. She's performed all over the country and enjoys mixing it up between classical works, new plays, musicals, and everything in between. You can hear her on the other audio drama series by the F&S team The Vanishing Act as Lilith Von Hitzler, and on Twelfth Night (A Play On Podcast), Don't Stop for Monkeys, and Queer Serial. In what little free time she has, she can often be found cooking, trying out accents, baking unnecessary cakes, watching wholesome British tv, and giving 1000 little kisses to her cat Jelly.
Zachary McKenna - s2: Fitzy fitzwilliams
Zachary McKenna is a Chicago-based actor, fight director, and comedian. He enjoys wearing funny clothes and fake facial hair while cavorting in front of paying audiences. It's a weird life, but he's glad he fell into it. Past theatre work includes stints with A Crew of Patches, MisFits Productions, and Redworm Theatre. When he's not playing Shakespearean clowns and villains, he enjoys learning 400-year-old tarocchi games and forcing his friends (and sometimes dogs) to join him in playing them.
MIKE OOI - OSKAR DE GUICHE
Mike Ooi is an actor/writer/director/teacher based in Austin, TX. You may have seen him in something, but without knowing your personal viewing history, it's hard to tell. In Chicago, he performed with Factory, Lifeline, House, Hypocrites, and SecondCityTrainingCenter. In Austin, Mike performs at Coldtowne Theater and teaches at ZSTC.
ian geers - constable mcmurphy
Ian is an actor, writer, and teacher currently living in Chicago. He is host of the movie-based podcast Not Another Film Podcast, and can be seen most summers at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival.
corrbette pasko - s1: catalina schnutz
Corrbette Pasko is an actor/writer/singer/producer/creator person who swears a lot. She is from Chicago and is currently in California, so she's very warm and salty about it. Corrbette is also on Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery and Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio. If you call some businesses and get a helpful robot, you might also hear her voice. You can see her with her writing partner Sara Sevigny in "Corri and Sara Are Famous" on YouTube and corriandsaraarefamous.com. You can follow her on all socials @corrbette and enjoy her GenX Updates of news and sarcasm. That shirt looks great on you.
jess ridenour - s1: kate / s2: chauncy grace
Jessica is an actor, director, and producer. She has been working as a performer in Chicago since 2010, appearing in TV, films, and at least one commercial as Nicole Kidman’s middle finger. She has produced and directed several of her own projects and is a full time in-house multimedia producer.
CHRIS HAINSWORTH - STANDARD REPORTER /COMMISSIONER
Chris Hainsworth is an actor/writer/director born and raised in the frying pan of the Chicago suburbs and living in the fire of Chicago proper for nearly 30 years. Most often you can catch his work at Lifeline Theatre, where he is an ensemble member. You may have seen him at various other Chicago theatres and the occasional appearance on shows with Chicago in the title. Chicago. His current whereabouts are currently unknown, currently.
NED BAKER - s1: ANNOUNCER
Ned Baker is a writer, director, and professional wrestling referee in Chicago. His award-winning short film The Last Stand of Bobby Coe will be available online soon, and his film actor discussion podcast Role Calling with film and TV critic Caroline Siede is available every two weeks wherever you get your podcasts. You can also see him in-ring with Freelance Wrestling in Chicago. Thrilled to bits to be involved with Fawx & Stallion.
EVIN MCQUISTION - S2: LUCIUS PEPPERMINT
Evin McQuistion is an actor based in Chicago. After his first paid gig at 10 years old ($5) playing a French waiter for a date his brother was having in the living room, he moved on to performing a lot of Shakespeare. The pay hasn't gotten much better.
Sam Hubbard - s2: Thomas rake
Sam Hubbard is an actor, fight director and beverage enthusiast living in sunny Los Angeles, California. His voice has been heard on various podcasts, radio dramas and even the English dubbing of international Netflix procedurals that are pretty good once you find them. He has worked with nearly every major theatre in Chicago except for Lookingglass because he doesn't know how to juggle. You may have seen him on stage, in feature films, or on TV, but he is most widely recognized for fathering Sully, the three-legged rescue pitbull. He asks that you follow him on Duolingo.
SAZI BHAKTI - s1: ENSEMBLE/DEALER
Sazi Bhakti is an actor, writer, producer, and clown originally hailing from Northern California. She's the creator of the comedy duo Tammy and Deb that has performed around the Chicago area and is in current works of her next endeavour, which will launch Spring 2023.
With mid-term elections coming up, she encourages you to check out her production of The Fellowship of the Votes, HERE, a short sketch made in hopes you always laugh and always vote.
DANIEL MILLHOUSE - s1: ENSEMBLE / s2: dennis
Daniel Millhouse is grateful and thrilled to be returning to Fawx & Stallion for their second season! Podcasts: The Vanishing Act, Fawx & Stallion, Where the Stars Fell, and The Onion’s: The Topical. Theatre: Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, ShawChicago, A Crew of Patches, Remy Bumppo, and The Second City Training Center, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre, and Great River Shakespeare Festival. Film/TV: Chicago Fire. Motion Capture: Call of Duty Video Game Franchise. Daniel is an Assistant Professor at the College of DuPage, a proud member of AEA, and is represented by Big Mouth Talent. Check out more information on his website at www.danielmillhouse.com.
trey plutkicki - sPECTACLE REPORTER
Trey is a Chicago-based actor who has worked at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, and other regional theaters across the country. He can be seen on TV on Chicago Med and Squid Game: The Challenge, and on Twitter endlessly chatting about reality competition shows. He can be heard on his podcast, The Mistletoe Secret, chatting about Hallmark movies until he goes blue.
Insta: @choochootreyn tiktok: @treykplutnicki
sarah coakley price - Times reporter/others
Sarah Coakley Price is an actor, voiceover artist, writer, and comedy nerd based in Chicago. She voices Augie Eckhart on The Vanishing Act Podcast, for which she won an Audio Verse Award for Best Leading Role in a New Audio Production (in 2020). She also voices Primavera Inkwyrm on Where the Stars Fell Podcast, and was a frequent guest host on BDE: Big Disney Energy, an adults-only Disney podcast. Sarah has also performed in shows at Goodman Theatre, Writers, Court, A Red Orchid, Steep, Remy Bumppo, First Floor, Lifeline, Strawdog, The Hypocrites, and Sideshow. Sarah is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, the Improv Training Program at iO, and Second City's Conservatory. More at www.sarahcoakleyprice.com.
nicole knudsen - mildred
Nicole Knudsen is an actor and writer based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Dramatic Arts, and has worked with a number of SoCal theatre companies, including: Theatricum Botanicum, Shakespeare by the Sea, Chase What Flies, and The Riot of the Tipsy Bacchanals. Other podcast credits include the Audio Verse Award-winning The Godfrey Audio Guide (creator / "Tour Guide"), What A Movie: A Nostalgia-Infused Podcast (co-host), and All In My Head ("Lana Chambers").
Personal website: www.nicole-knudsen.com
Twitter and Instagram: @nicoleknudsen16
james ferrero - s1: jerry
James Ferrero is an actor, producer, and sound designer. Podcast credits include Apollo in Lesser Gods and The Sponsor in The Godfrey Audio Guide (also sound designer). He is also the creator/producer of Shakes on the Rocks, a Shakespearean cabaret in Los Angeles. Other projects include co-hosting What A Movie: A Nostalgia-Infused Podcast. Shout out to Nicole, my #1.
robert kauzlaric - SherlocK HOLMES
Robert makes plays, runs roleplaying games, and likes cats. His Weird Horror actual-play RPG podcast Dark Nexus (darknexuspodcast.com) is available everywhere, and you can also hear him as a variety of silly characters in The Vanishing Act. robertkauzlaric.com
Beth eyre - s2: lottie
Beth is an actor and comedy performer for stage, screen and audio, based in London.
You can hear Beth as Antigone Funn in hit podcast sitcom Wooden Overcoats as well as in The Magnus Protocol, Cry Havoc - Ask Questions Later, RE: Dracula and many more. Beth also appears in London After Midnight (Audio Marvels) Missy: Bad Influence (Big Finish), and The Exploding Library & The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast- both BBC Radio 4. Video games include Crime Boss: Rockay City, Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move!.
Beth recently appeared in HBO's The Baby. This Summer has been touring Italy in Cicero:The Last Republican.
TOM CROWLEY - JOHN WATSON
Tom Crowley is a writer, actor and comedian, best known for writing the stage adaptation of Rocky Horror sequel Shock Treatment and performing in TV drama The Royals. He has appeared regularly in podcasts Wooden Overcoats, Victoriocity and The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast. He has also performed in audio productions for BBC Radio 4, Audible, Fremantle Media and Somethin’ Else. He has written for Cartoon Network Studios Europe, Marvel Move, BBC Radio 4Extra, Wooden Overcoats, Six to Start and Bafflegab Productions. His solo sketch and character comedy podcast Crowley Time is available on all podcast apps and at crowleytime.com.
Hannah Mckechnie - s2: iphegenia brown
Hannah is a British-born, LA-based actor, voiceover artist and dialect coach, with a BFA in Acting from Boston University. FAVE THEATRE CREDITS include Corie in "Barefoot in the Park" (Florida Rep), Yvette in "Clue" (Cape Playhouse + Florida Rep), Jane in "Pride and Prejudice" (Hudson Classical) and Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (National Players, bc her Boo Radley was literally the most precious *cough cough Ian Geers*) You can listen to her self-produced and narrated audiobook "An Oktoberfest Death" or catch her in the films "15 Cameras" and "Crown Vic" or in commercials as the voice of Juicy Couture fragrances lol. www.hannahmckechnie.com
Llewyn Geers-Thompson - AMBROSIUS
Llewyn is a Chicago-based feline actor with 16 years of history in the industry. Previous credits include auditions for Shrek 2, Homeward Bound, Hocus Pocus, and Cats (none of which he booked). He would not like to thank his agents, as they did nothing to get him this job, which he booked through the power of nepotism. Thanks mom and dad.
CREATIVE
IAN GEERS - WRITER/DIRECTOR
Ian is an actor, writer, and teacher currently living in Chicago. He is host of the movie-based podcast Not Another Film Podcast, and can be seen most summers at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. He was also the producer of the first season of Rusty Quill’s Trice Forgotten.
LAUREN GRACE THOMPSON - WRITER/DIRECTOR
Lauren is an actor, podcaster, dialect coach, producer, writer, and all-around audio drama enthusiast. She was the producer of Rusty Quill’s short form anthology series Neon Inkwell. Audio drama voice acting credits include: Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason (Gayle), That Vampire Show (Kat), Midnight Burger’s Young Leif (Young Bertbert), The Pasithea Powder (Dir. Moon), Voiders (Artemis), Forgive Me! (Dame Judi Dench), and others yet to be announced. She is also a theatre actor, often seen at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival.
SARAH BUCHYNSKI (POLARITY AUDIO WORKS) - SOUND DESIGNER
Sarah Buchynski is an awarding winning sound designer and audio engineer from Alberta Canada. In 2014, Sarah started an audio post-production studio, Polarity Audio Works. She currently works in the entertainment industries of audiobooks/drama, television, film, and independent video games. Over the last five years, Sarah has been a panellist at various events talking to students and fledgling sound designers alike for designing sound on independent productions.
BALDEMAR - MUSIC DESIGNER
Baldemar is a musician and composer based in Chicago. His two albums "Through the Void" and "Untitled, No. 1" can be found at https://soundcloud.com/erick-baldemar. He is a company member with Midsommer Flight and a proud member of the Chicago actor/musician community.
jay donley - S2: inspector whittle
Jay Donley is an actor, voiceover artist, and fight director based in Chicago since 2011. In that time he's performed on stage, in schools, guided tours, voiced commercials, done short films, long films, tv, and podcasting. Jay is always excited to dive into another project, and is most proud of the time he wrestled a more than slightly tipsy adult brown bear into a begrudging draw.
rachel J jones - S2: wiggins/others
Rachel J Jones (she/her) is an actor/educator in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). VO credits include numerous Station IDs for 91.7 WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio and 90.9 WGUC, spots for the Over-The-Rhine International Film Festival, and ads for creative media studio LotusShark and digital media marketing company TypoDuctions. And....she LOVES to tell you she's from Michigan (the best state). Instagram: @racheljjones Website: www.racheljjones.actor
WESley SCOTT- S2: INSPECTOR BRADDOCK
Wesley is a professional voiceover artist and stage actor with more than two decades of experience. His narration portfolio currently consists of more than thirty projects including works produced with Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. He has appeared on stages across the country including The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, The Michigan Shakespeare Festival, The House, Steep, Orlando Rep, and the California Theatre Center.
lucas prizant - s2: farnsworth/others
Lucas Prizant (he/him) is a Chicago based Voice and Stage Actor. During the pandemic, Lucas had the brilliant idea to pursue voice acting, unaware that every other actor on the planet was doing the exact same thing. Lucas has been the voice for brands like Amazon, Nike, Culligan Water and Northern Trust. When he gets sick of sitting in a chair and talking to himself, he does Shakespeare with Oak Park Festival Theatre and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks! Thanks to Lauren and Ian!
richie villafuerte - s2: desmond/others
Richie Villafuerte He/Him/His is honored to make his Faux and Stallion debut. He loves playing with dialects and cats so he figured this would be a perfect opportunity. You can catch him next on the Raven Theatre stage in Ironbound. Other recent credits include Jesus (US) in Black Sunday at Timeline, Lesgate (US) in Dial M for Murder at Northlight, and last summer he worked with the Michigan Shakespeare Festival as Cleon in Pericles and Carlos in A Flea in Her Ear. He received his B.A. in Theatre Performance from UNLV and is a proud member of The ACADEMY at Black Box and a recent graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. He is grateful for the support of his partner Rose, family, friends, and The ACADEMY ensemble. Big thanks to Ian and Lauren for the opportunity.
julie adamo- s2: mme delledonte/others
Julie Adamo is an actor and writer based in Los Angeles. She has previously been heard in the Passenger List podcast and the odd online commercial while you're scrolling on Instagram. Julie is a theater person at heart, and has performed in regional theaters across the country. When not performing, she is forming parasocial relationships with podcast hosts while walking her dog.