Announcing The Cast And Director of Red Tape Theatre's I SAW MYSELF!

RED TAPE THEATRE has announced the cast and creative team of I SAW MYSELF. directed by Jennifer Markowitz!

The team includes Jake Szczepaniak*, Carolyn Hoerdemann, Emily Nichelson*, Zach Livingston, Rob Grabowski, Jyreika Guest, Kelsey Shipley* and Elyse Dawson.

You can catch this incredible ensemble playing at the company's new space, THE READY, from January 19th to February 17th! ?

*Red Tape Theatre Company Members

Jennifer Markowitz has spent the last 27 years directing and teaching around the globe. She is the original director of Will Kern's Hellcab, which ran for over nine years at Chicago's Famous Door Theatre. She also directed award-winning productions of this play in Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Dublin and throughout Israel. Her Chicago production of Never Come Morning at Prop Thtr won nine Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Director and Best Production. Also in Chicago, at Mary Arrchie Theatre Company, she directed the critically acclaimed productions of Kenneth Brown's The Brig (2013) and Hellish Half-Light: Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (2014).

At the William Inge Center of the Arts, she co-directed (with Artistic Director Karen Carpenter) Donald Margulies: American Dreamer, A tribute to Donald Margulies for the 34th William Inge Festival and both curated and directed Scenes at the Inge House -- A site-specific production of scenes from William Inge plays, performed in different rooms throughout William's Inge's childhood home.

In England, where she received her Master's Degree in Theatre Research/Practice at the University of Warwick, she formed a site-based theatre company called Trema (a German term referring to both stage-fright and the moment prior to a psychotic break). With Trema, she directed site-responsive productions of Our Town: Act III(Thornton Wilder) performed outdoors and indoors of a flat in Royal Leamington Spa, Spring Awakening (Frank Wedekind) performed outside in the woods of Coventry, Crave (Sarah Kane) performed in children's playground of Royal Leamington Spa Park at night, A Dream Play (August Strindberg) performed throughout ground floor of Millburn House, University of Warwick and Far Away (Caryl Churchill) performed in car, yard and stairwell of flat in Royal Leamington Spa. Also in England, she directed Stray, a production of three short plays: Victoria Station (Harold Pinter), The Wayfarer (Valerii Bryusov), and Fewer Emergencies (Martin Crimp) performed both outdoors and indoors of Newbold Comyn Cricket Pitch and Clubhouse, Royal Leamington Spa.

Jennifer has taught Acting, Directing, Theatre Studies, Site-Based theatre and Postdramatic Theatre in the UK at the universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Portsmouth and Plymouth. She has also taught Practice as Research methodologies and Site-Based Performance to MA Students in Reykjavik, Iceland. In the US, she headed the Theatre Department at the William Inge Center of the Arts and both taught acting and guest directed at DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago and University of Notre Dame.

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