Brooke Christensen (director, A Humechanical Nightmare) graduated with a BFA in Directing from Millikin University. She also trained with The Rude Mechanicals, a Commedia dell' Arte based troupe in Eastbourne, Great Britain, as well as with professors from Trinity in Dublin, Ireland. She company managed a tour of a student-devised piece in Asuncion and Ciudad del Este, Paraguay with Millikin University. Brooke has worked on a number of interesting physical theatre productions including a contemporary adaptation of Medea and a original devised work, entitled, The Inexact Actual Truth of Commedia. Lily Emerson (creator/performer, i'm worried my body is falling apart, A Humechanical Nightmare, Up From the Earth) has been working in Chicago since 2005 as an actor, dancer, puppeteer, and teacher. Since she moved to the city, she's taken advantage of the myriad classes, workshops, and incredibly talented collaborators that Chicago provides. Lily founded Lucid Street Theatre in order to create new, innovative public work outside traditional theatrical conventions. In order to shake up the theatrical status quo, Lucid Street Theatre is working with several underground Chicago artists interested in bringing beautiful, engaging pieces straight to the public—in the streets, in the parks, on the el—wherever the people are. She is pleased to be working in conjunction with the Anatomy Collective, and cannot wait to perform Lucid Street Theatre's i'm worried my body is falling apart, A Humechanical Nightmare, and Up From the Earth in the coming months. For more information, see her resume. matt gawryk ('mã-thyoõ 'gou-rik): [lighting design, A Humechanical Nightmare] 1 an active member of the Chicago performing arts community • one in the field of design, primarily of (but not exclusive to) lighting • one who is artistically associated with two local theatre companies; Sansculottes Co. and Dog & Pony Theatre. • one who was an associate designer of Dance Chicago 2006 and now of 2007. 2 a person of artistic nature under the influence of lunar phases, electrical current, water falls, aunts, uncles, pi, and the ultimate taco. 3 a Freelance Electrician who enjoys the practical aspect of an ethereal art. • one who has toured with Hubbard Street Dance to Jacobs Pillow, the American Dance Festival, and soon to Russia. 4 a roadie and stage manager for the circus/punk/marching band, Mucca Pazza. Sharon Lanza (costume design, A Humechanical Nightmare) has worked as an actor, writer, director, dancer, choreographer, singer, costume designer and stagehand. With Redmoon Theater, she performed in Hunchback, Deciphering Moonshadows, Nina and Seagull as well as many stiltwalking parades, Winter Pageants and All Hallows Eve Celebrations. As Artistic Director of The Rescuers, she has written and directed original work including: Architecture, Just Desert, Laika, The Mermaid + The Astronaut (dir. by Joel Moorman), The Survivors, The Tree and most recently The Sifters at the Chicago Cultural Center. As a costumer, Sharon has outfitted many Chicago shows including The House of Yes, Red in Tooth in Claw, Hamlet as well as anyone who has set foot in her apartment... Sharon is also an Artistic Associate of Collaboraction and a Mathematical Unicorn in the punk rock marching band, Mucca Pazza. She has degrees in Theater and Art History from Northwestern. Her work with Rescuers Theater can be found at www.rescuerstheater.com Katey Lawton (set design, A Humechanical Nightmare) is a painter, designer, and jeweler. Some examples of her work can be found at http://teamabunai.org/katey/ Charles Malave (composer/musician, i'm worried my body is falling apart, Up From the Earth) is a native Chicago musician. He can regularly be found performing in the Chicago-based band, Ferdinand Fox. Aside from his role as a singer, bass player and songwriter for the group, he is a composer and performer of experimental music and a collaborator with other artists in Chicago and across the U.S. He has played a wide range of music in many ensembles including rock, jazz, orchestral, bluegrass, avant-garde, dance and electronic. Although electric bass is his primary instrument, he is proficient in many others including upright bass, cello, guitar, percussion and electronics. His musical goals vary from performance to performance, but he is currently working on a solo acoustic-electronic improvised performance with the goal of creating interesting and stimulating sound-scapes and musical loops with non-standard instrumentation.   Some examples of his work can be found at www.myspace.com/franciscofox Kenneth Morrison (technical construction, A Humechanical Nightmare): Community events and collaborative art-making have played a major role in Kenneth's desire to effect change. He founded and runs a couple of art-related non-profits. The primary mission of one is to demystify the elitism of the art world, and encourage group participation in art-making regardless of specific training. The other is to exhibit work created by people who have experienced sexual abuse as children believing that art is a useful tool for communicating complex realities within a thoughtful community. He is drawn to found objects, the thing cast off, people, histories and ideas that have been tossed side. A major theme in his art has been the human body. He has found the figure a necessary beginning to all destinations. Some examples of his work can be found at http://www.4artinc.com/artists/featured_artists.html Jefferey Thomas (composer/musician, A Humechanical Nightmare) graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelors of Music, studying composition with Gustavo Leone and Ilya Levinson.  He currently lives and works in Chicago as a composer and musician working with the Redmoon Theater and Maestro-Matic Studios.  Some of his work can be heard in the short film Girls Room, (dir.  Maria Gigante, nominated for MTV Movie Award 2007), and Lemmings, (dir. Ron Fleischer, Winner of ‘Chicago Award’ at the Chicago International Film Festival 2005).  He also regularly performs with the ‘circus-punk’ marching band Mucca Pazza, and organizes and leads the Hideout Make-out Party Band.    Some examples of his work can be found at http://www.myspace.com/brokenwingstudio Nat Ward (technical construction, A Humechanical Nightmare, musician, i'm worried my body is falling apart) comes from a rich background of sculpture, theatre arts, and material studies. An active collaborator within the Chicago underground arts scene, Nat has fabricated work for artists such as Christine Tarkowski, Patrick Dougherty, and Kenneth Morrison. Some of his pieces have been shown at Iron Studios in Pilsen and at the annual Version Fest. He is interested in building, taking apart, and reconstructing mechanical workings from electrical circuits to large, gas-powered machines. In addition to his sculptural work, he has worked with many theatre artists, and shot and directed a rock opera staged at the Hideout. He is a graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago.