SALAR ARDEBILI, Ensemble Member
BRYNNE BARNARD, Ensemble Member
ELANA ELYCE, Ensemble Member
Elana acts, directs, writes, coaches and produces. She first met Interrobang as a cast member of The Argument in 2012 and subsequently produced Here Lies Henry (2012), Hot N’ Throbbing (2012) and Speaking in Tongues (2013). After a hiatus, she returned to perform with fellow ensemble members in Still (2016) and resumed producer responsibilities for all productions that followed. Over the last few years, Elana has been seen with The House Theatre of Chicago, first appearing in the acclaimed United Flight 232, which won a Jeff award for best ensemble. She is now a company member with The House. Other theaters that have welcomed her in recent years include Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, Eclipse, Remy Bummpo, Stage Left & Theatre Seven, and The Yard/Raven Theatre. She is also the Business Manager of The Chicago Inclusion Project. www.elanaelyce.net
SHAWN GALLIGAN, Ensemble Member
With a background in performance, Shawn switched to stage management in 2011. But that's not to say he would balk at being dragged back onstage. He has worked for theaters in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin, both onstage and backstage. For ITP he has stage managed a show just about every season. Shawn spends his summers in Door County, Wisconsin where he is the ASM at Northern Sky Theater. He is also recreational cyclist, bike mechanic, and a lover of board games and miniatures gaming.
SARAH GISE, Ensemble Member
Sarah has been a proud Interrobang Theatre Project company member since February 2015. She holds a BFA in acting from the University of Southern California (USC) and in 2013 received the LA Weekly Best Actress Award for her performance in The Belle of Belfast. She is also a company member with New American Folk Theatre (Chicago) and Ensemble Studio Theatre (Los Angeles). In addition to theatre, she has appeared in several web series, film roles and commercials and is a voiceover artist having narrated over a dozen audiobooks. With ITP, she has appeared in Really Really, Owners, Still, The Amish Project (Nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Award), For The Loyal, and Out of Love. She is represented by the fierce ladies at DDO Chicago. Sarah is so grateful to her Interrobang family, and is thrilled to have found such a wonderful artistic home. http://sarahgise05.wixsite.com/sarahgise
MATTHEW MARTINEZ HANNON, Artistic Associate
Matthew is overjoyed to be joining Interrobang Theatre Project as an Artistic Associate in 2021 after appearing in ITP’s THE SPIN and TEACH ME during 2020. A native of San Diego, California, Matthew recently graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University's MFA Acting program. He previously studied at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, and earned his BA (double majoring in Theater & Performance Studies and Psychology) from University of California, Berkeley. He has acted, directed, produced, and taught regionally in Southern and Northern California, as well as in Chicago. Currently residing in Chicago, Matthew is embarrassingly guided by Mariah Carey and proudly represented by DDO Artists Agency.
NOEL HUNTZINGER, Artistic Associate
CHRISTOPHER AARON KNARR, Ensemble Member
Christopher Knarr is a South Bend, Indiana native, Chicago transplant, and is currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in Theatre & Drama and a Music minor, and studied abroad with The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. Recent credits include Interrobang Theatre Project's season eight production of For the Loyal, for which he created original music. For season seven's Still, The Amish Project, and Falling, he was House Manager, Marketing, and Social Media. He was also House Manager/Social Media for the fifth and sixth season, including Really Really, Recent Tragic Events, and The North Pool, and also was a part of past season productions of Orange Flower Water as a Production Assistant, and Terminus, The Pitchfork Disney, and Ibsen is Dead as Assistant Stage Manager. christopheraaronknarr.com
JOE LINO, Ensemble Member
Joe has proudly been with ITP for 2 years. In Chicago he has worked with Steppenwolf, Goodman, Victory Gardens, Teatro Vista, Drury Lane, and The New Colony. Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has also performed Off-Broadway at the BAM Harvey Theatre in Charles Mee’s world premier of The Glory of the World. He is an alumni of Ball State University where he received a BFA in Acting.
LAURA BERNER TAYLOR, Ensemble Member
Laura has been an ensemble member at Interrobang since 2016, performing in The Spin (A Virtual Play), Out of Love (Jeff Nomination- Actor in a Principal Role), Grace, Still and Recent Tragic Events. Around Chicago, she's also worked with TimeLine, Windy City Playhouse, Silk Road Rising, Backroom Shakespeare Project, and Black Ensemble Theatre. Regionally, she's worked with TheatreSquared and Marin Shakespeare Company. Television credits include Chicago Med (2 episodes), Chicago Justice (NBC), and The Chi (Showtime). She has also done national commercials for BUD LIGHT and QUICKEN LOANS. Laura has a BFA in Acting from Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is represented by Big Mouth Talent. www.laurabernertaylor.com
RICH VAVRINA, Artistic Associate
Richie is a production manager, scenic, and lighting designer. This is his fourth production with ITP, having worked as a lighting designer and production manager with them since last year. His work has been seen in productions by Firebrand Theatre, Elgin Community College, and Muse Theatre Collective, among countless others. He works as a draftsman and render artist by day.
ZOE VERDIN, Ensemble Member
Zoë Verdin is Creative Director, producing print and digital marketing design for ITP. She collaborates with wife Georgette Verdin on design themes and imagery for each season and individual production, and lends an artist’s eye to scenic, lighting and sound design whenever requested. She has a BA in Studio Art from Carleton College and her hands-on skills have allowed her to help fill in the gaps as needed, including but not limited to painting bookshelves, filling wall seams and repairing pool tables. Since 2015 she has also run Coaching The Body™ Institute in downtown Evanston and focuses the majority of her energies on changing the medical system’s view of pain one student at a time.
LAVISA ANGELA WILLIAMS, Artistic Associate
LaVisa has been designing costumes in Chicago for the last 10 years and has a variety of categories under her belt including short film and photoshoots. You can also find her designing clothing for fashion editorials, and helping young actors with styling for print work. Her favorite genres to design include contemporary, fantasy, and sci-fi. Outside of fabric, her favorite design materials are leather, metal, heat plastics, and foam. Though designing, sewing, and rigging produce great works, they also produce fun byproducts! LaVisa also takes these fun cuttings and found objects and combines them into mixed media art boxes and card making kits! These are designed as meditative self-care for busy creatives and non-artists!
Portfolio: LaVisaWilliams.com
Art Boxes: ArguablyAdulting.com
CLAIRE YEARMAN, Ensemble Member