Group Members
Brittany Barnes (Managing Director) is a founding member of Pavement Group. She works in fundraising at the Francis W. Parker School and previously worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation and the Goodman Theatre. Brittany received her undergraduate degree in Theatre from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS, where she worked in several capacities as an actor, director, dramaturge and designer
Chip Davis (Producing Member) worked last with the Pavement Group on fracture/mechanics, and also played the part of Tristan Tzara in Lipstick Traces. He was in Get Right with Thirteen Pocket Productions, where he is an Ensemble member; Rainy Day People with Laboratory Theatre Co.; and 13 Dead Husbands with Sansculottes Theatre where he is an Artistic Associate. Chip currently focuses his energy on his first crop, out on Salute Farm and Vineyard in Woodstock. You can also catch him at Bower Natural Bedding which he operates.
Julia Dossett (Producing Member) is a founding member of Pavement Group and the Promotions & Media Manager at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Julia has been seen in Pavement Group productions fracture/mechanics, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Crush Plays (The Death of Geography) and 365 Days/365 Plays. She also has stage managing credits at Around the Coyote and numerous productions with The House Theatre of Chicago, where she is the New Member Coordinator on the Vanguard (the young professionals board). She received her undergraduate degree in Advertising from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was an actor, producer and the Managing Director of the Penny Dreadful Players. Julia is grateful every day to have like-minded theatre artists to play with and she truly believes “the great ones give birth to themselves.”
Heidi Koling (Producing Member) Heidi was conceived in a waterfall in Fiji, and things have been super-mystical ever since. She is a recent Chicago transplant to LA, where she is now a producing member to her very own theatre company, The Racket Collective (www.theracketcollective.com). She is so glad Pavement Group still wants her around, despite her faults. She received her BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina @ Greensboro in 2004. Some favorite PG roles include Donna in ARRANGEMENTS and Dr. Narrator in LIPSTICK TRACES. You will soon see her in a super-secret webisode project which will be completed the end of Summer 2009. Heidi is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Los Angeles (which is more difficult than one can imagine) and proud puppy lover.
Keith Neagle (Producing Member) With Pavement group, Keith recently appeared in fracture/mechanics, Arrangements and the speak easy production of Lipstick Traces: a Secret History of the Twentieth Century. He also worked with PG on 365 Days/365 Plays. Other Chicago productions include Everything Freezes: another winter’s tale (Sideshow Theatre Company); Yes, This Really Happened to Me (Theatre Seven of Chicago); 13 Dead Husbands, Invisible Bob, The Watchmaker (Sansculottes); Ghost Watch (Polarity Ensemble Theater); Major Barbara, The Importance of Being Earnest, Miss Lulu Bett, Adam and Eve on a Ferry (Rogue Theater); The Bacchae (Bailiwick Director’s Fest); Her World Disappears (Dark Tag Productions); Suit (Around the Coyote). Keith will appear in Pavement Group’s upcoming production of punkplay in the Steppenwolf Garage as part of their Visiting Companies Initiative.
David Perez (Artistic Director) is the founding Artistic Director of Pavement Group. He is a Chicago based Director and Playwright. Local credits include directing fracture/mechanics, Lipstick Traces, milkmilklemonade, and 365 Days/Plays for Pavement Group. He has worked with Empty Space Theatre, Angry Blvd., Steppenwolf, Teatro Vista, Collaboraction, American Theatre Company, Around The Coyote, and About Face Theatre. He will direct Pavement Group’s production of punkplay in February at the Steppenwolf Garage as part of their Visiting Companies Initiative.
David is a proud graduate of Cornish College of The Arts.
Tim Schoen (Resident Lighting Designer) is a founding member of Pavement Group. He hates writing Bios, so Dave is writing one for him. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Tim Schoen is a self described Whiskey Connoisseur, and all around drunk. One thing he does well when sober, is hang, manipulate, and program lights. Favorite work includes Euclid High Schools production of Weekend At Bernie’s The Musical, The Naperville Boat Show, and anything directed by David Perez.
Jeremy Smith (Producing Member) Jeremy first got his start as “the white kid” on Family Matters, appearing on ABC from ‘89-’97. After television producers discovered whiter and even younger “white kids,” Jeremy was forced to go to college and earn a Bachelor’s of Science in Art Education which he then used to get a job in professional wrestling. A year on the circuit and a torn ACL later, he hopped a steam ship to Chicago and knocked on the door of a hairy Mexican named Dave Perez and found work designing and building sets for Pavement Group. He liked building things while black out drunk on bourbon and has been in love with Pavement Group ever since.