David Perez

Artistic Director

David is the founding Artistic Director of Pavement Group. He is a Chicago based Director and Playwright. Local credits include directing punkplay, Feet of Clay, 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. David also embarrassed himself on the internet for 7 days in the south of France in the wildly popular internet experiment, David On Demand. His family is still ashamed of him. David will direct Pavement Group's upcoming productions of "Girl You Know It's True" and "Breaks and Bikes."

David is a proud graduate of Cornish College of The Arts. Go corndogs.

Brittany Barnes

Managing Director

is a founding proud member of Pavement Group. She works in fundraising at Victory Gardens Theater and has 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, dramaturg and designer.

Jeff Kelley

Resident Sound Designer

Jeff is a composer and sound designer who thinks one would be hard pressed to find a greater group of dudes and dudettes than those who are in Pavement Group. He has worked on Pavement's productions of Arrangments, fracture/mechanics, punkplay, last year's Amuse Bouche, and MilkMilkLemonade; he is looking forward to designing for Girl You Know It's True in 2012. Jeff is the lead singer and guitarist in the experimental pop trio Dick Wolf!, an intern at Experimental Sound Studio, and he built this here website. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.

Keith Neagle

Casting Director

h Pavement group, Keith appeared in punkplay, fracture/mechanics, Arrangements , the speak easy production of Lipstick Traces: a Secret History of the Twentieth Century and 365 Days/365 Plays. Other Chicago productions include We Live Here &Yes, This Really Happened to Me (Theatre Seven of Chicago); Night & Her Stars (The Gift Theatre Company); understudy for Samuel J & K (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Sweet Bird of Youth (Artistic Home); The Pigeons (Walkabout Theatre); Everything Freezes: another winter’s tale (Sideshow Theatre Company); 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). He will appear in SiNNERMAN Ensemble’s upcoming Sweet Confinement. Keith is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf.

Mary Krupka

General Manager

Mary holds BFA in Production Management from Emerson College, where she worked at the Boston Opera House, Wilbur & Colonial Theatres, and with the 2005 Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Mary spent a year in LA with NBC's Extra, Telepictures and 20th Century Fox. In Chicago, Mary has worked on several productions including Blithe Spirit at The Gift Theatre, Bible B-Sides with Sinnerman Ensemble, punkplay & MilkMilkLemonade for Pavement Group, and most recently We Live Here for Theatre Seven. She will be production managing both of PG's upcoming shows in 2012.

Tim Schoen

Resident Lighting Designer

Tim is a founding member of Pavement Group and a Chicago based lighting and multi-media projection designer. A few local design credits inclue Perks of Nudity, 365 Days/365 Plays, Lipstick Traces, Arrangements, fracture/mechanics, punkplay for Pavement Group and Adore, Cash and Dead Pile for XIII Pocket. He has also designed for several other local theatre and dance companies as well as a number of local bands here in Chicago and in his hometown Cleveland, Ohio. Tim can be currently found running around Mayne Stage om Rogers Park as their Production Manager and is a former student of the late Robert Stegmiller.

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.

Heidi Koling

Producing Member

Heidi was conceived in a waterfall in Fiji, and things have been super-mystical ever since. She now resides in the City of Angels, where she was a producing member to her very own theatre company (now defunct), The Racket Collective. She is currently brushing up her improv chops @ the Upright Citizens Brigade and popping up in unpaid filmic projects all over town. She is so glad Pavement Group still wants her around as they are her artistic family for all times. Some favorite PG roles include "Donna" in ARRANGEMENTS and "Dr. Narrator" in LIPSTICK TRACES and "the Drunk Girl" at ALL PARTIES. Heidi received her BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina @ Greensboro in 2004. Also, she is a Licensed Massage Therapist in LA, proud puppy lover, and hammock enthusiast. She is soon to be married to her favorite person in the whole wide world.

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.

Julia Dossett Morgan

Producing Member

is a founding member of Pavement Group, and over time served as the Managing Director and Casting Director as well as appearing in two productions. She is now a Member Emeritus and keeps a loving eye on PG from afar in her new home of Minneapolis, where she is the Senior Marketing Manager at Children’s Theatre Company. I still believe “the great ones give birth to themselves.”

Aimee Plant

Artistic Associate

Aimee Plant made props and puppets for punkplay and then returned to make props and chick-aans for milkmilklemonade. She has built props for Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Santa Fe Opera and Drury Lane Oakbrook. She also slung blood (and other things) with the Primitive Screwheads in San Francisco. She holds a BA, double major in Technical Theatre and Playwriting, from San Francisco State University.

Alexander Lane

Artistic Associate

Alexander Lane appeared in Pavement Group’s punkplay at the Steppenwolf Garage Rep as well as last year's Amuse Bouche and recently made his directorial debut with Theatre Uncut - a project that saw over 75 productions of the same plays performed in 4 countries on March 19, 2011. Other Chicago credits include Hamlet directed by Benno Nelson, FRAT with The New Colony, Lucy Prebble’s Sugar Syndrome directed by Audrey Francis, Beer Don’t Break Your Heart with Two Birds and developmental work with Theatre Seven and Theatre Run. New York credits include Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare in the Park/Public Theater and Artaud’s The Cenci at the Ohio Theatre. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, the School at Steppenwolf and an Artistic Associate/Co-Literary Manager with Pavement Group.

Cassy Sanders

Artistic Associate

Cassy is a director, dramaturg and performer. Last spring she had the time of her life directing MilkMilkLemonade with Pavement Group. Her most recently she co-directed We Live Here with Margot Bordelon at Theatre Seven of Chicago. At Theatre Seven Cassy is a company member and serves as the Associate Artistic Director. Other Chicago Credits include work with: Walkabout, The Ruckus, Serendipity Theatre Collective, Live Bait, Colllaboraction, Lookinglass, and Steppenwolf. Next up, she will direct Exit, Pursued by a Bear by Lauren Gunderson for Theatre Seven, opening in early June. She holds a BFA in Theatre from Cornish College of the Arts. www.cassysanders.com

Cyd Blakewell

Artistic Associate

Cyd Blakewell hearts Pavement Group. More than she can possibly say in a bio. Here's some cool stuff they've done together: Arrangements, fracture/mechanics, Mise En Place and MilkMilkLemonade. Along with being an AA with PG, she is also a founding member of SiNNERMAN Ensemble where she can be seen in their next show, Sweet Confinement.

Janna Webber

Artistic Associate

Janna is a Lighting Designer, always aspiring to make the stage a more beautiful place, she is so happy to be a part of the PG family. Her projects with Pavement include the soon to be amazing GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE, as well as MILKMILKLEMONADE and AMUSE BOUCHE. Currently, she is working with The Ruckus on LITTLE TRIGGERS. Past productions include, SWEET CONFINEMENT (Sinnerman Ensemble), FIFTH OF JULY (Infamous Commonwealth Theatre), SKYLIGHT (Appetite Theate), 15 MINUTES (The Ruckus), DEAD PILE, CASH (XIII Pocket). Orginally from Tacoma, WA she holds a B.A. Theatre from Loyola University Chicago.

Jessica London-Shields

Artistic Associate

Jessica London- Shields is a big fan of hyphenated last names, friendship, and most importantly: Pavement Group. She was recently seen in Pavement Group’s Amuse Bouche 2011, as well as MilkMilkLemonade. Other Chicago credits include: We Live Here (Theatre Seven), Cherry Smoke (The Side Project), Spring Awakening (Promethean Theatre), and Class Dismissed (Victory Gardens). She also starred in Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together, a Chicago based feature length film, which enjoyed a seven-day run at the Siskel Film Center as well as screenings internationally at LGBT film festivals. Next up, Jessica will be understudying for FML: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life as part of the Young Adult Series for Steppenwolf Theatre. Jessica is originally from San Francisco, and holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Mallery Avidon

Artistic Associate

Mallery Avidon's plays have been developed or produced by Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Little Theater @ The New Dixon Place, On The Boards, The Attic Theater Company, The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, Pavement Group & angry BLVD, among others. Her plays include Bikes & Breaks, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, and The Past is Not a Foreign Country (very personal) Maps of Seattle. She is an affiliated artist with New Georges in New York, a member of the 07/08 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab & currently teaching at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She spent last summer traveling across the country with two filmmakers interviewing people who have been laid off because of the recession as research for a new piece. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.

Matt Farabee

Artistic Associate

Matt was recently seen in Pavement Group's punkplay (Steppenwolf's Garage Rep) and MilkMilkLemonade (Chicago Dramatists). His other recent credits include A Bright New Boise (Off-Broadway) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next and Lord of the Flies (Round House Theatre). Matt is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he appeared in productions of Equus, Spring's Awakening, The Diviners and The Cradle Will Rock. He is currently a proud faculty member of the National High School Institute's Cherub's Program.