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WildClaw Theatre Presents - A Taste Of Deathscribe - Music & Wine Pairing

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    Mon, October 22, 2018 (8:00 PM - 10:00 PM)

City Winery Chicago
1200 W Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60607
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Cost: $25

WILDCLAW THEATRE PRESENTS
A TASTE OF DEATHSCRIBE

WildClaw Theatre Company proudly presents A Taste of Deathscribe on Monday, October 22nd, at 8:00pm. This collection of bone-chilling audio nightmares will be performed live at City Winery’s Concert Venue space, 1200 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60607. The evening will showcase a selection of our favorite pieces from our yearly festival of radio horror: Deathscribe. Performed by a cadre’ of WildClaw family and fiends, with our signature live Foley and music. The night's program will also include wine pairings brought to you by City Winery and wine pairing upgrades can be purchased here. Tickets are $25 for main floor seating so be sure to purchase your ticket EARLY to reserve a seat!


The evening will be curated/directed by Norine McGrath*, hosted by WildClaw Artistic Director Josh Zagoren* with live foley designed by Ele Matelan* performed by Ele Matelan* and Johnathan Koller.

A Taste of Deathscribe will present the following five original horror radio plays:

We Apologize for the Inconvenience
By Chelsea Paice

A truly off-the-rails story of that terrifying place, that no matter who we are, where we are from or how we got there, we all are destined to go: Public Transit.

Featuring Sean Boyd, Alex Nicholson, Krista D’Agostino*, Josh Zagoren* and Greg Madden


Tape Deck
By Liz Siedt

Our homes hold our history and when you find a new one it’s all too exciting to make it your own… Never thinking who might have been there before you... And what they may have left behind for you to find.

Featuring Sean Boyd, Moira Begale* and Alex Nicholson


Dead Ringer
By Tim Griffin

This fearsome fable brings us to the cemetery where all things end, lying silent like fallen leaves while the rest of us, still upright, wander through and swear that we didn’t hear anything…

Featuring Sean Boyd, Josh Zagoren* and Greg Madden


SOUR TOE SHUFFLE
By Ele Matelan

A snow-capped lodge far from anywhere provides the setting for this bluesy little number about taking a break, listening to your relatives and keeping your eye on what’s in your glass...

Featuring Josh Zagoren*, Greg Madden, Alex Nicholson, Krista D’Agostino* and Moira Begale*


EARWIGS
By Joe Zettelmaier

Starting over is so freeing, moving on to peace and quiet. But sometimes the past doesn’t stay quiet, sometimes it nags you, whispers in your ear… And sometimes it bites.

Featuring Krista D’Agostino* and Moira Begale*

 

THE DEATHSCRIBE ORCHESTRA will be lead by Joe Griffin

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES by Moira Begale* and Norine McGrath*

*Denotes WildClaw Company Member


DIRECTOR BIO

NORINE MCGRATH (they/them)’s thrilled to be able to bring their favorite theatre nightmare to city winery. A former stalker turned member of Wildclaw, they’ve had the privilege of working on The Revenants, Motel 666, The Woman in Black, Nicks and Cuts and many salons. Norine found a deep love of radio theatre through deathscribe, and you may remember them from their musical performances at the last several DS events. They also made their Wildclaw directing debut this spring with Paul Foster’s future echoes. Norine is incredibly thankful for the Wildclaw family, and to the folks who have come together to make this evening the beautiful monster that you see before you.


PLAYWRIGHT BIOS

CHELSEA PAICE’s an actor and software developer. She has appeared in shows at Strawdog, Lifeline, and Factory Theaters. Chelsea won Wildclaw’s coveted bloody axe in 2013.

LIZ SIEDT’s a mild-mannered Chicagoan by day, and a writer, improviser, and audiobook narrator by night. Her work can be found all over, notably on The Toast, Pseudopod, the iO theater, and her podcasts, My Wedding Industrial Complex and Make-Believe Money. See all her side hustles at her website, Lizardjellybean.com.

ELE MATELAN (She/Her/Hers)'s writing has been featured most recently in WildClaw productions such as Motel 666 (The Bridal Suite), Deathscribes, and holiday salons (Open Heart Surgery (Valentine’s Day), Risen: Rebirth, Renewal, Revenge (Easter), and SNAKES! A St. Patrick’s Day Nightmare), as well as in Hartlife NFP's post-apocalyptic audio drama Our Fair City. She was a semi-finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award in 2014 for her horror poem, "The Last Lullaby." However, she is likely most recognizable to audiences as WildClaw's resident Foley artist. She has designed, choreographed, and performed Foley for companies including Hartlife NFP, Lifeline Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Columbia College Chicago, Otherworld Theatre, Starlight Radio Dreams, Festival 56, Stone Hearth Theatre, MCL, Locked Into Vacancy Entertainment, Columbia College, and The Second City Training Center. In addition to her haunted home, she is a company member with The House Theatre of Chicago, and her native-Dallas’s Mr. Toad’s Theatre Circle.

TIM GRIFFIN’s a two-time finalist in Wildclaw Theatre's Annual Deathscribe Horror Radio Play Competition. His adaptation of the book Dracula was further adapted by the Hypocrites Theatre Company and produced in October of 2017 at the Mercury Theater. His other writing work includes stage plays Deadworry, Ticklebrains, Murder in Mirthburg, Closer to Free, and Re: Alice, as well as the short films Snare and The Cellar Job, and the full-length creature feature Tail Sting. Tim is also an accomplished actor, musician, and fight choreographer. He is of indeterminate age and is currently at large.

JOE ZETTELMAIER is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Man’s Shoes. His plays The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Network’s Festival of New Plays. and It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009’s Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Man’s Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. He is an Artistic Associate and Resident Playwright at First Folio Theatre, an At Large Ambassador to the National New Play Network and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and Schoolcraft College, where he teaches Dramatic Composition, Play Production, Stage Management, Stage Combat, and Fundamentals of Acting. He also serves as Executive Director for Roustabout Theatre Troupe. roustabouttheatre.com

DEATHSCRIBE is a unique and thrilling way to kick off the Holiday season with a night of horrifically alternative entertainment. For more info please visit us at www.wildclawtheatre.com. Tickets currently on sale and can be purchased online www.wildclawtheatre.com.

WildClaw Theatre brings the world of horror to the stage. We attract an audience craving strange journeys of dread, suspense, terror and wonder: Horror Theatre. The name “WildClaw” pays homage to the late, great Chicago actor, writer, and raconteur – the much loved and missed Ray Wild, otherwise known as “The Claw”.

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