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Casey Adams

Casey moved to Chicago in the summer of 2007 and tumbled headfirst into the Chicago theatre scene by stage managing for The Plagiarists in that August's Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival at Mary Arrchie. She joined the company in the spring of 2008 and they've been keeping her busy ever since, most notably with SMing the company's fantastic fall '08 production, Promiscuous Stories, and in her role as the company's archivist. Outside of her work with The Plagiarists, Casey has stage managed locally for The New Colony (FRAT), New Leaf Theatre (Girl in the Goldfish Bowl), and Rubicon Theatre Project (Dog Sees God), and she has been the Production Stage Manager for the Bristol Renaissance Faire since the summer of 2008. Casey holds B.A.s in Theatre and Religious Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, and when she's not busy putting either degree to use, she can usually be found CouchSurfing (look it up!), tea-drinking, dancing around bonfires, inhaling literature, or doing bizarre things with decoupage glue.



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Chad Brown

Chad Brown has been living in Chicago since January 1, 2007. Since moving here he has gotten a job, which he still has (thank goodness), been a box office manager for The Plagiarists first show, Living the Dream, stage managed Sharps, Flats, and Other Alterations, had a cat, lost a cat, made some money, spent some money, went home, came back, toured as stage manager for the Drama Desk nominated Horizon, by Rinde Eckert, gone to the signature room at the Hancock building, not the sky deck at the Sears Tower, tried to learn as much as possible about Chicago (it drives him crazy not to know where he's going), started dating a great young woman (hi Meredith), hung out with the actors of Batman (as an extra, he's not that cool), enjoyed being Christmas Kissinger's assistant, Sven, played the roles of Danny, Narrator, and boy in the Plagiarists flagship show Promiscuous Stories, missed his family dearly, and decided to join a company started by some of the most talented people he knows, his friends, peers, and family away from home, The Plagiarists. He's glad he did.



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Kaitlin Byrd

Kaitlin moved to Chicago in 2001 and waited tables for a long time. Kaitlin also performed roles such as Iris in New Leaf Theatre's Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Sarah in Caffeine Theatre's Translations, Phyllis in TimeLine's This Happy Breed, Sarah in The Factory's Lonesome Hoboes, Lorna in Famous Door's Cider House Rules, and Mayella in Collaboraction's To Kill A Mockingbird. Kaitlin also enjoys writing, especially with her best pals, The Plagiarists. She co-wrote Living the Dream, Promiscuous Stories, and the American Stage Sessions series with The Plagiarists. She also directed The One About the Green Detective for The Plagiarists. She feels privileged to be a Plagiarist and plans to steal some really cool stuff in the coming years.



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James Dunn

James Moved to Chicago in 2002 after recieving his B.A. in theatre performance from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Since moving to Chicago he has written works for the Rhino Festival, improvised for The Playground and Improv Olympic and acted for several theatre companies. James is a proud ensemble member of Infamous Commonwealth Theatre Company, and has garnished a Jeff Citation and a After dark award for his work with them. James is a co founder of the Plagiarists, and looks foreward to a lifetime of subversion with them. He also likes music a lot…..a lot.



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Layne Manzer

Layne Manzer is fresh to Chicago Theater, but most recently co-wrote and performed in Living the Dream. He has been seen at Rogue Theatre in their productions of Sleepy Hollow and A Christmas Twist. While earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Layne performed roles that include Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina. Layne was a member of Rough Magic Productions where he performed in Fool for Love as Martin and in Tape as Vince. Some of Layne's favorite non-performance credits include his executive producter role for Living the Dream, Ones and Zeros, and Lobster Alice. Favorite Nebraska credits include his performance in the Omaha Community Playhouse's productions of Tennessee William's Not About Nightingales as Queenie and in Battle of Shallowford as Fred Martin. Most recently, he is attending Harrington College of Design for interior design that he hopes to apply in theater set design as well. He loves being part of The Plagiarists and feels very luck to work with its talented members.



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Ian Miller

Ian Miller is the resident designer and filmmaker for the Plagiarists. He moved to Chicago in 1999 to get his film degree from that veritable, old, misanthrope factory, Columbia College. Since then he has made his living as a commercial film and video editor and as web and graphic designer. Ian has done commercial work for such depraved corporations as Chrysler and Coke, and he as also done work for good-guys such as Amnesty International and The Chicago Foundation for Women. Ian is convinced that The Plagiarists is cure to all things boring. He is also happy that you have enjoyed this website.



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Gregory Peters

Gregory Peters is proud to be part of The Plagiarists, for whom he writes, directs, and makes annual appearances as The Professor. He's an Air Force brat, which means he has trouble answering even basic questions like "Where are you from?" without essay-length explanations and qualifications. Suffice to say, he is from Albuquerque, New Mexico (you know, where Bugs Bunny should've taken the left); Ramstein AFB in Germany; Springfield, Virginia; Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska; and now Chicago. He graduated from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000. As Artistic Director of Lincoln's Rough Magic Productions, he directed Fool for Love, Sick: A Love Story, Lobster Alice, Tape, Private Eyes, Touch, Matt & Ben, and number of shorter pieces. He directed Death and the Maiden, Ti Jean Blues, and Alice in Wonderland for UNL, and As You Like It, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Baltimore Waltz for other local companies. Since arriving in Chicago in 2006, he has directed Girl in the Goldfish Bowl for New Leaf Theatre and Living the Dream and Promiscuous Stories for The Plagiarists. Favorite acting roles include Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas in Grace, The Amanuensis in The Illusion, The Narrator in KID-SIMPLE, and Ezra Chater in Arcadia. As a playwright, he wrote K., The Epic of Gilgamesh, as Told By Mr. George Smith, Associate Curator For The British Museum (Deceased), and co-wrote Pure Anima all for Rough Magic Productions, and adapted The One About the Green Detective and parts of Promiscuous Stories for The Plagiarists.



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Jack Tamburri

Jack Tamburri was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, Tamburri entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. In 1941, Tamburri and writer Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics. During the 1940s, Tamburri would create a number of comics for various publishers, often teamed with Simon.

After serving in World War II, Tamburri returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including Archie Comics and DC Comics, but ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. In the 1960s, Tamburri co-created many of Marvel Comics' major characters including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk along with writer-editor Stan Lee. Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the titles, Tamburri felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics.

While working for DC, Tamburri created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comics titles. While these and other titles proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Comics universe. In his later years, Tamburri received great recognition for his career accomplishments, and is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic-book medium.



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Justine C. Turner

Justine C. Turner grew up a block from Chicago in the liberal Chicago suburb that once was inhabited by Frank Loyd Wright and Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway once called Oak Park a town of broad lawns and narrow minds. Justine grew up there when the lawns had gotten smaller and the minds more open, thus creating an artist thirsting for something new, different, and with something to say. As an early artist in the city she worked with the well respected Teenstreet theatre, then spent her time at Columbia College Chicago earning her BA in Theatre. She then worked and grew as an artist with such companies as A Crew of Patches theatre company, Famous Door Theatre co., Defiant theatre, The Journeymen, Noble Fool theatricals, and most recently Writers' Theatre. While growing and learing from her experiences at these theatres she still longed to create her own work and make something new of theatre. She thinks The Plagiarists are just the kind of upstart group of young people that will help her to hone her craft into productions of beauty, eloquence and badassedness. Having worked with this group on the hit play, Living the Dream, she felt the chemistry might finally be right to give her the desire to commit to starting a brand new company.



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Lindsay Verstegen

Lindsay holds a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. In the reality show that IS the Plagiarists, Lindsay considers herself the "token musical theatre component." Lindsay was seen as Anna Staley in The Plagiarists' production of The One About the Green Detective and was an adaptor in the crazy scheme known as Promiscuous Stories. Credits in Stevens Point include Evelyn in The Shape of Things, Sarah in Spinning Into Butter and Eve in Children of Eden. After floating around the city performing in various storefront projects that included work with Speaking Ring Theatre Company, Chicago Jewish Theatre and Orion's Left Foot Theatre Company, Lindsay fell into the Plagiarist way of life. Being a founding member of The Plagiarists is her favorite thing yet. In addition to writing and acting with The Plagiarists, Lindsay also writes and illustrates her own series of children?s books, rides her bicycle as much as humanly possible, and coordinates Public Relations for The Plagiarists. She is also a top-knotch babysitter, listener, and all around bundle of fantastic.