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Jacquie Krupka is an actress/musician/producer
and “one of the funniest women in Chicago” (Tribune). Stage
credits include The Fantastiks, Jacques Brel and The
Threepenny Opera. A trained singer/guitarist, her “lilting
soprano” and “superb musicianship” were hailed by the
critics for her role in The Irish Rascal at Milwaukee Rep. Jacquie
is a founding member of Atomic Productions, creating such memorable corporate
characters as psychic Happy the Medium, Santa’s wacky sister Yuletide
Carol and Kaye-Telle, the Human Jukebox. Her Hollywood homages include
Mae West, Mama Cass and Mrs. O’Leary for Navy Pier. A busy composer/arranger,
Jacquie won a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Music for
Jungle Book. She’s currently heard all over Chicagoland as
1/3 of the trio Joie de Diva, 1/2 of A Mighty Fyne Paire Irish Cabaret,
and 1/4 of RV’s alter-egos, The Frozen Robins.
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Mike Nowak is an actor,
writer, director, radio talk show host, gardener and singer, not necessarily
in that order. His Chicago theatrical accomplishments include the Joseph
Jefferson Citation “Hat Trick” (not an official category):
receiving awards in acting, writing and directing. He is the co-author
of “The Signal Season of Dummy Hoy,” which garnered one of
the aforementioned Jeffs and which has gone on to productions off-Broadway
and elsewhere in this great, wide land. Over the airwaves, he is the host
of WGN Radio's "Let's Talk Gardening" on Sundays at noon. Also
in the horticultural realm, he is an award-winning columnist for Chicagoland
Gardening Magazine. In a previous life he sang with the Acme Vocals a
cappella group and these days spends the Christmas season entertaining
the shivering masses as a member of the Frozen Robins carolers. |
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Marshall Stern has been a musician for 38 years
playing drums, bass, rhythm guitar and doing lead and background vocals
at one time or another during that span. As a songwriter Marshall had
major cuts by Country artists during his 10 years in Nashville. He is
also a professional actor having appeared in many theatrical productions
including his personal highlight as Groucho in "Groucho, A Life In
Revue". Marshall has been performing and teaching Improv since 1986
and has received many awards and honors in that field as well. Some of
the highlights of his Improv career include; receiving a Ruth Sweet Award
for excellence in theatrical education, having his Improv troupe chosen
to be the first to appear at the prestigious Humana Festival and being
voted the best performing arts group in the Nashville Scene Readers poll
in 2001. Marshall is a former director of The Players Workshop of The
Second City. He sings with the Frozen Robins as well. |
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Nancy Howland Walker is
a SAG/AFTRA actor with a specialty in musical improvisational theater.
She has been performing, teaching, and directing improv since 1989, and
singing in shows, choruses, madrigal groups, and a cappella groups from
grade school through college including the award winning Swinging
‘Gates
a cappella group from Colgate University. Nancy is the creator, producer,
director, and a performer in the critically acclaimed show MUSICAL!
the musical, the country’s first two-act completely improvised
modern Broadway style musical, which opened in 1998 at the Royal George
Theatre, and has had runs in Boston, Nashville and various theaters across
the country. She is also with The Three Maestros, a trio of experienced
musical improvisers performing for corporations and special events, and
sings each holiday season with The Frozen Robins.
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