Expressing Motherhood

Directed & Produced by

Lindsay Kavet Produced by

Jessica Cribbs Lights & Sound

Mike Goebel

Chicago

September 19th & 20th, 8pm September 21st, 2pm & 8pm

Stage 773

1225 W. Belmont Ave. Chicago, IL 60657

A very special thank you to Gregg Kavet, Karen Kavet, DeeAnn Eller, Donald Cribbs and Chris & Susan Cribbs

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Creative Team & Cast Lindsay Kavet is the Co-Creator/Producer/Director of Expressing Motherhood. She’s so excited to be taking the show to Chicago and thankful to all of her longtime midwest friends for supporting her. Lindsay has three kids under the age of 7. Her writing can be found at MomsLA, What The Flicka and She Buys Cars. She’s also the founder of Fix The Toaster.com She resides in Los Angeles.

Jessica Cribbs is Co-creator and Producer of Ex-

pressing Motherhood. She is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University where she studied Film and Religious Studies. Originally from Michigan, she lives in Burbank, California with her husband, Don and their three children. She is the Race Director for The Rose Run 5k charity event (TheRoseRun.com) and started The SOAR Foundation in memory of her mother, Rose. When she’s not driving carpool or separating fights, she’s blogging about her favorite family-friendly town in SoCal at BurbankMom.com.

“What they’ve created is a community...

Kim Allen-Niesen is in her sixth year of ‘post

practicing law’ and is exploring writing, art, and spiritual direction. She loves writing essays and has been in a previous Expressing Motherhood show and has had several published. She began touring kids at LACMA last year as a docent and is happy to meet anyone at the museum and share her love for the art. This year starting leading groups of people in sort-of-monthly art and spiritual formation exercises in Los Angeles museums and art galleries.

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Kathleen Buckley began her career penciling

semi-original comics at her Nana’s dining room table, quickly progressing to acrylic-on-canvas clown paintings, before figuring out that graphic design would afford her a better living. She was born in New York and still considers the East Coast home. When she moved to Chicago, she discovered product design and now spends her days masquerading as a product developer. Someday soon she believes she will sleep seven consecutive hours. Kathleen also writes about things that have happened and sometimes about things that have not.

Stacie Burrows is one funny mother of two. She

laughs, she cries, she vents, and she curses. And if she’s bothered enough, she’ll make something hilarious out her frustration. If you’re so inclined, or bored to death, you can read some of her rants in her column Seriously Funny in the Travelogue section at KidKitWorld.com or on Felicity Huffman’s site for moms Whattheflicka.com. Stacie and her comedy soulmate Shannon Noel created a two-woman show called, I’m Not From Here But My Kids Are. It’s a comedic look into the true story of two Southern women raising their kids in Hollywood. This is Stacie’s 4th time appearing in Expressing Motherhood and she couldn’t be more happy about it!

Robin Maxfield is a mother of two girls,

Victoria, 20 and Violet, 14. She also hosts Boston’s ONLY all female comedy night (http://bostoncomedychicks. com) and and a monthly story slam as well. She produces the HAHA MAMA Mother’s Day Comedy show in Boston every Mother’s Day. By day she trains and coaches business executives on communicating effectively and dynamically with The Speech Improvement Company (http://speechimprovement.com) in Brookline, MA.

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...a modern day village...

Jayme Miller is overwhelmingly thrilled to be a part

of Expressing Motherhood Chicago! Jayme lives in Marseilles, IL with her husband and children. Jayme and Eddie were childhood sweethearts, and married in 2000. They are the proud parents to four amazing children, Nolen,11, Packston, 8, and Jacy and Addyson, 6. Jayme is a graduate of Eastern Illinois and St. Francis University. She was an elementary teacher before making the difficult decision to stay home with her kids. She actually enjoys the hustle of the kids’ schedules and activities and works as a Real Estate Broker and substitute teacher whenever possible. Jayme is grateful for the love and support of family and friends, for the examples set by all the women in her life, and the “push” from Stacey Burke to give this a try. She would like to dedicate her performance to her husband and kids.

Shannon Noel is thrilled to be a part of Expressing

Motherhood Chicago. The last time she was here was to see Madonna’s ‘Who’s That Girl’ tour at Soldier Field. Shannon grew up in KY but now lives in Los Angeles with her soccer playing husband, her 3 and 4 year old, very energetic sons and her male, 110lb, Old English Sheepdog - that’s a lot of boys in the house. More Madonna please. She works at the Geffen Playhouse , is a graduate of Second City, LA, and blogs about it all at LullabiesforMommy. com. She is so excited to be sharing the stage with her comedy soul mate Stacie Burrows - with whom she performs the 2 woman comedy - I’m Not From Here But My Kids Are. Thank you Lindsay and Jessica for creating this amazing space for all of us moms to share our joys, our pains, and our shot glasses!

...where women come together face to face, unplugged...

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Born and raised in Chicago, Colleen O’Neill began her career as an kid actor selling cereal toys and candy at the age of eight. Colleen is a Second City Conservatory alum. In addition to writing and producing shows for the Second City stage, she is also one of the founding members of the sketch comedy group The McGillicuddys and producer & founder of the all-female sketch show “Slippery Handles” which came out of Colleen’s experience in searching for the funny in a not so funny battle with cancer, ultimately coming out a survivor. Colleen is blessed to be the mama of one, hilarious and always patient little girl named Lola. Shehas an amazing, supportive husband who helps her to appear sane at parties.

Colleen’s current projects include work on two pilots, as well as producing a fully-improvised web series and the feature film “Blind Faith.”

Kendra Pinkelman is delighted to be part of Expressing Motherhood for a third time! She has done shows in Los Angeles, Boston, and now, Chicago. Kendra lives in Toledo, Ohio with her husband, Dan and two children, Lillian and Sam. She’s been a mom for 12 years now, but dabbles in substitute teaching. Kendra loves traveling and eating fine cuisine - both of which she’s gotten to do more of as her children have gotten older. She wants to thank Lindsay and Jessica for taking a chance on her all those years ago and giving her “crazy mommy feelings” an outlet. Kendra also would like to thank her family and friends for their constant love and support - in particular over the last year. Love you all!

Amy Rowe is an Expressing Motherhood alum who

was part of the New York show in 2009. She lives in Toledo, Ohio, with her husband Chris; 14-yearold daughter Meghan; 10-year-old son Nick; and, Maggie the chocolate lab. She has been a freelance writer for local non-profits for several years, and dabbles in creative writing when “the spirit moves her.”As a premenopausal woman and member of “the sandwich generation,” she precariously strives to balance being a loving wife, nurturing mother and supportive daughter. Amy welcomes the break from her daily life as she enjoys a week off in Chicago for the Expressing Motherhood show.

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Melissa Shattuck loves many things about life,

including coffee, poetry, wine, books, nature, friends, yoga & meditation, but most of all her roles as wife and mother. Her son Alex is now a senior in high school and just recently committed to play golf for William & Mary in Virginia next fall. She homeschools her daughter Josephine, age 8, and together they have gone on several long road trips from coast to coast. In her spare time, she loves to write whether it be in journals or to entertain & inspire on social media, teach people the gift of relaxation through meditation & yoga, and travel whether by plane or car to anywhere she can.

Elizabeth Soutter In eleven years of mother-

hood and three children they still can’t pin room parent on her. She has several tested and proven techniques for removing pink sparkle nailpolish from hardwood and can crank out a ballet-perfect hair bun in under a minute, thirty, no matter the starting conditions. Everyone goes to her house for Thanksgiving. She thinks it’s the stuffing.

Oh, and she is a professor at Harvard Extension School where she has taught journalism, creative writing and digital media for seven years. Prior to that she was Press Secretary to a Member of Congress. She is a writer and editor and teaches rather fantastic writing workshops on Cape Cod. You should totally do one.

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