First COD production. Member of COD’s Improv Club.

Third COD Production; The Living (Ensemble), Badger (Timothy). Brando is a 2022-2023 John Belushi Second City Theatre Scholarship recipient.

Third COD production; War of the Worlds: the Panic Broadcast (Harry Haywood/Ensemble), Badger (Newsreel Voice, Chorus). Favorite credits include Love/Sick (Man), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Reverend Peters/Others), Matilda (Michael Wormwood) at West Chicago Community High School. Castiglia competed in the 2019 IHSA Group Interpretation state finals in The Rest of Us Just Live Here. 

Second COD production; Badger (Bob).

First COD production. Favorite credits include Singin’ in the Rain (ensemble) and five improv shows, all productions done at Morton West High School.

Third COD production; She Kills Monsters (Farrah) and Badger (Eleanor). Favorite Credits include Baby with the Bathwater (Nanny); Fences (Bono), and The Crucible (Reverend Hale) all at Del Sol Academy.

Third COD production; Macbeth (Malcom) and Scenes from an Execution (Prodo). Favorite credits include Macbeth (Malcom) and Scenes from an Execution (Prodo). Luckey is a 2022-2023 BTE Stage Management Scholarship Recipient.

Third COD production; The Living (Constable, Brounker’s Clerk) and The Dining Room (Girl, Peggy, Beth, Sarah, Bertha, Guest). Favorite credits include The Dining Room (Girl, Peggy, Beth, Sarah, Bertha, Guest); It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play (Rose Bailey, Janie and others) and Frozen Jr. (Anna). She is a Presidential Scholarship recipient.

Ninth COD production; Can You See Me? (herself), The Wolves (#13), Scenes from an Execution (Stage Manager), The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Cathy Connolly, Leigh Fondakowski, ensemble), Under Milk Wood (Rosie Probert, Polly Garter, Mrs. Cherry Owens), You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (Snoopy), The Living (Finch), Badger (Grace). Nelson student shadowed for Holmes and Watson, (Holmes #3), performed by Buffalo Theater Ensemble. Nelson is a 2017 Illinois All-State Improv finalist, a 2020 John Belushi Stage Managing scholarship recipient, and a 2020/2021/2022 John Belushi/Second City Theater scholarship recipient.

Third COD production; War of the Worlds (ensemble); Chicken Little (Henny Penny).

First COD production.

Amber Mitchell is an adjunct theater professor at College of DuPage and is also the owner and artistic director of Stageworks Theatre Arts in Geneva, IL. Mitchell has been involved in education for over 40 years and has directed over 35 productions at Stageworks including The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Descendants the Musical, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Ruthless the Musical, The Cemetery Club, Little Shop of Horrors, Heathers, Legally Blonde, Ripcord, and many more. She has also designed and implemented theatre education programming/classes at Stageworks for ages 3-93 in acting, improvisation, and more. She holds a master’s degree in directing from Roosevelt University – Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Kimberly G. Morris is pleased to continue her work at College of DuPage. Prior to joining the crew at COD she spent 13 years as a freelance costume, makeup, wig and properties designer throughout Chicago and the east coast. She is a company member of Babes with Blades Theatre Company where she has designed for many of their productions. She has also designed for Stage Left Theatre, Fox Valley Repertory, Ball State University, American Shakespeare Center, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Heritage Repertory Theatre, Tecumseh!, Wilmette Arts Center, NWHS and MEHS.

Fisher Parsons is an Audio Production Specialist for the McAninch Arts Center. Before making the jump to working at College of DuPage, he was a Production Manager and Audio Engineer at Evanston Rocks and the Arcada Theater where he engineered sound for various artist. When not mixing audio or recording, you can find him on stage at The Second City or in the pit orchestra on guitar for various theatrical productions throughout the Chicagoland area. Parsons has most recently been on mixing and recording duties for The New Philharmonic’s 2020-2021 season, as well as mixing front of house and monitors for various MAC events.

Sabrina Zeidler is pleased to be joining the MAC as the Technical Director of College Theater. Her previous work at COD has been seen as the Technical Director and Properties Designer for the DuPage Opera Theatre, Technical Director for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, and various design roles for College Theater. She is the former Stage Manager for the New Philharmonic Orchestra. Zeidler was previously the Technical Director and a resident designer for Hinsdale South High School. She is a graduate of Elmhurst University with a BA in Theatre ‐ Stage Management, Design and Technology, and Theatre Arts Administration. While there, she received awards from the Kennedy Center for her work in various productions.