Oracle Announces 3 New Company Members to Help Launch Season Two

Oracle Productions has announced the addition of 3 new Company Members who are all excited about launching Season Two of Public Access Theatre in Chicago.

Jeremy Clark has accepted the position of Artistic Director of Film. Among the many projects he has already lined up for 2012, Jeremy will complete shooting Oracle's next short-film project, TRUPIAK. This piece is written and directed by Michal Janicki, and is produced in association with studiobema.

RicH Clark and John Arthur Lewis are also very excited to join Oracle as Company Members. Both actors have accepted roles in THE MAIDS, which is set to open March 10, 2012, and both were involved with 2010's production of THE GHOST SONATA.

Take a look at Oracle's entire Company Member roster.

Welcome to these 3 new Company Members! Every Company Member at Oracle shows artistic excellence in their chosen field, as well as a progressive plan to help Oracle continue growing its mission to give art to everyone in the community.

Don't Miss the Opening of IRONMISTRESS

Oracle Productions has announced the opening of IRONMistress By April De Angelis, directed by Karen Yates. IRONMISTRESS opens January 7, 2012, and runs through February 11. Performances are Friday, Saturday, and Monday nights at 8PM; Sunday nights at 7PM. Press are invited to opening night, and any subsequent performance during the first half of the run.

Written by UK playwright April De Angelis, IRONMISTRESS is a play in verse that follows Martha Darby, a widow who inherits her husband’s iron foundry in bleak Victorian England, a world where women had no power. On the eve of her young daughter Little Cog’s wedding, Darby engages in a night of games and storytelling that dredges up ugly memories and forces both women to confront their desires for dominance. Yates’s vision is both richly comic and darkly unsettling, and highlights the everyday barbarism towards women during the Industrial Revolution. Inside a mechanized cage, the audience will watch mother and daughter either breaking free of the male mantle of power or being destroyed by it.

written by April De Angelis
Katherine Keberlein plays Martha Darby
Sarah Goeden plays Little Cog.
Karen Yates is directing. Yates recently directed an episode of THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE for last year’s audience-favorite THE ORIGINAL RADIO GOGGLES at Oracle.
Mike Mroch is set designer
Darcy Hofer is costume designer
Chris Kriz is sound designer
Julie Ballard is lighting designer
Lindsey Miller is Stage Manager
Sam Newport is technical director
Amy Hopkins is production manager
Company member Sarah Pretz is dialect coach
Terri Falvey is graphic designer
Oracle Theatre Artistic Director is Max Truax
Oracle Productions Executive Producer is Ben Fuchsen
IRONMISTRESS is presented to the community free of charge through Oracle’s Public Access Theatre. Seats are sponsored, in part, by members of Oracle’s monthly sponsorship program, the forty4. Reservations are strongly recommended. Visit oracletheatre.org to request seats.

Oracle believes art is necessary to live a full life. We develop programs around a triad of goals: Make art. Make it free. Make it yours. We are a Public Access arts organization that engages the whole community in art. We offer a vast array of fine arts events without financial barriers for the community. Oracle is art for all.