The Directors
	Chris Arnold is the artistic director for LiveWire Theater where he has directed MACBETH, HEDDA GABLER and will direct UNCLE VANYA in April. Other companies in town include The Side Project, Tremont Avenue, and Writer's Bloc, and Illinois Theatre Center where his production of BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY runs till the end of the month. He earned his BS in acting from Illinois State University and his MFA in Directing from The University of Memphis. He works as the Theater Program Director for The Old Town School of Music.
		Carrie Gilchrist is returning to The 24 Hour Project after directing for the last project and having a ball. She is an actor and director that dedicates most of her blood, sweat and tears to working on and producing new works of theatre.  Most recently, she helped to create and direct an educational outreach program in the interdisciplinary arts that ran workshops in L.A. and throughout Florida.  She is a founding member and co-writer with the Lovewell Theatre Project, who’s first musical, Book of Phil is being produced in New York this spring.  Ms. Gilchrist received her B.F.A. in theatre from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, MO.
	Jason Kae (director/co-producer)- Jason returns to The 24 Hour Project for the second time as a director after directing Sean Miller's play With Kisses Like a Beetles Album for project #2. Jason has also participated in the project as a writer in project # 1 and has acted as producer and casting director for project #5 as well as the project you will see this evening. He has directed several new plays around town for new works festivals with such theater's as Bailiwick and Boxer Rebellion and directed the world premier of Spike Kunetz's play Ms. Cockadoodledoo & The Little Guy for the Martin De Maat New Works Festival this past fall. On stage Jason has been seen working with Writers' Theatre, Northlight, Chicago Shakespeare, and Defiant Theatre Company. Jason earned his B.F.A. in Acting from Millikin University.
			Lila M. Stromer is a director and dramaturg and is excited to be a part of The 24 Hour Project. She has worked in New York, Boston, Virginia, and Nebraska. Locally she’s worked at Madison Repertory, Apple Tree, Metropolis, Noble Fool, and Chicago Dramatists, among many others. Lila founded the Director/Playwright Alliance of Chicago (http://dpac.biz), is a member of both the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and is a script reader for Victory Gardens Theater. She lives with her actor husband, Joseph Bowen. XOJTB&GGA.