Bo List, Bailiwick's new Associate Artistic Director

Chicago, IL - Chicago, IL - Chicago's Bailiwick Repertory announced today the hiring of Bo List as its Associate Artistic Director. List will serve as Bailiwick's literary manager and coordinator of Bailiwick's new foray into professional education: the Bailiwick Repertory Performing Arts Training Program.

Beginning September 1, 2003, Bailiwick will add a slate of classes to its Training Program, which already includes a yearlong Directors' Festival for new directors and one of Chicago's most ambitious programs for new play development.

This fall, instructors will include the following:

· Author/Director/Actor Belinda Bremner
· Bailiwick Artistic Director David Zak
· Actor/Director/Producer Phil Gigante
· Actor Jamie Axtell
· Performance Artist/Actor Scott Lee Heckman
· Bailiwick Associate Artistic Director Bo List
· Yoga Instructor/Actor John Cardone
· Fitness Trainer/Actor Jason Palmer
· Playwright/Screenwriter Rusty Hernandez
· And members of Quest Theatre Ensemble

Classes will include:

For the auditioner, How Not To Get Cast - a fun workshop that will explore the auditioning process from the outside in, and The Successful Musical Audition - which will prepare its students for the difficult world of auditioning for musicals.

Two classes for aspiring producers, including So You Want to Start a Theatre
Company… which will explore the process of starting and running a theater company, and a follow up class, or for anyone who has already gotten started - So You've Started a Theatre Company…What's Next? which will deal with existing companies that want to improve, grow or succeed.

Acting classes for all levels of experience, including The First Stage: Acting For The Non-Actor - an acting class for the beginning performer, Techniques for the Working Actor for those with talent and potential, just not a lot of training and Playing It Straight/Playing It Gay - a workshop geared toward exploring sexuality and gender issues.

Two classes that will address preparation, fitness and skills for the actor, including Around the World in Six Weeks - a class for experienced actors who wish to explore and improve their work with dialects, Fitness For Actors and Yoga For Actors, and Chicago 101: a concise orientation for performers new to the Windy City.

Two classes for younger artists, including The Write Stuff for grades 4-6, that will explore the creative voice of the aspiring writer and The College Audition Clinic for high school students on the verge of auditioning for college theater programs.

Three classes for theater artists wishing to expand their creative abilities, including New Directions for the aspiring, first-time director, PuppetQuest: Creation and Performance - which will lead its students through the process of
Puppeteering, from the first idea through construction to a showcase performance at Bailiwick, and lastly, One and Only - which will explore the style and techniques of the solo performer. Students will also be showcased in a performance at Bailiwick.

New Associate Artistic Director List is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where he received his BA in theater at the University of Kentucky. While there, he has worked with the Lexington Shakespeare Festival, Actors Guild of Lexington, and Chance Theatre Company - which he co-founded. List recently received his MFA in Directing from the University of Memphis in Tennessee, and while there worked with Theatre Memphis and Circuit Playhouse. Directing credits include Edward II, Titanic, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Our Town, The Laramie Project (winning Memphis Theatre's Ostrander Awards for Best Production and Best Director), Medea, The Waverly Gallery, The Crucible, Hamlet and Twelfth Night among others. List has also worked professionally as an actor, writer, movie critic, and restaurateur.

For more information, call 773-883-1090 x 13, or for full class descriptions and enrollment forms see the professional page of www.bailiwick.org.