Come join our Fun Home Panel – Spotlight on Show Creatives! This panel will focus on female and non-binary persons in the arts. Their journeys, their stories, and their paths.
Come join our Fun Home Panel – Spotlight on Show Creatives! This panel will focus on female and non-binary persons in the arts. Their journeys, their stories, and their paths.
The Broadway Production of Fun Home had an amazing female and non-binary production team and the story of Fun Home centers around a queer female writer. We wanted to turn our focus to, not only on how to become a professional in the arts, but WHY representation matters and importance of bringing new voices to the forefront.
This event is FREE, but registrations are encouraged for an accurate head count. The Panel Series event will be held in the McKee Studio Theatre at Paramount School of the Arts.
Meet the Panelists:
LANDREE FLEMING (Co-Director for Fun Home) (she/ her) Paramount Theatre: Associate Director for Beauty and the Beast, directed by Amber Mak; Chicago: Director for Once Upon a Mattress at Theo Ubique; Assistant Directing credits include Noises Off at Windy City Playhouse, and First Lady Suite with Circle Theatre. Select Chicago acting credits: “Penny” in Hairspray (Paramount), “Kira” in Xanadu (American Theater Company), and “Ira Glass” in the staged reading of Wait, Wait, Don’t Kill Me! at Chicago Shakespeare, “Olive Ostrovsky” in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Drury Lane Theatre, as well as productions at Marriott Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Theatre at the Center, and Griffin Theatre. She’s appeared on Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and is a member of the podcast Encounter Party!, which spent 7+ weeks on Apple’s New & Noteworthy Charts and charted in 50 countries for Comedy Fiction. Thank you so much to everyone involved, and love to August and Layla.
CATHERINE MILLER (Gender Consultant & Dramaturg for Fun Home) (they/them) is excited to be back at Paramount for Fun Home, having worked on Hand to God and Kinky Boots. They have worked as a dramaturg at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sideshow Theatre, The New Coordinates, Diversionary Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, Ion Theatre and First Floor Theater. Catherine is also Casting Director for Raven Theatre and Jackalope Theatre and has cast shows all around Chicago. They are a 2021 3Arts Make A Wave recipient and have a BFA in Dramaturgy/ Criticism with a minor in Gender Studies from The Theatre School at DePaul.
EMILIE (EM) MODAFF (Alison in Fun Home) (they/ them) is so grateful to be making their Paramount Theatre debut for Fun Home. They have had the privilege to play on the stages of First Floor Theater, Kokandy Productions, The Gift, Jackalope Theatre, and Red Tape Theatre, among others. Most recently, Em made their NYC debut as IZZE in The Jury with Theatre Now New York. TV/Film credits include Christmas Is Canceled (Amazon), Happily Never After (Lifetime), and The Big Leap (FOX). Em is represented by DDO Chicago.