Judges

 

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Krista Burton CLLAW 11

Krista writes for award winning blog Effing Dkyes, a humor blog about activating your lesbian gaydar skills. She’s a travel writer who loves girls with an unholy love, inappropriate footwear, and hip-hop songs with filthy lyrics.

 

 

 

 

 

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Dan “Dantastic” Sullivan CLLAW 4, CLLAW 5

Dantastic is not a real actor. Most days, he is not a real person. Some days, (“Wednesdays”), he can be seen at WILD PUG impersonating Bea Arthur, Doug Henning and other B-list celebrities at the Uptown bar’s weekly Game Show Night. One day, his running commentary and dry wit will save his life. Yours too.

 

 

 

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Craig Uhlir CLLAW 3

Craig Uhlir is a product of the Chicagoland area. After training at all of Chicago’s improvisational academies, Craig began to perform at some of them as well. For over two years Craig toured the world as a member of the Second City Touring Company. He also performed long form improvisation for years with Valhalla and Deep Schwa at Improv Olympic in Chicago. He also performed short form improv games with Comedy Sportz in Chicago as well.

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Jim Carlson CLLAW 3

Jim Carlson has been improvising, directing, and acting in Chicago since 1995. He was on the iO house team Valhalla and currently plays in “Middle Age Comeback” on Sunday nights and the “Armando Diaz Experience” on Monday nights. Jim directed over 15 shows at the iO including “The Awesome Show,” “The Goodtime Hour,” and “The Awesome Show 2 ‘Still Awesome.’” He directed No Country for Old White Men for mainstage at Second City, and Disposable Nation and Immaculate Deception on the Second City etc. stage, Second City Las Vegas, Bobble Heads of State at Second City Detroit, two Second City touring companies, Second City’s Lollapalooza show, “The Second City Political Show,” and has spent some time at sea directing cruise ship comedy. Jim has taught improvisation at iO, Columbia College, Second City, and Writer’s Theater.

 

 

 

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Juan-Carlos Perez CLLAW 3

Juan-Carlos Perez was born in Juarez Chihuahua, Mexico, 1972 and at the age of 4 emigrated with his family to Los Angeles, California. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois to pursue a Bachelors in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Juan-Carlos is a studio artist who partners with art organizations such as Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), Chicago Public Schools, community centers, park districts, etc. teaching a variety of arts including modern, cultural, and mural making throughout the city of Chicago. His teachings have brought him into numerous neighborhoods throughout the cities of Chicago, Detroit, and West Africa. Past murals include “We March, We Dance, We Sing for Freedom” displayed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Recreational Center on 76th and Racine, an 8 x 20 ft. mural commemorating the Japanese American Service Committee’s 60th Anniversary on Clark and Montrose (located in the center), “Here We Are, We Are Here”, a Christopher House Bricolage Mural Logan Square which consists of acrylic paint, mosaic, sculpture and bronze. And was brought in to help bring to light a 1200 square ft. bricolage mural titled, “Reaching Back, Moving Forward, Lest We Forget the Song of 47th Street”, located on 47th street and Lake Park Ave.

 

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Hilesh Patel CLLAW 3

Hilesh Patel is an artist and educator working in Chicago. Hilesh Patel joined Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) in November 2008 as a Program Associate. Hilesh has an extensive background in teaching at-risk youth in Alternative and SAFE high schools, as well as teaching graffiti and video in after school programs. Just prior to CAPE, Hilesh was a teaching artist at the non-profit arts organization Marwen.

He has shown work and performed at Eidolon, Marwen Foundation, Open End Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Art Department and Around the Coyote among a few. His artwork encompasses text, graffiti, street art, stenciling and figure based imagery in mediums such as watercolor, aerosol, oils, ink, paper, wood and metal.

 

 

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Susan Messing CLLAW 2

Susan is a New Jersey native and a graduate of Northwestern University. She has performed for over twenty years with Chicago’s iO Theatre, and created and teaches their Level Two Curriculum which is used in Chicago and LA’s iO West.

At the legendary Second City, Susan wrote and performed in two main stage revues and directed their National Touring Company. Susan is a founding member of the infamous Annoyance Theatre where she has created roles in over thirty original productions, including Co-Ed Prison Sluts, The Miss Vagina Pageant, and Your Butt. Currently she can be seen there every week in the hit show Messing with a Friend.

In addition, she conceived, co-adapted (with Mary Scruggs) and directed the critically acclaimed What Every Girl Should Know…An Ode to Judy Blume for the Annoyance stage, where she also continues to teach. Susan is an adjunct professor for Loyola University, DePaul University’s Theatre School, and The University of Chicago. Her stand-up act with her puppet, Jolly, was featured at the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and NBC’s Late Fridays.

You can hear her voice on radio and tv ads. Susan has been cut from several blockbuster films, but her recent movie role in Let’s Go to Prison! as a bad stripper in a halo brace which was a sure crowd pleaser. Her daughter, Sofia Mia, is very six, very ridiculous, and very awesome.

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Clint Phillips CLLAW 2

Clint grew up in rural Michigan with cows across the street. He escaped by joining the US Army Military Intelligence. Later, he transferred to the Air Force, where he was an avionics expert. The Air Force kicked him out when he had to get a pacemaker to correct an irregular heart beat (no, he’s not gonna die; he even ran a marathon with the damn thing).

Clint then went to UIC, graduated with a degree in biology, and spent several years playing with DNA. He now runs the successful personal training company www.fitchicago.com. Clint is a former amateur arm wrestler, and currently holds the American masters division record in the bench press (ADFPF). He’s also an avid improv student, who hopes to be good at it one day.

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