PUT THE NUNS IN CHARGE! features Kathleen Puls Andrade, Elaine Carlson,
Patricia Musker, and Lisa Braatz in the role of Mother Superior.
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Kathleen Puls Andrade has been a professional actor/ voiceover/ improviser in Chicago for the past fifteen years. She has a degree in Theatre from Northern Illinois University and a "Masters" in comedy from The Second City Conservatory, ImprovOlympic and The Annoyance improvisation programs. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and has several on-camera credits, plus numerous voiceovers for radio and television. She has performed with Apple Tree Theatre, Strawdog, Lifeline, Chicago and Minneapolis Improv Festivals, Chicago Comedy Company, Playground Improv Theatre, Hiatus in New York City, and with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also created and produced the National Funny Women Fest 2000. In addition to teaching at Second City in Chicago, she has taught improv workshops for Baylor University, The University of Illinois, The University of North Florida, In Forte, and many others. |
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Lisa Braatz is a theatre graduate from St. Louis University. She has been performing in the Chicagoland area for over 10 years, including the role of Sister in Late Nite Catechism and the role of Mother Superior in Put the Nuns in Charge! Lisa also portrayed the Reverend Mother in the Chicago Comedy Company production of Nunsense and Aunt Alma in the world premiere musical Retail. She works performing in private parties with Get Away With Murder and Murder Mystery Players where she gets shot, poisoned and stabbed on a regular basis. Lisa attended Catholic schools and remembers Sister Paul Mary as the toughest nun she has ever run across, but of course she was always the good girl and never got whacked. |
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Elaine Carlson also appears in Sunday School Cinema, another of the nun comedies at the Royal George Theatre, Chicago. She has also appeared in The Rimers of Eldrich, Pygmalion, and Dimly Perceived Threats to the System. She has been honored with three Joseph Jefferson Citations as both an actress in a leading role and also as an ensemble member in Famous Door's Salt of the Earth; and again as an ensemble member in Pegasus Players' Noises Off. You may have heard her voice on various corporate voice-mail services or narrating industrial films about nail fungus. |
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Patricia Musker also stars in Late Nite Catechism, and is a founding member of The Noble Fool Theater Company. She most recently appeared as the goddess Freya, in the world premiere of Vikings! A Musical in Two Axe. Pat has appeared as Gina Oswald in the past four productions of Noble Fool's holiday parody, Roasting Chestnuts. She is a co-creator and original cast member of the long-running Flanagan's Wake. She can sometimes be seen in The Noble Fool Cabaret in the guise of improvisational chanteuse Roxy Bellows. In addition to being a professional educator, she is an improv instructor for The Second City Training Center.
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PUT THE NUNS IN CHARGE!
8:00 p.m. Fridays, and 5:00 p.m. Saturdays
Royal George Theater
1641 N. Halsted, Chicago
(312) 988-9000
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