Colin Milroy (Nick) has been haunting the Factory Theater since 2007. In addition to co-writing and performing in The New Adventures of Popeye, Colin spirited around on the Factory stage in Siskel and Ebert Save Chicago,Bustin’ Out of The Hell, Operation Infiltration and GI’s In Europe. He has also served as a ghost director and phantom producer for other Factory shows. Before this happy theatrical home, Colin frequented the haunts of The Hypocrites, Raven Theater, Stage Left Theater and many others. Many thanks to the cast and crew for the time and talent they gave to make this story happen. Extra thanks to the Factory Theater for its role in the show’s development. Much love to Kori, George and Frances for their support. Thank you for supporting the Factory Theater. You have kept my spirits up.

Jill Oliver (Sally) is very grateful to the Factory for making her one of their newest ensemble members. As she is terrified of horror films and general spookiness, this has been quite an experience for her. Jill would like to thank the mean ghost that turns her lamp on at night. She also would like to thank it for keeping her awake with it's creepy monotone singing voice. You may have also seen Jill in the Factory's Hey Dancin! or The League of Awesome. Other Chicago credits include Romeo & Juliet with Shattered Globe, Hamlettes and Boys' Life. Jill would like to thank her Mom and Dad for being awesome and coming to every show she's ever been in.

Katherine Schwartz (Lana) is thrilled to be be making her Factory Theatre debut as Lana in The Gray Girl! Previous credits include 'The Women' with Circle Theatre, 'The Book of Liz' with Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, 'Cherrywood' with Mary Arrchie Theatre, 'The Somewhat Gelatinous Blob from Beyond the Grave' with Corn Productions, and 'Decadence' with Abraham Werewolf. She has also performed with Navy Pier, Piper's Alley, and around the city in various interactive theatre projects, staged readings, and sketch shows. Katherine is a proud graduate of the Conservatory at Act One Studios and holds a B.A. in English Literature and Communication Studies from the University of Michigan.

Shannon Parr (Morse) is very excited to be working with The Factory Theatre. He just finished understudying 2 roles at Provision Theatre in Bonhoeffer’s Cost and was last seen in Wolf by Paul Cosca with Brikenbrak Theatre Project and as File in The Rainmaker with The James Downing Theatre Co. last spring. Other credits include the original hit comedy Mono by Steven Tanenbaum at Surf Reality in New York, Blackbird by Adam Rapp at Mabou Mines in NY, Clubland with The Artistic Home NY, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods also by Adam Rapp at Victory Gardens and The Adventures of Don Quixote with Oak Park Festival Theatre. Film credits include Indie features Fortunes and Heidi Van Lier’s Chi-Girl. He and his wife Anna (the greatest lady in the world) live in Chicago and have three beautiful daughters.

RAY BRAZASKI (Detective Murray), on a personal note, wants to let his old friends and new friends involved with The Gray Girl know that they are unquestionably awesome. Also, if you find this program in a pile of old scrap papers years from now, this was the year these things happened: NASA's space shuttle program ended, R.E.M. called it quits after 30 years, Bill O'Reilly was still on TV, Arch West--the creator of Doritos--died at the age of 97, and The Gray Girl marked Ray's 7th show with the Factory Theater. All regrettable occurrences. Except for that R.E.M. thing. Ray needs to get better with words.

Yeah, JOHN LUZAR (Lynch) has worked at Factory before, what’s it to ya? He was in REN FAIRE! A FISTFUL OF DUCATS and MOP TOP FESTIVAL. He’s worked all over this dirty, stinkin’ town, including TREASURE ISLAND and THE MARK OF ZORRO (Lifeline), FATBOY (A Red Orchid), HOT GEORGIA SUNDAY and GOLDSTAR, OHIO (ATC), MEN OF STEEL (Theater Wit), THE LION IN WINTER (TimeLine) ERRATICA (American Demigods) & MARATHON ’33 (Strawdog), The New York International Fringe Festival, Steep, Stage Left, Metropolis, Teatro Luna, City Lit, A Crew of Patches, Blindfaith, Boxer Rebellion, Senachai, Adventure Stage Chicago, Chicago Jewish Theatre, and the Bailiwick.

Sam Hubbard (Carl/Artuto{cop 2}/Lombardi) is thrilled to be working on his first show with The Factory! Recently Sam has been seen in My Name is Mudd with Jackalople Theatre and Henry IV and Henry V with Oak Park Festival Theatre. When not finishing his BFA in acting at Columbia College Sam has worked with Dramatic Tension Project, The Neapolitans, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Cold Basement Dramatics, of whom he is a founding member. Sam is also a freelance Fight Director and and Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.

This is Paulette Hicks's (Patricia) first production with The Factory Theatre. Her Chicago credits include Emma in Betrayal at Oak Park Village Players, The Abbess in Comedy of Errors at Chase Park Theatre, Dr. Charlotte in Marvin's Room at RedTwist Theatre and she understudied the role of Diane in Little Dog Laughed at About Face Theatre. Paulette is originally from Dayton, Ohio and performed with The Human Race, W. Shakespeare & Co. and The Dayton Theatre Guild.. And, just so you know, she is way more interesting than her bio.

Christopher Marcum (Fitzhume) – Christopher is thrilled to be punching in again at the Factory. Christopher’s previous shifts with Factory Theater include Ceres, Bustin’ Out of the Hell, Hunky Dory, and the masterpiece Mop Top Festival. He has worked with other brilliant and lovely folks around town as well, including Stage Left and the Plagiarists. He also has the distinct pleasure of being one half of Remarcable Productions with his producing partner Seth Remington - Lips Together, Teeth Apart being Remarcable’s most recent production. Christopher would like to thank Colin for the wonderful script, Matt for this opportunity, and his wife Samantha for all her patience, love and support.

Kristopher Lencowski (Danny/Bucky{cop 1}/Pierce) is a recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA Program in Directing. After undergrad at the U of Minnesota, he performed with Theatre de la Jeune Lune (The Seagull, Circus of Tales, Hamlet National Tour and Off-Broadway at the New Victory), the Jungle Theater (Gordon in Orson Welles Rehearses Moby Dick), Commonweal Theatre Company (Prince Albert in To Fool the Eye, and Lexy Mill in Candida) and Minnesota Shakespeare (Edgar in King Lear). His directing projects include Cipher by Cory Hinkle at the Illusion Theater, Danse Macabre at the 2007 National Puppetry Festival, Cityceased at the Lakewood Cemetery, Midsummer at LaSalle Academy. At Brown/Trinity he has directed Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Much Ado About Nothing, Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth, Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré, and Lizzie Vine’s Phoenix Lights and Zarina Shea’s …And Joy for the Brown’s Writing is Live Festival. At Brown/Trinity, he also performed as Will Pentland in Look Homeward Angel and Coleman in The Lonesome West. For more, go to KristopherLencowski.com.

Jordan Hoisington (Chet/Burns) is very lucky to be part of the show. He has been Acting in Theater, mostly in Chicago for 7 years now, recently getting the opportunity to perform in the National Puppetry festival as a part of Ichthyoddyssey. Jordan would like to thank the cast and crew for their efforts, and the audience for coming out to see it.

Jessica Thigpen (Monica) is excited to be making her first appearance with the good folks at The Factory. She has also had the pleasure of working with Timeline Theatre in their productions of Frost/Nixon and The Farnsworth Invention and Theatre Seven in The Chicago Landmark Project, The Water Engine and Mimesophobia. Jessica can next be seen in Shattered Globe’s Orpheus Descending in February of 2012. A proud member of Gray Talent, she also teaches at Act One Studios and StageCoach Theatre School. As always, she sends much love and thanks to her arts patron (and mother), Yvonne. Glory be to God.