Carole Dibo has been a professional actress for over twenty years. Carole has been directing and training teens on the North Shore for over a decade. Carole is also a well respected teacher and coach in Los Angeles where she co-teaches with L.A. Casting Director, Deborah Dion and has taught at Northwestern University. She has also worked as a Casting Assistant for Tenner Paskal Rudnicke Casting and Steppenwolf Theatre Co. She is one of the owners of the Wilmette Theatre and the Artistic Director of the Actors Training Center. Katherine Conditt-Ladd is a professional actor, director and teacher. She has appeared on Broadway, in National Tours and at such local theatres as Goodman, Marriott and Organic. Katherine was also co-founder/Artistic Director of Cobalt Ensemble Theatre in Chicago which had a successful Jeff nominated 5 year run. Directing credits include: Cowboy Versus Samara - Silk Road, Feeding the Moonfish - Artistic Home, and three Chicago Premiers produced by C.E.T.; The Architect, Dream of a Common Language, and Waiting for Phillip Glass. Katherine also taught drama and directed at Lake Forest Country Day for four years and now continues to teach privately. Janet Louer is a freelance Casting Director and co-Director of Eyes Wide Open and Double Shot Productions. Janet coaches privately and is on the faculty of DePaul Theatre School where she teachers "Audition". Janet was a Casting Associate in New York for film and television and worked at TNI casting Broadway Shows such as Elizabeth Taylor's LITTLE FOXES, WEST SIDE STORY and Sandy Duncan's PETER PAN. Ms. Louer has won a Joseph Jefferson Citation and has choreographed National Tours. Robin Willis is a recent graduate of Northwestern University and currently interns at Haven Middle School, devising theatre, directing, and teaching. This summer Robin created an original play with middle-schoolers entitled "Boxes," which addressed issues of stereotyping and marginalization. Currently, Robin is directing "Still Life with Iris," a play for young audiences, at Northwestern University. Robin is a finalist for the 2008-2009 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship; she hopes to create theatre with young people in Africa. Tyler Beattie is a freelance theater artist interested mainly in adaptations, ensemble-based theater, musical theater, and children's theater. He is the director, composer, and book-writer of three original chamber musicals: Pinocchio, The Sandman and Just So (which played at the Wilmette Theatre in Spring of 2007). He has also worked extensively as a teacher of speech, drama, and piano. A recent graduate of Northwestern University, he directed the 66th annual Dolphin Show Carousel, received the school-wide 2007 Sandra Singer Creative Arts Award and was named one of Northwestern's Seniors to Watch: Stars in the Making by the Northwestern University Alumni Magazine.   Philip Markle is the Director of Young Actor Classes at ATC. He is passionate about teaching, acting, directing, and writing. Philip has taught young actors in San Francisco at A.C.T., Vector Theater Conservatory, and Marin Shakespeare Company, and throughout North Shore Schools. He is a member of Griffin's Tale, a children's performing arts group that turns kids' stories into live skits and songs. He is a recent graduate of Northwestern University and was the first student to direct a staged reading of a musical produced by the American Musical Theater Project. John Dixon is a professional actor and teacher in Chicago. John has studied acting, improvisation, and circus arts both in Chicago and his hometown of Atlanta, GA. He teaches with the Barrel of Monkeys and is a full time teacher at Roycemore School in Evanston, where he is also the drama coordinator. In Chicago, he has acted with Griffin Theater, Dog and Pony, thesideproject, and at Donny's Skybox in Second City. John is a graduate of Northwestern University. Doug McDade's professional acting career spans 30 years and over 60 stage credits, as well as work in radio, television, film and commercials. He is an original ensemble member of Chicago's critically acclaimed Shattered Globe Theatre Company and currently serves as President and Managing Artistic Director of The Gurnee Theatre Company, which he co-founded in 2001. Doug is a recipient of multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards; one for Best Actor In A Supporting Role (non-Equity Wing) and multiple Jeff Awards for Best Ensemble (Equity and non-Equity Wing). He's performed with many Chicago theatres including American Theatre Company, Bailiwick, Chicago Dramatists, Light Opera Works, Next Theatre, Shattered Globe, Stage Left, and Steppenwolf. Deborah Dion has been a casting director for the past 13 years. Having worked on over 60 films, Deborah is known for the quality of the projects she chooses. She has worked with directors such as M. Night Shyamalan (Lady in the Water), Philip Noyce (Catch a Fire), PJ Hogan (Peter Pan, Unconditional Love), John Madden (Killshot, Shakespeare in Love) and Lasse Hallstrom (Cider House Rules, Chocolat, The Shipping News, An Unfinished Life). It was an honor to work with Tim Burton on the American kid casting for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and to be invited to set in England to watch the kids she cast work with Johnny Depp. Last year she worked with Noah Baumbach who is well known for The Squid and The Whale on his newest feature Margot at the Wedding which opens shortly. Deborah is well known in the entertainment community for not only the caliber of the project she casts, but also for her work in finding the perfect child for a role. She is often sought out to do child searches and is lucky enough to know children from all over the country who regularly audition for her via tape. Besides this specialty, she also teaches childrens on-camera audition and acting classes on a regular basis in Los Angeles as well as around the country.