Angela enjoys working with children and
families. She has a Master’s
degree in Counseling Psychology and does counseling with troubled youth
and their families. Angela developed a love for acting and
entertainment at an early age. Her love for acting was nurtured through
performing in numerous high school plays. She had lead
roles in stage plays such as “The Mousetrap”, “Heaven Can Wait” and
“The Odd Couple”. She eventually received an award for Best
actress in her senior year. She pursued her love for acting by
taking classes in college and performing in church plays and
musicals. She went on to have lead roles in the short films
“Oreo” and “Pleasant Prairie”. She enjoys theater acting but is
also looking forward to expanding her talents through doing more film
work.
After receiving a B.A. in Speech Education from the University of
Illinois at Champaign and an M.A. in Theater from Northwestern
University Joyce enjoyed a career as a Professor of theatre, humanities
and film at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills,
Il. While there she directed almost thirty plays and
created a film festival and a film appreciation class she still
teaches. In 2002 she accepted an early retirement offer to
pursue an acting career. Since then she has performed
with Oak Park Festival Theatre, Bailiwick’s
Director’s Fest, Piccolo Theatre, Lincoln Square Theatre, Nufan
Ensemble and others. She has made commercials,
industrials and some T.V. shows. She has been
attacked by fire ants on The National Geographic Channel and bludgeoned
by the Texas Tower Sniper on the History Channel.
She has also enjoyed making numerous independent films.
Feature films include “Crime Fiction”, “Chicago
Storefront Theatre”, “Time Capsule”, “The Art
of Pain” and “Pickman’s Muse”. Some
short films she has appeared in, notably “Piggy” and
“Bedford Industrial Park” have been selected for national
film festivals.
Joyce lives in Oak Park with her husband Paul and son
David. While most of her work has been in the Chicago
area, she has also acted in L.A. Another retirement
activity is travel, including sometimes lecturing on cruise
ships. One of her agents is in Milwaukee, so she drives
through Pleasant Prairie about once a month.
Danielle Worth is happy and proud to be a member of the cast of Pleasant Prairie.
Danielle received her BFA from New World School of the Arts with a
focus in Musical Theatre. Not tied to her degree, Danielle
strives to grow in every aspect of performing. Her work ranges from the
classics, to contemporary, to independent film, to sketch comedy, to
commercials. Some of her favorite projects include: her self written
one-person show, Southern Fried Chicken, New World Theatre's Camino
Real (Esmeralda), City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival (Company
Member), Hamlet (Ophelia) with Gablestage, The Actors' Playhouse The
Full Monty (Estelle), and an original company member of the now
booming, Laffing Matterz. Danielle has been honored by the
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for her merits in
acting, been a part of two Carbonell nominated productions, and
represented the state of Florida in the Society of Arts and Letter's
national 'Acting for Comedy' competition. Granted through the Downstage
Miami cultural division, Danielle worked alongside playwright Leslie
Ayvezian, in a year-long workshop honing her playwriting skills.
Recently transplanted to Chicago, Danielle is grateful for this new
phase of her life and career; she looks forward to participating in
widely varied, and challenging projects. Not knowing what's around the
corner, she is open and excited to see where this road will take her
next.
Tony's love for acting began at an early age as a child model for JC
Penny, K-Mart and Sears. That evolved into performing many sketch
comedies and dramas as a teenager. He received most of his
training from the reputable Act One Studios in Chicago, School for the
Arts in Naperville, IL and now Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop in Los
Angeles.
His theater credits include: the conflicted grandson, Nick
Cristano, in Over the River and Through the Woods, the colorful
Schmendiman in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, R.P.
McMurphy, the rebel rouser, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the
suppressed nephew Alan Talbot, in A Man Called Peter.
His film roles include: a father devastated at the death of his
unborn child in The Pregnancy Test (a film he also wrote, directed and
produced), a young man trying to win the love of his childhood
sweetheart in Perfekt Love, a paranoid, pretentious office worker in
the dark comedy Paper Work and finally as the ambitious hotel manager
in Pleasant Prairie. In two upcoming films, Tony will play a
homeless con man in The Affliction and the lead role in The 13th Floor
as the overly devoted head janitor.
Tony credits 3 people for his acting career: his mother and
grandmother who have been incredibly supportive from day one and Jesus
Christ who has brought wholeness and purpose into his life.
A native of Chicago, Tim Donovan studied film making at Columbia College. In 1995 he graduated with a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School, DePaul University, formerly the Goodman School of Drama, where he was a merit scholar. He worked with Shenandoah Shakespeare Express and such Chicago theaters as Next, Court, Steppenwolf, Chamber Opera Chicago, Light Opera Works, and European Repertory Company, where he was an ensemble member. Tim is proud to support excellence in Performing Arts in Chicago.