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Eunji Kim
Eunji Kim is a comedian, actor and writer based in Chicago. She was a Senior Writer for Cards Against Humanity and can be seen performing stand-up all over the country (Laugh Factory, Zanies) and has opened up for national headliners like Fortune Feimster and Dave Attell. Her sold-out solo shows entitled, OUT OF CONTEXT and IN BAD TASTE, were part of Steppenwolf Theater's 2024 and 2022 LookOut Series. She was a 2017 Bob Curry Fellow at Second City and a featured performer in the Netflix Is A Joke Festival and the 2017 NBCUniversal Break Out Festival. Some of her on-screen credits include: Chicago Fire (NBC), Chicago Med (NBC), Work In Progress (Showtime) and Best In Dough (Hulu).
Eunji unsurprisingly, has a podcast with fellow Korean-American, Peter Kim called, 2 Kims 1 Pod. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty member in DePaul University’s Comedy Arts Program.
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Amy Eaton
Amy is a writer, performer, director and arts educator. Her work has been published in The Coachella Review, Mulberry Literary and Hippocampus Magazine. Amy is a Ragdale alum and the 2nd runner up of the Daisy Pettles Women’s writing contest. She’s been seen onstage at Write Club Chicago, Louder Than a Mom, Tuesday Funk, the Stoop and Movie Club among others. She currently co-hosts the Lady Live Lit show MissSpoken with Jasmine Davila on the last Monday of the month at Cole’s Bar. She is the founder of Mudlark Theater Company.
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Audrey Jonas
Stand up comedian Audrey Jonas has been drawing audiences all over the Midwest since 2014. She has performed at clubs and festivals all over the country, participated in the Stand Up NBC 2018, and in 2016, she was a Finalist in the Stand Up Siam International Comedy Competition in Thailand. Audrey also teaches Fem Com, Chicago's only all-female stand up comedy class and the Wedding Toast Warm Up, where she teaches people how to write the perfect wedding toast.
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Gerald Dowd
Boston-raised, Chicago-braised drummer/singer/songwriter Gerald Dowd has been described as “the hardest working drummer in Chicago” (Richard Milne, WXRT), playing on over 100 albums, while averaging 150 live dates a year around the world. He has spent the last 30+ years playing drums for Grammy™-nominated artists Robbie Fulks and Justin Roberts, Nora O'Connor, Chris Mills, and has helmed the drum chair in the First Time Three™ since its inception. He's also played and/or recorded with Eddie Vedder, Mavis Staples, Rich Little, Norah Jones, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas (of Los Lobos), and A Prairie Home Companion, among many others. Over the last decade or so, he's released several albums of his original material to muted acclaim. www.geralddowd.com
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Nathan Bobinchak
Nathan Bobinchak is a watchmaker, videographer and former TV journalist. Formerly the writer of countless news anchor scripts—about anything from heroic cats to Lake Michigan winter surfers—he threw his career away to learn watchmaking in the hills of Pennsylvania's Amish country. These days he builds and repairs watches in Ravenswood, across the street from the Golden Nugget.
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Kat Sachs
Kat Sachs is the co-managing editor of Cine-File Chicago and a columnist on moviegoing for the Chicago Reader.