My name is Tilman Böhnke, I am a student of the study "Europäische Medienwissenschaft" in Potsdam (Germany). During 15 years of theatre practice with the free collective Tarántula, I got in touch with creative work and performances. With these experiences, I've started an open-air exhibition with artists from my hometown, did various performances, and started to work as a sound designer for radio plays.
Meg Elliott is a company member of Cock and Bull, where she has appeared in Voyage and Lecherous Honey. Chicago credits include Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and Noises Off (both at Metropolis Arts Center); A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Christina the Girl King (Cor Theatre); Top Girls (Arc Theatre); Request Concert (The Side Project) and The Unfortunates (Solotheatre Chicago). Film work short Quiver, the web series Other People's Children, & Distant Learners. You can also hear her voice work in The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder and Cock and Bull's narrative podcast series The Children of NYX. Visit megelliot.com represented by BMG Talent.
Van Ferro is a professional stage, screen, and voiceover actor based in Chicago, IL. Van is excited to work with Cock and Bull Theatre for this extraordinary and unique production. Van’s recent stage credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County and Bug (Act Your Page), Perjured Love and Heart of Fairy (Three Cat), and Rumpelstiltskin and Rip Van Winkle (musicals, Sigman Brothers). He has also appeared in countless short films and is currently producing and appearing in the online talk show YSchool and the lead in the web series Corona Diaries and Kitty Diaries (Vera Pictures on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram). @therealvanferro
Is much too cool for a bio. Heinrich was designed and photo styled many production for Cock and Bull. He is also related to Chic Filet.
Sarah has been a company member with Cock and Bull for over 10 years and is an Associate Artistic Director. She's appeared in the company's productions of Axe Lizzie, Titanic, Voolf, Lecherous Honey, and assistant-directed Voyage. She also lent her voice to the Cock and Bull's inaugural podcast, The Children of Nyx. Other Chicago area performances include work with Northlight Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Citadel, Filament, The Arc Theatre, and The Building Stage. Sarah also teaches performance classes at DePaul University. sarah-hecht.com
I have a background as a radio host and work full time as a broadcast journalist. I’m relatively new to the voice-over scene with just over a year under my belt. I love bringing my client's ideas and messages to life, whether it is a corporate commercial or a dramatic monologue. For me, voicing the octopus was an absolute blast, and I hope she gets away with the wicked and dastardly shenanigans she has planned!! Check out her portfolio https://missjennysteel.journoportfolio.com/
Eddy Karch is elated to be returning to performing with my artistic home, Cock and Bull. It has been an honor to have had a creative outlet in, and now out of, quarantine. It is always a great pleasure to work with some of the best artists and people I have come to know. Eddy was last heard as Booth in Cock and Bull's narrative podcast series Children Of Nyx during last year’s “Virtual Sessions.” He also reprised his role as Agent Vincent with IMPAACT’s POD Cast release of By Association. Eddy has been a company member with Cock & Bull since 2012 and has spent the last 6 years co-creating with one of the coolest kids a father could ever have. Love you, Gator! Here’s to working hard and playing more!
Kristen is a proud member of Cock & Bull and has performed as Lizzie Borden in their production of Axe Lizzie and Abigail in their entirely devised piece, Voyage. She also helped curate various Cock & Bull Sessions, bringing together various artists worldwide for some highly memorable evenings. Residing in London, she performs and can be seen most recently in season 3 of Haunted on Netflix. Her weakness is Pulparindo and Champagne mangoes, both of which are difficult to acquire overseas. Many thanks to Chris for constantly pushing boundaries and creating magic from seedling ideas.
Eddie called his Auntie for a proper bio.
Auntie: Hello, Eddie.
Eddie: Hey Auntie, Cock and Bull Theater need a bio from me. I need your help.
Auntie: Cock and who?
Eddie: Cock and Bull Theater. My friend Chris Peak is….
Auntie: I don’t care. Well, if they want a bio on you. It’s gonna be short.
Eddie: I know. That’s why I’m calling you. You’re my only fan.
Auntie: Ok, Well tell them about graduating from DePaul’s Theater School. Tell them about training at Second City in Chicago. The Groundlings and UCB in LA.
Eddie: Got it.
Auntie: How long were you in Chicago and LA for?
Eddie: 11yrs and 4 yrs, Auntie.
Auntie: Hmm…and never did anything on any main stage and maybe 2 movies. Hmm…sad. But keep at it, I’m sure your acting thing will pay off any day now.
Eddie: Ok, Auntie I think I’ve got everything I need.
Auntie: Oh! Tell them how you live in China now and you can speak a little bit of that Mandarin and you’re with a improv and puppetry group called Zmack based in Shanghai.
Eddie: Cool, Auntie.
Auntie: Ok now. Now before you go. Baby, when are you gonna get married?
Eddie: Hanging up
End of call
Sierra (she/they) graduated from Ballard High School and Governor's School for the Arts (drama) in Kentucky. Sierra is a queer, Black, and Vietnamese actor, poet, violinist, activist, and content writer. The Theatre School at DePaul credits includes Lessons from the Newly Dead, A View from the Bridge (Alfieri), Polaroid Stories (Eurydice), A Wrinkle in Time (Meg Murry), Long Time Since Yesterday (Babbs Wilkerson), and Dance Nation (Connie). Staged Readings include Monkey Bar Anthology dir. by Jazmine Rush, Uproot Sunrise dir. by Elena Gonzalez Molina, 715 Pearl Street by Megan Lucas at The Theatre School. Sierra is a member of Today's Black Artists and president of the Asian Artists of America Alliance at The Theatre School. Professional stage reading credits include A Satisfied Mind at AJT at Victory Gardens. Student film credits: Dough (Shane Bagwell), Beast (Ivy O'Shaughnessy), To My Former Lover (Keimon Shook). Upcoming independent film credit includes The Lower Depths, directed by Matthew Stanasolovich.
Matt is the co-director and sound designer for The Octopus and Associate Artistic Director of Cock and Bull. He is a sound designer and engineer in Chicago with over 40 credits to his name, including 2 Jeff Nominations for Sound Design. He has been a proud member of Cock & Bull for several years and worked on Voolf, Voyage, and Lecherous Honey with Cock & Bull.
Nathan Streifel is a Los Angeles-based actor, artist, tarot card reader, musician, and plant daddy. He was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, a small logging town in the Olympic Peninsula. He received his MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago and has a BA in Psychology and Theatre Arts from Western Washington University. Recent television credits include The Other Two, Punky Brewster, GLOW, LA --> Vegas, and A Little Late with Lilly Singh. He recently collaborated with Cock and Bull for Acoustic Kitchen, part of their 2020 isolation sessions, and is excited to be working with the company again. He is currently working on a year-long project called the ART x TAROT Collection. This limited fine art series incorporates tarot and astrology into one of a kind experiential wellness package. Follow Nathan on Instagram @NathanStreifel for daily tarot card videos, new artwork, and updates on his garden.
Noah Lepawsky is an Assoc Artistic Director of Cock and Bull and first got paid to make theater when he was 12 years old. Since then he has worked in Canada, the UK and the U.S. as a writer, performer, puppeteer and collaborator with a variety of co-creators. Highlights for him are: Theatre in a Box with Becky Johnson, and with Cock and Bull: Titanic, Voolf in the workshop performance of Voolf and AV in Voyage. Noah is the writer of Cock and Bull’s The Children of Nyx narrative podcast series.
Chris Garcia Peak is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Cock and Bull Theatre in Chicago since 2008.