"Outbursts"	Flat Iron Arts Building studio *222
	1579 N. Milwaukee ave 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
	October 21st, 22nd 23rd, Friday Saturday Sunday
	All performances start at 8:00PM. with a viewing at 7:30PM
	clips of previous performances: Naomi Ashley- Visitors
	Group Number- Big Mouth Woman
	5$ suggested doantion at the door
	“Outbursts” This series of shows features poets, songwriters, monologists and instrumentalists performing original works inspired by the paintings of Zsófia Ötvös. Performances by: Jenny Bieneman, Amy Binns-Calvey, Bonnie Shadrake with Cellist: Jessica Ondracek, Emily Rose Sheehan, Cheryl Tomblin, Jodi Walker, Michael Garvey, Naomi Ashley Directed by: Amy Binns-Calvey.. *special thanks for Kevin Lahvic for hosting the event.
Naomi Ashley	Both with her tight Naomi Ashley Band (including fiddle-virtuoso Cathie Van Wert) and as a solo artist, Naomi regularly appears at leading Chicago-area venues, including: Fitzgerald's, SPACE, Schubas and Uncommon Ground. And at major regional venues, including the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan.www.naomiashley.com
Rachel Claff	Rachel Claff was an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurists from 1996 to 2003, during which time she wrote over 250 plays for Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and co-created such full-length works as David Kodeski’s True Life Tales: The Sycamore Story (2001), Curious Beautiful (2000), and You Are Not Here (1999). She is the creator of the ongoing summer series It Came from the Neo-Futurarium!, staged readings of the world's best bad films. Rachel has appeared in other writerly outings around Chicago such as The Encyclopedia Show, The Partly Dave Show, The Dollar Store Show, and Live Bait’s Fillet of Solo Festival, and is a team coach for Louder Than A Bomb, the country’s largest teen poetry slam. Rachel received her MA in Cultural Performance from the University of Bristol in 2007. She is currently a member of the solo performance group BoyGirlBoyGirl.www.boygirlboygirl.org
Nancy Connelly	Nancy has been playing guitar and writing songs for many years and co-host the songwriter showcase at the Gallery Cabaret every other Wednesday.
Sarah Holtschlag	Sarah Holtschlag’s songs are an uppercut as much as a french kiss. From fightin and truckin songs to woebegone lullabies about forget-you-not low-flying birds, her sounds charm as well as haunt, tilt as well as persuade. In the growing up times, Sarah lived in the foothills of factory towers in mid-Michigan. There she learnt to play the singing saw (a 26″ stainless steel blade from ace hardware). Band members Adam Mormolstein and Brian Tillman lend their hardware. Recipient of: Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.www.sarahholtschlag.wordpress.com/
Chloe Johnston	Chloe has been an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurists since 2001 and she has written and performed in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind in addition to creating The Emmett Project, Patriots and, most recently, collaborating on Fear, an interactive walking tour of the stories of Edgar Allen Poe. She has also worked as a performer, writer, and director with various theatres around Chicago, including Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, CollaborAction, Chicago Dramatists, and Walkabout. She is a founding member of The Laboratory for the Development for Substitute Materials and recently co-created their production of Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment at Arcosanti, an urban laboratory in the desert of Arizona. She has directed several productions at Northwestern University, including Twice Told, an adaptation of the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her writing is published in the Neo-Futurist anthologies and she is co-author of 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, published by Playscripts Inc. She has designed and taught courses at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University and conducted performance workshops at universities and theatres in Chicago and beyond. Chloe is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University.www.chloejohnston.org
Noelle Krimm	coming soon
Diana Slickman	DianaI Slickman has been involved with a number of Chicago theatre companies as a performer, producer, director, writer, and administrator, sometimes all at the same time. Since 2006, she’s been a part of BoyGirlBoyGirl, writing and performing solo work inspired by found texts. Diana is also a member of Theater Oobleck’s artistic ensemble and has appeared in seven of their productions, most recently in 6x6, three evenings of cantastoria and improvisation. Last year she portrayed Ludmilla, the Bearded Lady in The Magpies’ The Art of Unbearable Sensations. Diana’s solo work has been performed with The Encyclopedia Show, Paper Machete, The Partly Dave Show, The Dollar Store Show, The Happy Family Series, and the Drinking & Writing Beerfly Alley Fight, among others. A longtime member of the Neo-Futurists, she performed in their signature show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind for eight years and contributed to many of their "prime time" productions, including Drinking & Writing, You Are Not Here, and The Sycamore Story. Diana received a 2009 Orgie Award for “Unsung Theater Hero”.
Amy Binns-Calvey	She has directed Flanagan's Wake in New York off-Broadway at Sweet Carolines, off-off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse, Chicago (2003), St. Charles, IL Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Buffalo. She has performed in the Wake all over the US. Other directing credits include The Spew, Mikado: Version 2.005, Roasting Chestnuts (1997, 2000), Open Call, Guys and Dolls, Oh! Coward, and the world premiere of Ma Murphy's Chowder House. She was a founding member of The Noble Fool Theater Company. Amy is also a co-creator/ writer for the many ongoing versions of Roasting Chestnuts. She was recently seen in the outrageous cabaret trio The Weird Sisters. Amy was an Artist in Residence with the State of Illinois, an instructor with the School of the Art Institute's Continuing Education program and is a Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists.Amy Binns-Calvey website
Zsófia Ötvös	An art scholarship brought Zsofia to the United States from Hungary in 1994, She received her formal studio training at Studio '91 lead by Rita Kopek in Budapest. While earning her BA degree in Art and Theater, she studied fiber art at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. The unique treatment of color in her work evolved at the loom, by joining her mother in weaving traditional Gobelin tapestries. She directed her focus to painting in 1999, ever since than she has been actively participating in the Chicago art world with her figurative paintings. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Hungary and Italy. The sensibility of the homeland remains the core of her understanding of the world. Her paintings are of people she observes. Movements and postures merge to make a character, a distinction that seems to be part of a pattern she recognizes. www.zsofiaotvos.com
contact: Zsofia Otvos 773 469 7201 zsofiaotvos@gmail.com
and www.naomiashley.com 773 412 3486 naomiashley@gmail.com