Scaredy Friends
This is the story of a small girl and a monster that eats her words when she screams. But it turns out the monster isn’t evil — like the little girl, it is scared. This discovery, told through words and physical theatre, changes the course of their relationship forever.
Scaredy Friends is devised, written and directed by Carolyn Minor.
Biographies
Carolyn minor
Carolyn Minor has been creating theater and performance in Chicago since 2001. She was a company member of the now defunct Knife & Fork Theatre Company that built artwork with a heavy emphasis on devised and movement-based pieces. She is currently production managing at City Lit Theater Company and is the education assistant and a teaching artist with American Blues Theater. She has written pieces performed at You Only Live Once More for SoloCrowd Chicago, at AbbieFest for Knife & Fork, and Brecht 3 High Fest for The Island Theater Company. As an advocate for empathy and early childhood exposure to the arts, she is grateful to be included in the Make/Believe festival for Ghostlight Ensemble this season.
Jazzma Pryor
Jazzma Pryor (Jacky) is excited to bring this sweet story to life in her first play festival for young audiences. Her Chicago theatre credits include: The Black Monologues (Victory Gardens Theatre); Sunset Baby and From The Mississippi Delta (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre); Hannah and Martin and Crime and Punishment (Shattered Globe Theatre); Minutes and Seconds (Rhinofest at Prop Thtr); Phillis: The American Revolutionary (Redd Opera); Insurrection: Holding History (Stage Left Theatre); Marisol (Promethean Theatre); and Prelude to a Kiss (The Comrades). You can see Ms. Pryor next in Doubt with the Irish Theatre of Chicago and Spell #7 with Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. Ms. Pryor holds a Bachelor of Arts in production studies in Performing Arts from Clemson University.
Fay Florence-Steddum
Fay Florence-Steddum [she/her/ they/them](Puppeteer ) is an actor-creator and educator from Texas, currently based in the Windy City. She is an ensemble member of Theater Unspeakable and was last seen as Walter Cronkite in TU’s Fall 2019 tour for Moonshot. Fay has taught creative writing, devising and performance with groups such as The Raven Project’s Queer Coffee House and Li’l Buds Theatre. Currently, she teaches yoga for gender equity with Mission Propelle, Shakespeare with The Viola Project and Commedia Dell’Arte for adults at Links Hall. Fay holds an MFA degree in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International. For future collaborations, connect with Fay at bfsteddum@gmail.com
Kayla V. White
Kayla V. White (Monster) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in music theatre (Illinois Wesleyan University) and a yoga teaching certificate (All Yoga Bali), and believes that these mean she never has to wear real pants again. Previous credits include: Cat ((Un)Seen: A Phantasmagorical Story of Tangled Minds; Clock Productions), Nedda (Last Laugh; Clock Productions), Advisors (Princess without Pots; Ghostlight Ensemble), Ophelia (here comes the tide, there goes the girl; Hairpin Arts), (below Heaven, above Chipotle, Second City Writing) and Chief (Princess and the Pea; Missoula Children’s Theatre).