Charles Osgood was born in Milwaukee and raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He graduated from Ripon College and later studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a master of fine arts degree in photography. He began his journalism career as a reporter for City News Bureau, the legendary Chicago training ground for Read more…
It’s the 25th year Anniversary Party-Extravaganza of the Poetry Slam! Join host Elysabeth Alfano on Fear No ART and go behind the scenes of the Green Mill in Chicago with performance poet Marc Smith. Marc Smith is a performance poet and the creator and founder of the International Poetry Slam movement. As stated in the Read more…
In this episode of Fear No ART Chicago, host Elysabeth Alfano goes behind the scenes with improviser Susan Messing, just minutes before her TBS Just For Laughs performance with Michael Patrick Thornton at the Annoyance Theatre. Then, in a rare, unedited interview, Elysabeth talks with Susan and Michael on the stage of the Annoyance Theatre, Read more…
Michael Patrick Thornton was a guest on the February 2013 Dinner Party. In this rare and unedited interview, Elysabeth Alfano, of Fear No ART, talks to Michael Patrick Thornton and Susan Messing on the stage of The Annoyance Theatre just minutes after their performance for the TBS Just For Laughs comedy Festival. In Susan’s interview, Read more…
Jon performs at the Jan. 30 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party broadcasts live the last Monday night of every month on FearNoART.tv For more information and to be a guest in the audience of a future Dinner Party, click here. The CD/Book release party for “Skull Orchard Revisited” is a Read more…
Here is a clip from Elysabeth’s show, Fear No Art, on Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. Joan Cusack began her acting career at The Piven Theatre Worshop, studying under Byne and Joyce Piven and crediting Joyce Piven with being instrumental in her acting career and he “artist mother”. Cusack has twice been nominated for Academy Award Read more…
JOYCE PIVEN (Co-Founder / Artistic Director Emeritus) was one of the founding members and leading actresses at Playwrights’ Theatre, the group that spawned Compass Players and Second City. With Playwright’s Theatre, she played leading roles in Midsummer Nights Dream, The Seagull, The Dybbuk, Round Dance and Caucasian Chalk Circle and studied extensively with Uta Hagen Read more…
Blair Thomas has been a practicing puppeteer in Chicago for over 20 years. The summer of 2010 he performed a 5-week run of his award winning solo shows entitled Hard Headed Heart. In the fall of 2008 he conceived, designed and directed The Ox-Herder’s Tale, a Buddhist parable at the Museum of Contemporary Art as Read more…
Candace Jordan is on the May 6th Dinner Party! A completely new and different kind of show, host Elysabeth Alfano invites three Chicago and/or national Celebs and a known chef to a dinner party. Over food, wine, chocolate, Twitter and a few impromptu performances, the conversations flow! Filmed live and streaming live on-line, buy your Read more…
Tony performs at the Jan. 30 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party broadcasts the last Monday of every month on FearNoArt.tv @ 7:30 CST. For more information and to be a guest in the audience, click here. http://youtu.be/SXh6dLZh7 Tony Fitzpatrick (b. 1958) has been a central figure in the Chicago art Read more…
