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Rick Kogan

Named Chicago’s Best Reporter and a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, Rick Kogan is a senior writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday section and creator and host of “The Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan” on WGN-AM. Kogan began his career at 16, working for the Chicago Sun-Times during the tumultuous Read more…

Charles Osgood

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…

Marc Smith

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…

Susan Messing

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

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, clips of her and Michael’s performance together round out the discussion. Michael Read more…

Jon Langford

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…

Joan Cusack

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 for Best Supporting Actress, for her work in Working Girl and In & Out. She Read more…

Joyce Piven & Joan Cusack

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

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 Collins Jordan

Candace Collins Jordan is an art collector and the founder and editor of www.candidcandace.com .  She is also the most popular, individual Chicago Fear No ART interview of 2011. Candace Collins Jordan began her career at age 13 in St. Louis, Mo. as the youngest fashion coordinator in the history of major retailer Famous-Barr.  At Read more…