"Herceg is perfection as the no-nonsense woman well aware of her son’s boorishness." - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
"The show's strongest element is Lisa Herceg...It's a hoot of a performance." - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
"Lisa Herceg shoulders the play’s dialect...with timing and wit." - Megan Powell, TimeOut Chicago
"Lisa Herceg's sparkling performance...borders on sheer joyous theft from the great Rosalind Russell." - Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune
"Herceg kicks it, elegantly, into the highest rafters." - Brian Kirst, Sheridan Road Magazine
"In the lead, Lisa Herceg is sensational." - Katy Walsh, The Fourth Walsh
"Lisa Herceg sets the bar high." - Robert Bullen, ChicagoTheatreAddict.com
"The show's strongest element is Lisa Herceg...It's a hoot of a performance." - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
"Lisa Herceg shoulders the play’s dialect...with timing and wit." - Megan Powell, TimeOut Chicago
"Lisa Herceg's sparkling performance...borders on sheer joyous theft from the great Rosalind Russell." - Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune
"Herceg kicks it, elegantly, into the highest rafters." - Brian Kirst, Sheridan Road Magazine
"In the lead, Lisa Herceg is sensational." - Katy Walsh, The Fourth Walsh
"Lisa Herceg sets the bar high." - Robert Bullen, ChicagoTheatreAddict.com
Theater - Current Projects
Blue/Whitney
by Steven Haworth June 15, 7:30pm June 23, 2pm June 27, 7:30pm Chicago DCA Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph Stage Left Theatre's Leapfest X Directed by: Greg Werstler Appearing as: Dana Wing Blue/Whitney follows Dana Wing, a wealthy and puritanical mother from Westchester whose 15 year-old daughter Whitney runs away and is murdered. The police arrest Virgil, 16, African American, and Whitney's boyfriend while she was missing. Dana is able to watch Virgil's interrogation and becomes convinced of two things: Virgil is innocent and she has absolutely no idea who her daughter was. Dana bails Virgil out of jail in order to get a tour of Whitney's life in the months before she died. This causes high outrage from all quarters: husband, police, even Virgil's mother. Through Virgil, Dana learns about Whitney from Whitney's friends in the Manhattan neighborhood where Whitney lived. Each revelation is more shattering and incomprehensible than the last but Dana insists on the truth at all costs even as she grows more and more precarious herself. Finally, she meets the famous Zeke, a strange, loquacious 17-year old heroin dealer with long prematurely grey hair, who claims he can deliver all Dana wants to know. Image courtesy of Stage Left Theatre. Synopsis by Steven Haworth The Enduring Banquet
2013 New Play Development Workshop: The Bechdel Test
Women's Theatre Alliance Tuesday, June 25th at 7PM Stage 773 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Chicago, IL Directed by Emmi Hilger Appearing as Lanie What looks like a scandalous affair between two women becomes a warm, comedic view into long-term relationships and the true meaning of intimacy. And coming soon...
180 Degree Rule
by M.E.H. Lewis & Barbara Lhota Fighting Words Series Babes With Blades Theatre Company July 28, 1pm Profiles Alley Stage 4147 N. Broadway Directed by Allison Dornheggen Appearing as Margot Faber The search for a lost film masterpiece leads to a tangle of murder, betrayal and long-hidden secrets. In the 1960s, a college lecturer searches for the missing masterpiece of an obscure director, who died mysteriously pre-World War II, at the height of her talent. The lecturer speculates that the lesbian filmmaker was murdered because she defied movie studio heads by flaunting her sexuality in public with their "it" girl and in the film the studio financed. But once the college lecturer involves the director's former lover, an aging, reclusive German movie-star, a very different and even more disturbing narrative unravels. |
Film - Recent Projects
Screams on Planet Zero (Trailer)
Sword & Cloak Productions Written and Directed by David Schmidt Appearing as Betty (Lead) Click here to watch it! Part of Terror in the Aisle's Sci-Fi Spectacular Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Portage Theatre 4050 N. Milwaukee Chicago, IL 
And Look For...
Arianna is a young woman that moves to the city to escape a traumatic family life in the suburbs. She works as a cosmetologist and is showing early signs of formaldehyde poisoning. New to the city and lonely, she reaches out to a female sex line operator. They agree to meet and soon begin an extremely volatile relationship. An altercation at work results in Arianna losing her job. Then, people in her life begin to turn up dead. With Arianna's health, career, and new relationship all disintegrating before her eyes, how much longer can she, and those around her, survive? Filmed October/November 2012 for 2013 Release Photo Copywright 2012, Soft Cage Films NFP |
