Theatre
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Vance Smith with Associate Director Peter Robel

A Co-Production of Stage Left Theatre and BoHo
at Theatre Wit

January 5th - February 10th, 2013
Appearing as Mrs. Higgins
"The brilliant Lisa Herceg..steals each scene she is in."
- Michael Roberts, Showbiz
Chicago
"[An] aptly caustic Mrs.
Higgins." - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

"Herceg nearly walks away with the show with her curt
and commandeering performance..." - Scott C. Morgan, Windy City
Times
"Lisa Herceg’s proper Mrs. Higgins shines with ingenious
heart and strength." - Brian Kirst, Sheridan Road Magazine

In this classic play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady, dialect expert Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can teach Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle to pass as a “proper lady.” Stage Left teams with fellow Theater Wit Resident Company Boho Theatre to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first production of this timeless story.
Photo by Johnny Knight Photo, courtesy of Stage Left Theatre and BoHo Theatre, copywright 2013

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Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride
by Reina Hardy
Directed by Dan Foss
Babes With Blades Theatre Company
"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
"In the lead, Lisa Herceg is sensational."  - Katy Walsh, The Fourth Walsh

 












August - September, 2012
Appeared as Susan Swayne

Meet Susan Swayne and the Society of Lady Detectives – aside from their interest in swordplay, they’re all perfectly proper Victorian women.  Or are they?  When the distraught Isabelle Fontaine-Kite insists that a member of the S.O.L.D. is actually her missing husband, Eric, Susan Swayne is on the case!
Photo by Steven Townsend; courtesy of Babes With Blades Theatre Company.  Copywright 2012

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The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Directed by Greg Kolack

Redtwist Theatre

"Lisa Herceg affects just the
right amount of flourish and wry, determined outrage." - Catey Sullivan, Examiner.com
"Particularly strong ...[Herceg] wrung both laughter and tears from
the audience with her nuanced performances of
multiple characters."
- Beth Dugan, Edge


Appeared as Catherine Connolly and other roles
March 4 - April 7, 2012
The sequel is the terrific follow-up to the legendary work produced by the Tectonic Theater Project in 1998 in the immediate aftermath of the Matthew Shepard murder in Laramie, Wyoming. Since that watershed hate crime, Tectonic has reconnected with nearly all the people whom they interviewed (and who appeared as characters in the original play) to assess how they have changed. The results are startling, regarding both growth and stasis.  (Synopsis courtesy of Redtwist Theatre)

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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

by Jeff Goode
Stage Left Theatre
Appeared as Blitzen
December 9th - 31, 2011
"From Vance Smith’s masculine, ultra-cool Dasher to Lisa Herceg’s passionately powerful Blitzen and Lindsey Pearlman’s coyly potent Vixen, all the performers and the piece’s multiple directors give the show definition." - Brian Kirst, Sheridan Road Magazine

Scandal erupts at the North Pole when Santa is accused by one of his tiny reindeer of very, very bad things.  A profane Christmas show with a seriously funny edge.
Photo courtesy of Stage Left Theatre

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The Double by Barbara Lhota

"Leading the laughter with an ode to Rosalind Russell is
spectacular, wisecracking Lisa Herceg." - Katy Walsh, Chicago Theatre Beat

"Herceg sets the bar high, and the rest of the cast rises to her." - Bob Bullen, Chicago Theatre Addict 

Babes With Blades Theatre Company
Appeared as Rosalind Rollins
August 13th - September 24th, 2011

Screwball comedy meets swashbuckler in this world-premiere tribute to Cyrano de Bergerac and the 1940′s.  Featuring single sword and unarmed combat, THE DOUBLE promises laughter, love, and derring-do.

Photo courtesy of Johnny Knight Photography and Babes With Blades Theatre Company, 2011

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Make Sure It’s Me by Kate Wenner
Leapfest 8, Stage Left Theatre

June 17 - July 2, 2011
Appeared as Dr. Josephine Fitch

As waves of vets return from Iraq, doctors confront a devastating new war injury – brain damage from the
concussive force of repeated IED’s.  Scrambling to keep a lid on a what could be a very expensive problem, the military enlists Dr. Josephine Fitch to secretly study five injured vets.  Seeing their courage and profound losses, she questions how long she can keep quiet about Pentagon stonewalling.

Photo courtesy of Stage Left Theatre, 2011

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Erratica by Reina Hardy

American Demigods
"A smart little sleeper of a romantic comedy." - Mary Shen-Barnidge, Windy City
Times Critics Picks

"Herceg charmingly delivers smart and sardonic exasperation down
pat." - Chicago Theater
Beat

April 21 - May 14, 2011
Appeared as Dr. Samantha Stafford

Bad poetry, good sex, and severe academic misconduct.  Professor Samantha Stafford - bitter, brilliant, foxy - just wants to write a brilliant book on Shakespeare.  But one of her students is madly in love with her, her publicist wants her to do something more commercial, and she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlowe.  Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, the university's most rugged and studly librarian, has lost a prized manuscript to a mysterious thief.  Can Stafford prove her innocence, clear her mind, finish her book and keep her pantsuit on?  Find out in this sassy, smart, and unforgettable farce.

Photo courtesy of American Demigods, 2011

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Film

War Is Kind
A film by Ursula Ellis
Northwestern University Women Filmmakers' Alliance 2011-2012 Grant Recipient
In this surreal coming-of-age drama, a rebellious yet naive young girl must cope with being forced to grow up too fast when her father is deployed to Iraq. One day, she receives a post card reminiscent of a childhood memory and begins having dreams of a green door in a desert. As the dreams begin surfacing in her everyday life, she must decide between initiating herself further with her up-to-no-good friends or retaining her innocence.
Featured as: Carla Snowe

Gone in 360 Seconds - Featured

Masters of the Obvious Films
May, 2011
Corporate Superheroes Captain Strategy and Paradigm Woman come to the "rescue" of two intrepid entrepreneurs - with hilarious and disastrous results.  Featured as: Paradigm Woman
Click here to see the film!

Finding Jane - Featured
Blue Bassoon Pictures
March, 2011
A lonely man fascinated with the works of Jane Austen tries to find love with speed dating - and ends up finding more than he bargained for.  Featured as: Mary

Blindsided - Featured
Fearless Flicks
June, 2010
Eddie (Kevin Viol), a troubled young man, returns to a town where he once lived in a desperate attempt to reconnect with his past. On his
journey, he has a heated exchange with a drug dealer (John Rushing) that has him running from the law. He seeks comfort in the company of a lonely older woman (Janet B. Milstein) he encounters in a bar. These events lead him down a path from which there is no return. In a twist of fate, shocking truths are revealed and he is forced to face his role in the destruction of all he so deeply wanted to know.  Featured as: Delia
Click here for the trailer

Strangers - Lead
Films by Carter
May, 2009
A man and woman meet in a train station on Christmas Eve and begin an elaborate, cruel game - a ritual that forces them to face who they blame for their most staggering losses. Starring as: Maddie

Photo by Theojam.com

Finding Jane - Featured

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