Courtney Feiler, Brandon Rodriguez, Chase Wheaton-Werle, Salvio Gado

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Courtney Feiler is so excited to make her Zoom play debut in The Diplomats. She is a recent dropout of DePauw University. Since coming back to Chicago, she has studied at Black Box Acting Studio and with Susan Hart and Jeffrey Carlson. Most recently she has been seen in Invictus theater company's Merchant of Venice, and on her couch all of quarantine.  She would like to thank Random Acts for this amazing opportunity, and Sal for being a wonderful director.  

Chase Wheaton-Werle is excited to be a part of this production even from a social distance. His more recent appearances in the before times include KENNY in Last Night in Karaoke Town (Factory Theater), Champ in Oh, Shit! It's Haunted (Factory Theater), and as SETH (U/S) in Prophet$ (Factory Theater). Other appearances include Plainclothes (Broken Nose Theater), L'Imitation of Life and Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer (Hell in a Handbag) and as BRIAN in Flanagan's Wake (Chicago Theater Works). ​

Brandon Rodriguez’s most recent credits include Strange Heart Beating (Cloudgate Theatre); Plainclothes (Broken Nose Theatre); Mike Pence Sex Dream (First Floor Theatre) and Scary Stories: Are You Afraid? with Random Acts. They are a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago (Bachelors in Acting) and the ACADEMY at Black Box Acting.  They are represented by BMG Talent. 

Salvio Gado is super stoked to be working with Random Acts for the first time! Salvio is a proud af south-sider, born and raised in Gage Park. They earned a BA in Theater Performance from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016. Recent credits include Factory Theater's Last Night in Karaoke Town, The Runaway Lab's Doing Drugs and Dying in Space Ritual, and the smallest of open-shirt moments on Showtime's Work in Progress. Thanks to Random Acts for the opportunity and thanks to the cast for the hard work! 

Nelson Diaz-Marcano is a Puerto Rican playwright based in New York City. Nelson's main artistic mission is to raise awareness about the contrasting cultures that form the communities of this nation and in doing so, explore how they all fit together in the American experiment. His plays have been developed by Milagro Theatre, the William Inge Theatre Festival, Wordsmyth, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and The Parsnip Ship among others. His work has received awards from the Samuel French OOB Festival, the Fresh Fruit Festival, and the Downtown Urban Arts Festival (Radical.) Learn more at ndmstrikes.com.

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Produced through special arrangement with the playwright and Original Works Publishing.
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