Seth Bockley is a performer and director. He trained with Double Edge Theater in Ashfield, MA under artistic director Stacy Klein. In Chicago he has collaborated with the likes of Redmoon Theater, Lucky Pierre, and Local Infinities. He's excited to have his first original play, Any Illusion, produced by Walkabout.

Loren Crawford is a playwright, performer, filmmaker and educator. Her stage plays include Prelude: The Life and Work of Katherine Mansfield, Missing Memaw, Dye Frye & Wicked John and the Devil published by New Plays, Inc., Mama: A play for Voices , The Unembarrassed Mind with Stephan Mazurek and most recently The People Could Fly, scheduled to premiere at The Vittum Theater in February 2004. As a performer she has worked with Itinerant Theater Guild, Walkabout Theater, Next Theatre, Piven Theatre and XSight! Performance Group. She has worked extensively throughout Kentucky as an artist-in-residence developing and directing original work with students as well as designing and implementing an after-school theatre program for youth at risk. In Chicago she has taught theatre, humanities, language arts, writing and ecology at Triumphant Charter School. With Stephan Mazurek she formed Ruffian Pictures whose first full-length documentary "Under Kentucky Skies: 25 years of the Kentucky Music Weekend" has become a staple of KET, Kentucky's PBS station.

Christopher Hayes is a freelance journalist, playwright and actor. His work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, The New Republic Online, and the American Prospect. He graduated from Brown University in 2001 with a degree in philosophy, and a passion for theatre. He is thrilled to be working with Walkabout.

Michael Karrys (Business Manager) is a writer, software consultant, and businessman. He worked for 15 years as the MIS manager of Polak and Skan and currently has his own office software and accounting firm, Karrys Computing Inc.. If you ever have an emergency and need to call 911, you can partially thank Mike for a quick response time.

Stephan Mazurek is a longstanding member of Walkabout Theater Company where he has written & directed An Unembarrassed Mind, with Loren Crawford at the Storefront Theater, Voyaging, created by Julia Rhoads and himself for the 2004 PAC Edge Festival, People Can Fly, at the Vittum Theater, Missing Memaw, at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, the Breadline Theater and as part of the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Prelude, presented at the Chopin Theater, all written by Loren Crawford. He directed Walkabout's highly popular Downsize, by Christopher Welzenbach, which played in and around a dozen various men’s rooms through out Chicago in 2003/04. As a writer/ director/visual designer he is responsible for: Egon, Scribblings From A Broad, and Sydney: Dummy at Large, all produced by the Itinerant Theater Guild. As a visual designer some of his favorite designs include: No More by XSIGHT! Performance Group, Alice in Wonderland for Salt Creek Ballet, and The Perimeter and And So I May Return, by Plasticene Theater Company. As a director of photography his work has been seen on PBS, Discovery Channel, MTV, History Channel, etc.

Nina Sallinen, a founding member of WalkAboutTheater Company (with Kristan), is an actress from Finland. She's worked both in Finland and America, as well as Italy , France and Norway. Nina has acted in 53 theater productions now, including WalkAbout's: Poor Poor Lear (one -woman show), The Kingdom of Earth and Offspring of the Cold War. Other Chicago credits include work with European Rep., Buffalo Theater Ensemble, Running With Scissors and Dolled Up Productions. In Finland, worked with a number of different companies ,including the National Theater of Finland, and was a series regular for two different comedy variety shows on Finnish television. Now she lives in L.A with her husband Chris and their son Andrew. BUT she still will give her wise advice about everything concerning The WalkAbout Theater Company. And she will support whatever WalkAbout Theater Company does. And she will fly back to steal good roles!

Kristan Schmidt (Karrys) (Artistic Director) has been developing, directing and producing new work since the success of that first darn puppet experiment about 30 years ago. A former member of the original Organic Theatre in Chicago, she directed Walkabout's first two productions, Poor, Poor Lear and Kingdom of Earth. She is always on the look-out for what a theater event can be.

Mac Vaughey is a lighting and set designer. Walkabout credits include An Unembarrassed Mind and Any Illusion. Other experiences include design for Chicago’s Gift, Wing and Groove, and Victory Gardens companies, as well as the Actor’s Theater of Louisville, KY.