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JILL
EICKMANN, MA, MFTI
is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Lila Theatre.
She has been
acting for over eighteen years in New York City, San Francisco, and
throughout the US. She was the founder of the three person
long-form improvisational theatre ensemble, Road Dawgz, where she
performed with Dan Fogler (Balls of Fury, Kung Fu Panda) and Law Tarello (The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) throughout NYC. Jill’s
Bay Area performance highlights include Sacrifices and Transformations,
Life and Adventures!, her one woman show, God Put A Smile Upon
My Face, and The Razowsky Project, collaborating with the
Artistic Director of The Second City (Los Angeles), David Razowsky. She
was the Children’s Theatre Director at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland,
where she created and directed several original shows and two main stage
seasons. Jill directed Aladin Jr. with Kids Take the Stage, and
over fifty original productions with Lila Theatre. She has taught
improvisational theatre at Stanford University (GSB), the University of
Chicago (GSB), San Francisco Day School, Lila Theatre, and Rising
Stars. Jill received her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an
emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral
Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of
Florida - Go Gators!!! She has performed in the Chicago Improv Festival
and has studied with some of the best from Uprights Citizens Brigade, The
Second City, Improv Olympic, and Annoyance Productions. Jill passionately
believes in the healing power of play. Using improvisation and play
therapy techniques, she has worked with in-patient psychiatric patients,
families involved in the foster care system, and at-risk youth, fostering
great change in our world.
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CHRISTOPHER EICKMANN, MFA is the
Co-Artistic Director/Producer and co-founder of Lila Theatre. He has
worked as a producer, musician, writer, improvisor, and sound
designer/engineer on a number of productions, including: Broadway: City
Center Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert-On a Clear Day You
Can See Forever. Off-B’way: Beautiful Warrior,
Bonnie and
Clyde,
National Alliance for Musical Theatre-Festival of New Musicals,
Surviving Grace, This Thing of Darkness. San Francisco: A
Little Bit of Broadway, The Last Five Years, Life and Adventures, Love Letters, New Voices
Cabaret, The Razowsky Project, Reflections, Sacrifices & Transformations, The Santaland
Diaries, Twinspeak, Uninhibited, With Love We Travel, Other Regional:
Big Stinkin’ International Improv Festival, C.M. Phillips
Center-visiting National Tours: Alvin Alley Dance Theatre, West
Side Story, Walt Disney Entertainment: Beauty and the Beast,
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular,
The Little Mermaid. Universal Studios: The Barney Show.
Composer–stage:
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, The Naked Family, To Live or Die, The
Lobster and the Crab, and Orestes. Composer-film:
Dust Off, Potato Sac
and Little Men. Mr. Eickmann studied musical improv direction and
producing at The Second City (Chicago) and has had the great opportunity to
study within colloquiums and workshops lead by Lynn Ahrens, Del Close, David
Darling, William
Finn, Stephen Flaherty, Tina Landau, Alan Menken, Meredith Monk, Siliva
Nakkach, Mick Napier, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Pollock, and George C.
Wolf. Mr. Eickmann received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University, Tisch
School of the Arts. He was a new
writer’s resident at Goodspeed Musicals and has participated in the Chicago
Improv Festival. He is a certified sound healing practitioner having
completed the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Program at the California
Institute of Integral Studies. In addition to his
work at Lila Theatre, Mr. Eickmann currently works as a staff composer/sound
designer at Creativity, Inc.
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