Lawrence Grimm has been an actor and teacher for over 20 years. His teaching artist work includes extensive residencies in New York and Chicago’s public, private, and parochial schools, social services facilities, and with corporate businesses and ad agencies. In New York he worked with Lincoln Center Institute, Roundabout Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, and Arts Connection. In Chicago his affiliations as a teacher include the Second City, Piven Theater Workshop, the Acting Studio, Writer’s Theater, Lookingglass Theater, The Illinois Arts Council, CAPE, Urban Gateways and Steppenwolf for Young Audiences where he serves as Senior Facilitator for Curriculum and Instruction. 

​Lawrence has a Masters in Education from DePaul University and was a high school English and Drama teacher at Stevenson High School for three years and Chicago’s public high school for the arts, Chi-Arts, for four years.  He was the director of the Thresholds Theater Arts Project for seven years which brought the voices of adults who have suffered from mental illness to the stage. Additionally he has worked with the Memory Ensemble and those afflicted with Alzheimer’s through the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

As an actor, he is a founding ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theater and is the Director of Education and co-founder of their Youth Ensemble. He has worked extensively at Chicago’s prominent theaters including shows with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Next, Timeline, Court,  Collaboraction, Piven Theater Workshop and the Goodman. Film and Television roles include Welcome to Me (directed by Shira Piven with Kristen Wiig), Chicago PD, Unsolved Mysteries, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Cicero in Winter and Perfect Manhttan.

Jazmine Reynolds is the Event Manager at GCM Grosvenor, a global alternative investment management firm. She has a background in theatre and performance and spent the first 15 years of her life on stage. Jazmine travelled for four years with The Young Americans teaching music outreach workshops to children and adults, and spent 2 summers at the Boyne Highlands Dinner Theatre in Petoskey, Michigan. 

​Although born and raised in the midwest, Jazmine has been blessed to travel the world. She earned her Bachelors in Business and Event Management at The University of Greenwich in London, England. 
Jazmine is excited to be back in Chicago and have the opportunity to share her passion for the arts again. She picked up a love of rugby while across the pond, and spends her free time doing yoga, is an active theatre-goer, and enjoys a nice cup of coffee and a great book. 

Favorite Shakespeare play: Twelfth Night

William Loesch is a principal at Goldberg Kohn Ltd where he chairs the firm's Corporate, Securities & Tax Group. He advises businesses ranging from start-ups to public companies in a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, debt and equity financing, dealership and distributorship relationships, and employment and consulting agreements.

Clients for whom Mr. Loesch regularly provides representation span a broad range of industries, including consumer products, advertising, marketing, business services and equipment manufacturing. Mr. Loesch also has extensive experience in education law, particularly in mergers and acquisitions of post-secondary schools, both domestic and international. In addition, he has experience in contract matters relating to the Internet, including Web site development agreements, Web site hosting arrangements, and Web-based advertising and marketing agreements.

Samuela Noumtchuet is a CYS alum and Boston College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. After graduating, Samuela shifted her artistic passions to television, working behind the scenes on shows such as The Neighborhood, The Masked Singer, and The Bold & The Beautiful. Currently, she is working as a Creative Coordinator at Silvergate Media, a production company specializing in children's animation.

Acting credits include The Cherry Orchard, Stop Kiss, Big Love, and The Tempest. Writing credits include Two Face, produced by Speakeasy Stage Company for the 2017 Boston Theater Marathon. Directing credits include The Vagina Monologues at Boston College. Samuela was also awarded 2nd Runner Up in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 1.  
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​Favorite Shakespeare plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Tempest. 

​Bonnie Seebold is a retired high school English teacher, having taught at Francis W. Parker School for over 40 years. Her courses included Reading and Writing in the Various Genres, Chamber Theater (Literature Adapted for the Stage), Contemporary Global Novel, and Shakespeare.

​Bonnie has directed many scenes from short stories and Shakespeare as well as truncated hour-long versions of such plays as As You Like It, The Tempest, and Hamlet, and an adaptation of Gogol's The Nose for Chamber Theater. Prior to her tenure at Francis Parker, Bonnie taught for four years at Fenton High School, where she developed the school's Literary Magazine.

Bonnie holds a B.S., in Journalism from the University of Illinois; M.A.T. in English Education from The University of Chicago; postgraduate work in Oral Interpretation in the Speech and Theatre Department at Northwestern University.

Favorite Shakespeare play: "I cannot choose. Like Cleopatra, Shakespeare's 'infinite variety' never stales." 

Joshua Zambrano is an alum of the CYS program and went on to graduate from Colorado College with a Bachelor of Arts in Organismal Biology and Ecology (OBE).  While his degree may be in science, his heart has always been in the theatre and working with youth. After graduating, he worked as a tutor/mentor and site coordinator for Driven & Empowered Youth, Inc, a program aimed at providing free tutoring resources and summer programs to students in under-resourced CPS high schools on Chicago's northwest side. Starting in the fall of 2018, Josh was asked to serve as an interim science teacher at his alma mater, the Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts), where he served for two years. Currently, he is working as an instructor in the Theatre department at ChiArts, teaching acting techniques to first-year students.

Josh is a working actor and current ensemble member of Visión Latino Theater Company and Counter Collective, two theater companies whose missions are geared towards enacting positive change in the theater community of Chicago and telling the stories of those who are less likely to be heard.
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Favorite Shakespeare play: Macbeth  

​Norma is an entrepreneur and a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Speaker and Trainer. Considered an expert in relationship building, Norma often speaks on topics related to all aspects of wellness and represents companies that help people break the cycle of physical, emotional, spiritual and financial poverty. Norma has worked in the financial industry for 21+ years, serving as Vice President of Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group, Vice President of International Services for The World Trade Center in Chicago, President and CEO of Total Natural Solutions LLC, Founder of Total Natural Fitness Studio, Business Development Consultant and PR for Negocios Now and Executive Director for The John Maxwell Company.