Caroline Andres

Caroline Andres joined the Sweats in 2009 and has worked as an actress and theatre arts manager in Los Angeles and Chicago. As an actress she has performed most notably with Sacred Fools in LA where she earned a Drama Critics Award Nomination for comedic acting. Arts management highlights include Admin Director for Piven Theatre in Evanston and Arts Expand in Los Angeles, as well as running after-school arts programs for LA Unified School District and The Mark Taper Forum, and helping to found the Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Teaching.

Dorothy Milne

Dorothy is a founding member of Sweat Girls, has written and performed in most of the shows and directed several as well. She is also the artistic director of Lifeline Theatre, where she has directed numerous Jeff citation and After Dark award-winning productions including Around the World in 80 Days, Jane Eyre, Pistols for Two, The Talisman Ring, Gaudy Night, Strong Poison and A Room with a View. Dorothy and Lifeline are also part of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District, where she serves as one of the organizers of the Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest, an annual Rogers Park free arts/music/theater festival.

Clare Nolan

Clare has been a Sweat since the beginning. Her theatre credits also include acting work in a range of other places, including Body Politic, Lifeline, the Organic, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, New Tuners’ Theater, Columbia College, and Blind Parrot Productions. She served as Artistic Director of Blind Parrot and also as a writer/composer for the company’s productions of American Gothic and Exploits Of A Living Newspaper. She is a recipient of both a Jeff Nomination and a Jeff Citation. Clare is a longtime member of the theatre faculty at Columbia College. Additionally, she teaches preaching at Seabury Theological Seminary and through the Association of Chicago Theological Seminaries’ Doctor of Ministry in Preaching Program. Her work in preaching also includes workshops and private coaching. In a parallel life, Clare has appeared as a singer in local music venues, including the Gaslight Club, Seasons at the Penthouse, and the Zebra Lounge. She treasures her time as a mom and a wife, as well as her 20-year gig serving the youth in her church as an adult advisor. Clare received her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and hopes never to stop learning.

Pamela Webster

Pamela is a founding member of Sweat Girls. Her “non sweat” credits include a Jeff Award for Artie in Eleemosynary at Interplay, a Jeff Citation for her performance in Noises Off at Pegasus Players, and a Jeff Nomination for best supporting actress for Interplay’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses. With a fellow Sweat Girl, Pamela co-adapted a children’s musical, Hen Lake, which premiered at Lifeline Theatre. She currently teaches in the After School Arts Program in her hometown of Oak Park, working with 2nd to 5th graders on storytelling and story acting. For adults, she teaches a variety of bead and jewelry-making classes and also is a certified LAMAS Qi Gong instructor.

Jane Blass

Jane is a founding Sweat Girl member and is currently living in New York city where she appeared off Broadway in Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden. In Chicago, her world premiere roles included Winnie in Pulp (About Face Theater); Elizabeth Willard in Winesburg, Ohio (About Face Theater/Steppenwolf); Creon in God And Country and Sally Oglesby in Blissfield (both with Victory Gardens Theater); and Elaine in James Lapine and William Finn’s Muscle (Pegasus Players). She also played Cynthia in the long-running hit A Girl’s Guide To Chaos at the Royal George/Halsted Theater Center. Touring roles include the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (Starlight Theater), the Female Authority Figure in the first national tour of Broadway’s Hairspray, the Beggar Woman in the 2005 holiday tour of Scrooge The Musical with Richard Chamberlain (Blood Brothers), the Baker’s Wife in the second national tour of Into The Woods (Big League), and the Middle Eastern tour of Side By Side By Sondheim (Pegasus Players). Jane is an accomplished cabaret singer and sang and played keyboards with the popular rockabilly band Flapperjack. She can be heard on their CD Andersonville. Jane created the cover art for the Sweat Girls’ spoken word CD.

Jenifer Tyler

Jenifer is a graduate of The Goodman School of Drama, now known as The Theatre School of DePaul University. A founding member of the Sweat Girls, she has performed with the Sweats from Manhattan to San Francisco. Jenifer is also a member of the artistic ensemble of Lifeline Theatre. In 2001 she was awarded a Joseph Jefferson Citation for “Outstanding Actress in a Principle Role” for her performance as Jane in Lifeline’s original adaptation of Jane Eyre. In addition to roles at Lifeline, she has also been seen in Chicago at greasy joan & co., and in many Touchstone/Organic productions including Into The Woods, The Seagull, and Hedda Gabler. Jenifer also teaches drama in the Chicago Public Schools through Lifeline’s Artists in Residency Program. In December 2006 she made her directing debut with The Velveteen Rabbit in Lifeline Theatre’s award-winning KidSeries. This June she will reprise her Jeff-nominated role as Harriet Vane in Lifeline Theatre’s Gaudy Night at Theatre On The Lake.