tres bitches --or-- i wanna go to moscow

pants is the nom de guerre of performance artist, writer, director and collaborator Chantal Pavageaux. Original works include The Love Party: how love will give you cholera (to be revived at the BLB this spring) and The Political Party: Election Night (look for it on Election Night). Within the last year, she directed both L’Chayim and Jihad: The Musical. [insert joke here] She co-founded the New York performance collective The Royal Lace Paper Works, is an associate of the SFA Grocery: an art manufactory and has collaborated with theatrical companies including but not limited to the TEAM, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Target Margin Theater, and The Bushwick Hotel. She also crafts handmade gifts for bitchcraft and fashions hairstyles and make-ups as Les Short .

Lisa Clair is proud to be a bitch (In Tres Bitches). She was last seen at the BLB in the original creation, Jake-a-Dee Myer. Lisa has acted for The Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Park Square Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theatre, Stages Theatre and The Mixed Blood Theatre. She has also been a part of the Red Eye, Works in Progress and The Pillsbury House, Chicago ave. project. She has put on plays in her parlor, sang in the rock n roll band Brown Moses, baked muffins and scones and taught acting to children. 

Ariel Dumas is a local performer whose credits include Red Eye (Patty Red Pants, Reservoir Dogs), Wicked Sister Dance Theatre, Frank Theatre (Mother Courage), Emigrant Theatre (Kid Simple), Theater in the Round (The Dresser) and various choreographic work (Ugly Girls (and plenty of them) at the 9x22 Dance/Lab, choreography for Red Eye's Reservoir Bitches). Ariel recently staged and performed in Lucy's Epic Lifestyle, a piece of her own creation, for Red Eye's annual Works-in-Progress festival.  In her first year at Macalester College, Ariel was assigned the role of Natasha to prepare for a class project.  Her partner, Elliot, was assigned another role, possibly Vershinin.  They did their research by taking a chatty walk to Super America, in character.  While this outing's effectiveness is still under debate, it undoubtedly served her well in this piece.  Big thanks to the pants.  

Elise Langer was born and raised in Paris, France and moved to California in High School. She has her BA in Theatre from UC San Diego and continued her theatre training at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has lived and performed in San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Paris, Boise, and now Minneapolis! She is so excited to work with the pants and all the rockin’ people on 3 Bitches!!

Erin Search-Wells is a recent return from NYC where she attended the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.  Since graduation she played in shows at LaMama, St. Ann's Warehouse, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Galapagos and several dance-theater venues.  Erin appeared in Dead City and Chantal Pavageaux's Love Will Give You Cholera at the Red Eye Theatre.  Upcoming projects:  Tres Bitches in the Chekhov Festival at Bryant Lake Bowl, and an original piece to be presented in the Catch Series on January 27th at the BLB.

Byrd Shuler has appeared in Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra's She Captains, Bright Eye Production's Future/Now at the Bedlam Theater, Chantal Pavageaux's Love Will Give You Cholera at the Red Eye and various other projects throughout the Twin Cities.  She is a recipient of the 2008 Naked Stages performance art grant through Intermedia Arts, and a student of Shiatsu massage.  Byrd graduated from the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004 and continues to be interested in the collaborative and exploratory creation of performance.

Josh Boertje graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2006. While there, he had an amazing time playing in a few shows, which include: Tartuffe, Footprints, Scenes from an Execution, Bat Boy the Musical, All's Well That Ends Well, Mr. Bundy, Electra , and more! After travelling to London and back to study acting, he has since then moved around the twin cities in search of his acting career. If you're from the area, you may have seen him searching in shows such as: Mysterious Bruises (06 fringe show); Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (Dinner Theatre); and a few short films. "It's both fun and exciting to be playing at one of my favorite locations in the cities. Thanks to all of you who came, saw the show, and read this... Awesome."

Dave Heffernan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. with a B.A. in Art. He is a long distance runner and annually runs the Twin Cities and Grandma’s Marathons. Tres Bitches will be Dave’s first show with the pants and will be his Bryant Lake Bowl debut.

Zachary Humes' three favorite karaoke songs are "Nights in White Satin" (Moody Blues), "New Song" by Howard Jones, and Phil Collins' entire cannon. His favorite karaoke partner is the pants.

Leif Jurgensen has performed in numerous productions at The Children’s Theatre Company since 1991, most recently as Bartholomew in A Special Trade.  Next he will be performing in Eurydice with 10,000 Things Theater.  Other local theatres including 15 Head, Frank Theatre, The Guthrie, Outward Spiral, Bedlum, MN Fringe, and Theater Mu.  He studied Ballet at Ballet Arts, and trained at the SITI Company's Summer Intensive.  Leif is also a Teaching Artist with CTC's nationally recognized Neighborhood Bridges Program.

Michael Ooms is a native Minnesotan who, believe it or not, doesn't live here for the snow.  In the past year he has appeared in Chekhov's The Bear at the Bryant Lake Bowl; Love's Prick by local playwright Matthew Everett; Measure for Measure with NightPath Theatre Co.; and most recently A Klingon Christmas Carol with Commedia Beauregard.  He can also be seen in The Seagull, another part of this fantabulous Chekhov Festival.