Actors and Directors

Jim Craven, Actor
Jim has worked with Theatre at Work since 1994. He has been a member of the Penumbra Theatre Company for 18 years, appearing in over a dozen shows including Seven Guitars, Malcolm X, Tracers, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and most recently, Blues for an Alabama Sky. Jim has also appeared onstage in the Twin Cities at Mixed Blood, the Guthrie, and Illusion Theater. Nationally, he has performed at ACT in San Francisco, Houston's Alley Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and in the European tour as well as the Broadway production of Gospel at Colonus.

Phil Kilbourne, Director/Actor
Phil has worked with Theatre at Work for since 1997. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Boston University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from the Ohio State University. As an actor he has appeared in over 175 plays. Most recently he has appeared with the Jungle Theatre in Minneapolis in The Dazzle, Hapgood, and A Perfect Crime. He was named the Best Actor in the Twin Cities for 2005 by the City Pages. In the Twin Cities he has also appeared in Penumbra Theatre's Dinah Was and as Oppenheimer in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Frank Theatre. Other role include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Titus Andronicus, and Dr. Frankenstein, as well as appearing in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, (Abridged), Recently he has directed Romeo and Juliet, The Miser and Jack and Jill.

Lauralee Perdue, Actor
Lauralee has worked with Theatre at Work since 1997. Her Twin Cities theatre credits include Mary Worth Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre, The Great American History Theatre, Mystery Café, and numerous independent productions. She toured the United States and Ontario with Troupe America and the Children's Theatre Company. Lauralee is a member of "Sweat", an improvisational theatre team that performs at the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis.

Kevin West, Actor
Kevin has worked with Theatre at Work since 1997. His Twin Cities theatre credits include the Penumbra Theatre Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Mystery Cafe and a variety of others. Kevin has toured all over Minnesota and Canada doing educational theatre in the school system. Nationally he has appeared onstage in Florida, Illinois and Missouri.