Archives: Team Members

Scott Westerman (he/him) is an actor, director, producer, filmmaker, and teaching artist based in Chicago. For Lookingglass, Scott understudied the Elf/Rat/Fishmonger/Big Brother track in Mary Zimmerman’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier. He is currently performing at Writers Theatre in Filament’s hit immersive production called Forts: Build Your Own Adventure. Scott is the founding Artistic Director of Go To Productions, a 501©3 nonprofit which develops projects that explore the nexus between live theatre and film. Scott created and directed the web series Hamlet & Ophelia which won Best Picture at the New York Film Awards, Best Web Series at the LA Film Awards, and Best Mobile Series at the 2022 New Media Film Festival. Scott has directed stage productions for The Artistic Home, ChiArts, City Lit Theatre, Chimera Theatre Company, Citadel Theatre, beyond this point Percussion Company, Barter Theatre, The Smithsonian Institution, American Theatre Company (Bridge), and Reverie Theatre Company. As an actor, Scott has worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Ford’s Theatre, Everyman Theatre Company, the Warehouse Theatre, the Barter Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Filament Theatre, The Artistic Home, Chicago Dramatists, Strawdog Theatre Company, Lifeline Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, A Crew of Patches, Mary Arrchie, and Festival Theatre of Oak Park. Film credits include Machine Gun Preacher, Prison Break, and Heist 88. Scott has an MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Academy. He is represented by Gray Talent Group. ScottWesterman.org 

Sonya Madrigal (she/her) is a proud first generation Mexican American  actor, director, mover and teaching artist from Chicago. She received her BFA in acting from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Past directing credits include: Marisol, Back the the night (UIC), and A lullaby for Irving (Cut to the Chase, Artistic Home) and assisted directed The Raveling (Walkabout Theater). Currently Sonya can be seen in the premiere of BERNARDA! with Teatro Vista co produced by Steppenwolf. Recent acting credits include: Villette (Lookingglass),Pequeños Territorios (Goodman/Destinos) Day of Absence (Congo Square); Hope Part II; A Mexican Trilogy (Teatro Vista); Oedipus Rex and The Adventures of Augie March (Court Theater).Regional  credits include Henry V (Riverside Theater); Letters From Cuba and Our Lady of 121st.  Sonya also choreographed and was a movement consultant on the Goodmans productions of Zulema and American Mariachi.She is proudly a part of the teaching artist community in Chicago and currently teacher for Steppenwolf and Lookingglass. She has taught a variety of age groups with: Lifeline Theater, Raven Theater, August Wilson Monologue competition, UIC project stage, and Depaul University Creative Root. Sonya is proudly represented by Stewart Talent 

Claribel Gross (she/her) is a theater maker, director and teaching artist.  She has training and experience in Devised Theater, Theater for Social Change, Solo performance, Theater of the Oppressed, Theater for Young Audiences and experimental writing and performance.  As a performer, teaching artist and arts administrator Claribel has worked in communities in the United States,  Latin America and Europe. Claribel is a founding member of The Midwives Artistic Collective, whose mission is to nurture the public creative spirit.   She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from the University of Minnesota.  As a teaching artist Claribel also works with Steppenwolf Theater and Mudlark Theater in Evanston.  She is a faculty member at the National High School Institute over the summer at Northwestern University and is an adjunct faculty member at Aurora University.