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		Jon Sherman is co-founder and Artistic Director of sprung. He completed the two-year program at L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq and studied theatre and dance at Middlebury College and the British American Dramatic Academy. He has performed in New York, Switzerland, and Washington, DC, with theatres from Arena Stage to the Potomac Theatre Project, playing roles such as Roderick Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher, Jules in Jules and Jim, Antonio in Twelfth Night, and Charles Dickens, Carl Jung, and other sexual deviants in Vampire. In Chicago, Jon has performed with Lucky Plush Productions, Mordine and Company, Cie. Felix Ruckert, and Asimina Chremos, as well as directing, performing with, and teaching for 500 Clown. He was assistant director to Mary Zimmerman for Pericles at the Goodman, and was also a member of DOG, with whom he created and performed in WinSer2003:AD and Interference. He directed and performed in Abound, co-directed and performed in Capsize, seep, and And I, directed but probably not, and regularly gives movement workshops through sprung and other companies. Jon is currently in Northwestern's Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama.
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