About Private Portions

Private Portions is a sketch-writing collective of graduates from Second City's Core Writing Program dedicated to crafting intelligent, sophisticated sketch comedy that will make funny in your tummy pouch.

Ward Crockett

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Ward Crockett has written, produced, and directed a number of short films ranging from comedy to horror to experimental. His short horror films Crawlspace and Projector screened at the 2009 Denver Underground Film Festival, and his 2003 film The Pill screened at four film festivals around the country, garnering an Honorable Mention Award en route. His first feature-length film, Night Things, is currently in audio post-production at Particle Audio in downtown Chicago. In 2006, his spoof of the It Takes a Thief television program was chosen by the Discovery Channel as a finalist in the You Spoof Discovery contest. In addition to his film work, Ward is a professional freelance writer and copy editor. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been featured in GUD, Thieves Jargon, Kaleidotrope, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Rockstar, among other print and online publications. Check out his film work at Last Night of April Productions and YouTube.

Adrienne Dawes

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Adrienne Dawes is an accomplished playwright, her work produced by American Repertory Theatre of London; Live Girls Theatre!; Little Fish Theatre Company; New England Academy of Theater; NJ Rep; Hyde Park Theater; Mir Productions and St Idiot Collective. Her plays have been published by Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Heuer Publishing and Vintage Books. The self-produced premiere of her full-length play You Are Pretty was awarded an Austin Scriptworks Seed Support Grant, Marchbanks Family Foundation Grant, City of Austin Cultural Contract Grant and nominated for three Austin Critics Table Awards and one B. Iden Payne Award in 2008. Adrienne completed Second City's Core Writing and Music Improv Programs, The Playground Theater's first Sketch Lab and contributed sketches to Fighting Neverland, a sketch revue produced for Donny's Skybox Theater in 2010. Peep her blog at heckleher.weebly.com.

C. Dylan Plummer

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C. Dylan Plummer hails from Oregon and is embarking on his fourth year in Chicago. He is a founding member of Private Portions, and graduated from the Writing Program at The Second City Training Center with Ward and Adrienne. While there, he wrote for the sketch revue Smokin' Hot Zombie Tots, which ran at Donny's Skybox. Plummer is a graduate of the Improvisation Program at The Annoyance, and is currently studying Musical Improv with Jason Grimm. At The Annoyance, he has done student showcases Cheap Beer Improv and The Musical Improv Showcase, which featured his original song "Boom Boom." Plummer is Associate Artistic Director of Bare Boned Theatre where he is developing the Outside/In Reading Series, directed episodes of The Ville, and dramaturged the world premiere production of The Hecubae by Jeff Bouthiette, Rebekah Walendzak and the BBT Ensemble. His children's play "The Toy Maker" was produced by The Idaho Repertory Theatre for Youth where he also directed the record setting play "Seagirl," which subsequently toured Washington and Idaho. Plummer has numerous directing and stage management credits, and has worked with Idaho Repertory Theatre and oberved at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA.. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Idaho, and an undergraduate degree from Eastern Oregon University. He has received directing citations from the Kennedy Center/ACTF for productions of Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear," "The Laramie Project," and Lee Blessing's "Down the Road." Plummer's current projects outside of Private Portions include the upcoming script for the one act play "Noodling," directing the one man show "I Know Why the Salmon Swims Up Stream," performing in the improvised "Balls Out: The Musical" for The Annoyance's Triple Feature, and is one half of the improv duo ShameFist with Dustin Adams.