About This Face

BRIEFLY ABOUT THIS FACE:

  • How to pronounce the name: Tay-uh Lucks
  • She chucked a shoe over her shoulder in a commercial filmed in Iowa.
  • Her band went out of business.  She’s in a new band now.
  • She slung banjo riffs for  The New Colony’s Jeff Recommended show and is in workshops for their fall production.
  • She’s getting married and has a cat who is weird.

MORE ABOUT THIS FACE:
ACTOR: Thea Lux has been involved in Chicago’s theater community since 2001 after graduating with a film degree from Columbia College Chicago. In the comedy world, She has studied and/or performed sketch and improvisation at Second City, IO Theater and The Annoyance. She played Constance in The Annoyance production 58 – A Comedy About Bike Messengessengering, which won “Outstanding Musical” at the 2006 NYC Fringe Festival.  Also previously at the Fringe, she was in The Annoyance production, Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy. The show was awarded “Outstanding Music & Lyrics.” She is currently one of the founding members of Chicago’s newest and ground-breaking theater company, The New Colony, and enjoys talking off ears about their work.

WRITER: She has written several original sketch reviews including her one-woman show, “Thea Lux Will Sell Out for Money.” She composed prose n’ jokes at Jellyvision, Inc., originators of the game “You Don’t Know Jack,” and was a part of a “Bessie” award-winning, educational software program. (Seriously, in the world of educational software, that’s a big deal.) There, she honed her skills at elegantly-phrased booger jokes.  Her past bits can be read on one of “the blogs” all the kids are talking about these days, and her neglected web comic The Shapes reminds everyone that life isn’t so bad as long as your head isn’t a trapezoid.

MUSICIAN: Musically, she has worked with and composed for Redmoon Theater, Blewt Productions, and played with the indie-pop, goof-rock band Let’s Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop. The Shop’s final EP, “Pain Makes You Older” was released on Roydale Records in 2009.  The new music now comes from her band The Nurse Novels and they are releasing their new album in easily digestible, digital singles.  Also, she wrote original and incidental music for The New Colony’s production of 11:11 and is and strumming and singing and humming for their Jeff Recommended production of “That Sordid Little Story.”  You can download the band’s album here.

PAINTER: She does that too.

FAVORITES: Robots, photo booths, and The Bitter Tears.