Ava’s First Escape Room

Ava, Jack and Gus are locked together in an escape room as an optional add on to a school field trip. The strange thing about this escape room is there is nothing in it: No puzzles or clues to solve. To make matters worse, Ava and the boys are not friends. As the boys loudly and ineffectually try to bust out of the room, Ava gets tired of dealing with them, and takes matters into her own hands.

Ava’s First Escape Room is written by playwright Kim Z. Dale and directed by Jill Olson Stuck.

Biographies

Jill olson stuck

Jill Olson Stuck (Director) is a theater educator and artist based in Chicago. She is the founder and director of Storytown, a fully improvised, interactive adventure for kids. Jill teaches theater and improv with The Laughing Academy, Dream Big Performing Arts Workshop and Sarah Hall Theater Company. She has traveled with Compass Creative Dramatics teaching students across the country a play in a week. Jill has served as the Chicago Director for Funny Bones Improv bringing the healing power of laughter through improvisation to children in Chicago area hospitals. Jill Olson Stuck is a graduate of the iO and Second City Conservatory improv programs. She has performed around Chicago with iO, Second City's Skybox Theater, Moving Dock Theater Company, Redtwist Theatre, and WNEP with Seven Deadly Plays and 365 Sketches.

Jordan Ehrlich

Jordan Ehrlich (Gus) was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, but has been a Chicago resident for nearly eight years now. He has performed at various venues around Chicago, including the iO Theater, The Crowd Theater and Donny's Skybox Theatre at Second City. He is also a graduate of the improvisation programs at the iO Theater and the Annoyance Theatre, as well as the Second City Writing Program, and is a proud member of the cast of Storytown Improv at Stage 773. In his spare time, Jordan enjoys traveling, good music and going to the movies.