AJ Ware

AJ Ware is a senior directing major at Columbia College Chicago.  She is originally from Houston, TX where she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of Houston. She was a company member at Infernal Bridegroom Productions from 2000-2006 when she moved to Chicago to pursue her theatrical education. While at IBP, AJ acted in over fifteen shows and stage managed as many others. Some of her favorite roles included Dulle Griet in Charles Mee's Full Circle and Gasp in Lindsay Kayser's Microscope Maintenance and Repair.  She also originated roles in Jason Nodler's Meat/Bar, David Berman's Actual Air, Daniel Johnston's Speeding Motorcycle, and four of IBP's original musicals in the Tamalalia serIes.

AJ began attending Columbia College Chicago in the fall of 2006. As an actor she has been seen as Maxine in Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, Mickey in Terry Curtis Fox's Cops and most recently as Betty in John Guare's Landscape of the Body directed by faculty member Susan Padveen. AJ also directed Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson, assistant directed 1984, based on the novel by George Orwell, and recently directed Caryl Churchill's Ice Cream.

AJ Ware is the founding Associate Artistic Director of Jackalope Theatre Company where, in the summer of 2008, she directed Sic Transit Mundi, a one-act play written by fellow Columbia student, Andrew Swanson. She will graduate from Columbia in May of 2009, and will continue to act and direct with Jackalope.

January, 2009