company staff
Tim Gregory
Founding Artistic Director

Tim Gregory is the founder of Provision Theater Company. Some of his directing credits include: Provision Theater's Jeff-nominated A Christmas Carol and the critically acclaimed productions of Beast on the Moon and The Spitfire Grill; The Comedy of Errors at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; A Christmas Carol at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.; Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island at Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre; The Twilight of Golds, The Diary of Anne Frank and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry at the Apple Tree Theatre; Welcome Yule at Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Plaza Suite at the Lyric Theatre; Godspell at the Sorg Opera House; and 'Dentity Crisis at the Studio Theatre. Tim's acting credits include: Matthew/Storyteller in Provision's critically acclaimed Cotton Patch Gospel, as well as numerous roles at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre, Next Theatre, and regionally at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and The Ford's Theatre in D.C. His television credits include Cupid on ABC, De Classified on WGN, and Tim can now be seen as the Host on HGTV's New Spaces.

Priscilla Hummel
Youth Program Director

Priscilla holds an MFA in Acting with a Directing Concentration from Regent University and a BA in Theatre Arts with a Dance Minor from Brenau University. Her acting credits for the stage include THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Anne), THE IMAGINARY INVALID (Angelique), THE CRUCIBLE (Mary Warren), and THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (Clarice). Screen acting credits include the television series FBI Files, A Haunting, and Psychic Witness, as well as local commercial, industrial, documentary, and student film projects. Prior to moving to Chicago, Priscilla worked for CYT Atlanta as a teacher, choreographer, and summer camp director. She also worked at Camp All-American in Atlanta as the assembly director and drama program advisor. Since moving to Chicago in 2007, she has been working for CYT Chicago as a teacher, director, and choreographer. Past productions include HONK!, ANNIE JR, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and SEUSSICAL JR. Other Chicago credits include 2009-2010 season choreographer for Northbrook Theatre For Young Audiences and COTTON PATCH GOSPEL (Choreographer/Assistant Director—Provision Theater). Priscilla has been involved with Provision since the summer of 2009 and is passionate about working with youth; she aims to inspire, enrich, and nurture them as they grow to love and master their craft.

  Valerie Maze
Resident Music Director

Active in the opera and music theater scenes in Chicago, Valerie Maze is currently on staff as Ballet Pianist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and as a collaborative pianist in the Music Theater department at Northwestern University. She recently won an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical Direction for this past summer's production of Cats at Theater at the Center. In addition to her role with Provision, she has also served as Music Director at Peninsula Players, Wagon Wheel Theatre, Chicago Light Opera Works, Bowen Park Opera, and as a keyboardist with Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Marriott Theatre. She has served as a pianist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Ryan Opera Center and has been involved in productions as Assistant Conductor and pianist at the Portland Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Chicago Light Opera Works, Harrisburg Opera, DuPage Opera, da Corneto Opera, and O.P.E.R.A.

Valerie has an MM in Vocal Accompanying from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and has also studied at DePaul University in Chicago, Anderson University in Indiana as well as Lucca, Italy and Graz, Austria. She has performed internationally including Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Austria, Sri Lanka, and Mexico. Some of the more recent productions she has been involved in are Verdi's La Traviata , Handel's Julius Caesar , Strauss's Salome, Bizet's Carmen , J. Strauss's Die Fledermaus , Cats, Kiss Me Kate , South Pacific , Spitfire Grill, Cabaret and A Little Night Music.

  Jarrod Zimmerman
A Few Lines Design

Webmaster

Jarrod Zimmerman is the webmaster for the Provision Theater website and has performed in two of Provision's shows as Dick Wilkins in A Christmas Carol and Sheriff Joe Sutter in The Spitfire Grill. Jarrod owns the web design company A Few Lines Design

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ADVISORY BOARD

Peter Bukowski

Tim Gregory
Founding Artistic Director

Priscilla Hummel
Youth Program Director

Valerie Maze
Resident Music Director

Jarrod Zimmerman
A Few Lines Design

Webmaster