about us
February Schneck
February Schneck (they/them) is a theatre artist and producer based in Chicago. A lifelong creative, February has studied many facets of theatre arts at institutions including Interlochen Arts Academy and Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Recently, Feb has written, directed and produced plays at multiple Fringe Festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe. Outside of theatre, Feb has a vibrant drag career (IG: @nattali.pierre) and a very unhealthy obsession with The Muppets. Since founding LibLab Productions, Feb has begun developing podcasts, new theatrical works, and “Chaos Theatre” a new form of absurdism created alongside Feb’s eternal collaborator Lochlan MacLean. If you want to know more about their recent work, you’re on the right website!
Producing Artistic DirectorBrooke MacLean
Brooke MacLean (she/her) is currently cast as LibLab elder and co-founder. Her career highlights include a star turn as Annie in a 1983 summer camp production of “Annie” as well as being Lochlan's mom. Trained in a past century to do things that are only slightly translatable to theatre, she has always kept a toe in the arts world through music and raising two artistic children (plus two athletes and a bunch of dogs) She hopes that her new LibLab role as Oz is making Lochlan proud.
Executive DirectorZoe Bell
Managing ProducerZoe Bell (she/her) is a playwright, director, and producer in Chicago. As a founding member of LibLab Productions, she produces for theater festivals, workshops, and theatrical productions. After growing up in Maine, she attended Ithaca College and graduated with a B.A. in Theater Studies and Minors in Dance and Sociology. During that time she wrote three plays, two of which were featured finalists in Saviana Stănescu’s New Play Incubator. She has directed independent productions at Cornell University, the Cherry Arts Center, the Bramble Arts Loft, the Edinburgh Fringe. Additionally, Zoë is a passionate flag spinner, choreographer, and intimacy director. She loves blurring the lines between disciplines to create works that bring communities together by exploring every corner of the human experience.
Charlotte McDaniel
Director of Marketing & Community EngagementCharlotte McDaniel (she/her) is an actor currently pursuing work in television, film and sketch comedy in Los Angeles. Classically trained at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, Charlotte has studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed with the nationally recognized Penumbra Theatre. Charlotte performed onstage in LibLab’s inaugural production, Chaos Matters Vol. 1, and finds joy in her role as LibLab Productions’ Director of Marketing and Community Engagement.
Bela Pascale
Creative Director (NYC)Bela Pascale (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC specializing in theatre and fine arts. At [REDACTED] conservatory they were trained in acting for the stage and screen, with additional specializations in directing, clown, cinematography, and singing. When they’re not crafting or bothering their cat Donna, they’re a hand poke tattoo artist! <3
Sylvia Grosvold
Creative Director (Touring)Sylvia Grosvold (She/Her) is an NYC based artist and a graduate of Ithaca College’s BFA Acting Program. Sylvia currently stars in LibLab’s touring show I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes). Producing credits include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and LibLab Productions. Performance credits include the Hanger Theater, The Kitchen Theater, The Chain, and Oregon Children’s Theater. When she’s not producing and performing Sylvia enjoys warm beverages, and knitting herself another pair of leg warmers.
Riley Marie Fortin
Director of New Work DevelopmentRiley Marie (she/her) is an actress, writer, cabaret performer, and theatre producer. She is a recent BFA Acting graduate of Ithaca College. Since graduating, she's performed at the Covent Garden Cabaret in London, worked as the Assistant Producer to Ines Wurth at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and acted in several theatrical productions in Chicago, where she's currently based.
meet the founders
LibLab Productions is The accidental brain-child of February Schneck and lochlan MacLean, inspired by the artistry and collaboration they cultivated together. following lochlan’s passing, february teamed up with Lochlan’s mother, brooke macLean, to bring their works to life, and started a multi-media production company in the process! schwoopsie!