"...the splendid Lori McClain...a name to watch. "
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

"...smart, skilled improvisers...
McClain adds depth."  
Jennifer Vanasco, Chicago Reader


    Biography

    Lori was born in Toledo, OH and received her BFA in Acting from Wright State
    University. Right out of college, she toured the country as a singer in a Top 40
    cover band, and moved to Chicago soon after. She is an alum of the National Touring
    Company of The Second City, and was honored to perform with them in Iraq and Kuwait
    as part of a USO Tour in 2004.

    She works with Second City's Business Communications and Theatricals divisions,
    touring with the musical, “Sex and the Second City”in 2006, and has been a
    resident understudy for the Second City Mainstage and ETC shows.  

    She was a founding member of The WNEP Theater Foundation, with whom she wrote and
    performed in many productions; most notably, a musical entitled “The Wicked and
    the Sexed” (New City's 1997 Best Original Musical Production).  You may have seen
    her improvise with "ComedySportz,” or in their productions “Blind Date,” “Whose
    Chorus Line Is It Anyway?” (co-creator and director) and “Trois'.” She currently
    improvises with the all-female group, "Sirens."  

    One of her favorite scripted roles was Xena Warrior Princess in “Xena Live!” and
    most recently as Patti Blagojevich in the Second City Theatrials production of "Rod
    Blagojevich Superstar!"  Lori can be heard as the lead singer for the jazz group,
    the “Lori McClain Trio” and has been an artist-in-residence at the University of
    Chicago Lab School summer drama program in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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