Artist Profiles
Janet Ulrich Brooks
Janet Ulrich Brooks (Kate Deckhouse) is a company member of TimeLine Theatre Company, where she has appeared in A Walk in the Woods, All My Sons, When She Danced, Not Enough Air, Weekend, Tesla’s Letters, Paradise Lost, Lillian and A Man for All Seasons. Recent credits include Ten Chimneys (Northlight Theatre); The Original Grease (American Theater Company); Pony (About Face Theatre); The Seagull, A True History of the Johnstown Flood (Goodman Theatre); and Jacob & Jack (Victory Gardens Theater). Other Chicago credits include Golda’s Balcony (Pegasus Players, Jeff Award for Outstanding Solo Performance); Richard III, A Lie of the Mind, Marathon 33 (Strawdog Theatre Company); Huck Finn (Steppenwolf for Young Adults), and work with Writers’ Theatre, Collaboraction and others. Film credits include Conviction, Polish Bar, One Small Hitch and I Heart Shakey. Television credits include Playboy Club and Chicago Code. Janet was the first recipient of the Ed See Outstanding Theatre Alumnus Award from the University of Central Missouri, and earned her MFA in acting from Western Illinois University. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.