- Was a member of two Chicago stage troupes, the Kingston Mines Theatre Company and the Organic Theater Company.
- (June 21, 1974) She acted in David Mamet's play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" produced by the Organic Theater Company at 4520 North Beacon Street in Chicago. With Eric Loeb, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon and Warren Casey in the cast. Directed by Stuart Gordon.
- (August 3, 1977) She played sun-bather Melody King in Organic Theater's production of "Bleacher Bums," a play about Cubs fans and gamblers that was structured into nine innings by Dennis Paoli with dialogue supplied by director Stuart Gordon and cast-members Custer, Joe Mantegna (who conceived the play), Mike Saad, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Dennis Franz, Ian Patrick Williams, Josephine Paoletti, Richard Fire and Keith Szarabajka. The original baseball comedy was performed in the Leo Lerner Theater in the Uptown Center Hull House on Chicago's Beacon Street.
- (1970) In Robert Hivnor's play "The Assault Upon Charles Sumner" at Chicago's Kingston Mines Theater she played journalist, abolitionist and feminist Margaret Fuller. U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner (1811-1874), a Republican from Massachusetts, sat writing at his desk in the Senate chamber in May, 1856, when he was brutally assaulted by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina. Angered by Sumner's "Crimes against Kansas" speech, in which Sumner had criticized Brooks' uncle, South Carolina senator Andrew Butler, Brooks struck Sumner repeatedly with his heavy cane. Sumner's long absence from the Senate to recuperate from the attack served as a powerful symbol of the tensions between North and South in the years before the Civil War. Sumner later returned to the Senate, where he authored the nation's first civil rights legislation. He died in 1874. The cast included Allan Carlsen as Sumner, Jack Wallace, Michael Williams, Chuck Bailey, Allan Chambers, Jonathan Abarbanel, Gail Wilson, Jim Brady and, as Brooks, Gary Houston.
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