Lorraine Devon Wilke

Writer, actor, photographer, rock & roll vet, Lorraine Devon Wilke, seemed destined to be a hyphenate. Born in Chicago, growing up in small-town Illinois, she launched early into the eclectic career she's maintained since. A theater major at the University of Illinois (where her first collaborative piece landed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. after winning the National College Theater Festival), and later a lead singer in a road band that led west, she launched her acting career in Los Angeles; stage plays and small film and TV roles followed, but she was ultimately led back to music, where she spent most of the vivid '80s singing and songwriting with her band, DEVON, an original New Wave/Soul project that exploded onto the LA rock scene in tandem with MTV. During that time she worked with top producers and songwriters (including Brian Cadd, Craig Krampf, Bob DeStocki and jazz/blues notable Bob Shad), and later became part of THIRD PERSON, an original rock project with Rod