Phil Lauricella

Phil Lauricella's credits include over 15 years experience in the field of Historical Interpretation and over 10 years of formal school classroom and assembly presentations at some of the Chicago Area's finest Elementary, Middle and High Schools. Stage and Screen credits include consultant work with both the Chicago Emmy Award-winning children's program The Magic Door Theater production of The Hannukka Soldier and the Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award-winning stage production of Leander Stillwell by Stage Left Productions. He has also appeared as Senator Preston Brooks in local stage productions of Civil War Diaries: Letters from the Civil War. In December of 1997, he appeared in the A&E Network production of Betrayed: Custer at Little Big Horn, a Kurtis Production in association with A&E and The New Explorers. In 1999, he was a featured historian on the History Channel's Quantrill.  More recently, he will be seen as "Dr. Bluel" in the upcoming feature film Prairie Rose, due to be released in January of 2006.

In December of 2000, He was the featured physician in a Distance Learning Center telecast to Chicago Area schools from the Chicago Historical Society entitled: "Civil War Surgical and Medical Techniques" and assisted in interpreting Civil War History at the Society, and in 2002, presented "Leander Stillwell" at the DLC at the Society.

For more information or to schedule one of Mr. Lauricella's programs, please send a request to cwsurgeon@worldnet.att.net

Or call him at 630.377.0698

The Civil War	Medicine of the Civil War	This program gives insight into practices of the era and allows student participation during simulated operations and their procedures. Actual instruments of the period are displayed and used in the presentation. Given in the "first person" by a doctor of the period who worked with the troops, this will give fresh look into the conditions of the practice of medicine in the 1860's and one of the "non-military" aspects of the War.
	Leander Stillwell of the 61st Illinois Volunteer Infantry	Hear the story of Leander Stillwell as he journeys through the Civil War. This first person presentation details the life of a common as he took up arms to defend the way of life in which he believed. Participants are able to learn the items of the common soldier from his uniform and equipment to the personal effects he carried with him. They will hear of the good times in camp and of the death and sufferings of his "pards".
The War for Independence	Thomas Jefferson!	Mr. Lauricella portrays the famous author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States. Compare the 18th and the 21st centuries. Learn about the writing of the Declaration. Hear Mr. Jefferson's views of : The New Constitution Lewis and Clark The Bill of Rights  Personal Liberties  Slavery his "Trinity of Heroes"
World War II	Combat Medic Rifleman	The combat medic was one of the unsung heroes of World War II. He lived with the front line infantrymen and was the first to answer a call for help. He gave first aid to his wounded comrades and helped them out of the line of enemy fire. More often than not, he faced the enemy unarmed and was the foundation of the medical system with hundreds of thousands of surgeons, nurses, scientists, and enlisted medics.  Mr. Lauricella brings to life the experiences of some of the aid men on the line in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany during the Second World War.  Actual Uniforms and equipment accent the performance to another "non-combat" aspect of war.