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Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier On the Boards 8 Chicago, Illinois 60611 A selection of notable CST events, plays, and players 312.595.5600 www.chicagoshakes.com A Conversation 10 ©2019 Chicago Shakespeare Theater with the Director All rights reserved.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA CHAIR: Cast Barbara Gaines 15 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Criss Henderson Playgoer’s Guide 16 pictured on cover: Maurice Jones photo by: Jeff Sciortino pictured above: Maurice Jones Profiles 18 and Larry Yando in rehearsal photo by: joe mazza A Scholar’s Perspective 30 The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults is a rigorous, Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe non-credit liberal arts program that draws on the strong Socratic Inquiry and Exploration Series tradition at the University of Chicago. There are no tests, papers, or grades; you will instead delve into the foundations of Western political and social thought through instructor-led discussions at our downtown campus and online.

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DEAR FRIENDS,

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of our move to Navy Pier. During our inaugural season in what is now our artistic home, we presented seven productions in our two theaters. We have grown exponentially since then, adding The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, building a nationally recognized education program, curating a vibrant WorldStage Series, launching new plays and musicals, and expanding our annual schedule to feature as many as twenty productions. Y

h The last time Barbara directed Hamlet, our company still called a dance school P

a its home. Today’s production is set in the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater, a space designed to give audiences an intimate and highly personal experience of the work. The production’s sleek and simple design foregrounds the singular performances of our outstanding cast, including longtime Chicago Shakespeare hotog R favorites as well as faces new to us. This Hamlet resonates deeply in its exploration of grief, rage, tragedy, and humor. co P S

a As Shakespeare’s timeless 400-year-old masterpiece plays in the Courtyard, an electrifying new pop musical will run next door in The Yard. Written by ca R Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss and directed by Moss and Jamie Armitage, SIX gives voice to six queens overlooked in history—the wives of King Henry VIII. Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, and Parr, uniting in a musical celebration of female empowerment, reclaim their place in history with powerhouse pop. For our younger audiences, we will produce a beloved summer family musical on Navy Pier, The Wizard of Oz. At the same time, we will tour an abridged production of The Comedy of Errors to neighborhood parks across the city, free for all, in our eighth Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour. With this exciting line-up ahead of us, we hope to see you back again soon! n

Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon fftchicago.com Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair Proud to be a partner with Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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ThE Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director WInTER’S Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that defies theatrical category. This Regional Tony Award-winning theater’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and 650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, family programming, and presentations from around the globe. The work is enjoyed by 225,000 audience members annually, with one in four under the age of eighteen. Chicago Shakespeare is the city’s leading presenter of international work, and in touring its own productions across five continents Tale has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, the company spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy in a citywide, yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged more than one million people. The Theater’s nationally acclaimed arts in literacy programs support the work of English and drama teachers, and bring Shakespeare to life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over the summer, the company tours a professional production of Shakespeare’s work, free for all, to neighborhood parks across the city. In 2017 the Theater unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs, The Yard positions Chicago Shakespeare as the city’s most versatile performing arts center. n

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steven J. Solomon* M. Hill Hammock w* Judith Pierpont Chair Kathryn J. Hayley Richard W. Porter* Paulita A. Pike* Criss Henderson* John Rau Treasurer Stewart S. Hudnut Nazneen Razi* William R. Jentes* Sheli Z. Rosenberg w* Frank D. Ballantine John P. Keller w Robert Ryan BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE John Blazey Christie B. Kelly Carole Segal Stephen A. Brodsky Richard A. Kent Eric Q. Strickland* DIRECTED BY ROBERT FALLS Thomas L. Brown Barbara Malott Kizziah Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Allan E. Bulley III Chase Collins Levey Sheila G. Talton “No modern American director is better at making a play’s Clive Christison Anna Livingston Marilynn J. Thoma* Patrick R. Daley Judy Loseff Gayle R. Tilles iconic moments pop with fresh irreverence” (Chicago Tribune) Brian W. Duwe Renetta McCann William J. Tomazin, Jr. Philip L. Engel w Raymond F. McCaskey w* Donna Van Eekeren A jealous king accuses his wife of infidelity, setting off a calamitous series of events. Jeanne B. Ettelson But what begins as tragedy evolves, unexpectedly, into a fantastical journey— Robert G. McLennan Pallavi Verma Kevin R. Evanich Jess E. Merten Priscilla A. (Pam) Walterw* from wrath to redemption to reconciliation. Harve A. Ferrill Linda Myers Ray Whitacre Sonja Fischer Madhavan Nayar Richard J. Franke Christopher O’Brien *Denotes Executive Committee MAY 4 – JUNE 9 Barbara Gaines* Dennis Olis* Members Photo by Tamas Dezso C. Gary Gerst w* Mark S. Ouweleen* wDenotes Former Board Chairs Marguerite H. Griffin

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This spring, the six women once known This summer, the Theater once more Last fall, Artistic Director Barbara Gaines In June, Chicago Shakespeare’s Artistic only as the wives of King Henry VIII heads into the city’s neighborhoods in co-hosted a reception with the British and Executive Directors Barbara Gaines blow the doors off The Yard at Chicago the eighth year of Chicago Shakespeare Consul General to welcome to Chicago and Criss Henderson will be honored with Shakespeare in Toby Marlow and Lucy in the Parks, in partnership with the His Royal Highness Prince Edward, the prestigious Making History Award by Moss’s new musical SIX. Directed by City of Chicago, Chicago Park District, Earl of Wessex. At the intimate the Chicago History Museum. Presented Moss and Jamie Armitage, the show Boeing, and BMO Harris Bank. The reception, Chicago’s cultural and by Chicago Shakespeare Board Chair isn’t a typical musical. Moss explains, tour will feature free performances of civic leaders met with The Earl of Steve Solomon and former Board Chair “We wanted to do something that Shakespeare’s raucous The Comedy Wessex and learned about his efforts Sheli Rosenberg, Gaines and Henderson messed around with the form a bit, so of Errors, directed and choreographed to advance The Duke of Edinburgh’s are receiving the 2019 Theodore Thomas we imagined the show itself to be a pop by David H. Bell, in parks across the city. International Award, the Foundation for Making History Award for Distinction concert.” In this world, pop superstars Bell’s work with Chicago Shakespeare which he chairs the Board of Trustees. in the Performing Arts. They join more Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, has been prolific; this will be his The Award encourages young people than a hundred Chicagoans and twelve and Parr join forces in an electrifying eighteenth production with the worldwide to challenge themselves Chicago companies whose enduring musical celebration of empowerment, Theater. This tour of The Comedy of through a personalized program of skill contributions to our community have belting their sides of a once male- Errors continues to develop Chicago development, physical activity, voluntary made this city a better and more vibrant dominated history. “We wrote this Shakespeare's multi-faceted engagement service, and adventure. Gaines, awarded place to live. This year’s four other ‘manifesto’ of our vision for the show,” with the city. Tour dates will again include the prestigious Honorary OBE (Officer honorees include: Valerie Jarrett (Former according to Moss, “to give parts to ASL-interpreted performances and an of the Most Excellent Order of the British Senior Advisor and Assistant to President women and to show parallels between audio-described performance. This Empire) in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth Barack Obama), Frederick H. Waddell the wives’ experiences 500 years ago year's Parks tour is part of the citywide II, was asked to co-host in recognition (Retired Chairman and CEO, Northern and the experience of people today.” Year of Chicago Theatre celebration, of her and Chicago Shakespeare’s Trust), Daniel J. Walsh and Matthew Backed by an all-woman band known as which aims to bring theater to all 77 contributions to strengthening Walsh (Co-Chairmen, The Walsh Group), the “Ladies in Waiting,” the six queens of Chicago’s community areas. British-American cultural relations. and W. Rockwell Wirtz (Chairman, take the mic May 14. Chicago Blackhawks).

From left: Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow; Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks at Polk Bros. Park; Barbara Gaines, British Consul General to Chicago John Saville, His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Criss Henderson; The Chicago History Museum. photos by Liz Lauren, J Lauryn Photography. 8 Spring 2019 | Hamlet www.chicagoshakes.com 9 POINT OF VIEW A Conversation with the Director

rtistic Director Barbara Gaines A discusses Hamlet. Visit chicagoshakes.com Why Hamlet? Why now? Do you think he changes by the end? to explore more ideas and stories behind the Barbara Gaines: I did Hamlet over twenty years ago when Yes, he does evolve. Before the fencing match with Laertes, he assures Horatio that, art on CST’s stages. we were still performing at our first home before moving ‘There is special Providence in the fall of a sparrow.’ That, to me, is an enlightened to Navy Pier. I knew it was time that I direct it again, but moment. There’s meaning in every life—a sparrow’s, Polonius’s, even Claudius’s. Life differently. Time moves on, and we all change—as does is this very moment that we share now. Hamlet finally understands that. HAMLET Shakespeare. The first time I directed Hamlet, it was about Does he ever deal with his hatred for Gertrude, and how cruel he is to her? n BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE politics. Fortinbras was an important character. This time, n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES the play is much more intimate. He’s terrible to his mother, but she’s also thoughtless of him. Her marriage n COURTYARD THEATER weeks after his father’s death—and to his father’s brother—that would present How did you personally enter into the world of this play? n APRIL 17–JUNE 9, 2019 a challenge for most people. The Ghost tells Hamlet of ‘my most seeming n 312.595.5600 I didn’t have a way into this story at first. I sat at my desk virtuous queen.’ Hamlet’s seeming virtuous mother. And that likely adds to his n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM and spent hours looking at the first words of the script venom against her. and had no inspiration. I put my music on shuffle and Do you think Hamlet is aware of the implications of that one when Enya’s ‘I Could Never Say Goodbye’ popped up, Shakespeare word, ‘seeming’? it triggered a memory. I realized for the first time that never lets you I never properly mourned my dad, who died suddenly He certainly understands that his mother has betrayed his in 1987. The play opens and we see Hamlet grieving for learn about father and that lust has made his mother disloyal. And she the sudden loss of his father. Returning to this play now, just one thing. didn’t marry just anybody—his mother married his uncle. She I thought I could learn something about grief. And of has ‘posted with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.’ All this course, you learn about life, as well. Shakespeare never is more appalling to him than his father’s death. It seems like he cannot mourn for lets you learn about just one thing. his father because he’s consumed with thoughts about his mother. Director of Hamlet Barbara Gaines When does the play become a tragedy, do you think? What about Ophelia? How do you see her character?

For me, when Polonius dies. It’s difficult to excuse Hamlet Ophelia never had a chance in this world. Her life has been ruled by men. And so for killing Polonius. Yes, he understands his actions as when the men in her life leave her, she implodes in on herself. There’s no other betrayal, but is that a reason for death? I don’t think way for that story to end, not for someone as fragile as Ophelia. so—not 400 years ago or today. Do you have a favorite moment in this play?

Do you think Hamlet’s actions are more forgivable if That’s like asking which is my favorite child! All I’ll say is that so many of the they are the result of madness? In your mind, is he mad? scenes surprise me, and how they’ll appear on stage isn’t just up to me. It’s up No, I don’t believe Hamlet is crazy. My view of ‘madness’ or to the actors, to everyone who makes a production happen. And so it matters a mental illness is naturalistic. We all experience moments of great deal what they think and feel. That’s the rehearsal process—it’s give-and- madness. Madness is a part of every one of us. And Hamlet take. You keep what’s good and then you work to pare everything down to the responds to all his pain in an impulsive way. point where it feels authentic—to me, the actors, and hopefully, the audience. n Barbara Gaines, Maurice Jones, and Mike Nussbaum in rehearsal; photo by joe mazza 10 Spring 2019 | Hamlet www.chicagoshakes.com 11 FROM TUDOR QUEENS TO POP PRINCESSES, THE WIVES BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director OF HENRY VIII TAKE TO THE MIC TO TELL THEIR STORIES Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair

RICK BOYNTON E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Creative Producer Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs “SASSY,  presents FUNNY, FIVE SEXY AND OLIVIER HAMLET FUNKY AWARD by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ” NOMINATIONS Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design SCOTT DAVIS SUSAN E. MICKEY ROBERT WIERZEL

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Ray and STUDENT MATINEES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY Judy McCaskey Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller Shakespeare in American Communities is a program of the National Endowment MORE THAN Carl and for the Arts in partnership Marilynn Thoma with Arts Midwest. 8 MILLION by TOBY MARLOW and LUCY MOSS STREAMS ON directed by LUCY MOSS and JAMIE ARMITAGE SPOTIFY Welcome. If we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that flashing lights and haze may be used during this BEGINS MAY 14 performance. Also, actors will make entrances and exits throughout the theater. For your safety, we ask that you keep aisles and doorways clear. We request that you refrain from taking any photography and other video or audio recordings of the production. There will be one 15-minute intermission.

www.chicagoshakes.com 13 SALUTE TO SPONSORS CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to recognize the partnership of our leading contributors, whose visionary support ensures that Cast (in order of appearance) Shakespeare lives in Chicago today and for generations to come.

MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS Hamlet, Prince of Denmark MAURICE JONES* Claudius, King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle TIM DECKER* Gertrude, the Queen, KAREN ALDRIDGE* Hamlet’s mother, now wife of Claudius Barnardo, Soldier DREW SHIRLEY* Francisco, Soldier MEHMET AKSOY Marcellus, Soldier KEVIN GUDAHL* Ray and Judy McCaskey Horatio, Hamlet’s friend SEAN ALLAN KRILL* Polonius, Prime Minister LARRY YANDO* Rhoades Foundation Fund at Burton X. and The Harold and Mimi Laertes, Polonius’s son PAUL DEO, JR.* The Chicago Community Foundation Sheli Z. Rosenberg Steinberg Charitable Trust Ophelia, Polonius’s daughter RACHEL NICKS* Carl and Donna Van Eekeren Reynalda, a Military Advisor CALLIE JOHNSON* Marilynn Thoma Foundation Voltemand, Ambassador to Norway SARAH CHALCROFT* LEAD SPONSORS Rosencrantz, Hamlet’s friend ALEX GOODRICH* Anne and Andrew Abel Embassy Suites Chicago Kirkland & Ellis LLP Polk Bros. Foundation Guildenstern, Hamlet’s friend SAMUEL TAYLOR* Charitable Fund Downtown Magnificent Anna and Robert Richard W. Porter Player King GREG VINKLER* Allscripts Mile and DoubleTree Livingston and Lydia S. Marti Magnificent Mile Player Queen SARAH CHALCROFT* Paul M. Angell Family KPMG LLP John W. and Exelon Foundation The John D. and Jeanne M. Rowe Lucianus KEVIN GUDAHL* Anonymous Harve A. Ferrill Catherine T. Timothy R. Schwertfeger Captain AL’JALEEL McGHEE A. N. and Pearl G. Food For Thought MacArthur Foundation and Gail Waller Barnett Family Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Linda and Dennis Myers The Segal Family Gravedigger MIKE NUSSBAUM* Foundation Virginia and Gary Gerst Madhavan and Foundation Other Gravedigger GREG VINKLER* BlueCross BlueShield Teresa Nayar Barbara and Barre Illinois Arts Council Osric, a Courtier KEVIN GUDAHL* of Illinois Agency National Endowment Seid Foundation Joyce Chelberg ITW for the Arts The Shubert Priest SAM PEARSON Foundation Kent and Liz Dauten Jan and Bill Jentes Sheila Penrose and Ghost of Hamlet's Father DERRICK LEE WEEDEN* Ernie Mahaffey Shure Incorporated The Family of Jack Karp Players/Ensemble MEHMET AKSOY, CALLIE JOHNSON*, AL’JALEEL McGHEE, SAM PEARSON, ENDOWED FUNDS, CHAIRS, AND PROGRAMS DREW SHIRLEY* Mary and Nick Babson Fund Pritzker Foundation Ensemble Interns KYRA NORRIS† to Support Chicago Actors Team Shakespeare Fund GRACE BURMAHL† The Canon in Honor of Barbara Gaines John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe The Chicago Music Theatre Endowment Inquiry and Exploration Series Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund The Segal Family Foundation the time of the performance: Timothy Edward Kane* for Hamlet, Horatio; Emma Jo Boyden Student Matinee Fund Ruth D. and Ken M. Davee New Works for Reynalda/Ensemble, Voltemand/Player Queen; Sarah Chalcroft* for Gertrude; Kevin Gudahl* and Education Fund Dick Simpson for Claudius; Callie Johnson* for Ophelia; Al’Jaleel McGhee for Rosencrantz; Chad Patterson in memory of Sarajane Avidon for Barnardo, Francisco, Priest, Captain, Ensemble; Sam Pearson for Laertes, Guildenstern; The Hurckes Fund for Team Shakespeare Endowment Drew Shirley* for Player King/Other Gravedigger, Marcellus/Osric/Lucianus; and Greg Vinkler* Artisans and Technicians for Polonius, Gravedigger. Kirkland & Ellis Audience Enrichment Fund Carl and Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Chair Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER* Stage Design Fund Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Music Fund The Malott Family Student Access Fund The Sheldon and Bobbi Zabel Assistant Stage Manager HANNAH WICHMANN* Bard Core Program Ray and Judy McCaskey Education Chair *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. †Chicago Shakespeare Theater gratefully acknowledges Carin Silkaitis along with the faculty For more information about how you can support our work on stage, in the of North Central College for their participation in this production’s intern program. community, and around the world, please contact Brooke Flanagan, Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs, at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. www.chicagoshakes.com 15 HAMLET CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Playgoer’s Guide THE STORY IN PRINT The king’s ghost walks upon the battlements of Elsinore. Prince Hamlet, his son Generally agreed to have been written in 1600 or 1601, Hamlet marks the first and namesake, returns home for his father’s funeral, and instead is the reluctant of Shakespeare’s great tragedies. Its first publication, in 1603, is called the guest at a royal wedding: his mother’s to his Uncle Claudius—now Denmark’s "Bad Quarto"—a text perhaps pirated without authorial consent. A year later, king. “Remember me,” the Ghost exhorts Hamlet, as it reveals the grim details the Second Quarto (equivalent to paperbacks today) was printed—nearly twice of death at the hands of a usurping brother. The son swears to avenge the as long as the first and likely based on Shakespeare’s manuscript. This so-called father’s murder. “Good Quarto” served as the basis for the first anthology of Shakespeare’s Hamlet withdraws from all, including Ophelia, whom he loved. Polonius— plays, the 1623 First Folio (an expensive, larger book, analogous to our finest courtier, advisor, and father to Ophelia and Laertes—hypothesizes that Hamlet hardcover editions), published seven years after his death. The First Folio is merely lovesick. Suspecting otherwise, Claudius summons Rosencrantz and Hamlet text, at 3,904 lines (nearly 200 lines longer than the Second Quarto) is Guildenstern to spy upon their old school friend. the longest play in the canon. Shakespeare’s editors and directors continue to wrestle with Hamlet’s multiple texts—perhaps inevitable for a work so elusive, Hamlet wrestles with the Ghost’s truth—could it be the devil instead? The even in its most elemental “words, words, words.” arrival of a troupe of players provides the prince a course of action: to stage before the assembled court a re-enactment of the Ghost’s story. The king’s overt response becomes proof of his guilt. Hamlet now confronts his mother IN PERFORMANCE and, suspecting it to be Claudius behind a curtain, plunges in his knife, killing instead a spying Polonius. No record exists of Hamlet’s first performances at the Globe. But by 1603 its stage popularity is implied by the printing of the First Quarto’s pirated text, Claudius ships the prince off to England, escorted by Rosencrantz and and by its title page proclaiming earlier performances in Oxford, Cambridge, Guildenstern, who unwittingly carry their school friend's death warrant. Hamlet and London. Tradition holds that King Hamlet’s Ghost was first played by escapes and, returning to Elsinore, finds more sorrow—and Laertes desperate Shakespeare, himself an actor in the company of the Chamberlain’s Men. for revenge. Proposing a fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes, Claudius The play was presented at the courts of James I and Charles I in 1619 and stages another night of entertainment for the court, but with stakes now 1637, respectively. Following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and infinitely higher. the subsequent reopening of London’s theaters, Hamlet was among the first plays to be produced again. But Restoration tastes had changed, preferring ITS ORIGINS sophisticated comedy over tragedy, and Hamlet disappeared from the stage until the eighteenth century. The subject of one of the earliest silent films The story, appearing first in an eleventh-century Icelandic poem, derives (1907), Hamlet is among the most frequently staged and filmed plays in the from an ancient Norse legend of Amlothi, a prince who feigns madness to canon. This marks Chicago Shakespeare’s third production, and the second exact revenge. In the twelfth century, the Danish scholar Saxo Grammaticus directed by Artistic Director Barbara Gaines, following her staging in 1996 attributed the legend’s folk-hero to a prince in Denmark’s history named with Robert Petkoff and Mariann Mayberry, and the 2006 production by guest Amleth. Amleth’s father is slaughtered by his jealous brother Feng, who then director Terry Hands, with Ben Carlson. Irreverent explorations have been marries the king’s widow, Gerutha. Too young to revenge his father’s murder, staged over the years in the theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare: Hamlet! Amleth pretends insanity to assure his uncle that he poses no threat. (John the Musical, in association with The Second City (2000, 2001), Tiny Ninja Updike borrows Saxo’s names for the first part of his novel,Gertrude and Hamlet (2006), and Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (2016). Two major WorldStage Claudius.) Four centuries later, the French chronicler Belleforest included productions have toured to Chicago Shakespeare: Peter Brook’s with Adrian Saxo’s story in his Histoires Tragiques. The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd’s Lester (2001) and the Shakespeare’s Globe production, celebrating the 450th popular and influential play (written ca. 1580s), whetted London’s appetite for anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth (2014). n revenge dramas. Strong evidence exists of an English revenge tragedy from the 1580s based on the histories of Saxo and Belleforest, but no text survives of this earlier so-called Ur-Hamlet.

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MAURICE JONES (Hamlet) Company); Seagull (Writers Theatre); Far PAUL DEO, JR. (Laertes) Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Away, In the Blood (Jeff Award nomination - CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE/ (Chicago Shakespeare tour). FILM: While Debut. BROADWAY: The Best Actress, Next Theatre). BROADWAY: CHICAGO: Debut. OFF You Were Sleeping, Home Alone III, The Lifespan of a Fact, Saint original Mrs. Phelps in Matilda the Musical. BROADWAY: Troilus and Poker House. TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Joan, The Cherry Orchard, INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Battlefield directed Cressida (The Public Crisis (NBC); Boss (STARZ); Empire, The Romeo and Juliet, Julius by Peter Brook. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage, Theater). REGIONAL: A Chicago Code (FOX); Early Edition (CBS). Caesar. OFF BROADWAY: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Christmas Carol (McCarter Mr. Gudahl is a multiple Jeff Award recipient Linda (Manhattan Theatre Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre Center); Twelfth and Chicago Shakespeare verse coach. Club); Troilus and Cressida, Pretty Hunger Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company. Night, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare (Public Theater); Little Children Dream of TELEVISION: Boss (STARZ); Unforgettable, Theatre Company); Les Liaisons Dangereuses CALLIE JOHNSON God (Roundabout Theatre Company). Blue Bloods (CBS); Chicago Fire, Chicago Med (Baltimore Center Stage). FILM: Set It Up (Reynalda/Ensemble) REGIONAL: The Model American, A (NBC); The Get Down (Netflix, produced and (Netflix). TELEVISION: Law & Order: SVU CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Legendary Romance (Williamstown Theatre directed by Baz Luhrmann). (NBC). EDUCATION: MFA in acting, New Debut. CHICAGO: Pal Festival); As You Like It, Ruined, To Kill a York University Tisch School of the Arts; BA Joey (Jeff Award - Cameo Mockingbird, The Taming of the Shrew SARAH CHALCROFT in acting, Wesleyan University. Performance, Porchlight (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); (Voltemand/Player Music Theatre); Carrie: Butler (Barrington Stage Company); Julius Queen) CHICAGO ALEX GOODRICH the Musical (Jeff Award Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library); Lives of SHAKESPEARE: King (Rosencrantz) CHICAGO nomination - Best Actress in a Musical, Reason (Two River Theater); The Learned Charles III. CHICAGO: A SHAKESPEARE: Love’s Bailiwick Chicago); Desdemona in Othello Ladies (Stage Theatre New Jersey); Richard III, Christmas Carol (Drury Labor’s Lost, The (Invictus Theatre); Raina Petkoff in Arms Charley’s Aunt, Fahrenheit 451, Topdog/ Lane Theatre); A Christmas Emperor’s New Clothes, and the Man, Candida, Hay Fever (Shaw Underdog, Nicholas Nickleby, Our Town Carol (Goodman Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Chicago Theater Company); The Bardy (National Theatre Conservatory). TELEVISION: Scenes from an Execution (Runcible Theatre Dream, Seussical, The Bunch (Mercury Theater Chicago); Natalie Blue Bloods, Elementary, The Good Fight Company); Our New Girl, The Dream of the Taming of the Shrew, Goodman in Next to Normal (Drury Lane (CBS); 30 Rock (NBC); Conviction (ABC). Burning Boy (Profiles Theatre).UK CREDITS: Aladdin, How Can You Run with a Shell on Theatre); Arcadia (Writers Theater); Spring FILM: Winter’s Tale, And So It Goes, Romeo Purgatorio (The Chocolate Factory); 4:48 Your Back? CHICAGO: Photograph 51, The Awakening (Marriott Theatre). REGIONAL: and Juliet. EDUCATION: MFA, National Psychosis (StoneCrabs); Hedda Gabler Comedy of Errors, One Man Two Guvnors Saloon, Chicago, Murder on the Nile Theatre Conservatory. (Theatre Babel); Transmissions (Birmingham (Court Theatre); Miss Bennet: Christmas at (Peninsula Players Theatre). FILM: Final Repertory Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Pemberley, Shining Lives, Civil War Christmas, Choice. TELEVISION: Chicago Med, Chicago MEHMET AKSOY Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It (British She Stoops to Conquer (Northlight Theatre); PD (NBC). EDUCATION: BFA in musical (Francisco/Ensemble) Touring Shakespeare); Queen Margaret, The Hero: the Musical (Jeff Award - Best theatre, Columbia College Chicago. CHICAGO Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Henry V, Much Supporting Actor in a Musical), She Loves Me, www.calliejohnson.com SHAKESPEARE/ Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The How to Succeed in Business Without Really CHICAGO: Debut. Tempest, As You Like It (Bard in the Botanics); Trying, Elf: the Musical, On the Town, For the SEAN ALLAN KRILL EDUCATION: BFA in Vivienne Grout’s Adventure in Another Boys (Marriott Theatre); Old Jews Telling (Horatio) CHICAGO acting, Northern Illinois Metropolis (sparkleDark Theatre). TELEVISION: Jokes (Royal George Theatre); Everything Is SHAKESPEARE: Sense University; three-month Taggart (Scotland). EDUCATION: BA in Illuminated (Next Theatre); A Midsummer and Sensibility (Jeff intensive, Moscow Art Theatre School. theatre, De Montfort University, UK. Night’s Dream (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Award nomination), The Comedy of Errors, Sunday KAREN ALDRIDGE TIM DECKER (Claudius) KEVIN GUDAHL (Marcellus/ in the Park with George, (Gertrude) CHICAGO CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Osric) CHICAGO Joseph and the Amazing SHAKESPEARE: Margaret Schiller’s Mary Stuart, SHAKESPEARE: Schiller’s Technicolor Dreamcoat. CHICAGO: The Hot L in Tug of War: Foreign The Comedy of Errors, Mary Stuart, Tug of War: Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Fire, Olivia in Twelfth Short Shakespeare! Foreign Fire and Civil The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties Night, Lady Macbeth in Romeo and Juliet. Strife, Pericles, King Lear, (Court Theatre); Honeymoon in Vegas, Macbeth, Isabelle in CHICAGO: City of The Merry Wives of Brigadoon (Jeff Award nomination, Marriott Edward II, Princess of Conversation (Northlight Windsor, Henry VIII, The Theatre); White Christmas, Spamalot (Drury France in Love's Labor's Lost, international Theatre); Spill (TimeLine Theatre Company); School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Brutus in Lane Theatre); Forever Plaid (Original tour of Le Costume directed by Peter Brook. stop. reset., Black Star Line (Goodman Julius Caesar, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Chicago Cast, Jeff Awards - Best Ensemble/ CHICAGO: Victims of Duty (A Red Orchid Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Apollo Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Kayama in Best Revue, Royal George Theatre). Theatre); How to Catch Creation, Trinity River Theater Chicago); Toys in the Attic (Jeff Pacific Overtures; title roles in Macbeth, BROADWAY: Honeymoon in Vegas, On a Plays (Jeff Award nomination - Best Actress, Award, American Theatre Company); Ghetto Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Clear Day You Can See Forever, Mamma Mia! BTAA Ruby Dee Award), The Good Negro, (Famous Door Theatre); Mornings at Seven CHICAGO: Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, OFF BROADWAY: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, The Ballad of Emmett Till, The Cook (Jeff (Drury Lane Theatre); The Complete History Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Northlight The Brother/Sister Plays (The Public Theater); Award nomination – Best Actress), Proof (Jeff of America (abridged) (Noble Fool Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre); Civil Award nomination – Best Actress, Goodman Theatricals). FILM: Slice, Thrillride. Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop). Theatre); The Qualms, Clybourne Park, Man TELEVISION: Chicago Justice, Chicago Fire Theater. INTERNATIONAL: five seasons with REGIONAL: Jagged Little Pill (American from Nebraska (Steppenwolf Theatre (NBC); Empire (FOX); Boss (STARZ). Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Donmar Repertory Theatre); Chess (Kennedy Center);

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Sense and Sensibility (Craig Noel Award Lane Theatre); Shelley Levine in the revival Festival); Much Ado About Nothing Singapore Repertory Theatre, London’s recipient, The Old Globe); Sideways (La Jolla of Glengarry Glen Ross, Roberto in Death (Shakespeare by the Sea); A Midsummer Barbican Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Playhouse); Antony and Cleopatra (Hartford and the Maiden, Fletcher in El Salvador Night’s Dream (Kingsmen Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford- Stage); Henry V (Notre Dame Shakespeare (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Sigmund Company); The Taming of the Shrew upon-Avon. AWARDS: three Jeff Awards for Festival). TOURING: Mamma Mia! Freud in Freud’s Last Session (Mercury (Hermosa Beach Playhouse). EDUCATION: King Lear, Hamlet, Twelfth Night (CST); Jeff (BroadwayWorld.com Award - Outstanding Theater Chicago). NEW YORK: Peter Brook’s MFA in acting, University of Illinois; BFA in Award nomination for Falstaff in Henry IV, Leading Actor); Thoroughly Modern Millie production of The Cherry Orchard (on tour theater, Emporia State University. Parts 1 and 2 (CST). Mr. Vinkler serves as the (Leon Rabin & Carbonell Award nominations). to New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tblisi, artistic director of Peninsula Players Theatre TELEVISION: Mr. Robot, Search Party, The Tokyo); original productions of the David SAMUEL TAYLOR in Door County, WI. Godfather of Harlem. www.seanallankrill.com. Mamet plays American Buffalo as Teach, (Guildenstern) CHICAGO Glengarry Glen Ross as Aaranow (Chicago/ SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth, LARRY YANDO (Polonius/ AL'JALEEL McGHEE Broadway). REGIONAL: Solomon Galkin in Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Verse Coach) CHICAGO (Captain/Ensemble) the premiere of Deb Margolin’s Imagining School for Lies, The Feast: SHAKESPEARE: Nell CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Madoff (Theater J). Mr. Nussbaum is a Sarah an intimate Tempest. Gwynn, Shakespeare in Debut. CHICAGO: Siddons Society honoree. CHICAGO: Thaddeus and Love, Tug of War: Foreign Graveyard Shift (Goodman Slocum: a Vaudeville Fire and Civil Strife, The Theatre); To Catch a Fish, SAM PEARSON (Priest/ Adventure, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth, Tempest (2002, 2015), Paradise Blue (BTAA Ensemble) CHICAGO Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass Theatre King Lear (2001, 2014), Award - Lead Actor in a SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth, Company); Marnie and Phil: A Circus Love Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Play, TimeLine Theatre Company); Breach King Charles III, Chicago Letter (The Actors Gymnasium); The Hot L Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, (Victory Gardens Theater); Blues for an Shakespeare in the Parks Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Alabama Sky (Court Theatre). TELEVISION: production of Romeo Behold Where Stands the Usurper’s Cursed Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Red Line (CBS); Chicago Med, Chicago and Juliet, Short Head (Cabinet of Curiosity). REGIONAL: The Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Two Gentlemen PD (NBC); Empire, APB (FOX); Homeland, Shakespeare! Romeo Doctor’s Dilemma (American Players Theatre); of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Chi (Showtime). FILM: Sex Weather and Juliet. CHICAGO: Familiar (understudy, The Boys Next Door (Syracuse Stage); A CHICAGO: eleven years as Scrooge in A (Breaking Glass); Proud Mary (Sony Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Christmas Carol, The Little Foxes, Candide, Pictures). EDUCATION: Gately/Poole Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio OFF BROADWAY: Henry V, The Spy. The Jungle Book (Goodman Theatre); Buried Acting Conservatory; BA in performance, Theatre); multiple shows with The Back TELEVISION: The Red Line, Chicago Fire, Child, The Dance of Death, As You Like It, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Room Shakespeare Project. REGIONAL: Crisis (NBC); Boardwalk Empire (HBO); The Nixon’s Nixon, Rocket to the Moon, Hamlet, Theatre & Music; Marine Corps veteran. A Christmas Carol, The Home Place, The Mob Doctor (FOX). EDUCATION: BFA, Bach at Leipzig (Writers Theatre); Angels in Sunshine Boys (Guthrie Theater); Of Mice University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater America, Travesties, An Ideal Husband (Court RACHEL NICKS (Ophelia) and Men, Good People, The Red Box (Park Actor Training Program. Mr. Taylor teaches Theatre); Fake, Mother Courage and Her CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Square Theatre). TOURING: title role in Shakespeare at the University of Chicago, is Children (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Debut. OFF BROADWAY: Richard III, The Comedy of Errors (Montana an artistic associate at Lookingglass Theatre TOUR: three years as Scar in The Lion King. Final Follies, War, And I Shakespeare in the Parks). TELEVISION: Company, co-founder of The Back Room INTERNATIONAL: Battlefield directed by And Silence, The Good The Chi (Showtime); Chicago PD (NBC); Shakespeare Project and author of My Life Peter Brook. AWARDS: 2014 Sarah Siddons Negro. REGIONAL: The Empire (FOX); In an Instant (ABC). with the Shakespeare Cult. Society, Chicago Magazine Best Chicago Old Globe, McCarter EDUCATION: BFA in acting, University Actor, DePaul University’s Excellence in the Theatre Center. of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor GREG VINKLER (Player Arts, one of nine national recipients of the TELEVISION: New Amsterdam (NBC); The Training Program. King/Other Gravedigger) prestigious 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, Affair, Nurse Jackie (Showtime); Grey’s CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: five Joseph Jefferson Awards. Mr. Yando is a Anatomy (ABC); Crossing Jordan (NBC). DREW SHIRLEY (Barnardo/ thirty-eight productions freelance acting coach. FILM: Ball Don’t Lie, Life Support. EDUCATION: Ensemble/Fight Captain) including: Love’s Labor’s BFA in drama, The Juilliard School. CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Lost, Henry V, The Merry BARBARA GAINES Short Shakespeare! Wives of Windsor, The (Director/Artistic MIKE NUSSBAUM productions of A School for Lies. CHICAGO: Director/Carl and (Gravedigger) CHICAGO Midsummer Night’s Butler (Northlight Theatre); Oliver! (Marriott Marilynn Thoma Chair) SHAKESPEARE: Follies, Dream and Twelfth Night, Theatre); The Uneasy Chair (Writers Theatre); has directed nearly sixty Shylock in The Merchant The Heir Apparent. The Beard of Avon (Goodman Theatre); productions at Chicago of Venice, Gremio in The CHICAGO: The New Sincerity (Theater Wit); Pantomime (Court Theatre); The Woman in Shakespeare since Taming of the Shrew, Born Yesterday (Remy Bumppo Theatre Black (Blood Curdling Productions); One founding the Theater in Polonius in Hamlet, Company); Troll (Fraud & Phony Theatricals); Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Steppenwolf 1986, including thirty of Shakespeare’s plays. Justice Shallow in Henry productions with Erasing the Distance, One Theatre Company). BROADWAY: West Side Honors include the 2008 Tony Award for IV Parts 1 and 2 (CST/on tour to the Royal Year Chekhov. REGIONAL: The Comedy of Story (2009 revival). REGIONAL: Milwaukee Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon- Errors, Much Ado About Nothing (Door Repertory Theater, BoarsHead Theater, prestigious Honorary OBE (Officer of the Avon), Doctor Tambouri in Passion. Shakespeare); Peter and the Starcatcher, Paper Mill Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) CHICAGO: Ben in Broadway Bound (Drury Cyrano de Bergerac (Utah Shakespeare Pittsburgh Public Theater. INTERNATIONAL: in recognition of her contributions

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strengthening British-American cultural (Opera Pa Skaret, Sweden). TELEVISION: LINDSAY JONES (Sound Designer/Composer) Little Shop of Horrors, South Pacific, 42nd relations, as well as multiple Joseph Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO); Mama Flora’s Family CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: over twenty- Street, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Saturday Jefferson Awards for Best Production and (CBS). Ms. Mickey serves as senior associate five productions including:Tug of War: Night Fever, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Crazy for Best Director. Ms. Gaines has directed at chair for the Department of Theatre and Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Othello, King for You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Dance at University of Texas at Austin. Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry West Side Story, White Christmas, Young Stratford-on-Avon, Lyric Opera of Chicago, VIII, Julius Caesar, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Frankenstein, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver, The and The Old Globe in San Diego. ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) Henry V. CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre, Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Northlight Spamalot, Gypsy, Seven Brides for Seven SCOTT DAVIS (Scenic Designer) CHICAGO in Love, Timon of Athens, Private Lives, Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company. Brothers, Miss Saigon (Drury Lane Theatre); SHAKESPEARE: over twenty productions Richard III, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of BROADWAY: The Nap, A Time to Kill, Bronx Brigadoon (Goodman), The Story of My Life including: Q Brothers Christmas Carol, Red Errors, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant Bombers. OFF BROADWAY: Slave Play, directed by Richard Maltby Jr. (Biograph Velvet, Madagascar, Shakespeare in Love, of Venice, King John, The Molière Comedies, Bootycandy, Wild with Happy, The Brother/ Theater); The Original Grease (American The Book of Joseph, King Charles III, Tug The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest. CHICAGO: Sister Plays, Top Secret, Rx, Beautiful Theatre Company); The Rocky Horror Picture of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Ride Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago. Thing. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, South Show (Mercury Theater Chicago); musical the Cyclone, The Little Mermaid, Pericles, BROADWAY: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Coast Repertory, McCarter Theatre, Arena supervisor for A Little Night Music (Writers Road Show, Shrek the Musical, Othello: Grill, Fela! OFF BROADWAY: Roundabout Stage, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage. Theatre). FILM: vocal coach for Russell The Remix (CST/international tour), Cadre Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, INTERNATIONAL: Royal Shakespeare Crowe and Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables. (CST/tour to South Africa, Edinburgh, Signature Theatre Company. REGIONAL: Company (UK); Stratford Festival (Canada); AWARDS: one Jeff Award, five nominations. Vancouver), Beauty and the Beast, Murder American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, productions in Ireland, Austria, Zimbabwe, ACTING: Mother in Ragtime (Broadway); for Two; Short Shakespeare! productions of Shakespeare Theatre Company, Milwaukee Scotland, South Africa. FILM: The Brass Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooge, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Teapot (Magnolia Pictures); the Academy Magnolia and Ellie in Showboat (national Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. CHICAGO: Court Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among award-winning A Note of Triumph (HBO tour); Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Steppenwolf others. OPERA: Glimmerglass Festival, Films). AWARDS: seven Jeff Awards, two Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chicago/ Garage, Drury Lane Theatre, Marriott Washington National Opera (DC), Wexford Ovation Awards, three Drama Desk Award national tour). Ms. Duchak has two vocal Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Windy City Festival (Ireland), Los Angeles Opera, Atlanta nominations, Michael Maggio Emerging studios in the Chicago area. Playhouse. OFF BROADWAY: Ride the Opera, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Designer Award. Cyclone (MCC Theater), Othello: The Remix Philadelphia Opera, San Francisco Opera, MATT HAWKINS (Fight Choreographer) (Westside Theatre). REGIONAL: Signature among others. DANCE: The Bill T. Jones/ RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: over twenty Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Utah Arnie Zane Company (34 years), Sean Curran CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer productions as fight choreographer, assistant Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Company, Liz Gerring Dance Company. Night’s Dream, Nell Gwynn, Peter Pan – A director, director, actor. AWARDS: five Jeff Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Walnut MUSEUMS: Yale Art Gallery; The Whitney Musical Adventure, Macbeth, Schiller's Mary Awards, fourteen nominations. EDUCATION: Street Theatre. Mr. Davis is the co-founder Museum of American Art; American Museum Stuart, Red Velvet, The Taming of the Shrew, MFA in directing, The University of Iowa; BFA of the Chicago-based design firm Aether of the Moving Image. EDUCATION: MFA, Yale Madagascar, Shakespeare in Love, Macbeth, in acting, Southern Methodist University. and Nyx. www.scottadamdavis.com School of Drama. Mr. Wierzel is the creative Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Charles III, Chicago Mr. Hawkins is an assistant professor director at Spark Design Collaborative, and Shakespeare in the Parks productions of at University of Notre Dame, where he SUSAN E. MICKEY (Costume Designer) serves on the faculty at NYU Tisch School A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and serves as head of musical theatre for the CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare of the Arts. Juliet; Short Shakespeare! productions of Department of Film, Television, and Theatre. in Love, Tug of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Strife, Sense and Sensibility, The Merry Wives MIKE TUTAJ (Projection Designer) CHICAGO Dream, the inaugural season of Chicago WILLIAM CARLOS ANGULO (Choreographer) of Windsor, Cyrano de Bergerac, The School SHAKESPEARE: The Book of Joseph, Shakespeare on Navy Pier. CHICAGO: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. for Lies (Jeff Award), Timon of Athens, Tug of War: Civil Strife, Ride the Cyclone, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, CHICAGO: La Havana Madrid (ALTA The Madness of George III (Jeff Award), Shrek the Musical, Sunday in the Park with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Drury Award - Choreography, Goodman Theatre/ Richard III, Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, George, Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, Lane Theatre, twenty-eight years with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company/Teatro The Taming of the Shrew (Jeff Award). Beauty and the Beast, Timon of Athens, A Lyric Opera of Chicago, eleven as the wig Vista); Seussical, Footloose, The Bridges CHICAGO: The Marriage of Figaro (Lyric Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Feast: an master and make-up designer. REGIONAL: of Madison County (Marriott Theatre); Opera); Jitney, Miss Evers’ Boys (Goodman intimate Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo y Julieta. Alliance Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Once, West Side Story (Jeff Award - Theatre). REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater (wig master). OPERA: Atlanta Choreography, Paramount Theater); Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Victory Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera, A Disappearing Number (Timeline Theatre Theatre Company, Center Stage, Cleveland Gardens Theater, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, Saint Louis Opera, Company); Ragtime (Jeff Award nomination - Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Writers Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, the Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South Choreography, The Den Theatre). Goodspeed Musicals, Portland Center Stage, Paramount Theatre, among others. AWARDS: Carolina, and Italy. INTERNATIONAL: Tom REGIONAL: In the Heights (Milwaukee Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dallas Theater five Equity Jeff Awards, one Non-Equity Jeff Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. Repertory Theatre/Seattle Repertory Center, Studio Arena Theatre, Geva Theatre, Award, Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Theatre/Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park). Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Alabama Award. Mr. Tutaj is an artistic associate with ROBERTA DUCHAK (Music Director) CHICAGO EDUCATION: BFA in musical theatre and Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Shakespeare TimeLine Theatre Company, and serves as SHAKESPEARE: SIX, The Little Mermaid, drama, Indiana University. Mr. Angulo is Festival, Alliance Theatre Company in adjunct faculty in the Theatre Department Romeo and Juliet the Musical - The People a scholarship student at Hubbard Street Atlanta. INTERNATIONAL: Madama Butterfly of Columbia College Chicago. vs. Friar Lawrence, Murder for Two. CHICAGO: Dance Center and Ballet Chicago.

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TYRONE PHILLIPS (Associate Director) Playhouse, White Heron Theatre Company, RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses CRISS HENDERSON CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Anchorage Ballet, PCPA Theatrefest. on current and future artistic planning and (Executive Director) Night's Dream, Chicago Shakespeare in the EDUCATION: MFA in stage management, production, as well as the development of is the executive director Parks production of A Midsummer Night’s University of California San Diego. all new plays, musicals, and adaptations for of Chicago Shakespeare Dream, Red Velvet (associate director), King CST. Projects include: The Book of Joseph, and has produced Charles III. CHICAGO: An Octoroon, A Doll’s BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, 5th Avenue/ the Theater’s past House, Genesis, The Brothers’ Size (Definition Director) is in his nineteenth season as ACT, upcoming at Alliance Theatre), twenty-nine seasons. Theatre Company); George Orwell’s 1984 CST’s casting director, where his credits Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Under his leadership, (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Stick include over one hundred productions Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, CST has become one of the nation’s leading Fly (Windy City Playhouse); Father Comes and thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver), regional theaters and one of Chicago's most Home from the Wars (Goodman Theatre); canon. In addition to numerous productions Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, celebrated cultural organizations, honored Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Prologue with Barbara Gaines, other productions of Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk with the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Theatre Company at the Steppenwolf note include: a host of Sondheim musicals It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Regional Theatre, as well as multiple Garage). REGIONAL: Assassins, A Christmas directed by Gary Griffin; Ride the Cyclone Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Laurence Olivier and Joseph Jefferson Carol, A Raisin in the Sun, understudy in (CST, MCC, Fifth Avenue/ACT), directed Ear (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Awards. He oversaw the Theater’s move to The Mountaintop, understudy in Clybourne by Rachel Rockwell; Rose Rage: Henry VI, The Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, its home on Navy Pier in 1999 and led the Park (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Parts 1, 2, and 3, directed by Edward Hall; London), The Emperor’s New Clothes, recent development of The Yard at Chicago FILM: Gimmick, Boss, Divergent, Fare and The Molière Comedies, directed by The Adventures of Pinocchio, Murder for Shakespeare. In 2016 he spearheaded the Thee Well. TELEVISION: Chicago Justice Brian Bedford. He directed and co-created Two (CST, New York), and The Feast: an citywide, yearlong celebration of (NBC); McDonald’s Mario-Kart Happy Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, intimate Tempest (in collaboration with Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 Meal commercial; DiGiorno's Don't Settle as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior Redmoon). Former artistic director of Chicago. Mr. Henderson has garnered commercial. EDUCATION/TRAINING: BFA to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a the Marriott Theatre and multiple Jeff multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural in acting, University of Illinois Urbana- Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and Award-winning actor, he has starred in Innovation Award from the Chicago Champaign; Shakespeare’s Globe; emerging has been a visiting educator for the School productions nationally, including CST’s Innovation Awards; Arts Administrator of the professionals resident, Milwaukee Repertory at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, production of A Flea in Her Ear as Camille Year by Arts Management Magazine at the Theater. Mr. Phillips is the founding artistic the University of Illinois at Chicago, and (Jeff Award, After Dark Award). As casting Kennedy Center; recognition in Crain’s director of Definition Theatre Company Northwestern University. director/associate at Jane Alderman Chicago Business “40 under 40”; and the and former artistic assistant at Writers Casting, projects included: the television Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Theatre. He was recently selected as one NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) series Early Edition, Missing Persons, by the Minister of Culture of France. Mr. of Newcity Stage's Players - the 50 leaders is the director of casting at Manhattan Untouchables, and ER; the filmsWhile Henderson has served on the boards of of Chicago’s theater, dance, opera, and Theatre Club. BROADWAY: Choir Boy, Jitney, You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, among directors of the League of Chicago Theatres comedy culture of 2018. Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, others; and numerous national tours. and Arts Alliance Illinois, and for many years Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma mater as president of the Producers’ Association of DEBORAH ACKER (Production Stage The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Northwestern University and is the former Chicago-area Theaters. Mr. Henderson is Manager) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Casa Valentina, Constellations. She cast the president of the board of the National director of DePaul University’s MFA/Arts Twenty-nine seasons. CHICAGO: Puttin’ original production of Proof and The Tale Alliance for Musical Theatre. Leadership Program, a two-year graduate- on the Ritz (National Jewish Theater); of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway and Off level curriculum in arts management training Six Degrees of Separation, Driving Miss Broadway, as well as their national tours. created through a joint partnership between Daisy, I’m Not Rappaport (Briar Street OFF BROADWAY: Linda, Incognito, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Theatre); The Nerd (Royal George Theatre); Explorers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping The Theatre School. A… My Name is Alice (Ivanhoe Theatre). Man, Ruined, Equivocation, The World of The song "I Could Never Say Goodbye" was written by Eithne Ni Bhraonain, Nicky Ryan, Ms. Acker has production managed Extreme Happiness, Of Good Stock. Prior and Roma Ryan. Used by permission. extensively throughout Chicago, and has to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, Ms. also provided lighting designs for: the Apollo Piccione was a member of the casting staff Chicago Shakespeare productions are made possible in part by the Illinois Arts Council Theatre, Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, at the New York Shakespeare Festival for ten Agency and an IncentOvate Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural years, where she worked on Shakespeare Chicago Shakespeare’s Team Shakespeare, Affairs and Special Events. the Museum of Science and Industry, Some in the Park and numerous productions at Chicago Shakespeare is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the (tour), the Public Theatre. She cast the American Like It Cole Pump Boys and Dinettes national service organization of non-profit theaters; National Alliance for Musical Theatre; actors for the first two seasons of theBridge in Branson, Missouri. Shakespeare Theatre Association; Arts Alliance Illinois; the League of Chicago Theatres; Project, produced by BAM and the Old Vic and Ingenuity, Inc. HANNAH WICHMANN (Assistant Stage London. She is a graduate of the Yale School Manager) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: A of Drama and a member of the Casting Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers Society of America. in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nell Gwynn, component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, The Little Mermaid. REGIONAL: Paramount including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international Theatre, Mercury Theater, 5th Avenue organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Director and Choreographer are members of The scenic, costume, and lighting designers of Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, La Jolla the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS this production are represented by United Scenic SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union. Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

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REED NICK CUELLAR Producing Associate / MOLLY TRUGLIA ALEXA BERKOWITZ Properties Crew Head GRACE GLASGOW KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Crafts Assistant Manager of International Learning Programs Manager Production Office Manager JEFFREY GOUGIS MCDERMOTT WILL JONATHAN AND EMERY and Special Projects MARKETING AND SALES CAITLIN ALLEN TIFFANY GOUGIS SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D BERG-EINHORN BRITTNEY GRANT NEVIN LAW STAGE MANAGEMENT Costume Apprentice WENDY WU ROSIE BROSS Public Humanities Manager MAYA HOPKINS GROUP, PLLC JULIE STANTON Properties Artisans Producing Assistant Director of Marketing DEBORAH ACKER JESS KENYON ALLIE LYKE Legal Services PASSION ROCHELLE and Sales Production Stage Manager/ BRI MCCABE DIEGO ZOZAYA ANASTASIA WRENN TYLER PHILLIPS REGINA BUCCOLA, PH.D. Associate Producer Dressers ALEX MEYER Interim Casting Assistant Education Interns HANNAH KENNEDY OPERATIONS/ WILL NICHOLSON Scholar-in-Residence HANNAH WICHMANN MIKEY GRAY Public Relations Director DIANNE NORA STEPHEN Assistant Stage Manager ELECTRICS FACILITIES ZACHARY PARKHURST Assistant to the BENNETT, PH.D. CATHY TAYLOR DARA PRENTISS Creative Producer FINANCE JEFF GLASS SUSAN KNILL CASEY CALDWELL, MFA Public Relations Consultant LIZ ANNE LARSEN MAYA PRENTISS ELIZABETH VAN HAREN Lighting Supervisor Facilities and Operations ELIZABETH LINDA ORELLANA KATIE RANEY TYRONE PHILLIPS AMANDA CANTLIN Production Assistants Director CHARLEBOIS, PH.D. Director of Finance ALEC THORNE ANTHONY SANTIAGO Associate Director, Hamlet Senior Marketing Manager IRA MURFIN, PH.D. Assistant Lighting Supervisor JEANNE DeVORE SAM SARAH B.T. THIEL, PH.D. 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Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare continues to raise questions, arguments, and point/counterpoints among—and sometimes between—scholars and theater practitioners. The same script through different lenses reveals itself in myriad ways—leaving us, the readers of text and performance, to think and rethink our own points of view. Such is the legacy that Shakespeare left us. We hope that our program notes enrich, deepen, and sometimes even challenge our audiences’ experience with the production they witness. Remember Me A Scholar's Perspective on Hamlet

Visit chicagoshakes.com “Adieu, adieu,” the Ghost of Hamlet’s murdered father Among these rememberers, Hamlet is of course the most emburdened. He cannot to explore more ideas and stories behind the bids his son at the end of their harrowing first tear himself away from memories of his loved, lost father; his mother’s new art on CST’s stages. conversation. “Remember me.” marriage; his broken passion for Ophelia; his father’s homicidal, life-changing and life-immobilizing assignment. Most of his mighty soliloquies pivot upon the pain That’s a tough assignment. Vengeance is the pressure brought forth by memories, and the maddening question of what to do with them. of the past upon the present. A dark thing done needs “Heaven and earth,” he exclaims to himself, even before he has met the Ghost: “Must doing again, by way of remembrance and retaliation. The HAMLET I remember?” He has no idea how abundantly, and how harrowingly, the remainder Ghost’s “Remember me” does not ask for mere affection; n BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of his life will answer “yes.” it insists on action. To remember must mean to kill. n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES The play’s earliest performances likely entailed another layer of memory. Strong n COURTYARD THEATER Part of what has made Hamlet unique on the world’s tradition holds that the role of the Ghost was first performed by Shakespeare n APRIL 17–JUNE 9, 2019 stage is the sheer heft and power of the remembering n 312.595.5600 himself. Resonant casting: Shakespeare’s own son Hamnet had died, about a it entails for everyone involved: for the characters and n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM year earlier, at ten years old. If tradition tells true, then (as James Joyce suggests actors on the stage; for the play’s first audiences in the hauntingly at the midpoint of Ulysses) Shakespeare, the living father of a dead early seventeenth century; and for us now, four centuries son, had chosen to write and perform the role of a dead father addressing a living and more down the line. son with a near-identical name. Most of the cast—and perhaps even some in the Virtually every character in the play bears burdens of audience—would have known of the playwright’s loss—and would have felt its memory, and part of our headrush, from beginning to additional undertow. end, consists in reconstructing the pasts that encumber But Shakespeare had also built into Hamlet more them from the start. Both Ophelia and Hamlet recall Vengeance is the public, less personal memories—rooted in a play that obsessively their failed love affair (which we’ve seen all theatergoers already knew on their own pulses. nothing of). Horatio (astute), and Rosencrantz and pressure of the past Twelve years earlier, the playwright Thomas Kyd had Stuart Sherman, who Guildenstern (clueless), all work to reconcile their upon the present. created, in his Spanish Tragedy, the period’s very first contributes this essay, memories of the brilliant, glowing prince they first is a professor of English A dark thing done revenge play, and its most lasting hit. In retrospect, at Fordham University befriended long ago with the turbulent prince they The Spanish Tragedy reads like Hamlet mirrored and and the author of Telling know now. The new king is haunted by the murder that needs doing again, by Time: Clocks, Diaries, and reversed: a father must avenge his son (Horatio!), who English Diurnal Form, has brought him to the throne, and Hamlet’s mother has been murdered, like King Hamlet, in a garden. Two 1660–1785. by mingled feelings of guilt and bafflement. Even the way of remembrance women—the slain son’s mother and his lover—commit gravediggers recall with remarkable precision some and retaliation. suicide (and the mother runs mad before she does important dates in the history of Denmark and in so). The avenging father intermittently runs mad, and then puts on a play in order to Hamlet’s own life story—as well as, improbably enough, entrap his enemies; the bloodbath at the Tragedy’s end became the benchmark for the exact identity of the man who once inhabited the old all the revenge tragedies to come. skull that has now cropped up, random and disembodied, amid new gravedigging. (Alas, poor Yorick!) Hamlet’s first audiences could not have watched any moment of Shakespeare’s play without remembering Kyd’s. Shakespeare was giving them something they 30 Spring 2019 | Hamlet www.chicagoshakes.com 31 SCENIC VIEWS

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already adored, and trying at the same time to make it new at every turn. His chief tactic was expansion. Kyd’s protagonist must simply decide whether, when, and how to accomplish his revenge. Hamlet, by contrast, parleys the practical problems of vengeance into questions of human essence and “Must I remember?” existence: whether to do or not to do; to be or not to be. Shakespeare’s expansive tactics certainly succeeded He has no idea how in the long run (because, well, here we are), but not Call 312.644.7482 for details. You MUST present in the short. Kyd’s play, all but unknown to us these your ticket to receive this special offer. abundantly, and how RivaNavyPier.com days, emphatically outdrew Hamlet at the box office harrowingly, the throughout Shakespeare’s lifetime. @RivaCrabHouse remainder of his life Nowadays, when we watch Hamlet, we are likely will answer “yes.” to remember not other plays but other, earlier performances of this one. All those films and videos; all the live performances you may have caught at sundry lifepoints; not to mention all the times we and our friends have quoted the play, intentionally or incidentally (since its lines suffuse our culture, even when we’re not sure of their source). Cold nose, Shakespeare just may have foreseen, and foretold, this accumulation, this durability. To the Ghost’s “Remember me” (spoken perhaps by Shakespeare warm hearts. himself), Hamlet replies: Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Humans love it here too. On the line’s surface, that “globe” is the skull where memory resides. But Since we moved to Montgomery Place, there’s so much Shakespeare has layered an intensely present-tense pun: Hamlet was one of the to do. Places to explore. And busy, active people who first plays produced at the new Globe, whose sole in-house playwright here quietly still take time to scratch behind my ears. I make new best savors his power to “distract” (excite, animate) audiences, seated and standing, friends every day. Make our place your place beyond anything in their experience or expectations. Hamlet insists that the Ghost (and perhaps Shakespeare too?) will be remembered—that the theater won’t forget. True enough. Playgoing furnishes a kind of pause-point in our real lives, poised Montgomery Place between the past that frets our memories, and the future that demands our actions. The Cultural Center of East Hyde Park Small wonder, then, that perhaps the most hypnotic play of all perches itself at that 5550 South Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 point where aching memories abound, and what’s to come is still unsure. n 773-753-4100 MontgomeryPlace.org A not-for-profit community for people 62-plus 32 Spring 2019 | Hamlet INVEST IN CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Community Partners Chicago Shakespeare Theater is honored by the support of these leading business and civic partners, whose generosity demonstrates a commitment to enriching our vibrant Chicago community. We are pleased to recognize these BOLD ARTISTRY organizations for their dedication to artistic excellence, innovative approaches to enhancing education, and impactful community outreach initiatives.

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