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* denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association Equity Actors’ of members denotes *

Trevor Strahan for for Strahan Trevor

Benvolio

Tybalt

; Cage Sebastian Pierre for for Pierre Sebastian Cage ; , , Balthazar

#SHORTSHAKES WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM ; and Philip Winston for Winston Philip and ;

Echaka Agba for for Agba Echaka

Paris

; Eric Schabla for for Schabla Eric ;

Lady Capulet Lady Lord Capulet Lord

; Jack DeCesare for for DeCesare Jack ;

Mercutio/Friar John Mercutio/Friar .

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: performance: the of time the at made is announcement specific a unless players listed for substitute never Understudies

Romeo , , Peter ; Elizabeth Dowling for for Dowling Elizabeth ; ; Peter Sipla for for Sipla Peter ;

Friar Laurence Friar

POST, COMMENT, SHARE, EXPLORE EXPLORE SHARE, COMMENT, POST, Nurse

, , Prince/Apothecary ; ;

; Ayssette Muñoz for for Muñoz Ayssette ;

APOTHECARY

Juliet

, ,

ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH

Mantua

PETER

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PETER SIPLA PETER

Santana; Nate and Ladji Emma Cover: TYBALT

FRIAR JOHN FRIAR

SAM PEARSON SAM

(beginning April 10) April (beginning

BRIAN GREY* BRIAN

FRIAR LAURENCE FRIAR

NURSE

DEMETRIOS TROY* DEMETRIOS

COLLEEN MADDEN* COLLEEN

Capulets vow at last to end their families’ hatred. families’ their end to last at vow Capulets

The Church The

(through April 7) April (through

NURSE NURSE

tomb and discovering the carnage it holds, the Montagues and and Montagues the holds, it carnage the discovering and tomb

KAREN JANES WODITSCH* JANES KAREN

PARIS

LORD CAPULET LORD

ANDREW SAENZ ANDREW Left alone there by Friar Laurence, she takes her life. Entering the the Entering life. her takes she Laurence, Friar by there alone Left

TIM DECKER* TIM

MERCUTIO

(beginning April 3) April (beginning

BRIAN GREY* BRIAN

husband’s corpse, refuses to leave when they hear voices close at hand. hand. at close voices hear they when leave to refuses corpse, husband’s

PRINCE

LADY CAPULET LADY

ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH

PATRESE D. M D. PATRESE

(through March 31) March (through moments before the Friar finds them. Juliet awakens and, seeing her her seeing and, awakens Juliet them. finds Friar the before moments The Court The

c CLAIN*

LADY CAPULET LADY

Romeo kills him. Then, taking the poison, Romeo dies beside Juliet, Juliet, beside dies Romeo poison, the taking Then, him. kills Romeo MOJEKWU* LILY BALTHAZAR

JULIET

CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERRE SEBASTIAN CAGE

EMMA LADJI EMMA

BENVOLIO

tomb, where he is confronted by Paris. Not recognizing his assailant, assailant, his recognizing Not Paris. by confronted is he where tomb,

MIGUEL SAN ANDREA The House of Capulet of House The

ROMEO

Juliet is dead. Armed with poison, he returns to Verona and the Capulets’ Capulets’ the and Verona to returns he poison, with Armed dead. is Juliet

NATE SANTANA NATE

The House of Montague of House The

But the Friar’s letter never reaches Mantua, and Romeo instead hears that that hears instead Romeo and Mantua, reaches never letter Friar’s the But

CAST

their two families can be reconciled. be can families two their

adapted and directed by by directed and adapted will send word to Romeo to rescue her there and return with her to Mantua until until Mantua to her with return and there her rescue to Romeo to word send will

MARTI LYONS MARTI

that will induce a deathlike trance; once her body is laid in the Capulets’ tomb, he he tomb, Capulets’ the in laid is body her once trance; deathlike a induce will that KATHRYN WALSH KATHRYN

BOB MASON BOB

turns to the Friar for counsel. His plan is a desperate one: she must drink a potion potion a drink must she one: desperate a is plan His counsel. for Friar the to turns

Verse Coach Verse

DENNIS J. CONNERS J. DENNIS

Casting

with rage. After her Nurse advises that she simply forget about her first husband, Juliet Juliet husband, first her about forget simply she that advises Nurse her After rage. with * FIKSEL MIKHAIL

Stage Manager Stage

JARVIE RICHARD

Sound Design Sound Paris is all arranged. Juliet begs her parents to reconsider, but her pleas are met met are pleas her but reconsider, to parents her begs Juliet arranged. all is Paris

HAWKINS MATT

Wig and Make-up Make-up and Wig

Design

away—Lady Capulet enters her daughter’s bedroom to bring news: Juliet’s marriage to to marriage Juliet’s news: bring to bedroom daughter’s her enters Capulet away—Lady

STEPHANIE PAUL STEPHANIE

Choreography Fight

O'NEILL COURTNEY

Choreography

Montague from Verona. Early the next morning—and just moments after Romeo steals steals Romeo after moments just morning—and next the Early Verona. from Montague

PLOEG DER VAN MIEKA

Design Scenic

The Capulets demand Romeo’s death; the Prince chooses instead to banish the young young the banish to instead chooses Prince the death; Romeo’s demand Capulets The GREG HOFMANN GREG

Design Costume

Lighting Design Lighting

murdering him. murdering

written by by written

apart, Tybalt stabs Mercutio with a fatal blow. In a blind fury, Romeo turns on his new kinsman, kinsman, new his on turns Romeo fury, blind a In blow. fatal a with Mercutio stabs Tybalt apart, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM

but his friend Mercutio steps in to accept Tybalt’s challenge. As Romeo attempts to break the two two the break to attempts Romeo As challenge. Tybalt’s accept to in steps Mercutio friend his but

Tybalt, enraged by the Montagues’ intrusion the night before. Romeo refuses to engage in a fight, fight, a in engage to refuses Romeo before. night the intrusion Montagues’ the by enraged Tybalt,

His secret marriage vows made with Juliet, Romeo is confronted in the street by her cousin cousin her by street the in confronted is Romeo Juliet, with made vows marriage secret His

couple later that day in the hope that this marriage might at last end their families’ discord. discord. families’ their end last at might marriage this that hope the in day that later couple

presents

there, and the two fall in love. The next morning, Friar Laurence consents to wed the young young the wed to consents Laurence Friar morning, next The love. in fall two the and there,

decide to crash Lord Capulet’s party. Romeo, Montague’s son, sees Capulet’s daughter Juliet Juliet daughter Capulet’s sees son, Montague’s Romeo, party. Capulet’s Lord crash to decide

Ray and Judy McCaskey Endowed Chair Endowed McCaskey Judy and Ray MARILYN J. HALPERIN J. MARILYN

answered by a sentence of death. Still, life in Verona goes on. For sport, the young Montagues Montagues young the sport, For on. goes Verona in life Still, death. of sentence a by answered

Director of Educatio of Director

n and Communication and n

GARY GRIFFIN GARY

remember. The Prince decrees: any further violence between these two proud families will be be will families proud two these between violence further any decrees: Prince The remember. s

Associate Artistic Director Artistic Associate

RICK BOYNTON RICK

In Verona, the Montagues and Capulets have been enemies for longer than anyone can can anyone than longer for enemies been have Capulets and Montagues the Verona, In

Creative Producer Creative Endowed Chair Endowed

Carl and Marilynn Thoma Thoma Marilynn and Carl

Artistic Director Artistic

BARBARA GAINES BARBARA

Executive Director Executive

CRISS HENDERSON CRISS

EDUCATION Director of Education and Communications MARILYN J. HALPERIN WE ASKED THE CAST...R & J CONNECTS TO Ray and Judy McCaskey Endowed Chair Education Outreach Manager JASON HARRINGTON WHAT LINE FROM HAD Learning Programs Manager MOLLY TRUGLIA Education Associate ROXANNA CONNER A Interim Learning and Outreach Associate SARA B.T. THIEL FEELING YOU Education Interns KRYSTAL ROSE BROSS TRACY KOENN GROWING UP? ARTISTIC Associate Producer HEATHER SCHMUCKER

BRIAN GREY Mercutio STAFF Producing Associate DOREEN SAYEGH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

“Banishèd!” Romeo and Juliet Assistant Director HANNAH TODD Company Manager DANIEL J. HESS I was cast to play Romeo in eighth grade— Tour Manager KEVIN DWYER the girl playing Juliet was my first girlfriend. Casting Associate LAURA DURHAM Two weeks before we opened, I got into a fight Assistant Company Manager SALVADOR F. GARZA Arts Leadership Fellows JAVIER DUBON on the playground, got suspended, and was kicked out of the play. ANNA TRACHTMAN ‘Banishèd!’ Juliet dumped me and started dating the new ‘Romeo.’ Assistant to the Creative Producer JACK EIDSON Directing Intern RINSKA CARRASCO What’s more, I never got another chance to play the role… Casting Intern CASSIDY MOREY Company Management Intern ALANA DAVIS SAM PEARSON Tybalt PRODUCTION “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too Director of Production CHRIS PLEVIN Associate Director of Production JEFF WILLIAMS rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn.” Production Coordinator JoHANNAH HAIL Oh, the heartbreak. Throughout middle and Production Office Manager EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR high school, I was constantly falling in—and Production Management Apprentice LUCINDA ALLEN Assistant Stage Manager KAITLIN KITZMILLER, AEA

out—of love. While it’s easy to look back and laugh at the drama of ROMEO AND JULIET Stage Management Intern KIMBERLEY DELEON it all, some of those break-ups caused very real pain. I think I’m still recovering from one particularly brutal break-up in sophomore year. I SCENERY Romeo and Juliet Technical Directors ANGELA McMAHON actually tried dating her again in college; she dumped me. Again... ROBERT L. WILSON Assistant Set Designer GREG PINSONEAULT Tour Technical Director ADAM TODD EMMA LADJI Juliet CST Scenic Technicians BRADLEY BURI NATHAN SERVISS “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds!” Tour Scenic Technician TONY JAKSHA When I was younger, I was so eager to be older, Scenic Artist CHRISTINE RX BOLLES independent, and on my own. It was very hard to House Carpenters JACK BIRDWELL ADAM HELD appreciate the present moment because, in my MICHAEL JANSSENS mind, everything was so much better in the future. The present was NATHAN SERVISS never good enough. This line represents that constant anticipation to ADAM TODD COSTUMES me. It’s a feeling I relate to deeply. Costume Shop Manager RYAN MAGNUSON Assistant Costume Designer NOEL HUNTZINGER CST Costume Design Assistant CATHY TANTILLO PETER SIPLA Peter CST Wardrobe Supervisor REBECCA DOROSHUK “Shall I speak more, or shall I speak at this?” Head Draper LISE STEC Draper ALICE BROUGHTON With my peers and teachers, it seemed like a First Hand CAROL SCHABERG constant game of when to speak up and when Stitchers ELIZABETH HUNSTAD JENNIFER GIANGOLA not to. Trying to fit in AND be true to myself MELISSA PERKINS seemed an important, yet impossible, task. Though I was widely GRETA HUMPHREY liked for being ‘nice’ and ‘a good listener,’ I found that I needed to be ERIKA SENASE Crafts Supervisor MELISSA BOCHAT bolder to actually enjoy my life. I’m still cognizant of that question, Crafts Artisan D.J. REED but now I am quicker to answer it. Romeo and Juliet Wardrobe Supervisor LYNN SPARBER Swing Dresser BLAKE BURKE Costume Apprentice EMILY OWENS ANDREA SAN MIGUEL Benvolio LIGHTING "Be ruled by me, forget to think of her...By giving Lighting Supervisor JEFF GLASS liberty unto thine eyes, examine other beauties." Assistant Lighting Supervisor ALEC THORNE Assistant Lighting Designer NICOLE MALMQUIST I gave that same advice to my best friend in high Tour Electrician LUKE GERHARDT school, lovesick over a girl who didn't know he existed. [Side note: I was desperately and (not so) secretly in love SOUND Sound Supervisor PALMER JANKENS with him.] More upsetting than my own heartbreak was watching my Sound Crew Head JOE DISBROW best friend go through his. Every day I’d remind him, ‘There are other CST Sound Crew PAUL PERRY LEAD TEAM SHAKESPEARE PARTNER fish in the sea.’ Turns out when you're in love, it's easier to prescribe Tour Sound Crew ANDREW SOURS medicine than to take it… WIGS AND MAKE-UP MAJOR SUPPORTERS OF TEAM SHAKESPEARE Head of Wigs and Make-up RICHARD JARVIE A.N. and The Harold and Wig and Make-up Assistant MIGUEL PEREZ Pearl G. Barnett Mimi Steinberg NATE SANTANA Romeo Wig and Make-up Apprentice JENNIFER MOORE Foundation Charitable Trust Wig and Make-up Intern HAILEY RACKOWIECKI “Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.” Additional support perennially funded by The Malott Family Student Access Fund, Pritzker Foundation Team Shakespeare Fund and The Segal Family Foundation Student Matinee Fund. I was helping my dad clean out our car, and PROPERTIES took some trash out to a dumpster. I was run- Properties Supervisor CASSANDRA WESTOVER MAJOR 2016/17 SEASON SUPPORTERS ning as fast as I could and wasn't really looking Properties Carpenter LISA GRIEBEL Properties Artisans JONATHAN BERG-EINHORN ahead—and ran, face-first, into the dumpster. I had a huge cut SOPHIA BRIONES across my cheek—and the next day was the first day of fourth grade. TAYLOR ELY BENNETT SEYMOUR I told my classmates I got in a fight—with Wolverine... Properties Intern SARAH MERRILL

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* denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association Equity Actors’ of members denotes *

Trevor Strahan for for Strahan Trevor

Benvolio

Tybalt

; Cage Sebastian Pierre for for Pierre Sebastian Cage ; , , Balthazar

#SHORTSHAKES WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM ; and Philip Winston for Winston Philip and ;

Echaka Agba for for Agba Echaka

Paris

; Eric Schabla for for Schabla Eric ;

Lady Capulet Lady Lord Capulet Lord

; Jack DeCesare for for DeCesare Jack ;

Mercutio/Friar John Mercutio/Friar .

Romeo , , Peter ; Elizabeth Dowling for for Dowling Elizabeth ; ; Peter Sipla for for Sipla Peter ;

Friar Laurence Friar

POST, COMMENT, SHARE, EXPLORE EXPLORE SHARE, COMMENT, POST, Nurse

, , Prince/Apothecary ; ;

; Ayssette Muñoz for for Muñoz Ayssette ;

APOTHECARY

Juliet

, ,

ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH

Mantua

PETER

This page: Emma Ladji, photos by Michael Brosilow Michael by photos Ladji, Emma page: This

PETER SIPLA PETER

Santana; Nate and Ladji Emma Cover: TYBALT

FRIAR JOHN FRIAR

SAM PEARSON SAM

(beginning April 10) April (beginning

BRIAN GREY* BRIAN

FRIAR LAURENCE FRIAR

NURSE

DEMETRIOS TROY* DEMETRIOS

COLLEEN MADDEN* COLLEEN

Capulets vow at last to end their families’ hatred. families’ their end to last at vow Capulets

The Church The

(through April 7) April (through

NURSE NURSE

tomb and discovering the carnage it holds, the Montagues and and Montagues the holds, it carnage the discovering and tomb

KAREN JANES WODITSCH* JANES KAREN

PARIS

LORD CAPULET LORD

ANDREW SAENZ ANDREW Left alone there by Friar Laurence, she takes her life. Entering the the Entering life. her takes she Laurence, Friar by there alone Left

TIM DECKER* TIM

MERCUTIO

(beginning April 3) April (beginning

BRIAN GREY* BRIAN

husband’s corpse, refuses to leave when they hear voices close at hand. hand. at close voices hear they when leave to refuses corpse, husband’s

PRINCE

LADY CAPULET LADY

ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH

PATRESE D. M D. PATRESE

(through March 31) March (through moments before the Friar finds them. Juliet awakens and, seeing her her seeing and, awakens Juliet them. finds Friar the before moments The Court The

c CLAIN*

LADY CAPULET LADY

Romeo kills him. Then, taking the poison, Romeo dies beside Juliet, Juliet, beside dies Romeo poison, the taking Then, him. kills Romeo MOJEKWU* LILY BALTHAZAR

JULIET

CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERRE SEBASTIAN CAGE

EMMA LADJI EMMA

BENVOLIO

tomb, where he is confronted by Paris. Not recognizing his assailant, assailant, his recognizing Not Paris. by confronted is he where tomb,

MIGUEL SAN ANDREA The House of Capulet of House The

ROMEO

Juliet is dead. Armed with poison, he returns to Verona and the Capulets’ Capulets’ the and Verona to returns he poison, with Armed dead. is Juliet

NATE SANTANA NATE

The House of Montague of House The

But the Friar’s letter never reaches Mantua, and Romeo instead hears that that hears instead Romeo and Mantua, reaches never letter Friar’s the But

CAST

their two families can be reconciled. be can families two their

MARTI LYONS MARTI

that will induce a deathlike trance; once her body is laid in the Capulets’ tomb, he he tomb, Capulets’ the in laid is body her once trance; deathlike a induce will that KATHRYN WALSH KATHRYN

BOB MASON BOB

turns to the Friar for counsel. His plan is a desperate one: she must drink a potion potion a drink must she one: desperate a is plan His counsel. for Friar the to turns

Verse Coach Verse

DENNIS J. CONNERS J. DENNIS

Casting

with rage. After her Nurse advises that she simply forget about her first husband, Juliet Juliet husband, first her about forget simply she that advises Nurse her After rage. with * FIKSEL MIKHAIL

Stage Manager Stage

JARVIE RICHARD

Sound Design Sound Paris is all arranged. Juliet begs her parents to reconsider, but her pleas are met met are pleas her but reconsider, to parents her begs Juliet arranged. all is Paris

HAWKINS MATT

Wig and Make-up Make-up and Wig

Design

away—Lady Capulet enters her daughter’s bedroom to bring news: Juliet’s marriage to to marriage Juliet’s news: bring to bedroom daughter’s her enters Capulet away—Lady

STEPHANIE PAUL STEPHANIE

Choreography Fight

O'NEILL COURTNEY

Choreography

Montague from Verona. Early the next morning—and just moments after Romeo steals steals Romeo after moments just morning—and next the Early Verona. from Montague

PLOEG DER VAN MIEKA

Design Scenic

The Capulets demand Romeo’s death; the Prince chooses instead to banish the young young the banish to instead chooses Prince the death; Romeo’s demand Capulets The GREG HOFMANN GREG

Design Costume

Lighting Design Lighting

murdering him. murdering

written by by written

but his friend Mercutio steps in to accept Tybalt’s challenge. As Romeo attempts to break the two two the break to attempts Romeo As challenge. Tybalt’s accept to in steps Mercutio friend his but

Tybalt, enraged by the Montagues’ intrusion the night before. Romeo refuses to engage in a fight, fight, a in engage to refuses Romeo before. night the intrusion Montagues’ the by enraged Tybalt,

His secret marriage vows made with Juliet, Romeo is confronted in the street by her cousin cousin her by street the in confronted is Romeo Juliet, with made vows marriage secret His

couple later that day in the hope that this marriage might at last end their families’ discord. discord. families’ their end last at might marriage this that hope the in day that later couple

presents

there, and the two fall in love. The next morning, Friar Laurence consents to wed the young young the wed to consents Laurence Friar morning, next The love. in fall two the and there,

decide to crash Lord Capulet’s party. Romeo, Montague’s son, sees Capulet’s daughter Juliet Juliet daughter Capulet’s sees son, Montague’s Romeo, party. Capulet’s Lord crash to decide

Ray and Judy McCaskey Endowed Chair Endowed McCaskey Judy and Ray MARILYN J. HALPERIN J. MARILYN

answered by a sentence of death. Still, life in Verona goes on. For sport, the young Montagues Montagues young the sport, For on. goes Verona in life Still, death. of sentence a by answered

Director of Educatio of Director

n and Communication and n

GARY GRIFFIN GARY

remember. The Prince decrees: any further violence between these two proud families will be be will families proud two these between violence further any decrees: Prince The remember. s

Associate Artistic Director Artistic Associate

RICK BOYNTON RICK

In Verona, the Montagues and Capulets have been enemies for longer than anyone can can anyone than longer for enemies been have Capulets and Montagues the Verona, In

Creative Producer Creative Endowed Chair Endowed

Carl and Marilynn Thoma Thoma Marilynn and Carl

Artistic Director Artistic

BARBARA GAINES BARBARA

Executive Director Executive

CRISS HENDERSON CRISS

BRIAN GREY Mercutio STAFF Producing Associate DOREEN SAYEGH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

CAST LILY MOJEKWU ) returns to cCLAIN (Lady Capulet through March 31 makes her PATRESE D. M ) Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she appeared (Lady Capulet beginning April 3 . Other Chicago credits include: in Romeo and Juliet (Steppenwolf Theatre COLLEEN MADDEN) makes her Chicago Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other ChicagoThings (Nurse beginning April 10 Cocked (Victory Gardens); Between Riverside and Crazy (Goodman credits include: (Windy City Objects in the Mirror ELIZABETH LAIDLAW returns to Chicago debut at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Madison Company); (Rivendell Theatre You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (Northlight Look, We Are Breathing (Prince/Apothecary) and Milwaukee credits include productions with: White Guy on the Bus Theatre); EMMA LADJI and Short Playhouse); The Commons of Pensacola returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include: Ensemble); and (Juliet) , The Two Noble Kinsmen and Forward Theater, Madison Repertory Theatre, Theatre, Jeff nomination for Outstanding BRIAN GREY As You Like It Romeo and Juliet Tartuffe, Misanthrope, Spunk (Northlight Theatre). Regional credits include five ) returns to Chicago where her credits include the Chicago Shakespeare productions of Renaissance Theatreworks, Milwaukee Repertory Supporting Actress); (Mercutio/Friar John Shakespeare’s Greatest Shakespeare! . She is seasons with Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. Film in the Parks production of . Other Chicago credits include productions Theater; next season she joins MilwaukeeDoubt Chamber (Court Theatre, Jeff nomination for Outstanding . TIM DECKER Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include . Other Chicago credits include: Macbeth credits include writer-director Stephen Cone'sRogers Park returns to Chicago Shakespeare . Other Chicago credits Hits and Pericles A Hedda Theater to play Sister Aloysius in (Lord Capulet) The Comedy and Pericles (Goodman Theater); with: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Writers Supporting Actress ). Regional Twocredits Trains include: Running Princess Cyd and director Kyle Henry's (ABC), Othello (Red Tape a Core Company Member at American Players (People's Light); , Pericles , Mind Games Theater, where he appeared in The The Wheel (Steppenwolf Theatre A Christmas Carol Mnemonic Mountaintop include: Theatre, Court Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and will Romeo and Juliet Television credits include: I Love . Other Chicago credits include: Spill Gabler (assistant director), (Red Theater). (GEVA Theatre Center); (The Black Rep, (NBC) and the upcoming of Errors The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion Year of the Rooster Next Theatre, Goodman Theatre, About Face No Child... Chicago Fire (Northlight Theatre); Company); Theatre); and be seen this coming season as and Titania Beatrice in in , and City of Conversation (Goodman United States of Theatre, Lifeline Theatre and many others. Regional For Colored Girls (Amazon TV). Lily studied Psychology as an Stop. Reset. The (Jeff Award nomination, CaffeineCloser Theatre); (Spartan A Midsummer Night's Dream Dick (TimeLine Theatre); (Apollo); and , She performed the original show credits include: Indiana Repertory Theatre, . She holds an MFA from St. Louis Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress This (Windy City Playhouse); at the New Now Festival in Amsterdam A View from the Bridge ). Film and television credits include: undergraduate at Lake Forest College, deciding Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money Amnesia for No Child . After high (American Theater Company). Theatre Company); (Chicago American Repertory Theater andHenry the IrishGamble’s Classical the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Sirens and Detroit 1-8-7 upon acting as a career after she graduated. “I’m a Thrillride . , The Houdini Box with ROOM|916, a performance collective of fellow and Chicago Fire, People's Temple Slice and Theatre. Film credits include:, Eastern College lover of language,” she explains as she talks about Bud, Not Buddy (Sideshow , Into the Wake Training Program. Colleen still remembers her Recent film credits include Empire (FOX); Heddatron Columbia College Chicago graduates. (Walkabout Current Birthday Party The Chicago school at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago, Patrese Children’s Theatre); Mother of Smoke “PHENOMENAL” tenth-grade. EnglishHe got meteacher, to really Shakespeare. “The conflicts and the stories are His television credits include: (STARZ). Tim grew projects include Dimension. Television credits include: . She Henry IV received a BFA from Howard University and her Boss Theatre Company/Steppenwolf Garage Rep); and , Crisis and Chicago PD “who ‘made’ us read timeless and so much fun to sink your teeth into. Chicago Fire (NBC); and (The Strange Tree Group). Theater). Emma received a BA in theatre/acting , Boss, Betrayal MFA from Pennsylvania State University. She Goodbye Cruel World (NBC); Code dig the poetry, though much of it went over my His plays require a different kind of preparation, but up in Round Rock, Texas, and after deciding Chicago Med with a minor in Black World Studies from Columbia entered Howard as a political science major— Television credits include as a is the founder and artistic director of Lakeside head.” What she loves most about acting is, “the they are so well worth the work.” that he wanted to be an actor at age sixteen, he (Fox). Brian received his MFA from the College Chicago and is an ensembleRomeo andmember Juliet at Red “I was going to be the first Black female president.” and A.P.B. Shakespeare Theatre. Elizabeth attended Illinois willingness of us all—actors and audience—to attended Baylor University, where he earned his Tape Theatre. First studying For a high school audition, Patrese used the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt Wesleyan, where she earned her BFA, then headed agree to pretend together for a while…so that we BFA in Directing. He was in ninth grade when freshman at Peoria High School, she recalls being “‘Balcony Scene,’ but I played both parts. Yikes.” was the first Shakespeare University. Growing up in California, Brian was to London to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, can re-learn something about life.” Romeo and Juliet “swept up in the romance and energy of the story.” where she focused on performing Shakespeare. first introduced to Shakespeare in sixth grade. Emma loves acting Shakespeare because of the he studied. “I found it a little difficult to By the time he got to high school, he recalls that What she loves most about acting is: “to be a understand,” he recalls, “but I really liked poetry of his language—“It’s written to be spoken storyteller, guiding an audience on a journey and “my interest in Shakespeare helped me pass my and physicalized.” Mercutio’s Queen Mab monologue—and he’s one freshman English class—it’s a long story…” letting them guide me.” of my favorite characters from Shakespeare.”

DEMETRIOS TROY returns to Chicago Shakespeare, (Friar Laurence) King Charles III

PETER SIPLA Theater, where his credits include: , Richard III (Peter) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, , Timon of Athens NATE SANTANA Passion. Other Chicago Henry V, Julius Caesar . Other returns to Chicago Shakespeare where he appeared in (Lyric Opera of Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) The King and I Miss and credits include: (Marriott Theatre); ANDREA SAN MIGUEL returns to Chicago Theater, where he appeared in the Chicago City of Angels Chicago credits include productions with: Goodman (Benvolio/Fight Captain) Chicago); Travels with My Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lookingglass ANDREW SAENZ Shakespeare in the Parks production of (Paramount Theatre); Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include and Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Saigon Juno, Blood and Gifts Theatre Company, TimeLine Theatre Company, makes his Chicago ShakespeareMultitudes Theater . Twelfth Night Marvin’s (Paris) the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks production Aunt (Writers Theatre); Maple and Vine SAM PEARSON Short Shakespeare! Macbeth Night. Other Chicago credits include:Ironbound Victory Gardens Theater, Broadway Playhouse, debut. Other Chicago credits include: and , (TimeLine Theatre Company); (Porchlight (Tybalt) returns to Chicago Shakespeare. Touring Theater, of Twelfth Night The Ingenious Gentlemen (Shattered Globe Theatre): , Pacific Overtures Northlight Theatre and the Chicago Symphony King Charles III (Rasaka Theatre Company/VitalistLove Theatre); and Room Balm in Gilead (Next Theatre); CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERREmakes his and The Regional credits include: , , 50-minute Midsummer Orchestra. Regional credits include productions with: where he appeared in Richard III Mosque Alert (Silk Road Rising); (Guthrie Theater Dowling (Steppenwolf Theatre Company);White Tie Ball Macbeth (Balthazar/Dance Captain) Don Quixote of La Mancha (Jungle (Griffin Theatre); Music Theatre); Elephant's Graveyard Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Door Shakespeare, credits include Richard in Information (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Golden Boy The Rainmaker Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. His most (Montana Shakespeare in the (TimeLine Theatre Studio); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Teatro Vista); (First Folio Theatre); Company (Brightside Comedy of Errors A Christmas , Blood and Gifts , Company (Theater Latté Momma's Boyz , Romeo Syracuse Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Riverside recent credits include George Murchison inMy Inana (The Ruckus Theater); Our Town The Merchant of Venice (Red Tape Theatre); and Mob , Thami Mbikwana in Parks). Regional credits include: Barbecue Apocalypse (Children's Theater of (BoHo Theatre); What Happened Shakespeare and MilwaukeeChicago Repertory Fire andTheater. A Raisin in the Sun , The Sunshine Boys , Company); A Christmas Carol Theatre). Regional credits include a production (Park Square Theatre); and Carol, The Home Place , Good People (Jackalope Theatre); Da); and The Taming of (First Folio Theatre); Television credits include Of Mice and Men Theater); Exit Strategy and Juliet Children! My Africa! Madison). Touring credits include:, The Two Gentlemen Slipping (the side project). Nate is an with Cardinal Stage Company. Television credits . After attending Prospect High School in (Guthrie Theater); Courting Ithaka (InFusion Theatre Company). Film When and Chicago Fire (NBC). After attending Doctor as an apprentice company member at American (Park Square Theatre); and En Algun Lugar the Shrew , Cyrano de Bergerac Henry V include The Red Box Love and Information and ensemble member of Teatro Vista and an artistic Mt. Prospect, IL, Demetrios received his BA from Players Theatre (APT). He will return to APT this In an credits include the upcoming film , The Recruiting Officer Wheaton Warrenville South, Peter received his Harry (History Theatre); and of Verona associate with Shattered Globe. He is a graduate DePaul University and an MFA from the University summer for his second year as a company member (Iconoclast Films). TelevisionSirens credits (USA include Network). BA in theatre and music performance from North (Frank Theatre). Television credits. Sam include received his (NBC) and (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks). Andrea of the School at Steppenwolf, after receiving his of South Carolina. He is an artistic associate at and journeymen. Cage is a recent graduate of the Chicago PD Chicago P.D. Central College. He first studied Shakespeare in Instant (ABC) and received her BFA in acting from The University BA from Valparaiso University. Nate was in the TimeLine Theatre Company. It was on Chicago University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Growing up in Texas, Andrew received his BFA in eighth grade. “Honestly, I didn’t get it back then,” BFA in acting from the University of Minnesota/ of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training eighth grade when he decided on acting as a Shakespeare Theater’s stage that he experienced his Training Program. He attended the High School performance from Baylor University. When he’s he recalls. “I was annoyed by the language and Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. He Program. Her favorite hobby is “drilling, watching career after performing in his first play. He went first Shakespeare play in performance—butA Midsummer Night’sonly after for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, not acting, Andrew is an avid runner, weight lifter, dated metaphors. The funny thing is, that’s my attended the summer National High School and choreographing stage combat.” Like dance, on from there to graduate from La Porte High he had already performed in and decided upon a career in acting when he cyclist and swimmer, and he participates in races favorite part now: using the language and studying —playing a character named Demetrius. Institute’s “Cherubs” program on Northwestern’s stage combat “can be a beautiful, drama-infused, School in La Porte, IN. When Nate’s not acting, he Dream was eighteen. Assigned an art project when on one he firstof and triathlons every year. He also loves playing the meaning behind phrases and words. It’s like Romeo and Juliet campus. About performing Shakespeare, Sam head-to-toe means of storytelling. It can be fierce games with friends—especially Dungeons & loves hanging out with his two dogs, Lucy and Mona. solving an equation, or doing detective work.” the characters in shares: “I love the thrill of forging bonds with and graceful. And as a woman,” she adds, studied the play in high school, Cage wrote “a Dragons whenever he can. KAITLIN KITZMILLER makes her material that has been around this long. No two “I appreciate any chance to represent my power, song about Tybalt, the Prince of Cats.” When he’s strength and the capability to defend myself. (Assistant Stage Manager) people will have the same take on a character, scene DENNIS J. CONNERS CST credits: King not acting, his favorite hobbies are Capoeira—a Plus, it’s SUPER FUN.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Regional or the play.” When he’s not acting, he devotes a lot (Production Stage Manager) , King Lear , The Brazilian Martial Art/Dance Form—and dancing, , Ride the Cyclone credits: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Resident of his down time to reading and to writing. Charles III , Othello and including Hip-hop, House and Afro-Brazilian. STEPHANIE PAUL , A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol Ensemble Players and Lake Dillon Theatre CST debut. Chicago: Little Mermaid Appropriate, MIKHAIL FIKSEL CST credits: (Choreographer) . Chicago credits: Company. Kaitlin received a BFA in technical Freud’s Last (Sound Designer/Composer) founding artistic director of Be the Groove, a Othello: The Remix theatre from University of Nebraska at Omaha. . Recent Chicago credits Disconnect (Victory Gardens Theater); Mr. COURTNEY O’NEILL CST debut. Chicago credits: The Book of Joseph Chicago-based rhythm ensemble (appearances (Mercury Theater, CRC Productions);, Goodnight (Scenic Designer) (Lookingglass Theatre include projects with: Goodman Theatre, Writers nationwide and at the Royal Opera House Muscat Session , The Houdini Box , The Little Prince The Ethan Frome , Moby Dick (Writers Theatre); Theatre, Timeline Theatre and Albany Park in Oman); artistic associate with Chicago Dance Chickee’s Funny Money Company); Julius Caesar (Steppenwolf Moon (Chicago Children’s Theatre); , Fedra: Queen , The Compass Theatre Project. Regional and off-Broadway Crash and on staff at Dance Center (AlbanyEvanston; , Lookingglass Alice CREATIVE Burials , Life and Limb (Court , Feast , Home/Land Peter Pan : A Play (Lookingglass credits: Playwrights Horizons, BAM, La Jolla The , Clay Waiting for Godot Learning Curve The Arabian Nights Theatre Company); (The Hypocrites). nd of Haiti, (About Our Town , Mud Playhouse, Actors Conservatory Theatre, The Park Theater Project, resident director); What Once We Felt MARTI LYONS is a freelance director Theatre); Wit, Theatre Company); Clay (Adapter/Director) Pearl, The Old Globe, The City Theatre, 2 Royale (American Theater Company - WaterJeff Award by Regional credits: Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Face Theatre); Off-BroadwayLookingglass credits: living in Chicago. She recently directed Stage, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The nomination, Artistic Specialization);6 Stories for the Humana Festival South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Dallas Theatre Center. He has received several the Spoonful (Court Theatre) and (Lincoln Center Theater) and Wondrous Strange Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Round House Alice (New Victory Theater). Jeff Awards, a Lortel Award and Michael Maggio Tall (Adventure Stage Chicago). Regional: City Clay at Actors Theatre of Louisville, featuring the Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, KansasMud, multiple City Regional credits: theater's Apprentice Company. Her Chicago Emerging Designer Award. Theatre and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. KAREN JANES WODITSCH) returns to Chicago The City of Conversation Repertory. Awards: Jeff Award for (Kirk Douglas Theatre, The Taming Teaching and choreography: Columbia College (Nurse through April 7, 2017 credits include: Title and Deed nominations. Education: Northwestern University Kansas City Rep) and RICHARD JARVIE Chicago, Ohio Northern University, Southern (Alliance Shakespeare Theater, where credits include. Other Chicago (Northlight Theatre); (MFA), DePaul University (BFA). Lookingglass Alice and Measure for Measure (Wig and Make-up Designer), the inaugural Illinois University Edwardsville and her alma of the Shrew (Lookingglass Theatre Company); a reading of King Charles III Theatre). Education: Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia (Goodman Theatre, where she CST credits: mater, Northwestern University. credits include: On the Exhale CPS MIEKA VAN DER CST PLOEGcredits: season and many of the company’s productions Northwestern University. Woolf, in addition to twenty-one other(Steppenwolf productions Theatre received the 2015 Maggio directing fellowship); Domesticated (Costume Designer), Short Shakespeare! at the Ruth Page Theatre. Chicago credits: , Chicago Mine (The Gift Theatre, where (Jackalope she is an Theatre KATHRYN WALSHKing Charles III (Writers Theatre); , Burn (Goodman Theatre); Prowess Shakespeare: Macbeth CST: Twelfth Rapture , Blister ensemble member); The Play (assistant designer), Lyric Opera of Chicago (twenty eight years), (Verse Coach) Company); To Master the Art (Haven Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew , The (Court Theatre); and Company); Seminar Give It All Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Shakespeare in the Parks production of M Butterfly former costume shop stitcher. Chicago credits: The (Raven Theatre); and Theatre Company and Drury Lane Theatre Night, Short Shakespeare! Twelfth, The FeastNight and (TimeLine Theatre Company). Regional credits include: About My Dad Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Hypocrites, , Henry VIII (Sideshow Theatre Company, where sheWit Oakbrook. Regional and international Comedy of Errors Peninsula Players Theatre and MontanaPatriot Shakespeare (Amazon), in Back About Face Theatre, Chicago Children's Theatre, . Chicago directing credits The Mystery credits: the Tom Patterson Theatre, Madness of George III , Richard the Parks. Television credits include:Crisis . Film credits is an artistic associate). Marti just opened House Theatre of Chicago, Griffin Theatre and Women Beware Women Runner and Native Stratford Festival, Ontario (supervisor include: Chicago PD (NBC), . She (The Hypocrites) and will next direct (Griffin (Two Pence Theatre and Bad Johnson (Writers Theatre) and Albany Park Theater Project. MiekaGolden has Boyreceived of wigs and make-up); Guthrie Theater II, As You Like It include: American Fable of Love and Sex two Jeff Award nominations for James and the Giant Peach (Victory Gardens Theater). (co-designed with Mara (wig master); Alliance Theatre and McCarter Company); breaks & bikes received two Jeff Award nominations and an After Dark Gardens Mr. Burns Theater) and Theatre. Television credits: History Channel (Filament Theatre); Award. Karen is a University of Iowa graduate. Acting (Pavement Group). Education: Blumenfeld, Theater Wit). and wigs for Bozo the Clown. Shakespeare, “You get to use every part of your being— Northwestern University (MFA)

your voice, your mind and intellect, and your heart.” GREG HOFMANN Love’s Labor’s and Harvard University (BA). CST credits: MATT HAWKINShas played various And, she adds, “Speaking as a woman, it’s a joy to (Lighting Designer) , Ride the She teaches and serves (Fight Choreographer) as program mentor play characters that are as powerful, as smart, Lost, Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night , Short Shakespeare! Romeo roles at CST—as fight choreographer, assistant in Northwestern’s and as interesting as the male characters.” Cyclone, Road Show director, director and actor. Chicago credits: MFA Directing and Juliet. Chicago credits: Paramount Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lookingglass Program. Drury Lane Theatre, Raven Theatre, Porchlight Theatre Company, The House Theatre of Music Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre,Ride Chicago, Writers Theatre. Regional: South Bailiwick Chicago. Off-Broadway credits: Coast Repertory, American Players Theatre, The the Cyclone. Regional credits: Forward Theater Kennedy Center and Stratford Festival. Matt is Company, Madison Repertory Theatre, First Stage. the recipient of five Non-Equity Jeff Awards. Greg has also designed over forty-five productions Education: Southern Methodist University (BFA), for Cedar Fair amusement parks across University of Iowa (MFA). the country. Education: MFA, University of Wisconsin. Pictured: Cage Sebastian Pierre and Andrea San Miguel, photos by Michael Brosilow

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