Chicago will take center stage in 2016 with CST is a leading international theater company, SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, as more than 1,000 known for extraordinary productions; unlocking local and international artists create a global Shakespeare’s work for educators and students; BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON and serving as Chicago’s cultural ambassador Artistic Director Executive Director celebration of Shakespeare like no other in the Carl and Marilynn Thoma through its World’s Stage Series. Throughout Endowed Chair world. During this landmark year, Shakespeare will 2016, CST is spearheading the international arts be alive on our stages, in our schools and across and culture festival, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, RICK BOYNTON, Creative Producer GARY GRIFFIN, Associate Artistic Director our neighborhoods. This international festival will a citywide celebration of the playwright’s 400-year legacy. CST serves as a partner in help reaffirm Chicago’s role as a global destination literacy to Chicago Public Schools, working alongside English teachers to help struggling presents for cultural tourism. In 2016, the enterprising spirit readers connect with Shakespeare in the classroom, and bringing his text to life on stage for 40,000 students every year. And each summer, 30,000 families and audience of Shakespeare meets the entrepreneurial spirit of members of all ages welcome the free Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour into their Chicago. I want to thank everyone who is working neighborhoods across the far north, west and south sides of the city. Reflecting the From the United Kingdom hard to ensure that it will be a great success. global city it calls home, CST is the leading producer of international work in Chicago, and has toured its plays to Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle Tim Crouch East. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, CST was the recipient of a Regional Theatre Tony Award. Its work has been recognized internationally with three of London’s prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards, and by the Chicago theater community with over 80 Joseph Jefferson Awards Rahm Emanuel, Mayor for Artistic Excellence. CST’s work with Chicago Public School students and teachers I, MALVOLIO was recognized by the White House in 2014 with the National Arts and Humanities Youth CITY OF CHICAGO Program Award.
Chicago Shakespeare is proud to present SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, Chicago Shakespeare Theater Staff a global celebration made possible by an unprecedented collaboration of BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Chicago institutions. This yearlong festival both showcases the collective Carl and Marilynn Thoma impact of our city’s world-class cultural community and invites hundreds of Endowed Chair DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS JoHANNAH HAIL artists from across the globe to make Chicago their stage in 2016. Embracing ARTISTIC Director of Special Gifts Production Coordinator PROPERTIES RICK BOYNTON HILARY ODOM SEAN KATHLEEN ROCKE CASSANDRA WESTOVER the audacious spirit of our eponymous playwright, the year ahead will Creative Producer Director of Corporate and Production Office Manager Properties Supervisor feature an astonishing array of artists and thinkers. Shakespeare will come GARY GRIFFIN Foundation Relations SARAH GEIS ERIN OHLAND Associate Artistic Director KRISTEN CARUSO Production Management Apprentice Assistant Properties Supervisor to life across disciplines, through inspirational acts of theater, dance, music, BOB MASON Advancement Manager/ LISA GRIEBEL Artistic Associate/Casting Director Board Liaison Properties Carpenter spectacle—even cuisine. It’s a celebration 400 years in the making. A bold HEATHER SCHMUCKER LAURA MIKULSKI STAGE MANAGEMENT DAN NURCZYK Associate Producer Advancement Manager / Properties Crew Head VIP Concierge DEBORAH ACKER undertaking, true to the spirit of our global city and the greatest playwright of DOREEN SAYEGH Production Stage Manager/ Festival Producer, ERIN STRICK Associate Producer Institutional Relations Coordinator all time. This is Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Come play your part. Shakespeare 400 Chicago DENNIS J. CONNERS OPERATIONS/FACILITIES DANIEL J. HESS SAMUEL OSTROWSKI Production Stage Manager SUSAN KNILL Special Projects Coordinator Facilities and Operations Director Company Manager MARY HUNGERFORD, AEA LAURA DURHAM DAVE TOPOROV CST Stage Manager JEANNE DEVORE Casting Assistant Annual Fund Coordinator Technology Manager JACK EIDSON CAITLYN DeROSA DANIEL LOPEZ Assistant to the Creative Producer Donor Relations and Research Facilities Assistant Coordinator SCENERY SALVADOR F. GARZA ROBERT L. WILSON ELLIOTT LACEY Assistant Company Manager CAMILLE HOWARD Assistant Technical Director Custodial Supervisor Campaign Coordinator KATE LEGGETT BRIAN COIL DWAYNE BREWER Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Doreen Sayegh Casting Intern Stage Crew Head MARIBEL CUEVAS MARKETING MATTHEW BLACK OCTAVIOUS MOODY Artistic Director Executive Director Festival Producer Stage Crew Apprentice RICHARD TENNY ALIDA SZABO Custodial Assistants Carl and Marilynn Thoma EDUCATION Director of Audience Development Endowed Chair MARILYN J. HALPERIN Director of Education and JULIE STANTON Marketing Director COSTUMES Communications RYAN MAGNUSON TICKETING, GUEST Ray and Judy McCaskey CATHY TAYLOR Costume Shop Manager CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Endowed Chair Public Relations Consultant SERVICES AND EVENTS CATHY TANTILLO RACHAEL SWANN JASON HARRINGTON HANNAH KENNEDY Costume Design Assistant Education Outreach Manager Public Relations Associate Box Office and Guest Services Manager REBECCA DOROSHUK MOLLY TRUGLIA JUDY McCLOSKEY MAKEDA COHRAN Costume Shop Assistant/ Events Manager Learning Programs Manager Digital Communications Assistant Rentals Manager PHIL BRANKIN ROXANNA CONNER JESSICA CONNOR MELISSA BOCHAT Education Associate Marketing Assistant–Advertising Crafts Supervisor BLANCA HERNANDEZ ABIGAIL ARMATO and Publications SCOTT KLOOSTERMAN EMILY OWENS Front of House Supervisors COURTNEY QUINN KENNETH KEACHER Costume Shop Apprentice Education Interns Marketing Assistant/Office JOHN KUINIUS Administrator Concessions Supervisor ADMINISTRATION JENNIFER JONES ELECTRICS BETSY BEAMS Marketing Coordinator ERIC BRANSON SHELLY GODEFRIN LINDA ORELLANA Lighting Supervisor Guest Services Team Leaders Director of Finance EMMA PERRIN MAGGIE WOLFE JOAN E. CLAUSSEN ADAM CIFARELLI DAN GRYCZA Marketing Interns Lighting Crew Head KYLE CORNELL Human Resources Director/ DJ CUMMINGS Finance Associate ANTHONY VEGA SHAKESPEARE Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks ALLISON DIAMOND 400 CHICAGO ALANA RYBAK Community and Audience SOUND MEL GILL Assistant Director of Finance LEAD SPONSORS Development Consultant JAMES SAVAGE KASS HAROUN ALYSSE HUNTER CLARA ROTTER-LAITMAN Sound Supervisor SHANA MEYERAND Accounting Manager Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks JOHNATHAN NIEVES Assistant Project Manager PALMER JANKENS SUPPORT FOR MOLLY BRIGGS Associate Sound Supervisor RICCI PRIOLETTI INTERNATIONAL Accounting Associate DEKKA HODGES CRISTY TROIA JACQUELINE POJASEK PROGRAMMING JILL FENSTERMAKER ALEXANDER FELLOWS Sound Crew Head JASMINE SAWYER Executive Assistant Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks EMILY STEWARD Interns KEELY HADDAD-NULL SHARAINA TURNAGE WIGS AND MAKE-UP TRISTIEN WINFREE MAJOR 2015/16 SEASON SUPPORTERS SARAH LAEUCHLI KEVIN SPELLMAN PRODUCTION MELISSA VEAL LAUREN WIMMER Arts Leadership Fellows Head of Wigs and Make-up CLAIRE UNGER CHRIS PLEVIN Director of Production JESSIE “JAX” CONTRERAS VIOLET VARA Wig and Make-up Assistant Guest Services Associates JEFF WILLIAMS The Harold and Mimi ADVANCEMENT Associate Director of Production CHRIS SIMEK SHARON AND TOM McLEAN Steinberg Charitable Trust E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Director of Institutional Advancement Saints’ Volunteer Usher Coordinators Lead individual and foundation support provided by Eric’s Tazmanian Angel Fund, Raymond and Judy McCaskey, Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller, Carl and Marilynn Thoma and Donna Van Eekeren Foundation. Note from Tim Crouch I, Malvolio SUMMER + FALL 2016 HIGHLIGHTS JUNE 2-5, 2016 I, Malvolio is the fourth in a series of solo plays AT CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE I’ve written looking at things through the eyes of Writer + TIM CROUCH + Shakespeare’s lesser characters. The series started Performer AROUND THE CITY with I, Caliban in 2003. Then came I, Peaseblossom and Co-director I, Banquo. In 2012 I wrote and directed I, Cinna (the poet) ANDY SMITH to run alongside a production of Julius Caesar by the Co-director KARL JAMES Royal Shakespeare Company. Set Designer GRAEME GILMOUR Unlike these plays that were all written for young CST Stage Manager audiences, from the outset I, Malvolio was designed MARY HUNGERFORD* to span a much broader age range: Brighton Festival commissioned a late- Co-commissioned by night adult version of the play that, in the end, turned out to be very similar to Brighton Festival and Singapore the child-friendly version. The work responds to the people in the room. If they Arts Festival CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE Pritzker Military Museum & Library GARY BUSEY’S are more mature in their philosophical and scatological tastes, then the piece IN THE PARKS TWELFTH NIGHT SHAKESPEARE AND ONE-MAN HAMLET changes accordingly. And if they are adults, it changes again. I, Malvolio premiered in May 2010 JULY 14–AUGUST 14—FREE FOR ALL THE CITIZEN SOLDIER JULY 12–17 at Dorothy Stringer High School, by William Shakespeare ALL YEAR LONG co-created + directed by Michole Biancosino I’ve been a bit obsessed with Malvolio ever since I played him in a production Brighton. adapted + directed by Kirsten Kelly co-created, written + as performed by David Carl of Twelfth Night in 2001. As a character he resonates around ideas of order and I, Malvolio is dedicated to the UK anarchy, cruelty and compassion, around the vulnerability of love, the tragic the consequences of self-delusion. I like the irony that he is a theatre-hating puritan memory of Graeme Gilmour. from stuck inside a play–prone to all the random chaos an audience can inflict on a *Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association performer. He fits well for a teenage audience–an audience that is all too aware of the About Tim Crouch agonies of repression, the pitfalls of misunderstanding and the tyrannies of love. Shakespeare’s Globe 38 Plays. 38 Chefs. TUG OF WAR: CIVIL STRIFE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE CULINARY HENRY VI PARTS 2 AND 3, RICHARD III The intention is that each character in the series tells the story of the AUGUST 4–14 COMPLETE WORKS SEPTEMBER 14–OCTOBER 9 Shakespeare play they come from. Twelfth Night is a maze of plot. Rather than Mr. Crouch is an OBIE award-winning British playwright and theater maker. by William Shakespeare ALL YEAR LONG by William Shakespeare directed by Jonathan Munby trying to explain every twist and turn, I have let Malvolio run a little free. He was an actor for many years before starting to write–and still performs Restaurants across Chicago adapted + directed by Barbara Gaines He would hate me for it. in much of his work. His plays for adult audiences include: My Arm (Prix Italia, 2004); ENGLAND–a play for galleries (Fringe First, Herald Angel and INDIA
Total Theatre Award, 2007); An Oak Tree (OBIE, 2007); The Author MEXICO POLAND from
(a Royal Court Theatre commission, winner of a Total Theatre Award and the from John Whiting Award, 2010); What Happens to Hope at the End of the Evening from (Almeida, 2013); and Adler & Gibb (a Royal Court Theatre co-commission with the Center Theatre Group, LA, 2014 and 2016/17). Song of the Goat Foro Shakespeare Company Theatre Mumbai He has also written for younger audiences, including Shopping for Shoes SONGS OF LEAR ENAMORARSE DE UN PIYA BEHRUPIYA (Brian Way Award for best young person’s play, 2007) and a series of five SEPTEMBER 15–18 INCENDIO (TWELFTH NIGHT) plays inspired by Shakespeare’s lesser characters, I, Shakespeare. I, Cinna directed by Grzegorz Bral • composed by SEPTEMBER 27 + 29 Jean-Claude Acquaviva + Maciej Rychły SEPTEMBER 22–24 written + directed by Eduardo Pavez Goye Presented by Chicago Shakespeare Theater (the poet) was commissioned and produced by the Royal Shakespeare + Eye on India Company in 2012, and was nominated for the Writers Guild of Great Britain’s award for Best Play for Younger Audiences. For young audiences at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mr. Crouch has edited and directed The CHINA Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. His production of King Lear played at from the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, in 2012, and was filmed for New York City’s Department of Education. Mr. Crouch has worked as a writer and director on other projects including: Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore for the Unicorn Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company's Art Institute of Chicago The Joffrey Ballet Theatre, London; May for Probe dance company; and Cadavre Exquis for THE REVENGE OF SUPERNATURAL ROMEO & JULIET the Dutch company Kassys, in collaboration with the Nature Theatre of PRINCE ZI DAN (HAMLET) SHAKESPEARE OCTOBER 13–23, 2016 Oklahoma and Nicole Beutler. Tim Crouch: Plays One is published by SEPTEMBER 28 + 29 NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 10 @ Auditorium Theatre Oberon Books. Mr. Crouch is the director and adapter of Spymonkey’s latest @ The Harris Theater for Music and Dance show, The Complete Deaths, coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater in December 2016. Scholars from 10 universities share their perspectives timcrouchtheatre.co.uk CITYDESK400 Contemporary work and historical context intersect as more than thirty @timcrouch1964 scholars reflect on the breadth of programming in Shakespeare 400 Chicago in a blog format accessible to audiences around the world. ALL YEAR LONG Online + On the Go
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