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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA CHAIR: Cast Barbara Gaines 17 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Criss Henderson Playgoer’s Guide 18 pictured: Brittany Bellizeare and Edgar Miguel Sanchez Profiles 20 cover photo by: Jeff Sciortino above 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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We are thrilled to welcome you to Romeo and Juliet. Today, this tale of love and tragedy unfolds in a vivid urban setting in August 2020. By propelling the famous young lovers and feuding families into the near future, we are reminded that this Take your seat! 400-year-old work truly is a story of our times. In a city divided by generations of conflict, Romeo and Juliet—two souls with an extraordinary capacity for love and imagination—dare to inhabit a world where hearts are not ruled by hatred. This production reflects a core belief behind everything we do at Chicago Shakespeare: the conviction that works by Shakespeare and other classic writers have tremendous power to resonate with audiences today. While Romeo and Juliet plays in the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater, Q Brothers Christmas Carol puts a wildly entertaining spin on Charles Dickens’ beloved novella in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. Fusing contemporary musical styles—ranging from reggae to dancehall music, dubstep, and epic rock ballads—this joyous “ad-rap-tation” embodies the holiday spirit of generosity and goodwill. Also this winter, student ensembles representing high schools from across the Chicago region creatively explore Shakespeare’s plays by developing original performance pieces in the third annual Chicago Shakespeare Slam. As the 2019/20 Season continues in the new year, we are pleased to present a charming musical based on Jane Austen’s Emma; the Royal Shakespeare Company’s groundbreaking production of , reimagined in a matriarchal world; and an exuberant adaptation of , infused with songs of The Beatles. From Shakespeare to Austen and Dickens, these reinterpretations of classic works speak with fresh relevance to the world we Naming a seat in Chicago Shakespeare’s beloved live in today. With these compelling productions and more ahead, we hope to welcome you to the Theater again soon! n Courtyard Theater offers donors the chance to leave a permanent, lasting mark on all that the Theater has accomplished over the past three decades—and all that is yet to be discovered in the years ahead. Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair To discuss making a seat naming gift, contact Dottie Bris-Bois at 312.667.4965 or [email protected]. www.chicagoshakes.com 5 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER CHECK OUT OUR NEWEST NAVY PIER DINING PARTNER! About CST

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director 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 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 SMALL & SHARABLE PLATES, GLOBALLY INSPIRED. life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over CLASSIC COCKTAILS WITH A TWIST. 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 OPEN AT 4:00 PM, MONDAY-FRIDAY DRINKOFFSHORE.COM unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has OPEN AT 11:00 AM, SATURDAY & SUNDAY 312.535.6660 changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family FOR BRUNCH 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* Kathryn J. Hayley Lance Richards Chair Criss Henderson* Sheli Z. Rosenbergw* Paulita A. Pike* Stewart S. Hudnut Robert Ryan Treasurer William R. Jentes* Carole Segal John P. Kellerw Eric Q. Strickland* Frank D. Ballantine Christie B. Kelly Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Patrick S. Barrett Richard A. Kent Sheila G. Talton John Blazey Barbara Malott Kizziah Marilynn J. Thoma* Stephen A. Brodsky Chase Collins Levey Gayle R. Tilles Thomas L. Brown Anna Livingston William J. Tomazin, Jr. Allan E. Bulley III Judy Loseff Donna Van Eekeren Clive Christison Renetta McCann Pallavi Verma Patrick R. Daley Raymond F. McCaskeyw* Priscilla A. (Pam) Walterw* Brian W. Duwe Robert G. McLennan Ray Whitacre Balance enjoyment of friends with time for yourself. Philip L. Engelw Jess E. Merten Elizabeth Yntema Invigorate yourself with concerts and lectures. And toast Kevin R. Evanich Linda Myers Sonja Fischer Christopher O’Brien In Memoriam Chef David Murphy’s acclaimed cuisine—every night. Richard J. Franke Dennis Olis* Harve A. Ferrill Barbara Gaines* Mark S. Ouweleen* Madhavan K. Nayar C. Gary Gerstw* Judith Pierpont Marguerite H. Griffin Richard W. Porter* *Denotes Executive Committee Montgomery Place M. Hill Hammockw* John Rau Members Tim Hannahs Nazneen Razi* wDenotes Former Board Chairs A not-for-profit community for people 62-plus 5550 South Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 773-753-4100 MontgomeryPlace.org Apartments for independent living at the cultural center of East Hyde Park www.chicagoshakes.com 7 ROMEO AND JULIET CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER On the Boards

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As temperatures drop outside, The Yard This fall, teams representing high Following the recent North American Roberta Duchak, one of Chicago’s most at Chicago Shakespeare will be heating schools from across the Chicago region Premiere of The King’s Speech in esteemed music directors and vocal up with Q Brothers Christmas Carol. come together to celebrate the power The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, coaches, is the recipient of the 2019/20 Created by Chicago hip hop sensations of Shakespeare and their own voices in Director Michael Wilson's production Bob Tilles Music Chair, an honor created the Q Brothers Collective (GQ, JQ, Jax, the third annual Chicago Shakespeare launches its tour to theaters in Hartford, in 1998 by Board of Directors member and Pos), and developed with CST Slam. Following a day-long workshop, Washington, DC, Phoenix, and Toronto. Gayle R. Tilles and Glenn R. Tilles. Each Creative Producer Rick Boynton, this each ensemble prepares two pieces to Against a turbulent political backdrop, year, this award recognizes one of the wildly entertaining “ad-rap-tation” begins showcase at a Regional Bout: a scene of this remarkable true by David Seidler noteworthy musicians who play a vital November 29. Chicago Sun-Times raves, their choice from Shakespeare's canon, story illuminates King George VI’s journey role in CST productions—from composers “this mile-a-minute, rap-fueled, DJ- and a creative exploration inspired to assume the mantle of leadership as he and lyricists to music directors, musical spin take is unlike anything you might by a single play that the entire Slam overcomes debilitating self-doubt with arrangers, and sound designers. Duchak imagine Dickens could be.” Fully decked community focuses on together—this the help of an unconventional counselor. served as music director for last season’s out in the holiday spirit, The Yard will year, , the Chicago Tribune praised it as “lively, acclaimed production of and be strewn with more than two miles of play that CST will stage for tens of enjoyable entertainment,” while the North American Premiere of the twinkling lights as the ghosts of hip hop thousands of students this winter. Chicago Sun-Times heralded its Broadway-bound musical SIX—for Past, Present, and Future lead Scrooge Finalist teams perform in the Final “pageantry and sweep of history.” which she earned a . This on a journey of rhythm, rhyme, and Bout, held in The Yard at Chicago The King’s Speech tour expands CST’s winter, she brings her creative talents redemption. Filled with cheeky spirit Shakespeare on December 9. Above tradition of presenting world premieres to Emma, a musical adaptation of Jane and a whole lot of heart Chicago Now all, the Slam is an ensemble program and developing new works prior to their Austen’s beloved novel, staged by Artistic declares it "will have you dancing in your that seeks to build community across regional, international, or Broadway runs. Director Barbara Gaines. Under Duchak’s chair and laughing with holiday cheer!" its many schools. leadership as music director, composer and lyricist Paul Gordon’s score is sure to charm audiences.

From left: Postell Pringle in Q Brothers Christmas Carol; Students participating in Chicago Shakespeare Slam; Rebecca Night and Harry Hadden-Paton in The King's Speech; Roberta Duchak. photos by Liz Lauren and joe mazza.

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rtistic Director Barbara Gaines spoke Awith her cast and CST staff on the first day of rehearsal about her vision for Romeo and Juliet.

Visit chicagoshakes.com Though I’ve been directing Shakespeare for more than We start out in the opening scene giving the servants' lines to the parents instead. to explore more ideas three decades now, this is the first time that I’ve directed Having the patriarchs of the Capulets and the Montagues start the fight, they are and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. Romeo and Juliet. I simply hadn’t yet found my way not only part of that fight, they are its instigators. Right from the first moments of into it. But when I reread it a couple of years ago, I this production, I want to establish this generational, truly tribal hatred. The stage was overwhelmed. This time, I didn’t read it as a story erupts in flash violence—action that happens so fast you primarily about young love. Instead, their relationship This story could can’t think. An action that happens without any attention ROMEO AND JULIET became a metaphor—a metaphor for the larger pain of paid to what will happen if I do this. We’re all too familiar n BY take place here or an entire community, uprooted by conflict. A metaphor at this moment in history with the incendiary possibility n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES for lost innocence, for the dream of romance and true in any town torn of flash violence and the shock it leaves behind. n COURTYARD THEATER love. Romeo and Juliet are souls with extraordinary n OCTOBER 31– apart insensibly by Young people senselessly die for their parents’ and their DECEMBER 22, 2019 capacity for love. And when they die, we grieve, as grandparents’ hatred. There is nothing romantic about n 312.595.5600 I think we will grieve for everyone in this story who all that divides us n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM these deaths, perpetuated across borders and decades. becomes a victim of violence. All that is good is Ultimately, our hatreds will destroy even the most beautiful of hearts. We all have savagely fragmented by the hatred between these to fight against violence in our own ways. The thing that I can do in my life is to two families. This is a play about violence destroying hopefully shift people’s perspective through art-making. everything of value, everything that matters. When I reread Romeo and Juliet, I kept picturing the work of Chicago painter Shakespeare’s message in this play is one that is Kerry James Marshall. Marshall changed the art world with his painting. What he profoundly anti-violence. This story could take place paints is authentic and magnificent. Visually, it cuts right through your heart and here or in any town torn apart insensibly by all that goes right to the truth. The design of our production is very much inspired by divides us from one another. Any city suffering from Marshall’s use of color, heat, dynamic, and humanity. too many young deaths sprung from hatred—hatreds Director of Shakespeare places his story in Verona. It could be Verona, Illinois, it could be Romeo and Juliet of decades and centuries ago. Shakespeare calls these Barbara Gaines “ancient grudges.” Verona, Italy. We open this production in early November and we close just before the New Year. But our story is set in August of 2020, nine months into the future. I We’re not making a Romeo and Juliet about gangs, placed it in the future for only one reason: because none of these deaths need to racial, or ethnic differences. I didn’t want the conflict have happened. Individually, we all have to be responsible for them not happening, to be rooted in the color of people’s skin. We cast both for ending violence in our own neighborhoods and our worlds. For me, there's families to reflect the rich diversity we see in the world possibility for change and, therefore, for hope. n around us. But there are no real differences between them—only their “ancient grudge.” The parents hate, and they teach their children to hate—and they don’t even remember why. Barbara Gaines and Julian Parker in rehearsal; photo by joe mazza

12 Fall/Winter 2019 | Romeo and Juliet www.chicagoshakes.com 13 BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair

RICK BOYNTON E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Creative Producer Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs

presents ROMEO AND JULIET

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design SCOTT DAVIS MIEKA VAN DER PLOEG AARON SPIVEY

Sound Design & Compositions Wig & Make-up Design Fight Direction MIKHAIL FIKSEL RICHARD JARVIE RICK SORDELET

Choreography Verse Coach Dramaturg STEPH PAUL KEVIN GUDAHL TYRONE PHILLIPS

Casting New York Casting Production Stage Manager BOB MASON NANCY PICCIONE, C.S.A. DEBORAH ACKER

directed by BARBARA GAINES

This production is dedicated to Kerry James Marshall, whose paintings and life have inspired us, fed us, and opened up brilliant dialogues about race, dignity, and the soaring beauty of life. Thanks to him, a light will forever shine... leading the way towards opportunity and empathy.

LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS STUDENT MATINEES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY In Memory of Doris Conant Timothy R. Schwertfeger Shakespeare in American and Gail Waller Communities is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership ComEd is the official lighting design with Arts Midwest. sponsor of Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Welcome. If we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that flashing lights and haze will be used during this performance. 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 15 SALUTE TO SPONSORS 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. SETTING: VERONA, AUGUST 2020 MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS Mr. Capulet JAMES NEWCOMB* Mrs. Capulet LIA D. MORTENSEN* Mr. Montague DALE RIVERA* Mrs. Montague BRIANNA BUCKLEY Ken Ray and Griffin Judy McCaskey Tybalt SAM PEARSON* Benvolio CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERRE* Rhoades Foundation Fund at Burton X. and Timothy R. Schwertfeger The Chicago Community Foundation Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Gail Waller Chief of Police Hakeem AMIR ABDULLAH* Romeo EDGAR MIGUEL SANCHEZ* The Harold and Mimi Carl and The Donna Van Eekeren Steinberg Charitable Trust Marilynn Thoma Charitable Fund Paris JULIAN PARKER Petra DANIELLE DAVIS LEAD SPONSORS Nurse BETSY AIDEM* Allscripts Exelon MacArthur Foundation John W. and Juliet BRITTANY BELLIZEARE* Jeanne M. Rowe Paul M. Angell Family Food For Thought The Nayar Family Mercutio NATE BURGER* Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Foundation The Segal Family Foundation Friar DARLENE HOPE* Anonymous Virginia and Gary Gerst National Endowment for the Arts Barbara and Barre BlueCross BlueShield ITW Balthasar BYRON COOLIE of Illinois Sheila Penrose and Seid Foundation Jan and Bill Jentes Apothecary/Capulet's Mother JAQ SEIFERT Joyce Chelberg Ernie Mahaffey The Shubert Kirkland & Ellis LLP Foundation Kent and Liz Dauten Polk Bros. Foundation Rosaline/Girl KEARSTYN KELLER KPMG LLP Richard W. Porter Shure Incorporated Embassy Suites Chicago Ensemble BOBBY BOWMAN Downtown Magnificent The John D. and and Lydia S. Marti Catherine T. RASELL HOLT Mile and DoubleTree KEARSTYN KELLER Magnificent Mile CLAIRE LOSTUTTER† MARIA CLARA OSPINA† ALEX PEREZ† LAURA QUIÑONES† ENDOWED FUNDS, CHAIRS, AND PROGRAMS ZAC RICHEY† Mary and Nick Babson Fund Pritzker Foundation MADELYNN JOY STUENKEL† to Support Chicago Actors Team Shakespeare Fund The Canon in Honor of Barbara Gaines John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made The Chicago Music Theatre Endowment Inquiry and Exploration Series at the time of the performance: Bobby Bowman for Mercutio, Mr. Montague; Brianna The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund The Segal Family Foundation Buckley for Mrs. Capulet; Byron Coolie for Benvolio; Alejandro Cordoba for Chief of Student Matinee Fund Police Hakeem; Danielle Davis for Nurse; Rasell Holt for Tybalt, Paris; Kearstyn Keller for Ruth D. and Ken M. Davee New Works Juliet; Cage Sebastian Pierre* for Romeo; Maya Prentiss for Mrs. Montague, Friar; Dale and Education Fund Dick Simpson in memory of Sarajane Avidon Rivera* for Mr. Capulet; Jaq Seifert for Petra; and Julia Sismour for Rosaline, Ensemble. The Hurckes Fund for Artisans and Technicians Team Shakespeare Endowment Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER* Kirkland & Ellis Audience Enrichment Fund Carl and Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Chair Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Assistant Stage Manager CARA PARRISH* Stage Design Fund Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Music Fund The Malott Family Student Access Fund The Sheldon and Bobbi Zabel Bard Core Program Ray and Judy McCaskey Education Chair *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. †Chicago Shakespeare Theater gratefully acknowledges Laura Lodewyck and Jason Gerace of North Central College and Carin Silkaitis of Columbia College for their For more information about how you can support our work on stage, in the 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 17 ROMEO AND JULIET CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Playgoer’s Guide THE STORY IN PRINT In Verona, the Montagues and Capulets are mortal enemies, and have been for Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s first major tragedy, likely first staged longer than anyone can remember. And so it is decreed: any further violence ca. 1595. Along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard II, also from this between these two proud households will be answered by a sentence of death. period, Romeo and Juliet helped establish Shakespeare as one of ’s Still, life in Verona goes on. For sport, the young Montagues decide to crash most successful playwrights. Its immediate popularity contributed no doubt the Capulets’ party. Romeo, Montague’s son, sees Capulet’s daughter Juliet to the rapid publication of a First Quarto in 1597, referenced by scholars as there, and the two fall in love. Early the next morning, the Friar agrees to wed a “bad” quarto, “piratical and dependent on an especially unreliable means the young couple, hoping that this marriage might at last put an end to their of transmission of the text” (Arden edition, 2000), which was subsequently families’ discord. corrected by a Second (“good”) Quarto, just two years later, which, according Their vows just made, Romeo is confronted in the street by Capulet’s nephew to its own editors, was “newly augmented and corrected.” So popular was this Tybalt, enraged by the Montague’s bold intrusion of the night before. But it is play that, by the time Shakespeare’s plays were compiled posthumously by two Mercutio who takes up Tybalt’s challenge and, as Romeo attempts to break members of his acting company, a Third Quarto had already been published— the two apart, Mercutio is slain. In blind fury, Romeo turns on his new kinsman, significant within a canon of which only half had ever been printed prior to murdering him. The Capulets demand the young Montague’s death; but instead Heminge and Condell’s publication of the in 1623. Romeo is banished from Verona. After a wedding night cloaked in secrecy, Romeo parts from Juliet at daybreak. IN PERFORMANCE Moments later, Mrs. Capulet seeks out her daughter with news of Juliet’s impending wedding day, arranged between her father and Paris. After the The title page of the First Quarto, printed in 1597, proclaims that the play Nurse advises Juliet to forget all about her first husband, Juliet seeks the was performed frequently “with great applause.” However, no written Friar’s counsel. The Friar’s plan is a desperate one: he instructs Juliet to drink record remains of any production prior to 1662—following the Restoration a potion that will induce a deathlike trance; once she is buried in the Capulet of the English monarchy and the reopening of London’s theaters. Just a few tomb, the Friar will send word to Romeo to rescue her there and return with years later, Shakespeare’s story was adapted to suit contemporary tastes, her to Mantua until their two families can be reconciled. But time and the ending happily—and staged on alternating nights with Shakespeare’s tragic undercurrents of history are unrelenting, and as Montague and Capulet vow version. It was subsequently David Garrick’s adaptation that held the stage to end the killing, it is a peace purchased with their treasures. throughout the eighteenth century. Used as a star vehicle, the play not uncommonly featured a Juliet well into her thirties or forties. It was not, in fact, until the 1960s that Shakespeare’s bawdy comic language was generally ITS ORIGINS restored—notably by Italian director Franco Zefferelli, whose stage version at the Royal Shakespeare Company preceded his classic film released in To Shakespeare and his audiences, the story of Romeo and Juliet was already 1964. In 1996 Australian director of opera, dance, and film Baz Lurhmann a familiar one. The playwright’s most direct source was likely the English set his contemporary production in Verona Beach—a violent, multi-cultural, narrative poem, The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, composed by amphetamine-driven city, where guns and switchblades of deadly street gangs Arthur Brooke. The popular work was first published approximately thirty years replaced rapiers and daggers. Chicago Shakespeare Theater has staged full- earlier and subsequently reprinted a few years prior to Shakespeare’s play first length productions of Romeo and Juliet first in 2005, directed by Mark Lamos, appearing on stage. Stories of love, death, and resurrection followed by death and again in 2010, directed by Gale Edwards. n are more ancient than the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Ovid’s own Pyramus and Thisbe (innocently parodied by Shakespeare’s amateur actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in the same period as Romeo and Juliet).

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AMIR ABDULLAH (Chief of BRITTANY BELLIZEARE Theatre); Crumbs from the Table of Joy and What I Wore (); Police Hakeem) CHICAGO (Juliet) CHICAGO (Jeff Award – Best Supporting Performer, Women at War (Rivendell Theatre SHAKESPEARE: Short SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Raven Theatre); The Light Fantastic Ensemble); productions with Chicago Shakespeare! , REGIONAL: The Magician’s (Jackalope Theatre); Dontrell Who Kissed the Children's Theatre, , Othello: The Remix (CST/ Daughter (Geva Theatre Sea (First Floor Theater). EDUCATION: BFA Adventure Stage Chicago. TELEVISION: Edinburgh Fringe Center); King Hedley II, in theater, Michigan State University. Shameless (Showtime); Chicago PD (NBC); Festival). REGIONAL: Seven Guitars (Two River Ms. Buckley was named as one of the Empire (FOX); Sense8, Easy (Netflix). Barbecue (Geffen Theater); Skeleton Crew acclaimed “10 New Hottest Faces in EDUCATION: BFA in acting, Chicago College Playhouse); Life Is a Dream (California (Baltimore Center Stage); The Bluest Eye Chicago” by the Chicago Tribune. of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Shakespeare Theater); Romeo and Juliet, (Guthrie Theater); Sunset Baby A Raisin in the Sun (A Noise Within); (TheaterWorks); The Last Tiger in Haiti NATE BURGER (Mercutio) RASELL HOLT (Ensemble) CTRL+ALT+DELETE (Penn State Centre (NAACP Theatre Award nomination – CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Stage). FILM: Radioflash, Elevate, The Ensemble in a Play, La Jolla Playhouse/ Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Debut. CHICAGO: A Story Untimely Concurrence, Goliath, Booze Boys Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Heir Apparent, Short Told in Seven Fights (The and Brownies, Love: As You Like It. (Northern Stage); Archy and Mehitabal (The Shakespeare! A Neo-Futurists); Wit (The TELEVISON: The Odd Couple (CBS); Tosh.0 Yard); Sunjata Kamalenya (McCarter Theatre Midsummer Night’s Hypocrites); The Hairy Ape (Comedy Central); Relationship Goals Center). NEW YORK: In the Blue Hour (La Dream. CHICAGO: A (). (Go90); Hollywood 911 (Revolt). EDUCATION: Maison d’Art); A Raisin in the Sun (Gallery Number, The Liar (Writers REGIONAL: American MFA, Penn State University; BFA, University Players); Peter/Wendy (the cell, a Twenty- Theatre); Mansfield Park, Butler (Northlight Players Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville. of Miami. Mr. Abdullah’s playwriting debut, First Century Salon). TELEVISION: The Theatre); Wasteland, ‘Master Harold’… and FILM: Drive Slow by Terrence Thompson. Pray to Ball, had its world premiere at Blacklist, Eye Candy, The Knick. EDUCATION: the Boys (TimeLine Theatre Company); TELEVISION: Chicago PD (NBC). Theatre Company in Los Angeles. MFA in acting, The School of Drama at The A Christmas Carol (); New School; BS in mathematics, Spelman The Man Who Was Thursday (New Leaf DARLENE HOPE (Friar) BETSY AIDEM (Nurse) College. www.brittanybellizeare.com Theatre). REGIONAL: Asolo Repertory CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Theatre, Forward Theater, nine seasons Debut. OFF BROADWAY: Debut. BROADWAY: BOBBY BOWMAN as a core company actor with American Sistas the Musical, Lady Bird in Tony (Ensemble) CHICAGO Players Theatre. TELEVISION: Chicago Med, Normalcy. REGIONAL: Award-winning All the SHAKESPEARE: Chicago Fire (NBC). EDUCATION: Loyola Alabama Shakespeare Way opposite Bryan Shakespeare in Love. University Chicago. Festival, Asolo Repertory Cranston; Beautiful. CHICAGO: Shadows of Theatre, Shakespeare SELECT OFF BROADWAY: Birds (Glass Apple BYRON COOLIE (Balthasar) Theatre of New Jersey, American Stage Final Follies (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane Theatre); Through the CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Theatre Company, Playhouse on Park, Polk Theatre); Nikolai and the Others, Road Elevated Line (Silk Road Debut. CHICAGO: Theatre, Norwegian Cruise Line, (Lincoln Center Theater); The Celebration Rising); Fair Maid of the West (Oak Park Kingdom (Broken Nose TheatreWorksUSA. FILM: Commedia By Fava. (Atlantic Theatre Company); Mary Rose, The Festival Theatre); Hand to God (Victory Theatre); The Toilet (Haven TELEVISION: FBI, God Friended Me (CBS). Metal Children (Vineyard Theatre); Crooked Gardens Theater); Richard III (The Gift Chicago); Starting Over NEW MEDIA: Don’t Shoot the Messenger, A (WP Theatre); Stone Cold Dead Serious; Theatre); A Loss of Roses (Raven Theater). (MPAACT). REGIONAL: Visit from Aunt Flo, When Bae Doesn’t Pay A Lie of the Mind; Steel Magnolias (original REGIONAL: The Comedy of Errors, Death of Romeo and Juliet, The Attention. EDUCATION: MFA in acting, production); Balm in Gilead (Steppenwolf a Salesman, King Lear (American Players Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory Theatre Company/Circle Repertory Theatre). Theatre); Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tale (Kentucky ). for Actor Training; BA in theater arts, INTERNATIONAL: 1000 Airplanes on the The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, TELEVISION: Chicago Fire (NBC); University of South Florida. Roof, Seven. FILM: The Greatest Showman, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona Smoketown (TBN). EDUCATION: MFA A Vigilante, Irrational Man, Margaret, The (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); The in theater arts, University of Louisville. KEARSTYN KELLER Bleeding House. TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Merchant of Venice, Richard III (Notre Dame (Rosaline/Girl/Ensemble) Bull, Madam Secretary, The Americans, Shakespeare Festival). EDUCATION: BFA in DANIELLE DAVIS (Petra/ CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Orange Is the New Black, Law and Order: acting, Oklahoma City University. Dance Captain) CHICAGO Debut. CHICAGO: SVU. REGIONAL: George Street Theatre, SHAKESPEARE: Chicago Cardboard Piano Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf BRIANNA BUCKLEY Shakespeare in the Parks (TimeLine Theatre Theatre, Westport Playhouse, Williamstown (Mrs. Montague) production of A Company); Proof, Equus Theatre Festival, Lake Lucille Chekhov CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Midsummer Night’s (MadKap Productions); Project, Hartford Stage, Portland Stage. Debut. CHICAGO: The Dream. CHICAGO: The The Love Talker (Muse Theatre Collective); AWARDS: Obie Award for Sustained Color Purple (Associate Music Man (Goodman Penny (2016 Chicago Fringe Festival). FILM: Excellence of Performance; Broadway World Director, Drury Lane Theatre); BLKS (Steppenwolf Theatre Blush. TELEVISION: Cold Blooded Award for Mama’s Boy. DIRECTING: A Doll’s Theatre) Queen of the Mist Company); Fun Home (Victory Gardens (SundanceTV). EDUCATION: MFA in acting, House Part 2 (George Street Theatre). (Firebrand Theatre); Theater); An Octoroon (Definition Theatre Northern Illinois University. Othello ( Theatre Company); Ragtime (Griffin Theatre);Rent Company); Fantastic Mr. Fox (Emerald City (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre); Love Loss

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LIA D. MORTENSEN Portland Stage Company, South Coast CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERRE (TheatreSquared); title role in Hamlet (Mrs. Capulet) CHICAGO Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. (Benvolio/Fight Captain) (GableStage); , Richard III, SHAKESPEARE: Pericles, San Diego Repertory Theate. TELEVISION: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Troilus and Cressida, The Admirable Crichton Measure for Measure, All's Honky (PBS). Macbeth, Q Brothers (American Players Theatre); A Midsummer Well That Ends Well. Christmas Carol; Chicago Night’s Dream, Othello, The Comedy of CHICAGO: Mystery of JULIAN PARKER (Paris) Shakespeare in the Parks Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). FILM: Love and Sex, Company CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: production of A Blueprint. TELEVISION: Sense8 (Netflix); (); An Debut. CHICAGO: Pass Midsummer Night’s Chicago PD (NBC). EDUCATION: BFA in Inspector Calls, Night and Day (Remy Over, Gospel of Franklin, Dream; Short Shakespeare! productions of acting, minor in sociology, DePaul University. Bumppo Theatre Company); Blacktop Sky, Head of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. CHICAGO: Too (First Folio Theatre); Faith Healer (The Den Passes (Steppenwolf Heavy for Your Pocket (TimeLine Theatre JAQ SEIFERT (Apothecary/ Theatre); Rabbit Hole (Goodman Theatre); Theatre Company); Company); A Moon for the Misbegotten Capulet's Mother) The Big Meal (American Theater Company); An Octoroon, Genesis, (Writers Theatre). REGIONAL: American CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: City of Conversation, Ten Chimneys, Lady Dutchman, The Brothers Size (Definition Players Theatre. TELEVISION: Empire (FOX); Debut. CHICAGO: Darling Windermere’s Fan, Sky Girls, Talley’s Folly Theatre Company); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Chicago P.D. (NBC). EDUCATION: BFA, Grenadine (understudy, (Northlight Theatre); No Wake (Route 66 Smart People (Writers Theatre); Prowess University of Minnesota. ); Macbeth Theatre); Merchild (16th Street Theatre); (Jackalope Theatre); The Hairy Ape (Jeff (Oak Park Festival , Faith Healer (Steppenwolf Theatre Award – Actor in a Principal Role, Oracle DALE RIVERA Theatre); Captain Blood Company); Fighting Words (Rivendell Productions); Landladies, Charm (Northlight (Mr. Montague) CHICAGO (First Folio Theatre); Gertrude (The Back Theatre Ensemble); Well, A Doll’s House, Theatre); The Royale (American Theatre SHAKESPEARE: Short Room Shakespeare Project); Sagittarius Macbeth, The Illusion (Next Theatre Company). REGIONAL: Seize the King Shakespeare! Macbeth. Ponderosa, Our Town (Redtwist Theatre); Company); Ghosts, All's Well That Ends Well, (La Jolla Playhouse). FILM: Pass Over CHICAGO: Goodbye Twelfth Night (Gary Shakespeare Company). Measure for Measure, (Court directed by Spike Lee (Amazon Studios); Stranger, A Tale of Two INTERNATIONAL: The Capitano Must Die, Theatre). FILM: A Nightmare on Elm Street Swing Shift (Greenslate Productions). Cities (Steppenwolf Gli Zannanti, Avanti il Prossimo (Arscomica/ (2010), Blink, Consumed, Market Value, View TELEVISION: The Chi (Showtime); Company); Anna Antonio Fava). FILM: The Taking of Pelham 123, from Tall, Resurrecting McGinns, Soul PD, Chicago Fire (NBC); Home for the in the Tropics (); Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. TELEVISION: Sessions. TELEVISION: Empire, Shameless, Weekend (Comedy Central). EDUCATION: They All Fall Down: The Richard Nickel Story Empire (FOX). EDUCATION: MFA, Western Chicago Med, Mix Tape, Electric Dreams, BFA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Guinea Pig Illinois University. AWARDS: Jeff Award Crisis, Easy Abby, Chicago Fire, The Onion, Mr. Parker is a co-founding member of Solo (Jeff Award nomination – Actor in a nomination – Fight Choreography for Not One Chicago Code, Family Practice. Definition Theatre Company. Principal Role, Collaboraction). REGIONAL: Batu (Nothing Without a Company); New York Ground (Actors Theatre of Louisville). FILM: Innovative Theatre Award nomination for JAMES NEWCOMB SAM PEARSON (Tybalt) The Dark Knight, Uncle Nino, Light It Up, The Accidental Patriot (Stolen Chair Theatre (Mr. Capulet) CHICAGO CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Dustclouds. TELEVISION: Electric Dreams Company). Mx. Seifert is an adjunct professor SHAKESPEARE: Love’s Hamlet, Macbeth, (Amazon Studios); Empire, Prison Break at Aurora University, a fight and intimacy Labor’s Lost, Tug of War: King Charles III, Short (FOX); Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago choreographer, and executive producer of Foreign Fire and Civil Shakespeare! Romeo PD, ER, Crisis (NBC). EDUCATION: MA in The Buttcracker: A Nutcracker Burlesque. Strife, Henry V, Timon and Juliet, Chicago communication, media, and theater, of Athens, The Madness Shakespeare in the Parks Northeastern Illinois University. BARBARA GAINES of George III, Macbeth. production of Romeo (Director/Artistic Director/ CHICAGO: Duke in Measure for Measure and Juliet. CHICAGO: Familiar (understudy, EDGAR MIGUEL SANCHEZ Carl and Marilynn Thoma (Goodman Theatre). REGIONAL: Oregon Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Southern (Romeo) CHICAGO Chair) has directed nearly Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Gothic (Windy City Playhouse); The Madness SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth, sixty productions at Theatre, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio Theatre); Short Shakespeare! Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Utah frequent collaborator with The Back Room Twelfth Night, Chicago since founding the Theater Shakespeare Festival, New York Shakespeare Project. REGIONAL: The Home Shakespeare in the Parks in 1986, including thirty of Shakespeare Theatre, BAM, Geva Theatre Place, The Sunshine Boys, A Christmas Carol production of Romeo and Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include the Center, San Diego Repertory Theatre, (Guthrie Theater); Of Mice and Men, Good Juliet. CHICAGO: In the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Shakespeare & Company (founding People, The Red Box (Park Square Theatre). Next Room or the vibrator play (TimeLine Theatre, the prestigious Honorary OBE company member). SELECT ROLES: Roy TOURING: Richard III, The Comedy of Errors Theatre Company); Hobo King (Congo Square (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of Cohn in Angels in America, Richard III, (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks). Theatre Company); Dutchman/TRANSit the British Empire) in recognition of her Coriolanus, Iago, Touchstone, Feste, TELEVISION: The Chi (Showtime); Chicago (); Sweat, stop. reset. contributions strengthening British-American Benedick, Oberon, Apemantus, Gloucester, PD (NBC); Empire (FOX); In an Instant (Goodman Theatre); Water by the Spoonful, cultural relations, the Making History Award, Thersites, Bottom. AWARDS: Denver (ABC). EDUCATION: University of Native Son (); The Wheel as well as multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards Critics Award, Drama Logue Award, Oxford Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). REGIONAL: for Best Production and for Best Director. Ms. Society Award for Artistic Excellence. Training Program. Fences (Arizona Theatre Company/Indiana Gaines has directed at the Royal Shakespeare FIGHT DIRECTION: Chicago Shakespeare Repertory Theatre/Milwaukee Repertory Company in Stratford-on-Avon, Lyric Opera Theater, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Theater); Water by the Spoonful of Chicago, and The Old Globe in San Diego.

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SCOTT DAVIS (Scenic Designer) CHICAGO AARON SPIVEY (Lighting Designer) CHICAGO Musical Adventure, Shakespeare in Love, STEPH PAUL (Choreographer) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: over twenty productions, SHAKESPEARE: Tug of War: Civil Strife. Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Charles III; Short SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare! Romeo including The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Q CHICAGO: The Winter’s Tale, Blind Date, Ah Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Juliet. CHICAGO: Learning Curve (Albany Brothers Christmas Carol, Red Velvet, Wilderness!, 2666, Brigadoon (Goodman and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Park Theater Project/Third Rail Projects); Madagascar – A Musical Adventure, Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Shadowlands, Macbeth; Chicago Shakespeare in the Ofrenda, Feast, God’s Work, Home/Land Shakespeare in Love, The Book of Joseph, Inner Voices, Jukebox Jackie, Wanda’s Parks productions of The Comedy of (Albany Park Theater Project); Mansfield King Charles III, Tug of War: Foreign Fire World, From My Hometown, 4 Guys Named Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Park (Northlight Theatre); Last Stop on and Civil Strife, Ride the Cyclone, The José, Golf: The Musical, Elle. REGIONAL: Romeo and Juliet; the inaugural season Market Street (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Little Mermaid, Pericles, Road Show, Shrek Sweat, La Cage Aux Folles (Pioneer Theatre of Chicago Shakespeare on Navy Pier. The Royale (American Theater Company); the Musical, Othello: The Remix (CST/ Company); Matilda, West Side Story (Contra CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Water by the Spoonful (Court Theatre); In international tour), Cadre (CST/tour to Costa Musical Theatre); The Full Monty Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Drury the Red and Brown Water (Northwestern South Africa, Edinburgh, Vancouver), (Pittsburgh CLO); Beauty and the Beast, Lane Theatre, twenty-eight years with the University). REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Beauty and the Beast, Murder for Two; Million Dollar Quartet, Saturday Night Fever , eleven as the wig Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Studio Short Shakespeare! productions of Twelfth (Broadway by the Bay); The Secret Garden master and make-up designer. REGIONAL: Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Marry Me a Alliance Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie City Theatre Company. INTERNATIONAL: and Juliet, Macbeth. CHICAGO: Court Little (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Theater (wig master). OPERA: Atlanta National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Opera Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Steppenwolf The Bomb-itty of Errors (Syracuse Stage); Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera, House Muscat. DANCE: Chicago Dance Garage, Drury Lane Theatre, Marriott 4 Guys Named José (Actors’ Playhouse at Chicago Opera Theatre, Saint Louis Opera; Crash, Be the Groove. EDUCATION: Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Windy City the Miracle Theatre); Mame (Helen Hayes the Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South Northwestern University. AWARDS: Helen Playhouse. OFF BROADWAY: Ride the Performing Arts Center). NATIONAL Carolina, and Italy. INTERNATIONAL: Tom Hayes Award – Outstanding Choreography Cyclone (MCC Theater); Othello: The Remix TOUR: Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye. Patterson Theatre, in Stratford Festival. in a Play for The Wolves (Studio Theatre). (Westside Theatre). REGIONAL: Signature INTERNATIONAL: A Chorus Line (Mexico Ms. Paul is a resident director of Albany Park Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Utah City). BROADWAY: associate/assistant RICK SORDELET (Fight Director/Intimacy Theater Project and an artistic associate of Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory lighting design on thirty productions, Consultant) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Chicago Dance Crash. Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Walnut including: Aladdin, Motown, Long Day’s Cyrano de Bergerac, The School for Lies, Street Theatre. Mr. Davis is the co-founder of Journey into Night, The Coast of Utopia. Romeo and Juliet (Jeff Award). BROADWAY: KEVIN GUDAHL (Verse Coach) CHICAGO the Chicago-based design firm Aether and seventy-four productions, including The SHAKESPEARE: The King's Speech, Hamlet, Nyx. www.scottadamdavis.com MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Sound Designer/Composer) Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tina, The Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Tug of War: Foreign CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Schiller's Outsiders (upcoming). OFF BROADWAY: Fire and Civil Strife, Pericles, King Lear, MIEKA VAN DER PLOEG (Costume Designer) Mary Stuart, The Book of Joseph; Short hundreds of credits including Fuerza Bruta. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VIII, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Chicago Shakespeare! productions of Macbeth, OPERA: Cyrano (Metropolitan Opera/ The School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Brutus Shakespeare in the Parks productions of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Royal Opera House/La Scala); Don Carlo in Julius Caesar, Fredrik in A Little Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Dream; Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks (Metropolitan Opera). INTERNATIONAL: Music, Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Kayama Juliet; Short Shakespeare! productions productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fifty-three credits, includingBen Hur Live in Pacific Overtures; title roles in Macbeth, of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth; CPS Romeo and Juliet. CHICAGO: Goodman (European tour); As You Like It (The Bridge Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare! Macbeth, SIX (associate Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Writers Project at BAM/European tour/London). CHICAGO: Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, costume designer); former costume shop Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, Victory FILM/TELEVISION: The Game Plan, Dan in Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Northlight stitcher. REGIONAL: Miss Bennett: Christmas Gardens Theater, Albany Park Theater Real Life, Hamlet, Ben Is Back, both seasons Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, at Pemberley (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Project. OFF BROADWAY: The Public of Kevin Can Wait, and twelve years as Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens Frankenstein (Manual Cinema at The Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, chief stunt coordinator for Guiding Light Theater. INTERNATIONAL: five seasons Theater). CHICAGO: The Great and Terrible Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage with over 1,000 episodes. Mr. Sordelet with Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Wizard of Oz (Jeff Award nomination, The Theater. REGIONAL: Center Theatre Group, received an Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare House Theatre of Chicago); Skin of Our Teeth La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Conservatory Excellence by the Lucille Lortel Foundation Company (CST tour). FILM: While You Were (Jeff Award nomination, Remy Bumppo Theater, The Old Globe, City Theatre, and is an instructor at Yale School of Drama Sleeping, Home Alone III, The Poker House. Theatre Company); Golden Boy (Jeff Award Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Dallas and William Esper Studio. He and his son, TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Crisis (NBC); nomination, Griffin Theatre);Mr. Burns: A Theatre Center. AWARDS: multiple Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators Boss (STARZ); Empire, The Chicago Code Post-Electric Play (co-design with Mara Jeff Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, of Sordelet Inc. and bring over thirty-five (FOX); Early Edition (CBS). Mr. Gudahl is a Blumenfeld, Jeff Award nomination, Theater Michael Maggio Emerging Designer years of action movement experience to multiple Jeff Award recipient and a frequent Wit); productions with Steppenwolf Award. www.mikhailfiksel.com the entertainment industry. They have also CST verse coach. Theatre Company, Lyric Unlimited, Writers teamed up with author David Blixt to create Theatre, Court Theatre, Paramount Theatre, RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) SordeletINK, an e-publishing house for the TYRONE PHILLIPS (Dramaturg) CHICAGO Lookingglass Theatre Company, About Face CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The King’s emerging author. www.sordeletinc.com and SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, Red Velvet Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Manual Speech, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, A www.sordeletink.com (associate director); A Midsummer Night's Cinema, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nell Gwynn, Dream, King Charles III, Chicago Shakespeare Steep Theatre Company, The House Theatre Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, Macbeth, in the Parks production of A Midsummer of Chicago, Griffin Theatre, Albany Park Schiller's Mary Stuart, Red Velvet, The Night’s Dream (actor). CHICAGO: An Theater Project. Taming of the Shrew, Madagascar – A Octoroon, A Doll’s House, Genesis, The

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Brothers Size (Definition Theatre Company); Equivocation, The World of Extreme Performing Arts, Broadway), The Book CRISS HENDERSON George Orwell’s 1984 (Steppenwolf Theatre Happiness. Prior to working at MTC, she of Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, (Executive Director) Company); was a member of the casting staff at the Father Comes Home from the 5th Avenue/ACT, Alliance Theatre), has produced the (Goodman Theatre). REGIONAL: New York Shakespeare Festival for ten Wars Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Theater’s past thirty , , years, where she worked on Shakespeare Assassins A Christmas Carol A Raisin in Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, seasons. Under his , (understudy), in the Park and numerous productions at the Sun The Mountaintop Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver), leadership, CST has (understudy, Milwaukee The Public Theater. She cast the American Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, become one of Chicago's Repertory Theater). FILM: , , actors for the first two seasons of Gimmick Boss The Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk most celebrated cultural , . TELEVISION: , produced by BAM/The Divergent Fare Thee Well Bridge Project It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, organizations and a leading American (CBS); Old Vic. She is a graduate of Yale School The Red Line Chicago Justice Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear regional theater, honored with the 2008 Tony (NBC); of Drama and a member of the Casting McDonald’s Mario-Kart Happy (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, as commercial; Society of America. Meal DiGiorno's Don't Settle Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), well as multiple Laurence Olivier and Joseph commercial. EDUCATION/TRAINING: The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures Jefferson Awards. He oversaw the Theater’s BFA in acting, University of Illinois Urbana DEBORAH ACKER (Production Stage of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New move to its home on Navy Pier in 1999 and Champaign; Shakespeare’s Globe. Mr. Phillips Manager) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: thirty York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest led the recent development of The Yard at is the founding artistic director of Chicago’s seasons. CHICAGO: Puttin’ on the Ritz (in collaboration with Redmoon). Former Chicago Shakespeare. In 2016 he spearheaded Definition Theatre Company. He was recently (National Jewish Theater); Six Degrees artistic director of the Marriott Theatre the citywide, yearlong celebration of selected as one of “Newcity Stage's Players of Separation, Driving Miss Daisy, I’m Not and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 2019: The Fifty People Who Really Perform Rappaport (); The Nerd he has starred in productions nationally, Chicago. Mr. Henderson has garnered for Chicago.” (Royal George Theatre); A…My Name is Alice including CST’s production of A Flea in multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural (Ivanhoe Theatre). Ms. Acker has production Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark Innovation Award from the Chicago Innovation BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting managed extensively throughout Chicago, Award). As casting director/associate at Awards; Arts Administrator of the Year by Arts Director) is in his twentieth season as CST’s and has also provided lighting designs for Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: Management Magazine at the Kennedy casting director, where his credits include the Apollo Theatre, Candlelight Dinner the television series Early Edition, Missing Center; recognition in Crain’s Chicago over 150 productions and thirty-two plays Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare’s Team Persons, Untouchables, and ER; the films Business “40 under 40”; and the Chevalier in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to Shakespeare, the Museum of Science and While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the numerous productions with Barbara Gaines, Industry, Some Like It Cole (tour), and Pump among others; and numerous national Minister of Culture of France. This year with other productions of note include: a host of Boys and Dinettes in Branson, Missouri. tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma Barbara Gaines, he was honored with the Sondheim musicals directed by Gary Griffin; mater Northwestern University and is Making History Award, given to Chicagoans Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, Fifth Avenue/ CARA PARRISH (Assistant Stage Manager) the former president of the board of the whose contributions to the city have made ACT), directed by Rachel Rockwell; Rose CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: National Alliance for Musical Theatre. it "a better and more vibrant place to live." Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3, directed by Gem of the Ocean, Electra, Hard Problem, Mr. Henderson has served on the boards of Edward Hall; and SIX (CST, A.R.T., Citadel, Photograph 51, Five Guys Named Moe, Guess directors of the League of Chicago Theatres Ordway Center, and opening on Broadway Who's Coming to Dinner (Court Theatre); and Arts Alliance Illinois, and for many years in March 2020), by Toby Marlowe and Witch, Port Authority, Yellow Moon, The as president of the Producers’ Association of Lucy Moss. He directed and co-created Letters, The Caretaker, Death of a Streetcar Chicago-area Theaters. Mr. Henderson is Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, Named Virginia Woolf, The Blonde the director of DePaul University’s MFA/Arts as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Writers Leadership Program, a two-year graduate- to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Theatre); Too Heavy for Your Pocket, In the level curriculum in arts management training Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and Next Room or the vibrator play (TimeLine created through a joint partnership between has been a visiting educator for the School Theatre Company); James and the Giant Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, Peach (Drury Lane Theatre); Jabari Dreams Theatre School. the University of Illinois at Chicago, and of Freedom (Chicago Children's Theatre); Northwestern University. Beauty's Daughter, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (American Blues Theatre, artistic Chicago Shakespeare productions are made possible in part by the Illinois Arts Council NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) is the associate). REGIONAL: The Hippodrome Agency and an IncentOvate Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural director of casting at Manhattan Theatre State Theatre, The Fabulous Palm Springs Affairs and Special Events. Club. BROADWAY: Choir Boy, , Follies, Detroit Music Hall. Chicago Shakespeare is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, national service organization of non-profit theaters; National Alliance for Musical Theatre; Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses Shakespeare Theatre Association; Arts Alliance Illinois; the League of Chicago Theatres; The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, on current and future artistic planning and and Ingenuity, Inc. Casa Valentina, Constellations. She cast production, as well as the development of the original productions of and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers Proof The all new plays, musicals, and adaptations in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential Tale of the Allergist’s Wife off Broadway, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST). component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, on Broadway, and their national tours. OFF including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international Projects include: SIX (CST, American organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org BROADWAY: Sugar in Our Wounds, Cost Repertory Theatre, and upcoming at of Living, Linda, Incognito, The Explorers Citadel Theatre, Ordway Center for the The Director and Choreographer are members of The scenic, costume, sound, and lighting designers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS of this production are represented by United Scenic SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union. Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

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BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair

ARTISTIC EDWARD McCREARY KRISTEN CARUSO BESSIE BESS PRODUCTION COSTUMES WIGS AND MAKE-UP CONSULTANTS AND KRISSI McEACHERN Senior Advancement ANEYA COBBS RICK BOYNTON PAIGE Manager/Board Liaison BLAKE CORDELL CHRIS PLEVIN RYAN MAGNUSON RICHARD JARVIE SPECIAL SERVICES Creative Producer WHITSON-MARTINI CATHERINE HEALEY Director of Production Costume Shop Manager Wig and Make-up Supervisor GRACE SCHNECK BAKER TILLY VIRCHOW Arts Leadership Fellows RICHARD KALLUS KRAUSE, LLP Advancement Manager ZOE ROSENFELD CATHY TANTILLO MIGUEL ARMSTRONG BOB MASON JEFF WILLIAMS Auditor STEVE TAPAS Costume Design Assistant Wig and Make-up Assistant Artistic Associate/ SARA BENBELLA Associate Director of Casting Director Box Office Associates Production EDUCATION AND Donor Records and MAGGIE HOFMANN MEGAN PIRTLE JASCULCA TERMAN Public Relations Consultant AISLINN FRANTZ COMMUNITY Data Coordinator NICK CUELLAR EMMALINE Draper Wig and Make-up Apprentice Associate Producer VICTORIA GILBERT KEDDY-HECTOR ENGAGEMENT AMANDA NAGY ELIZABETH COFFIN MEDICAL PROGRAM JEFFREY GOUGIS Production Coordinator CAITLIN ALLEN Individual Giving Coordinator JONATHAN WATERS Wig and Make-up Attendant FOR PERFORMING DOREEN SAYEGH MARILYN J. HALPERIN PHILLIP LEWIS ARTISTS/ MARIA E. Producing Associate / ALEXA BERKOWITZ First Hands Director of Education KARL SISSMAN JENN OSWALD ANTHONY JOHNSON REESE, MD Manager of International House Managers Production Office Manager and Communications VIP Concierge and Hairdresser Medical Services and Special Projects YAS MAPLE Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair Stewardship Coordinator Stitcher MICHAEL RUSSELL STAGE MANAGEMENT AON PRIVATE RISK ROSIE BROSS PROPERTIES JASON HARRINGTON ALISÉE CATTEBEKE Assistant Concessions MELISSA BOCHAT MANAGEMENT Producing Assistant Manager DEBORAH ACKER Education Outreach Manager CRAWFORD McKENZIE Crafts Supervisor CASSANDRA Insurance Services Production Stage Manager/ ALEXIS TAYLOR Advancement Interns KATE LASS WESTOVER MAGGIE SUGGETT Associate Producer HUGHES SOCOL PIERS Casting Assistant JACQUELINE POJASEK BREENA COPE Properties Supervisor Learning Programs Manager JENNIFER GIANGOLA RESNICK & DYM, LTD. Concessions Leads CARA PARRISH MIKEY GRAY JESS KENYON PERSEPHONE KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D. MARKETING Assistant Stage Manager MCDERMOTT WILL Assistant to the DANIEL BALSAMO ALLISON MILLAR LAWRENCE-WESCOTT Public Humanities Manager Dressers Assistant Prop Supervisor AND EMERY Creative Producer JULIE STANTON PATRICIA BROOKS MEGAN GRAY NEVIN LAW TYRA BULLOCK Production Assistant ENRICO SPADA MOLLIE GREENBERG Director of Marketing LISA GRIEBEL GROUP, PLLC Education Intern and Sales BYRON COOLIE ELECTRICS Romeo and Juliet ANGELA COTEY Properties Carpenter Legal Services Assistant Director SCENERY JEFF GLASS HANNAH KENNEDY SCOTT COWAN DAN NURCZYK REGINA BUCCOLA, PH.D. SARA CROUNSE ROBERT L. WILSON Lighting Supervisor RICK SORDELET Public Relations Director Properties Crew Head Scholar-in-Residence FINANCE JORDAN FIGUEROA Scenery Supervisor ALEC THORNE Romeo and Juliet CATHY TAYLOR BERNARD GILBERT JONATHAN STEPHEN Intimacy Consultant LINDA ORELLANA Assistant Lighting Supervisor Public Relations Consultant AMBER GOUGIS JESSIE BALDINGER BERG-EINHORN BENNETT, PH.D. Director of Finance MICHELLE LILLY CAGE SEBASTIAN TIFFANY GOUGIS DANIEL FRIEDMAN MARA ISHIHARA CASEY CALDWELL, MFA AMANDA CANTLIN Scenic Design Studio PIERRE BRITTNEY GRANT Assistant Lighting Designer ZINKY ELIZABETH DAN GRYCZA Senior Marketing Manager MICAH HAZEL Assistant Romeo and Juliet Associate Properties Artisans CHARLEBOIS, PH.D. Human Resources Manager/ MADISON JOAN E. CLAUSSEN REBECCA FALL, PH.D. Fight Choreographer Finance Associate ABIGAIL TOTH KESSELRING PETER REGALBUTO Lighting Crew Head IRA MURFIN, PH.D. Digital Marketing Manager MADISON JASON KRAUSE Stage Crew Head Guest Lecturers ALANA RYBAK ALLIE LYKE ANDREI BORGES OPERATIONS/ KESSELRING JESSICA CONNOR BRADLEY BURI Assistant Director of Finance TANYA McMORRIS BLAKE CORDELL MICHAEL BROSILOW Romeo and Juliet Marketing and Stage Carpenter Head FACILITIES Directing Intern ALEX MEYER VICTORIA FOX JUSTIN BARBIN ALYSSE HUNTER Communications Associate SUSAN KNILL T MURPHY DELANEY STEWART KRYSTAL MARTINEZ BILL BURLINGHAM Accounting Manager Facilities and Operations LIZ LAUREN YIWEN WU DANIEL WALTERS ESSENCE NICHOLS Stage Crew Apprentice DANIEL PARSONS Director MICHAEL LITCHFIELD Casting Intern BECKY TRAISMAN Marketing and ZACHARY PARKHURST ART ZARKO Communications Designer DARA PRENTISS CALEB McANDREW Electricians JOE MAZZA Accounts Payable Assistant JEANNE DeVORE MAYA PRENTISS Technical Coordinator JASMINE OLIVER MIKAYLA SHAW THOMAS RUSSELL SOUND Technology Manager CHUCK OSGOOD MANAGEMENT VITO PALMISANO Marketing Assistant EMIL SUECK JACK BIRDWELL DANIEL LOPEZ SIOBHAN TOWNSEND JONATHAN HILL JEFF SCIORTINO DEBORAH ADVANCEMENT TYLER GUYNES Assistant Facilities Manager NICOLE TINI ADAM HELD Sound Supervisor JAMES STEINKAMP VANDERGRIFT E. BROOKE EMILY WERNER MICHAEL JANSSENS FELIX ROSS Photographers General Manager FLANAGAN TICKETING, JOSEPH E. DISBROW SHONDA WILLIAMS ADAM TODD Custodial Supervisor Managing Director GUEST SERVICES, TYREE WILLIAMS House Carpenters Sound Crew Head HMS MEDIA, INC. DANIEL J. 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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. Plague A Scholar’s Perspective on Romeo and Juliet

Visit chicagoshakes.com “Boundless as the sea”: that’s the way Juliet, at the houses (to contain contagion); they would have witnessed the decanting of to explore more ideas height of happiness, describes her love. The play has the dead from those same houses into carts bound for mass burial: hundreds and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. stayed Shakespeare’s most popular for the ways in of human corpses dumped into one common pit. The presence of plague in which it makes us feel that boundlessness, in word houses was something Shakespeare, his actors, and his audience could feel on and action. But beneath its ravishing waves of ardor, their own shaking pulses. the playwright works strong undertows, drawn from ROMEO AND JULIET The horror story in Romeo and Juliet derives from death’s insistent darker narrative materials. There’s a horror story in n BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE omnipresence even in a play scintillating with life at its liveliest and most here too, with visions of death at its most macabre. n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES quicksilver: parties, dancing, weddings, wordplay, swordplay; puppy love And a tale of social terror also: a fever-dream of n COURTYARD THEATER frustrated (Romeo’s for Rosaline); passionate love requited, savored, sanctified, perpetual conflict from which we’ve not yet found a n OCTOBER 31– and consummated. Shakespeare’s alchemy, just a DECEMBER 22, 2019 viable way to wake. few years into his career, is already so subtle as to n 312.595.5600 The ‘houses’ n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM Halfway through the play, Shakespeare compresses produce a new blend of comedy with tragedy, of both these elements into a single oft-quoted line: themselves are fatal; giddy pleasure and deep pain. Mercutio, the very “A plague o’ both your houses.” Romeo’s friend their conflict has embodiment of that alchemy, and mercurial to Mercutio, mortally wounded in a street skirmish, the very end, tucks in a last joke among his triple intones the curse three times quickly, as though it delivered even the curses: “Ask for me tomorrow,” he tells his anxious were his dying mantra. survivors into the friends, “and you shall find me a grave man.” The pun establishes him, in a single syllable, as witty, For Shakespeare’s audiences, Mercutio’s o’ would house of death serious, and doomed. have sounded doubly, signaling not just on, but also, more strangely, of—as if the plague were already That mixture hovers over the whole play. Romeo and Juliet, even at the apex intrinsic to the feuding houses of Capulet and of their passion, voice intimations of their own mortality. Later in the play, Stuart Sherman, who Montague, as though the conflict between them were the premonitions grow more Gothic. In a harrowing riff, Juliet prophetically contributes this essay, is a professor of English the plague, inbred and maybe ineradicable. Here it envisions herself walled up—alive, alone, awake—among the dead within at Fordham University claims Mercutio as the play’s first victim. her family’s ancestral sepulcher. And that in fact is where the play will end, and the author of Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and with all of its core characters, living and dead, encompassed in the confines In Mercutio’s mouth, the “plague” is metaphorical, English Diurnal Form, of the Capulet tomb. Mercutio’s curse and pun come true at once: the 1660–1785. a commonplace curse-word of the time (with the “houses” themselves are fatal; their conflict has delivered even the survivors particular curser’s chosen target slotted in after that into the house of death—grave men and women talking their way through o’). But for Romeo and Juliet’s first audiences, plague unfathomable loss. was real too. Everyone in the theater on opening day (ca. 1596) had survived a visitation of the Black Death And therein lies too the play’s tale of social terror—of the plague as a deadly in London just three years earlier. They could recall disorder in the body politic. Elizabethans had experienced the actual plague the screams of the afflicted locked up in their own as a force of nature, inexorable, inexplicable, and beyond human control.

30 Fall/Winter 2019 | Romeo and Juliet www.chicagoshakes.com 31 (The discovery of its cause, in the bites of rat-borne fleas, lay centuries into the future.) What’s terrifying about Verona’s plague is that it arises out of human INVEST IN choice. From the very beginning, we watch the Montagues and the Capulets, opting to live, and to die, within a code of their own arbitrary making.

By the power of the love story, Shakespeare calls such What’s terrifying choosing into question. In language precariously balanced, he plays the pleasures of fusion against the pressures ARTS EDUCATION about Verona’s of conflict. “My only love sprung from my only hate!” plague is that exclaims Juliet when she first learns Romeo’s identity. it arises out of Those mirrored phrases, like so many in this highly patterned play, tease out the possibility of a tipping point: human choice. the hope that young love may undo ancient hate.

Can it? The play’s equivocal. The hopeful symmetries of its verse are often twisted by the dark torque of its plot. Characters sometimes speak of peace, but cannot quite attain it. When Romeo, in the bliss of his secret marriage to Juliet, greets her cousin in the street as kin instead of foe, the result is not fusion but a swordfight, and two men killed. Even at play’s end, when the survivors of the two houses, overwhelmed by the cost of conflict, seek resolution, their moves feel muted: self-soothing and symbolling, not audacious enough to make a difference. As elders, they are the “wrong” survivors, and ominously, they are already in the tomb.

It’s now only seven decades since modern medicine found, in antibiotics, the cure for bubonic plague. We’ve not yet found the cure for Mercutio’s. In a world fresh-torn by faction, Shakespeare, as always, can help us trace the causes and the consequences. The cure is up to us. n YOUR GENEROSITY… · Helps students discover how Shakespeare relates to them through the power of live theater · Encourages teens to build confidence and community in the Chicago Shakespeare Slam HEAR FROM OUR PRE•AMBLE SCHOLARS Throughout the run of Romeo and Juliet, a team of scholars · Supports educators as they learn arts-based presents free pre-performance lectures examining the strategies for student success production through the lens of the play’s historical context, as well as the interpretive choices made. Listen from anywhere by visiting WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM/PREAMBLE THREE EASY WAYS TO DONATE www.chicagoshakes.com/support 312.667.4952  Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 East Grand on Navy Pier Chicago, IL 60611 32 Fall/Winter 2019 | Romeo and Juliet CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER DONOR HONOR ROLL

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Michele Carlon and Patrick Daw Eva Redei Merrill and Judy Blau Juan Herena David A. DeBoer Mr. Steve Armstrong Sandra Blau James Cavanaugh Phyllis Deerinck Chicago Shakespeare Theater is The Southwest Symphony Ms. Dorothy Blyth Stewart Chapman James and Natalie DeRose grateful to the Dover Foundation Orchestra Joan Bodendorfer Judy M. Chernick Darren Diehm Peter T. Bandelow Rosemary Ann Bonacci Dr. Louis Chicquette Cairon Dietsch-Jones for its leadership commitment to the Edison Barber H. Constance Bonbrest Virginia and Willis Clark Robert A. Doepp Our City, Our Shakespeare Campaign. Barbara J. Barnes James Bondi and Ms. Carol Cleave Dr. and Mrs. Henry Andrea Bauer Judith Vargas John and Mary Collins Dold, M.D. Established in 2011, the Dover Robert and Pamela Becker William Borah Diarmaid Collins Dawnmarie Domingo Foundation is committed to supporting Ms. Gail Bedessem Sharalyn Borchers Sharon Conway Debra and Jim Donahugh Kathleen M. 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Jay Owens and Penny Joyce Saricks Gerald and Mary David and Anna Mary Applegate David and Nancy Sarne Stapleton Wallace Julia F. Parker and Family Lenette and John Ms. Amy Waters Tribute Program Nancy Patterson Alfred and Linda Saucedo Staudinger Mary Watt Nadine Petersen Michael Schneiderman Ms. Joyce Steffel Cynthia Weglarz An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends Rita Petretti Marcia Schneider Joel Stein Jim and Mary Weidner Dr. Robert B. Pildes Gene and Faith Schoon Neil Stern Lois Weiss and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information V. Pristera, Jr. Margaret and Eric Jo Ann Stevenson Steven Welton and regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Dorothy Victoria Ramm Schuering Doug and Betsy Stiles Tamara Horn Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. Debra J. Randall Susan and Charles Mr. G. Ralph Strohl and Patricia Wess Pradeep and Taposhree Schwartz Dr. Mrinalini Rao Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler Reflects gifts received betweenOctober 1, 2018–October 1, 2019 Rattan Todd and Susan Semla Mary and Kenneth Sullivan Charles A. and Jeanette David Rebnord The Shalak Family Roberta and Leonard White Marilyn and Guy Revesz Jane Shapiro Tenner Herbert and Catherine MEMORIAL GIFTS The Riedl Family Mette and David Shayne Cheryl Thaxton Wigder FOR SARAJANE AVIDON FOR ANN HERNDON FOR LEW MANILOW Ms. Susan Rifas Graciela and William Barbara Thompson Kathy Wilders AND FELIX SHUMAN Dr. John A. Herndon The Brodsky Family Sandi Riggs Shorey Ken and Glenna Jessica and Cristine Connie and Steve King FOR GERRY JAECK FOR HOWARD MARDELL Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Mr. Sanjaya Shunglu Thompson Williams Dick Simpson Ms. Carol Cleave Anonymous Robins Bruce and Sarane Joan and Kenneth David and Jean Wolski Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Kohn Joan V. 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FERRILL Judy and Abel Friedman FOR CARL AND William and Anne Goldstein Theodore and Harriette Perlman MARILYNN THOMA FOR E. BROOKE FLANAGAN FOR HANNAH KENNEDY Terrell and Jill Isselhard Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Anthony Vasquez Joan Golder Bobbi Zabel FOR BARBARA FOR BECKY TRAISMAN FOR BARBARA GAINES MALOTT KIZZIAH AND Bonnie Krasny Madonna and John Merritt KEITH KIZZIAH Call 312.644.7482 for details. You MUST present FOR LARRY YANDO Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Robins Charles and Caroline Huebner your ticket to receive this special offer. Claudia Traudt Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Jennifer and Joey Lansing RivaNavyPier.com FOR MRS. EDITH GAINES FOR PEMBE AND TUNCH Dr. James and Rita Sheinin Ozyurt Family @RivaCrabHouse INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS YOUR GIFT + YOUR EMPLOYER’S MATCH = GREATER IMPACT Many organizations actively contribute to causes that improve the communities where their Members of the First Folio Society have generously included Chicago staff live and work. Contact your Shakespeare Theater in their estate plans. Chicago Shakespeare honors employer today to learn about their thoughtful commitment to our future. their matching gift initiatives. Mary and Nick Babson Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey Joan Israel Berger Barbara Petersen Marilyn Darnall Chuck Simanek and Edna Burke Kathy Dunn Craig Sirles La and Philip Engel Michael and Sharon Sloan Michael Goldberger Steve and Robin Solomon Linda D. and Craig C. Grannon David and Ingrid Stallé Dick Hurckes Susan Tennant Barbara Joabson Helen and Richard Thomas Dr. Anne McCreary Juhasz Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Judy and John Keller Linda Vertrees Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding Principal, VOA Architects Anstiss Hammond Krueck Questions? Contact Grace Schneck at 312.667.4947 or [email protected] Stuart and Diana Widman Anne E. Kutak Frank T. Wheby Ray and Judy McCaskey Anonymous(2) Contributed Materials Jonathan F. 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