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OPEN AT 4:00 PM MONDAY-FRIDAY OPEN AT 11:00 AM FOR BRUNCH SATURDAY & SUNDAY SMALL & SHARABLE PLATES, Shakespeare Theater GLOBALLY INSPIRED. DRINKOFFSHORE.COM 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier On the Boards 6 CLASSIC COCKTAILS WITH A TWIST. 312.535.6660 Chicago, 60611 A selection of notable CST events, plays, and players 312.595.5600 www.chicagoshakes.com Notes from the 10 ©2020 Chicago Shakespeare Theater Composer & Lyricist “BEST OF THE YEAR!” All rights reserved. – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA CHAIR: Cast Barbara Gaines 15 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Criss Henderson Playgoer’s Guide 17 pictured on cover: Lora Lee Gayer photo by: Jeff Sciortino Profiles 18 pictured above: Devin DeSantis and Lora Lee Gayer photo by: joe mazza - bravelux A Scholar’s Perspective 30 Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Inquiry and Exploration Series

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www.chicagoshakes.com 3 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER EMMA About CST Welcome

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 DEAR FRIENDS, Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, the company spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy in a citywide, We have long wanted to introduce Chicago audiences to Paul Gordon’s delicious yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged more than romantic comedy Emma, a musical based on the beloved Jane Austen classic. one million people. The Theater’s nationally acclaimed arts in literacy programs Paul’s work was last seen on our stage in 2015 with the world premiere musical support the work of English and drama teachers, and bring Shakespeare to of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility—also directed by Barbara Gaines. Each of these life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over stories explores the evolution of strong female protagonists, whose complicated the summer, the company tours a professional production of Shakespeare’s navigation of a world where roles are prescribed by gender and class, leads work, free for all, to neighborhood parks across the city. In 2017 the Theater to self-reflection, growth, and the embrace of authentic love. Austen’s final unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has work published during her lifetime, Emma has been translated into many film changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family adaptations; we hope you’ll find this musical adaptation equally provocative Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs, The Yard positions and entertaining. Chicago Shakespeare as the city’s most versatile performing arts center. n All of us at Chicago Shakespeare are honored to provide an artistic home to generative artists of our time, like Emma’s award-winning composer and lyricist BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paul Gordon. Our new work development program is helmed by Creative Producer Steven J. Solomon* Kathryn J. Hayley Lance Richards Rick Boynton and has commissioned, developed, and premiered a broad range of Chair Criss Henderson* Sheli Z. Rosenbergw* new plays and musicals since its inception. 2020 marks an important milestone for Paulita A. Pike* Stewart S. Hudnut Robert Ryan this work, as we celebrate the March Broadway opening of the new musical SIX, William R. Jentes* Carole Segal Treasurer penned by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, which had its North American premiere John P. Kellerw Eric Q. Strickland* Frank D. Ballantine Christie B. Kelly Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. at Chicago Shakespeare in 2019. Patrick S. Barrett Richard A. Kent Sheila G. Talton John Blazey Barbara Malott Kizziah Marilynn J. Thoma* Your patronage supports this work—our ability to reimagine Shakespeare, Stephen A. Brodsky Chase Collins Levey Gayle R. Tilles premiere new plays and musicals, and serve as a global ambassador for Chicago Thomas L. Brown Anna Livingston William J. Tomazin, Jr. by importing international artists to Chicago and touring our work across the Allan E. Bulley III Judy Loseff Donna Van Eekeren world. In the months ahead, whether you join us in New York to celebrate Clive Christison Renetta McCann Pallavi Verma Patrick R. Daley Raymond F. McCaskeyw* Priscilla A. (Pam) Walterw* the Queens of SIX on Broadway, here in Chicago for the return of the Brian W. Duwe Robert G. McLennan Ray Whitacre Royal Shakespeare Company with The Taming of the Shrew, or a new Beatles- Philip L. Engelw Jess E. Merten Elizabeth Yntema infused As You Like It closing out our season, please know how grateful we are Kevin R. Evanich Linda Myers Sonja Fischer Christopher O’Brien In Memoriam for your belief in our mission and trust in our artistic collective. n 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 M. Hill Hammockw* John Rau Members Tim Hannahs Nazneen Razi* wDenotes Former Board Chairs Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair

www.chicagoshakes.com 5 EMMA CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER On the Boards

ON STAGE IN THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD BEHIND THE SCENES

Love blooms in the forest for many Meet Kassandra Lozoya, a first-year When the Royal Shakespeare Company’s American Theatre Magazine has named of the characters in Shakespeare’s teacher at Collins Academy High School, cast of The Taming of the Shrew takes Associate Producer Aislinn Frantz to As You Like It, but never before quite on the city’s southwest side. Kassandra the stage in The Yard at Chicago the list of “ Workers like this. Fueled by the “all you need is is part of this year’s Sheldon and Bobbi Shakespeare this spring, they will be You Should Know.” Prior to joining love” energy of 1960s counterculture, Zabel Bard Core program—a yearlong dressed in lavish costumes of lush Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2018, adapter/director Daryl Cloran’s high- professional development seminar for fabrics and elaborate ruffs. And from Frantz was associate producer at spirited production infuses Shakespeare’s high school English teachers in Chicago the start, you will notice something the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, romantic comedy with the hit songs Public Schools. This widely acclaimed different—there are more women than junior agent in the literary division of of The Beatles. Cloran—renowned adolescent literacy program focuses men on stage. Director Justin Audibert Bret Adams, Ltd., and has presented across Canada for his work at Citadel on innovative ways to approach some has set this production in a world where at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Theatre, Shaw Festival, National Arts of the curriculum’s most challenging women hold the power. “We’ve flipped renowned Humana Festival. Now, Centre, and beyond—lifts Shakespeare's texts through drama-based strategies. the rules of Shakespeare’s contemporary alongside Creative Producer Rick timeless verse in beautiful harmony with When Kassandra was a CPS student at world,” says Audibert. By reversing the Boynton and the entire CST artistic the immortal music of the “Fab Four,” Foreman High School on the city’s north traditional gender of each role, the RSC team, she serves a pivotal role in guiding seamlessly weaving in over 20 songs, side, she vividly recalls her own teacher, company creates a new environment in the creative work onstage, from concept performed live, including “She Loves Nicky Shoffer, returning from Bard Core which the power structures of today can to closing. Dramaturg Ramona Rose You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Let to practice new strategies with her be explored through a 400-year-old text. King shared, “Aislinn is first and foremost It Be,” and “Here Comes the Sun.” This students. Kassandra is now one of a Audibert's take resonated deeply with invested in the story being told and the joy-filled production begins performances growing number of “second-generation” UK audiences, and London’s The Times people telling it… The care she brings April 30 in the Courtyard Theater, setting Bard Core teachers—a program that over declares it “deftly provocative and to relationships with artists and the stage for a crowd-pleasing summer the past sixteen years has served more exuberantly entertaining.” The RSC’s colleagues makes her special.” of love in Chicago. than 350 teachers in classrooms across limited, three-week engagement our city. begins April 15.

From left: As You Like It set rendering by designer Pam Johnson; Kassandra Lozoya; Amelia Donkor and James Cooney in Royal Shakespeare Company's The Taming of the Shew; Aislinn Frantz. photos by Jenn Geiger and Ikin Yum.

6 Winter 2020 | Emma www.chicagoshakes.com 7 UP & COMING For the first time in 25 years, the RSC returns to Chicago with a fresh look at this fierce Jane Austen’s beloved classic Enjoy hijinks and hilarity in comedy—set in a world where is filled with wit, romance— a cleverly abridged, and now, glorious song 75-minute production women hold all the power.

A NEW MUSICAL

SATURDAYS AT 11:00 a.m. THROUGH MARCH 15 THROUGH FEBRUARY 29

The Beatles’ hit songs mix with The Chicago premiere of Shakespeare’s poetry in this a new opera inspired by joyous romantic comedy contemporary events

3 WEEKS ONLY! APRIL 15–MAY 2

APRIL 30–JUNE 21 JUNE 19–28

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Why Emma Sings Notes from Composer and Lyricist Paul Gordon

Visit chicagoshakes.com In plotting out a musical, the first thing I always ask to explore more ideas myself is: do these characters sing? And really, why and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. do we want to hear them sing, even if they do? To the creating truly one of the first romantic comedies in literature. She shapes the second question, I will simply say that art is subjective kind of banter that would later be emulated by Hepburn and Tracy, and paved and we all have our particular tastes. But the first the way for Woody Allen’s Hall, Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally EMMA question to me is more interesting. I’ve seen many a n BOOK, MUSIC & LYRICS BY and countless other films to follow in the same genre. (Yes, there was Beatrice PAUL GORDON musical where I was thoroughly convinced that the and Benedict, but Knightley and Emma have their own n ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL answer to that question was a resounding “no.” BY JANE AUSTEN Austen’s biting wit unique charm and are as contemporary today as they n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES When I first considered turning Emma into a musical, and intelligence were in the early nineteenth century when Jane Austen n COURTYARD THEATER I pondered the idea carefully before running to the conjured them up.) n JANUARY 28– piano. Having seen several film versions and read lend themselves MARCH 15, 2020 When I started to create the score I didn’t necessarily the novel, I wanted to make sure it had an inherently n 312.595.5600 determine in advance what style the music would be musical ethos simply beyond being a “period piece.” quite naturally to n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM written in. I mostly let the story guide me, and I tried It soon became apparent that not only did these lyric writing. to take my cues from the characters themselves. It all characters sing, but they sang quite effortlessly. felt quite natural. What has emerged, I hope, is a sound tinged with my early Jane Austen’s brilliant comedy provides the perfect influences: Lennon and McCartney (leaning towards George Martin’s alluring bedrock for a musical. In Emma Woodhouse we strings to "Eleanor Rigby") and of course the amazing Stephen Sondheim who, have a protagonist who can’t help but be completely simply by listening to his genius, has taught me everything I know about writing mistaken on almost every point, and yet through for the theater. . . . Austen’s penetrating humor she remains surprisingly But of course my first and main collaborator is Jane Austen. I don’t take lightly sympathetic to the reader. Musicalizing her felt Paul Gordon, the presumptuousness of my assuming a partnership with her. And since she Book, Music, and natural, and Austen’s biting wit and intelligence lend can’t be here to scold me on the creative liberties I have taken, I must leave Lyrics, for Emma themselves quite naturally to lyric writing. that to our audiences and our critics. All I can say is that the production you Reprinted with The makeover of Harriet Smith, Emma’s devoted see today is truly a labor of love, for Jane Austen and for the characters she has permission from protégé, was also ripe with musical possibility. Her The Old Globe created. And as to whether or not these characters sing: perhaps they will let affection for the lowly farmer, Robert Martin, was you know themselves. n superbly appealing for creating repeating motifs that would somehow imply the innocence of love and thread Emma’s continued wrongheadedness about her friend’s future.

Of course, the Knightley–Emma relationship was the most appealing aspect of all. Here you have Austen above: Larry Yando, Erica Stephan, Ephie Aardema, and Marya Grandy in rehearsal; photo by joe mazza

10 Winter 2020 | Emma www.chicagoshakes.com 11 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 EMMA Book, Music & Lyrics by PAUL GORDON Adapted from the novel by JANE AUSTEN

Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design SCOTT DAVIS MARIANN VERHEYEN DONALD HOLDER

Sound Design Wig & Make-up Design Orchestrations CHAD PARSLEY RICHARD JARVIE BRAD HAAK BRIAN ALLAN HOBBS PAUL GORDON

Dialect Coach Casting New York Casting Production Stage Manager KATE DeVORE BOB MASON LAURA STANCZYK, C.S.A. DEBORAH ACKER

Choreography Music Direction JANE LANIER ROBERTA DUCHAK

directed by BARBARA GAINES

EMMA was originally produced by TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA and was developed through TheatreWorks New Works Initiative. EMMA is produced by special arrangement with The GERSH AGENCY, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010. EMMA was presented at NAMT’s Festival of New Musicals in 2006.

LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS Ray and Judy Burton X. and Carl and McCaskey Sheli Z. Rosenberg Marilynn Thoma

Roberta Duchak is the recipient of the Bob Tilles Music Chair, supported by the Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Music Fund. ComEd is the official lighting design sponsorof Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Welcome. If we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that 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 13 SALUTE TO SPONSORS Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to recognize the partnership of our leading contributors, whose visionary support ensures that Cast Shakespeare lives in Chicago today and for generations to come. Emma Woodhouse LORA LEE GAYER* Mr. Knightley BRAD STANDLEY* MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS Harriet Smith EPHIE AARDEMA* Mrs. Weston KELLI HARRINGTON Miss Bates MARYA GRANDY* Ken Anna and Robert Mr. Woodhouse LARRY YANDO* Griffin Livingston Jane Fairfax ERICA STEPHAN* Mr. Weston MICHAEL MILLIGAN* Ray and Rhoades Foundation Fund at Judy McCaskey The Chicago Community Foundation Mr. Elton DENNIS WILLIAM GRIMES* Robert Martin IAN GEERS

Burton X. and Timothy R. Schwertfeger The Harold and Mimi Frank Churchill DEVIN DeSANTIS* Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Gail Waller Steinberg Charitable Trust Mrs. Elton BRI SUDIA* Carl and The Donna Van Eekeren Miss Elizabeth Martin BRANDY CHEYENNE MILLER Marilynn Thoma Charitable Fund Mrs. Bates EMILY GOLDBERG* LEAD SPONSORS Ensemble MAXWELL J DeTOGNE Allscripts Exelon The John D. and Patrick G. and EMILY GOLDBERG* Allstate Insurance Food For Thought Catherine T. Shirley W. Ryan BRANDY CHEYENNE MILLER MacArthur Foundation Foundation Company Lloyd A. Fry Foundation LIAM QUEALY* The Nayar Family The Segal Family Paul M. Angell Family Virginia and Gary Gerst Foundation Foundation Foundation Ethel and Bill Gofen Dance Captain LIAM QUEALY* BlueCross BlueShield National Endowment Barbara and Barre The Hearst for the Arts Seid Foundation of Illinois Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made Foundation, Inc. Joyce Chelberg Polk Bros. Foundation The Shubert at the time of the performance: Maxwell J DeTogne for Mr. Elton, Robert Martin; Emily ITW Foundation Goldberg* for , ; Conor Jordan for , ; Kent and Liz Dauten Richard W. Porter Mrs. Elton Jane Fairfax Frank Churchill Ensemble Jan and Bill Jentes and Lydia S. Marti Shure Incorporated Anne Marie Lewis for Mrs. Weston, Miss Bates; Will Lidke for Mr. Knightley, Ensemble; Embassy Suites Chicago Brandy Cheyenne Miller for ; Liam Quealy* for , Kirkland & Ellis LLP John W. and Anonymous Emma Woodhouse Mr. Knightley Frank Downtown Magnificent ; Matt Rockwood for , ; and Maisie Rose for Jeanne M. Rowe Churchill Mr. Woodhouse Mr. Weston Harriet Mile and DoubleTree KPMG LLP Smith, Mrs. Bates/Ensemble, Miss Elizabeth Martin/Ensemble. Magnificent Mile Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER* ENDOWED FUNDS, CHAIRS, AND PROGRAMS Assistant Stage Manager (through February 2) CARA PARRISH* Mary and Nick Babson Fund Pritzker Foundation to Support Chicago Actors Team Shakespeare Fund Assistant Stage Manager (beginning February 4) KELLY MONTGOMERY* The Canon in Honor of Barbara Gaines John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. The Chicago Music Theatre Endowment Inquiry and Exploration Series The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund The Segal Family Foundation Student Matinee Fund Ruth D. and Ken M. Davee New Works Orchestra and Education Fund Dick Simpson in memory of Sarajane Avidon The Hurckes Fund for Associate Music Director/Conductor/Keyboard KORY DANIELSON^ Artisans and Technicians Team Shakespeare Endowment Keyboard CHARLOTTE RIVARD-HOSTER^ Kirkland & Ellis Audience Enrichment Fund Carl and Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Chair Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Violin ANDREW McCANN^ Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Music Fund Stage Design Fund Cello JILL KAEDING^ The Malott Family Student Access Fund The Sheldon and Bobbi Zabel Bard Core Program Ray and Judy McCaskey Education Chair Reed MIKE MATLOCK^

For more information about how you can support our work on stage, in the Musicians Contractor SEAN McNEELY^ community, and around the world, please contact Brooke Flanagan, Managing Director Electronic Music Design ETHAN DEPPE for Advancement and External Affairs, at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. ^denotes members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208. www.chicagoshakes.com 15 EMMA CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Musical Numbers Playgoer’s Guide Act One THE STORY PRELUDE Orchestra Emma Woodhouse, rich, beautiful, and supremely confident in her own QUEEN ANNE'S LACE Company matchmaking abilities, mourns the loss of her former governess and dearest I MADE THE MATCH MYSELF Emma, Mr. Knightley companion—now married, thanks to Emma, to Mr. Weston. To cheer herself RELATIONS Company up, Emma resolves to now focus on another match, despite the protestations A GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER Emma, Company of her father and a close family friend, Mr. Knightley. THE PORTRAIT Mr. Elton, Mr. Knightley, Company The young Harriet Smith will be the perfect match for the town’s most eligible THE ARGUMENT Emma, Mr. Knightley bachelor, Mr. Elton, the vicar. Emma persuades Harriet to refuse local farmer HARTFIELD Company Robert Martin’s proposal, despite the young woman’s deep feelings for him. SHOULD WE EVER MEET Emma Furious at Emma’s arrogance, Mr. Knightley views Mr. Elton as a social climber SHOULD WE EVER MEET (1ST REPRISE) Emma who will never marry without hope of advancement—a prediction proved true HAVE A PIECE OF CAKE Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, Emma, as Mr. Elton proposes marriage not to Harriet but to Emma. Rejecting him Harriet Smith outright, Emma suggests he turn his attentions to Harriet instead. Humiliated, MR. ROBERT MARTIN Harriet Smith, Emma Mr. Elton flees Highbury, only to return with his well-to-do bride in hand. IT FEELS LIKE HOME Frank Churchill, Emma The arrival of Frank Churchill, Mr. Weston’s estranged son, further disrupts THE RECITAL Emma, Jane Fairfax, Company Emma’s comfortable world. As she is ensnared by Mr. Churchill’s flirtation, Emma watches Harriet fall head over heels for Mr. Knightley and only now begins to realize that she, in fact, might be quite clueless about affairs of the heart, after all. Act Two PRIDE AND SENSE Company SO THIS IS HOW LOVE FEELS Emma, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax AUSTEN’S MASTERPIECE MR. ROBERT MARTIN (REPRISE) Harriet Smith, Robert Martin In 1815 Jane Austen’s fourth novel, Emma, followed close on the heels of SHOULD WE EVER MEET (2ND REPRISE) Emma Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Mansfield Park (1814), WALTZ AT THE BALL Orchestra and was likewise published anonymously. To protect her reputation, Austen HUMILIATION Harriet Smith published Emma as written “by the author of Pride and Prejudice.” Only Austen’s family knew of her published identity, and they carefully preserved EMMA Mr. Knightley her anonymity until her death in 1817. A GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER Emma (REPRISE) For many readers, their first encounter with the author isPride and STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED Emma, Harriet Smith Prejudice. Yet most critics and scholars agree that Emma is Austen’s true BOX HILL Company masterpiece. Austen’s Emma has inspired countless retellings, including Amy BADLY DONE Mr. Knightley Heckerling’s 1995 teen movie mega-hit Clueless, a 1996 film version starring IT FEELS LIKE HOME (REPRISE) Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax Gwyneth Paltrow in the eponymous role, and, more recently, Paul Gordon’s THE EPIPHANY Emma musical adaptation. A new film adaptation, directed by Autumn de Wilde, is scheduled for release this winter. Scholars argue Jane Austen was at the BADLY DONE (REPRISE) Emma height of her powers when she wrote Emma, the last of her works published HUMILIATION (REPRISE) Harriet Smith during her lifetime. n EMMA (REPRISE) Mr. Knightley FINALE Company

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LORA LEE GAYER (Emma EPHIE AARDEMA (Harriet Kings Band, and a member of EMILY GOLDBERG Woodhouse) CHICAGO Smith) CHICAGO The Four C Notes – the Midwest's (Mrs. Bates/Ensemble) SHAKESPEARE: Debut. SHAKESPEARE: Debut. only tribute band to Franki Valli and CHICAGO BROADWAY: Holiday Inn BROADWAY: The Bridges the Four Seasons. He is the associate SHAKESPEARE: Nell (Roundabout Theatre of Madison County. artistic director/co-founder of Gwynn. CHICAGO: A Company); Doctor OFF BROADWAY: Parade Chicago Artists Chorale. Gentleman's Guide to Zhivago (Broadway (Lincoln Center Theatre); Love and Murder (Jeff Theatre); Follies (Marquis Clueless, Daddy Long MAXWELL J DeTOGNE Award nomination - Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Pipe Dream Legs, Songbird, Dear Edwina. TOUR: (Ensemble) CHICAGO Supporting Performer in a Musical, (New York City Center Encores!); These Waitress (first national tour),Fiddler on the SHAKESPEARE: Debut. ); Seven Sicknesses (Exit, Pursued by a Roof, The Sound of Music. REGIONAL: The CHICAGO: Oklahoma!, (); Sweeney Todd Bear). REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, Sundance Oliver! (); (Paramount Theatre); The Spitfire Grill (Jeff The Ahmanson, Goodspeed Musicals, Institute Theatre Lab, La Jolla Playhouse, Anything Goes, Into the Award nomination - Supporting Actress in a Shakespeare Theatre Company, Alliance The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Woods (Music Theater Musical, Refuge Theatre Project); Dogfight Theatre, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Philadelphia Theatre Works); Jesus Christ ( nomination - Leading Actress in McCarter Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Company, Two River Theater Company, Superstar (Jeff Award nomination, Theo a Musical, Broadway World Award Oregon Shakespeare Festival. FILM: The Pioneer Theatre Company, Pittsburgh CLO, Ubique Cabaret Theatre); High Fidelity nomination - Best Actress in a Musical, BoHo Post. TELEVISION: The Tick (Amazon North Shore Music Theatre, Maine State (Jeff Award nomination, Refuge Theatre Theatre); Loving Repeating (Jeff Award Studios); House of Cards (Netflix);Law Music Theatre, The Cape Playhouse, Greater Project); Bonnie & Clyde (Jeff Award nomination - Supporting Actress in a and Order: SVU (NBC); Little America Boston Stage Company, The Media Theater, nomination, Kokandy Productions). Musical, Kokandy Productions); Amour (Apple TV+). EDUCATION: Carnegie Mill Mountain Theater, PCPA TheatreFest, REGIONAL: Hair (Parallel 45 Theatre (BroadwayWorld Chicago Award Mellon University; Interlochen Arts ReVision Theatre, Orlando Repertory Festival, Traverse City); Working nomination - Best Actress, Black Button Academy. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award, Theatre, Cortland Repertory Theater, The (Dunes Summer Theatre, Michigan Eyes Productions); Schoolhouse Rock Live! Chita Rivera Award, NFAA finalist, National Winter Park Playhouse. EDUCATION: Circle City). EDUCATION: BFA in theater (Broadway Playhouse); Charlotte’s Web Arts and Letters Award, Lotte Lenya Young in the Square Theatre School; honors and communications, North Central (Drury Lane Theatre); The Nutcracker Artist Award. program for writing and democracy, The College in Naperville. (Marriott Theatre); Guys & Dolls (Williams New School. AWARDS: Congressional Gold Street Repertory); Oliver! (Music Theatre BRAD STANDLEY Medal for Outstanding Youth. IAN GEERS (Robert Works). REGIONAL: Into the Woods (Reagle (Mr. Knightley) CHICAGO Martin) CHICAGO Music Theatre). EDUCATION: BFA in musical SHAKESPEARE: Debut. DEVIN DeSANTIS (Frank SHAKESPEARE: Debut. theatre, Boston Conservatory. BROADWAY: standby for Churchill) CHICAGO CHICAGO: Kitty Hawk Nate in In Transit. SHAKESPEARE: The (The House Theatre of MARYA GRANDY TOURING: understudy Three Musketeers, Chicago); Henry IV (Miss Bates) CHICAGO Dr. Pomatter/Earl in Seussical. CHICAGO: Part I, The Comedy of SHAKESPEARE: The Waitress, Claude in The Who's Tommy (Jeff Errors (Commission Wizard of Oz, Follies. Hair. REGIONAL: Guy in Once (Weston Award nomination - Best Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth CHICAGO: Holiday Inn Playhouse); Phil in The 12 (Denver Center Actor in a Musical), (A Crew of Patches Theatre Company); (Jeff Award nomination), for the Performing Arts); Christian in BAZ Les Misérables (Jeff Award nomination - American Idiot (Surging Films and Theatrics); Honeymoon in Vegas, (The Palazzo Theater); Malcolm in The Full Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), Proof (Colorbox Theatre). REGIONAL/ How to Succeed in Monty (CLO South Bay Cities); Thomas in The Little Mermaid, Hairspray (Paramount TOURING: King Lear, The Two Gentlemen Business Without Really Trying, Sister Act, The Story of My Life (havoc); Richmond Theatre); Young Frankenstein, The Hot of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Rover, On the Town (Jeff Award nomination), 9 to 5 in Richard III, Lysander in A Midsummer Mikado (Drury Lane Theatre); Parade The Seagull, The Killer Angels, Richard II (Marriott Theatre); Saturday Night Fever Night’s Dream (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare (Writers Theatre); Side Show (Porchlight (Michigan Shakespeare Festival); The (Drury Lane Theatre); The Secret Garden Festival). FILM: Karaoke Man, August. Music Theatre); City of Angels, Godspell, Tempest (Virginia Stage Company); Once (); Les Misérables (Paramount TELEVISION: Body of Proof, General 9 to 5 (Marriott Theatre); Altar Boyz (Olney Theatre Center); The Complete Theatre); Juno (TimeLine Theatre Company); Hospital (ABC); Days of Our Lives (NBC). Chicago (Broadway Playhouse); Anyone Works of William Shakespeare Abridged A Grand Night for Singing (Jeff Award EDUCATION: BFA in musical theatre, Can Whistle starring Patti LuPone and (Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival); To nomination, Mercury Theater Chicago). California State University at Fullerton. Audra McDonald, The Most Happy Fella Kill a Mockingbird, The Tempest (National BROADWAY/NEW YORK: Closer Than Ever AWARDS: 2015 finalist in the American starring George Hearn (). Players). EDUCATION: BFA in acting, (2012 revival); Les Misérables (2006 revival); Traditions Vocal Competition. BROADWAY/OFF BROADWAY: Christmas Boston University. Damn Yankees, Bells Are Ringing (New York Spectacular Starring the Radio City City Center Encores!); The Great American Rockettes (Radio City Music Hall); Trailer Park Musical (Drama Desk Award The Magdalene (Theatre at St. Clement’s). nomination); co-author of The Water EDUCATION: BM in vocal performance, Coolers. REGIONAL: Our Town, The 25th Northwestern University. Mr. DeSantis is Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, On a resident guest artist with the Colorado Golden Pond, world premiere of Fanny Symphony, a lead singer with Bluewater Brice: America’s Funny Girl directed by

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David H. Bell, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Take Plays); Sweeney Todd (Porchlight Music LIAM QUEALY (Ensemble/ BRI SUDIA (Mrs. Elton) Flight, Gypsy, Beehive, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Theatre); Juno (TimeLine Theatre Dance Captain) CHICAGO CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Honky Tonk Angels, Working, The Water Company). Ms. Harrington has been a SHAKESPEARE: Seussical, Red Velvet, The Taming of Coolers (Jeff Award nomination). music theatre voice teacher at the Chicago Shrek the Musical, Beauty the Shrew, Tug of War: TELEVISION: Chicago PD, Rescue Me, Academy for the Arts since 2000. and the Beast. SELECT Foreign Fire, The Tempest, Conviction, Law & Order, Law & Order: CHICAGO: Huey Calhoun Pericles, Road Show, SVU. FILM: Denis Leary’s Merry F#%$in’ BRANDY CHEYENNE in Memphis (2018 Jeff Chicago Shakespeare in Christmas, Love Streams. EDUCATION: MILLER (Miss Elizabeth Award nomination - the Parks production of BA, Yale University. Martin/Ensemble) Performer in a Principal Role in a Musical, Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. CHICAGO: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Porchlight Music Theatre); Claude in Oslo, A Shayna Maidel (TimeLine Theatre DENNIS WILLIAM GRIMES Debut. CHICAGO: Oliver!, Hair (Mercury Theater Chicago); Sky in Company); The Music Man, Ah Wilderness!, (Mr. Elton) CHICAGO Madagascar (Marriott Mamma Mia!, Tony Elliot in Billy Elliot Wonderful Town (Jeff Award nomination, SHAKESPEARE: Theatre); Million Dollar (Drury Lane Theatre); Pepper in Mamma ); Sweeney Todd (Jeff Shakespeare in Love, Quartet (Theatre at the Mia!, Munkustrap in Cats (Marriott Award nomination, Paramount Theatre); Julius Caesar. CHICAGO: Center); Ring of Fire, Hair, Anything Goes Theatre); Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, A Disappearing Number, (Metropolis Performing Arts Centre); New Tommy, Skimbleshanks in Cats (Paramount Shining Lives: A Musical (Northlight Theatre). Danny Casolaro Died for Faces Sing Broadway 1969 (Porchlight Music Theatre); productions with Theatre at the EDUCATION: MFA in acting, University of You, Frost/Nixon Theatre); Alice Through the Looking Glass Center, Writers Theatre. OFF BROADWAY: Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; degree in (TimeLine Theatre Company); 1984, The (Arranmore Arts). EDUCATION: BFA in Dear Edwina. TOURING: national tour of sign language interpreting for the deaf. Book Thief (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); musical theatre performance, Columbia . REGIONAL: The Old A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); She College Chicago. Globe. TELEVISION: Chicago Fire (NBC). LARRY YANDO Stoops to Conquer (Northlight Theatre); (Mr. Woodhouse) Moonlight and Magnolias (Fox Valley MICHAEL MILLIGAN ERICA STEPHAN (Jane CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Repertory); The Busy World Is Hushed (Next (Mr. Weston) CHICAGO Fairfax) CHICAGO Hamlet, Nell Gwynn, Theatre Company); Lips Together, Teeth SHAKESPEARE: Tug of SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare in Love, Tug Apart (Eclipse Theatre Company); Rabbit War: Civil Strife, Othello. Madagascar - A Musical of War: Foreign Fire and (Stage Left Theatre); Pride and Prejudice CHICAGO: Cat on a Hot Adventure, The Little Civil Strife, The Tempest (); The Master and Margarita Tin Roof (Drury Lane Mermaid. CHICAGO: (2002, 2015), King Lear (). REGIONAL: Theatre); Blind Date Belle in Beauty and the (2001, 2014), Julius Caesar, The Taming of Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indianapolis (Goodman Theatre); The Beast, , the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Timon Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre in the American Mercy Tour (Greenhouse Theater Stephanie Mangano in Saturday Night of Athens, All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony Parks, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Lakeside Center); Mercy Strain (American Theater Fever, Irene in Crazy for You, Judy and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Company). BROADWAY: August: Osage Haynes in White Christmas (Drury Lane Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Two Gentlemen of Festival. FILM: The Letter: A Lovecraftian County, La Bête, Jerusalem. OFF Theatre); Wonderful Town (Goodman Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen. CHICAGO: Tale (Chiaravalle and Associates); Black Box BROADWAY: Mercy Killers (Harold Clurman Theatre); Betty Haynes in White twelve years as Scrooge in A Christmas (ConeArts). TELEVISION: Empire (FOX); Laboratory Theater Company/Working Christmas, Billie Bendix in Nice Work Carol, Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Little Foxes, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD (NBC); The Theater); Thom Pain (DR2 Theatre); The If You Can Get It (Theatre at the Center); Candide, The Jungle Book (Goodman Girlfriend Experience (Starz); Betrayal, Golem (Manhattan Ensemble Theater). Cosette in Les Misérables, ensemble Theatre); Buried Child, The Dance of Death, Detroit 187 (ABC). EDUCATION: BS in REGIONAL: productions with Milwaukee in The Who’s Tommy (Paramount As You Like It, Nixon’s Nixon, Rocket to the theater, Illinois State University. Repertory Theater, McCarter Theatre, Theatre). REGIONAL: The Drowsy Moon, Hamlet, Bach at Leipzig (Writers Cincinnati Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre Chaperone, Living on Love (Peninsula Theatre); Angels in America, Travesties, An KELLI HARRINGTON of St. Louis, Folger Theatre, Westport Players Theatre); Mary Poppins, The Ideal Husband (Court Theatre); Fake, Mother (Mrs. Weston) CHICAGO Country Playhouse, Studio Arena Theatre, Little Mermaid (Variety Children’s Courage and Her Children (Steppenwolf SHAKESPEARE: Beauty Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre); Mary Poppins, Les Misérables, Theatre Company). TOUR: three years as and the Beast. CHICAGO: Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, A Chorus Line, Seussical (Timber Lake Scar in . INTERNATIONAL: Into the Woods (Writers The Shakespeare Theatre of , Playhouse). EDUCATION: Conservatory Battlefield directed by Peter Brook. Theatre); The Bridges Milwaukee Shakespeare, Santa Cruz of Theatre Arts at Webster University. AWARDS: 2014 Sarah Siddons Society, of Madison County, Shakespeare; the Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Chicago Magazine Best Chicago Actor, Aspects of Love, The and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. DePaul University’s Excellence in the Arts, Light in the Piazza (Jeff Award - Lead INTERNATIONAL: La Bête (Comedy Theatre, one of nine national recipients of the Performance in a Musical, Theo Ubique London); Royal Shakespeare Company. prestigious 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, Cabaret Theatre); A Little Night Music (Jeff TELEVISION: Chicago Justice, APB, Law & five Joseph Jefferson Awards. Mr. Yando is a Award nomination - Lead Performance in a Order, Person of Interest, The Knick. freelance acting coach. Musical, BoHo Theatre); Adding Machine EDUCATION: The Ohio State University; (The Hypocrites); Perfect Arrangement The Juilliard School. (Jeff Award nomination - Supporting Performance in a Play, Pride Films and

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BARBARA GAINES ROBERTA DUCHAK (Music Director) Vinyl, The Front, Juliet and Romeo, Sleepy styling in New York City and has designed (Director/Artistic Director/ CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: SIX, Murder for Hollow, The Circle, and The Sportswriter. for Disney Cruise Lines, Viking Cruise Lines, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Two, Hamlet, The Little Mermaid, Romeo Earlier in his career, Mr. Gordon was a pop Disney World Animal Kingdom, and Sea Chair) has directed nearly and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar songwriter and wrote several number-one World San Antonio. She is the head of sixty productions at Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and songs. www.paulgordonmusic.com costume design at the Boston University Chicago Shakespeare Juliet. CHICAGO: Little Shop of Horrors, College of Fine Arts, School of Theater. since founding the Theater South Pacific, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, SCOTT DAVIS (Scenic Designer) CHICAGO in 1986, including thirty of Chicago, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey SHAKESPEARE: over twenty productions, DONALD HOLDER (Lighting Designer) Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include the Joe’s Cafe, Crazy for You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, including Romeo and Juliet, The Wizard of CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Sense and 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Les Misérables, West Side Story, White Oz, Hamlet, Red Velvet, Madagascar – A Sensibility, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Jeff Theatre, the prestigious Honorary OBE Christmas, Young Frankenstein, The Sound Musical Adventure, Shakespeare in Love, Award), Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, King Lear. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of of Music, Sweeney Todd, , , The Book of Joseph, King Charles III, Tug BROADWAY: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Straight the British Empire) in recognition of her Gypsy, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Miss of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Ride White Men, , Anastasia, Oslo, contributions strengthening British-American Saigon (Drury Lane Theatre); Brigadoon the Cyclone, The Little Mermaid, Pericles, M. Butterfly, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the cultural relations, the Making History Award, (Goodman Theatre); The Story of My Life Road Show, Shrek the Musical, Othello: Roof, , On the Twentieth as well as multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards directed by Richard Maltby Jr. (Biograph The Remix (CST/international tour), Cadre Century, The Bridges of Madison County, for Best Production and for Best Director. Theater); The Original Grease (American (CST/tour to South Africa, Edinburgh, Golden Boy, Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, Ms. Gaines has directed at the Royal Theatre Company); The Rocky Horror Picture Vancouver), Beauty and the Beast, Murder Ragtime, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon- Show (Mercury Theater Chicago); musical for Two; Short Shakespeare! productions of Millie, among others. He has designed Avon, , and The Old supervisor for A Little Night Music (Writers Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fifty-eight Broadway productions, is the Globe in San Diego. Theatre). BROADWAY: SIX. FILM: vocal coach Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. CHICAGO: Court recipient of two (The Lion for Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman in Les Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Steppenwolf King, South Pacific) and thirteen Tony JANE LANIER (Choreographer) CHICAGO Misérables. AWARDS: two Jeff Awards, five Garage, Drury Lane Theatre, Marriott nominations. OPERA: The Magic Flute, SHAKESPEARE: The King’s Speech. nominations. ACTING: Mother in Ragtime Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Windy City Two Boys, Otello, Porgy and Bess, Samson CHICAGO: Mamma Mia!, Chicago (Drury (Broadway); Ghost of Christmas Past in Playhouse. OFF BROADWAY: Ride the et Delilah (The Metropolitan Opera); Carmen Lane Theatre). BROADWAY: Guys and Dolls Scrooge, Magnolia and Ellie in Showboat Cyclone (MCC Theater); Othello: The Remix (Chicago Lyric and Houston Grand Opera); (associate choreographer, Nederlander (national tour); Rona Lisa Peretti in The (Westside Theatre). REGIONAL: Signature Death and the Powers (Dallas Opera); Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Johnny Guitar 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Utah Faust (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden); (Century Center); Nightingale (Vineyard (Chicago/national tour). Ms. Duchak has two Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Salome (Kirov Opera). TELEVISON: Two Theatre). REGIONAL: The Wild Party, Little vocal studios in the Chicago area. Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Walnut seasons of Smash (NBC/DreamWorks). Fish (Blank Theatre Company); Ring of Fire Street Theatre. Mr. Davis is the co-founder FILM: Oceans 8 (Warner Brothers Pictures). (Denver Center for the Performing Arts PAUL GORDON (Book/Music/Lyrics/ of the Chicago-based design firm Aether Mr. Holder is a professor of lighting design Theatre Company); Pippin, Smokey Joe’s Orchestrations) was nominated for a 2001 and Nyx. www.scottadamdavis.com at Rutgers University and a graduate of Cafe (5th Avenue Theatre); A Little Night Tony Award for composing the music and the Yale School of Drama. Music (Interact Theatre Company); Kiss lyrics to the musical Jane Eyre. He won MARIANN VERHEYEN (Costume Designer) Me Kate (Musical Theatre West). TV/FILM: the 2015 Jeff Award for Best New Work CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Henry V, CHAD PARSLEY (Sound Designer) CHICAGO Spells (independent art film);Not Your Time for his book, music, and lyrics for Sense Elizabeth Rex, The Three Musketeers, SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Tootsie (independent short film);Dream On (HBO); and Sensibility, commissioned by Chicago The Merry Wives of Windsor (Jeff Award (production sound, ); Summer Stories (ABC mini-series). AWARDS: Shakespeare Theater. He is the recipient nomination), The Merchant of Venice, King (head of sound, CIBC Theatre). Jeff Award nomination for Chicago, LA of the 2009 Ovation Award for his music John, Julius Caesar, As You Like It (Jeff TOURING: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Weekly Award, Ovation, and NAACP Award and lyrics to Daddy Long Legs, which has Award). BROADWAY/OFF BROADWAY: (production sound); Blue Man Group’s nominations for The Wild Party. Ms. Lanier’s had productions all over the world and Peter Pan, Everybody’s Ruby (Audelco Speechless (production sound); Rock of Ages Broadway acting credits include: Fosse was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, Award nomination), Blood Relations (Villager (production sound); Book of Mormon (head (Drama Desk Award nomination), Guys an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, and three Downtown Theater Award); productions of sound); Jersey Boys (advance sound); and Dolls, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway Outer Critics Circle awards. His critically with Second Stage Theatre, The Juilliard Spamalot (head of sound). REGIONAL: Dallas (Tony Award nomination), Anything Goes, acclaimed musical Emma was filmed and School, The Public Theater, The York Theater Center, Alley Theatre, George Street Sweet Charity, On Your Toes. She is head released worldwide in 2018 and can be Theatre Company, Hudson Guild Theater. Playhouse, Arena Stage. of the musical theatre dance concentration seen on iTunes and Amazon. No One REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre, Alliance Theatre, program at the Chicago College of Called Ahead, his latest filmed musical, is Huntington Theatre Company, Pittsburgh RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. also available on Amazon. Knight’s Tale, Public Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The King’s written with John Caird, opened at the Park, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Boston Speech, The Wizard of Oz, Romeo and Imperial Theatre in Tokyo in 2018. The Ballet; the Alabama, Colorado, and Oregon Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s third in his Jane Austen trilogy, Pride Shakespeare festivals. AWARDS: two Dream, Nell Gwynn, Peter Pan – A Musical and Prejudice, had its world premiere at Boston IRNE Awards, SUZI of Atlanta, and Adventure, Macbeth, Mary Stuart, Red Velvet, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in December Distinguished Achievement Awards from The Taming of the Shrew, Madagascar, 2019. His other shows include: Being the high school and college she attended. Shakespeare in Love, Macbeth, Love’s Earnest, Little Miss Scrooge, Analog and Ms. Verheyen has ten years of commercial Labor’s Lost, King Charles III, Chicago

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Shakespeare in the Parks productions of Sweeney Todd, The Little Mermaid, Fetch Clay Make Man, Gruesome Playground Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, The A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Mamma Mia!, West Side Story, Oklahoma!, Injuries, Golden Age, as well as productions Wizard of Oz, Once (Paramount Theatre); Juliet; Short Shakespeare! productions of Les Misérables, The Who’s Tommy of Master Class, Lisbon Traviata, Broadway For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer (Paramount Theatre); Assassins, The Three Generations, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, All Night’s Dream; the inaugural season Full Monty, Love Repeating, Heathers, Shawshank Redemption, Long Day’s Journey My Sons (Court Theatre). REGIONAL: of Chicago Shakespeare on Navy Pier. Tomorrow Morning, Little Fish (Kokandy Into Night. AWARDS: nominated for six Happy Days (Center Theatre Group); CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre, Court Productions); Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Passion Artios Award for Excellence in Casting, won Happy Days (Theatre for a New Audience); Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, (Jeff Award – Outstanding Musical for Eric Schaeffer's production of Follies. Happy Days, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Drury Lane Theatre; twenty-eight years Direction, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre); Repertory Theatre); productions with with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, eleven How to Succeed in Business Without DEBORAH ACKER (Production Stage Transcendence Theatre Company, as the wig master and make-up designer. Really Trying (Porchlight Music Theatre); Manager) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Maine State Music Theatre. EDUCATION: REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre, McCarter Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Wedding thirty seasons. CHICAGO: Puttin’ on the MFA in stage management, Yale Theatre, Guthrie Theater (wig master). Singer (Haven Theatre); Zanna Don’t!, Ritz (National Jewish Theater); Six School of Drama. OPERA: Atlanta Opera, San Francisco Lucky Stiff, Triumph of Love (Music Degrees of Separation, Driving Miss Opera, Hawaii Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre Company); productions with Daisy, I’m Not Rappaport (Briar Street RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses Theatre, Saint Louis Opera; the Spoleto Drury Lane Theatre, Broadway in Theatre); The Nerd (Royal George on current and future artistic planning and Festivals of Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, Bailiwick Chicago, Hell in a Theatre); A… My Name is Alice (Ivanhoe production, as well as the development of and Italy. INTERNATIONAL: Tom Patterson Handbag Productions. Mr. Danielson Theatre). Ms. Acker has production all new plays, musicals, and adaptations Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. is a music director, pianist/conductor, managed extensively throughout Chicago for Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST). and vocal coach. and has also provided lighting designs Projects include: SIX (CST, American KATE DEVORE (Dialect Coach) CHICAGO for the Apollo Theatre, Candlelight Dinner Repertory Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Ordway SHAKESPEARE: The King’s Speech. BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare’s Center for the Performing Arts, Broadway), CHICAGO: The Light in the Piazza, Director) is in his twentieth season as Team Shakespeare, the Museum of The Book of Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, Dead Man Walking, West Side Story CST’s casting director, where his credits Science and Industry, Some Like It MCC, 5th Avenue/ACT, Alliance Theatre), (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Bernhardt/ include over 125 productions and thirty-two Cole (tour), and Pump Boys and Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Sweat, plays in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition Dinettes in Branson, Missouri. Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, Support Group for Men, The Wolves, to numerous productions with Barbara Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver), A View from the Bridge, Destiny of Gaines, other productions of note include: CARA PARRISH (Assistant Stage Manager Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, Desire, Uncle Vanya, Another Word for a host of Sondheim musicals directed by through February 2) CHICAGO Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk Beauty, Feathers and Teeth, The Jungle Gary Griffin;Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet. It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Book, Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Fifth Avenue/ACT), directed by Rachel CHICAGO: Gem of the Ocean, Electra, Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Rockwell; Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, Hard Problem, Photograph 51, Five Guys (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Dog in the Night Time, fml: how Carson and 3, directed by Edward Hall; and SIX Named Moe, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), McCullers saved my life (Steppenwolf (CST, American Repertory Theatre, Citadel (Court Theatre); Witch, Port Authority, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures Theatre Company); Mary Poppins, And Theatre, Ordway Center for the Performing Yellow Moon, The Letters, The Caretaker, of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New Then There Were None, Matilda, Mamma Arts, Broadway), by Toby Marlow and Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest (in Mia!, Beauty and the Beast (Drury Lane Lucy Moss. He directed and co-created The Blonde the Brunette and the Vengeful collaboration with Redmoon). Former artistic Theatre); Small Mouth Sounds, Evening Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, Redhead, The MLK Project: The Fight for director of the Marriott Theatre and multiple at the Talk House, The Opponent, as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior Civil Rights (Writers Theatre); Too Heavy Jeff Award-winning actor, he has starred Butcher of Baraboo, Abigail’s Party to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a for Your Pocket, In the Next Room or in productions nationally, including CST’s (); Vocal Stamina Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and the vibrator play (TimeLine Theatre production of A Flea in Her Ear as Camille for Touring Performers workshops has been a visiting educator for the School Company); James and the Giant Peach (Jeff Award, After Dark Award). As casting (). EDUCATION: MA at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, (Drury Lane Theatre); Jabari Dreams of director/associate at Jane Alderman Casting, in speech-language pathology (voice the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Freedom (Chicago Children's Theatre); projects included: the television series Early therapy); BA in theater (acting and voice/ Northwestern University. Beauty's Daughter, Buddy: The Buddy Edition, Missing Persons, Untouchables, and speech coaching). Ms. DeVore teaches Holly Story, It’s A Wonderful Life: Live in ER; the filmsWhile You Were Sleeping and at the School at Steppenwolf, Columbia LAURA STANCZYK (New York Casting) Chicago! (American Blues Theatre, artistic Hoodlum, among others; and numerous College Chicago, and Acting Studio BROADWAY/OFF BROADWAY/TOURS: associate). REGIONAL: The Hippodrome national tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at Chicago. She coaches clients through SideShow, After Midnight, A Night with State Theatre, The Fabulous Palm Springs his alma mater Northwestern University and her company Total Voice, Inc. Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Follies, Detroit Music Hall. is the former president of the board of the Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram National Alliance for Musical Theatre. KORY DANIELSON (Associate Music Director) Boy, Translations, Damn Yankees, Dirty KELLY MONTGOMERY (Assistant Stage CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Wizard Dancing, The Glorious Ones, Cripple of Manager beginning February 4) CHICAGO of Oz, Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure. Inishmaan, Tryst, Flight, Urinetown. OTHER SHAKESPEARE: Chicago Shakespeare in CHICAGO: Beauty and the Beast, Legally THEATER: The Broadway Center Stage the Parks production of The Comedy of Blonde, The Wizard of Oz, The Producers, series at The Kennedy Center for the Errors. CHICAGO: Twilight Bowl, There’s Once, Cabaret, Elf: the Musical, Million Performing Arts; premieres of Cotton Club Always the Hudson, Continuity (Goodman Dollar Quartet, Jesus Christ Superstar, Parade, Harps and Angels, Me Myself & I,

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FRESHEST CRISS HENDERSON SEAFOOD (Executive Director) has produced the Bravo! Bravo! Attention all Chicago Theater’s past thirty Shakespeare Theater patrons. Join us at seasons. Under his Riva today and you can choose from our leadership, CST has 3-course, specially priced prix fixe menu, become one of Chicago's or get 20% off our regular menu. most celebrated cultural organizations and a leading American regional theater, honored with the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, as well as multiple Laurence Olivier and Joseph Jefferson Awards. He oversaw the Theater’s move to its home on Navy Pier in 1999 and led the recent development of The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. In 2016 he spearheaded the citywide, yearlong celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Mr. Henderson has garnered Call 312.644.7482 for details. You MUST present multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural Innovation Award from the Chicago Innovation your ticket to receive this special offer. Awards; Arts Administrator of the Year by Arts RivaNavyPier.com Management Magazine at the Kennedy Center; recognition in Crain’s Chicago @RivaCrabHouse Business “40 under 40”; and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of France. In 2019, with Barbara Gaines, he was honored with the Making History Award, given to Chicagoans whose contributions to the city have made How about a curtain call? it “a better and more vibrant place to live.” Mr. Henderson has served on the boards of directors of the League of Chicago Theatres and Arts Alliance Illinois, and for many years as president of the Producers’ Association of Chicago-area Theaters. Mr. Henderson is director of DePaul University’s MFA/Arts Leadership Program, a two-year graduate- level curriculum in arts management training created through a joint partnership between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Theatre School. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre Chicago Shakespeare productions are as an essential component of our society. Equity made possible in part by the Illinois Arts negotiates wages and working conditions, providing Gracious senior living takes center stage at Montgomery Place. a wide range of benefits, including health and Council Agency and an IncentOvate Grant pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and Share your talents with new friends and join in organizing from the City of Chicago Department of is affiliated with FIA, an international organization Cultural Affairs and Special Events. of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our concerts and lectures where you live. Schedule a visit today mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org Chicago Shakespeare is a constituent and take a look for yourself. of the Theatre Communications Group, The Director and Choreographer Inc., the national service organization of are members of the non-profit theaters; National Alliance for STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, Montgomery Place Musical Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre a national theatrical labor union. Association; Arts Alliance Illinois; A not-for-profit community for people 62-plus the League of Chicago Theatres; and The scenic, costume, and lighting designers of this production are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local 5550 South Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 Ingenuity, Inc. USA-829 of the IATSE. 773-753-4100 MontgomeryPlace.org 26 Winter 2020 | Emma Apartments for independent living in the cultural center of East Hyde Park CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER STAFF Staff

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ARTISTIC BEN GATES-UTTER KRISTEN CARUSO ERIN HUNTER PRODUCTION ALICE BROUGHTON WIGS AND MAKE-UP CONSULTANTS AND Associate Company Manager Senior Advancement AARON ROBERTS Wardrobe Supervisor RICK BOYNTON Manager/Board Liaison FORREST WILLIAMS CHRIS PLEVIN RICHARD JARVIE SPECIAL SERVICES Creative Producer EDWARD McCREARY Box Office Supervisors Director of Production MAGGIE HOFMANN Wig and Make-up Supervisor KRISSI McEACHERN FRANCESCA BETH UBER BAKER TILLY VIRCHOW KRAUSE, LLP BOB MASON PAIGE MENNELLA BESSIE BESS JEFF WILLIAMS Drapers MIGUEL ARMSTRONG WHITSON-MARTINI Advancement ANEYA COBBS Wig and Make-up Assistant Auditor Artistic Associate/ Associate Director of CAITLIN ALLEN Casting Director Arts Leadership Fellows Communications Manager BLAKE CORDELL Production JASCULCA TERMAN CATHERINE HEALEY JONATHAN WATERS MEGAN PIRTLE Public Relations Consultant AISLINN FRANTZ GRACE SCHNECK RICHARD KALLUS EMMALINE First Hands Wig and Make-up Apprentice Associate Producer Advancement Manager DIANNE NORA KEDDY-HECTOR EDUCATION AND BREENA COPE ELIZABETH COFFIN MEDICAL PROGRAM ZOE ROSENFELD Production Coordinator FOR PERFORMING DOREEN SAYEGH COMMUNITY SARA BENBELLA STEVE TAPAS YAS MAPLE Wig and Make-up Attendant Donor Records and SERENA SANDOVAL ARTISTS/ MARIA E. Producing Associate / Box Office Associates ALEXA BERKOWITZ REESE, MD ENGAGEMENT Data Coordinator Stitcher PROPERTIES Manager of International Production Office Manager Medical Services and Special Projects MARILYN J. HALPERIN NICK CUELLAR AMANDA OWENS MELISSA BOCHAT CASSANDRA Director of Education VICTORIA GILBERT Individual Giving Coordinator STAGE MANAGEMENT Crafts Supervisor WESTOVER AON PRIVATE RISK ROSIE BROSS and Communications JEFFREY GOUGIS Properties Supervisor MANAGEMENT Producing Assistant Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair KARL SISSMAN JENN OSWALD DEBORAH ACKER JESS KENYON Insurance Services XAVIER ROE VIP Concierge and Production Stage Manager/ JENNIFER GIANGOLA ALEXIS TAYLOR PHILLIP LEWIS PERSEPHONE JASON HARRINGTON Stewardship Coordinator Associate Producer Dressers LAWRENCE-WESCOTT DRINKER BIDDLE Casting Assistant House Managers Education Outreach Manager Assistant Prop Supervisor & REATH LLP ALEX WOOD CARA PARRISH HUGHES SOCOL PIERS MIKEY GRAY JEREMIAH CLARKSON ELECTRICS MAGGIE SUGGETT Advancement Intern Assistant Stage Manager LISA GRIEBEL RESNICK & DYM, LTD. 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Like A Scholar’s Perspective on Emma

Visit chicagoshakes.com “I am going to take a heroine,” Jane Austen remarked And yet the sentence enables us to see our heroine from a little distance too. to explore more ideas as she commenced work on Emma, “whom no one Such luck as Emma’s is not something that others always (to echo Austen) and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. but myself will much like.” She may well have said “much like.” It can smack of smugness; it can produce envy as readily as this with an elusive smile; slyest irony was her stock approbation. By strategic rifts in the gorgeous fabric of the prose, Austen hints in trade. Still, as prophet, she’s been proven wrong. at problems inherent in Emma’s self-perception. Why, for example, do the In the two centuries since the book took its first bow, heroine’s gifts only “seem” to constitute the “best EMMA legions of readers have liked Emma, and loved Emma, Austen shows us her blessings” of existence? (Might there be better n BOOK, MUSIC & LYRICS BY very, very much. ones?) Since this is only the book’s first sentence, PAUL GORDON heroine from the we can subliminally surmise that Emma will not n ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL Why then this apparent wobble between the author’s BY JANE AUSTEN inside and the outside; continue long “with very little to distress or vex n DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES prediction and her accomplishment? The answer her.” Vexation, we intuit, may prove to be the plot’s n COURTYARD THEATER may arise from the exuberant intricacies of Austen’s she sketches Emma’s whole point. In a few swift brushstrokes, Austen n JANUARY 28– portraiture—with the ways in which, throughout her MARCH 15, 2020 shows us her heroine from the inside and the novels, she enables us to see her heroines steady and confidence, and calls n 312.595.5600 outside; she sketches Emma’s confidence, and to see them double (as both smart and self-deluding) n it into question. WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM calls it into question. at the same time. That question crops up throughout the story as Emma, working again and again Take for instance Emma’s opening sentence from an unruffled confidence in her own prerogatives, powers, and perceptions, (lightly tweaked, it’s also the first line of strives to bring about changes in the lives of others, which she is all too certain Paul Gordon’s musical): will redound to their benefit. Steadily convinced of her own rightness, she Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, nonetheless gets things wrong. In Emma, Austen embodies some of the dangers with a comfortable home and happy disposition, we have recently come to classify under the term “privilege”: the ways in which a seemed to unite some of the best blessings of plethora of good luck can render its possessor clueless as to the needs, desires, existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years and vulnerabilities of the people s/he moves among. in the world with very little to distress or vex her. Stuart Sherman, who Shakespeare, whose plays Austen knew deeply, often chooses to track this contributes this essay, There are plenty of double-takes on offer here. We is a professor of English cluelessness to its cruel conclusions. In King Lear, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, at Fordham University see Emma Woodhouse as her social circle must see and elsewhere, his lead characters, self-enamored in their self-delusion, ruin and the author of Telling her, possessed of all the traits and circumstances her Time: Clocks, Diaries, and lives and deal out death. In Measure for Measure, the playwright manages to English Diurnal Form, world deems valuable. And we see Emma as she must map the problem in a single line, when his heroine Isabella, freshly appalled at 1660–1785. see herself, confident in these “blessings” as a kind of the hypocrisy of the powerful, muses on the toxic propensity of human beings birthright. Those initial adjectives, “handsome, clever, to misgauge their own wisdom. We are, she says, “most ignorant of what rich,” cast these qualities as “givens”: established, [we’re] most assured”: most certain about those things we least understand. sturdy, and certain to abide. And in our obliviousness, she contends, we do each other harm so drastic that it might “make the angels weep.”

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In Emma, by contrast, Austen (and Gordon) opt to make us humans laugh, to swerve from potential Shakespearean tragedy toward something much sweeter. INVEST IN How does this shift come about? After all, Emma’s preposterously self-assured interventions cause real pain, and part of Emma’s power consists in making us see that pain, and feel it, even when our heroine does not.

Still (spoiler alert!), in Austen’s comedy of unforced We identify with errors, Emma’s energetic cluelessness does no lasting ARTS EDUCATION Austen’s heroine harm. “This time” (to borrow Stephen Sondheim’s deathlessly straightforward definition of comedy) “it because, willy-nilly all comes out all right.” and error-prone, En route to that cheering outcome, Austen cultivates we resemble her. a striking three-way resonance among the author, her heroine, and her audience—an echo chamber of identifications entirely appropriate to Shakespeare’s theater, and to Chicago’s. When Austen predicted that no one but herself would much like her heroine, she was both confident and incorrect. In that respect she actually resembled that heroine, who repeatedly travels the same trajectory of certainty and error throughout the book. And both of them, it’s no great stretch to suggest, resemble us. As we snuggle into our reading chair or slide into our theater seat, we are most likely caught somewhere in the same crossplay. Which of our currently most assured opinions and choices may soon unravel? By definition, we cannot guess.

In Emma then, on page or stage, like calls to like. We identify with Austen’s heroine because, willy-nilly and error-prone, we resemble her. At the same time (a bonus) Austen gives us a chance to see her more clearly than perhaps, at any given moment, we see ourselves. And besides, Emma in the end manages to make self-recognition seem at once painful, worthwhile, comic, luminous, and prosperous. YOUR GENEROSITY… What’s not to like? n · 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 Emma, a team of scholars presents free · Supports educators as they learn arts-based pre-performance lectures examining the production through strategies for student success the lens of the story’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 Winter 2020 | Emma CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER DONOR HONOR ROLL

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Wilson John and Bari Murphy Rubash Lois and Richard Stuckey Susan and Michael Wolz Ms. Elspeth Revere Maureen Slater Joanne Tremulis Gary and Modena Wilson Elliot Golovkin and Robin Russo Jerry Szatan and Bridget Writt Dave and Ellen Rice Bonnie and Don Slavicek Joanne Troutner Mr. and Mrs. George Winkler Charlotte Murray Richard and Susan Sanders Katherine Abbott Nancy Wulfers Louise Robb Dustin Smallheer and Gary Tubb The Winsor Family Elaine Newquist Sandra and Jon Schmoll Susan C. Taylor Philip and Virginia Yarrow Edmund and Carol Ronan Dottie Bris-Bois Henry and Janet Underwood Duain Wolfe Christine Oliver Ralph and Donna Schuler Harrison and Marilyn Kevin Yaussy Ed Roob Maurice Smith Anne Van Wart and Jeffrey and Claudia Wood Daniel O'Neill Larry and Natalie Tempest Susan Youdovin Alexander and Anne Ross Richard and Sharlene Smith Michael Keable Harold Woodman Jim and Sharon O'Sullivan Schumacher Michele Thomure Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zimelis Yumi and Douglas Ross Unmi Song Todd and Cari Vieregg Steve and Arna Yastrow Ronna Page Richard and Betty Seid James M. and Carol D. Anonymous (10) Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Joan Sorensen Nancy Vincent Stephanie Zabela and Mr. and Mrs. John Patience John Sergo Trapp Eric and Sandy Ruskoski Richard and Nancy Spain Robert and Camille Jamie Obermeier Audrey L. Paton John and Kay Shaw Edith and Edward Dr. Patricia Rywak Philip and Sylvia Spertus Von Dreele Ann Ziegler Ilene Patty and Mac and Joanne Sims Turkington Jane Nicholl Sahlins Courtney A. Spillers Mr. and Mrs. Clark L. Wagner William Ziemann Tom Terpstra Angelique A. Sallas, Ph.D. David and Ingrid Stallé Todd and Sharon Walbert Christine Zrinsky Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Mr. and Ms. Joseph Starshak Mary Kay Walsh Anonymous (9) Larry Salustro Cheryl Steiger and Roberta and Robert FRIENDS $250–$499 Joanne Arden Sarasin and Kevin Noonan Washlow Jonathan Abarbanel Sam and Phyllis Bowen Patricia and Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Brad Soren Armando M. Almendarez Betty and Bill Boyd Dominguez Sally Gibbs Kimball and Karen Anderson Julia Bristow Briggs Charles J. Donahue Debra Gineris Charles and Mary Anderson Mr. and Mrs. David and Sue Donoghue Kari Girdick COLLEAGUES $500–$999 Charitable Fund Julie Bromley Dianne Levand Duner Patricia and James Gladden Tom and Ann Alexander Janet Carl Smith and Martin Friedman and Steven A. Johnson Steven M. Antholt Linda and Terry Brown Doctors Deirdre Dupré and Gerry and Stan Glass Karen B. Alexander Mel Smith Peggy Casey-Friedman Randee and Vance Johnson Evelyn C. Arkebauer Tom and Mary-Doug Brown Robert Golub Eunice and Perry Goldberg Doctors Andrew and Austin Carpenter Merle Friedman Eric and Laura Jordahl Mareon R. Arnold Allison Brustin and Lisa Groff Holly H. Eger Barbara Grabowski Iris Aronson Virginia R. Cassidy Joan A. Gall JS Charitable Trust Susan Arnold Patricia P. Buckler Ezra, Magdalene, and Ginny and Bob Grecco Richard K. Baer, M.D. and Marge and Maurice Denise Michelle Gamble Patricia and James Jurgens Cal and Ann Audrain Perry and Lillian Buckley Zed Eisenberg Timothy and Joyce Greening Carol Hirschfield Champagne Nancy Gavlin Joan Kacmar Sharon Baldwin Howard and Moira Buhse Tim and Jane Evans Marguerite J. Grizzi Barbara Barzansky Larry and Julie Chandler Ms. Nancy S. Gerrie Diane and Byron Karzas Judie and Julius Ballanco Mr. Jack Buoscio Linda C. Fairbanks and Robyn and David Grossberg Sandra Bass Barbara and Bruce Chrisman Arlene and Camillo Ghiron Jim and Cheri Kasella Randy and Lorraine Barba Marcia and Gerald Burke Jeanne DeVore Paul M. Gruber The Basso Family Christopher Cobb Margaret Gielniewski Nancy and Don Kempf Mr. and Mrs. William G. Karen and David Burnett Edith and Gerald Falk Ada Mary Gugenheim and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bax Timothy and Theresa Carol and Jeffrey Glassroth Ms. Emily Kessler Barker III Rosemary and John Buteau Mary and Paul Favaro Jon N. Will Judith Baxter and Coburn Jaye and John Golanty Lynn and Jim Kiley Sheila Barton Bosron Kenneth and Harriet Carlson Nancy Palm Felton-Elkins Carol and Solomon Gutstein Stephen Smith Doug and Janet Cole John F. Gordon and Frank and Katherine Kinney Gregory Batton and Virginia and Stephen Carr Carol Fessenden Ms. Waverly Hagey-Espie Simeon Peebler and George and Minou Colis Bill Salvato Lisa Kohn and Carol Constantine Annette and Rowan Carroll Elizabeth Fieweger Chester and Phyllis Kirsten Bedway Mr. and Mrs. Howard Conant Suzanne Gossett Harvey Nathan Elaine and Howard Bayer Christine Chakoian and Dr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Handelman Joan Israel Berger Ms. Nancy Raymond Corral Mr. Joseph P. Gromacki Electra D. Kontalonis Steve and Anne Beatty John Shustitzky Finder Judith Hanlon Harriet K. Bernstein Mr. Bruce K. Crowther Bruce Handler Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mary Beaubien Tim Chapman and Jason and Karen Fischer Michael Hansen and David and Luann Blowers Barbara Flynn Currie Janis and Boyd Harman Korajczyk Susan and Don Belgrad Sandy Jordan Mr. Carl Fisher and Nancy Randa Linda and Robert Bolas Anne and Malachy Daly Tom and Liz Harmening Susan Kovic Patti and Nebil Benaissa Ms. Cynthia Cheski and Dr. Linda Fisher Lois and Donald Hartung Ms. Ann Bratton Marilyn Darnall Dr. Victoria F. Harris Kevin A. and Joanne C. Susan R. Benner Rev. Scott Elliott The Fitch Family Nancy Hays Heffernan Deborah B. Braxton Norma E. Davis Willis Margaret and Mark Krakora Roy C. Bergstrom Susan Coaker Maggie FitzPatrick James and Sylvia Heim Richard H. Brewer and Gregory Desmond and Hausberg Carol L. Kutak Jamie L. Berndt Dr. James and Mrs. Susan David B. Flax Sharon L. Herendeen Mary Ann Schwartz Michael Segobiano Christie Hefner Mark and Jennifer Landolt John Bernstein Cohn Marcia L. Flick Leslie Hickey Gregory Brinkman Marijane Deters Mary Ellen Hennessy Jennifer and Joey Lansing Julie and Lawrence Bernstein Claire Concannon James E. Flinn V.E. Hicks Michael Brodsky Wendy Doniger Mair and Rich Hill Dr. and Mrs. Richard John and Kathy Biel Paula Conrad Ms. Linda Fornell Robert Hill and Thea Flaum Judy and John Bross Leslie Douglass Mrs. Mary P. Hines Lariviere Bernard and Nancy Blayer Kim and Vera Cory Stacie Frank and Jay Ablian Sherry and Arnold Hirsch Pam and James Buchholz Mr. and Mrs. Jose Duran Nancy and Allen Hirschfield The Lees Family Dr. Thomas Pritchett Bleck Chrissy and William Cox Marya Frankel James D. Holzhauer Buck Creek Fund Robert Edger, M.D. Brian Horwood and Valerie Colis and Dennis and Sharon Blevit Mary and John Crois Diana Frederick Susan K. Horn and John M. Burke Lori Gray Faversham Mary Beth Berkoff Peter Livaditis Bob Blitzke Chris and Steve Cusack Maureen Foran-Fruhwirth Donald S. Honchell Jan Burnham and Terry and Judith Feiertag Gene Hotchkiss Karyn B. Lutz Darci Bolenbaugh Mark A. Daniel Bryna and Edward Gamson Dr. Sujin Huggins and Ray Carney Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Fisher Professor and Mrs. Clark Barry MacLean Mr. and Mrs. Don and Linda Ms. Roxanne J. Decyk Marilynn Gardner Ms. Jasmine Kennedy Gregory C. Cameron and Deborah Flattery Hulse Col. Gregg Malicki Bolte Joseph Ditoro Les and Katrina Garner Jennifer and Brad Ilko Greg Thompson Foley Family Foundation Judy Jackson Drs. Anette and John Martini Steve and Kris Borkenhagen Deborah Domain Lisa Gates R. Jaquart Judith R. Freeman John D. Jawor Doretta and Robert Marwin Aldridge Bousfield

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Dr. Julie and Mr. William Mihas Jim and Noreen Ryan Zachary Taylor Barbara J. Blair David A. DeBoer Cara Gaziano and Kevin Huigens and Jastrow Art and Linda Milton Susan Salay Elyse Pearlman and John Blane Phyllis Deerinck Stuart McDermott Anne Marie Crowe Rolfe B. Jenkins Judy Mischel and Dr. and Mrs. Larry Salberg Brad Teckenbrock Merrill and Judy Blau James and Natalie DeRose Darlene Gee Timothy F. Hyland Patricia A. Jiganti Jeff Horvitz Richard Angelo Sasso Joseph and Dahlia Tesher Sandra Blau Darren Diehm Ms. Ruth Geller Dr. Carol Ivy Reena and Sajiv John John and Bonnie Morell Jo and Robert Sawyer Ms. Dorothy Blyth Cairon Dietsch-Jones Edith Girata Mary Anne and Frank Jerry and Karen Johnson George Morrissey Marie-Claude and Peter Paul and Linda Joan Bodendorfer Robert A. Doepp Dr. and Mrs. Richard Glinka Jakalski Ms. Judith Jump Mary Anne Lynskey Schauer Thistlethwaite Rosemary Ann Bonacci Dr. and Mrs. Henry Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Janacek Tom and Esta Kallen Eileen M. Murray Anne and Steven Scheyer Sue and James Thompson H. Constance Bonbrest Dold, M.D. Katherine Ann Godfrey and Jeffrey Jens Olwyn J. Kane Timothy and Janet Susan and Edward Schiele Randy Thrall James Bondi and Dawnmarie Domingo Warren Maltzman Jim and Jackie Jepsen Sherri Kayser Murtaugh Rosa Schloss Karen Hletko Tiersky and Judith Vargas Paula and Ronald Domsky Jim Goeser Marilyn F. Johnson Brendan and Karmen Keane Ms. Barbara A. Murtha Bonnie and Roger Schmidt Myron Tiersky William Borah Janet Donne Martin Goldman Kimberlee Jones Dennis and Marcie Kelley Carol T. Neely Rose Schmidt Elizabeth and Robert Sharalyn Borchers Mrs. Elizabeth Gwynn Steve and Linda Goranson Kathleen Kallan Edward Kerros Nicolas H. Nelson Barbara and Lewis Tompkin Robert and Susan Bowker Doolin Michelle and Gerald Gordon Harriet and Ernest Karmin Louis V. Kersten Jon and Kathy Newcomb Schneider Richard Traut Barbara A. Boyer Jan and Bill Doran Michael and Amy Gordon Mike and Jane Kathman Thomas and Margaret John and Pat O'Brien Parr and Robin Schoolman Marci A. Eisenstein and BJ Braun Timothy Duggan Bob and Terri Gorski Lynn Keefer Kittle-Kamp Linda O'Bryant Gerald Schultz John W. Treece Alexander and Barbara Ronald B. Duke James and Beverly Julie and Bill Kellner Jean Klingenstein Mauricio Ormachea Don and Polly Schwartz Coleman and Deborah Brenke William Dumont Greenwell The Kelly's Cheryl and Don Kobetsky John P. Parkins Will Schwarz and Nancy Tuggle Dr. Regina Buccola Dr. Isard Dunietz Michael Grethen Katherine and Kevin Judy and Perry Kozicki Martha Pascal Grace; Sam, Anna and Ms. Rebecca Tung Joey Buck W. Dow Edgerton Mary M. Grobarcik Kenward Mr. Arthur Kroft Peggy H. Paulsen Nate Schwarz Rheal P. and Denise William and Helen Burns Heather Edmands Marilyn Grogan Susan Kern, M.D. Jayna and Barry Kroll Thomas Pawlik and Eileen P. Scudder and Turcotte Ann Burnstine Darryl Edmonds Merle K. and Barry Gross Terry and Jack Klecka Jared D. Kurber Ava Cohn Russell Zimmermann Mary Kay Tuzi Jacqueline Cambata Deane Ellis Dan Groth Matt and Karen Klickman John L. Ladle, Jr. Patrice Pearsall Dennis and Janice Sejut Jane and Howard Tyner Amy and Jeff Cardella Barry K. Elmore Dana M. Grzenia Donna and Ronald Kotulak Joseph C. Lane Cliff Perotti Todd and Susan Semla Karen Van Duyn Helen Carlock Melanie Emerson Deborah Gurvitz Shari Kouba Ms. Janet Lang Daniel and Barbara Perry Donald and Ruth Sender Robert M. Van Riemsdyk Drs. Michele Carlon and John and Mary Erhard Joe Guthridge Lottie Kowalski Left Brain Wealth Lindsey and David Peters Joseph C. Senese Peter Vilkelis Juan Herena R. Marquiss and Virginia Drs. David and Elaine Camille Kozlowski Management Melanie and Daniel Naomi and Jerry Senser Carol and James Vondale James Cavanaugh Erlanson Hacker Fran Kravitz Jim and Laurel Lannen Peterson James Shaeffer and Jim and Susan Wade Robert and Judy Chalberg Deborah M. Evans Cohen and Hacker Margaret and Gerald Brian James Lauscher Bruce and Susan Peterson Lynn Hughitt Larry and Doris Walther Stewart Chapman Patricia Ewers Architects, LLC Kubasiak Bryan S. Lazorik Rita Petretti Liz and Jeff Sharp Kevin and Anne Warnke Judy M. Chernick Fran Faller Robert and Melanie Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lamb Michael and Diane Levy Viktoras Petroliunas Kimberly May Shearer Barry Watkins Dr. Louis Chicquette John and Diana Faulhaber Halvorson Richard Landgraff and Ellen Frell Levy Mr. and Mrs. Joe Phillips Lisa Montelpasse and Mr. David Weible Mary Ellen Clancy Marilynne Felderman Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bernadette Foley Greg Lewis and Mary Strek Marlan Popovich David Shepherd Dr. Carol Weinberg and Virginia and Willis Clark Madeleine Fern Hammerschlag Edwin Landon Allison Liwanag Jimmie Price June Hill Shulman Mr. Harold J. Winston Ms. Carol Cleave Dolores Fetes Joseph R. Hanley Richard F. Lanier Mr. David P. Lloyd and Chris and Elizabeth Quigg Anna and Mark Siegler Josh and Jamie Weisman John and Mary Collins Laura Fishman Virginia M. Harding Virginia Noerr and Ms. Suzanne Williams James and JoAnne Rankin George and Lynne Simon Danny and Mitch Weston Diarmaid Collins Robert G. Fitzsimmons Michael A. and Lois D. Leonard LaPasso Deborah and Karl Lust Adele Rapport Lisa Skemp Judith and Floyd Whellan Peter and Judy Connolly Brian Flannery Harring William and Blair Lawlor Eileen Madden Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mark and Alison Skertic Mary and Ronald Whitaker Sharon Conway Beth Follenweider Sean E. and Dana J. Kent and Kathy Lawrence Dave and Nancy Madsen Redmond Mary Ann Smith Sarah Whitlock Katherine Coyner Irene and Jay Frank Hendren Scott and Bobbi Lebin James L. and Alice Reno Herbert Reece Liz Sode Jeffrey Wilt Caroline P. Cracraft Mary J. Franklin James and Mary Jo Rosalind Lee Malone Janet K. Reece Mr. and Mrs. William A. Bruce Wolfe Timothy Crawford Dan and Ronda Franks Henegan Deborah Leff Michael Maloney Mary Lee Reed Spence Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wolfe Tom and Barbara Crays Rhona and Julian Frazin Brian Herlihy Ken and Marge Lemmel Deborah B. Manoogian Mr. and Mrs. Myron J. Andrea Srulovitz David and Elizabeth Wright Rosemary Crowley John Freidheim Cheryl and Richard Hiipakka John G. and Jill F. Levi Mary Ann and Dennis Marks Resnick Uta Staley Therese and Marty Wright Alan and Charlotte Kiran Frey and Pradip Sethi Lina Flores Hilko Susan Levitt The Mather Family Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Robert Messerly and Linda Youngman Cubbage Rosalie and Marvin Fruchter Phyllis Hill Mr. Ken and Dr. Renee Mr. and Mrs. Russ Mayerfeld Richter, Jr. Charles Stanford Jamie and Richard Zelvin Nicholas Hittner- Mr. John Gable Aaron and Sarah Hoffman Lewin Alisha and Alan McCloud Gerald Riva Jo Ann Stevenson Janice Ziebka Cunningham John and Joanne Gallagher Thomas C. and Louise P. Fran and Chuck Licht Margaret and Mike McCoy Marilynn and Charles Rivkin Virginia Stigler and Mr. Tighe Zimmers Sue and Kent Davis Donn and Barbara Gardner Homburger Constance Lilly Honorable Kathleen M. Warren Rodgers Jr. Stephen Stigler John and Linda Zimnie Richard and Linda Davis Martha Garnett Kirk and Kimberly David and Carol Liner McGury Julian Rodriguez Mary Stitt Charles and Gail Zugerman William and Dale Davison Raymond and Patricia Gass Hoopingarner Melvin Loeb Maureen Mcintyre Mary Rooney Judy Struck Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Patrick Daw James W. Hoover Marybeth Lore George and Alice McKann Sidney and Alexandra Roth Carla Stucklen Sather Zulkey Pam McKinley Heidi S. Rothenberg George Patrick Surgeon Karen Zupko John and Karole Herbert and Rita Rubin Mr. James Svajgl David Zwarycz McLaughlin Sherri Ruppel Linda J. Swanson Anonymous (12) Jean Medina Mary Ann and Stephen Joyce and Christopher Claretta Meier Ruskin Sweet Chicago Shakespeare Theater is Elizabeth and Constantine Ed and Diana Ruthman William and Heidi Swiss grateful to the Dover Foundation for its leadership commitment to the ASSOCIATES $150–$249 Steve and Viki Adik Mr. Steve Armstrong Elizabeth S. Beck Adrian D. and Arta Beverly Our City, Our Shakespeare Campaign. Mark Aghakhan The Southwest Symphony Robert and Pamela Becker Rich Beymer Established in 2011, the Dover Marjorie Albrecht Orchestra Ms. Gail Bedessem Rita and Bob Bialey Dr. Todd Alexander Jill and Erik Attkisson Kathleen M. Bell Noel and Shirley Biery Foundation is committed to supporting Jill Althage Peter T. Bandelow Jason Benetti Dr. Kathleen D. Billman education and the advancement of Mary and Terry Anderson Edison Barber Michael and Patricia Benich Anne Bilos Mr. and Mrs. Silvio Anichini Barbara J. Barnes Lee and Kathryn Benish Rick and Kaila Bingen tomorrow through the educational Edward Applebaum and Andrea Bauer Tom Beris Nancy and David Bishop and training endeavors of cultural Eva Redei Ronald Bauer Jim Best Patrick Bitterman and community organizations 42 Winter 2020 | Emma throughout thewww.chicagoshakes.com city of Chicago. 43 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS

Rick Loria Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Andria Sandora Joan and Kenneth Sam and Joan Lovering Murphy Joyce Saricks Thompson Dr. Rosemary Lucas Mary Ellen Murphy David and Nancy Sarne Karen and Steve Timian Tribute Program John Lucey Angela Murray and Family James Tonsgard Roseanne Lucianek Dr. Raja R. Nadimpalli Alfred and Linda Saucedo Robert Travern An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends Wayne and Kristine Ron and Mary Nahser Michael Schneiderman Richard C. Treadway Lueders Ingeburg Neckermann Marcia Schneider Sally L. Trekell and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information Michelle Luna Carol Thomas Neely Gene and Faith Schoon Celeste Troon regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Mark P. Lutze and Leslie and William Nelson Margaret and Eric Ronald and Catherine Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. Hilda Demuth-Lutze Donald E. Newsom Schuering Vaughn Veronica Lynch Zehava L. Noah Susan and Charles Ronald and Barbara Reflects gifts received betweenJanuary 1, 2019–January 1, 2020 John Manilow Patrick K. Noll Schwartz Vavrinek Delores Mannes Mary Alma Noonan Linda Severin Linda Vertrees Sharon Manuel Sherry K. Nordstrom The Shalak Family Lillian Walanka MEMORIAL GIFTS Elaine Margulis Frank Nykiel Jane Shapiro Kamiah Walker FOR SARAJANE AVIDON FOR ANN HERNDON FOR HOWARD MARDELL David Marker and Carol and Stuart Oken Mette and David Shayne David and Anna Mary AND FELIX SHUMAN Dr. John A. Herndon Anonymous Georgeann Joseph Candus S. Olson Graciela and William Wallace Connie and Steve King FOR GERRY JAECK FOR ED MINOR Barbara Martin Ute and Reed O'Malley Shorey Ms. Amy Waters Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Kohn Ms. Carol Cleave Ann Cunniff Dick Simpson Ed and Linnea Martin Florence Upjohn Orosz Mr. Sanjaya Shunglu Mary Watt FOR JACK KARP FOR ROBERT F. NICHOLSON Anne S. Martin and Joel J. Orosz Bruce and Sarane Cynthia Weglarz FOR EVELYN "EVIE" Judy and Abel Friedman James Liechty Kathleen Martin Lynne Ostfeld Siewerth Jim and Mary Weidner BARRIGER Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna FOR BETTY FAE NUSINOW Marco Martinez Matt and Bev Ottaviano Wesley Skogan and Lois Weiss Ms. Carol Cleave Theodore and Harriette Perlman Mr. Bernard Nusinow James R. Mather Jay Owens and Penny Barbara Puechler Victor and Tamar FOR JOHN R. BLAIR Michael and Susan Perlow FOR DR. JAMES L. RAPPORT Deborah and James Applegate Susan Sleeper-Smith Weissberg Barbara J. Blair FOR DODIE KOHL Mathews Julia F. Parker Dr. Jeffrey Slovak Steven Welton and Adele Rapport FOR MICHAEL CARDINALE Susan Salay James J. Mavros Nancy Patterson Geralyn Stanczak Smith Tamara Horn FOR BERNARD "BERNIE" Susan O'Brien FOR KENNETH KUEHNLE Philip and Ann May Nadine Petersen Katherine K. Smith Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler Tom English Andrea Atlass SAHLINS Nicolette Mayo Dr. Robert B. Pildes Madison R. and Carolyn Charles A. and Jeanette Caroline Cracraft FOR CAROL CHAPMAN Irene D. McGrath V. Pristera, Jr. J. Smith White FOR MARK LEVEY Tobi and Milton Lefton Tim Chapman and Sandy Jordan Michael DelPiero Joseph Paul McGrath Dorothy Victoria Ramm Shirley S. Solomon Barbara Whitman FOR DAVID SZABO Rodrick and Yoshie Pradeep and Taposhree Ivette Sosias Herbert and Catherine FOR LOIS DUNN FOR JUDY LEVIN Gerald and Mary Stapleton Kathy Dunn Stuart Levin McIlquham Rattan Rocco Spallone Wigder FOR LAUREN ELIZABETH John and Etta McKenna David Rebnord Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Jessica and Cristine FOR HARVE A. FERRILL FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ- WILSON Mr. and Mrs. John McLeod Marilyn and Guy Revesz Sparberg Williams William and Anne Goldstein WASSERMAN Rev. Linnea B. Wilson and Sandra McNaughton The Riedl Family Joseph Spellman David and Jean Wolski FOR JACK FULLER David Wasserman, M.D. Dr. Lanny F. Wilson James D. McQuillan Ms. Susan Rifas Gerald and Mary Patrick and Patrice Debra Moskovits FOR LEW MANILOW David J. Medow Sandi Riggs Stapleton Wooldridge The Brodsky Family David Mehlman and Paul Rink Lenette and John Bruce W. Worthel and Arlene Alpert Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Staudinger Barbara G. Young Christopher Melby Robins Ms. Joyce Steffel Stephanie Wright and HONORARY GIFTS Mr. Robert Mendelson Joan V. Roeder Joel Stein Roger P. Weissberg FOR RICK BOYNTON FOR MRS. EDITH GAINES FOR RICHARD PORTER Jerrold and Marian Wylie and Leah Rogers Neil Stern Ruth N. Wukasch Kenneth Alhadeff Dr. James and Rita Sheinin R. Scott and Kimberly Falk Michaels Virginia Rogodzinski Doug and Betsy Stiles Julie Yamaguchi Bobbi Zabel FOR GARY AND FOR ROB RYAN Scott and Sandy Miller Bernie and Judy Mr. G. Ralph Strohl and Diane Yarborough FOR RICK BOYNTON & VIRGINIA GERST Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Diane Mocerf Rosenstein Dr. Mrinalini Rao Beverly Yusim CRISS HENDERSON Rhona and Julian Frazin FOR STUART SHERMAN Martin and Lauren Modahl Susan Rosenstein Mary and Kenneth Sullivan Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Alan Gordon Karen and Tom Howell Anonymous Paul and Sandra Montino Executive Search Roberta and Leonard David Zarefsky FOR DAVID CASPER, FOR PAUL GORDON AND June Deforest Limited Tenner Mr. and Mrs. Laurence W. FOR STEVEN SOLOMON RAY WHITACRE, AND CST'S COSTUME DESIGNERS Susan Mitchell Morganstern Ann and Ray Rusnak Cheryl Lorelle Thaxton Zoeller BMO HARRIS BANK Michael and Christine Rice Carly-Rae Moss Anne Ryan Barbara and Randy Anonymous (9) FOR HARVEY AND Richard and Elaine Tinberg FOR MARILYN HALPERIN Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Susan L. Sack Thomas MARY STRUTHERS Kathleen and Thomas Masters Mrozinski Joan and Frank Safford Barbara Thompson FOR ANN AND George and Susan Heisler DICK DICKERSON Carol R. Mullins Jonathan and Michelle Ken and Glenna FOR JASON HARRINGTON FOR CARL AND Amina Dickerson Paul Rink Rev. Harold B. Murphy Sales Thompson MARILYNN THOMA FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FOR CRISS HENDERSON Terrell and Jill Isselhard PATRICK DALEY AND Faye Marlowe Joan Golder Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad TARA FLOCCO FOR BECKY TRAISMAN Tim Davis FOR BETSY KARP Bonnie Krasny John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Judy and Abel Friedman Robert Vanecko Theodore and Harriette Perlman FOR LARRY YANDO Claudia Traudt FOR PHIL AND LA ENGEL FOR HANNAH KENNEDY Diana Blitzer Anthony Vasquez FOR BOBBI ZABEL Vicki Tobin Carolyn Butz FOR BARBARA FOR E. BROOKE FLANAGAN MALOTT KIZZIAH AND Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Bobbi Zabel KEITH KIZZIAH Charles and Caroline Huebner FOR BARBARA GAINES Jennifer and Joey Lansing Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad FOR AMANDA OWENS Kimberly Nagy

44 Winter 2020 | Emma www.chicagoshakes.com 45 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 their thoughtful commitment to our future. employer today to learn about Mary and Nick Babson Jonathan F. Orser their matching gift initiatives. John W. Barriger 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 Questions? Contact Grace Schneck at 312.667.4947 or [email protected] Anstiss Hammond Krueck Frank T. Wheby Anne E. Kutak Stuart and Diana Widman Ray and Judy McCaskey Contributed Materials Anonymous (2) Contributed materials and services are an essential component in sustaining Chicago Shakespeare gratefully acknowledges the following estates Chicago Shakespeare’s role as a gathering place for audiences, artists, that have provided gifts of bequests. and members of the community. We thank the following individuals and Evelyn D. Barriger Julie and Parker Hall organizations for their valuable donations of goods and services. George W. Blossom III Corinne E. Johnson Reflects contributions received between July 1, 2018–January 1, 2020 Carol Irma Chapman Sherry Ferrill Kelley 1996 Trust Ambiente Chicago Hall’s Rental Service MDR Creative Arc Worldwide Rich Hein New Aloft Chicago Mag Mile Nelson D. Cornelius Estate of Joyce E. Malden BBJ Linen Harry Caray's Pollen Chicago Public Media Heritage Wine Cellars, Ltd. Shure Incorporated S.M. Evans Harold H. Plaut Chicago Sun-Times HMS Media, Inc. St. Jane Chicago Edith B. Gaines Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure Communications Direct Inspired Catering and Events Tiny Tavern Embassy Suites Chicago by Karen and Gina Stefani Van Duzer Vineyards - Downtown Magnificant Intersection Carl and Marilynn Thoma To include Chicago Shakespeare in your estate plans, please contact Mile and DoubleTree KPMG Family for Literacy WTTW, WFMT Dottie Bris-Bois at 312.667.4965 or [email protected] Magnificent Mile Make It Better Media Food For Thought Make-up Provided By M•A•C

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