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Welcome to the North American Premiere of The King’s Speech, an inspiring story from Oscar Award-winning writer David Seidler, under the masterful direction of director Michael Wilson. Against a turbulent political backdrop, Seidler illuminates a deeply personal tale: a man’s journey to assume the mantle of leadership as he overcomes his debilitating self-doubt with the help of an unconventional counselor. At Chicago Shakespeare, we believe in the transformative power of theater. In our arts-based education initiatives, students develop the confidence to express themselves on stage and form meaningful relationships with their peers through Chicago Shakespeare Theater strives to make its facility and programs like the Chicago Shakespeare Slam. Teachers develop new strategies for performances accessible to all patrons. You’ll find our staff their classrooms and build valuable networks with colleagues in our professional is ready to help in any way possible if assistance is required. development programs. And through our work on stage, audiences of all ages discover how Shakespeare speaks to their own lives as they witness his vibrant, Simply request accommodations when purchasing your tickets. very contemporary characters come to life. We hope to see you later this fall for more stories about people who find courage, • Accessible parking hope, and love, despite overwhelming barriers. In October, South Africa’s Isango Open-captioned • Courtesy wheelchair service Ensemble uses song and dance to share a resilient young refugee’s odyssey in performances A Man of Good Hope. Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral’s Andares reveals the • Wheelchair-accessible extraordinary, untold stories of México’s indigenous communities. Following seating Audio-described these two WorldStage productions, a bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s performances with • Close to Pace Paratransit Romeo and Juliet will lead us back to the neighborhoods of Chicago as two young people fall in love against a backdrop of generations of hatred. optional Touch Tours drop-off/pick-up With this exciting line-up ahead, we look forward to welcoming you back to • Assistive-listening devices the Theater soon! n ASL Duo-interpreted • Personal induction neckloops performances • Large-print programs • Braille programs Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair

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In April 2020, Chicago Shakespeare World-renowned scholar David Bevington, The Queens of SIX have taken their final In collaboration with Destinos – Chicago welcomes the illustrious Royal who passed away in August, was a bows at Chicago Shakespeare, but their International Latino Theater Festival, Shakespeare Company back to Chicago beloved professor at University of reign continues around the world. The Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral’s Andares for the first time in 25 years. Artistic Chicago, editor of Shakespeare’s pop-concert spectacle about the takes the stage for 5 performances Director Barbara Gaines’ Henry IV, Parts complete works, author of multiple wives of Henry VIII made its North only, October 23–27, as part of Chicago 1 and 2 toured to Stratford-upon-Avon seminal books, a dear friend to Chicago American Premiere in The Yard at Shakespeare’s 2019/20 WorldStage Series. during the RSC’s Complete Works Shakespeare, and a fierce advocate Chicago Shakespeare in a twelve-week, Before creating this production, director Festival in 2006. Now, Chicagoans for the art of theatrical performance. sold-out run this summer. Night after Héctor Flores Komatsu explored his have the opportunity to experience the In the company’s early days as a small night, fans “lost their heads” for this homeland of México for one year through RSC’s work through a groundbreaking storefront theater—with dreams of taking empowering musical, introducing new the inaugural Julie Taymor World Theatre new production of The Taming of the its place amongst the world’s great audience members of all ages to CST’s Fellowship, collecting personal anecdotes, Shrew. Director Justin Audibert turns Shakespeare theaters—Dr. Bevington work on stage. Next, SIX plays in three ancestral myths, as well as traditional Shakespeare’s provocative comedy on supported Chicago Shakespeare’s cities across the US and Canada before music and art forms among the country's its head by setting it in a matriarchal growth and artistic exploration at every opening on Broadway this winter and indigenous youth. Of his trip, Komatsu world where women hold all the power. step. In the words of Artistic Director returning to Chicago at the Broadway writes, “What is clear is that not two cities, By reversing the traditional gender of Barbara Gaines, “He was a scholar who Playhouse next summer. With upcoming villages, or homes are the same. The each role, this production offers an “eye- believed in the power of performance engagements in Australia, on Norwegian richness and diversity of the country are opening and illuminating” (The Stage, to reimagine Shakespeare across Cruise Line, and more, SIX has become a astounding.” Based on these explorations, UK) perspective on the play’s themes of continents and centuries, impacting truly global phenomenon, thanks to the Andares shines a light on the range of hierarchy and power. Audiences can look generations of students, readers, and “one of a kind” audiences who made it issues—land usurpation, widespread forward to “seeing the RSC in full flow audiences. We celebrate and honor his such a spectacular success in Chicago. violence, ancestral duties, and community with an array of sumptuous Elizabethan illustrious life and legacy.” resistance—that indigenous people costumes” (Evening Standard, UK). confront at the crossroads of modern life and tradition.

From left: Claire Price and Joseph Arkley in the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Taming of the Shrew; David Bevington; The company of SIX; The company of Andares. photos by Bill Burlingham, Raúl Kigra, Liz Lauren, and Ikin Yum © RSC.

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Visit chicagoshakes.com The King’s Speech is set just after one Great War, with to explore more ideas and stories behind the another on the horizon. The Great Depression weighs on art on CST’s stages. the world, and everything seems to be in the midst of struggle, challenge, and transition.

Though the play depicts a king and his two elder sons— THE KING'S SPEECH King George V, David, Prince of Wales, and Albert, Duke of n BY DAVID SEIDLER York—two monarchs who do appear in this story are n DIRECTED BY MICHAEL WILSON not n THE YARD AT critical to understanding the time. George V’s grandmother CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE was Queen Victoria, with the morals and traditions of the n SEPTEMBER 12– OCTOBER 20, 2019 period that bears her name still influencing the decisions and n 312.595.5600 behavior of the characters in this story. His granddaughter n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM would be crowned Elizabeth II, still a young girl during the events of this play, and who, as queen for the past sixty-seven years, has witnessed rapid changes in both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Our characters are caught between the Victorian and the “Modern.” To a contemporary audience, the abdication of a king might seem fascinating or even romantic. At the time, however, it was shocking, even dangerous—something

Guest Director beyond imagination. In today's post-Cold War world, Michael Wilson Bolshevism might seem unsuccessful or passé. But in 1930s England, it was a serious threat to the established order of things (and to royal necks besides).

Queen Victoria knew nothing of radio broadcasts, while Elizabeth’s coronation was the first to be televised. In between the two, David and Albert (“Bertie” to his family) had to struggle with a new phenomenon: British subjects, spread over the vast reaches of a disintegrating empire, hungry to hear the royal voice.

Playwright David Seidler shows us a rich and captivating slice of history. We find ourselves in the company of giants— kings and queens and prime ministers and Winston Churchill, who is not yet the hero of the Free World. But like all good history plays, The King’s Speech is about the personal as well as the political, the private and the public, the psychological and the philosophical, and all the tensions—and fears—of living between these conflicting spheres. n

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Cast (in order of appearance) Playgoer’s Guide

SETTING: ENGLAND, 1930s Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York… –William Shakespeare George V, King of Great Britain JOHN JUDD* Bertie (Prince Albert, Duke of York), HARRY HADDEN-PATON* THE STORY the King’s second son Albert, Duke of York and second son to King George V, stands by quite helpless Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury ALAN MANDELL* as his elder brother David falls hopelessly, stubbornly in love with Wallis Simpson, Elizabeth (Duchess of York), REBECCA NIGHT* American socialite and divorcée. In 1936 David’s ascension to the throne and to Bertie’s wife the head of the Church of England are viewed by most in the government as Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister DAVID LIVELY* incompatible with his impending marriage to Mrs. Simpson. Winston Churchill, MP, House of Commons KEVIN GUDAHL* Since childhood, Albert (“Bertie” to his family) has spoken with an incapacitating Lionel Logue, JAMES FRAIN* stammer, undermining his confidence in himself and from all those around an Australian expatriate and speech specialist him—except his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, who understands the depths Myrtle Logue, Lionel’s wife ELIZABETH LEDO* of her husband’s intellect and humanity. She visits Harley Street, seeking out an David (Prince of Wales), JEFF PARKER* Australian speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Logue’s practice soon reveals the King’s eldest son itself as offensive as it is unorthodox—both to the Duchess and to her husband, Wallis Simpson, an American expatriate TIFFANY SCOTT* who abruptly terminate the relationship after a first session. Tormented by his struggle to speak, however, Albert returns to Logue to continue their work. Royal Herald/Royal Footman JEFF DIEBOLD* Myrtle, Lionel’s wife, wants nothing but their return home to Australia. But as BBC News Reader/Royal Footman TIM MONSION* the threat of Nazi Germany looms over Europe’s sovereignty, the stakes grow infinitely higher—most of all, for the reluctant English king who must now lead Royal Footmen CHAD PATTERSON his nation into war. TREVOR STRAHAN

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is ABDICATION made at the time of the performance: Harry Belden for Royal Footmen; Jeff Diebold* “I have found it impossible to carry on the heavy burden of responsibility and to for Bertie, David, Stanley Baldwin; Tony Dobrowolski* for Cosmo Lang, Lionel Logue; Tim Monsion* for George V, Winston Churchill, Lionel Logue; and Tiffany Scott* for discharge the duties of king, as I would wish to do, without the help and support Elizabeth, Myrtle Logue. of the woman I love.” On his 327th day on the throne, Albert's brother David, King Edward VIII, signed the Instrument of Abdication on December 10, 1937, becoming Production Stage Manager (through October 13) JINNI PIKE* only the fourth king in English history to renounce the crown—the first to do so voluntarily. The following evening Edward delivered a radio address to his former Production Stage Manager (beginning October 16) LORI LUNDQUIST* subjects and the world; on December 12, Albert was proclaimed King George VI. Assistant Stage Manager AMANDA LANDIS* NEW MEDIA In the wake of a revolution in mass communication decades before television, the Internet, and social media, George V became the first British monarch to *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. broadcast live on radio. It was Christmas Day 1932, as the King spoke to millions Chicago Shakespeare productions are made possible in part by the Illinois Arts Council of his subjects around the globe in their homes, with words carefully crafted Agency and an IncentOvate Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. by writer Rudyard Kipling. His son Albert, King George VI, would soon face a Chicago Shakespeare is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the world that demanded its leaders to inspire through their broadcasted words. national service organization of non-profit theaters; National Alliance for Musical Theatre; The Royal Christmas Message has since become a tradition still carried on by Shakespeare Theatre Association; Arts Alliance Illinois; the League of Chicago Theatres; and Ingenuity, Inc. George VI's daughter Elizabeth, with the first televised address airing in 1957.n

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HARRY HADDEN-PATON Addams Family (Mercury Theater Chicago); Repertory Theatre, Beaver Creek Festival, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, 1776 (Bertie) CHICAGO Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music (Drury Lane Actors Theatre of Louisville, Westport (Marriott Theatre); Cabaret, 1776, Camelot, SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Theatre); Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls Country Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Anything Goes, My Fair Lady, The Foreigner BROADWAY: Professor (Court Theatre). TOUR: Mamma Mia! (Broadway Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington (Drury Lane Theatre); Hay Fever (Court Henry Higgins in My Fair North American tour). REGIONAL: Beef and Theatre Company. INTERNATIONAL: Town Theatre). REGIONAL: national tour of Twelve Lady (Tony Award Boards Dinner Theatre, Montana Shakespeare Hall Theatre in Galway, Ireland. TELEVISION: Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre Company); nomination – Outstanding in the Parks TELEVISION: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD (NBC); Sense 8 productions with Asolo Repertory Theatre, Lead Actor in a Musical, Chicago Fire (NBC). EDUCATION: MFA in (Netflix);Empire (FOX); South Side Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Lincoln Center Theater). WEST END: acting, Roosevelt University; BS in education, (upcoming, Comedy Central). Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, The Importance of Being Earnest (Ian Buffalo State College. Geva Theatre, The Kennedy Center. Charleson Award nomination); Flare Path; ELIZABETH LEDO (Myrtle TELEVISION: Proven Innocent, Empire, The Pride. OFF WEST END: She Stoops to KEVIN GUDAHL (Winston Logue) CHICAGO The Chicago Code, Prison Break (FOX); Conquer (National Theatre); Posh (Royal Churchill) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Tug of What About Joan, Cupid (ABC); George Court Theatre); The Changeling (Young Vic); SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, War: Civil Strife, A Washington (CBS). FILM: The Opera The Prince of Homburg (Donmar Warehouse). Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Tug Midsummer Night's Lover, Contagion. FILM: The Little Stranger, About Time, The of War: Foreign Fire and Dream, As You Like It, Hollow Crown, The Deep Blue Sea, In the Civil Strife, Pericles, King Amadeus, Funk It Up ALAN MANDELL (Cosmo Loop, La Vie en Rose. TELEVISION: Bertie Lear, The Merry Wives of About Nothin'. CHICAGO: Lang) CHICAGO Pelham in Downton Abbey; Martin Charteris Windsor, Henry VIII, The One Man, Two Guvnors, The Secret Garden, SHAKESPEARE: Debut. in The Crown; Gaston de Foix in Versailles; School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Brutus in Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Illusion, Titus BROADWAY: Beth Hans von Enke in Wallander. Julius Caesar, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Andronicus, Uncle Vanya (Court Theatre); The Henley’s Impossible Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Kayama in Matchmaker, Boleros for the Disenchanted, A Marriage opposite Holly JAMES FRAIN (Lionel Pacific Overtures; title roles in Macbeth, Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Charm, Hunter and Lois Smith. Logue) CHICAGO Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. The Chalk Garden (Northlight Theatre); OFF BROADWAY: The SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Bright Half Life, Le Switch, The Homosexuals Beard of Avon, Waiting for Godot. TOURING: BROADWAY: The Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Northlight (About Face Theatre); Isaac's Eye, Arms and original productions of Waiting for Godot, Homecoming (Teddy). Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, the Man (Writers Theatre); The How and the Endgame directed by Samuel Beckett; Twelve LONDON: Other People Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater. Why (TimeLine Theatre Company); Barefoot Angry Men (CIBC Theatre). REGIONAL: No (Royal Court); King Lear INTERNATIONAL: five seasons with Stratford in the Park, Mamma Mia! (Drury Lane Theatre); Man’s Land (Odyssey Theatre); Restoration (The Almeida); She Stoops Festival, Canadian Stage, Donmar Warehouse, Homebody/Kabul, Morningstar (Steppenwolf (La Jolla Playhouse/New York Theatre to Conquer (Peter Hall Company); Zenobia Royal Shakespeare Company (CST tour). Theatre Company). REGIONAL: twenty Workshop); The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for (Royal Shakespeare Company). FILM: TRON: FILM: While You Were Sleeping, Home Alone productions with Milwaukee Repertory Godot, Arthur Miller’s The Price (Mark Taper Legacy, Water for Elephants, Hilary and III, The Poker House. TELEVISION: Chicago Theatre; five seasons with Notre Dame Forum); Trying (Colony Theatre). FILM: John Jackie, The Lone Ranger, Shadowlands, Fire, Crisis (NBC); Boss (STARZ); Empire, Shakespeare Festival; Russian Transport Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Elizabeth, The Count of Monte Cristo, Where The Chicago Code (FOX); Early Edition (Renaissance Theatreworks); The Curious Inch, Shortbus, the Coen Brothers' A Serious the Heart Is, Titus. TELEVISION: Elementary, (CBS). Mr. Gudahl is a multiple Jeff Award Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Boeing Man, The Marrying Man, Midnight Witness. The Twilight Zone (CBS); Star Trek: Discovery recipient and CST verse coach. Boeing, Arcadia (Indiana Repertory Theatre). TELEVISION: Grey’s Anatomy. AWARDS: (CBS All Access); Orphan Black, Intruders EDUCATION: Loyola University of Chicago. several Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Mr. (BBC America); Gotham (FOX); Grimm JOHN JUDD (George V) Nominated by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Mandell is a founding member of the San (NBC), The White Queen, The Buccaneers CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Ms. Ledo was chosen as one of the 2016 Francisco Actor’s Workshop and co-founder (BBC); True Detective, True Blood (HBO); Romeo and Juliet (2010); Lunt-Fontanne Fellows. of the San Quentin Drama Workshop, which The Tudors (Showtime); 24 (FOX). The Feast: an intimate started with a performance of Waiting for EDUCATION: degrees in drama and film, Tempest. CHICAGO: DAVID LIVELY (Stanley Godot inside a prison. He has been a University of East Anglia in Norwich; Shining City, Magnolia, Baldwin) CHICAGO producer on and off Broadway, general London’s Central School of Speech and A Christmas Carol, The SHAKESPEARE: manager of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Drama. AWARDS: Drama Critics’ Circle Best Iceman Cometh, Sweet Love’s Labor’s Lost, Center, consulting director at Los Angeles Ensemble Award for The Homecoming. Bird of Youth, Measure for Measure, The Little King Charles III, Othello, Theater Company, and taught at UCLA’s Foxes (Goodman Theatre); Orson’s Shadow, King Lear, Henry VIII, Graduate School of Management. JEFF DIEBOLD (Royal The Dresser, Last of the Boys, The Butcher of Henry V, Julius Caesar, Herald/Royal Footman) Baraboo, Clybourne Park, Three Sisters Timon of Athens, The TIM MONSION (BBC News CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Gross Madness of George III, Romeo and Juliet Reader/Royal Footman) Nell Gwynn, Short Indecency, Lettice and Lovage, All My Sons (2005, 2010), Macbeth, Amadeus, Henry IV in CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare! The Comedy (Court Theatre); productions with A Red Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (CST/Royal Debut. CHICAGO: Old of Errors, Hamlet, The Orchid Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon- Shepherd in The Winter’s Three Musketeers, Kabuki Company, Writers Theatre, Northlight Avon), Much Ado About Nothing, A Tale, Light Up the Sky, The Lady Macbeth. CHICAGO: Theatre, among others. NEW YORK: Barrow Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: Visit, Marvin’s Room, A Flea My Fair Lady (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Street Theatre, 59E59, Brooklyn Academy of Carousel, My Fair Lady (Lyric Opera of in Her Ear (Goodman Mamma Mia! (Paramount Theatre); The Music. REGIONAL: The Old Globe, Berkeley Chicago); October Sky, White Christmas, Theatre); Butler, City of Conversation

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(Northlight Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Company); Nine (Jeff Award nomination, TREVOR STRAHAN (Royal MICHAEL WILSON Marvin’s Room (Playwrights Horizons/ Porchlight Music Theatre). REGIONAL: Footman) CHICAGO (Director) directed the Minneta Lane Theatre). REGIONAL: The Candide (Huntington Theatre Company); SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth, Tony Award-nominated Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, My Fair Lady (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Short Shakespeare! Romeo revivals of Gore Vidal’s Dallas Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, 1776 (American Conservatory Theater); and Juliet, Chicago The Best Man and Horton Mark Taper Forum. FILM: Blink, Men of Honor, Boy Gets Girl (Manhattan Theatre Club); Shakespeare in the Parks Foote’s The Trip to Second Greatest Story Ever Told, Cotton, The American in Me (Magic Theatre); production of Romeo and Bountiful (Tony Award – Fenton Black’s Last Dance. TELEVISION: Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas City Repertory Juliet. CHICAGO: Human Best Actress in a Play for Modern Family, Desperate Housewives (ABC); Theatre). TELEVISION: Chicago Med, Resource(s), Twelfth Night (Theatre Evolve); Cicely Tyson), as well as the Tony Award- Law and Order: LA, Frasier, Mad About You, Chicago PD (NBC); Proven Innocent, Prison Non-Player Character (Red Theatre). nominated new plays Enchanted April and Medium, Sisters (NBC); Numb3rs, King of Break (FOX); Love Is a Four Letter Word REGIONAL: Pericles, Macbeth, Romeo and Dividing the Estate. A Drama Desk Award and Queens, Cybill, Chicago Hope (CBS); Monk (ABC); Early Edition (CBS). EDUCATION: Juliet (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Parks); Outer Critics' Circle Award winner for his (USA); 7th Heaven (The WB). BFA in acting, University of Southern Richard III (Shakespeare Dallas); Peter and acclaimed three-part, nine-hour production California. www.jeffparkeractor.tumblr.com the Starcatcher (The Oklahoma City of Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle, REBECCA NIGHT Repertory Theatre). EDUCATION: BFA, Mr. Wilson directed the 2016 Los Angeles (Elizabeth) CHICAGO TIFFANY SCOTT (Wallis Oklahoma City University. premiere of the musical Grey Gardens starring SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Simpson) CHICAGO Betty Buckley and Rachel York. Recent INTERNATIONAL: Prism SHAKESPEARE: Sense DAVID SEIDLER (Playwright) A Londoner by projects include the premiere of the new (Hampstead Theatre); and Sensibility, The Two birth, Mr. Seidler was sent to the United States musical Beau by Douglas Lyons and Ethan Racing Demon (Theatre Noble Kinsmen; Short as an infant during WWII, which resulted Pakchar, the American Repertory Theatre Royal Bath); A Flea in Her Shakespeare! productions in a childhood stammer. George VI, the revival of The Night of the Iguana, and the Ear (The Old Vic); The of Macbeth, The Comedy reluctant stuttering king, became his boyhood premiere of Fellow Travelers by Jack Canfora. Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre); of Errors, A Midsummer hero, role model, and, many years later, the This fall, he will be represented off Broadway The Importance of Being Earnest (West End/ Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: Writers Theatre, inspiration for the play The King’s Speech, with the first New York revival ofThe Young Theatre Royal Bath/tour); Shelf Life (Old Red Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre subsequently adapted for film starring Colin Man from Atlanta starring Aidan Quinn and Lion Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing Company, Court Theatre, Provision Theater, Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristine Nielson. From 1998 to 2011, Mr. Wilson (National Youth Theatre at Hackney Empire); TimeLine Theatre Company, Lifeline Theatre, and Guy Pearce. The film won the 2010 was artistic director of Hartford Stage. Spoonface Steinberg (Etcetera Theatre); Eclipse Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Academy Award for Best Picture, and Mr. The Master and Margarita (National Youth Company, Shakespeare Project of Chicago. Seidler was awarded the Academy Award for KEVIN DEPINET (Scenic Designer) CHICAGO Theatre at Lyric Hammersmith); The Tempest REGIONAL: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Best Original Screenplay, two BAFTAs, and SHAKESPEARE: The Taming of the Shrew, (Brownsea Open Air Theatre). FILM: McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory numerous other gongs. His stage version has Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Heir Apparent, Sense Dartmoor Killing, Suspension of Disbelief, Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Utah toured England, played the West End, been and Sensibility, Henry V, Gypsy, Cyrano de Leopard, Rebecca, Framed, Tail. TELEVISION: Shakespeare Festival, four seasons with produced so far in nine foreign languages, Bergerac, Sunday in the Park with George, Maigret (ITV); Agatha Raisin (Sky1); Starlings American Players Theatre. and, after its run at Chicago Shakespeare Timon of Athens, Follies, As You Like It, (Sky); This September (Telemunchen); The Theater, will tour across North America before Shakespeare in the Parks production of Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler (CBS); CHAD PATTERSON (Royal heading to Broadway. He no longer stutters. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: Law and Order: UK - Shaken, Wuthering Footman) CHICAGO Mr. Seidler’s career commenced with writing Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Heights, Caught in a Trap (ITV1); Lark Rise SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet dubbing scripts for Godzilla: King of the Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, to Candleford, Fanny Hill (BBC). (understudy). CHICAGO: Monster movies. In Hollywood he has over Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago Children’s Red Rex (Steep Theatre twenty credits to his name, including: Tucker: Theatre. BROADWAY: associate designer for JEFF PARKER (David) Company); Home, The The Man and His Dream starring Jeff Bridges, Of Mice and Men, August: Osage County, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Odyssey (Creative directed by Francis Coppola. Nominated for The Motherfucker with the Hat. REGIONAL: King Charles III, As You Wellness). REGIONAL: Writing Achievement by the Writers Guild American Players Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Like It, Cymbeline, The The Drowsy Chaperone (Oregon Cabaret of America three times (winning for Onassis: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Three Musketeers, Timon Theatre); As You Like It, My Fair Lady, Peter The Richest Man in the World). Mr. Seidler Mark Taper Forum, Arden Theatre Company, of Athens; understudy in and the Starcatcher, Christmas Is Here Again, has lectured in Milan, Rome, Porto, A.F.I. Los Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Red Spring Awakening, Man of La Mancha (Pacific Angeles, Sundance, Dreamago Institute in Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Velvet. CHICAGO: Parade, Conservatory Theatre/Pacific Conservatory Switzerland, and Laboratorio Novas Historias Glimmerglass Festival, The Public Theater. Days Like Today, Isaac's Eye (Writers for the Performing Arts); A Midsummer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He lived for several EDUCATION: Yale School of Drama. Theatre); Wonderful Town, Objects in the Night’s Dream, King Lear, Moon Over Buffalo, years in Fiji, where he was Political Advisor Mirror, Camino Real, Bounce, Turn of the Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Les to Chief Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. He DAVID C. WOOLARD (Costume Designer) Century, Floyd Collins, The House of Martin Misérables (San Diego Performing Arts). also resided in New Zealand for eight years CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Heir Guerre (Goodman Theatre); Mamma Mia!, FILM: Two Faced (short film).TELEVISION: and returns yearly to educate the trout and Apparent. BROADWAY: Dames at Sea, Young Frankenstein (Drury Lane Theatre); Marvél (AB Entertainment); Kmart “Give torment his son Manu. His daughter Maya is Bronx Bombers, First Date, Lysistrata Jones, Discord, Mothers and Sons (Northlight Love” commercial; Jim Beam; Insinkerator. a documentary producer at Edgeline Films. West Side Story, 33 Variations, Dividing the Theatre); The Secret Garden (Court Theatre); EDUCATION: Pacific Conservatory for the Mr. Seidler divides his time between Santa Estate, The Farnsworth Invention, All Shook Samsara (Victory Gardens Theater); The Performing Arts; BS, California State Monica, Ketchum, Idaho, and a cabin in the Up, The Rocky Horror Show (Tony Award Brother/Sister Plays (Steppenwolf Theatre University Monterey Bay. Urawera Mountains of New Zealand. nomination), The Who’s Tommy (Tony Award

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and Olivier Award nominations), Marlene, JOHN GROMADA (Original Music & Sound OFF BROADWAY: Johnny Guitar (Century Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Repertory Wait Until Dark, Horton Foote’s The Young Designer) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Center); Nightingale (Vineyard Theatre). Theater of St. Louis (upcoming), Trinity Man from Atlanta, Damn Yankees, A Few Debut. BROADWAY: over forty productions, REGIONAL: The Wild Party, Little Fish (Blank College. PUBLICATIONS: Jane Austen’s Pride Good Men. REGIONAL: The Toxic Avenger, including: All My Sons, Torch Song, The Theatre Company); Ring of Fire (Denver and Prejudice (Broadway Play Publishing); Bare, The Orphans’ Cycle (Hewes Award), Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Center Theatre Company); Pippin, Smokey Shakespeare in an Hour, Moliere in an Hour The Donkey Show (American Repertory Cicely Tyson (Tony Award nomination), Joe’s Café (5th Avenue Theatre); A Little (Smith & Kraus); chapters in The Production Theatre). OPERA: Cold Mountain (Santa Fe Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Drama Desk Night Music (Interact Theatre Company); Kiss Notebooks (Theatre Communications Opera); Stonewall (New York City Opera). Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Prelude Me Kate (Musical Theatre West). TV/FILM: Group), and African American Connecticut www.davidcwoolard.com to a Kiss, Proof, Twelve Angry Men, the Spells (Independent Art Film); Not Your Time Explored (Wesleyan). EDUCATION: MFA, original A Few Good Men. OFF BROADWAY: (Independent Short Film); Dream On (HBO); American Repertory Theatre/Moscow HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Designer) The Cake, Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Summer Stories (ABC Mini-Series). AWARDS: Art Theatre School; BS, Northwestern CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Norris’s Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Jeff Award nomination for Chicago, LA University. Mr. Baker is an associate BROADWAY: Ain't Too Proud - The Life Measure (Delacorte Theater); The Orphans’ Weekly Award - Ovation and NAACP professor and the graduate program and Times of The Temptations, Come from Home Cycle (Drama Desk Award, Henry Award nominations for The Wild Party. Ms. director at University of Massachusetts, Away, A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony Hewes Award), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Lanier’s Broadway acting credits include: Amherst. At Hartford Stage for fourteen Award/2018 Olivier Award), After Midnight, Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, Fosse (Drama Desk Award nomination), years, he served in various capacities How to Succeed in Business Without Really The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal Guys and Dolls, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway including associate artistic director and Trying, West Side Story, Gypsy, In the (OBIE Award). TELEVISION/FILM: The Trip (Tony Award nomination), Anything Goes, associate producer. Heights, Jersey Boys (2006 Tony Award), to Bountiful (Emmy Award nominated), Sweet Charity, On Your Toes. She is head Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Showing Roots. Mr. Gromada has received of the musical theater dance concentration HANNAH TOVA WOLFF (Associate Director) Woman (1993 Olivier Award/Canadian the National Endowment for the Arts Opera/ program at the Chicago College of CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Dora Award). REGIONAL: The Kennedy Music Theatre Fellowship and grants from Performing Arts. CHICAGO: Fade (assistant director, Victory Center’s Sondheim Celebration, Goodman the New Jersey State Council. Gardens Theater); A Bad Night (Waltzing Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, KATE DEVORE (Dialect Coach) CHICAGO Mechanics); For the Loyal (assistant Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre, Hartford RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: West director, Interrobang Theatre Project); Stage, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Wizard of Oz, Side Story (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Sweat, Exposing Abraham’s Bosom (Women’s Company. DANCE: Billboards (Joffrey Ballet); Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nell A Christmas Carol, Support Group for Men, Theatre Alliance). OFF BROADWAY: Monica: productions with Alvin Ailey American Dance Gwynn, Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, The Wolves, A View from the Bridge, Destiny This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky Theater, MoMix, Peter Pucci Plus, Hubbard Macbeth, Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Red Velvet, of Desire, Uncle Vanya, Another Word for (59E59 Theaters). NEW YORK: Security! Street Dance, American Ballet Theatre. The Taming of the Shrew, Madagascar, Beauty, Feathers and Teeth, The Jungle (The Secret Theater); Still Rising (The AWARDS: seven Tony Award nominations, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago Shakespeare Book, Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Tank); Bachelorette (Walkerspace at Soho six Helen Hayes Awards, Outer Critics Circle in the Parks productions of The Comedy Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in Rep.); Between Men (Jewel Box Theater). Award winner, 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Night Time, fml: how Carson McCullers INTERNATIONAL: Monica: This Play Is Not Design Awards for Jersey Boys and Hamilton. and Romeo and Juliet, Short Shakespeare! saved my life (Steppenwolf Theatre About Monica Lewinsky (2019 Edinburgh Mr. Binkley is the co-founder and resident productions of Romeo and Juliet, A Company); And Then There Were None, Fringe Festival). EDUCATION: BA in theater lighting designer for Parsons Dance, for Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth, Roald Dahl’s Matilda, Mamma Mia!, Beauty and history, Northwestern University. which he has created 85 original pieces. Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Charles III; the and the Beast (Drury Lane Theatre); Small AWARDS: Best Director 2016 Midtown inaugural season of Chicago Shakespeare Mouth Sounds, Evening at the Talk House, International Theatre Festival. Ms. Wolff was HANA KIM (Projection Designer) CHICAGO on Navy Pier. CHICAGO: Goodman Theatre, The Opponent, Butcher of Baraboo, Abigail’s a 2017-2018 directing follow in the Victory SHAKESPEARE: Debut. REGIONAL: Eve’s Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Party (A Red Orchid Theatre); Vocal Gardens Theater’s Director’s Inclusion Song (The Public Theater); Great Leap, Company, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook, Stamina for Touring Performers Workshops Initiative, and a 2017 Directors Lab Chicago Sweat (American Conservatory Theater); twenty-eight years with the Lyric Opera of (Second City). EDUCATION: MA in speech- participant. www.hannahwolff.com Ragtime (Pasadena Playhouse); Fun Home, Chicago, eleven of them as the wig master language pathology (voice therapy); BA in The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage); and make-up designer. REGIONAL: Alliance theater (acting and voice/speech coaching). BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting MahaB (Shaw Festival Theatre); Little Black Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater Ms. DeVore teaches at the School at Director) is in his twentieth season as CST’s Shadows (South Coast Repertory). OPERA: (wig master). OPERA: Atlanta Opera, San Steppenwolf, Columbia College Chicago, and casting director, where his credits include Wonderful Town (LA Opera); Fallujah (New Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera, Chicago Acting Studio Chicago. She coaches clients over 150 productions and thirty-two plays York City Opera/Long Beach Opera); Steal a Opera Theatre, Saint Louis Opera, the through her company Total Voice, Inc. in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to Pencil for Me (Opera Colorado). VIDEO ART: Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South numerous productions with Barbara Gaines, Rustle and Cry (Oxy Arts); Purls of the Planet Carolina, and Italy. INTERNATIONAL: Tom CHRISTOPHER BAKER (Dramaturg) CHICAGO other productions of note include: a host of (Annenberg Space of Photography); Emille Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. SHAKESPEARE: Debut. OFF BROADWAY: Sondheim musicals directed by Gary Griffin; (Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York). The Roads to Home, The Orphans’ Home Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, Fifth Avenue/ AWARDS: 2018 Richard E. Sherwood Award, JANE LANIER (Choreographer) CHICAGO Cycle, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here ACT), directed by Rachel Rockwell; Rose Princess Grace Award in Theater Design, SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Mamma Anymore. REGIONAL: (dramaturg): Alley Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3, directed by Helen Hayes Award, Theater Bay Area Critics Mia!, Chicago (Drury Lane Theatre). Theater, American Repertory Theater, Edward Hall; and SIX (CST, A.R.T., Citadel, Circle Award, StageScene LA Award, Stage BROADWAY: Guys and Dolls (Associate Hartford Stage, PlayMakers Repertory, The Ordway Center, and opening on Broadway Raw Award. www.hananow.com Choreographer, Nederlander Theatre). Shakespeare Theater; (playwright): Alley in March 2020), by Toby Marlowe and

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Lucy Moss. He directed and co-created of Georgia McBride (MCC Theater); Gloria York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest CRISS HENDERSON Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, (Vineyard Theatre); Incident at Vichy, Big (in collaboration with Redmoon). Former (Executive Director) as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior Love (Signature Theatre); Into the Woods, artistic director of the Marriott Theatre has produced the to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a The Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, Theater’s past thirty Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and Shakespeare Festival in Central Park); he has starred in productions nationally, seasons. Under his has been a visiting educator for the School Fiction, Talley’s Folly (Roundabout Theatre including CST’s production of A Flea in leadership, CST has at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, Company); The Shaggs, The Burnt Part Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark become one of Chicago's the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Boys (Playwrights Horizons); The Wolves Award). As casting director/associate at most celebrated cultural Northwestern University. (New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: organizations and a leading American Realm) REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre the television series Early Edition, Missing regional theater, honored with the 2008 Tony BILLY HOPKINS and ASHLEY INGRAM Center, The Ordway, Alley Theatre, Hartford Persons, Untouchables, and ER; the films Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, as (New York Casting) have been working Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Trinity Rep, While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, well as multiple Laurence Olivier and Joseph together for the past eight years. Films Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Dallas among others; and numerous national Jefferson Awards. He oversaw the Theater’s include Lee Daniels' The Butler, You Summer Musicals. OPERA: Minnesota Opera, tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma move to its home on Navy Pier in 1999 and Were Never Really Here directed by Indianapolis Opera, Opera Memphis, and mater Northwestern University and is led the recent development of The Yard at Lynne Ramsay, and Mudbound directed two seasons with New York City Opera. the former president of the board of the Chicago Shakespeare. In 2016 he spearheaded by Dee Rees for which they received INTERNATIONAL: Sousatzka (Elgin Theatre, National Alliance for Musical Theatre. the citywide, yearlong celebration of the Robert Altman Independent Spirit Toronto). TRAINING: BA and BS, Bemidji Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 Award. Television projects include When State University. BARBARA GAINES Chicago. Mr. Henderson has garnered They See Us for Netflix directed by Ava (Artistic Director/Carl and multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural DuVernay (Emmy Award nomination), AMANDA LANDIS (Assistant Stage Manager) Marilynn Thoma Chair) Innovation Award from the Chicago Innovation Empire and Star on Fox, HBO's Bessie CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth, Two has directed nearly sixty Awards; Arts Administrator of the Year by Arts (Emmy Award nomination). Theater credits Pints. CHICAGO: True West, The Children, productions at Chicago Management Magazine at the Kennedy include the world premiere of Tennessee La Ruta (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Shakespeare since Center; recognition in Crain’s Chicago Williams' In Masks Outrageous and Austere REGIONAL: Lettice and Lovage (Resident founding the Theater in Business “40 under 40”; and the Chevalier at the Culture Project, and currently Blues Ensemble Players); The Wolves, Hedda 1986, including thirty of de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the for an Alabama Sky for the Keen Company. Gabler, Moment, Between Riverside Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include the Minister of Culture of France. This year with and Crazy, Bad Jews, Chimerica (Studio 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Barbara Gaines, he was honored with the JINNI PIKE (Production Stage Manager, Theatre); An Octoroon, Kiss (Woolly Theatre, the prestigious Honorary OBE Making History Award, given to Chicagoans through October 13) CHICAGO Mammoth); The Smartest Girl in the (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of whose contributions to the city have made SHAKESPEARE: SIX, Schiller’s Mary Stuart, World (Imagination Stage); In the Heights the British Empire) in recognition of her it "a better and more vibrant place to live." Ride the Cyclone. CHICAGO: The Producers, (GALA Hispanic Theatre); Peter and contributions strengthening British- Mr. Henderson has served on the boards of The Wizard of Oz, Once, Elf the Musical, the Starcatcher (Constellation Theatre American cultural relations, the Making directors of the League of Chicago Theatres Sweeney Todd, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Company). EDUCATION: BA in theater arts, History Award, as well as multiple Joseph and Arts Alliance Illinois, and for many years Hairspray, The Who's Tommy (Paramount Northwestern University. Jefferson Awards for Best Production and as president of the Producers’ Association of Theatre); Bakersfield Mist, Danny Casolaro for Best Director. Ms. Gaines has directed at Chicago-area Theaters. Mr. Henderson is Died for You, The How and the Why, A RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) the Royal Shakespeare Company in director of DePaul University’s MFA/Arts Raisin in the Sun, Wasteland (TimeLine focuses on current and future artistic Stratford-on-Avon, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Leadership Program, a two-year graduate- Theatre Company); Hillary and Clinton planning and production, as well as the and The Old Globe in San Diego. level curriculum in arts management training (Victory Gardens Theater). REGIONAL: development of all new plays, musicals, created through a joint partnership between eight seasons as production stage manager and adaptations for CST. Projects include: Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival SIX (CST, American Repertory Theatre, Theatre School. (Kansas City, MO); three seasons as and upcoming at Citadel Theatre, Ordway production stage manager and twenty-five Center for the Performing Arts, Broadway), productions at Unicorn Theatre (Kansas The Book of Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, City, MO); A Christmas Carol (Kansas City MCC, 5th Avenue/ACT, Alliance Theatre), Repertory Theatre). Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, LORI LUNDQUIST (Production Stage Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver), Manager, beginning October 16) Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, Moving Lights from PRG Lighting CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers BROADWAY: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday. It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential TOUR: Fosse, Spelling Bee, The Will Rogers Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international Follies. OFF BROADWAY: Head of Passes (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), The organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures The Director and Choreographer are members of The scenic, costume, projections, sound, and lighting the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS designers of this production are represented by (Theatre for a New Audience); The Legend of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union. United Scenic 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 EDUCATION AND EMILY McCLANATHAN PRODUCTION LISE STEC WIGS AND MAKE-UP GUEST SERVICES CONSULTANTS AND Advancement Head Draper RICK BOYNTON COMMUNITY Communications Coordinator CHRIS PLEVIN RICHARD JARVIE AND EVENTS SPECIAL SERVICES Creative Producer ENGAGEMENT Director of Production MAGGIE HOFMANN Wig and Make-up Supervisor AMANDA NAGY Draper MAKEDA COHRAN BAKER TILLY VIRCHOW Events Director KRAUSE, LLP BOB MASON MARILYN J. HALPERIN Individual Giving Coordinator JEFF WILLIAMS MIGUEL ARMSTRONG Director of Education CAITLIN ALLEN Wig and Make-up Assistant Auditor Artistic Associate/ KARL SISSMAN Associate Director of JONATHAN WATERS NICK CUELLAR Casting Director and Communications Production VICTORIA GILBERT JASCULCA TERMAN Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair VIP Concierge and First Hands MEGAN PIRTLE JEFFREY GOUGIS Public Relations Consultant AISLINN FRANTZ Stewardship Coordinator EMMALINE Wig and Make-up Apprentice YAS MAPLE PHILLIP LEWIS Associate Producer JASON HARRINGTON KEDDY-HECTOR ALISÉE CATTEBEKE Stitcher ELIZABETH COFFIN JENN OSWALD MEDICAL PROGRAM Education Outreach Manager Production Coordinator FOR PERFORMING DOREEN SAYEGH CRAWFORD McKENZIE Wig and Make-up Attendant House Managers MELISSA BOCHAT ARTISTS/ MARIA E. Producing Associate / SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D. Advancement Interns ALEXA BERKOWITZ Crafts Supervisor LYNN MICHAEL RUSSELL REESE, MD Manager of International Public Humanities Manager Production Office Manager BUZINSKI-KOROLOUS Assistant Concessions Medical Services and Special Projects MAGGIE SUGGETT JENNIFER GIANGOLA EMMA COLBAUGH Manager MARKETING AND SALES STAGE MANAGEMENT JESS KENYON AON PRIVATE RISK ROSIE BROSS Learning Programs Manager TIA JENISON ALLISON MILLAR CHANTELLE MARIE KATE LASS MANAGEMENT Producing Assistant DEBORAH ACKER JACQUELINE POJASEK Insurance Services MOLLIE GREENBERG JULIE STANTON Dressers JOHNSON Director of Marketing Production Stage Manager/ Concessions Leads ALEXIS TAYLOR Education Intern JENNIFER LIGHTFOOT and Sales Associate Producer DINORAH GUILLEN HUGHES SOCOL PIERS Casting Assistant ALLISON MILLAR Costume Intern DANIEL BALSAMO RESNICK & DYM, LTD. JINNI PIKE DYLLAN MIKEY GRAY HANNAH KENNEDY RODRIGUES-MILLER PATRICIA BROOKS KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Public Relations Director Production Stage Manager TYRA BULLOCK MCDERMOTT WILL FINANCE ELECTRICS Wig Knotters Assistant to the BYRON COOLIE AND EMERY Creative Producer LORI LUNDQUIST LINDA ORELLANA CATHY TAYLOR JEFF GLASS ANGELA COTEY NEVIN LAW Director of Finance Public Relations Consultant Production Stage Manager PROPERTIES SCOTT COWAN GROUP, PLLC HANNAH TOVA Lighting Supervisor WOLFF AMANDA LANDIS SARA CROUNSE Legal Services DAN GRYCZA AMANDA CANTLIN ALEC THORNE CASSANDRA JORDAN FIGUEROA The King’s Speech Assistant Stage Manager Human Resources Manager/ Senior Marketing Manager Assistant Lighting Supervisor WESTOVER BERNARD GILBERT REGINA BUCCOLA, PH.D. Associate Director Properties Supervisor Finance Associate DANA ROSE SUSSMAN AMBER GOUGIS Scholar-in-Residence MARGARET McCALL JEREMY CUNNINGHAM DANNY KAPINOS Stage Management Intern MARA ISHIHARA TIFFANY GOUGIS ALANA RYBAK Marketing Manager, Associate Lighting Designer BRITTNEY GRANT STEPHEN The King’s Speech Ticketing Services ZINKY Assistant Director of Finance MICAH HAZEL BENNETT, PH.D. SDCF Observer SCENERY PARKER LONGVARDT Interim Assistant Prop CASEY CALDWELL, MFA ABIGAIL TOTH Supervisor ALLIE LYKE HARLEY KIRCHHOFF ALYSSE HUNTER Media Programmer TANYA McMORRIS ELIZABETH Digital Marketing Manager ANGELA McMAHON CHARLEBOIS, PH.D. Casting Intern Accounting Manager ROBERT L. WILSON JOAN E. CLAUSSEN LISA GRIEBEL ALEX MEYER THERESA MURPHY REBECCA FALL, PH.D. JESSICA CONNOR Scenery Supervisors Lighting Crew Head Properties Carpenter IRA MURFIN, PH.D. 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Aspirations A Scholar's Perspective on The King's Speech

Visit chicagoshakes.com Like most events in our lives, theatrical performances Theater has always been a particularly potent venue for tracking such to explore more ideas and stories behind the tend to catch us mid-aspiration. Day and night, at transformations, because transformation is its core M.O. Actors are always art on CST’s stages. whatever level of consciousness, we spend much of assuming new roles; mastery of speech in many modes is indispensable to their our time hoping to do better, either at something art; and we remain at least subliminally aware of their self-remaking from the (tennis, piano, cooking, chess…) or as something moment they step on stage. (friend, parent, earner, lover, spouse…). THE KING'S SPEECH But the particular appeal of The King’s Speech arises

n BY DAVID SEIDLER Good plays work this truth for all it’s worth. They Birth order will in part from the ways it has played its transformations n DIRECTED BY MICHAEL WILSON place ardent aspirers upon the stage, confident that across several media—even, in a way, across media n THE YARD AT secure him from CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE we, possessed by our own hopes of betterment, history. What made Albert’s speaking skill historically n SEPTEMBER 12– will find identification near-irresistible. Think of becoming king, pivotal was the power of radio, to extend the reach OCTOBER 20, 2019 Eliza Doolittle, heroically rounding her vowels and and grasp of those who know how to wield it, and to n 312.595.5600 hardening her h’s in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady. and he regards disgrace and debilitate those (like Albert at the start) n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM who do not. In The King’s Speech, playwright David Seidler his stammer as plucks a kindred story from relatively recent history, beyond repair. Lately, from within our ever-ascending Babel of texts and stages it with several twists. His protagonist— and images, radio can sometimes feel a little ground- Albert (“Bertie”) George (1895–1952): Duke of York, floor.The King’s Speech reminds us that in any epoch, the chief medium of a stammerer since childhood, and second son to the moment matters enormously. Winston Churchill figures here as Albert’s the King of England, George V—begins by resisting foil, his pointedly effectual opposite: tuba-voiced and fabulously articulate, he, aspiration at every turn. Birth order will secure him alongside Franklin Roosevelt (and, for that matter, Adolph Hitler), showed in from becoming king, and he regards his stammer as ways unprecedented the power of new media (radio, film), for better and for beyond repair. worse, to change the world. Stuart Sherman, who contributes this essay, Nonetheless, a repairman cometh: Lionel Logue, Our own present-day ways of moving among different media will matter in this is a professor of English at Fordham University a commoner with his own complicated history of play too. After decades of research, Seidler first drafted it as a play, recrafted it and the author of Telling aspiration. A failed actor, he now earns a living as a film, and then reshaped it once more for the stage. (The scripts thus trace Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, teaching others to improve their speech. Under their own long and winding arc of aspiration: the movie secured for Seidler— 1660–1785. Logue’s sturdy, quirky influence, Albert, still resistant, himself a childhood stutterer—an Academy Award for best original screenplay.) feels the pull of aspiration. The process and the Plays tend to do transformation differently from movies, partly because, while prospect of improvement begins to fascinate him. The movies are always fixed and finished products by the time we first encounter men converge in a fraught and halting dance of self- them, live performance is intrinsically more open-ended and present-tense. remaking. And then the Duke has greatness thrust The outcome can feel less inevitable, more precarious, and therefore more upon him: when his newly crowned older brother involving, as we mesh the characters’ aspirations with our own in real time. abruptly abdicates, Bertie becomes King George VI.

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This trick of theater has been in operation a long while. Not for nothing does Lionel Logue, frustrated actor, particularly pride himself on his delivery of the opening monologue from Shakespeare’s Richard III (“Now is the winter of our discontent”), wherein Richard declares to us his ambition to become king, no matter how many murders it will take to get there. That is the play, and this Call 312.644.7482 for details. You MUST present your ticket to receive this special offer. the moment, in which the young playwright seems to have discovered human RivaNavyPier.com aspiration as a near-inexhaustible audience attractant, so powerful and pervasive as to In any epoch, the chief @RivaCrabHouse eclipse even ordinary morality: for more than half medium of the moment the play, and through many murders, we’ll find matters enormously it difficult not to root for Richard as we have, in gentler terrain, for the likes of Eliza Doolittle.

But here again, Seidler tweaks the ancient formula. At the start of Shakespeare’s play, Richard enters and addresses us alone, or, in the initial Latin stage Cold nose, direction, solus: at once solitary and (in the cross-language pun) soulless. The King’s Speech, by contrast, remains soulful from start to finish. It entwines warm hearts. two men, a failed player-king and a reluctant real one, within one shared and deepening endeavor. Thanks to theater’s mysterious cohesions, we share in it too. “I’m not what I ought to be,” goes a line that recurs in many Gospel songs, “But I’m not what I used to be.” Playwrights plot their plays, as we our lives, Humans love it here too. along that arc, and help us travel in good company. n Since we moved to Montgomery Place, there’s so much to do. Places to explore. And busy, active people who still take time to scratch behind my ears. I make new best HEAR FROM OUR PRE•AMBLE SCHOLARS friends every day. Make our place your place Throughout the run of The King’s Speech, a team of scholars presents free pre-performance lectures examining the production through the lens of the play’s historical context, as Montgomery Place well as the interpretive choices made. Listen from anywhere The Cultural Center of East Hyde Park by visiting WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM/PREAMBLE 5550 South Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 773-753-4100 MontgomeryPlace.org A not-for-profit community for people 62-plus 30 Fall 2019 | The King's Speech CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Community Partners BACK TO SCHOOL Chicago Shakespeare Theater is honored by the support of these leading business and civic partners, whose generosity demonstrates a commitment to enriching our vibrant Chicago community. We are pleased to recognize these BACK TO SHAKESPEARE organizations for their dedication to artistic excellence, innovative approaches YOU can make this to enhancing education, and impactful community outreach initiatives. Reflects gifts received between July 1, 2018–August 7, 2019 a year like no other GUARANTORS Arc Worldwide $100,000 & ABOVE BMO Harris Bank The Boeing Company for students The Davee Foundation Julius Frankel Foundation and teachers! Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust Rhoades Foundation Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

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Ilene Patty and Sandra and Eric Ruskoski Nikki and Fred Stein Patricia and Michael B. Claretta Meier Paul Rink Lisa Montelpasse and Richard Traut Tom Terpstra Richard and Susan Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. Weinstein Art and Linda Milton Gerald Riva David Shepherd Marci A. Eisenstein and Charles and Mary Philips Sandra and Jon Schmoll Stenhouse, Jr. Dr. Barry Goldman and Judy Mischel and Marilynn and Charles Rivkin Ellen and Richard Shubart John W. Treece Toni and Brett Pritchard Barbara and Lewis Susan Stone Victoria Weisenberg Jeff Horvitz Warren Rodgers Jr. June Hill Shulman Coleman and Deborah Kristine and Scott Prugh Schneider Sylvia and Joe Stone John and Connie Wesley John and Bonnie Morell Julian Rodriguez Anna and Mark Siegler Tuggle Ms. Julia Querin Ralph and Donna Schuler Caryn Straus Chris and Diane Whatton George Morrissey Mary Rooney Mr. and Mrs. John Simmons Rheal P. and Denise Norm and Helene Raidl Larry and Natalie Lois and Richard Stuckey John W. Wheeler Timothy and Janet Alan and Debra Rosenberg Mr. Gregg Skalinder and Turcotte Teresa Ramos Schumacher Susan C. Taylor Jacqueline White Murtaugh Sidney and Alexandra Roth Mrs. Barbara B. Kreader Mary Kay Tuzi Libby and Dan Reimann John Sergo Harrison and Marilyn Diana Williams Carol T. Neely Heidi S. Rothenberg Lisa Skemp Jane and Howard Tyner Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Revak John and Kay Shaw Tempest Ann Wise Nicolas H. Nelson Herbert and Rita Rubin Mark and Alison Skertic Karen Van Duyn Robert J. and Barbara A. Mac and Joanne Sims Michele Thomure Dr. Jenny Wojcik Leslie and William Nelson Sherri Ruppel Richard Smart and Robert M. van Riemsdyk Richards Jane and Arthur Slaven James M. and Carol D. Susan and Michael Wolz Jon and Kathy Newcomb Mary Ann and Stephen Sheila Owens Carol and James Vondale Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Rogers James and Mary Jo Slykas Trapp Kevin Yaussy John and Pat O'Brien Ruskin Mary Ann Smith Jim and Susan Wade Bryon Rosner and Chuck Smith Ellen Voda Susan Youdovin Linda O'Bryant Robin Russo Liz Sode Larry and Doris Walther Martha Roth Kathleen and Brian Spear Rev. Mark J. Walter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zimelis Mauricio Ormachea Ed and Diana Ruthman Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kevin and Anne Warnke Maija and Jay Rothenberg Sue E. Stealey Jeff and Paula Waterman Christine Zrinsky John P. Parkins Jim and Noreen Ryan Spence Barry Watkins Norman J. and Alice E. Kathleen Steffen and Richard and Karen Weiland Anonymous (10) Martha Pascal Susan Salay Andrea Srulovitz Mr. David Weible Rubash Steve Wirth Peggy H. Paulsen Dr. and Mrs. Larry Salberg Uta Staley Josh and Jamie Weisman Thomas Pawlik and Richard Angelo Sasso Virginia Stigler and Danny and Mitch Weston Ava Cohn Jo and Robert Sawyer Stephen Stigler Judith and Floyd Whellan FRIENDS $250–$499 Patrice Pearsall Marie-Claude and Peter Mary Stitt Mary and Ronald Whitaker Cliff Perotti Schauer Judy Struck Barbara Whitman Armando M. Almendarez Patricia P. Buckler Mr. Carl Fisher and Dr. Julie and Mr. William Daniel and Barbara Perry Anne and Steven Scheyer Carla Stucklen Sather Jeffrey Wilt Kimball and Karen Anderson Mr. Jack Buoscio Dr. Linda Fisher Jastrow Lindsey and David Peters Susan and Edward Schiele George Patrick Surgeon Bruce Wolfe Steven M. Antholt Marcia and Gerald Burke Maggie FitzPatrick Rolfe B. Jenkins Melanie and Daniel Rosa Schloss Mr. James Svajgl Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wolfe Evelyn C. Arkebauer Karen and David Burnett David B. Flax Patricia A. 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Chernick Cairon Dietsch-Jones Linda Bolte Tim and Jane Evans Nancy Hays Heffernan Michael Maloney Peter T. Bandelow Rosemary Ann Bonacci Dr. Louis Chicquette Robert A. Doepp Steve and Kris Borkenhagen Linda C. Fairbanks and Sharon L. Herendeen Deborah B. Manoogian Edison Barber H. Constance Bonbrest Virginia and Willis Clark Dr. and Mrs. Henry Aldridge Bousfield Jeanne DeVore Leslie Hickey Mary Ann and Dennis Marks Barbara J. Barnes James Bondi and Ms. Carol Cleave Dold, M.D. Sam and Phyllis Bowen Edith and Gerald Falk V.E. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Russ Mayerfeld Andrea Bauer Judith Vargas John and Mary Collins Dawnmarie Domingo Betty and Bill Boyd Fran Faller James D. Holzhauer Alisha and Alan McCloud Robert and Pamela Becker William Borah Diarmaid Collins Debra and Jim Donahugh Julia Bristow Briggs Mary and Paul Favaro Susan K. Horn and Donald S. Margaret and Mike McCoy Ms. Gail Bedessem Sharalyn Borchers Sharon Conway Janet Donne Mr. and Mrs. David and Nancy Palm Felton-Elkins Honchell Honorable Kathleen M. Kathleen M. Bell Robert and Susan Bowker Katherine Coyner Mrs. Elizabeth Gwynn Julie Bromley Carol Fessenden Dr. Sujin Huggins and McGury Jason Benetti Barbara A. Boyer Timothy Crawford Doolin Linda and Terry Brown Elizabeth Fieweger Ms. Jasmine Kennedy Maureen Mcintyre Lee and Kathryn Benish BJ Braun Tom and Barbara Crays Janet and William Doran Tom and Mary-Doug Brown Dr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Jennifer and Brad Ilko George and Alice McKann Tom Beris Alexander and Barbara Rosemary Crowley Timothy Duggan Allison Brustin and Lisa Groff Finder Dr. Carol Ivy John and Karole McLaughlin Adrian D. and Arta Beverly Brenke Alan and Charlotte Cubbage Ronald B. Duke Dr. Regina Buccola R. Jaquart Jean Medina

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William Dumont Deborah Gurvitz Katherine and Kevin Kathleen Martin Lynne Ostfeld Andria Sandora Joseph Spellman David and Anna Mary Dr. Isard Dunietz Joe Guthridge Kenward Marco Martinez Matt and Bev Ottaviano Joyce Saricks Gerald and Mary Wallace Robert Edger, M.D. Drs. David and Elaine Susan Kern, M.D. James R. Mather Jay Owens and David and Nancy Sarne Stapleton Ms. Amy Waters Deane Ellis Hacker Terry and Jack Klecka Deborah and James Penny Applegate and Family Lenette and John Mary Watt Barry K. Elmore Cohen and Hacker Matt and Karen Klickman Mathews Julia F. Parker Alfred and Linda Saucedo Staudinger Cynthia Weglarz Melanie Emerson Architects, LLC Shari Kouba Philip Matsikas Nancy Patterson Michael Schneiderman Ms. Joyce Steffel Jim and Mary Weidner John and Mary Erhard Robert and Melanie Lottie Kowalski James J. Mavros Nadine Petersen Marcia Schneider Joel Stein Lois Weiss R. Marquiss and Virginia Halvorson Camille Kozlowski Philip and Ann May Rita Petretti Gene and Faith Schoon Neil Stern Steven Welton and Erlanson Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bonnie Krasny Nicolette Mayo Dr. Robert B. Pildes Margaret and Eric Jo Ann Stevenson Tamara Horn Deborah M. Evans Hammerschlag Fran Kravitz Irene D. McGrath V. Pristera, Jr. Schuering Doug and Betsy Stiles Patricia Wess Patricia Ewers Joseph R. Hanley Margaret and Gerald Joseph Paul McGrath Dorothy Victoria Ramm Susan and Charles Mr. G. Ralph Strohl and Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler John and Diana Faulhaber Virginia M. Harding Kubasiak Rodrick and Yoshie Debra J. Randall Schwartz Dr. Mrinalini Rao Charles A. and Jeanette Madeleine Fern Michael A. and Lois D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lamb McIlquham Pradeep and Taposhree Todd and Susan Semla Mary and Kenneth Sullivan White Dolores Fetes Harring Eileen Landau John and Etta McKenna Rattan The Shalak Family Roberta and Leonard Herbert and Catherine Laura Fishman James and Sylvia Heim Edwin Landon Mr. and Mrs. John McLeod David Rebnord Jane Shapiro Tenner Wigder Robert G. Fitzsimmons Sean E. and Dana J. Virginia Noerr and Sandra McNaughton Marilyn and Guy Revesz William Shaver and Cheryl Thaxton Kathy Wilders Brian Flannery Hendren Leonard LaPasso James D. McQuillan The Riedl Family Mary Jo Strusz Barbara Thompson Jessica and Cristine Beth Follenweider James and Mary Jo William and Blair Lawlor David J. Medow Ms. Susan Rifas Mette and David Shayne Ken and Glenna Williams Irene and Jay Frank Henegan Kent and Kathy Lawrence David Mehlman and Sandi Riggs Graciela and William Thompson David and Jean Wolski Mary J. Franklin Brian Herlihy Scott and Bobbi Lebin Arlene Alpert Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Shorey Joan and Kenneth Patrick and Patrice Dan and Ronda Franks Cheryl and Richard Hiipakka Rosalind Lee Mr. Robert Mendelson Robins Mr. Sanjaya Shunglu Thompson Wooldridge Rhona and Julian Frazin Lina Flores Hilko Deborah Leff Jerrold and Marian Michaels Joan V. Roeder Bruce and Sarane Karen and Steve Timian Bruce W. Worthel and John Freidheim Phyllis Hill Ken and Marge Lemmel Scott and Sandy Miller Wylie and Leah Rogers Siewerth James Tonsgard Barbara G. Young Kiran Frey and Pradip Sethi John B. Hirsch Susan Levitt Diane Mocerf Virginia Rogodzinski Wesley Skogan and Richard C. Treadway Stephanie Wright and Rosalie and Marvin Fruchter Aaron and Sarah Hoffman Mr. Ken and Dr. Renee Paul and Sandra Montino Bernie and Judy Barbara Puechler Sally L. Trekell Roger P. Weissberg Mr. John Gable Thomas C. and Louise P. Lewin June Deforest Morganstern Rosenstein Susan Sleeper-Smith Celeste Troon Ruth N. 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Hyland Sam and Joan Lovering Mary Ellen Murphy Joan and Frank Safford Rocco Spallone Lillian Walanka Anonymous (10) Dr. and Mrs. Richard Glinka Mary Anne and Dr. Rosemary Lucas Angela Murray Jonathan and Michelle Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Kamiah Walker Katherine Ann Godfrey and Frank Jakalski John Lucey Ms. Barbara A. Murtha Sales Sparberg Warren Maltzman Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Janacek Roseanne Lucianek Dr. Raja R. Nadimpalli Jim Goeser Jeffrey Jens Roseanne Lucianek Ron and Mary Nahser Martin Goldman Don and Donna Jensen Wayne and Kristine Lueders Ingeburg Neckermann Steve and Linda Goranson Jim and Jackie Jepsen Michelle Luna Carol Thomas Neely Michelle and Gerald Gordon Marilyn F. Johnson Mark P. Lutze and Donald E. Newsom PRODUCERS’ GUILD AT James and Beverly Kimberlee Jones Hilda Demuth-Lutze Zehava L. Noah Greenwell Kathleen Kallan Veronica Lynch Patrick K. 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Reflects gifts received betweenAugust 13, 2018–August 13, 2019 MEMORIAL GIFTS FOR SARAJANE AVIDON FOR ANN HERNDON FOR LEW MANILOW Members of the First Folio Society have generously included Chicago AND FELIX SHUMAN Dr. John A. Herndon The Brodsky Family Shakespeare Theater in their estate plans. Chicago Shakespeare honors Connie and Steve King FOR GERRY JAECK FOR HOWARD MARDELL Dick Simpson their thoughtful commitment to our future. Ms. Carol Cleave Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Kohn FOR JACK KARP FOR BETTY FAE NUSINOW FOR EVELYN "EVIE" Mary and Nick Babson Jonathan F. Orser Judy and Abel Friedman Mr. Bernard Nusinow BARRIGER Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Perlman John W. Barriger Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey Ms. Carol Cleave FOR DR. JAMES L. RAPPORT Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Adele Rapport FOR MICHAEL CARDINALE Theodore and Harriette Perlman Joan Israel Berger Barbara Petersen Susan O'Brien Michael and Sandra Perlow FOR BERNARD "BERNIE" Marilyn Darnall Chuck Simanek and Edna Burke Tom English SAHLINS FOR DODIE KOHL Tobi and Milton Lefton FOR CAROL CHAPMAN Susan Salay Kathy Dunn Craig Sirles Tim Chapman and Sandy Jordan FOR DAVID SZABO FOR KENNETH KUEHNLE La and Philip Engel Michael and Sharon Sloan Gerald and Mary Stapleton FOR LOIS DUNN Andrea Atlass Kathy Dunn FOR LAUREN ELIZABETH Michael Goldberger Steve and Robin Solomon FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ- WILSON FOR JACK FULLER WASSERMAN Rev. Linnea B. Wilson and Linda D. and Craig C. Grannon David and Ingrid Stallé Debra Moskovits David Wasserman, M.D. Dr. Lanny F. Wilson Dick Hurckes Susan Tennant Barbara Joabson Helen and Richard Thomas HONORARY GIFTS Dr. Anne McCreary Juhasz Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles FOR RICK BOYNTON FOR GARY AND FOR PEMBE AND TUNCH Bobbi Zabel VIRGINIA GERST Ozyurt Family Judy and John Keller Linda Vertrees Kenneth Alhadeff Karen and Tom Howell FOR ROB RYAN Rhona and Julian Frazin Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding FOR TOM AND CAIRY BROWN Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Principal, VOA Architects Lisa Gates FOR MARILYN HALPERIN FOR ST. CRISPIN DAY SOCIETY Anstiss Hammond Krueck La and Philip Engel FOR TOM BROWN Dan Groth Frank T. Wheby Naja Maltezos Karen Campbell Anne E. Kutak Kathleen and Thomas Masters FOR STEVEN SOLOMON Anonymous (2) FOR DAVID CASPER, Susan Mitchell Ray and Judy McCaskey FOR JASON HARRINGTON RAY WHITACRE, AND Paul Rink FOR HARVEY AND BMO HARRIS BANK MARY STRUTHERS Richard and Elaine Tinberg FOR CRISS HENDERSON George and Susan Heisler Chicago Shakespeare gratefully acknowledges the following estates Faye Marlowe FOR ANN AND DICK that have provided gifts of bequests. Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad FOR CARL AND DICKERSON MARILYNN THOMA Amina Dickerson FOR BETSY KARP Terrell and Jill Isselhard Evelyn D. Barriger Edith B. Gaines Judy and Abel Friedman FOR HARVE A. FERRILL Joan Golder Theodore and Harriette Perlman George W. Blossom III Julie and Parker Hall William and Anne Goldstein FOR BECKY TRAISMAN FOR HANNAH KENNEDY FOR E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Bonnie Krasny Carol Irma Chapman Corinne E. Johnson Anthony Vasquez Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad FOR LARRY YANDO Nelson D. Cornelius Harold H. Plaut Bobbi Zabel FOR BARBARA MALOTT Claudia Traudt KIZZIAH FOR BARBARA GAINES S.M. Evans Rose. L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure Jennifer and Joey Lansing FOR BOBBI ZABEL Madonna and John Merritt Carolyn Butz Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad FOR BARBARA To include Chicago Shakespeare in your estate plans, please contact Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Robins MALOTT KIZZIAH AND Dottie Bris-Bois at 312.667.4965 or [email protected] KEITH KIZZIAH FOR MRS. EDITH GAINES Charles and Caroline Huebner Dr. James and Rita Sheinin

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