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An Act of Remembrance Chicago will take center stage in 2016 with SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, as more than 1,000 local and international artists create a global celebration of Shakespeare like no other in the BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON world. During this landmark year, Shakespeare will Artistic Director Executive Director be alive on our stages, in our schools and across RICK BOYNTON, Creative Producer GARY GRIFFIN, Associate Artistic Director our neighborhoods. This international festival will help reaffirm Chicago’s role as a global destination presents for cultural tourism. In 2016, the enterprising spirit of Shakespeare meets the entrepreneurial spirit of Chicago. I want to thank everyone who is working Paterson Joseph, photos by Robert Day hard to ensure that it will be a great success. Rahm Emanuel, Mayor CITY OF CHICAGO Chicago Shakespeare is proud to present SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, Chicago Shakespeare Theater Staff a global celebration made possible by an unprecedented collaboration of BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Chicago institutions. This yearlong festival both showcases the collective Artistic Director Executive Director impact of our city’s world-class cultural community and invites hundreds of MELISSA COLLINS LISA GRIEBEL artists from across the globe to make Chicago their stage in 2016. Embracing ARTISTIC Associate Director of Advancement STAGE MANAGEMENT Properties Carpenter RICK BOYNTON DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS DEBORAH ACKER DAN NURCZYK Creative Producer Director of Special Gifts Production Stage Manager/ Properties Crew Head the audacious spirit of our eponymous playwright, the year ahead will Associate Producer GARY GRIFFIN HILARY ODOM CLAIRE RITCHIE Associate Artistic Director Director of Corporate and DENNIS J. CONNERS Properties Intern feature an astonishing array of artists and thinkers. Shakespeare will come Production Stage Manager BOB MASON Foundation Relations to life across disciplines, through inspirational acts of theater, dance, music, Artistic Associate/Casting Director KRISTEN CARUSO EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR CST Stage Manager HEATHER SCHMUCKER Advancement Manager/ OPERATIONS/FACILITIES spectacle—even cuisine. It’s a celebration 400 years in the making. A bold Associate Producer Board Liaison SUSAN KNILL Theater/Facility Manager DOREEN SAYEGH LAURA MILKULSKI SCENERY undertaking, true to the spirit of our global city and the greatest playwright of Festival Producer, Advancement Manager / JEANNE DEVORE Shakespeare 400 Chicago VIP Concierge ROBERT L. WILSON Technology Manager Assistant Technical Director From the United Kingdom all time. This is Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Come play your part. DANIEL J. HESS ERIN STRICK DANIEL LOPEZ Company Manager Institutional Relations Coordinator BRIAN COIL Facilities Assistant Stage Crew Head LAURA DURHAM SAMUEL OSTROWSKI ELLIOTT LACEY Oxford Playhouse + Pemberley Productions Casting Assistant Special Projects Coordinator MATTHEW BLACK Custodial Supervisor Stage Crew Apprentice JACK EIDSON DAVE TOPOROV DWAYNE BREWER Assistant to the Creative Producer Annual Fund Coordinator MARIBEL CUEVAS SALVADOR F. GARZA CAITLYN DeROSA COSTUMES ISRAEL ESTRADA Assistant Company Manager Donor Relations and Research Coordinator RYAN MAGNUSON OCTAVIOUS MOODY BENJAMIN MAGNUSON Costume Shop Manager RICHARD TENNY Casting Intern CAMILLE HOWARD Custodial Assistants Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Doreen Sayegh Campaign Coordinator CATHY TANTILLO JACK LOWRIE Costume Design Assistant Company Management Intern KATHRYN HABECKER Artistic Director Executive Director Festival Producer Advancement Intern REBECCA DOROSHUK TICKETING, GUEST Costume Shop Assistant/ EDUCATION Rentals Manager SERVICES AND EVENTS CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER MARKETING MELISSA BOCHAT RACHAEL SWANN MARILYN J. HALPERIN Crafts Supervisor Box Office and Guest Services Manager SANCHO: Director of Education and ALIDA SZABO Communications Director of Audience Development KATE GRUDICHAK MAKEDA COHRAN Wardrobe Ray and Judy McCaskey JULIE STANTON Events Manager AN ACT OF REMEMBRANCE Education Chair Marketing Director PHIL BRANKIN JASON HARRINGTON CATHY TAYLOR ELECTRICS BLANCA HERNANDEZ written by + starring Education Outreach Manager Public Relations Consultant SCOTT KLOOSTERMAN Paterson Joseph ERIC BRANSON Front of House Supervisors MOLLY TRUGLIA HANNAH KENNEDY Lighting Supervisor Learning Programs Manager Public Relations Associate JOHN KUINIUS JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Concessions Supervisor ROXANNA CONNER JUDY McCLOSKEY Lighting Crew Head Education Associate Digital Communications Assistant BETSY BEAMS JIMMY LIS BEX EHRMANN JESSICA CONNOR Electrician KEVIN CUSHING Education Intern Marketing Assistant–Advertising SHELLY GODEFRIN and Publications RACHEL LAKE Guest Services Team Leaders Lighting Intern ADELL MEDOVOY ADAM CIFARELLI ADMINISTRATION Graphic Designer/Production Artist KYLE CORNELL LINDA ORELLANA WILL CAVEDO Director of Finance KENNETH KEACHER SOUND Marketing Assistant/Office JAMES SAVAGE DJ CUMMINGS DAN GRYCZA Administrator Sound Supervisor ALLISON DIAMOND SUPPORT FOR Human Resources Director/ JENNIFER JONES MEL GILL INTERNATIONAL Finance Associate PALMER JANKENS PROGRAMMING Marketing Coordinator Associate Sound Supervisor KATHLEEN GULLION ALANA RYBAK BEN HOEKSTRA KASSANDRA HAROUN Assistant Director of Finance CRISTY TROIA JOHNATHAN NIEVES REBECCA BOTT Sound Crew Head ALYSSE HUNTER Marketing Interns RICCI PRIOLETTI Accounting Manager JACQUELINE POJASEK JASMINE SAWYER SHAKESPEARE MOLLY BRIGGS WIGS AND MAKE-UP Accounts Payable Assistant PRODUCTION EMILY STEWARD 400 CHICAGO MELISSA VEAL LEAD SPONSORS JILL FENSTERMAKER CHRIS PLEVIN Head of Wigs and Make-up AUDREY THOMPSON Executive Assistant Director of Production SHARAINA TURNAGE JESSIE “JAX” CONTRERAS TRISTIEN WINFREE KEELY HADDAD-NULL JEFF WILLIAMS Wig and Make-up Assistant Associate Director of Production LAUREN WIMMER SARAH LAEUCHLI MIGUEL PEREZ CLAIRE UNGER MAJOR 2015/16 SEASON SUPPORTERS KEVIN SPELLMAN JoHANNAH HAIL Wig and Make-up Apprentice Arts Leadership Fellows Production Coordinator VIOLET VARA Guest Services Associates SEAN KATHLEEN ROCKE Production Office Manager PROPERTIES CHRIS SIMEK ADVANCEMENT SHARON AND TOM SARAH GEIS CASSANDRA WESTOVER The Harold and Mimi E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Production Management Properties Supervisor McLEAN Director of Institutional Advancement Saints’ Volunteer Usher Coordinators Steinberg Charitable Trust Apprentice ERIN OHLAND Assistant Properties Supervisor Lead individual and foundation support provided by Eric’s Tazmanian Angel Fund, Susan and Lew Manilow, Raymond and Judy McCaskey, Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller, and Donna Van Eekeren Foundation. educator. He originally studied at the Royal seen at the New York Philharmonic, Central Note from Paterson Joseph Sancho: An Act of Profiles College of Music and subsequently, having City Opera in Colorado, Washington Ballet, gained a degree in Zoology at University Anchorage Opera, Roundabout Theater, the PATERSON JOSEPH (Writer and Performer) College London, Mr. Park then set about Guggenheim Museum, Opera Theater of I had never heard of the subject of my play until I discovered Remembrance Mr. Joseph has worked regularly at the National becoming a session musician working with Saint Louis and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait of the extraordinary Charles Theatre in London (Whale, Saint Joan, Royal such bands as Soul 2 Soul, The Escape Club, Mr. Bhatia received his MFA from New York Ignatius Sancho, in a book by historian Gretchen Gerzina: Black FEBRUARY 17–21, 2016 Hunt for the Sun, The Emperor Jones, Elmina’s Lamb and Diesel Park West. He has written University. www.bhatiadesign.com England. The most remarkable thing about this discovery is not that Kitchen); the Royal Shakespeare Company (Julius and performed for film, television and theater, most people hadn’t a clue about such an amazing pioneer of multi- Caesar, seen at BAM in 2013), Don Juan, Troilus notably the multi-award winning 70 Hill Lane ANNA GIRVAN (Assistant Director) ethnic Britain, but that I, a Black Briton, had no clue either. Truth is, Writer and PATERSON JOSEPH and Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, with Improbable Theatre; as associate artist Ms. Girvan trained at Bristol Old Vic and is a I had presumed that the presence of Black People in Britain began Performer The Pretenders); as well as the Royal Exchange, at the Royal Opera House with longtime Jerwood Assistant Director 2014/15. As a Gate, Almeida and Young Vic Theaters. Television collaborator choreographer/director Fin Walker, director, her work in theater includes: Welcome, in 1948 with the 249 passengers (and one stowaway), on board the Co-director ship, HMT Empire Windrush, when it docked at Tilbury from Montego SIMON GODWIN credits include: BBC’s The Hollow Crown (PBS), The the triple BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated Friend at the Courtyard; A Little Nonsense at Leftovers (HBO) and Danny Boyle’s Babylon. Mr. S4C production of The Canterbury Tales; and Edinburgh Fringe and Brighton Fringe; Stuff at Bay, Jamaica. Any previous dealings blacks had with the UK would Set Designer MICHAEL VALE have been remote, I had imagined: African slavery, Caribbean Joseph is a season regular in Law and Order UK the new British comedy film, Downhill-the- the Bike Shed, Exeter; Debris and Contractions at plantations, etc. But was that right? Music Arrangement BEN PARK and Peep Show; he has also appeared in Doctor movie. Mr. Park is currently collaborating as the Alma Tavern (also Trafalgar Studios 2). As & Sound Designer Who, Hustle
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