Chicago will take center stage in 2016 with SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, as more than 1,000 UPCOMING SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO HIGHLIGHTS local and international artists create a global Culinary Complete Works Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebration of Shakespeare like no other in the 38 PLAYS. 38 CHEFS. SHAKESPEARE BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON world. During this landmark year, Shakespeare will @ Restaurants across Chicago AT THE SYMPHONY Artistic Director Executive Director All Year Long be alive on our stages, in our schools and across @ Symphony Center RICK BOYNTON, Creative Producer April 7–26 GARY GRIFFIN, Associate Artistic Director our neighborhoods. This international festival will Chicago Shakespeare Theater Art Institute of Chicago help reaffirm Chicago’s role as a global destination OTHELLO @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater SUPERNATURAL SHAKESPEARE presents for cultural tourism. In 2016, the enterprising spirit Now through April 10 @ Art Institute of Chicago of Shakespeare meets the entrepreneurial spirit of Lyric Opera of Chicago April 11–October 10 Chicago. I want to thank everyone who is working GOUNOD’S ROMEO AND JULIET The Q Brothers hard to ensure that it will be a great success. @ Lyric Opera of Chicago OTHELLO: THE REMIX Now through March 19 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater The Gift Theatre Company, in association April 12–May 8 with Steppenwolf Theatre Company + The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Looking for more ways to explore the festival? RICHARD III Chicago scholars are responding online @Steppenwolf’s Merle Reskin Garage to this remarkable body of work at: Rahm Emanuel, Mayor March 3–May 1 citydesk.shakespeare400chicago.com

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WWW.SHAKESPEARE400CHICAGO.COM #SHAKES400CHI @ SHAKES400CHI Chicago Shakespeare is proud to present SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, a global celebration made possible by an unprecedented collaboration of Chicago Shakespeare Theater Staff Chicago institutions. This yearlong festival both showcases the collective BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON impact of our city’s world-class cultural community and invites hundreds of Artistic Director Executive Director artists from across the globe to make Chicago their stage in 2016. Embracing MELISSA COLLINS LISA GRIEBEL the audacious spirit of our eponymous playwright, the year ahead will ARTISTIC Associate Director of Advancement STAGE MANAGEMENT Properties Carpenter RICK BOYNTON DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS DEBORAH ACKER DAN NURCZYK feature an astonishing array of artists and thinkers. Shakespeare will come Creative Producer Director of Special Gifts Production Stage Manager/ Properties Crew Head Associate Producer GARY GRIFFIN HILARY ODOM CLAIRE RITCHIE From the United Kingdom to life across disciplines, through inspirational acts of theater, dance, music, Associate Artistic Director Director of Corporate and DENNIS J. CONNERS Properties Intern Production Stage Manager BOB MASON Foundation Relations spectacle—even cuisine. It’s a celebration 400 years in the making. A bold Artistic Associate/Casting Director KRISTEN CARUSO EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR Filter Theatre in association with CST Stage Manager HEATHER SCHMUCKER Advancement Manager/ OPERATIONS/FACILITIES undertaking, true to the spirit of our global city and the greatest playwright of Associate Producer Board Liaison SUSAN KNILL the Royal Shakespeare Company Theater/Facility Manager DOREEN SAYEGH LAURA MILKULSKI SCENERY all time. This is Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Come play your part. Festival Producer, Advancement Manager / JEANNE DEVORE Shakespeare 400 Chicago VIP Concierge ROBERT L. WILSON Technology Manager Assistant Technical Director 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 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 Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Doreen Sayegh Coordinator RYAN MAGNUSON OCTAVIOUS MOODY BENJAMIN MAGNUSON Costume Shop Manager RICHARD TENNY Casting Intern CAMILLE HOWARD Custodial Assistants Artistic Director Executive Director Festival Producer Campaign Coordinator CATHY TANTILLO JACK LOWRIE Costume Design Assistant Company Management Intern KATHRYN HABECKER by William Shakespeare Advancement Intern REBECCA DOROSHUK TICKETING, GUEST CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Costume Shop Assistant/ Rentals Manager created by Filter Theatre SERVICES AND EVENTS EDUCATION MARKETING MELISSA BOCHAT RACHAEL SWANN MARILYN J. HALPERIN Crafts Supervisor Box Office and Guest Services Manager directed by Sean Holmes Director of Education and ALIDA SZABO Communications Director of Audience Development MAKEDA COHRAN music + sound by Tom Haines Ray and Judy McCaskey JULIE STANTON ELECTRICS Events Manager Education Chair Marketing Director ERIC BRANSON PHIL BRANKIN + Ross Hughes JASON HARRINGTON CATHY TAYLOR Lighting Supervisor BLANCA HERNANDEZ Education Outreach Manager Public Relations Consultant SCOTT KLOOSTERMAN JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Front of House Supervisors MOLLY TRUGLIA HANNAH KENNEDY Lighting Crew Head Learning Programs Manager Public Relations Associate JOHN KUINIUS JIMMY LIS Concessions Supervisor ROXANNA CONNER JUDY McCLOSKEY Electrician Education Associate Digital Communications Assistant BETSY BEAMS BEX EHRMANN JESSICA CONNOR KEVIN CUSHING Education Intern Marketing Assistant–Advertising SOUND SHELLY GODEFRIN Guest Services Team Leaders and Publications JAMES SAVAGE ADELL MEDOVOY Sound Supervisor ADAM CIFARELLI ADMINISTRATION Graphic Designer/Production Artist KYLE CORNELL PALMER JANKENS SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO LEAD SPONSORS LINDA ORELLANA Associate Sound Supervisor WILL CAVEDO Director of Finance KENNETH KEACHER Marketing Assistant/Office CRISTY TROIA DJ CUMMINGS DAN GRYCZA Administrator Sound Crew Head ALLISON DIAMOND Human Resources Director/ MEL GILL Finance Associate JENNIFER JONES PAUL PERRY Marketing Coordinator Duty Technician KATHLEEN GULLION ALANA RYBAK BEN HOEKSTRA KASSANDRA HAROUN Assistant Director of Finance REBECCA BOTT JOHNATHAN NIEVES ALYSSE HUNTER Marketing Interns WIGS AND MAKE-UP RICCI PRIOLETTI Accounting Manager MELISSA VEAL JACQUELINE POJASEK JASMINE SAWYER SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION MEDIA MOLLY BRIGGS Head of Wigs and Make-up INTERNATIONAL SPONSOR SPONSOR Accounts Payable Assistant PRODUCTION EMILY STEWARD JESSIE “JAX” CONTRERAS PROGRAMMING JILL FENSTERMAKER CHRIS PLEVIN Wig and Make-up Assistant AUDREY THOMPSON Executive Assistant Director of Production SHARAINA TURNAGE MIGUEL PEREZ TRISTIEN WINFREE MAJOR 2015/16 SEASON SUPPORTERS KEELY HADDAD-NULL JEFF WILLIAMS Wig and Make-up Apprentice Associate Director of Production LAUREN WIMMER SARAH LAEUCHLI CLAIRE UNGER KEVIN SPELLMAN JoHANNAH HAIL Arts Leadership Fellows Production Coordinator VIOLET VARA PROPERTIES Guest Services Associates SEAN KATHLEEN ROCKE CASSANDRA WESTOVER The Harold and Mimi Production Office Manager Properties Supervisor CHRIS SIMEK Steinberg Charitable Trust ADVANCEMENT SHARON AND TOM SARAH GEIS ERIN OHLAND E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Production Management Assistant Properties Supervisor McLEAN Lead individual and foundation support provided by Eric’s Tazmanian Angel Fund, Susan and Lew Manilow, Raymond and Judy McCaskey, Director of Institutional Advancement Saints’ Volunteer Usher Coordinators Apprentice Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller, and Donna Van Eekeren Foundation.

credits include: Merlin (Royal Theatre, ALAN PAGAN (Musician: Drummer) FERDY ROBERTS (Associate Director/Filter pursuing stage management. She has Profiles Northampton); Desire Under the Elms Mr. Pagan is a freelance multi- Theatre Artistic Director) Mr. Roberts managed performances in opera, music (Lyric Hammersmith); The Grapes of Wrath, instrumentalist specializing in drums and trained as an actor at the Guildhall School and theater. Ms. DuBois co-produced and Twelfth RONKE ADEKOLUEJO (Olivia) Wallenstein, A Christmas Carol (Chichester); percussion. He has toured with Charlie of Music and Drama. He is co-artistic co-directed productions of As You Like Ms. Adekoluejo trained at RADA. Theater A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Hamlet Winston, supporting Peter Gabriel in director of Filter Theatre and an associate It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and credits include: Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield (Stafford);Cyrano de Bergerac (Bristol Old England, Germany and Monte Carlo; as artist of the Lyric, Hammersmith. Theater most recently she was the company stage Crucible); Prurience (Sick Festival); The Vic); Richard II (Ludlow/Madrid – director a multi-instrumentalist and actor for credits for Filter include: Faster, Caucasian manager of a Singaporean and Malaysian Night House That Will Not Stand, The Colby Sisters Steven Berkoff); Antony and Cleopatra tour of No Sex, Please—We’re British! Filter’s European tour of Twelfth Night Chalk Circle, Water, Twelfth Night, Three of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre); (Manchester Royal Exchange); Singer and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and as Sisters, Silence and A Midsummer Night’s MARCH 1–13, 2016 and Random (Crooked Path). Film and (Tricycle Theatre); Titus Andronicus, percussionist for Punch Drunk’s Masque Dream. Other theater credits include: PEMBERLEY PRODUCTIONS (US Tour Manager) televison credits include: Chewing Gum Richard III, Measure for Measure, Tales of the Red Death. His recording/rehearsal Shakespeare in Love (West End); Open Court, Founded by Tim Smith, Pemberley (E4); Suspects (Channel 5); and One Crazy from Ovid, A Midsummer Night’s Dream studio is used for his own compositions If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Productions is a producing company Cast Thing (director Amit Gupta, Scanner-Rhodes (Royal Shakespeare Company); Cymbeline and for supplying drum tracks to other Sleep (Royal Court); Three Kingdoms (Teater dedicated to bringing European drama to Productions). (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Contractor musicians and sound libraries. No99 Estonia/Munich Kammerspiele/Lyric North America and North American drama Olivia RONKE ADEKOLUEJO (Oxford Stage Company); The Winter’s Tale, www.alanpagan.com Hammersmith); Wallenstein (Chichester); to Europe. Its previous projects include SANDY FOSTER (Feste/Maria) Feste/Maria SANDY FOSTER Ghosts (Method & Madness); What I Did in Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, The a European tour of The Public Theater’s Ms. Foster trained at the Royal Central the Holidays (Cambridge Theatre Company); SEAN HOLMES (Director) Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter (Bristol Apple Family Plays—written and directed Orsino/Sir Andrew HARRY JARDINE School of Speech and Drama and previously Dogspot (Nuffield, Southampton); Macbeth, Mr. Holmes is artistic director of the Lyric Old Vic); Frankenstein (Derby Playhouse); by Richard Nelson—and an Irish tour of the Aguecheek appeared with Filter on the UK tour of Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Hammersmith, where his productions The Changeling, Beautiful Thing (Salisbury American Players Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night and in the company’s feature Viola/Sebastian AMY MARCHANT Eunuchs, Trees Die Standing Up (Orange include: Bugsy Malone, Secret Theatre Playhouse); and Another Country (West James DeVita’s In Acting Shakespeare. filmWhat You Will. Theater credits include: Tree); and My Very Own Story (Stephen - Show 1, 2,3, 5 and 7, Cinderella, Desire End). Television credits include: Foyle’s As well as producing the US tour of Twelfth Malvolio FERGUS O’DONNELL Oppenheimer, Shoemaker’s Holiday, Days of Joseph Theatre). Television credits include: under the Elms, Morning, Have I None, A War, Whistleblower, The Bill, Goldplated, Your Night, in the 2015/16 season Pemberley Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company); Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Downton Midsummer Night’s Dream, Saved, Blasted, Mother Should Know and Holby City. Film Productions is producing Paterson Sir Toby Belch DAN POOLE A Streetcar Named Desire (Curve Theatre, Abbey, Foyle’s War, The Bill, Playing the Field, A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, Ghost credits include: Filter’s What You Will, Sex & Joseph’s new play Sancho: An Act of Leicester); Much Ado About Nothing Musician FRED THOMAS Prime Suspect, Chiller (ITV); The Musketeers, Stories, Three Sisters and Comedians. Drugs & Rock & Roll, Mr. Nice and Honest. Remembrance on tour in the UK and US. (Manchester Royal Exchange); Desire Under Doctors, Holby City, Dalziel & Pascoe, Silent Other theater credits include: Drumbelly Prior to founding Pemberley Productions, Musician (Drummer) ALAN PAGAN the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); and More Witness, Casualty, Lovejoy, Every Silver (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Loot (Tricycle); CHRISTIE DuBOIS (Company Stage Manager) Mr. Smith worked as the general manager Light (Arcola Theatre). Film and television Lining, Love Hurts and Between the Lines Treasure Island (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Ms. DuBois was trained in performance and consulting producer for Druid Theatre credits include: Mr. Turner (directed by Mike (BBC). Twelfth Night with Filter (London/Touring); and technical theater in Washington Company in Ireland, and as a tour manager Leigh, Thin Man Films); The Dumping Ground Pornography by Simon Stephens (Traverse State before moving to London and for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Creative Team (CBBC); The Kerry and Lu Show (BBC); and DAN POOLE (Sir Toby Belch) and Birmingham Rep); The English Game Director SEAN HOLMES Muse of Fire: A Documentary (Timebomb Mr. Poole trained at Mountview. Theater by Richard Bean (Headlong); The Man Who Pictures/BBC). credits include: The Dark Earth and the Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller (Donmar About Filter Theatre Music + Sound TOM HAINES Night Sky (Almeida); Jerusalem (Royal Court); Warehouse); The Entertainer by John Led by actors Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts, and composer Tim Phillips, Filter HARRY JARDINE (Orsino/Sir Andrew ROSS HUGHES and King Lear, Henry V, Othello, What You Will Osborne (Old Vic); Julius Caesar, The Roman has been creating innovative, exciting theater since 2003. Filter’s unique collaborative Aguecheek) Mr. Jardine is the artistic director (Globe). Film and television credits include Actor, Richard III, Measure for Measure language explores the interaction between sound, music, text and movement, in a Associate Directors of Vamp Theatre Company and is currently OLIVER DIMSDALE Fifty Ways to Kill Your Lover (Discovery). (Royal Shakespeare Company); Moonlight desire to make stories that awaken the imaginative senses of an audience. Working working on a new project called Go Wisely, FERDY ROBERTS Mr. Poole co-directed the documentary and Magnolias and The Price (Tricycle). He out of a real sense of trust and retaining a robust emotional honesty and playfulness, about police brutality. Theater credits feature Muse of Fire: A Shakespeare Odyssey. was an associate director of the Oxford the company creates new works of original theater, as well as dynamic incarnations of Company Stage CHRISTIE DuBOIS include: Forest Boy (S&S Award, St. James www.museoffirefilm.co.uk Stage Company from 2001 to 2006, and existing texts. Filter is at the forefront of contemporary theater-making as a deviser of Manager Theatre); Octagon (Arcola); Shakespeare has worked for the National Theatre and new pieces. All of Filter’s work tours the UK, Europe and beyond, reaching a wide and in Love (West End); Faster Higher Stronger Marketing MARTIN SHIPPEN FRED THOMAS (Musician) Mr. Thomas RSC, as well as the Royal Court Theatre, diverse audience, young and old. To find out more about Filter visit www.filtertheatre. Straighter (Dominion Studio); People of the studied piano and composition at the Royal Donmar Warehouse and Chichester com or email [email protected] Producer SIMON READE Town (London Collective); and Les Miserables Academy of Music. He is a member of the Festival Theatre. (West End). Film credits include Ron US Tour Producer F-IRE Collective and recently embarked TIM SMITH FOR Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea and The Thief on a trilogy of JS Bach recordings to be PEMBERLEY OLIVER DIMSDALE (Associate Director/Filter (Synergy Theatre Project). Television credits released by ECM and The Silent Howl. His Theatre Artistic Director) Mr. Dimsdale About Chicago Shakespeare PRODUCTIONS include Doctors (BBC). He has done over other projects include: The Beguilers, a trained at Guildhall School of Music & CST is a leading international theater company, known for extraordinary productions; thirty radio plays for the BBC and worked quartet that interprets his song settings Drama, and has worked on all of Filter’s unlocking Shakespeare’s work for educators and students; and serving as Chicago’s at the Soho Theatre numerous times. Mr. of poetry in English; an ensemble with projects since the company was founded. cultural ambassador through its World’s Stage Series. Throughout 2016, CST is Jardine trained at RADA. gambist Liam Byrne dedicated to the Other theater credits include: A Tale of Two spearheading the international arts and culture festival, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a medieval Chantilly Codex; and a sextet that Cities (Northampton Royal Theatre); The citywide celebration of the playwright’s 400-year legacy. Under the leadership of Artistic AMY MARCHANT (Viola/Sebastian) explores polyphony in jazz improvisation. Creeper (Playhouse Theatre); The Comedy Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, CST is the recipient Ms. Marchant studied English Literature at He appears regularly with the Basquiat of Errors (Sheffield Crucible); Pravda of the Regional Theatre Tony Award. Its work has been recognized internationally with the University of Leeds before training as Strings, Lisa Knapp, Fly Agaric and The (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest three of London’s prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards, and by the Chicago theater an actor at LAMDA. Theater credits include: Memory Band, as well as collaborating with (Royal Shakespeare Company); and The community with over 80 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Artistic Excellence. Since the Filter Theatre Shakespeare in Love (West End) and To Sir, Oren Marshall, Harvey Brough, Mor Karbasi, Dead Wait (Manchester Evening News inception of the World’s Stage Series in 2000, CST has hosted more than 30 iconic with Love (UK Tour). She is an associate Leo Abrahams and the CBSO. Mr. Thomas troupes, including: The Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (London), Artistic Directors Award for Best Actor), Great Expectations OLIVER DIMSDALE artist of Vamp Theatre Company and an has worked extensively in dance and (Manchester Royal Exchange). Television the Chekhov International Theatre Festival (Moscow) and La Comédie-Française (Paris). TIM PHILLIPS associate actor at the Willow Globe Theatre, theater, and has produced many albums credits include: Count Arthur Strong, The works presented by these companies range from intimate one-man works, like FERDY ROBERTS Wales. for artists, including Lily Luca, The Magic Downton Abbey, Ambassadors, Utopia, He South African Omphile Molusi’s Itsoseng, to grand spectacles like the French troupe Lantern, Ellie Rusbridge and Adam Beattie. Knew He Was Right, Byron, Fallen Angel, Ilotopie’s Water Fools (Fous de Bassin), performed entirely atop the waters of Lake Artistic Associates JONATHAN BROADBENT FERGUS O’DONNELL (Malvolio) Recent performances include: TED, Womad, Breaking the Mould and Harley Street. Michigan. CST has contributed to this exciting international exchange by sending some TOM HAINES Mr. O’Donnell trained at the Manchester Southbank Centre, ICA, Kings Place, LSO St. Film credits include: The Fold, First Night, of its best works abroad, including: the Olivier Award-winning production of Stephen GEMMA SAUNDERS Polytechnic School of Theatre and has Luke’s, Aldeburgh Festival and worldwide Rocknrolla, Nostradamus, as well as the Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures(2003); Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, which marked CST’s debut previously appeared with Filter on the touring. www.fred-thomas.co.uk forthcoming feature Good People. at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon (2006); and Othello: The Producer SIMON READE world tour of Twelfth Night and the UK tour Remix (2012), which debuted at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, followed by a world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theater tour to South Korea, Sydney, Poland, United Arab Emirates and New Zealand. Finance Manager DANIEL MORGENSTERN Cover: Dan Poole, Fred Thomas and Sandy Foster. photo by Mark Garvin