Upcoming Shakespeare 400 Chicago Highlights
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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 CITY OF CHICAGO 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 SERVICES AND EVENTS created by Filter Theatre 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 KEVIN CUSHING JESSICA CONNOR 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 SHARON AND TOM ADVANCEMENT 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