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fftchicago.com Proud to be a partner with Shakespeare Theater CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER THE TAMING OF THE SHREW About CST Contents Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) believes that Shakespeare speaks to everyone. A global theatrical force, CST is known for vibrant productions that reflect Shakespeare’s genius for storytelling, musicality of language, and empathy for the human condition. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that, delighting in the unexpected, defies theatrical category. A Regional Tony Award-winning theater, CST produces acclaimed plays at its home on Navy Pier, throughout Chicago’s schools and neighborhoods, and on stages around the world. In 2017, the Theater unveils The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, with an innovative design that will change the shape of theater-making. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, The Yard positions CST as the city’s largest and most versatile performing arts venue. Chicago Shakespeare’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and 650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, and visiting international presentations—to engage a broad, multigenerational audience of 225,000 community members. Recognized in 2014 in a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, CST’s education programs support literacy and creativity for 40,000 students each year. Each summer, 30,000 family audiences welcome the free Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour into their Chicago Shakespeare Theater neighborhoods across the far north, west, and south sides of the city. The Theater 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier On the Boards 12 is the leading producer of international work in Chicago and, touring its own Chicago, 60611 A selection of notable CST events, plays, and players plays across North America and abroad to Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and 312.595.5600 the Middle East, CST has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious www.chicagoshakes.com Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, CST spearheaded ©2017 Conversation with the Director 16 Chicago Shakespeare Theater Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a yearlong international arts and culture festival, which All rights reserved. engaged an estimated 1.1 million people through 863 events at 231 locations across ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cast 23 CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA ENDOWED CHAIR: the city in 2016—all in celebration of Shakespeare’s 400-year legacy. n Barbara Gaines EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Criss Henderson Playgoer’s Guide 24 BOARD OF DIRECTORS pictured: Alexandra Henrikson Steven J. Solomon* Criss Henderson* John Rau cover photo by: Jeff Sciortino Profiles 26 Chair Stewart S. Hudnut Nazneen Razi above photo by: joe mazza Eric Q. Strickland* William R. Jentes* Ingrid Razny Treasurer John P. Kellerw Lance Richards A Scholar’s Perspective 36 Christie B. Kelly Sheli Z. Rosenbergw* Frank D. Ballantine Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Richard A. Kent John W. Rowe* Inquiry and Exploration Series Brit J. Bartter* Barbara Malott Kizziah Robert Ryan John Blazey Chase Collins Levey Carole B. Segal Thomas L. Brown Anna Livingston Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Allan E. Bulley III Judy Loseff Sheila G. Talton Clive Christison Renetta E. McCann Marilynn J. Thoma* Patrick R. Daley Raymond F. McCaskeyw* Gayle R. Tilles Brian W. Duwe Robert G. McLennan William J. Tomazin Philip L. Engelw Jess Merten Donna Van Eekeren Jeanne B. Ettelson Linda K. Myers Pallavi Verma Kevin R. Evanich Madhavan Nayar Priscilla A. (Pam) Walterw* Harve A. Ferrill Christopher O’Brien Ray Whitacre Sonja H. Fischer Dennis Olis* Ava D. Youngblood Richard J. Franke Mark S. Ouweleen* Barbara Gaines* Judith Pierpont *Denotes Executive Committee C. Gary Gerstw* Paulita A. Pike Members M. Hill Hammockw* Richard W. Porter* wDenotes Former Board Chairs Kathryn J. Hayley 4 Fall 2017 | The Taming of the Shrew www.chicagoshakes.com 5 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER GET Welcome Whether you’re in SOCIALthe Theater, on the El, or relaxing at home, share The Taming of the Shrew with friends! #cstSHREW

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This spirit of innovation is emblematic of our company, amplified this year by the addition of our new state-of-the imagination theater, The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. Creating a three-theater campus like no other in our city, our expanded home will allow us to program a vibrant season of plays across three distinct venues. Over the course of this historic season, our artistic collective will explore Shakespeare’s work in bold imaginings like today’s production; increase our service to students and educators by tens of thousands; and continue our service as a global ambassador by inviting work from France, Ireland, and México to our stages.

Our work continues to be surprising, audacious, and fueled by the spirit of Shakespeare. We look forward to exploring this extraordinary season with you! n

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www.chicagoshakes.com 7 With the opening of the 2017/18 Season, Chicago is now home to one of the most flexible theater venues in the world. The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare introduces a new trend in theater architecture to our city— a dynamic design featuring nine mobile audience “towers” that can be arranged in a wide variety of ways. With each visit, you will come to “expect the unexpected” as the relationship between audience and actor is redefined by the vision of each production’s creative team. We look forward to This season’s shows welcoming you to... in The Yard highlight the versatility of A three-theater campus— this innovative new encompassing our venue—from its Courtyard Theater, largest proscenium Upstairs at Chicago configuration (above) Shakespeare, and newly to a unique cabaret-like added The Yard—will environment and enable us to offer more intimate thrust stage productions, extend with runway aisles. runs of successful shows, and greatly increase our at Chicago Shakespeare service to students.

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Beginning December 1, Associate Artistic This fall, a new education program Continuing the Theater’s longstanding Chicago Shakespeare is proud Director Gary Griffin stages a fascinating launches: the Chicago Shakespeare Slam, commitment to global cultural exchange to recognize Marilyn Halperin’s glimpse into theater history after his giving students from fifty high schools through our World's Stage Series, twenty-five years at the helm of the “must-see” look into the future with last across Chicagoland the opportunity Chicago Shakespeare is a proud partner Theater’s extensive education and season's King Charles III. Called “fiery to play with Shakespeare’s words and of the inaugural Chicago International audience enrichment initiatives in and funny” by Time Out New York, create their own interpretation of his rich Latino Theater Festival—Destinos, her role as Director of Education Red Velvet is set in 1833 at the Theatre texts. Following Saturday workshops spearheaded by the Chicago Latino and Communications, Ray and Judy Royal in London’s Covent Garden. and weeks of in-school rehearsals, each Theater Alliance (CLATA). Featured as McCaskey Endowed Chair. Joining Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of team prepares two performance pieces the largest international production of our founding leadership team in the his age, collapses on stage while to showcase to the Shakespeare Slam the festival is Teatro Línea de Sombra’s company’s early days, Marilyn was performing the lead in Othello. He community: a scene, plus a creative evocative Amarillo, October 17–29, tasked with launching an education is replaced by a young, black actor, exploration inspired by one play—this in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. program that would strive to make Ira Aldridge—a first for the role on years A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Devised by one of México’s most Shakespeare’s work accessible to all. London's —stunning cast Shakespeare’s comedy of teen angst and celebrated ensembles and directed by Under her guidance, the Theater's work and theatergoers alike due not only love madness—the same play that CST Jorge A. Vargas, Amarillo combines with students and teachers has evolved to his race, but also his naturalistic will be staging for students and families stunning multimedia projections, into one of the most respected arts-in- approach to acting. This multi-award- this winter. With a shared focus on a visceral imagery, and poetic storytelling education programs in the country. Her winning play features Stratford Festival single play, teachers and students will in a rich theatrical meditation on the work has inspired literacy and creativity favorite Dion Johnstone in the starring dive deep into Shakespeare and build harsh realities faced by immigrants and in generations of students, totaling role of Aldridge, who previously community amongst the participating their families. The production will be nearly two million since the program appeared in CST’s recent productions schools—a “one play, one Chicago” performed in Spanish with projected began. In August, Marilyn was honored of Julius Caesar and Pericles. experience leading up to the Finals Bout English translation. at a celebration among CST colleagues, in CST’s Courtyard Theater. teachers, former students, scholars, and artists, who paid tribute to the impact she has made to the field.

From left: Dion Johnstone; Students from Islamic Foundation School; company of Amarillo; Marilyn J. Halperin. photos by Sophie García and Liz Lauren. 12 Fall 2017 | The Taming of the Shrew www.chicagoshakes.com 13 UP & COMING SHORT SHAKESPEARE! A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM adapted & directed by Jess McLeod THE TAMING OF THE SHREW February 3–March 10, 2018 • Saturdays at 11:00 am & 2:00 pm by William Shakespeare • conceived & directed by Barbara Gaines The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Columbia Women's Club scenes by Ron West This 75-minute abridgment introduces Shakespeare’s magical Now through November 12, 2017 • CST’s Courtyard Theater comedy to family and student audiences. One night, four lovers Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and an all-woman cast of suffragettes find themselves lost in a forest. When the Fairy Court finds them, pull back the curtain on a story of power, politics, and love. hijinks and hilarity ensue until dawn.

SCHILLER’S JAMES THIERRÉE'S MARY STUART THE TOAD KNEW in a new version by Peter Oswald • directed by Jenn Thompson A World’s Stage production from France February 21–April 15, 2018 • CST’s Courtyard Theater Replete with Tudor splendor, a power play for the throne finds September 19–23, 2017 • The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Teasing and twisting audiences’ imaginations with astonishing theatrical Queen Elizabeth I confronting her rival in this “electrifying update creations for nearly two decades, cirque nouveau master James Thierrée’s of Schiller’s royal drama” (The Guardian). newest creation features dancers, high-wire artists, and musicians— creating an intoxicating world evocative of Salvador Dalí and Tim Burton. MACBETH TEATRO LÍNEA DE SOMBRA’S by William Shakespeare • adapted & directed by Aaron Posner and Teller April 25–June 24, 2018 AMARILLO The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare A World’s Stage production from México • directed by Jorge A. Vargas Following their success with Chicago October 17–29, 2017 • The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Shakespeare’s sold-out production One of México’s most celebrated and forward-thinking ensembles of The Tempest, the famed creative visits as the largest international engagement of the inaugural duo Aaron Posner and Teller Chicago International Latino Theater Festival—Destinos. (of Penn & Teller) returns for a magical take on “the Scottish Play.” Q BROTHERS CHRISTMAS CAROL DRUID’S written by Q Brothers Collective (GQ, JQ, Jax, Pos) developed with Rick Boynton • directed by GQ and JQ WAITING FOR GODOT November 21–December 31, 2017 A World’s Stage production from Ireland The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare by Samuel Beckett • directed by Garry Hynes The holiday treat set to a bangin’ beat is back! The ghosts of Hip-hop May 23–June 3, 2018 • CST’s Courtyard Theater Past, Present, and Future lead Scrooge on a journey of rhythm, rhyme, One of the world's most prestigious theater ensemble returns with and redemption. a universally acclaimed interpretation of Beckett’s seminal work. RED VELVET by Lolita Chakrabarti • directed by Gary Griffin December 1, 2017–January 21, 2018 • CST’s Courtyard Theater This multi-award-winning play transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in the mid-1800s. In taking the stage as Othello, a black actor sends shock waves across the city— challenging a society reluctant to change.

MAJOR 2017/18 The Harold and SEASON Mimi Steinberg SUPPORTERS Charitable Trust POINT OF VIEW

A Conversation with the Director

Visit chicagoshakes.com to explore more ideas rtistic Director Barbara Gaines and stories behind the art on CST’s stages. Amet with CST’s staff to share her woman. Speaking this simple, beautiful truth, his character is made more complex plans for the Theater’s production than the label “woman abuser” affords. There are many other equally profound THE TAMING OF THE SHREW lines that I hope our audience will hear, perhaps for the first time. I’m so grateful n BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of The Taming of the Shrew. for this opportunity to direct it again. n CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES What made you decide to direct The Taming of the Shrew We never mock Talk about your decision to replace Shakespeare’s n COLUMBIA WOMEN'S CLUB again—and now? Christopher Sly Induction with the Columbia SCENES BY RON WEST the play. But in the n COURTYARD THEATER To be honest, the thought of doing it again surprised me. Women's Club scenes, written by Ron West. n SEPTEMBER 16– I directed this play in the early years of this company, NOVEMBER 12, 2017 framework we will Christopher Sly appears only in the first few pages— and Shakespeare’s script wasn’t particularly intellectually n 312.595.5600 struggle with it— you never see or hear from him again, and so the n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM challenging to me, frankly—though the actors were brilliant frame’s relationship to the larger story can be easily and hilarious. But when we were planning our current just as every company overlooked in Shakespeare’s text. In our frame story, season, an entire concept came to me as one thought— has struggled with each character’s personality is specific. “Shrew, all women, 1919, suffragettes.” We’re still fighting We will play Shrew as a very funny—and enlightening— for women’s rights all over the world, including here in it for centuries. piece of work. We never mock the play. But in the the States. But my goal for this show is to make people framework we will struggle with it—just as every company has struggled with laugh—and to see how the issues of a hundred years ago it for centuries. I hope the framework will enlighten Shrew, and that Shrew will resonate still with Shakespeare, and in 2017 with us. enlighten the age that these suffragettes lived in—as well as the age we live in In directing it now, twenty years later, has your now. We’ve made enormous strides, but women are far from having equal rights. Barbara Gaines relationship to the story changed? Artistic Director Will we be conscious always that it is women playing men’s roles in Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair Yes. I never realized how much wisdom there is in this play The Taming of the Shrew? until we started working on the suffragette framework, I would love for you to get so caught up in the characters that you forget. We’ve and I started trying to connect these characters with the done cross-dressing before—so many of Shakespeare’s plays demand it—so this ones they’re playing in The Taming of the Shrew. When I is nothing new. Ultimately men have the same feelings that women have—though first staged it as a young director, I honestly did not see its we express them differently... profundity. And so this time, when I began my moment-to- moment work in preparation for rehearsal, I was dazzled Will we come to understand Shakespeare’s characters as they live side-by-side by some of the moments in this text. “It is the mind that with the characters in this new frame story? makes the body rich,” Petruchio says to Kate when she Absolutely. Remember that Shakespeare worked with a team—he wrote for those desperately wants a new dress to wear to her father’s specific actors whom he worked with, side by side. These were his house, returning there for the first time as a married 16 Fall 2017 | The Taming of the Shrew www.chicagoshakes.com 17 drinking buddies. He knew the souls of Burbage, Hemmings, and Condell, and he SALUTE TO SPONSORS was able to infuse them into his Hamlet and Feste, among so many others. Ron Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to recognize the partnership West, who developed the frame story for our production, has the same gift of of our leading contributors, whose visionary support ensures that infusing comic characters with the breadth of humanity. When we watch comedy, Shakespeare lives in Chicago today and for generations to come. the more we see ourselves in its characters, the more real, and touching—and MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS hilarious—it all becomes.

What dictated what you have cut to accommodate the new frame?

As you know, cutting Shakespeare is second nature to me by now. But everything you cut has ramifications, so when you’re cutting in Act 1, you better know what’s going on in Act 5. I cut some minor characters—easy to do because you can always give those lines to other characters onstage. I cut plotlines that lead Raymond and nowhere—and, as always, I cut repetition. Shakespeare, particularly as a young Judy McCaskey playwright, enjoyed creating lists of metaphors, one after another. Orson Welles Burton X. and Timothy R. Schwertfeger (whose mother we commemorate as one of our suffragette characters) once Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Gail Waller said—and I’m paraphrasing here—that every time you direct Shakespeare, you betray him. When you’re reading a play, all possibilities are available—and The Harold and Mimi Carl and Donna Van Eekeren there are countless possibilities and choices. But when a director starts to Steinberg Charitable Trust Marilynn Thoma Foundation shape their vision, they are necessarily ignoring so many other ways that one LEAD SPONSORS might interpret Shakespeare. Anne and Andrew Abel Eric's Tazmanian KPMG LLP Richard W. Porter Charitable Fund Angel Fund and Lydia S. Marti Have you discovered something new in Shakespeare’s Anna and Robert Each comes Allscripts Exelon Livingston John W. and characters as you’ve watched women portray them? Allstate Insurance Harve A. Ferrill The John D. and Jeanne M. Rowe to a place of Company Sonja and Conrad Fischer Catherine T. Patrick G. and Shirley Yes, I absolutely have—in part, through the characters they MacArthur Foundation W. Ryan Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Food For Thought are also playing in the frame story. The men they play in Foundation Lew and Susan Manilow The Segal Family recognition that Barbara and Richard Foundation Shrew have become more three-dimensional to me. As A. N. and Pearl G. Franke National Endowment their past behavior Barnett Family for the Arts Barbara and Barre they play them, we see how women view these men and Foundation Virginia and Gary Gerst Sheila Penrose and Seid Foundation ITW might have been their behavior. Male inspiration—and the complete lack BlueCross BlueShield Ernie Mahaffey The Shubert of Illinois Jan and Bill Jentes of it sometimes—is so clear as I watch these women in Polk Bros. Foundation Foundation Bulley & Andrews JLL worth changing these roles. I’ve seen great wisdom in Petruchio (Crystal Peter and Alicia Pond Anonymous Joyce Chelberg Lucas-Perry) and a different kind of vulnerability in Kate (Alexandra Henrikson). You often watch Kate, completely worn down, just learning the game to survive ENDOWED FUNDS, CHAIRS AND PROGRAMS

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Welcome. If we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that flashing lights and haze may be used during this performance. Also, actors will make entrances and exits throughout the theater. For your safety, we ask that you keep aisles and doorways clear. We request that you refrain from taking any photography and other video or audio recordings of the production. There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: Lynn Baber* for Mrs. Sarah Willoughby as Vincentio/ Chicago Shakespeare Theater strives to make its facility and Joseph, Mrs. Mildred Sherman as Grumio/Widow; Sarah Dunnavant for Miss Olivia Twist performances accessible to all patrons. You’ll find our staff as Lucentio, Mrs. Dorothy Mercer as Tranio/Haberdasher; Tina Gluschenko* for Mrs. Louise Harrison as Katherine; Grayson Heyl for Mrs. Beatrice Welles as Hortensio, Mrs. is ready to help in any way possible if assistance is required. Barbara Starkey as Curtis/Tailor/Officer; Ann James for Miss Judith Smith as Gremio/ Peter; Laurie Larson for Dr. Fannie Emmanuel as Baptista/Nathaniel, Mrs. Elizabeth Simply request accommodations when purchasing your tickets. Nicewander as Pedant/Nicholas; Patricia Lavery* for Mrs. Victoria Van Dyne as Petruchio, Mrs. Beatrice Welles as Hortensio; and Faith Servant for Mrs. Emily Ingersoll as Bianca, • Accessible parking Mrs. Lucinda James as Biondello. Open-captioned • Courtesy wheelchair service Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER* performances • Wheelchair-accessible Stage Manager (beginning October 17) DENNIS J. CONNERS* Audio-described seating Assistant Stage Manager CASSIE CALDERONE* performances with • Close to Pace Paratransit optional Touch Tours drop-off/pick-up *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. • Assistive-listening devices ASL Duo-interpreted performances • Personal induction neckloops • Large-print programs • Braille programs

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In Padua, a wealthy merchant named Baptista is resolved: his lovely daughter their domestic duties, clubs devoted to Shakespeare remained relatively Bianca will not be wed until her elder sister, Katharina “the curs’d,” is married unscathed. They offered a safe harbor for carrying out progressive agendas off. The field of frustrated suitors for Bianca’s hand is crowded already with and social activism while providing places where women could freely discuss local gentlemen, including Hortensio and Gremio, when Lucentio arrives in such topics as politics, suffrage, sexual relations, and domesticity. town to pursue his studies. But after one look at the merchant's charming

daughter, Lucentio, too, is compelled to leave all logic behind. In order to gain access to Baptista’s barred treasure, Hortensio dons the robes of a music AMERICAN SUFFRAGISTS instructor; Lucentio, handing off his identity to his servant Tranio, disguises I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and himself as another tutor for the younger daughter. favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if Just when it seems as though the lovely Bianca will never be free to wed, they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are another suitor arrives in town. His name is Petruchio, an adventurer who determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by seems quite undaunted by life’s obstacles—and one determined to shore up any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. his financial future with a wife. Baptista’s eldest daughter will fit the bill. In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote these words to her After their sudden courtship, Petruchio manages to escort his “bride” down the husband while he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Her words aisle, then sets out to tame her. Bianca available at last, Tranio (disguised as his now ring prophetic—a call to women who rose up in the next century to fight master) manages to convince her father that Lucentio is the man for her. When for a voice and representation. But the Continental Congress had no such plan Baptista requires that the young man’s father agree to the terms of the contract, as it prepared to secede from England. another imposter is cast to play the part—just as Lucentio’s real father arrives in town. In the end, true identities are revealed, three marriages are celebrated, and The women’s rights movement began in earnest in 1848 with the first US a wager is placed as the newlyweds roll the dice on married life. women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Attendees signed the “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances,” a treatise (modeled after the

Declaration of Independence) that documented the injustices faced by women SUFFRAGE, WOMEN’S CLUBS, AND SHAKESPEARE in America, and calling for them to petition for equal rights. In 1869 Wyoming The emergence of women’s clubs in mid-nineteenth-century America began Territory became the first to grant women the right to vote. a social movement that sought to provide women an avenue for education, The Nineteenth Amendment, prohibiting denial of suffrage based on sex, community, and civic service. An estimated two million American women was first introduced to the US Senate in 1878. The proposed amendment were active in these clubs by the turn of the twentieth century. Promoting remained a controversial issue for more than forty years. The efforts of the education for women, clubs frequently focused on literature and history. women’s rights movement finally resulted in the passage of the amendment Many took on local and national reform issues—the need within their own by Congress in June 1919. With the Nineteenth Amendment ratified by three- communities for schools, libraries, and public parks, and, on a national level, fourths of the States, it became part of the United States Constitution on the women’s suffrage debate. August 18, 1920. n Shakespeare became a popular theme as club members studied, memorized, and performed his plays. During the heyday of the women’s club movement, there were more than 500 Shakespeare clubs across the country, including three in Chicago: the Hull House Shakespeare Club, Argyle Park Portia Club, and Shakespeare Club of Chicago, which operated into the 1940s. While women’s clubs routinely drew criticism for drawing their members away from

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E. FAYE BUTLER (MCC). Ms. Castillo’s regional credits include: Television credits include: Empire, Chicago from Happiness, and Leander Stillwell (Dr. Fannie Emmanuel as Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Milwaukee Fire, and Leverage. Ms. Gold received her (Stage Left Theatre). She cofounded Baptista/Nathaniel) Repertory Theater); Hairspray (Phoenix BFA from Boston University and MFA Chicspeare Production Company, where returns to ); Hairspray, Glorious! (Arkansas from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival she directed Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and Shakespeare Theater, Repertory Theatre); Macbeth, Fiddler on the Professional Actor Training Program. created Bottome’s Dreame, an adaptation where she appeared in Roof, Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical, School She is a professor of theatre at of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Seussical. Other Chicago for Wives, The Merchant of Venice, Private Northwestern University. Ms. James’s television credits include credits include Lives, and The Taming of the Shrew (Utah Better Call Saul (AMC) and Unsolved (NBC). productions with: , Court Shakespeare Festival). ALEXANDRA HENRIKSON Mysteries Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf (Mrs. Louise Harrison as Theatre Company, , Victory TINA GLUSCHENKO Katherine) makes her HEIDI KETTENRING Chicago debut at (Mrs. Dorothy Mercer as Gardens Theater, Drury Lane Theatre, Royal (Mrs. Beatrice Welles as Chicago Shakespeare Tranio/Haberdasher) George Theatre, The Vic Theatre, and Hortensio) returns to Theater. Broadway returns to Chicago Broadway Playhouse. Regional credits Chicago Shakespeare credits include Larry Shakespeare Theater, include productions with: The Muny, Olney Theater, where she David's Fish in the Dark where her credits Theatre Center, Repertory Theatre of appeared in Hamlet, the and The Snow Geese (Manhattan Theatre include: Tug of War: St. Louis, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Musical!, a joint Club). Off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway and Philadelphia Theatre Company, Signature production with Second Foreign Fire Civil credits include: , , Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Yale City Theatricals, which later moved to Ars We Play for the Gods Strife The Merry Wives of Windsor The (Women's Project Theater); , and Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Nova for a New York run under the title Bones in the School for Lies Sunday in the Park Basket (The Araca Group); Hell House (St. with George. Other Chicago credits The Pasadena Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Melancholy Baby. Other Chicago credits Ann's Warehouse); Commedia dell’Artichoke include Nessa in Wicked (Broadway In Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla include: The House of Martin Guerre, Randy (Gene Frankel Theatre); The Maids (Impure Chicago) and productions with: Writers Playhouse, and The Washington Ballet. Newman’s Faust (Goodman Theatre); Artists); and Much Ado About Nothing Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane National and regional tours include: Mamma A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre); The (Smith Street Stage). Independent film Theatre (Oakbrook and Evergreen Park), Mia!, Dinah Was, Ain’t Misbehavin, Bardy Bunch (Mercury Theatre); Away works include: Towheads, Love Like Gold, Chicago Commercial Collective, Court Nunsense, Nunsense II, and Don’t Bother Me (Northlight Theatre); A Class Act (Porchlight and Here We Are in the Present…Again. Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and American I Can’t Cope. Awards include: Guy Adkins Music Theatre); End Days (Windy City Regional credits include: the world premiere Theatre Company. Her national tour credits Award, Rosetta LeNoire Award, six Joseph Playhouse); Songs of , and of Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower (The Old include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Jefferson Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, Sex and the Second City (Second City Globe); (Helen Hayes nomination, Regional credits include productions with: four Black Theater Alliance Awards, RAMI Theatricals). Ms. Gluschenko’s national tour Ironbound Round House Theatre); Fairytale Lives of Theatre at the Center, Fulton Theatre, Award, The Barrymore Award, Excellence in credits include Into the Woods and The Russian Girls (Suzi Bass Award–Best Maine State Music Theatre, TheatreWorks, the Arts Award, After Dark Award, Ovation Secret Garden. Her film credits includeThe Ensemble, Alliance Theatre); and and Peninsula Players. Ms. Kettenring has Award, Kathryn V. Lampkey Award, Sarah Package. She received a BFA from The productions with California Shakespeare sung concerts for Artists Lounge Live, Siddons Leading Lady Award, and Black Theatre School at DePaul University. Excellence Award. Ms. Butler is also a Theater and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Ravinia, Pensacola Symphony, and at member of the Lunt–Fontanne Fellowship, Center. Ms. Henrikson received a BFA in Millennium Park, and is heard singing on CINDY GOLD theatre from New York University and an two Disney books. Film and television and was inducted into the National Museum (Mrs. Sarah Willoughby as MFA in acting from Yale University. credits include: Man of Steel, Chicago Fire of Women in the Arts. www.e-fayebutler.com Vincentio/Joseph) makes (NBC), and Cupid (ABC). A graduate of her Chicago Shakespeare Northwestern University, she is the LILLIAN CASTILLO Theater debut. Other ANN JAMES (Mrs. Elizabeth recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award, (Mrs. Lucinda James as Chicago credits include: Nicewander as Pedant/ seven Jeff Award nominations, The Sarah Biondello) returns to Showboat, My Fair Lady Nicholas) makes her Siddons Award, an After Dark Award, and Chicago Shakespeare (); Chicago Shakespeare the Richard M. Kneeland Award. Theater, where her credits In the Garden (Lookingglass Theatre Theater debut. She is an include: Ride the Cyclone, Company); Measure for Measure (Goodman ensemble member of Theatre); Love, Loss and What I Wore CRYSTAL LUCAS-PERRY the Chicago Shakespeare Sideshow Theatre (); Awake and Sing (Mrs. Victoria Van Dyne in the Parks production of Company, and has appeared in its (Jeff Award nomination), Pride and as Petruchio) makes her Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, and Seussical. productions of: truth and reconciliation, Prejudice, Mothers and Sons, Jekyll and Chicago debut at Other Chicago credits include: In the Heights Caught, Antigonick, Maria/Stuart, and Hyde (Northlight Theatre); Deathtrap (Drury Chicago Shakespeare (Paramount Theatre); Hairspray, Sleeping Idomeneus. Other Chicago credits include: Lane Theatre); Loving Repeating (Jeff Theater. Off-Broadway Beauty, West Side Story (Drury Lane Rolling (Jackalope Theatre Company); King Award), and A Kid Like Jake (About Face credits include: Bull in a Theatre); Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, She Loves Lear (Goodman Theatre); Romeo & Juliet Theatre). Her regional credits include: China Shop (Lincoln Me (Marriott Theatre); Wonderland, Alice’s (Chicspeare Production Company); The Showboat, The Daughter of the Regiment Center Theater); Little Children Dream of Last Barbecue (16th Street Theater); House Rock and Roll Adventure (Chicago Children’s (Washington National Opera, The Kennedy God (Roundabout Theatre); Bastard Jones of Blue Leaves, Meet John Doe, Holy Theatre); and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Center); and The Music Man (Glimmerglass (The Cell Theatre); The Convent of Pleasure Ghosts (Shattered Globe Theatre); Escape Reindeer (Emerald City Theatre). Off- Opera and Royal Opera, Muscat, Oman). (Cherry Lane Theatre); Storm Still: A King Broadway she appeared in Ride the Cyclone

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Lear Adaptation (Brooklyn Yard Theatre); (Arena Stage); Grey Gardens (Philadelphia OLIVIA WASHINGTON RON WEST (Writer, Columbia Women’s Club Devil Music (Ensemble Studio Theatre); and Theatre Company); and productions with: (Mrs. Emily Ingersoll as scenes) returns to Chicago Shakespeare, The Wedding Play (The Tank Theatre). Shakespeare Theatre Company, Long Bianca) makes her where his credits include the Shepperton Regional credits include: A Sign of the Times Wharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Indiana Chicago debut at Studios dialogue for Barbara Gaines’ 2008 (Goodspeed Musicals); Far from Heaven, A Repertory Theatre, and Arizona Theatre Chicago Shakespeare production of The Comedy of Errors (Jeff Streetcar Named Desire, Finding Robert Company. National tour credits include: Theater. She has Award for Best Adaptation), and co-author Hutchens, and When You’re Here Les Misérables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, appeared off-Broadway (with Phil Swann) of The People Vs Friar (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film credits Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mother as Laura in The Glass Laurence, which premiered at CST. Also include: Mimesis 2, Frank and Azalee Austin, Superior in Sister Act. Ms. Resnik is the Menagerie (Masterworks Theater Company) with Phil Swann, Mr. West has co-authored and Roulette. Ms. Lucas-Perry is also a solo recipient of twelve Joseph Jefferson and in Caucasian Chalk Circle (Stella Adler the musical deLEARIous, recently revived artist and composes, produces, and Awards, the Helen Hayes Award, two Sarah Studio of Acting). Her regional credits by the Open Fist Theater, and Musical performs her original music at venues across Siddons Awards, and the 2012 include Clybourne Park (Hangar Theatre). Fools, based on the play by Neil Simon the country. She received her BA from Lunt Fontaine Fellowship. Film and television credits include Lee (published by Samuel French). Recent Western Michigan University’s College of Daniel’s The Butler and Mr. Robot. directing credits include: Twist Your Dickens Fine Arts and her MFA from New York FAITH SERVANT Ms. Washington received her BFA in drama (Goodman Theatre, where he also appeared University’s Tisch Graduate Acting Program. (Mrs. Barbara Starkey from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. as Scrooge); Twist Your Dickens (Portland as Curtis/Tailor/Officer) Center Stage); Life Expectancy (Hollywood RITA REHN (Mrs. Mildred makes her Chicago debut BARBARA GAINES Fringe); The 39 Steps (Malibu Playhouse); at Chicago Shakespeare Sherman as Grumio/ (Director/Artistic and Welcome to Your Alternative Reality, makes her Theater. Regional credits Widow) Director/Carl and which he co-wrote and co-directed with Chicago Shakespeare include: Love’s Labour’s Marilynn Thoma playwright Catherine Butterfield (Atwater Theater debut. Broadway , Lost Love’s Labor’s Endowed Chair) founded Village Theater). Mr. West has directed “a credits include: Nine, Won, Richard II, Elizabeth Rex, Antony and Chicago Shakespeare jillion” shows for The Second City, including A Chorus Line, and Cleopatra (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Theater, where she has the Jeff Award-winning Curious George The Royal Family. Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed nearly fifty Goes to War and the international tour of Off-Broadway credits include: Last Dance, (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Education productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Honors Sex & The Second City. The Doctor bats Defiance, and Our Leading Lady. Her Tour); and Hamlet (Montana Shakespeare include: the 2008 Tony Award for right and throws right. national tour and regional credits include: in the Schools). Ms. Servant received a BA Outstanding Regional Theatre; the The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Clever Little in Drama and History from Kenyon College, prestigious Honorary OBE (Officer of the KEVIN DEPINET (Scenic Designer) returns to Lies, The Roommate, Over the River, Sylvia, and her MFA in Classical Acting from Illinois Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his and Always…Patsy Cline (Florida Studio State University. in recognition of her contributions credits include: Love’s Labor's Lost, Heir Theatre). Film credits include: The strengthening British-American cultural Apparent, Sense and Sensibility, Henry V, Producers, Pocket Pair, Extras, Show Me a KATE MARIE SMITH relations; and Joseph Jefferson Awards for Gypsy, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sunday in the , and . Ms. Rehn’s television Hero The Jinx (Miss Olivia Twist as Best Production (Hamlet, Cymbeline, King Park with George, Timon of Athens, Follies credits include: , , Law & Order Miami Vice Lucentio) returns to Lear and The Comedy of Errors), and for and As You Like It. Other Chicago credits , , Moon over Miami B.L. Stryker Tough Chicago Shakespeare Best Director (Cymbeline, King Lear and include productions with: Steppenwolf , , , and Cookies General Hospital Superboy Theater, where her The Comedy of Errors). Ms. Gaines has Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage. She credits include King directed at the Royal Shakespeare , , Drury received the New Jersey Theatre Critics Charles III and Short Company in Stratford-on-Avon, Lyric Opera Lane Oakbrook and Chicago Children’s Award for Best Actress in a Comedy and Shakespeare! Twelfth of Chicago and The Old Globe in San Theatre. Broadway credits include his Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Night. Other Chicago credits include: An Diego. As the cornerstone production of work as associate designer for Of Mice Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico Shakespeare 400 Chicago, the 2016 and Men, August: Osage County and HOLLIS RESNIK (The Jades); Memory Tour (Pivot Arts); international celebration of Shakespeare’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Regional (Miss Judith Smith as Top Girls, Twelfth Night (The Arc Theater); legacy, she created a world premiere credits include productions with: American Gremio/Peter) returns Bellboys, Bears and Baggage (Redmoon); Shakespeare history cycle, Tug of War, Players Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Denver to Chicago Shakespeare and Orpheus and Eurydice (Chicago Opera including the rarely staged Edward III. Center Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Theater, where she Theater). She is also a member of One Year Ms. Gaines received an Honorary Doctorate Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arden appeared as Carlotta Chekhov. Television credits include Chicago of Letters from the University of Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, in Follies (Jeff Award). Fire (Universal Television). Ms. Smith Birmingham (UK), the University Club of Yale Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Other Chicago credits received her BA in theatre performance Chicago’s Cultural Award, the Public Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the include Candide, A Little Night Music and minor in music from Huntington Humanities Award from the Illinois Park, Brooklyn Academy of Music and (Goodman Theatre); and productions University. Humanities Council. Glimmerglass Festival. International credits with Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, include National Theatre of Great Britain. Marriot Theatre, Apollo Theater, and the Film credits include scenery for Michael . Regional credits include: Mann’s Public Enemies. Mr. Depinet Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Judy studied at the Yale School of Drama, and Garland in End of the Rainbow (Milwaukee now serves as an adjunct professor of Repertory Theater); The Light in the Piazza design at DePaul University.

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SUSAN E. MICKEY (Costume Designer) Singapore Arts Festival, and Tokyo Metro of wigs and make-up); Guthrie Theater Award nomination), Spamalot, (Jeff Award returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater Arts Center. Mr. Hase is the head of (wig master); Alliance Theatre; and nomination), Gypsy, Seven Brides for for her thirteenth production, including lighting for Cincinnati Opera Association. McCarter Theatre. Opera credits include Seven Brothers, Miss Saigon (Drury Lane Shakespeare in Love, Tug of War: Foreign www.Haseltd.com. productions with: Atlanta Opera, San Theatre); Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre); Fire and Civil Strife, Sense and Sensibility, Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera, Chicago The Story of My Life (Victory Gardens The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cyrano de DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Original Music & Sound Opera Theatre, Saint Louis Opera, and Theater); The Original Grease (American Bergerac, The School for Lies (Jeff Award), Design) returns to Chicago Shakespeare the Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South Theater Company); and The Rocky Horror Timon of Athens, The Madness of George Theater, where his credits include King John Carolina, and Italy. Show (Mercury Theater). Ms. Duchak was (Jeff Award nomination) and Measure for III (Jeff Award), Richard III, Cymbeline, also the musical supervisor for A Little Measure. Other Chicago credits include The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of KEVIN GUDAHL (Verse Coach) returns to Night Music (Writers Theatre). Broadway Hedda Gabler (Steppenwolf Theatre). the Shrew. Other Chicago credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he acting credits include Mother in Ragtime. costume design for: Broadway credits include: Heisenberg, The The Marriage of Figaro has served as verse coach for many CST Ms. Duchak’s national tour acting credits (Lyric Opera); Jitney and Miss Evers’ Boys Gin Game, Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and productions, including: Tug of War: Civil include: Ghost of Christmas Past in (Goodman Theatre). Regional credits Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, The Strife, Othello, The Tempest, Chicago Scrooge, Magnolia and Ellie in Showboat, include designs for: The Guthrie Theater, Normal Heart, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit Shakespeare in the Parks productions Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Huntington the Wind, Frozen, Arcadia, The Crucible, and Rona Lisa Peretti in Spelling Bee Theatre Company, Center Stage, Cleveland Judgment at Nuremberg, Three Days of Rain. of Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits and The (Chicago and national tour companies). Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Off-Broadway credits include: Incognito, Taming of the Shrew, Short Shakespeare! Ms. Duchak has two vocal studios in the Park, Goodspeed Musicals, Portland Center Plenty, Hold on to Me Darling, Wit, Posterity, Macbeth, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Troilus and Chicago area and was the vocal coach for Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dallas How I Learned to Drive, The Grey Zone, Cressida, Macbeth, As You Like It, Timon Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman for the Theater Center, Studio Arena Theatre, and Jack Goes Boating. Film/TV credits of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmLes Misérables. Geva Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory include: Working Girls, Bondage, Buried Henry VIII, The Comedy of Errors and King Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Prayers, Penn & Teller, and Wooster Group. Lear. Mr. Gudahl has taught Shakespeare MATT HAWKINS (Fight Choreography) Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and over Dance credits: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, acting courses at Northwestern University, returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, fifty productions with the Alliance Theatre STREB, Pilobolus, Michael Moschen. Mr. Van DePaul University, University of Illinois- where he has been fight choreographer, Company in Atlanta. International Credits Tieghem has performed as a percussionist Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Act assistant director, director, and an actor include Madama Butterfly (Opera Pa Skaret, for Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Brian One Studios, Acting Studio Chicago and in over twenty productions, including Eno, and Talking Heads. He is the recipient Sweden) Television and film credits include Victory Gardens Studio, and is a regular fight choreographer in the upcoming of the Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obie costume design for Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO) instructor in CST’s Classical Training production of Macbeth. Other upcoming Awards, a Bessie, and has multiple Drama and Mama Flora’s Family miniseries (CBS). program. He has acted in over forty productions include: director of Hatfield Ms. Mickey serves as senior associate chair Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. (The House Theatre of Chicago) Chicago Shakespeare Theater productions, & McCoy at University of Texas at Austin. Discography credits include: Thrown for a and Spring Awakening (University of and has also performed in Chicago Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, Notre Dame); and fight choreographer at: Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, (Lighting Designer) and These Things Happen. for Shakespeare in Love (Asolo Repertory THOMAS C. HASE Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Remy makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater www.vantieghem.com Theater) and Newsies (Marriott Theatre). Bumppo Theatre Company, Northlight debut. New York credits include: Company Mr. Hawkins has been nominated for on Broadway, several off-Broadway RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, and thirteen Jeff Awards and has received productions, and productions with returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, . Mr. Gudahl has five. Mr. Hawkins received a BFA in acting New York City Opera and BAM Next where he has designed wigs and make-up appeared internationally at the Stratford from Southern Methodist University and Wave Festival. Regional credits include for: Madagascar, Chicago Shakespeare Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and Royal his MFA in directing from The University productions with: Center Stage, Cincinnati in the Parks: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Company. of Iowa. Mr. Hawkins is an assistant Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theater Shakespeare in Love, Short Shakespeare! professor at the University of Notre Dame, Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost, King ROBERTA DUCHAK (Music Director) returns to where he serves as the head of Musical Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Santa Fe Charles III; the inaugural season of Chicago Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she Theatre for the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre. Opera, Seattle Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Shakespeare on Navy Pier; and many appeared in The People Vs. Friar Laurence: and Los Angeles Opera. International productions at the Theatre. The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet and credits include productions with: ( Mr. Jarvie spent twenty-eight years with was music director for Murder for Two and DEBORAH ACKER Production Stage Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater Erfurt, Manager) has stage managed the the Lyric Opera of Chicago, eleven of The Little Mermaid. Other Chicago music and Bayerische Staatsoper (Germany), past twenty-eight seasons at Chicago them as the wig master and make-up director credits include: Chicago, Saturday Barbican Theatre and Sadler’s Wells Shakespeare Theater. Other stage designer. Other Chicago credits include Night Fever, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Crazy Theatre (London), Opera North (UK), the management credits include: Puttin’ on for You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables Abbey Theatre and Riverdreams (Dublin), productions with: Goodman Theatre, Court the Ritz (National Jewish Theater); Six (Jeff Award nomination), West Side Story, Malmö Opera (Sweden), the Dutch, Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Degrees of Separation, Driving Miss Daisy, White Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Finnish, and Columbian National Operas, and Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook. I’m Not Rappaport (); , Stage Entertainment (Holland), Opéra Regional and international credits include Hello Dolly!, Oliver The Sound of Music The Nerd (Royal George Theatre); and de Marseille(France), Canadian Opera productions with: the Tom Patterson (Jeff Award nomination), Sweeney Todd A…My Name Is Alice (Ivanhoe Theatre). Company, the Luminato Festival (Toronto), Theatre in Stratford, Ontario (supervisor (Jeff Award nomination), Ragtime (Jeff She has production managed extensively

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throughout Chicago, and has also provided Sparrow (Broadway in Chicago); and RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses CRISS HENDERSON lighting designs for: the Apollo Theatre, The MLK Project (Writers Theatre). on current and future artistic planning and (Executive Director) Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Chicago Regional credits include productions with: production, as well as the development of has produced Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Team Shakespeare, Catharsis Productions, Opera Illinois, all new plays, musicals, and adaptations Shakespeare Theater's the Museum of Science and Industry, Some and Portland Stage. for CST. Projects include: The Book of past twenty-eight Like It Cole (tour), and Pump Boys and Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC), seasons, and developed Dinettes in Branson, Missouri. BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), the citywide, yearlong Director) is in his eighteenth season as Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, celebration through 2016 DENNIS J. CONNERS (Stage Manager, CST’s casting director, where his credits Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver); of Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 beginning October 17) is a resident include over one hundred productions and Othello: The Remix (Chicago, London, Chicago. Under his leadership, CST has production stage manager at Chicago thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. Germany, Edinburgh, South Korea, Sydney, become one of the nation’s leading regional Shakespeare Theater, where he has stage In addition to numerous productions with Poland, Melbourne, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, theaters and one of Chicago's most managed over a dozen productions, Barbara Gaines, other productions of Auckland, National Alliance for Musical celebrated cultural organizations, honored including: King Charles III, Othello, Ride note include: a host of Sondheim musicals Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals 2015, with the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding the Cyclone, King Lear, The Little Mermaid, directed by Gary Griffin;Rose Rage: Henry off-Broadway); Funk It Up About Nothin’ Regional Theatre, as well as multiple A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol, and VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Edward (CST, Edinburgh, Australian tour, London); Laurence Olivier and Joseph Jefferson Othello: The Remix. Other Chicago credits Hall; and The Molière Comedies, directed A Flea in Her Ear (CST, Williamstown Awards. Mr. Henderson has garnered include: Appropriate, Disconnect (Victory by Brian Bedford. He recently directed Theatre Festival); The Three Musketeers multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural Gardens Theater); Freud’s Last Session and co-created Shakespeare Tonight! (CST, Boston, London); The Emperor’s New Innovation Award from the Chicago (Mercury Theater, CRC Productions); Mr. with Beckie Menzie, as part of CST's Clothes, The Adventures of Pinocchio (now Innovation Awards; the Arts Administrator Chickee’s Funny Money, The Houdini Box, Shakespeare 400 Chicago festival. Prior to licensed by Rodgers and Hammerstein of the Year by Arts Management Magazine Goodnight Moon (Chicago Children’s casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Theatricals); Murder for Two (at CST, at the Kennedy Center and the Chevalier de Theatre); Ethan Frome, Peter Pan: A Play, Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and followed by New York and national tour), L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Lookingglass Alice, Fedra: Queen of Haiti, has been a visiting educator for the School and The Feast: an intimate Tempest (in Minister of Culture of France. He was named The Arabian Nights, Clay (Lookingglass at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, collaboration with Redmoon). Former among the top 40 business people under Theatre Company); What Once We Felt the University of Illinois at Chicago, and artistic director of the Marriott Theatre the age of 40 in Crain’s Chicago Business. (About Face Theatre); Dangerous Beauty, Northwestern University. and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, He serves as president of the Producers’ and In the Bubble (American Music he has starred in productions nationally, Association of Chicago-area Theaters and is Theatre Project). Off-Broadway credits NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) is the including CST’s production of A Flea in director of the MFA/Arts Leadership include: Clay (Lincoln Center Theater) and director of casting at Manhattan Theatre Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark Program, a two-year graduate-level Lookingglass Alice (New Victory Theater). Club. Broadway credits include: Jitney, Award). As casting director/associate at curriculum in arts management training Regional credits include: Clay (Kirk Douglas Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: created through a joint partnership Theatre, Kansas City Rep) and Lookingglass Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, the television series Early Edition, Missing between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Alice (Alliance Theatre). Mr. Conners is a The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Persons, Untouchables, and ER; the films The Theatre School at DePaul University. graduate of Northwestern University, where Casa Valentina, and Constellations. She cast While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, he has served as an adjunct lecturer in the original production of Proof and The among others; and numerous national stage management and currently serves as Tale of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma a stage management mentor. and off-Broadway, as well as their national mater Northwestern University, and is the tours. Off-Broadway credits include: Linda, past president of the board of the National CASSIE CALDERONE (Assistant Stage Incognito, The Explorers Club, Choir Boy, Alliance for Musical Theatre. Manager) returns to Chicago Shakespeare The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, Theater, where she was assistant stage The World of Extreme Happiness, and Of manager for The Heir Apparent. Other Good Stock. Prior to working at Manhattan Chicago credits include: Pass Over, Straight Theatre Club, she was a member of the White Men, The Christians, Betrayal, Gary, casting staff at the New York Shakespeare Fair Use, The Glass Menagerie, To Kill a Festival for ten years, where she worked Mockingbird, Venus, Man in Love, fml: how on Shakespeare in the Park and numerous Carson McCullers saved my life, Head of productions at the Public Theatre. She Passes, The Wheel, The Gospel of Franklin, cast the American actors for the first two Grand Concourse, Marie Antoinette, seasons of the Bridge Project, produced Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the Animal Farm, Hushabye, Russian Transport, by BAM and the Old Vic London. She is a United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component The Compass, Between Riverside and Crazy graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a 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 (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Song member of the Casting Society of America. organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org for the Disappeared (Goodman Theatre);

Grease, A Chorus Line (Paramount The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this Theatre); The Homosexuals (About Face The Director is a member of the STAGE production are represented by United Scenic Artists, Theatre); , DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Million Dollar Quartet The SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

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BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair

ARTISTIC EDUCATION AND ERIN STRICK STAGE MANAGEMENT D.J. REED PROPERTIES DJ CUMMINGS JASCULCA TERMAN Advancement Crafts Artisan CLIO McCONNELL Public Relations Consultant RICK BOYNTON COMMUNITY Communications Manager DEBORAH ACKER, AEA CASSANDRA MADELYN TOMKO Creative Producer ENGAGEMENT Production Stage Manager/ CAITLIN ALLEN WESTOVER Front of House Supervisors SMART MARKETING ASHANTIS JONES Associate Producer Costume Apprentice Properties Supervisor Sales Consultant GARY GRIFFIN MARILYN J. HALPERIN Campaign and Major JOHN KUINIUS MEDICAL PROGRAM Associate Artistic Director Director of Education Gifts Coordinator DENNIS J. NATALIE KELLER HILLARIE SHOCKLEY Concessions Supervisor and Communications CONNERS, AEA JESS KENYON Assistant Properties FOR PERFORMING MEL GILL BOB MASON Ray and Judy McCaskey CAITLYN DeROSA Production Stage Manager JENNIFER GIANGOLA Supervisor ARTISTS/ MARIA E. CLAUDIA ROY REESE, MD Artistic Associate/ Endowed Chair Donor Relations and Dressers Guest Services Leads Medical Services Casting Director Research Coordinator CASSIE LISA GRIEBEL JASON HARRINGTON CALDERONE, AEA JENNIFER SUSAN Properties Carpenter SAMANTHA PLOTNER ERIN BAKER AON PRIVATE RISK HEATHER SCHMUCKER Education Outreach Manager Assistant Stage Manager Costume Intern Gala and Institutional MEGAN CLAUHS MANAGEMENT, Associate Producer DAN NURCZYK MICHAEL CONROY MOLLY TRUGLIA Relations Coordinator BETH SPENCER, AEA ELECTRICS Properties Crew Head STEVEN HEIN Assistant Stage MICHAEL Insurance Services DOREEN SAYEGH Learning Programs Manager NIKOLE ZHIXI ZHANG Manager Cover JEFF GLASS CONSTANTINO Producing Associate / MARGOT BARDEEN ROXANNA CONNER Advancement Intern Lighting Supervisor JONATHAN NICK CUELLAR HUGHES SOCOL PIERS Manager of International LINA BENICH MATT FRASER RESNICK & DYM, LTD. and Special Projects Education Associate BERG-EINORN Stage Management Intern JESSICA DOYLE DANA MACEL BRITTNEY GRANT KIRKLAND & ELLIS ELIZABETH LYLE MARKETING Assistant Lighting Designer KASS HAROUN MCDERMOTT WILL LAURA DURHAM Properties Artisans Education Intern SCENERY JENNIFER AND EMERY Casting Associate ALIDA SZABO ALEC THORNE HUDDLESTON NEVIN LAW

Director of Audience ANGELA McMAHON Assistant Lighting Supervisor MISSY KARLE GROUP, PLLC ROSIE BROSS Development OPERATIONS/ MARY MALONEY Legal Services FINANCE ROBERT L. WILSON JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Producing Office Assistant Technical Directors FACILITIES BRENNA MARKLE Lighting Crew Head LINDA ORELLANA JULIE STANTON REGINALD McKAMIE REGINA BUCCOLA, PH.D. RINSKA CARRASCO SUSAN KNILL Scholar-in-Residence Director of Finance Marketing Director BRIAN COIL JAMES KEGEL JOHNATHAN NIEVES The Taming of the Shrew Stage Crew Head Facilities and Operations MORAYO ORIJA Lighting Intern Assistant Director DAN GRYCZA CATHY TAYLOR Director RACHEL PENN STEPHEN BENNETT, PH.D. Human Resources Manager/ Public Relations Consultant BRADLEY BURI ANDREW PIECHOTA NATE SCHWARTZ ARIANNA BROWN JEANNE DeVORE CASEY CALDWELL, MFA Finance Associate Stage Carpenter Head MARTHA TEMPLETON KATE ROYAL The Taming of the Shrew HANNAH KENNEDY Technology Manager ELIZABETH Intern DAVID TRUDEAU CHLOE SCHNEIDER ALANA RYBAK Public Relations Manager EMILY SMITH JEN SLOAN CHARLEBOIS, PH.D. Stage Crew Apprentice ALI WOJCIKIEWICZ DANIEL LOPEZ IRA MURFIN, PH.D. Assistant Director of Finance ANDREA TUCCI MIKEY GRAY AMANDA CANTLIN Electricians Assistant Facilities Manager SARAH THIEL, PH.D. Assistant to the JACK BIRDWELL MARGARET WOLFE ALYSSE HUNTER Senior Marketing Manager QI ZHANG ALFRED THOMAS, PH.D. Creative Producer ADAM HELD SOUND RICHARD TENNY Guest Lecturers Guest Services Associates Accounting Manager JESSICA CONNOR MICHAEL JANSSENS Custodial Supervisor REBECCA PALMER JANKENS Marketing Assistant— NATHAN SERVISS MICHAEL BROSILOW MARSHALLA MOLLY BRIGGS Sound Supervisor DWAYNE BREWER Advertising and Publications ADAM TODD BILL BURLINGHAM Casting Intern Accounting Associate MARIBEL CUEVAS House Carpenters JOSEPH DISBROW CONSULTANTS AND LIZ LAUREN JENNIFER JONES MARC JACKSON MICHAEL LITCHFIELD Sound Crew Head ELLIOT LACEY SPECIAL SERVICES Marketing Assistant/Office COSTUMES JOE MAZZA MANAGEMENT ADVANCEMENT Administrator FELIX ROSS BAKER TILLY CHUCK OSGOOD KARLI BLALOCK SHENISE THOMAS RYAN MAGNUSON PAUL PERRY VIRCHOW VITO PALMISANO DEBORAH E. BROOKE Custodial Assistants KRAUSE, LLP VANDERGRIFT FLANAGAN Costume Shop Manager STEPHEN PTACEK JEFF SCIORTINO Auditor JAMES STEINKAMP General Manager Managing Director PRODUCTION Sound Crew CATHY TANTILLO Photographers for Development and CHRIS PLEVIN Costume Design Assistant TICKETING, GUEST CAMPBELL AND External Affairs WIGS AND MAKE-UP DANIEL J. HESS Director of Production SERVICES AND EVENTS COMPANY HMS MEDIA, INC. Company Manager TAYLAR HILARY ODOM REBECCA DOROSHUK RICHARD JARVIE Video Production JEFF WILLIAMS Wardrobe Supervisor RACHAEL SWANN DEVELOPMENT SAMANTHA Deputy Director, Wig and Make-up Supervisor Associate Director of Box Office and Guest Fundraising Consultants BRAZILLER Advancement Production LISE STEC MIGUEL ARMSTRONG Services Manager Executive Assistant MARY ANN CRONIN DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS Head Draper Wig and Make-up Assistant JoHANNAH HAIL The Yard Consultant HOLLY WILINSKI Director, Campaign and MAKEDA COHRAN Production Coordinator MAGGIE HOFMANN Events Director Assistant Company Manager Major Gifts ELIZABETH COFFIN Draper Wig and Make-up Attendant ARC WORLDWIDE, EMMALINE SCOTT A LEO BURNETT KEVIN SPELLMAN KRISTEN CARUSO KEDDY-HECTOR COMPANY Manager, Special AMY PRINDLE JENNIFER MOORE KLOOSTERMAN Senior Advancement Production Office Manager Box Office Supervisor Marketing Partner Projects: The Yard RUTHANNE SWANSON Wig and Make-up Apprentice Manager/Board Liaison First Hands PATRICIA LOPEZ JAVIER DUBON LAURA MIKULSKI Arts Leadership Fellow Production Management YAS MAPLE Advancement Manager/ Apprentice Stitcher VIP Concierge JONATHAN MELISSA BOCHAT SAMUEL OSTROWSKI CAMPBELL Crafts Supervisor Advancement Manager Production Admin Intern

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Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare continues to raise questions, arguments, and point/counterpoints among—and sometimes between—scholars and theater practitioners. The same script through different lenses reveals itself in a myriad of ways—leaving us, the readers of text and performance, to think and rethink our own points of view. Such is the legacy that Shakespeare left us. We hope that our program notes enrich, deepen, and sometimes even challenge our audiences’ experience with the production they witness. Lost and Won

Visit chicagoshakes.com “When shall we three meet again?” asks the First But for the Shrew’s admirers (I’m one), the answer can be more complicated, to explore more ideas Witch in the opening moment of Macbeth. The second and stories behind the more hopeful, and more fun. Shakespeare does much in the play to mess with our art on CST’s stages. witch’s answer: very notions of winning and losing; he blurs the two into something new.

When the hurly-burly’s done, Great drama, we’re taught in grammar school, When the battle’s lost and won. Shakespeare does depends on conflict. The core Greek word was THE TAMING OF THE SHREW In Macbeth, losing and winning begin as a binary— agon, “struggle”—and the dramatic impact of the n BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE much in the play to an either-or—but quickly blur into something more agon depends in large measure on the intense, n CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY BARBARA GAINES complex. Macbeth decisively wins that battle of which mess with our very matched powers of the agonists. In order to make n COLUMBIA WOMEN'S CLUB the witches speak, and in the wake of that victory, “wins” the struggle work, Shakespeare had to make the SCENES BY RON WEST notions of winning and the kingship too. And then proceeds to lose it all: self, strugglers worthy: passionate, witty, theatrically n COURTYARD THEATER hypnotic. n SEPTEMBER 16– wife, life. Tragedy, as Shakespeare often shows (and as losing; he blurs the two NOVEMBER 12, 2017 we can recently attest) can readily begin with “winning,” He never, ever failed. From the first moments n 312.595.5600 into something new. catastrophically misconstrued. of their first confrontation, the mighty agonists n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM Comedy is more generous; it generally transmutes losing Katherine and Petruchio launch themselves far beyond the stereotypes— into winning. For many, though, The Taming of the Shrew rabid Fury, bullet-headed misogynist—of then-standard taming tales into a looms as a troubling exception. The play draws on a new stratosphere of sexual combat. Exchanging verbal barbs, matching word queasy-making tradition of jokes and anecdotes about against word with the speedy dexterity of mighty beboppers trading riffs on a husbands browbeating their wives into submission, and magnificent night, they make their way into one of comedy’s highest places of it culminates (spoiler alert!) in a speech expressing what elation—where characters and audience discover in tandem a new modality of seems total surrender, delivered by a wife who for most fun. By scene’s end they’re still ostensibly at fearsome odds with one another, and of the play has furiously resisted the attempts of any there is considerable cruelty to come. But their sparring has already made them man (father, husband, wide-eyed onlookers) to mock or impassioned partners, whether they as yet detect the shift or not. Stuart Sherman, who contributes this essay, thwart her fierce autonomy.The Taming of the Shrew can But what then of Katherine’s seeming submission to Petruchio in the end? Well, is a professor of English thereby seem to fulfill its title’s prophecy all too easily. He at Fordham University to echo Facebook, it’s complicated. From their first encounter onward, we’ve and the author of Telling wins, she loses, patriarchy prevails. In response, readers, detected in the pair an impulse toward collaboration that underlies the combat; Time: Clocks, Diaries, and playgoers, and show-shapers have for generations echoed over time they come to see it clearer too, and to bring it to the fore, in a giddy English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785. the plaintive Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? mix of theater and sport: they provide high-wattage performances for each It’s a genuine and unsettling question. For the play’s other’s delectation, for ours, and in this final scene for the friends and family who many skeptics, the answer is an absolute yes: Shrew is gape at what they take as proof of Petruchio’s victory and Kate’s defeat. too imbued with the benighted convictions of its own For us, though, who’ve accompanied the couple on their whole hard ride, this historical moment to do anything subtler than document moment can read less as contest than as well-learned teamwork, a victory shared and (worse yet) advocate them. (rather than sundered) in the newfound depths of their own souls.

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“You complete me,” says Jerry Maguire, in a clause that has become much- mocked shorthand for the way rom-coms generally work. Shakespeare, The beautiful. The absurd. The I-can’t-believe-what-just happened. here near the origins of rom-com, spells out the process in glorious Onstage nightly. Elizabethan longhand. The object in love, as in any endeavor worth the undertaking, is nothing so simplistic as subordination; it’s the much more complex process of completion. Ron West, who has In the original version of the play, Shakespeare clinched this point with a little skit at the crafted a new frame for outset, in which a drunken beggar is tricked Chicago Shakespeare’s into believing that he is a wealthy nobleman with a submissive wife; the play of Petruchio all-women production, and Kate is then performed for his befuddled Join us. flips Shakespeare’s entertainment. The skit exposes the masculine desire for absolute dominion as a ludicrously Memberships start premise from the misguided self-delusion—a drunkard’s dream if ludicrous to ever we’ve seen one. at just $100 a year. Ron West, who has crafted a new frame for steppenwolf.org/memberships the aspirational. Chicago Shakespeare’s all-women production, flips Shakespeare’s premise from the ludicrous to the aspirational. The 312-335-1650 women’s suffragists, who in West’s reworking both perform and watch the play, are (unlike Shakespeare’s drunkard) possessed by a dream worth dreaming—one that we know they will soon attain, and that will ultimately confer grace and gain on the entire country, even on those who sought to Your encore...at a new venue! thwart it.

The world is always awash (and perhaps never more so than now) in narrow, impoverished, zero-sum reckonings of winning and losing, whereby one We are Montgomery Place group’s gain must inevitably entail another’s loss. So the play, done this way Whatever you love to do, Montgomery Place is the at this historical moment, may proffer a welcome respite: the opportunity to retirement community where you can keep doing it. revel for a few hours of comedic comfort in other times, other paradigms, Whether you prefer the theater or the beach, cooking including our own possible future: a future like the one perhaps conjured by at home or dining out, owning or renting, socializing Shakespeare in his Shrew, and by the suffragists in this version of it, wherein or relaxing, Montgomery Place harmonizes with your what may seem momentarily a zero-sum matter of winners and losers turns interests and your style of life. out to entail something more tender: everybody wins, in the only ways that really count. n Start planning your future your way. Schedule a personal visit by calling 773-753-4582

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A Continuing Care Retirement Community, Montgomery Place is a not-for-pro t 501(c)(3) organization 5550 South Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 38 Fall 2017 | The Taming of the Shrew MontgomeryPlace.org DONOR HONOR ROLL WITH YOUR SUPPORT, OUR NEWLY Community Partners EXPANDED HOME CAN WELCOME 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 organizations for their dedication to artistic excellence, innovative approaches TENS OF THOUSANDS to enhancing education, and impactful community outreach initiatives.

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OF STUDENTS Arc Worldwide GUARANTORS $100,000 & ABOVE BMO Harris Bank By introducing The Yard at The Boeing Company ComEd Chicago Shakespeare as our The Davee Foundation Dover Foundation third theater, CST has the capacity Julius Frankel Foundation to deepen our commitment to Land O’ Frost Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust Chicago-area students and Robert R. McCormick Foundation Northern Trust teachers. Your tax-deductible Pritzker Military Museum & Library gift this season will support Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust MORE STUDENT BENEFACTORS Allscripts $50,000–$99,999 Allstate Insurance Company PERFORMANCES, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation A. N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation increasing our total BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois service by thousands; Bulley & Andrews Exelon fuel a new city wide Food For Thought ITW competition, the JLL CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE KPMG LLP The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation SLAM; and provide National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation educators with The Shubert Foundation FREE PROFESSIONAL SUSTAINERS American Express DEVELOPMENT $25,000–$49,999 Aon Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP opportunities. Helen Brach Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Chicago Shakespeare Theater Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Citadel The Crown Family SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TODAY! Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The Grover Hermann Foundation www.chicagoshakes.com/support HMS Media, Inc. Illinois Arts Council Agency 312.667.4952 Kirkland & Ellis LLP MDR Creative Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 East Grand on Navy Pier Chicago, IL 60611 www.chicagoshakes.com 41 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER DONOR HONOR ROLL

$25,000–$49,999 Nuveen Investments (continued) PwC Prince Charitable Trusts Shakespeare Society Razny Jewelers Members of the Shakespeare Society provide vital annual support to sustain Chicago Shakespeare in American Communities: National Endowment for the Arts in partnership Shakespeare Theater’s mission. The commitment of these steadfast individuals helped with Arts Midwest to build a home for Shakespeare in Chicago that has endured for the past three Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP decades. We are deeply grateful for their extraordinary investment in the Theater’s Starwood Hotels and Resorts guiding principles to serve as a cultural leader, citizen, and ambassador for our city.

$10,000–$24,999 Accenture Reflects gifts received between July 1, 2016–September 6, 2017 Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Tuey and Karen Butler Connell, $100,000 & ABOVE Raymond and Judy McCaskey Butler Family Foundation Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller CIBC Carl and Marilynn Thoma Clark Hill PLC Donna Van Eekeren Foundation James B. Connor, Duke Realty Corporation GCM Grosvenor $50,000–$99,999 Anne and Andrew Abel Charitable Fund John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Joyce Chelberg Harve A. Ferrill Harris Family Foundation Sonja and Conrad Fischer The Irving Harris Foundation Barbara and Richard Franke Intersection Virginia and Gary Gerst Madison Dearborn Partners Jan and Bill Jentes Make It Better Media Lew and Susan Manilow Mazza Foundation Peter and Alicia Pond Newcastle Limited Richard W. Porter and Lydia S. Marti Peoples Gas John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe PNC Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation The REAM Foundation The Segal Family Foundation The Rhodes Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Ropes & Gray LLP Anonymous Phil Stefani's Children's Foundation Wintrust $25,000–$49,999 Ada and Whitney Addington Julie and Roger Baskes $5,000–$9,999 Bukiety Floral Design Duane and Susan Burnham Charcoalblue Conant Family Foundation Chicago Public Media Kent and Liz Dauten, Keystone Capital Inc. Dr. Scholl Foundation Jeanne Ettelson Hall's Rental Service Elizabeth Yntema and Mark Ferguson The James Huntington Foundation Greg Gallopoulos The Family of Jack Karp The Libra Foundation Chase and Mark Levey NIB Foundation Anna and Robert Livingston Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Judith Loseff William Blair & Company Malott Family Foundation Anonymous Bob and Becky McLennan Barbara Molotsky $1,000–$4,999 Ambiente Chicago Madhavan and Teresa Nayar BBJ Linen Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Broco Partnership Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey Communications Direct Joseph G. Phelps Goldman, Sachs & Company Paulita Pike and Zulfiqar Bokhari Kovler Family Foundation Glenn and Danielle Richter National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Steve and Robin Solomon National Fund for New Musicals Harvey and Mary Struthers The Siragusa Family Foundation Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Strategic Hotel Capital Inc. Pam and Doug Walter Anonymous

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Catherine Mouly and Mona Penner Patricia and David Schulte John and Maribeth Totten LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Steven Plevin Judy and Thomas Scorza Anne Trompeter and Paul Individual Contributors Howard and Sandra Andra and Irwin Press Charlotte Stepan Shea Janicki; Live Marketing Nagelberg Wendy and Jeffrey Puglielli Michael and Linda Simon Brady Twiggs Thanks to the contributions of CST’s family of donors, we can continue to delight Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Sandra Davis Rau Bonnie and Don Slavicek Gretchen W. Vacendak audiences in Chicago and around the world through our trademark approach to Oscar and Linda Orellana Diana and Bruce Rauner Michael and Sharon Sloan Richard and Diane Weinberg Dr. John O'Toole and Ann and Robert Ronus Ned Stebbins Mrs. Henry P. Wheeler theater that is inspired by the spirit of Shakespeare. Annual donations offset the Dr. Kristin Walter Deborah and Jeffrey S. Ross Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Youngblood Executive substantial expense of producing theater of uncompromising quality and ambition. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ottley Bruce Sagan and Stonebraker Search, Inc. In recognition of the enhanced level of support provided by our Bard Circle donors Jay Paladugula and Bette C. Hill Bruce and Anne Strohm William R. Zimmer, M.D. of $1,000 or more, CST provides exclusive privileges and behind-the-scenes access. Aparna Vootkur Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Catherine Taylor Cappel Anonymous (2) Michael Payette and John M. Savko and Kimberly K. Taylor George Mariner Deborah J. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. William R. Reflects gifts received between July 1, 2016–September 6, 2017 Jason and Jackie Peltz The Schroeder Foundation Tobey Jr.

$10,000–$24,999 BARD CIRCLE AMBASSADORS $1,000–$2,499 Frank and Kathy Ballantine Joan and Kevin Evanich Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kent Muneer Satter and BARD CIRCLE PARTNERS Mr. and Mrs. Brit J. Bartter Jim and Karen Frank Michael Charles Litt Kristen Hertel Richard and Janice Aaron Ed Calkins Phil and Phyllis Eaton Pati and O.J. Heestand Kate Blomgren Richard and Mary L. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Karla Scherer Laura and David Marion A. Cameron Katharine Egan Ross C. and Andrea Heim Thomas L. and Cairy S. Brenda and James Grusecki McKenna Judy and David Schiffman Abrahamson Stephen and Adra Campbell Thomas and Pat Erickson Quentin and Susan Heisler Brown Hill and Cheryl Hammock Edward and Lucy R. Eric Q. Strickland Rooney Family and Michael L. Cardinale and Sue S. Ettelson Janet and Bob Helman Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley III King and Caryn Harris Minor Foundation Helen and Richard Thomas R-4 Services LLC Autumn L. Mather Patti Eylar and Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard John P. Davidson and David Hiller Christopher and Erin O'Brien Bill and Char Tomazin Dominic and Kathryn David and Orit Carpenter Charlie Gardner Donald E. Hilton and Shirley A. Schaeffer The Jaquith Family Cathy and Bill Osborn Ronald and Geri Yonover Allocco Robert A. and Iris J. Center Elizabeth Lidd Factor, Esq. John Buscemi Robert Dohmen Foundation John and Colette Rau Anonymous (2) Mary Alukos John Challenger R. Scott and Kimberly Falk Gail and Tom Hodges Brian and Yasmina Duwe John and Judy Keller Sal and Nazneen Razi James and Sheila Amend Stanley D. Christianson Jeff Farbman and Elizabeth Hogan and Mrs. John Andersen Jane Christino and Ann Greenstein Louis Chan Danielle Anderson Joseph Wolnski Cameron and Amy Findlay Louise A. Holland BARD CIRCLE FELLOWS $5,000–$9,999 Robert C. Anderson Thomas Clancy and Caitlin Flanagan Bill and Vicki Hood Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto Dana Green Susan F. Flynn Jim and Deborah Hopkinson Janice and Philip Beck Mimi and Bud Frankel Margaret and Steven Dr. and Mrs. James Arias, Jr. Rev. Dr. Jane A. Clark and Henry and Frances Fogel Karen and Tom Howell Andrew and Amy Bluhm J. Friedman McCormick Scheffler, M.D. Jeffrey and Lisa Aronin Mr. Michael A. Clark Judith Fox Patricia J. Hurley Mr. & Mrs. Norman Bobins, Barbara Gaines Amanda and Jess Merten Kenneth Sharigian Jonathan and Katrina Arthur Keith and Barbara Clayton Ms. Lucinda Fox and Terrell and Jill Isselhard The Robert Thomas Sue and Melvin Gray Pamela G. Meyer Robin L. and Timothy D. Pamela C. Atkinson Bill and Alexandra Cole Mr. John Mancini Deborah and Helmut Jahn Bobins Foundation Joan M. Hall Ellie and Bob Meyers Sheehan Andrea Atlass in memory Jane and John Colman Willard and Anne Fraumann Joseph and Ginia Jahrke William and Joan Brodsky Michael R. Haney Mr. and Mrs. James F. Miller Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund of Kenneth Kuehnle Tuey and Karen Connell Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman Pam and Paul James Foundation, Inc. Kathryn Hayley and Mike and Adele Murphy Chuck Simanek and Carey and Brett August Jim and Linda Connor Sharon Fritz Mr. John Jendras and Barbara and Jim Bronner Mark Ketelsen Linda and Dennis Myers Edna Burke Babington Family J. Gorman Cook Dr. and Mrs. Willard Fry Ms. Judith A. Paice Fund of the Yampa Valley Kimberlee S. Herold Dr. Martha Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. William Staley Mary and Nick Babson Lawrence Corry Paula and Michael Furst Davis Jenkins Community Foundation Stewart Hudnut and Dennis Olis Jennifer Steans and Edgar H. Bachrach Pauline K. and J. William Edith B. Gaines Justine Jentes and Linda and Michael Welsh Vivian Leith Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jim Kastenholz The Baila Foundation Cuncannan J. Patrick and Anne M. Dan Kuruna Patrick Richard Daley Fruman, Marian and Patten, Jr. Marjorie and Louis Susman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Ann Cunniff Gallagher Nancy and Christopher Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lisa Jacobson Connie and Don Patterson Richard and Elaine Tinberg Baird Charlotte and Lawrence Sean and Susan Gallagher Johnson Devers Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser John and Betsey Puth Howard J. Trienens Pamela Baker Damron Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Gareis Lynn and George Jones Shawn M. Donnelley and Christie and John Kelly Richard and Donna The Wesselink Family Katherine A. Balek Nancy Dehmlow Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Drs. Michael and Christopher M. Kelly Klaff Family Foundation Rosenberg Foundation Edward Banas Wilma and Michael Delaney Lolly and John E. Gepson Abhilasha Jones La and Philip Engel Susan and Richard Lenny D. Roskin Ray and Donna Whitacre Mike and Mary Baniak Lawrence DelPilar and Suzanne L. Gerlits Eric and Laura Jordahl Michael Fain and Jane and Richard Lipton Linda and David Ross Anonymous (3) Bonnie A. Barber Kevin McCullough C. Graham and Christy Gerst Ms. Susan M. Junkroski Judith Barnard Mike and Debbie Rude Doug and Rose Barnard William DeWoskin and Joyce and Allen Gerstein Debra and Chuck Kent Gregory Batton and Wendy S. Gross Mazen and Iyda Ghuneim Kathryn and Bill Kerr Carol Constantine Mr. and Mrs. Byram Dickes Mr. and Mrs. James J. Glasser Paul and Raye Koch BARD CIRCLE PATRONS $2,500–$4,999 Ron Bauer Design Inc. Wendy Doniger Honey Lynn Goldberg The Koldyke Family Fund James L. Alexander and Mark and Connie Crane Nellie and Sheldon Fink Kirk and Cheryl Jaglinski Daniel and Michele Becker Mary Donners Meyer William and Anne Goldstein James and Carolyn Krause Curtis Drayer Mary Ann Cronin Lois Farrell Fisher Edgar D. Janotta Michael and Diane Beemer David and Eileen Peter and Beth Goodhart Michele Kurlander Catherine Allegra Keith S. Crow and E. Brooke Flanagan Donald and Susan Jeffers Bruce Bellak Donnersberger Gordon and Nancy Patrick R. Lagges Dalia and Jurgis Anysas Elizabeth Parker Crow Patricia and Martin Freeman Judith L. Kaufman Mrs. Geraldine B. Berger Carole and Peter Doris Goodman Lisa Laidlaw Trish and Bob Barr Carl Cucco and Blythe Lee Ethel and Bill Gofen Jen and Brad Keck Leigh and Henry Bienen Leslie Douglass Jim Goodridge and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lane John W. Barriger Judy and Tapas K. Joan J. Golder Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Richard and Heather Black Dr. and Mrs. James L. Joan Riley Dr. and Mrs. Richard John Blazey Das Gupta Jennifer and Isaac Goldman McCabe Family Foundation Shaun and Andy Block Downey Linda D. and Craig C. Lariviere Drs. Gregory Boshart and Mr. Paul Dengel and Ann and Doug Grissom Collin and Andrew Levy Caroline Blowers Joan Govan Downing Grannon Mr. and Mrs. Eric Larsen William Lawrence Ms. Paula J. Morency Gene and Nancy Haller Mrs. Carole F. Liebson and Nancy and Michael Borders Ingrid and Rich Dubberke Marjorie E. Habermann Joanie and Richard Leopold Judy and John Bross Philip and Marsha Dowd Dorothy and Richard Harza Dr. Philip R. Liebson Dustin Smallheer and Dr. and Mrs. W. Brian Duffy Mary E. Hafertepe Barry Levenstam and Allan and Sallie Bulley Bruce and Marnie Duff Jim and Mary Houston Diane and Bill Lloyd Dottie Bris-Bois John Duncan and Ted and Kathleen Halloran Elizabeth Landes Brian Burrows John Edelman and Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Naja Maltezos Dirk Brom and Kim Russel Anita Sarafa Robert Hanlon and Laurie and Gerry Levin Stephen C. and Patricia B. Suzanne Krohn Hurckes Helen Marlborough and John and Randi Brooklier Drs. George Dunea and Barbara MacDowall Diane v. S. and Robert M. Carlson George Engeln and Leland Hutchinson and Harry Roper Douglas R. Brown and Sally Dunea Kathy Harrington and Levy Richard and Ann Carr Denise Stewart Jean Perkins Helen Melchior Rachel E. Kraft Kathy Dunn Charlie Moles Mark Liberson The Cherrett Family Edward Ferguson Elizabeth Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Suzanne and John Brubaker Eldred DuSold Dr. Robert A. Harris Fran and Chuck Licht Lew Collens Lili Ferguson Paul Hybel Melchor Susanne Bush-Wilcox Thomas and Martha Dwyer Mary J. Hayes

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Lisa Skemp Christina Marie Taufen Joanna B. Vanni Mary and Ronald Ms. Elizabeth Sklarsky Louise I. Tausche Julia and Ben Van Vliet Whitaker Wesley Skogan and Natalia and Scott Taylor James Vardiman Lisa Wiersma Tribute Program Barbara Puechler Diane E. Telgen Ronald J. Vaughn Herbert and Catherine Susan Sleeper-Smith Roberta and Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wigder An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends Katherine K. Smith Tenner Vavrinek Jessica and Cristine Kevin T. Smith Ronald Tevonian Thomas and Elizabeth Williams and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information Madison R. and Paul and Linda Ventura Graham and Suzanne regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Carolyn J. Smith Thistlethwaite Lillian Walanka Wills Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. Mr. Paul Smithson Floyd Thompson Belle Waldfogel Gemma M. Witt Adam Snyder Ken and Glenna Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace David and Elizabeth Reflects gifts received between August 21, 2015–August 21, 2017 Mr. Tom Sollers Thompson Ed Walsh Wright Joseph Spellman Raleigh Thompson Jerry Warren Jill and David Archer Judith Spies Rita Thomson and Craig and Deloris Watson Rachael Wright MEMORIAL GIFTS Andrea Srulovitz John Giannini Jim and Kim Watson Ruth N. Wukasch Gerald and Mary Edward Velazquez and Dr. Russell and Marie Watt Robert O. Wyatt and FOR SARAJANE AVIDON AND FELIX SHUMER FOR ELIOT LANDAU Stapleton Peggy Titterington John Watts Terri A. Lacky Stephen and Connie King Eileen Landau Carole and James Ms. Virginia Tobiason Mr. David Weible Dimis Wyman Dick Simpson FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ-WASSERMAN Stephens F. Joseph Tomecek Nancy and Eugene Weil Julie Yamaguchi Kathy Dunn David Wasserman, M.D Susan Stern Frank and Janis Tomecek Dr. Carol Weinberg and Diane Yarborough FOR LOIS DUNN Doug and Betsy Stiles Marci A. Eisenstein and Mr. Harold J. Winston Derek Yeghiazarian FOR TONI MCNARON Kathy Dunn Mr. G. Ralph Strohl and John W. Treece Patricia and Michael B. Don Youngberg Carol Grant Dr. Mrinalini Rao Janet Trowbridge Weinstein Linda Youngman FOR ARLENE FIELDSTEEL FOR MAUREEN STEINDLER Judy Struck Cheryl Trudeau Lois Weiss Joan and Russ Zajtchuk V.E. Hicks Mary and Kenneth Sullivan Martha Trueheart Victor and Tamar David Zarefsky Nicholas DePinto Art and Rita Sussman Hsi-Tsin Tsiang Weissberg Mr. and Mrs. Laurence W. FOR EDITH GAINES Marcy Steindler Linda Swanson and Amy B. Tu Patricia Wess Zoeller Robert W. Andersen and George P. Schneider James F. Callahan John Seely Bonnie and William Susan and David Westby Karen Zupko FOR DR. JINGER HOOP FOR COURTNEY VODA Mark Swenson Twohig Richard Wheeler Anonymous (7) Jonathan Daniel Robert and Barbara Lawrie Heidi Swiss Barbara Valerious Gerald and Patricia May FOR JACK KARP Ellen Voda William Rattner Sara Segal Loevy Teri and Steve Barnett Kittie and Bill Devers John Hirsch Lon and Dick Behr PRODUCERS’ GUILD AT Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman Michael and Sandra Perlow CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Louise A. Holland Theodore and Harriette Perlman The Producers' Guild is a leadership group, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gold Sue and Melvin Gray shaping the future of Chicago Shakespeare Susan and Lawrence Aaron Theater by introducing new audiences Nan and Walter C. Greenough Norman J. Dinkel to CST's extraordinary productions and World's Stage series, promoting family and HONORARY GIFTS arts-in-education programs, and supporting FOR LA AND PHIL ENGEL FOR CRISS HENDERSON key Theater initiatives. Members also: Joann and Bill Braman Faye Marlowe FOR HARVE FERRILL FOR BETSY KARP • Participate in exclusive CST Events William and Anne Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman • Enjoy complimentary VIP ticketing FOR MARILYN HALPERIN FOR BARBARA MALOTT KIZZIAH La and Philip Engel Charles and Caroline Huebner and interval service FOR JASON HARRINGTON • Host family and friends at Paul Rink CST performances

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By providing matching support, the following organizations are actively contributing to causes that improve the communities where their employees live and work. Chicago Shakespeare Theater salutes these employers for increasing the impact of donor support. Contact your employer today to find out more about their matching gift initiatives.

Reflects gifts received between July 1, 2016–September 6, 2017 Members of the First Folio Society have generously included Chicago Shakespeare Theater in their estate plans. Chicago Shakespeare honors their thoughtful commitment to our future. Aetna Foundation, Inc. Exelon Morgan Stanley Archer Daniels Midland GE Foundation Nuveen Investments Company General Mills Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Mary and Nick Babson Jonathan F. Orser Arris Group Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prudential Capital Group AT&T Foundation Google Ropes & Gray LLP John W. Barriger Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey Baird Foundation, Inc. IBM Corporation Sipi Metals Corporation Joan Israel Berger Barbara Petersen Bank of America Illinois ITW Sony Pictures BlueCross BlueShield of John D. and Catherine T. Entertainment Kathy Dunn Chuck Simanek and Edna Burke Illinois MacArthur Foundation Texas Instruments La and Philip Engel Michael and Sharon Sloan Caterpillar Foundation Johnson Controls The Boeing Company CDW Foundation Northern Trust Michael Goldberger Steve and Robin Solomon Charles Scwab JPMorgan Chase The Saints Foundation Kirkland & Ellis LLP United Healthcare Linda D. and Craig C. Grannon David and Ingrid Stallé CTC Trading Group Lloyd A. Fry Foundation of Illinois Dick Hurckes Helen and Richard Thomas Empact Emergency McDonald's Corporation USG Corporation Physicians LLC Microsoft Corporation William Blair & Company Dr. Anne McCreary Juhasz Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Judy and John Keller Linda Vertrees Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke Dick Hurckes Contributed Materials Anstiss Hammond Krueck Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding Principal, VOA Architects Contributed materials and services are an essential component in sustaining Anne E. Kutak Anonymous (2) Chicago Shakespeare’s role as a gathering place for audiences, artists Raymond and Judy McCaskey and members of the community. We thank the following individuals and organizations for their valuable donations of goods and/or services.

Chicago Shakespeare gratefully acknowledges the following estates that Reflects contributions received between July 1, 2016–September 6, 2017 have provided gifts of bequests. Acadia Hall’s Rental Service Nixon Peabody LLP Evelyn D. Barriger Julie and Parker Hall Ryan McCaskey Rich Hein North Coast Brewing Co. Ambiente Chicago Heritage Wine Cellars, Ltd. Richard Porter George W. Blossom III Corinne Johnson Arc Worldwide HMS Media, Inc. Alpana Singh Nelson D. Cornelius Harold H. Plaut BASE Entertainment Illinois Restaurant Shure Incorporated BBJ Linen Association Chef Art Smith S.M. Evans Rose L. Shure Norm and Virginia Bobins Inspired Catering and Events SPLASH Bukiety Floral Design by Karen and Gina Stefani Starwood Hotels and Resorts Edith B. Gaines Carol’s Event Staffing Kirkland & Ellis LLP Strategic Hotels Capital, Inc Chicago Public Media Jam Productions Teller Mary T. Christel Chef J. Joho Theater Development Fund Communications Direct KPMG Family for Literacy Intersection To include Chicago Shakespeare in your estate plans, please contact Dover Foundation Make It Better Media Van Duzer Vineyards— Brooke Flanagan at 312.595.5581 or [email protected] Food For Thought MDR Creative Carl and Marilynn Thoma Exelon Motorola Inc. WTTW, WFMT

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