Flip to the back page to read what the cast says! cast the what read to page back the to Flip WHAT LINES DO YOU CONNECT TO? CONNECT YOU DO LINES WHAT /chicagoshakespearetheater @chicagoshakes @chicagoshakes /chicagoshakespeare * denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association Equity Actors’ of members denotes * Trevor Strahan for for Strahan Trevor Benvolio Tybalt ; Cage Sebastian Pierre for for Pierre Sebastian Cage ; , , Balthazar #SHORTSHAKES WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM ; and Philip Winston for Winston Philip and ; Echaka Agba for for Agba Echaka Paris ; Eric Schabla for for Schabla Eric ; Lady Capulet Lady Lord Capulet Lord ; Jack DeCesare for for DeCesare Jack ; Mercutio/Friar John Mercutio/Friar . Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: performance: the of time the at made is announcement specific a unless players listed for substitute never Understudies Romeo , , Peter ; Elizabeth Dowling for for Dowling Elizabeth ; ; Peter Sipla for for Sipla Peter ; Friar Laurence Friar POST, COMMENT, SHARE, EXPLORE EXPLORE SHARE, COMMENT, POST, Nurse , , Prince/Apothecary ; ; ; Ayssette Muñoz for for Muñoz Ayssette ; APOTHECARY Juliet , , ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH Mantua PETER This page: Emma Ladji, photos by Michael Brosilow Michael by photos Ladji, Emma page: This PETER SIPLA PETER Santana; Nate and Ladji Emma Cover: TYBALT FRIAR JOHN FRIAR SAM PEARSON SAM (beginning April 10) April (beginning BRIAN GREY* BRIAN FRIAR LAURENCE FRIAR NURSE DEMETRIOS TROY* DEMETRIOS COLLEEN MADDEN* COLLEEN Capulets vow at last to end their families’ hatred. families’ their end to last at vow Capulets The Church The (through April 7) April (through NURSE NURSE tomb and discovering the carnage it holds, the Montagues and and Montagues the holds, it carnage the discovering and tomb KAREN JANES WODITSCH* JANES KAREN PARIS LORD CAPULET LORD ANDREW SAENZ ANDREW Left alone there by Friar Laurence, she takes her life. Entering the the Entering life. her takes she Laurence, Friar by there alone Left TIM DECKER* TIM MERCUTIO (beginning April 3) April (beginning BRIAN GREY* BRIAN husband’s corpse, refuses to leave when they hear voices close at hand. hand. at close voices hear they when leave to refuses corpse, husband’s PRINCE LADY CAPULET LADY ELIZABETH LAIDLAW* ELIZABETH PATRESE D. M D. PATRESE (through March 31) March (through moments before the Friar finds them. Juliet awakens and, seeing her her seeing and, awakens Juliet them. finds Friar the before moments The Court The c CLAIN* LADY CAPULET LADY Romeo kills him. Then, taking the poison, Romeo dies beside Juliet, Juliet, beside dies Romeo poison, the taking Then, him. kills Romeo MOJEKWU* LILY BALTHAZAR JULIET CAGE SEBASTIAN PIERRE SEBASTIAN CAGE EMMA LADJI EMMA BENVOLIO tomb, where he is confronted by Paris. Not recognizing his assailant, assailant, his recognizing Not Paris. by confronted is he where tomb, MIGUEL SAN ANDREA The House of Capulet of House The ROMEO Juliet is dead. Armed with poison, he returns to Verona and the Capulets’ Capulets’ the and Verona to returns he poison, with Armed dead. is Juliet NATE SANTANA NATE The House of Montague of House The But the Friar’s letter never reaches Mantua, and Romeo instead hears that that hears instead Romeo and Mantua, reaches never letter Friar’s the But CAST their two families can be reconciled. be can families two their adapted and directed by by directed and adapted will send word to Romeo to rescue her there and return with her to Mantua until until Mantua to her with return and there her rescue to Romeo to word send will MARTI LYONS MARTI that will induce a deathlike trance; once her body is laid in the Capulets’ tomb, he he tomb, Capulets’ the in laid is body her once trance; deathlike a induce will that KATHRYN WALSH KATHRYN BOB MASON BOB turns to the Friar for counsel. His plan is a desperate one: she must drink a potion potion a drink must she one: desperate a is plan His counsel. for Friar the to turns Verse Coach Verse DENNIS J. CONNERS J. DENNIS Casting with rage. After her Nurse advises that she simply forget about her first husband, Juliet Juliet husband, first her about forget simply she that advises Nurse her After rage. with * FIKSEL MIKHAIL Stage Manager Stage JARVIE RICHARD Sound Design Sound Paris is all arranged. Juliet begs her parents to reconsider, but her pleas are met met are pleas her but reconsider, to parents her begs Juliet arranged. all is Paris HAWKINS MATT Wig and Make-up Make-up and Wig Design away—Lady Capulet enters her daughter’s bedroom to bring news: Juliet’s marriage to to marriage Juliet’s news: bring to bedroom daughter’s her enters Capulet away—Lady STEPHANIE PAUL STEPHANIE Choreography Fight O'NEILL COURTNEY Choreography Montague from Verona. Early the next morning—and just moments after Romeo steals steals Romeo after moments just morning—and next the Early Verona. from Montague PLOEG DER VAN MIEKA Design Scenic The Capulets demand Romeo’s death; the Prince chooses instead to banish the young young the banish to instead chooses Prince the death; Romeo’s demand Capulets The GREG HOFMANN GREG Design Costume Lighting Design Lighting murdering him. murdering written by by written apart, Tybalt stabs Mercutio with a fatal blow. In a blind fury, Romeo turns on his new kinsman, kinsman, new his on turns Romeo fury, blind a In blow. fatal a with Mercutio stabs Tybalt apart, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM but his friend Mercutio steps in to accept Tybalt’s challenge. As Romeo attempts to break the two two the break to attempts Romeo As challenge. Tybalt’s accept to in steps Mercutio friend his but Tybalt, enraged by the Montagues’ intrusion the night before. Romeo refuses to engage in a fight, fight, a in engage to refuses Romeo before. night the intrusion Montagues’ the by enraged Tybalt, His secret marriage vows made with Juliet, Romeo is confronted in the street by her cousin cousin her by street the in confronted is Romeo Juliet, with made vows marriage secret His couple later that day in the hope that this marriage might at last end their families’ discord. discord. families’ their end last at might marriage this that hope the in day that later couple presents there, and the two fall in love. The next morning, Friar Laurence consents to wed the young young the wed to consents Laurence Friar morning, next The love. in fall two the and there, decide to crash Lord Capulet’s party. Romeo, Montague’s son, sees Capulet’s daughter Juliet Juliet daughter Capulet’s sees son, Montague’s Romeo, party. Capulet’s Lord crash to decide Ray and Judy McCaskey Endowed Chair Endowed McCaskey Judy and Ray MARILYN J. HALPERIN J. MARILYN answered by a sentence of death. Still, life in Verona goes on. For sport, the young Montagues Montagues young the sport, For on. goes Verona in life Still, death. of sentence a by answered Director of Educatio of Director n and Communication and n GARY GRIFFIN GARY remember. The Prince decrees: any further violence between these two proud families will be be will families proud two these between violence further any decrees: Prince The remember. s Associate Artistic Director Artistic Associate RICK BOYNTON RICK In Verona, the Montagues and Capulets have been enemies for longer than anyone can can anyone than longer for enemies been have Capulets and Montagues the Verona, In Creative Producer Creative Endowed Chair Endowed Carl and Marilynn Thoma Thoma Marilynn and Carl Artistic Director Artistic BARBARA GAINES BARBARA Executive Director Executive CRISS HENDERSON CRISS EDUCATION Director of Education and Communications MARILYN J. HALPERIN WE ASKED THE CAST...R & J CONNECTS TO Ray and Judy McCaskey Endowed Chair Education Outreach Manager JASON HARRINGTON WHAT LINE FROM HAD Learning Programs Manager MOLLY TRUGLIA Education Associate ROXANNA CONNER A FEELING YOU Interim Learning and Outreach Associate SARA B.T. THIEL Education Interns KRYSTAL ROSE BROSS TRACY KOENN GROWING UP? ARTISTIC Associate Producer HEATHER SCHMUCKER BRIAN GREY Mercutio STAFF Producing Associate DOREEN SAYEGH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S “Banishèd!” Romeo and Juliet Assistant Director HANNAH TODD Company Manager DANIEL J. HESS I was cast to play Romeo in eighth grade— Tour Manager KEVIN DWYER the girl playing Juliet was my first girlfriend. Casting Associate LAURA DURHAM Two weeks before we opened, I got into a fight Assistant Company Manager SALVADOR F. GARZA Arts Leadership Fellows JAVIER DUBON on the playground, got suspended, and was kicked out of the play. ANNA TRACHTMAN ‘Banishèd!’ Juliet dumped me and started dating the new ‘Romeo.’ Assistant to the Creative Producer JACK EIDSON Directing Intern RINSKA CARRASCO What’s more, I never got another chance to play the role… Casting Intern CASSIDY MOREY Company Management Intern ALANA DAVIS SAM PEARSON Tybalt PRODUCTION “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too Director of Production CHRIS PLEVIN Associate Director of Production JEFF WILLIAMS rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn.” Production Coordinator JoHANNAH HAIL Oh, the heartbreak. Throughout middle and Production Office Manager EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR high school, I was constantly falling in—and Production Management Apprentice LUCINDA ALLEN Assistant Stage Manager KAITLIN KITZMILLER, AEA out—of love. While it’s easy to look back and laugh at the drama of ROMEO AND JULIET Stage Management Intern KIMBERLEY DELEON it all, some of those break-ups caused very real pain. I think I’m still recovering from one particularly brutal break-up in sophomore year. I SCENERY Romeo and Juliet Technical Directors ANGELA McMAHON actually tried dating her again in college; she dumped me. Again... ROBERT L. WILSON Assistant Set Designer GREG PINSONEAULT Tour Technical Director ADAM TODD EMMA LADJI Juliet CST Scenic Technicians BRADLEY BURI NATHAN SERVISS “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds!” Tour Scenic Technician TONY JAKSHA When I was younger, I was so eager to be older, Scenic Artist CHRISTINE RX BOLLES independent, and on my own.