Chicago will take center stage in 2016 with UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, as more than 1,000 Belarus Free Theatre Chicago a cappella + local and international artists create a global Chicago Shakespeare Theater KING LEAR CRISS HENDERSON celebration of Shakespeare like no other in the Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE A CAPPELLA BARBARA GAINES Artistic Director Executive Director world. During this landmark year, Shakespeare will February 5–14 February 13–21 be alive on our stages, in our schools and across Culinary Complete Works Oxford Playhouse RICK BOYNTON, Creative Producer GARY GRIFFIN, Associate Artistic Director our neighborhoods. This international festival will 38 PLAYS. 38 CHEFS. SANCHO: AN ACT Restaurants across Chicago OF REMEMBRANCE help reaffirm Chicago’s role as a global destination All Year Long Chicago Shakespeare Theater for cultural tourism. In 2016, the enterprising spirit February 17–21 presents The Theatre School at DePaul Tim Etchells + Forced Entertainment of Shakespeare meets the entrepreneurial spirit of PROSPERO’S STORM Chicago Shakespeare Theater (IN) COMPLETE WORKS: Chicago. I want to thank everyone who is working DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre OTHELLO TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE January 14–February 20 Chicago Shakespeare Theater Museum of Contemporary Art hard to ensure that it will be a great success. February 18–April 10 Chicago Symphony Orchestra + February 25–27 Chicago Shakespeare Theater Lyric Opera of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S ROMEO AND JULIET THE BELL INVITED ME: DREAM Lyric Opera of Chicago SHAKESPEARE AT THE Symphony Center February 22–March 19 CARILLON + MUSIC IN THE February 13 Hamburg Ballet TIME OF SHAKESPEARE OTHELLO Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Harris Theater for Music and Dance February 26+27 February 23+24 CITY OF CHICAGO WWW.SHAKESPEARE400CHICAGO.COM #SHAKES400CHI @ SHAKES400CHI Chicago Shakespeare is proud to present SHAKESPEARE 400 CHICAGO, a Chicago Shakespeare Theater Staff global celebration made possible by an unprecedented collaboration of Chicago From Russia institutions. This yearlong festival both showcases the collective impact of our BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director city’s world-class cultural community and invites hundreds of artists from Cheek by Jowl + Pushkin Theatre, Moscow across the globe to make Chicago their stage in 2016. Embracing the audacious DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS LISA GRIEBEL ARTISTIC Director of Special Gifts STAGE MANAGEMENT Properties Carpenter spirit of our eponymous playwright, the year ahead will feature an astonishing RICK BOYNTON HILARY ODOM DEBORAH ACKER DAN NURCZYK Creative Producer Director of Corporate and Production Stage Manager/ Properties Crew Head Foundation Relations Associate Producer array of artists and thinkers. Shakespeare will come to life across disciplines, GARY GRIFFIN CLAIRE RITCHIE Associate Artistic Director KRISTEN CARUSO DENNIS J. CONNERS Properties Intern Production Stage Manager through inspirational acts of theater, dance, music, spectacle—even cuisine. It’s BOB MASON Advancement Manager/ a celebration 400 years in the making. A bold undertaking, true to the spirit of Artistic Associate/Casting Director Board Liaison HEATHER SCHMUCKER LAURA MILKULSKI SCENERY OPERATIONS/FACILITIES Associate Producer Advancement Manager / SUSAN KNILL our global city and the greatest playwright of all time. This is Shakespeare 400 VIP Concierge ROBERT L. WILSON DOREEN SAYEGH Assistant Technical Director Theater/Facility Manager Chicago. Come play your part. Festival Producer, ERIN STRICK JEANNE DEVORE Shakespeare 400 Chicago Institutional Relations Coordinator BRADLEY BURI Stage Crew Technology Manager DANIEL J. HESS SAMUEL OSTROWSKI DANIEL LOPEZ Company Manager Special Projects Coordinator MATTHEW BLACK Stage Crew Apprentice Facilities Assistant LAURA DURHAM DAVE TOPOROV ELLIOTT LACEY Casting Assistant Annual Fund Coordinator Custodial Supervisor JACK EIDSON CAITLYN DeROSA COSTUMES DWAYNE BREWER Assistant to the Creative Producer Donor Relations and Research Coordinator RYAN MAGNUSON MARIBEL CUEVAS SALVADOR F. GARZA Costume Shop Manager ISRAEL ESTRADA Assistant Company Manager CAMILLE HOWARD Campaign Coordinator CATHY TANTILLO OCTAVIOUS MOODY Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Doreen Sayegh BENJAMIN MAGNUSO Costume Design Assistant RICHARD TENNY Casting Intern KATHRYN HABECKER Custodial Assistants Advancement Intern REBECCA DOROSHUK Artistic Director Executive Director Festival Producer JACK LOWRIE Costume Shop Assistant/ Rentals Manager by William Shakespeare Company Management Intern TICKETING, GUEST MARKETING MELISSA BOCHAT CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Crafts Supervisor SERVICES AND EVENTS directed by Declan Donnellan EDUCATION ALIDA SZABO Director of Audience Development JESS KENYON RACHAEL SWANN designed by Nick Ormerod MARILYN J. HALPERIN MATTHEW POWELL Box Office and Guest Services Manager Director of Education and JULIE STANTON Dressers Communications Marketing Director MAKEDA COHRAN Events Manager Ray and Judy McCaskey CATHY TAYLOR Education Chair Public Relations Consultant ELECTRICS PHIL BRANKIN JASON HARRINGTON HANNAH KENNEDY BLANCA HERNANDEZ Education Outreach Manager ERIC BRANSON Public Relations Assistant Lighting Supervisor SCOTT KLOOSTERMAN Front of House Supervisors MOLLY TRUGLIA JUDY McCLOSKEY Learning Programs Manager JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Digital Communications Assistant Lighting Crew Head JOHN KUINIUS Concessions Supervisor ROXANNA CONNER JESSICA CONNOR Education Associate JIMMY LIS Marketing Assistant–Advertising Electrician BETSY BEAMS BEX EHRMANN and Publications KEVIN CUSHING Education Intern RACHEL LAKE SHELLY GODEFRIN ADELL MEDOVOY Lighting Intern Graphic Designer/Production Artist Guest Services Team Leaders KENNETH KEACHER ADAM CIFARELLI ADMINISTRATION Marketing Assistant/Office SOUND KYLE CORNELL LINDA ORELLANA Administrator JAMES SAVAGE WILL CAVEDO Director of Finance DJ CUMMINGS JENNIFER JONES Sound Supervisor SUPPORT FOR Marketing Coordinator ALLISON DIAMOND DAN GRYCZA Human Resources Director/ PALMER JANKENS MEL GILL INTERNATIONAL Finance Associate BEN HOEKSTRA Associate Sound Supervisor PROGRAMMING REBECCA BOTT KATHLEEN GULLION CRISTY TROIA KASSANDRA HAROUN ALANA RYBAK Marketing Interns Sound Crew Head Assistant Director of Finance JOHNATHAN NIEVES ALYSSE HUNTER PAUL PERRY RICCI PRIOLETTI Accounts Payable Manager PRODUCTION Sound Engineer JACQUELINE POJASEK JASMINE SAWYER SHAKESPEARE MOLLY BRIGGS CHRIS PLEVIN 400 CHICAGO Accounts Payable Assistant Director of Production AUDREY THOMPSON WIGS AND MAKE-UP SHARAINA TURNAGE LEAD SPONSORS JILL FENSTERMAKER JEFF WILLIAMS MELISSA VEAL Executive Assistant Associate Director of Production TRISTIEN WINFREE Head of Wigs and Make-up LAUREN WIMMER KEELY HADDAD-NULL JoHANNAH HAIL JESSIE “JAX” CONTRERAS Production Coordinator CLAIRE UNGER SARAH LAEUCHLI Wig and Make-up Assistant VIOLET VARA MAJOR 2015/16 SEASON SUPPORTERS KEVIN SPELLMAN SEAN KATHLEEN ROCKE MIGUEL PEREZ Guest Services Associates Arts Leadership Fellows Production Office Manager Wig and Make-up Apprentice SARAH GEIS CHRIS SIMEK Production Management SHARON AND TOM ADVANCEMENT Apprentice PROPERTIES McLEAN The Harold and Mimi E. BROOKE FLANAGAN CASSANDRA WESTOVER Saints’ Volunteer Usher Coordinators Steinberg Charitable Trust Director of Institutional Advancement Properties Supervisor MELISSA COLLINS ERIN OHLAND Lead individual and foundation support provided by Eric’s Tazmanian Angel Fund, Susan and Lew Manilow, Raymond and Judy McCaskey, Associate Director of Advancement Assistant Properties Supervisor Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller, and Donna Van Eekeren Foundation. Seagull Award for Best Actor twice: for the The Tempest. Ms. Khalilulina played the lead in Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. There he also SERGEY SKORNETSKIY (Lighting Designer) Profiles part of Claudio in Peter Stein’s Hamlet and the feature film To Hear the Sea and regularly staged The Merry Wives of Windsor. In 2008 Mr. Skornetskiy graduated from the Moscow Measure for Sir Toby in Declan Donnellan’s Twelfth acts for Russian television shows. he directed his first show at the Theatre of Art Theatre School in Lighting Design in ALEXANDER ARSENTYEV (The Duke) Night. In film, where Mr. Feklistov has had Nations, Letters to Felice. He went on to work 1995. He started working as a lighting In 1994, Mr. Arsentyev enrolled at Moscow Art an extensive career, he has worked with ELMIRA MIREL (Mariana, Mistress Overdone) with the theater as an assistant director to technician in Tabakov’s theater while Theatre School. After graduating, he joined distinguished Russian directors, including Ms. Mirel graduated from the School of Thomas Ostermeier on Miss Julie. In 2010 studying, and went on to work there as a for Measure the company of the Moscow Art Theatre. His Pavel Lungin and Vladimir Menshov. Choreography of Baku, majoring in folk he became an assistant director on Declan lighting designer after graduation. He has debut on the professional stage was as Albert dancing, before joining the Moscow Art Donnellan’s production of The Tempest. created lighting design for more than 60 PETR RYKOV (Claudio) in Pushkin’s Little Tragedies. He has been Theatre School, where she first performed in He went on to collaborate with Declan theater shows for companies including Mr. Rykov graduated as a linguist in 2006, but acting with the Pushkin Theatre since 2001. the Pushkin Theatre production of Romeo and Donnellan again, not only with Measure