#ChicagoshakesSTREAM BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair RICK BOYNTON Creative Producer presents I, BANQUO written by TIM CROUCH Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design YU SHIBAGAKI RAQUEL ADORNO JASON LYNCH Sound Design/Composition Video Design MIKHAIL FIKSEL MIKE TUTAJ Dramaturgy Team Casting Production Stage Manager GABRIELLE RANDLE-BENT BOB MASON SHANNON GOLDEN MATT RANDLE-BENT directed by MARTI LYONS LEAD SPONSOR Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg ComEd is the official lighting design sponsor of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. WATCH ON DEMAND. FROM ANYWHERE. WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM/STREAM Spring 2021 | I, Banquo 2 SALUTE TO SPONSORS Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to recognize the partnership of our leading contributors, whose visionary support ensures that Shakespeare lives in Chicago today and for generations to come. 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Tilles Music Fund The Malott Family Student Access Fund The Sheldon and Bobbi Zabel Bard Core Program Ray and Judy McCaskey Education Chair For more information about how you can support our work on stage, in the community, and around the world, please contact Dottie Bris-Bois, Director of Development, at [email protected]. CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Cast Banquo DAN WALLER* Fleance PATRICK SCOTT MCDERMOTT* * denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association Chicago Shakespeare productions are made possible in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and an IncentOvate Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Chicago Shakespeare is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the national service organization of non-profit theaters; National Alliance for Musical Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre Association; Arts Alliance Illinois; the League of Chicago Theatres; and Ingenuity, Inc. Chicago Shakespeare is proud to highlight THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER in their mission to end food insecurity. Please consider supporting their important work in the community and getting involved at www.friendshipcenterchicago.org Spring 2021 | I, Banquo 4 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER Profiles DAN WALLER (Banquo) TIM CROUCH (Playwright) is an Obie Award- CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: winning playwright, director, and theater- Debut. CHICAGO: Oliver! maker. He was an actor before starting to (Marriott Theatre); Guess write and he still performs in much of his Who’s Coming to Dinner, work. PLAYS: Superglue (National Theatre All My Sons, Long Day’s Connections); Total Immediate Collective Journey into Night Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (National (Court Theatre); East of Theatre of Scotland, Royal Court); I, Cinna Eden, The Night Alive, Three Sisters (the poet) (Royal Shakespeare Company, (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Little Unicorn Theatre); Beginners (Unicorn Foxes, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Good Theatre); Adler & Gibb (Royal Court, Negro, Ghostwritten, Talking Pictures Center Theatre Group); The Author (Royal (Goodman Theatre); The Weir, Spinning, Court); An Oak Tree (Traverse Theatre, Lay Me Down Softly, The Seafarer, Mojo National Theatre, Off-Broadway); I, Malvolio Mickybo, Our Father, A Whistle in the Dark, (Brighton Festival/world tour); ENGLAND Journey’s End (Irish Theatre of Chicago); – a play for galleries (Traverse Theatre/ The Pitmen Painters (TimeLine Theatre); The Fruitmarket Gallery); Shopping for To the Green Fields Beyond (Writers Shoes (National Theatre schools tour); and Theatre). REGIONAL: At the Vanishing My Arm (Traverse Theatre). DIRECTOR: Point, Gnit (Actors Theatre of Louisville); House Mother Normal (Brighton Festival); The Grapes of Wrath (Cardinal Stage). Peat (Ark, Dublin); Jeramee, Hartleby FILM: Barefoot to Jerusalem, Repetition, and Oooglemore (Unicorn Theatre); The Of Boys and Men, Devil’s Dominoes, Complete Deaths (Spymonkey/Brighton Witless Protection, Transformers 3, At Festival); The Taming of the Shrew and Any Price, Chasing Gold, and Canal Street. King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company). TELEVISION: Chicago Med, Chicago PD, Crouch created and co-wrote Don’t Forget Crisis (NBC), Emipire, Chicago Code the Driver, a six-part series for BBC2, (FOX), Shameless (Showtime), The Beast which won Best TV Comedy at the Venice (A&E), Science Story (STARZ), and Cry TV Awards in 2019. OTHER AWARDS: Poorhouse (JCN). OffWestEnd Offie I,( Cinna (the poet)); Writers Guild of Great Britain, Best Play PATRICK SCOTT for Young Audiences (Beginners); John MCDERMOTT (Fleance) Whiting Award, Total Theatre Award CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: (The Author); Scotsman Fringe First, Debut. CHICAGO: Total Theatre, Herald Archangel Awards Mothers and Sons (Pride (ENGLAND); and Prix Italia for Best Films and Plays); Marriott Adaptation in Radio Drama (My Arm). Theatre, Drury Lane Crouch is published by Methuen Books. Theatre. NATIONAL timcrouchtheatre.co.uk @thistimcrouch TOUR: Les Misérables. REGIONAL: Music Theater Works, Eclectic Full Contact MARTI LYONS (Director) CHICAGO Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare! FILM: The Jackalope, This Is Ohio. productions of Macbeth, Romeo and EDUCATION: Lincolnshire Academy of Juliet. CHICAGO: Jen Silverman’s Witch, Dance, Agnew Acting Studio, Ellen Morris Eleanor Burgess’s The Niceties (Writers (voice), The Prep, The Green Room, Theatre); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Palmetto Tap Intensive, Regarding Actors (Court Theatre); Liliana Padilla’s How to Workshop, Metropolis Performing Arts Defend Yourself, Karen Zacarías’s Native Centre. AWARDS: 2018 Jeff Award Best Gardens, Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Musical (Ragtime). Band (Victory Gardens Theater); Wit (The Hypocrites); Boo Killebrew’s The Play About My Dad (Raven Theatre); Anthony Giardina’s The City of Conversation (Northlight Theatre); Will Eno’s Title and Deed (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Will Nedved’s Body and Blood, Laura Marks’s Bethany and Mine (The Gift Theatre); Spring 2021 | I, Banquo 5 PROFILES Catherine Treischmann’s Hot Georgia RAQUEL ADORNO (Costume Designer) Sunday, Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar (Haven); CHICAGO: Intimate Apparel (Northlight Ike Holter’s Prowess, Calamity West’s Theatre); Plano (First Floor Theatre); The Peacock, Lucas Neff’s The Last Duck Mies Julie (Victory Gardens Theater); Top (Jackalope Theatre Company); Calamity Girls (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); West’s Give It All Back, David Jacobi’s Unelectable You (The Second City); D.O.A., Mai Dang Lao, Bill Cain’s 9 Circles, Jason The Long Christmas Ride Home, Desperate Grote’s Maria/Stuart, The Golden Dragon Dolls (Strawdog Theatre Company); Murder (Sideshow Theatre Company). REGIONAL: Ballad, Princess Mary Demands Your Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Sarah Attention, CARRIE: The Musical (Bailiwick Burgess’ Kings (Studio Theatre), world Chicago); Angry Fags (Steppenwolf premiere of Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter Garage) The Submission, Songs from an (South Coast Repertory Theatre); Jordan Unmade Bed (Pride Films and Plays); Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire (Woolly Barefoot in the Park, Crimes of the Heart, Mammoth Theatre Company); The Merry Dead Accounts (Step Up Productions); Wives of Windsor (Montana Shakespeare A Number, Scenes from an Execution in the Parks); Meg Miroshnik, Martyna (Runcible Theatre); The Flick, The Cherry Majok, Jen Silverman and Jiehae Park’s Orchard, Jane Eyre, The Orange Garden, Wondrous Strange (2016 Humana Festival); Vinegar Tom (Northwestern University). Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theatre, REGIONAL: A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Geffen Part 2 (American Players Theatre); Small Playhouse. AWARDS: 2015 Goodman Mouth Sounds (UCCS Theatreworks). FILM: Theatre Maggio Directing Fellowship. Limerence. EDUCATION: MFA in stage Ms. Lyons is an ensemble member at design, Northwestern University; MM in The Gift Theatre, Artistic Associate with opera performance, University of Illinois, Sideshow Theatre Company,