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Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Inquiry and Exploration Series

On the Boards 10

Conversation with the Director 12 Cast 19 Playgoer's Guide 20 Profiles 24 A Scholar’s Perspective 34

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A selection of notable CST events, plays, and players

Contents

MARY STUART


For centuries, palace intrigue has captivated our imaginations. The juxtaposition

of the monarchy’s absolute power and reputed omniscience set against the reality

of their human frailty and emotional complexity makes for good drama. Today’s

production of Schiller’s Mary Stuart explores a royal relationship that caused

endless rumor and speculation during Shakespeare’s own time involving Queen

Elizabeth I and her ill-fated cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

This new version of the play by Peter Oswald offers audiences access to a fictitious

meeting of these two rulers. United by their lineage and roles in a male-dominated

world, yet divided by the political motivations of those surrounding them, theirs is

a complex relationship that is fascinating to explore through a theatrical lens. Jenn

Thompson’s fearless direction and the dynamic ensemble of actors that inhabit the

world she has created make for a spellbinding drama.

During the run of Schiller’s Mary Stuart, student audiences will be treated to

Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Presented as a

75-minute abridgment in our new, flexible third theater, The Yard at Chicago

Shakespeare, the play will welcome 1,200 audience members each day during its

run on Navy Pier, followed by a two-week tour to Chicago Public Schools. Our

student productions and extensive offering of professional training programs and

workshops for English teachers make us a leading partner in literacy for Chicago’s

schools. Your patronage helps to make this aspect of our work possible, and for

that we are truly grateful!

We hope you enjoy today’s show and look forward to welcoming you back

again soon. n

DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome

Barbara Gaines Artistic Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair

Criss Henderson Executive Director

Steve Solomon Chair, Board of Directors

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performances accessible to all patrons. You’ll find our staff

is ready to help in any way possible if assistance is required.

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Open-captioned performances

• Accessible parking

• Courtesy wheelchair service

• Wheelchair-accessible seating

• Close to Pace Paratransit drop-off/pick-up

• Assistive-listening devices

• Personal induction neckloops

• Large-print programs

• Braille programs

ASL Duo-interpreted performances

Audio-described performances with optional Touch Tours

pictured: Teller and Aaron Posner; Ian Merrill Peakes and Chaon Cross. photos by Michael Brosilow,

Chuck Osgood, Jeff Sciortino,

MACB E TH

AARON POSNER and TELLER (of Penn & Teller), creators of the sold-out, award-winning The Tempest, reunite to spin a tale of dark magic and ambition.

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Since cutting the ribbon for The Yard last September, audience members have already experienced this INNOVATIVE, NEW VENUE in a multitude of ways—from its large and small proscenium configurations to a unique cabaret-like environment, and a courtyard-style thrust stage with runway aisles.

THE SEASON CULMINATES THIS SPRING as The Yard transforms once again for a one-of-a-kind production of Shakespeare’s classic thriller, MACBETH.

“The greatest new theater in the world”

–CHICAGO TRIBUNE

AARON POSNER: “Shakespeare wants people to sit forward and engage deeply with this haunting and rich play. Teller and I are both populists in that we genuinely care that this production—with the magic, and music, and movement— is available to as many people as possible.”

TELLER: “We’re trying to put you in the same off-kilter position as Macbeth is to his world. When something happens

on stage that seems to defy the rules of physics—

what’s happening to you is echoing that

moment in the story.”

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On the Boards

On January 24, CST opened the doors

of The Yard to students for its latest

abridged production, Short Shakespeare!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The

show is helmed by Jess McLeod, who

returns to CST after serving as assistant

director for Gary Griffin’s production of

Gypsy in 2014. In past years, Chicago

Shakespeare has been proud to serve

40,000 students and educators annually;

now, with an extended seven-week

run in The Yard, this annual program

will engage thousands more than ever

before. Following its performances on

Navy Pier, Midsummer will go on the

road, touring to Chicago Public Schools

across the city. Since CST launched its

first student matinees more than twenty-

five years ago, the Theater's education

programming has impacted the lives of

more than two million young people.

In December, Macbeth directors

Aaron Posner and Teller, composer

Andre Pluess, and instrument designer/

consultant Kenny Wollesen met up

in Chicago for a music and magic

developmental residency. Together with

CST’s artisans and technicians, the team

began shaping a haunting soundscape

that will underscore the world of this

supernatural thriller using found items,

like Sardinian bells played with a violin

bow and an exercise ball fashioned into

a mallet instrument. Over the past year,

CST Creative Producer Rick Boynton

and the production’s artistic team have

been collaborating on this extraordinary

interpretation, which marks the return

of Posner and Teller to CST after their

blockbuster 2015 production of

The Tempest. This highly anticipated

culmination to the season begins

performances in The Yard at Chicago

Shakespeare on April 25. Tickets are

available at www.chicagoshakes.com.

ON STAGE

From left: Aaron Posner and Teller; Christiana Clark and Adam Wesley Brown; Karen Aldridge, Edwin Lee Gibson, and Larry Yando in Battlefield; Company of A.B.L.E.'s Twelfth Night in rehearsal. photos by Michael Brosilow and Bill Burlingham.

MARY STUART

Over the years, the work of acclaimed

international artists Peter Brook and

Marié-Hélène Estienne has been presented

as part of Chicago Shakespeare’s

World’s Stage series. The Theater’s

international partnerships like these

provide opportunities for Chicago artists

to be exposed and introduced to the

greatest theater makers of our time.

Touring here with their 2002 production

of Le Costume, Brook and Estienne were

introduced to Karen Aldridge; during

their 2017 tour of Battlefield, which

CST co-presented with the Museum of

Contemporary Art, they met Larry Yando.

Both Aldridge and Yando now join the

cast of the upcoming tour of Battlefield,

the thrilling 70-minute adaptation of

the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata.

Audiences across five European countries

will be introduced to two of Chicago’s

most accomplished actors.

The Artists Breaking Limits and

Expectations (A.B.L.E.) ensemble

continues its partnership with Chicago

Shakespeare this May with their

production of Edmond Rostand’s

Cyrano de Bergerac. First performing

Twelfth Night at CST in 2016 as a partner

in Shakespeare 400 Chicago, this

talented group of young adult actors

with cognitive and developmental

differences will perform in The Yard on

May 17. Together with A.B.L.E. teaching

artists and facilitators, performers

immerse themselves in the play, each

portraying two characters. With music,

humor, and sword fighting, ensemble

members bring this classic story of love

and heartbreak to life. The creative

process empowers these young actors

to develop the confidence to share who

they are as they discover their own

unique voices and celebrate their

ever-expanding abilities.


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n DIRECTED BY JENN THOMPSON

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A Conversation with the Director

Schiller's Mary Stuart Director Jenn Thompson

As a director, what’s your way into the story?

Initially, it certainly felt like it was Mary’s story—after

all, it’s called ‘Mary Stuart.’ But the more I’ve worked

on it, I have come to feel that the play is exceptionally

even-handed about these two women. A good play

will do that: you think it’s one thing and then you peel

and you peel, and then you get to know the story

and the characters. All the conversations with our

design team and actors involve us finding ways to

present these women in all their complexities, how to

humanize these two iconic figures. They are lots of

things, as all of us are. They are not victims. They are

not monsters. They are human beings.

And they have never met one another—except in Schiller’s imagination.

Yes, it’s two women who don’t know each other. And when they finally meet in

the scene that Schiller creates, they’ve never laid eyes on each other before—but

they have been primed their entire lives to fear and hate the other. We never see

them alone together without men whispering in their ear, pushing them down this

path. I find myself thinking about what that conversation between them might

have been if they had been alone.

What kind of world did you want to create for this production?

I imagined these two women against a massive, masculine landscape in its size

and scope, but also wanted to explore how both women use their femininity

set against this backdrop. [Set Designer] Andromache Chalfant and I have

been friends for years and admirers of each other's work, but hadn't found a

project of our own; with Mary Stuart, I knew it was our chance. Influenced by the

style of Brutalist Architecture, Andromache describes the set as ‘monumental

and unforgiving, but with a beauty in its surfaces; a simplicity of form, and an

awesomeness in its strength and scale.’ We looked for ways to emphasize what

was similar about Mary’s and Elizabeth’s circumstances. Obviously, one was

in prison and one was sitting on the throne, but in many ways they were both

imprisoned by their world.

POINT OF VIEW

All the conversations with our design team and actors involve us

finding ways to present these women in all

their complexities, how to humanize these two

iconic figures.

When Barbara Gaines and Rick Boynton first reached out

to you to talk about this play, what drew you to it?

I have many friends who have worked here and speak so

highly of the institution, and so I was thrilled to get their

phone call. I’d seen the Donmar [Warehouse] production

in New York in 2009. It was gripping then—and it’s even

more relevant now. This play is a pot-boiler political thriller,

laced with romantic and sexual intrigues, which have real

potential for depth and complexity. There’s so much room

in this story to talk about women in power, and women

being manipulated by men. I’m interested in our production

exploring how can you be a woman, be feminine, and have

power. But I think the most important thing is to honor

these two women as full, complex, flawed people.

Returning to this play now, has the story become a

different one from when you saw it first several years ago?

How each one of us views a production at the same time

is always going to be different, and in fact how I see a

matinee and how I see the evening performance could be

different based on the news story I just read or a phone

call I just had. If there’s an upside to the climate we’re

living in now, I do think there’s a pressure—and a great

opportunity—for storytelling. As artists we feel that charge

more than ever. It’s certainly the most important moment

in my lifetime. I believe that our audiences feel that, too.

People are listening differently now, and I think that makes

this an extraordinary and important time to tell any story,

but particularly this story.

Jenn Thompson met with the CST staff on the first day of the

rehearsal process to share her thoughts on directing Mary Stuart .

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You’re also working with Costume Designer Linda Cho.

I have always wanted to work with Linda, but what drew me to her for this project

in particular is how she dresses women. I love how she celebrates women’s bodies

in all of their femininity, and power, and strength. We wanted to create a world

of the 1580s, but didn’t want it to feel like a museum piece. The costumes are

inspired by the time period but have a modern sensibility. We’re interested in

how constricted these women were and how manipulated their bodies were. We

know that Elizabeth liked to wear extremely elaborate clothing and was all about

accessorizing. Those eighteen thousand pearls became her armor, a need to exert

an image of power—and femininity. I want to emphasize that this struggle—of

being a woman in power, of exercising your authority as a woman—is a forever

and timeless struggle: it has always been, it is now, and perhaps it will always be.

What do you hope to create with Co-Sound

Designer Mikhail Fiksel for this production?

Schiller took a lot of liberties with the history,

which I’m grateful for because it frees us up to

tell the story we want to tell in the way we feel

that people will respond to it now. The aim is to

be as fluid and cinematic as we can. We want

the soundscape to have a percussive quality and

a drive that reflects these two women lunging

toward the edge of a cliff together.

You’ve chosen Peter Oswald’s version, which he wrote in verse, as Schiller did.

Can you tell us more about your choice?

The Oswald text is beautifully written. There is musicality and poetry in it, but it

is very accessible and we don’t have to do extra work to hear it. It feels modern—

which has influenced all the other things that we’ve been talking about. It’s a very

muscular, visceral type of read. It jumps off the page and leaps out of peoples’

mouths in a very immediate way. Oswald succeeds in dropping in the necessary

exposition artfully. And I think that this translation is very successful in its clarity,

its comedy, and its bite—and those qualities will influence how the play moves.

Last question…how much of this history does the audience need to know?

I don’t think they need any. I would not dissuade anybody from reviewing the

historical context, but one of the strengths of this play is that its story stands on

its own. It’s like a political thriller and should feel like one in the way it moves. We

already know what ends up happening, and so it becomes our collective job to

make the story so compelling that everybody forgets that they know how it ends!

We come to the theater to have that experience. Human beings in conflict—that’s

the event. The framework is the history, but we’re there to see the struggle. n

I want to emphasize that this struggle—of

being a woman in power, of exercising

your authority as a woman—is a forever

and timeless struggle.

Previous page: Jenn Thompson and Andrew Chown in rehearsal; photo by joe mazza


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There will be one 15-minute intermission.

directed by JENN THOMPSON

in a new version by PETER OSWALD

Scenic Design ANDROMACHE

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Costume Design LINDA CHO

Lighting Design GREG HOFMANN

PHILIP ROSENBERG

Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER

Casting BOB MASON

New York Casting NANCY PICCIONE

Sound Design MIKHAIL FIKSEL MILES POLASKI

Wig & Make-up Design RICHARD JARVIE

Verse Coach KATHRYN WALSH

Dialect Coach EVA BRENEMAN

Fight Choreographer DAVID WOOLLEY

Schiller’s Mary Stuart, in this new version by Peter Oswald, was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London on July 14, 2005. The play has been licensed by arrangement with

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MARY STUART

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Cast (in order of appearance)


Amias Paulet, Knight, guardian of Mary KEVIN GUDAHL*

Drugeon Drury, second guardian of Mary KAI ALEXANDER EALY

Hanna Kennedy, Mary’s nurse BARBARA ROBERTSON*

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland K.K. MOGGIE*

Mortimer, Paulet's nephew ANDREW CHOWN*

Lord Burleigh, High Treasurer DAVID STUDWELL*

Elizabeth, Queen of England KELLIE OVERBEY*

Count Aubespine, French Ambassador PATRICK CLEAR*

Count Bellievre, Envoy Extraordinary of France MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL*

George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury ROBERT JASON JACKSON*

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester TIM DECKER*

O’Kelly, Mortimer’s friend KAI ALEXANDER EALY

William Davison, Secretary of State MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL*

Melvil, Mary’s house steward PATRICK CLEAR*

Sheriff KAI ALEXANDER EALY

Guards/Pages NATHAN CALARANAN†

JAKE ELKINS†

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: Alan Ball* for George Talbot, Count Aubespine/Melvil, Count Bellievre/William Davison; Patrick Clear* for Amias Paulet; Shanesia Davis* for Mary Stuart;Kai Alexander Ealy for Mortimer; Martin Hanna for Drugeon Drury/O'Kelly, Guards/Pages; Isabel Liss* for Elizabeth, Hanna Kennedy; and Jeff Parker* for Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Lord Burleigh.

Production Stage Manager DEBORAH ACKER*

Assistant Stage Manager (through March 25) JINNI PIKE*

Assistant Stage Manager (beginning March 27) ELISE HAUSKEN*

*denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association.

†Chicago Shakespeare Theater gratefully acknowledges Carin Silkaitis along with the faculty of North Central College for their participation in this production’s intern program.

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.


Playgoer’s GuideTHE STORYCharged with conspiracy to commit regicide against England’s queen, her cousin

Mary, Queen of Scots, is held captive in Fotheringhay Castle, where she awaits her

verdict. The nephew to her guardian in this castle, Mortimer brings news to Mary

that the court’s decision is concluded: she is guilty of treason. He reveals to Mary

his secret conversion to Catholicism and his allegiance to her. Mary entrusts the

young man with two letters: one, addressed to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester—

Elizabeth’s beloved favorite and lifelong friend; the second, to her cousin Elizabeth,

Queen of England, requesting an audience with her.

Upon reading the letter, Elizabeth asks Mortimer to assume responsibility for the

queen’s death, and he gives his consent. Receiving Mary’s letter, Leicester privately

confesses that he too supports the Scottish queen, then urges Elizabeth to accept

her cousin’s request for a meeting between them. Upon Leicester’s advice, the next

day Elizabeth with her retinue sets out to Fotheringhay for the fateful meeting of

two queens, both determined to live and to rule.

A NOTE ON PETER OSWALD’S TEXT English translations of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart are numerous and variant.

English playwright Peter Oswald’s 2005 version, commissioned by the Donmar

Warehouse in London and published by Oberon Books, is intended as a script for

production. It is, in fact, the second of two versions written by Oswald; in 1996,

Oxford University Press published his translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos and Mary

Stuart in a single edition, intended primarily for an academic audience. Oswald’s

2005 version remains as faithful as possible to the original text, though not at the

expense of the play’s poetry. Extensive cutting and the use of a more modern

vernacular allowed Oswald to make the script more relevant and accessible to

contemporary theatergoers. His changes were strategic: this version, unlike his

earlier one, was meant to be performed.

THE HISTORYThe imagined events of Schiller’s Mary Stuart transpire over the course of a few

days, but its story’s roots—and its consequences—begin two centuries earlier in

1377, and “end” in 1603, fifteen years after the play concludes.

The legacy of the Plantagenet king, Edward III (1312–1377) looms over its story.

Founder of the dynasty from which both Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots,

descend, Edward III is the indirect cause of the struggle for power between these

two queens who, through Edward, each asserts her claim to the English throne.

MARY STUART

Edward III was a strong, stable, and remarkably fertile English king. He fathered

thirteen children—of whom eight were male. But the king’s eldest son and heir

apparent, Edward, the Black Prince, died one year prior to his father’s own death

when the succession fell to the Black Prince’s oldest living son, crowned Richard II

of the House of York.

That might have been the end of the story had it not been for Richard’s Lancastrian

cousin, Henry Bolingbroke. In 1399 Henry deposed his Yorkist cousin and assumed

the throne as Henry IV. Henry IV managed a successful reign, and the crown

passed peacefully to his son, Henry V. But less than a decade into his reign, Henry

contracted dysentery and died.

Henry V’s infant son ascended to the throne. Dominated by his courtiers and later

by his French wife, Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI proved a weak, ineffective king.

Under his reign, England’s claim to France was lost and the crown ran up massive

debts. The Yorkists—claiming their right to the throne through two sons of

Edward III—grew evermore exasperated with Lancastrian rule.

The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) commenced—thirty years of civil war in which

the crown was passed between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Among this

succession of kings was Richard III, who reigned from 1483 to 1485, after declaring

his late brother’s marriage invalid and heirs illegitimate.

In 1485 Henry Tudor returned to England from France, where he had been

preparing for a rebellion against the Yorkist kings. Henry triumphed, and with

Richard III’s death, Henry VII became the first of the Tudor dynasty. A pragmatic

ruler, Henry married Elizabeth of York, strategically uniting the houses of Lancaster

and York at last (see line of succession, pg. 22). His intentions for the country’s

future were symbolized by the name of their first born son: Arthur, England’s king

of ancient legend. To protect England against its historic French enemy, Henry

allied with Spain and a marriage between Prince Arthur and the Spanish princess,

Catherine of Aragon, was arranged.

Five months into their marriage, Arthur died. When Henry VII, too, died in 1509, his

surviving son ascended to the throne, as Henry VIII. Only with a papal dispensation

did Henry marry his brother’s widow and father one living child, named Mary

(not the same as Mary, Queen of Scots). Desperate to produce a male heir, Henry

broke with the Roman Catholic Church and divorced Catherine in 1533. He quickly

remarried the pregnant Anne Boleyn and declared Mary illegitimate. Anne too

gave Henry one living heir, the princess Elizabeth, before the queen was charged

with a litany of crimes and executed. Elizabeth, too, was subsequently declared

illegitimate. His third wife, Jane Seymour, bore the king a son, Edward, before she

died of postnatal complications.

Henry’s subsequent three marriages produced no more children. In 1543 his

parliament passed the Third Succession Act, which returned both Mary and

Elizabeth to the line of succession following Edward. When Henry died in 1547, his

nine-year-old son became Edward VII, reigning for just eight years. Not wanting



to leave England to the Catholic Mary, Edward and his Protestant advisors tried

to divert the succession to Lady Jane Grey, great-granddaughter to Henry VII.

The plan failed, and Edward’s eldest half-sister succeeded him as Mary I

(“Bloody Mary”), who died a few years later, without issue.

In 1558, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII’s heirs, ascended to the throne, where

she would remain until her death in 1603, despite competing claims for the crown:

Mary, Queen of Scots, another great-granddaughter to Henry VII, was one of those

claimants. Mary’s son, James VI of Scotland, wuold inherit the English throne,

as England’s James I. James—raised away from his Catholic mother in a largely

Protestant Scotland—was meant to ensure that England remained beyond the

reach of the papacy. The English throne secured James’s silence following his

mother’s execution. 1603 marked the end of the Tudor dynasty and the rise of the

Stuarts under James I.

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ProfilesANDREW CHOWN (Mortimer) makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Canadian credits include: Shakespeare in Love (Citadel Theatre/Royal Manitoba Theatre

Centre); Vimy (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach); Taking Shakespeare (New Stages Theatre); The Circle, The Seagull (National Theatre School of Canada); and Harry the King: The Famous Victories of Henry V (Repercussion Theatre). Film and television credits include: Her Friend Adam (Sundance), Reign, and Beauty and the Beast (The CW). Mr. Chown graduated in 2014 from the acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada.

PATRICK CLEAR (Count Aubespine/Melvil) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he has appeared in eighteen productions, including: Henry V, The Madness

of George III, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well, Timon of Athens, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Other recent Chicago credits include: Native Gardens (Victory Gardens Theater); By the Water, The Mousetrap (Northlight Theatre); Carlyle, By the Way Meet Vera Stark, Teddy Ferrara, Race (Goodman Theatre); Port Authority (Writers Theatre); and The March (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Broadway credits include: Hollywood Arms and Noises Off. Regional credits include productions with: Hartford Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, American Shakespeare Theatre, Center Stage, Folger Shakespeare Library, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Film credits include: The Dark Knight, Losing Isaiah, and The Babe. Television credits include: Empire (FOX); Chicago P.D. (NBC); and Boss (STARZ).

TIM DECKER (Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: The Comedy of Errors and Short Shakespeare! Romeo and

Juliet. Other Chicago credits include: City of Conversation (Northlight Theatre); Spill (TimeLine Theatre Company); stop. reset., Black Star Line (Goodman Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Apollo Theater Chicago); Toys in the Attic (Joseph Jefferson Award, American Theater Company); Ghetto (Famous Door Theatre); Mornings at Seven (Drury Lane Theatre); and The Complete History of America (abridged) (Noble Fool Theatricals). Recent film projects include Slice and Thrillride. Television credits include: Chicago Justice, Chicago Fire (NBC); Empire (FOX); and Boss (STARZ).

KAI ALEXANDER EALY (Drugeon Drury/O’Kelly/Sheriff) makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include: Franklinland (Jackalope Theatre Company); Two

Mile Hollow (First Floor Theater); 30th Young Playwrights Festival (Pegasus Theatre Chicago); Migration, In De’ Beginnin’, and Among All This You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone (eta Creative Arts Foundation). Film credits include Fallen. Television credits include Chicago Fire (NBC).

KEVIN GUDAHL (Amias Paulet/Fight Captain) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Tug of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Pericles, King Lear,

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VIII, The School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Macbeth (title role), Antony and Cleopatra (title role), Troilus and Cressida (title role), Brutus in Julius Caesar, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Kayama in Pacific Overtures. Other Chicago credits include productions with: Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Northlight

Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Drury Lane Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theater. International credits include: five seasons with Stratford Festival; Canadian Stage; Donmar Warehouse; and the Royal Shakespeare Company (CST tour). Film credits include: While You Were Sleeping, Home Alone III, and The Poker House. Television credits include: Chicago Fire, Crisis (NBC); Boss (STARZ); Empire, The Chicago Code (FOX); and Early Edition (CBS). Mr. Gudahl is a multiple Jeff Award recipient and CST verse coach.

ROBERT JASON JACKSON (George Talbot) makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include The Road and Death and the King’s Horseman (Goodman Theatre).

Favorite roles include: Othello in Othello (Denver Center for Performing Arts Theatre Company); Polonius in Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and Bolingbroke in Richard II (Mark Taper Forum NAACP Best Actor nomination). Broadway credits include Amonasro in Aida (Palace Theatre) and Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway credits include: A Soldier’s Play (Second Stage Theater); The Merchant of Venice, The Treatment (Public Theater); The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons); and Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre). Regional credits include: The Greeks (Hartford Stage); Macbeth (Guthrie Theater); and Anouilh’s Antigone and Mourning Becomes Electra (Quintessence Theatre Group). Television and film credits include: guest-starring roles on Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Feds, New York Undercover, New Jersey Drive, and Altamont. Mr. Jackson is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA) and Temple University (MFA).

MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL (Count Bellievre/William Davison) makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include: My Fair Lady (Lyric

Opera of Chicago); Assassination Theater (Museum of Broadcast Communications);

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice (First Folio Theatre); The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Underneath the Lintel (City Lit Theater Company); and A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre). Regional credits include productions with: Asolo Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, BoarsHead Theater, and Colonial Theatre. Film credits include Falsely Accused and Scrooge & Marley. Television credits include Chicago Fire (NBC). Mr. Mitchell received a BFA in theater from Drake University, and also studied at the National Theater Institute and the Théâtre des Amandiers in France.

K.K. MOGGIE (Mary Stuart) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Off-Broadway credits include: The Gravediggers Lullaby (The Actors Company Theatre); Daphne’s Dive

(Signature Theatre); Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery (National Asian American Theatre Company); Summer Shorts (59E59 Theaters); Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theater Company); One Night… (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Golden Dragon (The Play Company); Bottom of the World (Atlantic Theater Company); The Bereaved (Partial Comfort Productions); Grace (MCC Theater); Richard III (Classic Stage Company); and A Peddlers Tale (Women’s Project Theater). Film credits include: After Party (Best Feature Comedy 2017 Madrid International Film Festival); Home (Dances with Films 2013 Industry Choice Award); Anna and the King; and The Sleeping Dictionary. Short film credits include: You Beautiful Crazy Blind Cripple (lead); The Audition (RatPac Entertainment, directed by Martin Scorsese); and Memory Box. Television credits include: The Good Wife (CBS); Gossip Girl (The CW); Mercy (NBC); and White Collar (USA). Ms. Moggie is a Partial Comfort Productions company member, as well as an adjunct professor for Pace University’s film and television department. She received her MFA in acting from Columbia University.

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KELLIE OVERBEY (Elizabeth) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Broadway credits include: The Coast of Utopia, Twentieth Century, “Q.E.D.”, Judgment at Nuremberg,

Present Laughter, and Buried Child. Off-Broadway credits include: Women Without Men (Drama Desk nomination, Mint Theater Company); Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater); Love and Information (New York Theatre Workshop); Rapture Blister Burn, The Savannah Disputation (Lucille Lortel nomination), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons); Sleeping Rough (Drama Desk nomination, Page 73 Productions); Lemon Sky (Keen Company); Animals Out of Paper, Good Boys and True (Second Stage Theater); The Music Teacher (Minetta Lane Theatre); Hamlet (Classic Stage Company); Gone Home, Comic Potential, and The Debutante Ball (Manhattan Theatre Club). Film credits include: Imitation Girl, That’s What She Said (also screenwriter), Favorite Son, Sweet and Lowdown, 35 Miles from Normal, Outbreak, Defenseless, and Misplaced. Television credits include: Law & Order: SVU, Blindspot, Blue Bloods, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Unforgettable, The Job, That’s Life, and The Stand. Ms. Overbey is an Eastern Principle Councilor at Actors’ Equity Association, a founding member of Fair Wage OnStage, and the executive director of the nonprofit "A is For."

BARBARA ROBERTSON (Hanna Kennedy) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include: Tug of War: Foreign Fire, The Tempest, Gypsy, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, A Little

Night Music, The Winter’s Tale, Kabuki Lady Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. Other Chicago credits include: The Detective’s Wife (Writers Theatre); Life Sucks (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Winter (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); On the Town (Marriott Theatre); Love Loss and What I Wore, Working, Grand Hotel (Broadway Playhouse); Wicked (Cadillac Palace Theatre, Oriental Theatre); Yeast Nation (the triumph of life) (American Theater Company); Pursued by Happiness

(Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Camino Real, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, House and Garden (Goodman Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, La Bête, Little Foxes (Court Theatre); and Emma’s Child (Victory Gardens Theater). Regional credits include Other Than Honorable (Geva Theatre Center). Touring credits include Angels in America Parts 1 and 2 (first national tour). Film credits include Robert Altman’s The Company and David Lynch’s A Straight Story. Recipient of more than twenty awards and nominations as an actress, Ms. Robertson also teaches at Columbia College.

DAVID STUDWELL (Lord Burleigh) makes his Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include: As You Like It, Pal Joey, Romeo and Juliet, Sunday in the Park with George, A

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Goodman Theatre); Elmer Gantry, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The New Yorkers, Chess, South Pacific, Brigadoon (Marriott Theatre); Secret Garden, Falsettos, The Rothschilds (Apple Tree Theatre); Crazy for You, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse); Hamlet (Wisdom Bridge Theatre); and Glass House (Northlight Theatre). Off-Broadway credits include Applause! (New York City Center Encores!). Regional credits include work with: Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Kennedy Center, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, PCPA Theaterfest, John W. Engeman Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, and Hangar Theatre. Film credits include Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys. Television credits include Crime Story (NBC). Mr. Studwell received a BFA in musical theatre from SUNY Fredonia and his MFA in performance from Purdue University.

PETER OSWALD (Adapter) is a poet, playwright, and performer. He served as a writer-in-residence at Shakespeare’s Globe from 1998 to 2009. His plays, written in verse and published by Oberon Books, have been performed around the world, including: Shakespeare’s Globe, the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, on London’s West End, and Broadway. Produced at Shakespeare’s Globe, Mr. Oswald’s The Golden Ass, starring

Mark Rylance, formed part of the 2002 season that won the Evening Standard Award for Best Season. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Mr. Oswald’s version of Schiller’s Mary Stuart won the South Bank Award. In 2002, Mr. Oswald co-founded The Abyss Theatre Company, where he served as writer and actor, performing at: The Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Soho Theatre, London; and English Theatre, Berlin. In 2016 he co-founded the Columbina Theatre Company, devoted to poetry performance and new plays rooted in the commedia tradition. Mr. Oswald writes and performs poems and long story-poems based on Icelandic sagas and folktales, which he has performed at the Folger Theatre, Washington, DC; Hay Festival; and Wells Festival. He performed his long poem Weyland (Oberon Books) at the Ledbury Festival. Additional published poems include Three Folktales (Letterpress, 2014) and Sonnets of Various Sizes (Shearsman, 2016). Mr. Oswald received a Society of Authors traveling scholarship in 2016. He lives in Devon, UK, with his wife, Alice, and three children. www.peteroswald.net

JENN THOMPSON (Director) makes her Chicago directorial debut. Recent credits include: The Secret Garden (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Oklahoma! (Goodspeed

Musicals); and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis–five St. Louis Theater Circle Award Nominations). New York credits include The Gravedigger's Lullaby (The Actors Company Theatre, world premiere) and Women Without Men (Mint Theater Company, 2016 Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Outstanding Revival, and five Drama Desk Award nominations, including Outstanding Director and Revival). Ms. Thompson served as co-artistic director of Off Broadway's The Actors Company Theater from 2011 to 2015, directing the critically acclaimed productions of Abundance (2015 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival), Natural Affection, Lost in Yonkers (2012 Drama Desk nomination), The Memorandum, The Late Christopher Bean, Bedroom Farce, and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Additional credits include: Bye Bye Birdie (Goodspeed Musicals–five Connecticut Critics Circle Award

nominations, including Outstanding Director and Musical); Angel Street (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Abundance (Hartford Stage–four Connecticut Critics Circle nominations, including Outstanding Director and Play); All in the Timing, Noises Off, Barefoot in the Park, and Boeing-Boeing (Dorset Theatre Festival, where she is a resident director). www.jennthompsondirector.com

ANDROMACHE CHALFANT (Scenic Designer) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Off-Broadway credits include: The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (Atlantic Theater Company); Rimbaud in New York (BAM); A Kid Like Jake, brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center); Sex with Strangers (Second Stage Theater); Wild Animals You Should Know (MCC Theater); Food and Fadwa (New York Theatre Workshop); Massacre, The Long Shrift, Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Edgewise (The Play Company); Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons); and El Gato Con Botas (The New Victory Theater, El Museo del Barrio). Regional credits include productions with: Hartford Stage, Two River Theater Company, McCarter Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, and Opera Philadelphia. Ms. Chalfant is a company member of LAByrinth Theater Company and an associate artist of The Civilians. She teaches in the graduate design program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned her MFA.

LINDA CHO (Costume Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she designed Othello and Two Noble Kinsmen (Jeff Award nomination). Broadway credits include: Anastasia (Tony Award nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award), and The Velocity of Autumn. Other Chicago credits include work at the Goodman Theatre. Regional credits include productions with: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Goodspeed Musicals. Opera credits include: Los Angeles Opera,

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She will make her Metropolitan Opera debut next season with Samson et Dalila. Ms. Cho is a recipient of the Irene Sharaff Young Master Award and the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is an alumna of McGill University and holds a MFA degree from the Yale School of Drama. www.lindacho.com

GREG HOFMANN (Co-Lighting Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Ride the Cyclone, Road Show, and Short Shakespeare! productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet. Other Chicago credits include: Elf, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Oklahoma, The Who's Tommy (Jeff Award), Mary Poppins, Annie, 42nd Street (Paramount Theatre); The Game's Afoot, Les Misérables (Jeff Award nominee), Oliver! (Drury Lane Theatre); A Loss of Roses, Vieux Carre (Raven Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Pal Joey, Tick Tick Boom! (Porchlight Music Theatre); and Wonderland (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Off-Broadway credits include Ride the Cyclone (MCC Theater). Regional credits include: Outside Mullingar, Mr. Burns, Silent Sky, Sons of the Prophet, and 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (Forward Theater Company). Mr. Hofmann has designed over forty-five productions for Cedar Fair amusement parks across the country, including Cedar Point’s Luminosity. He received his MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

PHILIP ROSENBERG (Co-Lighting Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: The Book of Joseph, King Charles III, Othello, Henry V, Gypsy, Julius Caesar (Jeff Award nomination), The School for Lies, Sunday in the Park with George (Jeff Award nomination), Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elizabeth Rex, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Edward II, Amadeus (Jeff Award nomination), and Cymbeline (Jeff Award nomination). Broadway credits include: The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and It’s Only a Play. Off-Broadway credits include The Explorers Club and Cactus Flower. Regional credits include productions with: The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe,

TheatreWorks, Huntington Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, The Actors Company Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse.

MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Co-Sound Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater where his credits include: Short Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks production of Romeo and Juliet, and The Book of Joseph. Other Chicago credits include: The Hunter and the Bear (Writers Theatre); The Wolves, 2666, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Venus in Fur (Goodman Theatre); Learning Curve, Feast, and God’s Work (Albany Park Theater Project). Off-Broadway and regional credits include: The Treasurer, A Life (Playwrights Horizons); The Undertaking (The Civilians/ BAM); Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse); The Royale (American Theater Company, City Theatre Company, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); The World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club); Fulfillment (The Flea Theater, American Theater Company); and The Old Man and the Old Moon (City Theatre Company, The Old Globe, New Victory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Writers Theatre). Film credits include: Glitch, The Wise Kids, and In Memoriam. Mr. Fiksel has received two Lucille Lortel Awards and Drama Desk nominations, multiple Jeff Awards, and The Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. www.mikhailfiskel.com

MILES POLASKI (Co-Sound Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include The Book of Joseph. Other Chicago credits include productions with: Collaboraction Theatre, 2nd Story, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, American Theater Company, Red Tape Theatre (Jeff Award for Mouse in a Jar), Chicago Dramatists, The Gift Theatre Company, Steep Theatre Company, and About Face Theatre, among others. New York credits include productions with: The Flea Theater (Drama Desk nominee, Jeff Award nominee for Fulfillment), The Playwrights Realm, National Asian American Theatre Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company,

Pace Gallery, and MBL Productions, among others. Mr. Polaski was the resident sound and video designer for five seasons at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA, where he designed over sixty-five musicals and plays.

RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) is the wig and make-up supervisor for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Red Velvet, The Taming of the Shrew, Madagascar, the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks production of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in Love, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and King Charles III, and the inaugural season of Chicago Shakespeare on Navy Pier. Mr. Jarvie spent twenty-eight years with Lyric Opera of Chicago, eleven as the wig master and make-up designer. Other Chicago credits include productions with: Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook. Regional and international credits include productions with: the Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario; Guthrie Theater (wig master); Alliance Theatre; and McCarter Theatre. Opera credits include productions with: The Atlanta Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South Carolina, and Italy.

DAVID WOOLLEY (Fight Choreographer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Red Velvet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Peter Pan, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, King John, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Current Chicago credits include The Gentleman Caller (Raven Theater)and Beauty Queen of Leenane (Northlight Theatre). Off-Broadway credits include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater) and Edmond (Provincetown Playhouse). Regional credits include: The Three Musketeers and Henry V (Utah Shakespeare Festival); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Geffen Playhouse); God of Carnage, Escanaba in da Moonlight, Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press Award), and, currently, The Case of the Elusive Ear (The Purple Rose Theatre Company).

Mr. Woolley is a co-creator and performs as Guido in Dirk & Guido: the Swordsmen! He has received two Joseph Jefferson Awards for fight direction. A professor at Columbia College Chicago, he coordinates violence and intimacy, and is a fight master with the Society of American Fight Directors and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors Equity Association.

KATHRYN WALSH (Verse Coach) returns to Chicago Shakespeare theater where her credits include: King Charles III, the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks production of Twelfth Night, Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, The Feast, and The Madness of George III. Chicago directing credits include: Women Beware Women, Richard II, As You Like It (Two Pence Theatre Company); James and the Giant Peach (Filament Theatre); and breaks & bikes (Pavement Group). Ms. Walsh received her MFA from Northwestern University and BA from Harvard University. She teaches and serves as program mentor in Northwestern’s MFA Directing Program.

EVA BRENEMAN (Dialect Coach) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include: Red Velvet, Shakespeare in Love, King Charles III, Tug of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Elizabeth Rex, and The Madness of King George III. Recent Chicago credits include: Blind Date, Yasmina’s Necklace (Goodman Theatre); The Doppelganger (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); All My Sons, The Belle of Amherst (Court Theater); Plantation, Hard Times (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Importance of Being Earnest (Writers Theatre); and In the Next Room or, The Vibrator Play (TimeLine Theatre Company). Regional credits include: Three Seasons (American Players Theatre); Always...Patsy Cline, The Who and the What (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actors Theatre of Louisville). National tours include: Fun Home, Motown the Musical, and Mamma Mia. Ms. Breneman is an associate artist at TimeLine Theatre Company.

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DEBORAH ACKER (Producton Stage Manager) has stage managed the past twenty-eight seasons at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other stage management credits include: Puttin’ on the Ritz (National Jewish Theater); Six Degrees of Separation, Driving Miss Daisy, I’m Not Rappaport (Briar Street Theatre); The Nerd (Royal George Theatre); and A…My Name Is Alice (Ivanhoe Theatre). She has production managed extensively throughout Chicago, and has also provided lighting designs for: the Apollo Theatre, Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Team Shakespeare, the Museum of Science and Industry, Some Like It Cole (tour), and Pump Boys and Dinettes in Branson, Missouri.

JINNI PIKE (Assistant Stage Manager, through March 25) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she assistant stage managed Ride the Cyclone. Other Chicago credits include: Elf the Musical, Sweeney Todd, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Hairspray, The Who's Tommy (Paramount Theatre); Bakersfield Mist, Danny Casolaro Died for You, The How and the Why, Raisin in the Sun, and Wasteland (TimeLine Theatre Company). Regional credits include: seven seasons as production stage manager with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (Kansas City, MO); three seasons as production stage manager and twenty-five productions at Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO); and A Christmas Carol at Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

ELISE HAUSKEN (Assistant Stage Manager, beginning March 27) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream and CPS Shakespeare! The Taming of the Shrew. Other Chicago credits include: The Minutes, Linda Vista (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Crazy for You (Drury Lane Theatre); Arcadia, Isaac’s Eye, Days Like Today, Hedda Gabler, The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Liar, Sweet Charity, Hamlet, A Little Night Music, and Hesperia (Writers Theatre); and The Apple Family Plays (TimeLine Theatre Company). During the summer, Ms. Hausken serves as the production manager at Ravinia Festival. She holds a BA in theatre and English literature from Northwestern University.

BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting Director) is in his eighteenth season as CST’s casting director, where his credits include over one hundred productions and thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to numerous productions with Barbara Gaines, other productions of note include: a host of Sondheim musicals directed by Gary Griffin; Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Edward Hall; and The Molière Comedies, directed by Brian Bedford. He recently directed and co-created Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, as part of CST's Shakespeare 400 Chicago festival. Prior to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and has been a visiting educator for the School at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University.

NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) is the director of casting at Manhattan Theatre Club. Broadway credits include: Jitney, Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, and Constellations. She cast the original productions of Proof and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway and off-Broadway, as well as their national tours. Off-Broadway credits include: Linda, Incognito, The Explorers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, The World of Extreme Happiness, and Of Good Stock. Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting staff at the New York Shakespeare Festival for ten years, where she worked on Shakespeare in the Park and numerous productions at the Public Theatre. She cast the American actors for the first two seasons of the Bridge Project, produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Casting Society of America.

RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses on current and future artistic planning and production, as well as the development of all new plays, musicals and adaptations for CST. Projects include: The Book of Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, upcoming at 5th Avenue/ACT), Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, Grahamstown,

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Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component 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 organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this production are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Edinburgh, Vancouver), Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest (in collaboration with Redmoon). Former artistic director of the Marriott Theatre and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, he has starred in productions nationally, including CST’s production of A Flea in Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark Award). As casting director/associate at Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: the television series Early Edition, Missing Persons, Untouchables and ER; the films While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, among others; and numerous national tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma mater Northwestern University, and is the former president of the board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

BARBARA GAINES (Artistic Director/Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair) founded Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she has directed nearly fifty productions of

Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include: the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre; the prestigious Honorary OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in recognition of her contributions strengthening British-American cultural relations; and Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Production (Hamlet, Cymbeline, King Lear and The Comedy of Errors), and for Best Director (Cymbeline, King Lear and The Comedy of Errors). Ms. Gaines has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon, Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Old Globe in San Diego. As the cornerstone

production of Shakespeare 400 Chicago, the 2016 international celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy, she created a world premiere Shakespeare history cycle, Tug of War, including the rarely staged Edward III. Ms. Gaines received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Birmingham (UK), the University Club of Chicago’s Cultural Award, and the Public Humanities Award from the Illinois Humanities Council.

CRISS HENDERSON (Executive Director) has produced Chicago Shakespeare Theater's past twenty-eight seasons, and developed the citywide, yearlong celebration through

2016 of Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Under his leadership, CST has become one of the nation’s leading regional theaters and one of Chicago's most celebrated cultural organizations, honored with the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, as well as multiple Laurence Olivier and Joseph Jefferson Awards. Mr. Henderson has garnered multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural Innovation Award from the Chicago Innovation Awards; the Arts Administrator of the Year by Arts Management Magazine at the Kennedy Center and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of France. He was named among the top 40 business people under the age of 40 in Crain’s Chicago Business. He serves as president of the Producers’ Association of Chicago-area Theaters and is director of the MFA/Arts Leadership Program, a two-year graduate-level curriculum in arts management training created through a joint partnership between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Theatre School at DePaul University.


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In Mary Stuart, politico-theological conflict plays out as a tug of war between

two radically different monarchic temperaments: Mary’s sensual, impulsive,

open-hearted; Elizabeth’s cool, calculating, and self-contained. Mary has been

wed (and widowed) three times, and even now has many suitors, one of whom

describes her as having “the gift of life” so fully “in her possession,” that “to be

with her is ecstasy forever.” Elizabeth has suitors too, but plays them off each

other for political gain, and already aspires, as dexterous politician and Virgin

Queen, never to wed at all. Again and again she reminds herself and others that

“I am not like the Stuart.”

In important ways, though, she’s partly wrong. Schiller, like Shakespeare, knows

that opposition achieves its fullest dramatic torque not in difference but in

kinship. The clash resounds most forcefully only when—and because—the mighty

opposites turn out to have much in common.

So it is with Mary and Elizabeth. They share a

common bloodline, a fierce intelligence, and

even, at various points in the play, the seductive

attentions of the same man. And they share

too, with one another but with few other

women in history, a barely precedented

experience of power: as queens by succession

and not by marriage, each has known what it

is to rule in her own right. For both of them, the play makes clear, this predicament

is at once profoundly solitary and, in a world still overflowing with masculine

prerogative, overcrowded.

And this turns out to be the common ground to which Schiller devotes his

most sustained attention. He surrounds each queen with many, varied men—

Machievellian, humane, amorous, ambitious, baffled, subservient—and tracks the

complicated consequences.

At its first appearance, in 1800, Mary Stuart flourished (and still does) as a high

verse tragedy mingling the grandeur of the Greeks with Shakespeare’s gorgeous

incandescence. In 2018, amid the mighty maelstrom of #MeToo, the play works

Near the end of Hamlet, Shakespeare subtly discloses a

secret of his own craft. The Prince, explaining to Horatio

why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, observes

that it is dangerous for ordinary mortals to get caught up

in the conflict between “mighty opposites” (here, Hamlet

and his usurping uncle).

Dangerous, yes. But also, at least at the playhouse, hugely

entertaining. Mighty opposites are the stuff of drama,

and getting caught up in their combat is a privilege we

ordinary playgoing mortals are happy to pay for.

In Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller, who worshipped

Shakespeare, draws us adroitly into an impassioned clash

of mighty opposites: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and

Elizabeth I of England. And Peter Oswald, in his fresh

English adaptation of the text (quoted here), has focused,

accelerated and intensified the conflict.

When the play begins, the conflict has been raging

for nineteen years, with each queen asserting her

monarchal rights across perhaps the most seismic split in

English history: the moment, five decades earlier, when

Henry VIII, intent on discarding his first wife and marrying

Anne Boleyn, renounced the Roman Catholic Church and

declared himself Supreme Head of the (now Protestant)

Church of England.

Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Anne, embodies her

nation’s precarious Protestant present, and hopes to

sustain it, by way of her own charismatic power, into the

perpetual future. Mary, ardent Catholic granddaughter of

Henry’s sister, has functioned throughout her checkered

life as a lightning rod for rebels intent on reclaiming

England’s throne, and with it the entire island, for the

Church of Rome. With Mary in prison and Elizabeth in

power, the Queen of England must decide whether the

Queen of Scots is to live or die.

THE JOHN W. AND JEANNE M. ROWE INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION SERIES

Schiller, like Shakespeare, knows that opposition

achieves its fullest dramatic torque not in

difference but in kinship.

SCHILLER'S MARY STUART n IN A NEW VERSION BY PETER OSWALD

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Stuart Sherman, who contributes this essay, is a professor of English at Fordham University and the author of Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785.


also as an audacious thought experiment: what if women were to hold

the highest power possible, but with all the presumptuousness of male

manipulation still forcibly in play?

The results, while galvanic, are also

unsettling. Though Elizabeth aspires to rule

her kingdom “like a man,” she gradually

embraces a craven tactic, offloading all

responsibility for her fateful, equivocal

decisions onto her factious, opportunistic

male adherents. We’re used to imagining

this queen as virtually the patron saint of

Shakespeare (think Judi Dench, in Shakespeare in Love) and hence of our

own humanity. It’s striking to watch Schiller (and Oswald in his new version)

call hers so stringently into question.

Mary’s humanity is never in doubt. She too is beset by men who assert their

allegiance to her, but who nurture their own needs even more. Generous,

discerning, and endangered, she earns her primacy, as the tragedy’s titular

character, by virtue of her larger soul. Her humanity deepens scene by scene.

It is she, far more than Elizabeth, who recognizes the “we” in their shared

predicament. Having been tried, as she points out, by “a court of men, and

none of them my peer,” she now implores her handlers to set up a meeting

with Elizabeth, because

with the Queen I share

My sex, my blood, my rank. To her alone,

Sister, queen, woman, can I speak in freedom.

In the fulfillment of her request lies Schiller’s sharpest departure from actual

history. In real life, the two queens never met. In the play they do, precisely

because Mary alone understands the ways in which their commonalities

might lead to redemption, or to ruin, for both of them.

The poet Alexander Pope once declared, in praise of playgoing, that at the

theater we get to “be what we behold”; we become, while our absorption

lasts, the characters we watch. In Mary Stuart, by this logic, we become

for the time being both Elizabeth and Mary, recognizing in them our own

conflicting impulses toward tactical self-interest and toward freer, truer, and

imprudent passions. Absorbed in the clash on stage, we end up adjudicating

our own inner lives, weighing, however subliminally, where to place ourselves

along the spectrum between these mighty opposites.

Neither Schiller nor Shakespeare ever asks of us anything less. Early in the

play, in a gruff incisive line, Schiller sets forth what might serve as all great

playwrights’ First Commandment to their nightly audiences: “You are the

Judges. So judge!” n

Mary alone understands the ways in which their

commonalities might lead to redemption, or to

ruin, for both of them.


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WhitcombLaurel and Zach FrankelDan and Ronda FranksHilary Freeman and

John GrubbsJohn FreidheimKiran Frey and Pradip SethiMerle FriedmanAlexis FunchesBryna and Edward GamsonDonn and Barbara GardnerMartha GarnettRaymond and Patricia GassJoAnn Gavin and

John Smyth, Jr.Paula and Jeffrey GaynorRichard GeorgeMargaret GielniewskiRobyn Gilliom and

Richard FriedmanPatricia and James GladdenGerry and Stan GlassDr. and Mrs. Richard GlinkaJim GoeserNatalie GoldbergMr. and Mrs. Michael

GoodkinSteve and Linda GoransonMichael and Amy GordonMr. and Mrs. Robert M.

GordonMs. Molly GorenMr. Barry GrahamMs. Lark GrayMr. Joel and Dr. Sharon

GreenburgMyrna and Charles GreeneSusan GriffinDara and Derek GriffithJoel Stein and

Michele Grimaldi SteinMary M. GrobarcikMarilyn GroganMerle K. and Barry GrossDan GrothPaul M. Gruber

Ron Guild and Dr. Carroll Cradock

Millie GunnCatherine HaggertySusan HaimesMark R. Hamby, CSSJudith HanlonMichael Hansen and

Nancy RandaJanis and Boyd HarmanMargaret J. Harmon and

John M. NonaMichael A. and Lois D.

HarringRic HarrisSteven HarrisTom HarrisCamilla Hawk Diaz-PerezEnriqueta HawkinsMaryjoy and David

HeinemanAngeline HeislerRobert HellgethSean E. and Dana J.

HendrenLinda S. HenselAaren HeroffJudy and Jay HeymanLeslie HickeyAaron and Sarah HoffmanAaron and Tina HoffmanAnn and Jim HoganDawn Hogan and

Steve SmickBrendt and Miho HoldenBernard HolickyKevin M. HollenbeckSusan K. Horn and

Donald S. HonchellMr. James M. HutchinsonDavid and Karen HymanBrad and Jennifer IlkoMr. and Mrs. Christopher

JackiwMary Anne and

Frank JakalskiKaren JaredJeffrey JensChris and Tori JepsenKaren and Dan JohnsCheryl JolineauRichard T. JonesVirginia and John JonesMr. Lawrence L. JonesThe Joyce FamilyJoan KacmarErik and Carla KahlerKathleen KallanMrs. Ethel R. KaplanMr. and Mrs. James

KargmanHarriet and Ernest KarminDiane and Byron KarzasMike and Jane KathmanStuart Katz and

Keith EricksonNancy L. Kelly

Marie Ruff and Bill Kenneally

Kathleen and Terrence Kennedy

John KerrLouis V. KerstenRichard KieckheferLeigh and Greg KinczewskiThomas C. KingsleyC. Ryan KinlawMatt and Karen KlickmanDeanna KludyCarol KnoerzerPaul KobasaThe Korycki FamilyQuentin and Debra KossnarShari KoubaAmy KovalanMark KoziczTheodore KrakowskiMr. Arthur KroftLeslie KrohnJohn L. Ladle, Jr.Nancy LaLuntasNancy LamiaPete Friedmann and

Karen LanerLeft Brain Wealth

ManagementRobert and Kristin LaPorteCharles LauritoKent and Kathy LawrenceScott and Bobbi LebinDeborah LeffPhyllis LermanAnonymousSusan LevittMr. Ken and Dr. Renee

LewinMary E. LincolnDavid and Carol LinerMargaret and Derek

LinkousVelda LloydMelvin LoebMs. Wan Tse LohThomas E. Long and

Susan LongJoan LovellMr. and Mrs. J. Samuel

LoveringMr. and Mrs. LowumYike LuDr. Rosemary LucasJohn LuceyRoseanne LucianekSteven LuetgerMichelle LunaVerniel LundquistDeborah LustMark P. Lutze and

Hilda Demuth-LutzeBrad Lyerla and

Donna MorganDavid UnderwoodDavid and Tracy MackDave and Nancy MadsenMs. Teresa A. Maganzini


Anthony MaierJames L. and Alice Reno

MaloneMichael MaloneyJames MannSharon ManuelBen and Mary Lou

MarchelloElaine MargulisChristine MarkDavid Marker and

Georgeann JosephMary Ann and Dennis

MarksMs. Carol MartinDorothy MartinAnne S. MartinDeborah and James

MathewsPhilip MatsikasCharles MauterPhilip and Ann MayGeorge and Marynell

MayfieldNicolette MayoMary McArthur and

John HawesAlan McCloudMichael and Jacqueline

McConnellPat McGrailDave McGuireHonorable Kathleen M.

McGuryRodrick and Yoshie

McIlquhamCathy McKeeMr. and Mrs. John McLeodFlorence McMillanTerry McWhorterClaretta MeierChristopher MelbyTruman and Dorothy

MetzelMr. and Mrs. Jerrold

MichaelsJeff & Jacqueline MillerKimberley MillerLoren R. Miller IIIScott and Sandy MillerPatricia M. MilroyMartin and Lauren ModahlKeelin MolloyDavid and Lola MonsonMelinda MooreJune Deforest

MorgansternThomas MoritzTodd and Linda MorningJohn A. MorrisonGeorge MorrisseyMs. Maureen MoshDr. Martin and Chava

MozesMr. and Mrs. David M.

MurdochArthur J. MurphyRev. Harold B. Murphy

Mary Ellen MurphyThomas F. MurphyDavid L. MurrayMs. Barbara A. MurthaMs. Jane MyersDr. Raja R. NadimpalliKathleen Nagle and

Ralph JohnsonAnna K. NardoThomas NazimekHerbert and Roberta

NechinIngeburg NeckermannCarol Thomas NeelyC. David NelsonBarbara S. NjusGeorge and Paula NobleJerry and Geraldine NolenSherry K. NordstromHenry and Debra

NovoselskyFrank NykielMr. Mark Oates and

Mrs. Elizabeth LewisLinda O'BryantTimothy O'HaraCarol and Stuart OkenCandus S. OlsonDr. Don OlsonUte and Reed O'MalleyMauricio OrmacheaNeal and Mary Clark

OrmondFlorence Upjohn Orosz

and Joel J. OroszDouglas and Suzanne

OverbeckSteven G. PaceBob and Marcie PaddockMr. and Mrs. Joe PageKristi PagoulatosSusie PaoniAudrey L. PatonNancy PattersonMidge Perlman ShaftonMarilyn PernoNadine PetersenGenevieve PhelpsLouis D. PierceThomas J. PierceMr. and Mrs. Dale R.

PinkertZachary and Amanda

PiperPonce de Leon FamilyD. Elizabeth PriceJerry ProffitGail Purkey and

David KonkolMarcia PurzeThomas Quinn and

Eileen FureyVeena and Sunil AroraDorothy Victoria RammBarbara RandolphJ. M. and Hildegund

Ratcliffe

Pradeep and Taposhree Rattan

David RebnordGary and Susan RedekerClive D. RichardsPaul RinkCarol J. and Dennis M.

RobbJoan V. RoederWylie and Leah RogersVirginia RogodzinskiJerry Roman and

Liz EngquistEarl and Christiane

RonnebergAlan and Debra

RosenbergDrs. Lya and Louis

RosenblumBernie and Judy

RosensteinSusan Rosenstein

Executive Search Limited

Barbara Rosin and Harvey Kallick

Nuna and Ennio RossiJoel and Jeri RothmanBonnie Fry Rothman and

Michael RothmanDenise RousePatricia L. and Philip H.

RowlandMary Ann and Stephen

RuskinJohn RyanSusan L. SackJoan and Frank SaffordJudy SaganMark and Janice SambergNeil and Lynne SamuelsDavid and Nancy Sarne

and FamilyJohn SarwarkAlfred and Linda SaucedoJo and Robert SawyerRita ThompsonKatherine and David

SchandingGlenda and Steve ScheerRenee SchleicherMichael SchlesingerMary McIntosh SchlottMarcia SchneiderJonathan Seed and

Alexandra PiperGail and Lewis SegalDonald and Ruth SenderJoseph C. SeneseDavid J. ShanahanKaren B. Shank and

Toby LangeJane ShapiroMyron and Beverly

ShapiroPeggy ShapiroCatherine Sharifi

William Shaver and Mary Jo Strusz

Mr. James ShermanLawrence A. ShermanGraciela and William

ShoreyBill and Harlan ShropshireEllen and Richard ShubartPeter ShullAnna and Mark SieglerBruce and Sarane

SiewerthBarbara M. SipeLisa SkempMs. Elizabeth SklarskyWesley Skogan and

Barbara PuechlerSusan Sleeper-SmithGeralyn Stanczak SmithKatherine K. SmithKevin T. SmithMadison R. and Carolyn

J. SmithMr. Paul SmithsonAdam SnyderMr. Tom SollersDr. and Mrs. Marshall

SparbergJoseph SpellmanJudith SpiesAndrea SrulovitzGerald and Mary

StapletonSusan SternDoug and Betsy StilesMr. G. Ralph Strohl and

Dr. Mrinalini RaoJudy StruckMary and Kenneth SullivanMark SwensonChuck and Judy SwisherHeidi SwissChristina Marie TaufenLouise I. TauscheNatalia and Scott TaylorDiane E. TelgenRoberta and Leonard

TennerRonald TevonianPaul and Linda

ThistlethwaiteFloyd ThompsonKen and Glenna

ThompsonRaleigh ThompsonRita Thomson and

John GianniniEdward Velazquez and

Peggy TitteringtonMs. Virginia TobiasonF. Joseph TomecekFrank and Janis TomecekMarci A. Eisenstein and

John W. TreeceJanet TrowbridgeCheryl TrudeauMartha TrueheartHsi-Tsin Tsiang


INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS

An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected].

Reflects gifts received between January 15, 2017–January 15, 2018

Tribute Program

FOR SARAJANE AVIDON AND FELIX SHUMAN

Stephen and Connie KingDick Simpson

FOR CAROL CHAPMANSandy and Tim Chapman

FOR DAVID COHOONRick and Deborah Stevens

FOR LOIS DUNNKathy Dunn

FOR ARLENE FIELDSTEELV.E. Hicks

FOR JACK FULLERDebra Moskovits

FOR EDITH GAINESRobert W. Andersen and

George P. Schneider

FOR ANDREA GUNDERSONMichelle Mace

FOR JULIE L. HALLShauna Scott and

J. Parker Hall, IVFOR DR. JINGER HOOPJonathan Daniel

FOR JACK KARPSusan and Lawrence AaronDavid and Ann DiazMr. and Mrs. Abel FriedmanJohn HirschLouise A. HollandTheodore and Harriette

PerlmanMichael and Sandra Perlow

FOR NORTON H. KAYSandra Blau

FOR KENNETH KUEHNLEAndrea Atlass

FOR ELIOT LANDAUEileen Landau

FOR MARTHA LAVEY

Gregory Desmond and Michael Segobiano

FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ-WASSERMAN

David Wasserman, M.D

FOR TONI MCNARONCarol Grant

FOR WILLIAM H. ROBBLouise Robb

FOR MAUREEN STEINDLERJames F. CallahanNicholas DePintoChristel DraegerMarcy Steindler

FOR COURTNEY VODARobert and Barbara LawrieGerald and Patricia MayEllen Voda

FOR RHETA ANNE WENZELBonnie and Roger Schmidt

MEMORIAL GIFTS

HONORARY GIFTSFOR GERALD AND MARCIA BURKE Adam Burke

FOR PHIL AND LA ENGEL Diana F. Blitzer Joann and Bill Braman

FOR HARVE FERRILL William and Anne Goldstein

FOR E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Claire Rice

FOR MARILYN HALPERIN La and Philip Engel

FOR HILL AND CHERYL HAMMOCK James Mann

FOR JASON HARRINGTON Paul Rink

FOR CRISS HENDERSON Faye Marlowe

FOR CRISS HENDERSON AND RICK BOYNTON Herbert Boynton Mr. Alan R. Gordon

FOR BETSY KARP Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman

FOR BARBARA MALOTT KIZZIAH Charles and Caroline Huebner

FOR MARK OUWELEEN Mark Levine and Andrea Kott

FOR PAULITA PIKE Paul Dykstra and Susan Cremin

FOR PHILIP S. ROSENBERG Emily Rosenberg Pollock

FOR BONNIE SEEBOLD Leslie Smith and Michael Uzer

FOR STUART SHERMAN Anonymous

FOR ST. CRISPIN DAY SOCIETY Dan Froth

www.chicagoshakes.com/support

Dottie Bris-Bois 312.667.4965

[email protected]

For more information on how to become a member

PRODUCERS’ GUILD AT CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERThe Producers' Guild is a leadership group,

shaping the future of Chicago Shakespeare

Theater by introducing new audiences

to CST's extraordinary productions and

World's Stage series, promoting family and

arts-in-education programs, and supporting

key Theater initiatives. Members also:

• Participate in exclusive CST Events

• Enjoy complimentary VIP ticketing and interval service

• Host family and friends at CST performances

Amy B. TuRheal And Denise

TurcotteBonnie and William

TwohigJane and Howard TynerBarbara ValeriousJoanna B. VanniJulia and Ben Van VlietJames VardimanRonald J. VaughnMr. and Mrs. Ronald

VavrinekThomas and Elizabeth

VenturaKim WagnerLillian WalankaBelle WaldfogelKamiah Walker

Mr. and Mrs. John WallaceEd WalshRev. Mark J. WalterJerry WarrenCraig and Deloris WatsonJim and Kim WatsonDr. Russell and Marie WattCynthia WeglarzNancy and Eugene WeilDr. Carol Weinberg and

Mr. Harold J. WinstonPatricia and Michael B.

WeinsteinLois WeissVictor and Tamar

WeissbergPatricia WessSusan and David WestbyRichard Wheeler

Mary and Ronald Whitaker

James N. WicklundLisa WiersmaHerbert and Catherine

WigderDiana WilliamsJessica and Cristine

WilliamsJan WilliamsGemma M. WittDr. Jenny WojcikDiane and Ted WooleverDavid and Elizabeth

WrightJill and David ArcherRachael WrightRuth N. Wukasch

Robert O. Wyatt and Terri A. Lacky

Dimis WymanJulie YamaguchiDiane YarboroughDerek YeghiazarianDon YoungbergLinda YoungmanJoan and Russ ZajtchukMichael J. ZolikCharles and Gail

ZugermanKaren ZupkoDr. Carol IvyTim McGonegle and

Barbara Sullivan



Contributed Materials

Matching Gifts

Contributed materials and services are an essential component in sustaining

Chicago Shakespeare’s role as a gathering place for audiences, artists

and members of the community. We thank the following individuals and

organizations for their valuable donations of goods and/or services.

Reflects contributions received between July 1, 2016–January 15, 2018

Acadia Ryan McCaskey

Ambiente ChicagoArc WorldwideBBJ LinenBukiety Floral DesignCarol’s Event StaffingChicago Public MediaMary T. Christel

Communications DirectFood For ThoughtHall’s Rental ServiceRich HeinHeritage Wine Cellars, Ltd.HMS Media, Inc.Inspired Catering and Events

by Karen and Gina StefaniKPMG Family for Literacy

Make It Better MediaMDR CreativeShure IncorporatedStarwood Hotels and ResortsIntersectionVan Duzer Vineyards -

Carl and Marilynn ThomaWTTW, WFMT

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.


Aetna Foundation, Inc.Allstate Insurance

CompanyArcher Daniels Midland

CompanyArris Group Inc.AT&T FoundationBaird Foundation, Inc.Bank of America IllinoisThe Boeing CompanyBlueCross BlueShield

of IllinoisCaterpillar FoundationCDW Charles Scwab

FoundationCTC Trading GroupEmpact Emergency

Physicians LLC

ExelonGE FoundationGeneral Mills FoundationGoldman, Sachs & Co.GoogleHSBCIBM CorporationITWJohn D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur FoundationJohnson Controls

FoundationJPMorgan ChaseKirkland & Ellis LLPLeo Burnett

Company, Inc.Lloyd A. Fry FoundationMcDonald’s CorporationMicrosoft Corporation

Morgan StanleyNuveen InvestmentsPepsi Co.Polk Bros. FoundationPrudential Capital GroupRopes & Gray LLPSipi Metals CorporationSony Pictures

EntertainmentTexas InstrumentsNorthern TrustThe SaintsUnited Healthcare

of IllinoisUSG CorporationVisual Marketing, Inc.William Blair & Company


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.

Anonymous (2)

Mary and Nick Babson

John W. Barriger

Joan Israel Berger

Kathy Dunn

La and Philip Engel

Michael Goldberger

Linda D. and Craig C. Grannon

Dick Hurckes

Dr. Anne McCreary Juhasz

Judy and John Keller

Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke

Anstiss Hammond Krueck

Anne E. Kutak

Raymond and Judy McCaskey

Jonathan F. Orser

Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey

Barbara Petersen

Chuck Simanek and Edna Burke

Michael and Sharon Sloan

Steve and Robin Solomon

David and Ingrid Stallé

Susan Tennant

Helen and Richard Thomas

Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles

Linda Vertrees

Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding Principal, VOA Architects

Chicago Shakespeare gratefully acknowledges the following estates that have provided gifts of bequests.

Evelyn D. Barriger

George W. Blossom III

Carol Irma Chapman

Nelson D. Cornelius

S.M. Evans

Edith B. Gaines

Julie and Parker Hall

Corinne Johnson

Harold H. Plaut

Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure

To include Chicago Shakespeare in your estate plans, please contact Brooke Flanagan at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]


June 12 to October 14, 2018www.PeninsulaPlayers.com 920.868.3287

Discover Door County’s

Theatrical TreasureGreg Vinkler, Artistic Director

The set of A Little Night Music; Photo by Len Villano

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CHICAGOSHAKESPEARETHEATER

Support the Theater’s nationally recognized education initiatives and Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour at this exquisite event that features a theatrically inspired dinner and one-night-only performance.

SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE 2018 CIVIC HONOREES

MARILYNN AND CARL THOMA

SAVE THE DATE

2018JUNE 8GALA


Our City, Our ShakespeareTHE CAMPAIGN FOR


WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM/CAMPAIGNTo make a gift, contact Brooke Flanagan at

312.595.5581 or [email protected].

Join the generous community of civic and corporate leaders supporting this bold vision

for Chicago Shakespeare. Your gift will provide capital funding for The Yard and safeguard the Theater’s work on stage and in the community.

A Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois knows our communities perform at their best through the act of togetherness. By supporting

the arts and education, and implementing outreach wellness programs, we’re proud to help our neighbors shine on any stage.

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