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BIOS OF NOMINEES
2003-04 Joseph Jefferson Awards
CHRIS AKERLIND (2 nominations)
Lighting Design, Electricidad, The Goodman Theatre
Lighting Design, The Light in the Piazza, The Goodman Theatre in association with The
Intiman Theatre
Besides his nominations for Electricidad and Light in the Piazza, other Goodman productions include The Skin of
Our Teeth, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Randy Newman's Faust. Other Chicago credits include
Homebody/Kabul, Steppenwolf; The Piano and Twelfth Night, Court, and Antony and Cleopatra, Chicago
Shakespeare. Recent work outside Chicago are: premiere of Nicholas and Alexandra, Los Angeles Opera; Giulio
Cesare, Houston Grand Opera; Score, Room and La Dispute, S.I.T.I. Company; Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare
Company; Well, Public Theater; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Broadway, and Pericles, Theatre for a New
Audience. He received the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Michael Merritt Award for
Design and Collaboration, and numerous nominations for Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Tony
Awards.
TRACY MICHELLE ARNOLD
Actress in a Principal Role – Play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Northlight Theatre
This is her Northlight debut. In four seasons at American Players Theatre, she appeared in Antony and Cleopatra,
The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pygmalion, Pericles,
Phedre, The Winter's Tale and Much Ado About Nothing. She also appeared in the Jeff-nominated production of
Top Girls at Remy Bumppo and productions with Madison Repertory, NextAct, Naked Eye, Irish Rep and Stages St.
Louis.
BRIAN BEDFORD
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, The Moliére Comedies, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
His previous Chicago Shakespeare appearance was in The School for Scandal in 2001. A master of Moliére, he
starred on Broadway in Tartuffe, The Moliére Comedies, both receiving Tony Award nominations for Lead Actor in
a Play; The Misanthrope, and The School for Wives, receiving a 1971 Tony Award. In 22 seasons at the Stratford
Festival of Canada, his leading roles included Tartuffe, Bottom, Benedick, Richard III, Shylock, Macbeth, Malvolio,
Timon, Richard II, Salieri and Brutus. Stratford directing credits include: Present Laughter, Private Lives, The
Winter's Tale, Waiting for Godot, Equus, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Racine's Phaedra.
International credits include work with Sir John Gielgud and Peter Brook and his one-man Shakespeare evening,
The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet. Broadway credits include starring roles in more than 20 productions, receiving
three Tony Awards for Best Actor in London Assurance, Timon of Athens and Two Shakespearean Actors. Other
awards include: Obie and New York Drama Desk for Mike Nichol's production of The Knack, Drama Desk for Two
Shakespearean Actors and L.A. Drama Critics for Equus. TV credits include: Frasier, More Tales of the City,
Nixon, Scarlett, Cheers, Murder She Wrote, Grand Prix and the voice of the title character in Walt Disney's Robin
Hood. He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1997, and studied acting at the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Art.
KEN BILLINGTON
Lighting Design, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This is his Chicago Shakespeare debut. Broadway credits include more than 80 shows, from the 1972 hit Don't
Bother Me, I Can't Cope to last season's Dance of the Vampires. His extensive work in theater, television, opera and
concerts includes Stars on Ice!, Fantasmic! (Disney), Riverdance and Radio City Music Hall's Christmas
Spectacular (past 25 seasons) as well as architectural lighting projects for various venues and restaurants. Awards
include: 1997 Tony Award for Chicago, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, the first Ace Award for television
lighting, and Tony nominations for End of the World, Foxfire, Sweeney Todd, Working and The Visit.
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MARA BLUMENFELD
Costume Design, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
She previously received Jeff nominations for Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago
Shakespeare, where she also did the costume design for Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet and Short
Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other Chicago design credits include numerous productions at
Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court and Lookingglass (including Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22), where she is an
artistic associate. New York credits include Mary Zimmerman's Tony Award-winning Metamorphoses, The
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and Measure for Measure. Regional credits include designs for Huntington
Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory, Geva Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Boston Lyric Opera, Berkeley
Repertory, McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and most recently, Alley Theatre of
Houston (Our Lady of 121st St.)
DERMOT BOLGER
New Adaptation, A Dublin Bloom, Irish Repertory of Chicago
Born in Finglas, North Dublin, his plays include: The Lament for Arthur Cleary, Blinded by the Light, In High
Germany, April Bright and The Passion of Jerome. Novels include The Woman's Daughter, Temptation and The
Valparaiso Voyage; and he has edited numerous books such as Finbar's Hotel and Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel.
Among his numerous awards are: Samuel Beckett Award, AE Memorial Award and Stuart Parker BBC Award. He
is a past writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and a member of Ǽosdana, Ireland's society of creative artists.
KATI BRAZDA
Actress in a Principal Role – Play, Trying, Victory Gardens Theatre
She previously appeared at Victory Gardens in The Action Against Sol Schumann and this season in The
Misanthrope, Next, and The Death of Bessie Smith and Finding the Sun, Goodman. Favorite roles include: Isobel in
The Secret Rapture, Remy Bumppo (After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance); Tulsa Lovechild in The Life
and Times of Tulsa Lovechild, CollaborAction (Jeff Citations for Actress in a Leading Role and Ensemble), and
Marlene Dietrich in Burning Desires, Defiant. Other Chicago credits include: A Kind Asylum, Organic; The
Romance Cycle: Cymbeline and Pericles, Court; Top Girls, Remy Bumppo; Dylan, Seanachai; Whitman, About
Face, and Hellcab and The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Famous Door.
WILLIAM BROWN
Director – Play, Our Town, Writers’ Theatre
Other Writer's productions he directed are: Rocket to the Moon, Misalliance, The Glass Menagerie and Incident at
Vichy. He has received six Jeff Citations, including Best Play and Best Director for Not About Nightengales.
Directing credits for American Players in Wisconsin include: The Cherry Orchard, Antony and Cleopatra, All's
Well That Ends Well and Shaw's You Never Can Tell. For Timeline, he directed Halcyon Days and Paragon
Springs. He is the associate artistic director of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, and as an actor, received a Jeff
Award for Best Actor in the Writer's Theatre production of Nixon's Nixon.
MICHAEL CERVERIS
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago credits include: Sunday in the Park with George and Passion at Ravinia Festival; Romeo in Romeo and
Juliet, Goodman; Nothing Sacred, Northlight, and guitarist/vocalist on tour with punk icon Bob Mould's band,
Riviera Theatre. Broadway credits include Assassins, Titanic and title role in The Who's Tommy, which he
originated and received a Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award and Original Cast Grammy. He appeared in
Hedwig and the Angry Inch in London, New York and Los Angeles, where he received a Garland Award. OffBroadway credits include: Fifth of July, Total Eclipse, Abingdon Square and The Games. Regional credits include:
Passion at the Kennedy Center, Tooth of Crime, Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing. Film credits include The
Mexican, Tokyo Pop and Lulu on the Bridge. For TV, he appeared regularly on Fame and The American Embassy
and made guest appearances in CSI and many others. He debut album Dog Eared came out in February.
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VICTORIA CLARK
Actress in a Principal Role – Musical, The Light in the Piazza, The Goodman Theatre in
association with The Intiman Theatre
This is her Goodman debut. She created the role of Alice Beane in Titanic on Broadway, where she also appeared in
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Grand Night for Singing, Cabaret, Urinetown and Guys and
Dolls. Off-Broadway, she created the role of Hazel in Marathon Dancing for En Garde Arts. Other world
premieres include: States of Independence by Tina Landau and Ricky Ian Gordon for American Music Theatre,
Philadelphia; The Secret Garden for Virginia Stage, and The Light in the Piazza for Intiman Theatre, Seattle. She
appeared as Dulce Fox in Tim Robbin's movie The Cradle Will Rock and on television as the Beggar Woman in the
Emmy Award-winning Sweeney Todd in Concert on PBS, Law and Order, and Law and Order: Special Victims
Unit.
IVONNE COLL
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, Electricidad, The Goodman Theatre
She recently received a Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Performance by the San Diego Theatre Critic's Circle for
her role in Adoration of the Old Woman at La Jolla Playhouse. Broadway credits include Chronicle of a Death
Foretold, Shakespeare on Broadway and Goodbye Fidel. Regional work includes Ten Tiny Love Stories (world
premiere), Marilyn Monroe Theatre; Two Sisters and a Piano (world premiere), McCarter Theatre, and Bitter
Homes and Gardens, LATC. TV and film credits include recurring roles on American Family, Joan of Arcadia,
Nip/Tuck, Skin and a debut in Godfather II. A native of Puerto Rica, she represented the island in the Miss Universe
Contest and had her own variety show and sitcom. She is a coach and teacher at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los
Angeles.
MATT DeCARO
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, The Play About the Baby, The Goodman Theatre
He previously appeared in American Buffalo, A Streetcar Named Desire, Machinal and Dark Rapture, American
Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco; Glengarry Glen Ross, Steppenwolf and Dublin Theatre Festival, and
Spinning Into Butter and Boy Gets Girl, Goodman, Lincoln Center Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. Other
Chicago credits include: Richard II and Night of the Iguana, Goodman; Slaughterhouse V, Steppenwolf; A
Midsummer Night's Dream, The Mystery Cycle and The House of Blue Leaves, Court; Dinbah Was, Away, and
Talley's Folly, Northlight, and Driving Miss Daisy and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Briar Street. Film and TV
credits include: Mr. 3000, U.S. Marshals, Richie Rich, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law & Order: SVU, Cupid,
Turks, The Untouchables and ER, among others.
SHELLEY DELANEY
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, A Free Man of Color, Victory Gardens Theater
New to the Chicago theatre scene, her New York credits include New York Shakespeare Festival's Plays in Process,
Circle Rep Lab, Ensemble Studio Theater, Women in Theater Festival, 78th Street Theatre Lab, The American
Living Room series at HERE and Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory at the Ohio Theatre. Her numerous regional
credits include three productions of Dancing at Lughnasa; GeVa, Capital Repertory and Delaware Theatre; You
Can't Take It With You, Bay Street; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Smell of the
Kill, Capital Repertory; Inspecting Carol, Delaware Theater; Side Man, Stamford Theaterworks, and As Bees in
Honey Drown, Dorset Theater Festival. Film works includes a principal role in Woody Allen's Radio Days and
several independent films.
LISA DODSON
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, King John, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
She has appeared in more than 17 Chicago Shakespeare productions with leading roles in: Short Shakespeare! A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelth Night,
Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter's Tale. Other Chicago credits include: A Christmas Carol and
The Rose Tattoo at Goodman; The Time of Your Life, Steppenwolf; Kindertransport, Apple Tree; Tartuffe, Court;
Broken Glass, Messia and After the Fall, National Jewish Theatre; Lost in Yonkers, Royal George, and Hamlet,
Wisdom Bridge. TV credits include Early Edition, Unsolved Mysteries, Jack and Mike and Lady Blue. Film credits
include: The Color of Money, Just Visiting, Barefoot to Jerusalem and Stolen Summer.
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SHAWN DOUGLASS
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, Major Barbara, Remy Bumppo Theatre
An artistic associate with Remy Bumppo, he previously appeared in Holiday and Man and Superman (After Dark
Award). In Chicago, he has appeared with Apple Tree, Court, Writers' and Chicago Shakespeare. For the past three
seasons with Wisconsin's American Players, he appeared in Antony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost and Cyrano
De Bergerac as well as companies in Milwaukee, Madison, Montana and Indiana.
JEFF DUMAS
Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical, Winesburg, Ohio, About Face Theatre
This is his About Face debut. He previously appeared in Bounce at Goodman and Kennedy Center and performed
on the CD. Other Chicago credits are: Guys and Dolls, Court; The House of Martin Guerre and Light Up the Sky,
Goodman; Sunday in the Park with George, The Tempest and Pacific Overtures, Chicago Shakespeare; Babes in
Arms, Ovations! at Auditorium Theatre, and Man of La Mancha, Light Opera Works. Regional credits include:
Little Shop of Horrors, Madison Rep, and At Wit's End, Florida Stage.
DEANNA DUNAGAN
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, I Never Sang for My Father, Steppenwolf Theatre
At Steppenwolf, she appeared in Wedding Band, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Song of Jacob Zulu, Inspecting Carol
and Stepping Out. Last season she was in James Joyce's The Dead at Court (Jeff Award) and Bounce at Goodman
and Kennedy Center. Other Chicago credits include: The Glamour House, Victory Gardens; A Lie of the Mind,
American Theatre; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Apple Tree; Quilters, Northlight, and Butley, Writers'. Honors include
six Jeff nominations, two After Dark Awards and the Artisan Award.
TONY DUWON
Actor in a Principal Role – Musical, The House That Rocked, Black Ensemble Theater
Other Black Ensemble credits include: The Jackie Wilson Story, Elvis Presley Was a Black Man, Unforgettable:
The Store of Nat King Cole, Dynamite Divas and The Soul of Black Music. He is a voice over artist and has
appeared in national commercials and feature films.
MARY ERNSTER
Actress in a Supporting Role – Musical, A Man of No Importance, Apple Tree Theatre
Previous Apple Tree performances include Cyrano de Bergerac, 110 in the Shade and After the Fair. She has
received two Jeff Awards for the King and I and Me and My Girl, eight Jeff nominations and an After Dark Award.
Other credits include Much Ado About Nothing, First Folio Shakespeare; A Christmas Story, Theatre at the Center,
and Wizard of Oz, Chicago Shakespeare. TV credits include Early Edition and the HBO film Normal. She will
appear this fall in Beauty and the Beast at Marriott.
MARSHA ESTELL
New Work, Heat, Chicago Dramatists
Heat was a finalist in the Dayton Futurefest 2002, third place winner of the 2001 Theodore Ward Award for African
American playwrights and featured in the 2002 Voices from the Edge Festival at New Perspectives in New York.
Her musical, Mama Said There'll Be Days Like This, opened this season at Black Ensemble Theater and received a
Jeff nomination for musical direction. Her one-woman show, Big Butt Girls and Other Fantasies, was performed in
2002 at New Perspectives and South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago. She was awarded a 2000 Illinois Arts Council
Fellowship for Playwriting and is a member of Chicago Dramatists' Playwrights Network.
EUGENE FLEMING
Actor in a Revue, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Marriott Theatre
This is his Marriott debut. Broadway credits include: Never Gonna Dance, Look of Love, One Mo’ Time, Kiss Me
Kate, Fosse, Street Corner Symphony, Swingin’ On a Star, High Roller Social and Pleasure Club, Black and Blue,
The Tap Dance Kid, Sophisticated Ladies and A Chorus Line. National Tours include: Smokey Joe’s Café, The Wiz
and Song and Dance. He also appeared in the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can.
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T. J. GERCKENS
Lighting Design, Secret in the Wings, Lookingglass Theatre
He received Jeff Awards for Metamorphoses and The Odyssey, and several awards for On and Off, Broadway,
including Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award and Lucille Lortell Award. Other awards include Ovation,
Garland and Drama Critics Circle. Other Chicago productions include: Galileo Galilei, Oo-Bla-Dee, Journey to the
West and Black Star Line, Goodman, and School for Wives and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Court.
JOANNA McCLELLAND GLASS
New Work, Trying, Victory Gardens Theater
A nationally recognized playwright, she recently relocated to Naperville, IL. After premiering at Victory Gardens,
several productions of Trying were scheduled throughout Canada the following year. Other works include her first
Broadway play, To Grandmother's House We Go, starring Eve LeGallienne; the Tony-nominated Play Memory,
directed by Harold Prince, and If We Are Women, starring Joan Plowright in its London production and directed by
August Pendleton in its 1993 U.S. premiere. She has published two novels, Reflections on a Mountain Summer in
1975 and Woman Wanted in 1985, also filmed in 1998 with Kiefer Sutherland, Holly Hunter and Michael Moriarity.
She was a playwright in residence at Yale Repertory Theatre and has been awarded a Rockefeller grant, National
Endowment of the Arts grant and Guggenheim Fellowship.
JANE GREENWOOD
Costume Design, The Moliére Comedies, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
She designed the original production of The Moliére Comedies at the Mark Taper Forum and current Broadway
productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Retreat from Moscow. She has designed on Broadway for more than
40 years (13 Tony Award nominations) Off-Broadway and opera companies, including Nabucco for Chicago Lyric
Opera. Film credits include Arthur, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna. Other awards include the Irene Sharaff
Lifetime Achievement Award, two Maharam Awards for Tartuffe and Lortel Awards for Sylvia and Old Money.
She is a professor at the Yale School of Drama design department.
TIMOTHY GREGORY
Actor in a Principal Role – Musical, Cotton Patch Gospel, Provision Theater
He also appeared in the Jeff-nominated Rose Rage at Chicago Shakespeare. Other Chicago credits include: Things
Being What They Are, Steppenwolf; Cherry Docs, Next; The Woman in Black, Theatre Building; Cyrano de
Bergerac, Apple Tree, and leading roles at Chicago Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost, As You Like It, King Lear,
Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona and All's Well That Ends Well.
Regional credits include The Grapes of Wrath, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, and A Christmas Carol, Ford's Theatre,
Washington, DC. Film and TV credits include Life Sentence, Betaville, Cupid (ABC) and De-classified (WGN).
GARY GRIFFIN
Director – Musical, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
He is a seven-time Jeff Award-winning director, including Pacific Overtures, Chicago Shakespeare, and My Fair
Lady, Court. As associate artistic director for Chicago Shakespeare, he also directed Sunday in the Park with
George, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Herbal
Bed. In addition, he directed Pacific Overtures, Donmar Warehouse, London; a remount of his Famous Door
production of Beautiful Thing, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, and The New Moon, Encores!, New York.
EDWARD HALL
Director – Play, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This is his Chicago Shakespeare debut, which he adapted with Roger Warren. He received an Olivier Award
Nomination for Best Director and the TMA Award for Best Touring Production. He has directed numerous
Shakespeare productions in theatres around the world including Watermill, Comedy, Albery, Royal Shakespeare
Company and Pleasance Theatre London in the U.K and the Tokyo Globe. Other directing credits include: The
Constant Wife, Apollo; Putting It Together, Chichester Festival; Sacred Heart, Royal Court; Celaine, Hampstead;
Cain, Minerva Studio, Chichester; That Good Night, Yvonne Arnaud Tour; Bare Knuckle Selling, Edinburgh
Festival, and Tantalus, Denver Center and UK tour. His production of David Mamet's Edmond opened last year at
the National Theatre in London. TV credits include programs in the UK, US and Japan.
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MARK HARELIK
Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical, The Light in the Piazza, The Goodman Theatre in
association with The Intiman Theatre
He appeared in Goodman and Off-Broadway productions of The Beard of Avon, the Off-Broadway production of
Old Money and national tour of The Heidi Chronicles. Regionally, he appeared in numerous plays at The Mark
Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Denver Center Theater,
La Jolla Playhouse, Globe Theatres and South Coast Repertory Theatre. Film credits include: Election, Eulogy,
Jurassic Park III, A Gnome Gnamed Gnorm and Barbarians at the Gate. TV credits include: Seinfeld, Star Trek
Voyager, Boy Meets World, The Practice, Picket Fences, Cheers, The Single Guy, Players, Angel, Diagnosis Murder
and TV movies War Stories, The Partridge Family, Hefner Unauthorized and My Brothers' Keeper. A Fox
Foundation Fellow, he authored The Immigrant, The Legacy and Hank Williams-Lost Highway.
RACHEL ANNE HEALY
Costume Design, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Northlight Theater
She has costume designed other Northlight productions of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie, Rounding Third,
Talley's Folly, A Skull in Connemara and The Gamester. Other Chicago design credits include productions for
Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers', Court, Organic, American, Next, Strawdog and Naked Eye.
Work for regional theatres includes: Milwaukee Repertory, American Players in Spring Green, WI, and Peninsula
Players in Door County, WI.
RUDY HOGENMILLER
Choreography, A Chorus Line, Theatre at the Center
He first appeared in A Chorus Line as Larry, dance captain, in the 1977 Los Angeles National Co. production
working with Michael Bennett and some original cast members, and since has choreographed the show in previous
Chicago productions. He has been an actor, director and choreographer in Chicago for 30 years with productions at
Candlelight, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Drury Lane South, Marriott, Light Opera Works and Pegasus. He has received
six Jeff Awards for choreography/direction.
JOSHUA HORVATH (2 nominations with Ray Nardelli)
Sound Design, Electricidad, The Goodman Theatre
Sound Design, Fraulein Elsé, Court Theatre
Other Court productions are Guys and Dolls and The Romance Cycle; and for Steppenwolf, Taking Care, Jesus
Hopped the A Train and Winesburg, Ohio. Other credits include: Proof, Goodman; Nocturne, Naked Eye; They All
Fall Down, Lookingglass; Vintage Red and the Dust in the Road, Trivial Pursuits and Devil's Sonata, Visions and
Voices; Hannah and Martin, TimeLine; Spitfire Grill, Jammin' with Pops and Dirty Blonde, Apple Tree, and The
Tempest and Titus Andronicus, Milwaukee Shakespeare. He assisted in sound design for Bounce, Goodman, and La
Luna Muda and Secret in the Wings, Lookingglass, where he is a production affiliate. He also composed music for
the feature film Stray Dogs and the short Pretty Ladies: the Super8explosion.
RON HUTCHINSON
New Work, Moonlight and Magnolias, The Goodman Theatre
Stage work includes: Rat in the Skull, produced in 1994 at Royal Court, Public Theater, Wisdom Bridge, Mark
Taper Forum and revived in 1995 in London's West End; adaptation of Flight, Royal National Theatre; Burning
Issues, Hampstead Theatre; Beau!, Haymarket Leicester Square and UK tour in 2002-03; and Head/Case now in
production at the Royal Shakespeare and Belgrade Theatres. He has been working in L.A. for 20 years in TV and
feature films and been a writer/producer for HBO, Sony Pictures and Dreamworks. He won an Emmy Award for
Murderers Among Us-The Simon Wiesenthal Story and received three additional Emmy nominations. Recent
feature film works include rewrites for Flight of the Phoenix (for release in 2005) and Traffic (released in January
for USA Network).
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MARGARET JAMES
Musical Director, Fiddler on the Roof, Drury Lane Oakbrook
Other Drury Lane Oakbrook productions are: Lucky Stiff, Dames at Sea, Annie, Evita, Anything Goes, My One and
Only, Carousel, Singin' in the Rain, Grease, big The Musical and How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying. For Drury Lane Evergreen Park, productions are: Hello Dolly!, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really
Reflect Up?, Nunsense, Sophisticated Ladies, Hot Mikado, Grand Night for Singing, Some Enchanted Evening,
Jerry's Girls and A Chorus Line (After Dark Award). Productions at Theatre at the Center are: Gypsy, 42nd Street,
Bells Are Ringing and others. She has music directed at numerous other Chicago theatres and taught Bill Murray to
play the piano for his role in Groundhog Day.
ALAN JOHNSON
Musical Director, Sound of a Voice, Court Theatre in association with American Repertory
Theatre
He began his association with Philip Glass in 1988 as vocal coach/pianist. Johnson also led premieres of Glass
scores for A South of a Voice, Hotel of Dreams, In the Penal Colony, The Mysteries, What's So Funny?, Cymbeline,
Henry IV: Parts I and II and Provenance Unknown. Awarded a 1998 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Music
Direction, he has conducted opera and music theatre premiers by several other major composers throughout the US.
SCOTT ALAN JONES
Actor in a Principal Role – Musical, Rocky Horror Show, Anthony J. Tomaska and Joseph
J. Tomaska and Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
His Chicago credits include: The Little Mermaid, Chicago Shakespeare; Barry Manilow's Could It Be Magic?,
Mercury; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Royal George; Pageant, Black Orchid; Jesus Christ
Superstar, Drury Lane Oakbrook; and Pirates of Penzance, Marriott. Awards include The Chanticleer for Kiss Me
Kate and The Arthur for A Chorus Line. Other credits include: Melinda...the First Lady of Magic at Trump's Taj
Mahal, Atlantic City. He has toured in several productions nationally, is currently writing a children's novel and
nearing release of two solo vocal albums.
JAMES LEONARD JOY
Scenic Design, Taming of the Shrew, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Among his appearances are: As You Like It, Chicago Shakespeare; Play On, Goodman, Old Globe Theatre and
Broadway; State Fair, Peter Pan, and Take Me Along, Broadway; Some Like It Hot musical, national tour;
Animagique, Park Disneyland, Paris, and a new production for Busch Gardens Tampa. Regional credits include:
Old Globe, Huntington, Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and Goodspeed Opera House.
PATRICIA KANE (2 nominations)
New Work, Pulp, About Face Theatre
Original Music, Pulp, About Face Theatre
As artistic associate at About Face, she appeared in Seven Moves (which she adapted from Carol Anshaw's novel),
The Gift & Other Stories, The Terrible Girls, Whitman, Dancer from the Dance and Cloud Nine. She appeared in
Edward Albee's Finding the Sun at Goodman as well as productions at Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, Northlight,
greasy joan & company, Barto Productions, Live Bait, Stage Left, Bailiwick and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
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KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY
Actor in a Principal Role – Musical, Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar
Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and
Second City Theatricals
For Second City e.t.c., he received two Jeff Awards for Best Actor-Revue or Musical for Curious George Goes to
War and Holy War Batman!, or The Yellow Cab of Courage. Regional theater credits include: Aristophanes' The
Birds, Athens Centre; Detroit Stories, Detroit Repertory; My People! My People!, C.J. Walker Theatre; The Beeple,
Pennsylvania Centre Stage; Getting Out, Planet Ant; The Sly Fox, Theatre Company; Impeachment and Cream,
Second City Detroit, and 11 additional revues for Second City Detroit. Film credits include: Mr. 3000, Uncle Nino,
Garage: A Movie and Get the Hell Otta' Hamtown. TV credits include: ER, Filmfest 7 with The Second City, I'm
With Her and a regular cast member of Fox’s MADtv.
JIM LASKO
New Adaptation, Cyrano, Redmoon Theatre and Court Theatre
As artistic director of Redmoon, Jim Lasko created numerous original theater and spectacle pieces, including:
Galway's Shadow, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; Hunchback, Steppenwolf, Joseph Papp's Public Theater
and Detroit Institute of Art; The Annual All Hallow's Eve Ritual Celebration, Chicago's Logan Square; Seagull,
Chicago's Humboldt Park, Steppenwolf and UCLA campus sculpture garden. His work also has been commissioned
by several museums and organizations.
ROSS LEHMAN
Actor in a Principal Role – Musical, A Man of No Importance, Apple Tree Theatre
Among other of his nine performances at Apple Tree are The Dresser, Syncopation, Sugar, Waiting for Godot,
Amadeus and Where's Charlie (Jeff Award). A Milwaukee resident, he appeared in the city's Chamber Theatre in
Homebody/Kabul, The Tempest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum. He has played Koko in several productions of Hot Mikado, winning a Jeff Award for the Marriott
production, Helen Hayes Award in Washington, DC. and nomination for the Lawrence Olivier Award in London's
West End. Other Chicago credits include: King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew
and currently The Merry Wives of Windsor, Chicago Shakespeare; Mizlansky/Zilinsky, The Man Who Came to
Dinner and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Steppenwolf; and The Rover, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum (Jeff Award) and Waiting for Godot, Goodman.
DEBORAH LEW
Actress in a Principal Role – Musical, West Side Story, Marriott Theatre
New to Chicago, she recently starred in the Off-Broadway production of Cupid and Psyche and was a featured
singer in Nights on Broadway, Circus Maximas Theatre, Atlantic City. Other credits include: Much Ado About
Nothing, Hero; Translations, Maire; Absurd Person Singular, Marion; Mad Forest, Lucia, and Life is a Dream,
Estrella. Before moving to New York, she toured Europe with a British experimental theatre company.
MARGARET LEWIS
New Work, Burying the Bones, Stage Left Theatre
Her first play, Charms for Protection, won the Julie Harris Playwrighting Competition, and she received awards
from the Tremain Foundation, Illinois Arts Council and PEN. Other plays produced include: Float, Melbourne's
New Theatre; Hunger Moon, McAnich Arts Center and Cherry Lane Theatre, and Little Sisters of the Poor, Theatre
Babylon and Seattle Fringe Festival.
JANICE LORRAINE
Actress in a Supporting Role – Musical, Cookin’ at the Cookery, Northlight Theatre
This is her first appearance in a Chicago production. Broadway credits include: The Bernadette Peters Special,
Radio City Music Hall (and national tour), Grease, Jelly's Last Jam and Starlight Express. National tours include:
Dreamgirls, Tap Dance Kid and five productions of Ain't Misbehavin'. Regional credits include: Show Boat,
Ragtime, Sophisticated Ladies, Little Shop of Horrors (three productions), The Mistress Cycle, The Wiz, Hello
Dolly!, For Colored Girls. . . and as a featured performer in Germany in Deutchlandt Liedt and Haarlem Story.
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TAMMY MADER
Choreography, Singin’ in the Rain, Theatre at the Center
Starting her career at Theatre at the Center, past credits include: Grand Hotel; 42nd Street; I Love You, You're
Perfect, Now Change; Pump Boys and Dinettes; Meet Me in St. Louis, and Swingin' on a Star: The Johnny Burke
Musical. Other Chicago credits include Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes and My One and Only (Jeff Award) at Drury
Lane Oakbrook, as well as projects for Drury Lane Evergreen Park and Light Opera Works.
JOHN MAHONEY
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, I Never Sang for My Father, Steppenwolf Theater
Best known for his role as Martin Crane on NBC's Emmy Award-winning series Frasier, he appeared at
Steppenwolf in The Drawer Boy and as part of the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland. He recently appeared in Long
Day's Journey into Night with Chicago's Irish Repertory, both in Chicago and Galway, Ireland, and in The Weir,
Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Randy Arney. Films include Almost
Salinas, She's the One, Primal Fear, The American President, Tin Men, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy and
Moonstruck.
HENRY MARSH (2 nominations)
Original Music, Taming of the Shrew, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Original Music, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Folio Shakespeare Festival
This is his first First Folio production, although not a stranger to Chicago or Chicago Shakespeare where he
previously composed The Comedy of Errors (Jeff Award), As You Like It (Jeff nomination) and Much Ado About
Nothing (Jeff nomination). He also received a Jeff nomination for New Work and an After Dark Award for Female
Problems, Pegasus. Atlanta productions include: One Last Summer, The Grapes of Wrath, Romeo & Juliet, The
Dark at the Top of the Stairs and In Stitches. In the UK, he has been writing music for TV since 1980, including the
two award-winning series Pirates and Eye of the Storm as well as Private Parts, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Bill Hicks
and The Simpsons promo used in Europe. He is a founding member and writer with the UK band Sailor (in its third
decade), which has received numerous Gold Albums worldwide.
ROBERT C. MARTIN
Scenic Design, Lend Me a Tenor, Theatre at the Center
He received a Jeff Citation nomination for Dream of Ophelia, ETA, and is a two-time recipient of a Black Theatre
Association Award for excellence in design. Other works include: Grand Hotel, 42nd Street and Gypsy, Theatre at
the Center; Lucia de Lammermoor, L'Opera Piccola; Man of La Mancha, Light Opera Works; Some Enchanted
Evening, Drury Lane Evergreen Park; In the Wine Time, ETA; Aurora's Motive, Santos and Santos and Cloud
Tectonics, Teatro Vista; Bingo Long. . ., Ain't Misbehavin' and The Taffeta's, Dream Street, and Seeking the Genesis
and Unjustifiable, Goodman Studio.
TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, Blue/Orange, Northlight Theatre
A recent graduate of the Theatre School at DePaul, he was a three-time merit scholarship awardee and received the
Sarah Siddons Society Award (which receives scholarship funding from the Jeff Committee). In the past year, he
had three readings of his first play, Without/Sin, recognized by Peter Brooks as "beautifully written." He graduated
from the New World School of the Arts High School in Miami, FL, where he received the Exemplary Artist Award
in 1999.
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KEVIN McKILLIP
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Folio Shakespeare
Festival
An associate artist, he has completed 13 seasons with First Folio and appeared in Hamlet (title role), The Taming of
the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antigone, Twelfth Night, A
Midsummer Night's Dream (1998) and staged readings of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull and
Playboy of the Western World. He has appeared in productions for several Chicago theatres, including the Jeff
Award-winning play Ghetto at Famous Door. At the Stratford Festival 2003 season, he appeared in A Midsummer's
Night Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The White Devil and Troilus and Cressida and received a Tyrone Guthrie
Award. He is also a professional clown with the Big Apple Circus.
SUSIE McMONAGLE
Actress in a Principal Role – Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Marriott Theatre
She is a seven-time Jeff nominee (including this year) for The Spitfire Grill at Apple Tree, Miss Saigon, Chess and
Evita at Marriott; Anything Goes at Drury Lane Oakbrook; and Side Show at Northlight. On Broadway, she
appeared as Fantine in Les Miserables and in national tours of The Secret Garden, Les Miserables and The Sound of
Music. Recent Chicago credits include: Dirty Blonde and Indian Ink, Apple Tree; At Wit's End, Northlight, and
Cats, Marriott. She received the Denver Drama Critics Award for Me and My Girl.
NANCY MISSIMI
Costume Design, Show Boat, Marriott Theatre
As resident costume designer for Marriott, she has been designing costumes in Chicago for 22 years and received
numerous Jeff Awards and nominations. Other theatres where her designs have been seen are: Chicago
Shakespeare, Court, Royal George, Royal George, Chicago Opera, Drury Lane Oakbrook and Drury Lane
Martinique. Among her favorite Marriott shows are The King and I, 1776 and Hot Mikado.
ROB MOORE
Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, Lookingglass
Theatre
A native of Los Angeles, he originated his Shaggs role of Kyle at the Ford Theatre. As a member of Open Fist, he
appeared in The Wooden Breeks, The Three Sisters, Measure for Measure and Bay of Smokes for EdgeFest. With
Neurotic Young Urbanites, he appeared in Into the Woods and Up the Week Without a Paddle. Film credits include
National Lampoon's Senior Trip, Lost Souls, Now You Know and Johnny Tacco. TV credits include: E.R., Frasier,
Gilmore Girls, Diagnosis Murder, Stark Raving Mad, Two Guys and a Girl, The Brian Benben Show, Great Scott!,
Clueless and Ellen.
ROGER MUELLER
Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Marriott Theatre
Other Marriott credits are 1776 and Carousel. Chicago Shakespeare credits include: Taming of the Shrew, As You
Like It, King Lear and The Merchant of Venice. Other Chicago credits are: Rough Crossing, Writer's Theatre; 1776,
Drury Lane Oakbrook; One Touch of Venus, Ovations! Auditorium Theatre; All My Sons and Taking Steps (Jeff
Award) at Body Politic.
THOMAS MURRAY
Musical Director, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
He returns to Chicago Shakespeare, where he previously music directed Sunday in the Park with George and
received the 2002 Bob Tillis Music Award. He music directed Chicago Shakespeare's remount of the Jeff-Award
winner Pacific Overtures at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Other Chicago credits include My Fair Lady, Court;
Show Boat, Marriott; Assassins, Apple Tree, and The Last Five Years, Northlight and New York's Minetta Lane
Theatre. He has received four Jeff Awards for music direction. Nationally, he toured with Jason Robert Brown's
Parade, directed by Hal Prince.
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JOHN MUSIAL
Scenic Design, Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22, Lookingglass Theater
A Lookingglass ensemble member since 1991, he has designed lights, sets, costumes and projections for 18
productions. He frequently collaborates with Redmoon and American Theatre Companies and is executive director
for Local Infinities Visual Theater. He directed and edited Nelson Algren for WTTW Channel 11, which received
three regional Emmy nominations. His recent direction of Local Infinities' Wax & Wayne toured nationally and
internationally and was recognized at the New York Fringe Festival with an Excellence Award for "Most Unique
Theatrical Experience." His latest production for Local Infinities, Lot's Wife, premiered at the 2004 PAC/Edge
Festival.
RAY NARDELLI (2 nominations with Joshua Horvath)
Sound Design, Electricidad, The Goodman Theater
Sound Design, Fraulein Elsé, Court Theatre
He has composed music and designed sound for several Chicago theatres, including Goodman, Steppenwolf,
Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Apple Tree, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, The Gift, Oak Park Festival,
Dolphinback, American Girl and Skylight Opera as well as several university theatres. He has recorded, mixed and
produced CDs for the musicals The Sound of One and La Luna Muda. Film credits include Stray Dogs, Pretty
Ladies and Crush. Other work includes sound and music used on NPR, PBS, NBC's The Today Show and Jeff
Gordon Racing and a CD-ROM game.
CHARLES NEWELL
New Adaptation, Cyrano, Court Theatre with Redmoon Theatre
As co-director/artistic director, he has directed more than 25 productions since joining Court in 1994. His Chicago
directorial debut in 1993 for The Triumph of Love won the Jeff Award for Best Production. Court directing credits
include: Guys and Dolls, James Joyce's The Dead, Hamlet, The Piano, The Invention of Love, The Little Foxes, The
Cherry Orchard, Nora, The Misanthrope and Travesties. He recently made his directorial debut with Lyric Opera of
Chicago with Regina and previously directed at the Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, John Houseman's The Acting
Company, California and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Juilliard and New York University. He is a multiple
recipient of Jeff Awards and nominations and received the 1992 TCG Alan Schneider Director Award.
MIKE NUSSBAUM
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, Northlight Theatre
He has appeared in or directed a long list of plays at Northlight, which he founded, including: Hearts, Visiting Mr.
Green, Quartermaine's Terms, Don Juan in Hell, Someone to Watch Over Me, The Old Neighborhood and The
Belmont Avenue Social Club. He received the Joseph Jefferson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the
Illinois Arts Alliance's Illinois Legend Award. He also has appeared in numerous productions at other Chicago
theatres and in film and TV, including the Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which was a smash hit
at the Dublin, Ireland Theatre Festival. Other notable appearances were Endgame and American Buffalo at
American Theater Company, and John of Gaunt in Richard II, Chicago Shakespeare.
BEN ORMEROD
Lighting Design, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Making his debut at Chicago Shakespeare, other US credits include: Freedom of the City, Lincoln Center Festival,
and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Broadway, Ireland, London's West End, Sydney and Toronto. Other work with
Ed Hall includes: Macbeth, The Constant Wife, Rose Rage (London's West End); Julius Caesar, Henry V and The
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Watermill Theatre) and world premier of Richard Goodwin's Hinge of the World. Other productions include:
Remembrance of Things Past, Uncle Vanya, Bent, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and The Winter's Tale, Royal
Shakespeare Company; Oedipus Tyrannos, Epidaurus; The Father, Athens; Silence, Silence, Silence, Slovenia; The
Coronation of Poppea, Japan; Macbeth, Denmark, and world premieres of The Wake, Abbey Theatre and Edinburgh
Festival, and The House, Abbey Theatre.
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EVAN PAPPAS
Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical, The Pajama Game, Marriott Theatre
This is his Marriott debut. Broadway credits include: Putting It Together (opposite Carol Burnett), Parade, My
Favorite Year and A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway credits are: The Immigrant, I Can Get It for You Wholesale
(Outer Critics Best Actor nomination), Pera Palas and The Wound of Love. London West End appearances were in
Follies, Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday With Sondheim. Regional credits include: Lucky Stiff (Helen Hayes
Award for Best Actor), The Canterbury Tales, Falsettos, The Heidi Chronicles, False Admissions, Cheap Sentiment,
Lend Me a Tenor and Boy Meets Girl. For TV, he appeared in Ghost of a Chance, Another World, One Life to Live,
All My Children and numerous commercials. He can be heard on cast recordings of Parade, My Favorite Year,
Lucky Stiff, Merrily We Roll Along and Follies.
NICOLE PARKER
Actress in a Principal Role – Musical, Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar
Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and
Second City Theatricals
Previously in Chicago, she appeared in Rockstars for Second City Mainstage as part of The Second City/Boom
Chicago cast swap in 2002. With Boom Chicago, an American improvisational theater in the Netherlands, she cowrote and appeared in Europe! We've Created a Monster!, which also played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A
native of California, she began acting at South Coast Repertory and Laguna Playhouse. Currently, she is a regular
cast member of Fox’s MADtv.
SCOTT PARKINSON
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Chicago
Shakespeare Theater
This was his 16th production at Chicago Shakespeare, other credits including: Richard II (title role), Julius Caesar
(Cassius), King Lear (Fool), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed) and Antony and Cleopatra (Caesar). Other
Chicago credits include: Hamlet, Richard III and Othello, Shakespeare on the Green; Crime and Punishment,
Booth, Candida and The Glass Menagerie, Writer's; Among the Thugs, Goodman; Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer
Night's Dream and Phedre, Court; The Gamester, Northlight; Angels in America, The Journeymen, and appearances
in several other Chicago productions.
MICHAEL PAVELKA
Costume Design, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This is his first Chicago Shakespeare production with more than 150 design credits in the UK, including: The
Fishing Trip and Holiday, Old Vic Theatre; The Life of Galileo (1996 Best Design Manchester Evening News
Theatre Award), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Best Production MEN Award), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Library Theatre Manchester; The Odyssey, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V and
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company; and David Mamet's Edmond with Kenneth Branaugh, National
Theatre. West End productions he designed also have toured overseas, including Dublin, New York and Tokyo. He
designed a Young People's Shakespeare Festival in Mongolia and Mother Courage and Her Children in Kampala,
Kennedy Center and South Africa.
JACQUELINE AND RICHARD PENROD
Scenic Design, My Old Lady, Apple Tree Theater
Other Apple Tree set designs are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Grace and Glory. Other Chicago credits include:
Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Jeff nominated) and At Wit's End, Northlight; Tour
de Farce and The Mousetrap, Broutil & Frothingham; In the Blood, Next; Breath, Boom, Pegasus, and The Pirates
of Penzance and Die Fladermaus, Light Opera Works. They received the 2003 After Dark Award for an
outstanding season.
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DAVID PLEASANT
Special Achievement in Percussion, Crowns, The Goodman Theater
A Savannah, GA native, he is a multi-faceted percussion virtuoso, rhythm effects vocalist, composer and lecturer,
working with such musical artists as Wynton Marsalis, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Charles Gayle, Oliver Lake, Eryka
Badu, Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon. He was percussionist composer of the Tony-nominated Marie Christine,
the original Crows and Golden Boy. He has composed and/or performed TV arrangements for Nightline, Primetime,
the Disney Channel, PBS and MTV's Unplugged. He also created RiddimAthon!®, a performance and teaching
method synthesizing African, Caribbean and African American musical traditions featuring Gullah culture.
ANDRÉ PLUESS (4 nominations--3 with Ben Sussman, 1 with Patricia Kane and Amy
Warren)
Original Music, Pulp, About Face Theatre
Sound Design, Secret in the Wings, Lookingglass Theatre
Sound Design, Cyrano, Court Theatre with Redmoon Theatre
New Adaptation, Winesburg, Ohio, About Face Theatre
For Pulp, he teamed with Patricia Kane and Amy Warren. Nominated with Ben Sussman for the other productions,
as a team they have received one Jeff Award, five Jeff Citations, a Los Angeles Ovation Award and Drama Critics
Circle Award for music and sound. They have sound designed eight productions at Lookingglass and other Chicago
theatres, including: Court, Victory Gardens, Roadworks, Goodman, Steppenwolf and Northlight. Last year's
productions included: I Am My Own Wife, Playwrights Horizons; The Romance Cycle, Court; Fascination, About
Face; Nickle and Dimed, Naked Eye, and Death and Harry Houdini, The House. Regional theatre credits include: 7
Stages, Atlanta; Mark Taper Forum and Odyssey Theatres, Los Angeles; Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, New York
Drama League and Circle in the Square.
JOSEPH PLUMMER
Actor in a Revue, Jammin’ with Pops, Apple Tree Theatre
An actor, singer, playwright, composer/lyricist, choreographer, sound designer and director, he received a Jeff
Citation for his role in Lynda Barry's The Good Times Are Killing Me, City Lit; Jeff nomination for sound design for
Red Death, Chicago Theatre Co.; and writing awards (Jeff for Best New Work/Adaptation and Black Alliance
Award for Best Writing) for ETA's production of Get Ready, originally produced at Victory Gardens. He appeared
in Infants of the Spring at Live Bait and in Black Ensemble's national tours of: The Jackie Wilson Story, All I Need
to Get By, Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Perfect Duet, A Black Man Named Joe, Only the Strong Survive, The
Other Cinderella and The Story of Otis Redding.
SCOTT PONDROM
Other – Special Achievement in Property Effects, Cyrano, Court Theatre with Redmoon
Theatre
A Chicago-based designer, his work includes Redmoon's productions of Salao, Chicago Shakespeare; Seagull,
Steppenwolf Studio, The 12th Annual Winter Pageant, Redmoon Central, and the shrine workshop for All Hallow's
Eve, Chicago’s Logan Square. Other credits are: scenic painter for New York City Player's Henry IV, Part I, BAM;
Brooklyn/Hebbel Theater, Berlin; puppet designer for Potatoes, Sketchbook Festival, Chopin Theater; greasy joan
& co.'s Marisol, Viaduct; Lady from the Sea, Chopin, and head painter for a season at Stages, St. Louis. He received
artists' grants from The St. Louis' Regional Arts Commission (seven), Old North St. Louis Neighborhood
Restoration and the Emerson Electric Co.
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DAVID RAINEY
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, Topdog/Underdog, Steppenwolf Theatre with Alley
Theatre
He is a fourth season Alley Theatre resident company member and has performed with the National Actors Theatre,
Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Shakespeare Festival, The Acting Company, Guthrie Theatre,
Hartford Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Asolo Theatre Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare
Festival and Crossroads Theatre Company. Film and TV credits include: Cosby, Law & Order, Vengeance
Unlimited, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Lowball, Multifacial, Star Force and The "M" Word. He graduated
from The Juilliard School, where he received the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize.
ROBERT REDDRICK
Musical Director, The House That Rocked, Black Ensemble Theatre
Assistant music director for Black Ensemble Theater, he recently performed with them at the Apollo Theater in
Harlem where he recorded a song with Melba Moore. Other current appearances include: performances in support
of Ecstasy, drummer for the musical Sepia Tones (based on the music of Dorothy Dandridge), Chicago’s Tommy
Gun’s Theatre and the blues band Geneva Red and the Roadsters. First performing at age 12 accompanying a
Broadway revue at a Moose Lodge, he has traveled with various groups, including: Chicago’s Free Street Theatre’s
PROJECT! before President George H.W. Bush and in Europe, The Kennedy Center and NBC’s The Today Show; a
5-month tour in the Middle East with a jazz quintet; a 3-month tour in Japan with Spectrum, an urban contemporary
band; and touring for a few years with The Platters.
RONDI REED
Actress in a Principal Role – Play, The Fall to Earth, Steppenwolf Theatre
A Steppenwolf ensemble member, she recently was seen in Man from Nebraska. Other Chicago credits include:
The Sandbox, Goodman; The Vagina Monologues, Apollo; Funny Girl, Marriott, and The Royal Family,
Steppenwolf. Broadway/Off-Broadway productions include The Grapes of Wrath, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. She directed Lydia Breeze at the Sydney and Perth festivals in Australia, and
appeared in the Steppenwolf production of Side Man at Galway Arts in Ireland and Melbourne International
Festival. Regional credits include: The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity, Cleveland Playhouse; Expecting Isabel,
Arena Stage, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Arizona Theatre. Film and TV credits include: Seinfeld, The
Practice, Roseanne, Home Improvement, A Streetcar Named Desire, Normal, Jungle 2 Jungle and Fearless.
MARC ROBIN (3 nominations)
Director – Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Marriott Theatre
Choreography, Annie Get Your Gun, Marriott Theatre
Choreography, West Side Story, Marriott Theatre
Other Marriott directing credits include: Cats, Big River and Pirates of Penzance. Also for Marriott, he
choreographed Funny Girl, Mame, Will Rogers Follies, How to Succeed, Honk!, Sing' in the Rain, Big River and
Pirates of Penzance. He recently ended 13 years at Drury Lane Evergreen Park as resident director and
choreographer, staging more than 50 productions. He has received eight Jeff Awards (35 nominations, including
three this year), nine After Dark Awards and two AriZoni Awards. For the Auditorium Theatre's Ovation Series, he
directed Bea Arthur, George Hearn and George Wendt; and currently serves as artistic director/director for the SingAlong Wizard of Oz, now on Broadway and touring nationally. Last season, he directed An Evening with Martin
Short at the Chicago Theatre in association with Second City.
ALENE ROBERTSON
Actress in a Supporting Role – Musical, The Pajama Game, Marriott Theatre
In her 25 years with Marriott, she was recently seen in Bye, Bye Birdie and received nine Jeff Awards for roles in
Mame, Hello Dolly!, Sweeney Todd, Annie, Chicago, Kismet, Gypsy (twice) and And the World Goes Around. She
made her Broadway debut in Annie, followed by the national tour. Off-Broadway she created the role of
Commissioner Doyle in Annie Warbucks, winning a Drama Desk nomination and performing at the White House.
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BARBARA ROBERTSON (2 nominations)
Actress in a Principal Role – Play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Goodman Theatre
Actress in a Principal Role – Musical, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
She previously received Jeff Awards for Pal Joey, Goodman, Angels in America I and II, national tour; Black Snow,
Goodman; Kabuki Medea; Wisdom Bridge (and Helen Hays Award at Kennedy Center), and Chicago, Marriott.
Jeff nominations include: Mary Stuart, An Ideal Husband, Tartuffe and The House of Blue Leaves, all at Court, and
Detachments, Center Theatre (also an After Dark Award). Other awards include After Dark for House and Garden,
Goodman, and La Bete, Court, and Sara Siddon's Award for Emma's Child, Victory Gardens. Other Goodman
credits include: Hollywood Arms, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brutality of Fact and She Always Said, Pablo.
Most recently, she was in The Winter's Tale, Chicago Shakespeare, and Hard Times, Lookingglass. She also has
performed at Steppenwolf, Northlight, Mercury, Royal George, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Peninsula Players, Drury
Lane Evergreen Park, The Civic Theatre, Woodstock Opera House and Briar Street. TV credits include: A Will of
Their Own, A Mother's Survivor, A Straight Story and the new Robert Altman film, The Company.
RACHEL ROCKWELL
Actress in a Supporting Role – Musical, The Pajama Game, Marriott Theatre
She spent the previous two years touring as dance captain for Mamma Mia! Tour 2 LP. She appeared in seven other
Marriott productions, recently in The Taffetas, and received a Jeff nomination for And The World Goes Round at
Drury Lane. Her choreography was featured in The Wizard of Oz, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes. . .? and many
productions for the Theatre for Young Audiences series. Other Chicago credits include: A Chorus Line, Drury
Lane; I Love You, You're Perfect. . ., Theater at the Center, and Babes in Arms, Ovations! Auditorium Theater.
Regionally, she has performed at the Kennedy Center, Indiana Repertory Theater and Maryland Shakespeare
Festival and the first national touring companies of Hal Prince's Show Boat.
ERIC ROSEN
New Adaptation, Winesburg, Ohio, About Face Theatre
As co-founder and artistic director of About Face, recent projects include the national tour and Australian production
of Metamorphoses. About Face writing/directing credits include Dream Boy (Jeff Awards for Best Production and
Direction), Dancer from the Dance, Whitman and Undone. Directing credits include premieres of Theater District
(Jeff Award for Best New Work), Fascination, Bash, Four and In the Heart of America. He collaborated on
development of the current Broadway hit I Am My Own Wife with Moises Kaufman and Doug Wright and Mary
Zimmerman's Eleven Rooms of Proust. Other credits include: Words on Fire, Steppenwolf; Sand Plays, Goodman;
Myths and Hymns, Prince Music Theater, and Fascination, O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
JOHN SANDERS
Actor in a Supporting Role – Play, Burying the Bones, Stage Left Theatre
At Stage Left, he appeared in Prairie Lights and The Memorandum and recently directed Tens & Twenties. Other
Chicago credits include work at Chicago Dramatists, Next, Steppenwolf, Irish Repertory, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble,
Defiant and The Hypocrites.
NICK SANDYS
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, The Misanthrope, Next Theatre
Acting credits include, Hidden Laughter, Money and The Secret Rapture (After Dark Award) for Remy Bumppo,
where he is an artistic associate, and Macbeth for Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. A certified Fight Director with
Society of American Fight Directors, he is known for his fight choreography at Next Theatre and as resident combat
designer at Lyric Opera and The Theatre School at DePaul. He has appeared Off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh and
London Fringe festivals and in several regional theatres in the US.
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PAULA SCROFANO
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, Necessary Targets, Apple Tree Theatre
Previously at Apple Tree, she appeared in Denial. She received Jeff Awards for Putting It Together, Court, and On
the Twentieth Century, Drury Lane Oakbrook. Other Chicago credits include: Hay Fever and James Joyce's The
Dead, Court; Gypsy, Theatre at the Center; A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park with George, Goodman;
The Ballad of Little Jo, Steppenwolf; Lost in Yonkers and Lend Me a Tenor, Royal George; Victor/Victoria, Honk
and Damn Yankees, Marriott, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, First Folio Shakespeare. She currently is appearing
with her husband, John Reeger, in Sunset Blvd. at Marriott.
BARTLETT SHER
Director – Musical, The Light in the Piazza, The Goodman Theatre with The Intiman
Theatre
Intiman Theatre's artistic director since 2000, he has received national and international recognition for his work as a
classical director and honored with the 2002 Joe A. Callaway Award for Cymbeline in New York, which became the
first American Shakespeare production mounted at the Royal Shakespeare Company. At Intiman, credits include:
Nickel and Dimed, Homebody/Kabul, Nora, A Doll's House, Arms and the Man, Titus Andronicus, The Dying Gaul
and The Servant of Two Masters. New York credits include: Pericles, Brooklyn Academy of Music for TFANA,
Moliére's Don Juan and the premieres of Waste (2000 Obie Award for Best Play) and The Butterfly Collection. He
made his opera-directing debut with Seattle Opera's production of Mourning Becomes Electra, which opened at New
York City Opera in March. He served as associate artistic director at Hartford Stage Company, company director at
Guthrie Theatre and associate artist at Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
SANDY SHINNER
Director – Play, Trying, Victory Gardens Theatre
She has been with Victory Gardens for 25 years, directing more than 90 plays. Recent directing credits include:
Homeland Security, The End of the Tour, Ariadne's Thread, Battle of the Bands and The Glamour House. She
directed premieres of most of Claudia Allen plays including: Fossils (with Julie Harris, and recently, for
Sacramento Theatre Company), Cahoots (with Sharon Gless); Winter (with Julie Harris and Mike Nussbaum);
Hannah Free, Deed of Trust, Ripe Conditions and Jeff Award winners The Long Awaited and Still Waters. Also a
dramaturg, she worked on Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson, Expectations by Dean Corrin and Scheherazade by
Marisha Chamberlin.
RICK SIMS
Musical Director, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, Lookingglass Theatre
The Shaggs is his fifth production with Lookingglass as composer and music director. Others include: West, Up
Against It, Vanishing Twin and Her Name Was Danger. A founding member of Didjts and Gaza Strippers, he
toured and recorded with Fred Scheider (B-52s), Willie Nelson and Supersuckers. Songwriting credits include
Killboy Powerhead for the Offspring and Piece of Ass for Nashville Pussy. The Didjts Judge Hot Fudge video
appears on MTV's Beavis and Butthead.
CHARLES SMITH
New Work, A Free Man of Color, Victory Gardens Theater
Born and raised in the South Side of Chicago, he is a member of the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble and
head of the Professional Playwriting Program at Ohio University. Other Victory Gardens premieres included Knock
Me a Kiss, The Sutherland, Freefall, Jelly Belly, Can and Takunda. His work also has been produced OffBroadway and at regional theatres, including the 22-city tour of his play Pudd'nhead Wilson, and produced for the
HBO New Writers Project, International Children's Theatre Festival in Seattle and North Carolina Black Arts
Festival. For seven years, he was a member playwright at New Dramatists in New York.
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CHUCK SMITH
Director – Play, Yellowman, Next Theatre
He is a resident director for Goodman, artist-in-residence at Columbia College and associate producer of Legacy
Productions. Goodman credits include: By the Music of Spheres (world premiere), The Gift Horse (world
premiere), The Amen Corner, A Raisin' in the Sun; Blues for an Alabama Sky; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; A
Christmas Carol (1993 and 1995); Vivisections from a Blown Mind, The Meeting and dramaturg for August
Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. At Victory Gardens, he directed Knock Me a Kiss, Master Harold and the Boys, Home,
Dame Lorraine and Eden (Jeff Award for Directing). Regional credits include Blues for an Alabama Sky, Alabama
Shakespeare Festival; The Last Season, Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles, and The Amen Corner, Huntington
Theatre, Boston, where he received the best direction award from Independent Reviewers of New England.
JAYMI LEE SMITH
Lighting Design, Yellowman, Next Theatre
Other Next productions include In the Blood, The Laramie Project, Among the Thugs, Cherry Docs and The
Incident. Other recent shows are Anna in the Tropics, Victory Gardens and Goodman; Blue/Orange and Lady
Windermere's Fan, Northlight; Homeland Security, Ariadne's Thread and God and Country, Victory Gardens; No
Place Like Home, Steppenwolf, Knowing Cairo, Rivendell, and Nickel and Dimed, Naked Eye. She has worked in
32 cities nationally and internationally in Ireland, Scotland and Spain.
SAMANTHA SPIRO
Actress in a Supporting Role – Musical, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This is her Chicago debut. Theatre credits in Britain are: A Midsummer Night's Dream (also a Middle East tour)
and The Crucible, Sheffield; Bedroom Farce, Aldwych, West End; Merrily We Roll Along, Donmar Warehouse
(Olivier Award for Best Actress); As You Like It, Sheffield, Lyric Hammersmith, West Yorkshire Playhouse and
Bristol Old Vic; Jumpers, Birmingham Repertory; Cleo Camping and Emmanuelle and Dick, Royal National; Roots,
Oxford Stage Company; Teechers and On the Piste, Hull Truck; How the Other Half Loves, Theatre Royal,
Windsor; Glynn and It, Guildford and tour; and two seasons at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, including The Boys
from Syracuse, Lady Be Good and Macbeth. British TV credits are: MIT Murder Investigation Team, Cold Feet,
The Bill, The Knock and TV Go Home. Film credits include: Tomorrow La Scala!, From Hell and Cor Blimey.
Among her many BBC Radio credits are Smiles of a Summer Night and Much Ado About Nothing.
ROBERT STEEL
Sound Design, Drink Me or, The Strange Case of Alice Times Three, Seanachai Theatre
Recent sound design and original music credits include: Necessary Targets, Apple Tree; The Golem, Chicago
Jewish; Human Interest Story, Walkabout; Skyscraper, Piven; Today, I Am a Fountain Pen, Chicago Jewish; Two
Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare on the Green; The Sign of the Four, Apple Tree; The Bumbliani Brothers Show,
The Actors Gymnasium; The Play’s the Thing, City Lit; and Black Milk, Madame DeSade and Woyzeck, European
Rep. He received an After Dark, ASCAP and Illinois Arts Council awards.
BEN SUSSMAN (3 nominations with André Pluess)
Original Music, Secret in the Wings, Lookingglass Theatre
Sound Design, Cyrano, Court Theatre with Redmoon Theater
New Adaptation, Winesburg, Ohio, About Face Theater
Nominated with Andre Pluess, as a team they have received one Jeff Award, five Jeff Citations, a Los Angeles
Ovation Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for music and sound. They have sound designed eight productions
at Lookingglass and other Chicago theatres, including: Court, Victory Gardens, Roadworks, Goodman,
Steppenwolf and Northlight. Last year's productions included: I Am My Own Wife, Playwrights Horizons; The
Romance Cycle, Court; Fascination, About Face; Nickle and Dimed, Naked Eye, and Death and Harry Houdini, The
House. Regional theatre credits include: 7 Stages, Atlanta; Mark Taper Forum and Odyssey Theatres, Los Angeles;
Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, New York Drama League and Circle in the Square.
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JESSICA THEBUS (2 nominations)
Director – Play, Pulp, About Face Theatre
Director – Musical, Winesburg, Ohio, About Face Theatre
She is an Artistic Associate at About Face and Steppenwolf and former director of the Steppenwolf Arts Exchange
Program. Other recent projects include: Seven Moves, About Face; A Tale of Two Cities and No Place Like Home,
Steppenwolf; Chicago: A New Canvas, an outdoor spectacle for the Field Museum; They All Fall Down: The
Richard Nickel Story, Lookingglass; Salao, Redmoon; Melancholy Play and Abingdon Square, Piven. For Arts
Exchange, she wrote and/or directed Haymarket Eight (with Derek Goldman), Whispering City (with Michele
Volansky) and David Mamet's The Water Engine. Upcoming projects include Intimate Apparel, Steppenwolf's
Downstairs Theatre, and Red Herring, Northlight.
DEMETRIA THOMAS
Actress in a Supporting Role – Play, Burying the Bones, Stage Left Theatre
Credits include Kiwi Black, MPAACT, Chicago, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pennsylvania Shakespeare
Festival. She is an artistic associate and business manager for Running With Scissors and completed a turn as
journeyman at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC.
JIMMY TILLMAN
Musical Director, Mama Said There’ll Be Days Like This, Black Ensemble Theatre
He has been Black Ensemble's musical director for 18 years, co-writing such hits as The WVON Story, Muddy
Waters, The Hoochie Coochie Man, The Jimmy Reed Story and The Otis Redding Story. He has worked with
notable musicians, such as Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed and Muddy Waters. A consummate musician and teacher, he
is working on his doctorate in education.
AMY WARREN (with Patricia Kane and André Pluess)
Original Music, Pulp, About Face Theatre
Previous appearances include The Trojan Women, Goodman; Sis3ters, Roadworks; Melancholy Play, Piven Theatre;
Mother Courage and Her Children, Ten Percent of Molly Snyder, The House of Lily, The Weir and The Glass
Menagerie, Steppenwolf; Antistasia, Theatre Oobleck; A Carnival, Pinochet; The Strange, Inner Life, The Juliannes,
Curious Theatre Branch; Crowtown, Only Sleeping and Miss B, New York Fringe Festival. She sings with her band
Tallulah and performs with The Aluminum Group.
FRITZ WEAVER
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, Trying, Victory Gardens Theater
Best known for his Emmy-nominated performance of the patriarch in the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he won a Tony
Award for his portrayal of the headmaster in Child's Play, received three Tony nominations and the 2002 Drama
League Award for Life at Irish Repertory. Broadway productions include: The Crucible, The Price, Absurd Person
Singular, as Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street and Chalk Garden (Tony nomination). He appeared as Hamlet and
Macbeth at the American Shakespeare Theatre and as King Lear at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. Films include
Marathon Man, Fail Safe, Black Sunday, Demon Seed, Creepshow and many others. For TV, he has been in several
miniseries, such as the Martian Chronicles, and made guest appearances on The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Murder
She Wrote and Frasier.
RON WEST
Director – Musical, Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man
Who Killed Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Second City Theatricals
He returns to Chicago for the first time since receiving the Jeff Award for Best Director-Revue for Curious George
Goes to War at Second City e.t.c. TV credits include: King of Queens, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?, Seinfeld and a
recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun. Starting with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival's production of As You
Like It, he now lives in Los Angeles.
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E. MILTON WHEELER
Actor in a Principal Role – Play, Our Lady of 121st Street, Steppenwolf Theatre
Chicago credits include: Concerto Concerto, Bourbon at the Border, Lemuel, Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy
and Danny Bouncing, Victory Gardens; A Soldier's Play, Congo Square; Jesus Hopped the A Train (Black Theater
Association Award for Best Featured Actor) and Mother Courage and Her Children, Steppenwolf; Indigo Blues,
Anna Lucasta and A Streetcar Named Desire, Black Ensemble; Chicago Conspiracy Trial, Remains; American
Boys, ETA; Streamers, Inn Town Players; Riffin' With Semple, Organic; Rhino's Policeman, Northlight, and Spooks,
Chicago Threatre Company. Film and TV credits include: Brother II, Rookie of the Year, Madame Secretary,
Heaven is a Playground and Early Edition. He recently finished a crime thriller screenplay and is working on other
several scripts.
PATTI WILCOX
Choreography, The Pajama Game, Marriott Theatre
She choreographed Blues in the Night (Drama League Award and NAACP Image nomination), New York revival,
national and international companies; Seussical the Musical, national tour; My Fair Lady, HMS Pinafore, Little Shop
of Horrors, The Fantasticks, Oh Coward and Scapin (five AriZoni Awards), Arizonia Theatre Company; Smokey
Joe's Cafe, North Shore Music Theatre; Beehive, StageWest; Die Fledermaus, Arkansas Opera; A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Moscow Arts Center; Falc@-A Cyber Show, Ronacher Theatre, Vienna; A
Magic Night, Berns Theatre, Stockholm; Hit Me With a Hot Note, national tour; A Swell Party, Kennedy Center, and
original works for the Houston Symphony, Minnesota Pops and Phoenix Symphony. She is the choreographer for
ice skating Olympic gold medalist Viktor Petrenko, and other works have been seen in regional US theaters as well
as London and Italy.
DIANE FERRY WILLIAMS
Lighting Design, West Side Story, Marriott Theatre
Designing more than 60 Marriott productions, her favorites include: Miss Saigon (Jeff Award), Cats (Jeff
Nomination), The King and I, Phantom, Wizard of Oz (Jeff Nomination), Houdini, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd,
Chess and Matador. Other design work includes Don't Stop the Carnival by Jimmy Buffet and Herman Wouk, and
national tours of Victor/Victoria, Kiss Me Kate and State Fair. International work includes The Harlem Gospel
Singers in Paris and Die Shone Und Das Biest in Berlin and the European tours for both. She also received a
Carbonelle Award and Drammy Award.
JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
Actress in a Principal Role – Play, Yellowman, Next Theatre
This is her Next debut. Goodman credits include: A Christmas Carol, The Amen Corner, Blues for an Alabama
Sky, Ooh Gla Dee, Young Man from Atlanta, Gertrude Stein, Each One as She May, Richard II, The Skin of Our
Teeth, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and I Am a Man. Other Chicago credits include: Mom's the Word, Royal Goerge;
Electra (title role), Court; Waiting to Be Invited, The Colored Museum and North Star, Victory Gardens; No Place
Like Home and others, Steppenwolf; Born in the R.S.A., Northlight; The Vagina Monologues, Apollo, and various
productions with Chicago Shakespeare. Broadway/Off-Broadway credits include: From the Mississippi Delta (first
opening at Northlight), The Young Man from Atlanta, Mill Fire and The Talented Tenth. TV and film credits
include: Turks, A Will of Their Own, Early Edition, ER, One Life to Live, Hardball, Whiteboyz, A Family Thing and
Bad Meat (due for release). She received a Jeff Award as well as Black Theatre Alliance, Helen Hayes, Connecticut
Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards.
MATTHEW J. YORK
Scenic Design, The Misanthrope, Next Theatre
Other Next credits include The Incident and Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Other Chicago credits include: Talley's
Folley, Northlight; Absolution and Wishes, Suspicion and Secret Ambitions, Steppenwolf; A Few Good Men,
Theatre at the Center; She Stoops to Conquer, City Lit; Seven Moves and Xena Live: the Musical, About Face;
Butley, Writer's Theatre, and Cannibals, Naked Eye.
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