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Keith Gallagher (Laurence)
has appeared in several Chicago productions including The Utopian Theatre
Asylum's production of Tracks (Viaduct Theater and Chopin
Theatre), Arcadia (Court Theatre), and The
Real Thing (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company).
Mr. Gallagher completed his conservatory training at The Theatre School at
DePaul University in 2006.
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John Judd (John) appeared Off Broadway in Crime and Punishment (59E59 Theatres) and in An
Oak Tree and Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). Regionally, he has appeared
in Last of the Boys,The Dresser, Orson's Shadow, The Butcher of Baraboo, Our Town,
and Golden Boy (Steppenwolf
Theatre Company); The Price, Crime
and Punishment, and Othello (Writer's Theatre); Gross Indecency and Lettice and Lovage (Court Theatre); Great Men of Science (Lookingglass Theatre); Angels in America
Parts I and II (The Journeymen); and Long
Day's Journey Into Night (Irish Rep of
Chicago). Mr. Judd's film credits include Hoffa, Losing Isaiah, Ride with the Devil, Road
to Perdition, Mr. 3000, Batman Begins, and various Independent films. Television credits include: "The
Untouchables," "ER," "Early Edition," "Prison Break," and many pilots.
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Jay Whittaker (Ian) has theatre credits that include Off Broadway productions of Rose Rage
(The Duke on 42nd Street) and Frank's Home
(Playwrights Horizons). He most recently appeared in Edward II and Tamburlaine at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. His
other regional credits include Frank's Home (Goodman Theatre); Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Love's Labour's Lost, All's
Well that Ends Well, Julius
Caesar, Short Shakespeare, Rose Rage, and Henry IV, Parts I and II, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Henry IV, Parts I and II later traveled to Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford-Upon-Avon. Mr. Whittaker's other credits include Pericles, Cymbeline, Travesties, and The
Glass Menagerie (Court Theatre); and Mother
Courage and Her Children and David
Copperfield (Steppenwolf Theatre Company).
His film and television credits include Dustclouds, Death of a President, and Let's Go to Prison, "Early Edition", and "Prison
Break." Mr. Whittaker earned an M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University.
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Nicole Wiesner (Naesa) has worked regionally as Mary 2 in Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play,
directed by Mark Wing-Davey (Goodman Theatre); Madame Chatelet in Great Men
of Science Nos. 21 and 22, directed by
Tracy Letts (Lookingglass Theatre Company); and Panope in Phedre, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis (Court Theatre). Ms.
Wiesner is an artistic associate of Chicago's Trap Door Theatre, where she has
appeared in more than a dozen productions, including the title roles in Emile
Zola's Nana, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, and Susan Sontag's Alice in Bed. She has appeared in Catherine Sullivan's film
installation pieces Ice Floes of Franz Josef Land and The Chittendens, as well as in Ms. Sullivan's live performances in
Chicago, New York City, Lyon (L'Opera de Lyon), and Dijon.
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Conor McPherson's (Playwright) plays include Rum & Vodka, The
Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Broadway premiere 1999, Laurence
Olivier Award for Best Play), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Broadway Premiere 2006, Tony Award nomination
for Best Play), and The Seafarer (Broadway Premiere 2007, Laurence Olivier and
Evening Standard Award nominations for Best Play). Further awards for his work
include The Stewart Parker Award, George Devine Award, Meyer-Whitworth Award,
Evening Standard Award, and Critics' Circle Award, as well as two Irish Film
and Television Academy Best Screenplay Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award from
the San Sebastian Film festival. His first feature film as a director, Saltwater, won the CICAE Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film
Festival. Mr. McPherson was born in Dublin in 1971. He studied Philosophy and
English at University College Dublin.
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Robert Falls (Director) has been the artistic director of the Goodman Theatre since 1986.
Two of his most highly acclaimed Broadway productions, Death of a Salesman and
Long Day's Journey into Night, were
honored with seven Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. His production of
Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
ran on Broadway for four years. Last season, Mr. Falls directed the
Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Frank's
Home for the Goodman and Playwrights
Horizons, and King Lear for the
Goodman. During the 2005-2006 season, he directed the Tony-nominated American
premiere of Shining City on
Broadway, David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre for the Goodman, and the London revival of Death
of a Salesman. Mr. Falls' world premiere
productions include Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture, Rebecca Gilman's Dollhouse and Blue Surge, Eric Bogosian's subUrbia
(OBIE Award), Nicky Silver's The Food Chain, and John Logan's Riverview: A Melodrama
with Music. Other major credits include
Tony-nominated productions of The Rose Tattoo and The Young Man from Atlanta, the American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden, and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah for the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Santo Loquasto (Set Designer),designer for theatre, film, dance, and opera, has been the recipient of three Tony Awards,
and has been nominated 14 times. His recent Broadway designs include Three
Days of Rain, Prelude to a Kiss, Inherit the Wind, and 110 in
the Shade. Mr. Loquasto received the
Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted
into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor's
Award for the Arts in 2006, and was awarded the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for
Lifetime Achievement in 2007. He has collaborated with Woody Allen on 24 films,
including costume design for Zelig
and production design for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway,
receiving Academy Award nominations for each.
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Kaye Voyce (Costume Designer) returns to the
Huntington where she designed for The Hopper Collection. Ms.
Voyce was the designer for the Broadway
production of Shining City. Her
recent Off Broadway work includes Beckett Shorts at New York Theatre Workshop. Ms. Voyce's regional
work includes Tartuffe (McCarter
Theatre Center and Yale Repertory Theatre), Britannicus (American Repertory Theatre), Rocket to the
Moon (Long Wharf Theatre), and The
Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare
Theatre). Her international credits include The Frame (Theater Bonn), Show Boat (Stadttheater Bern), Henry IV, Part I (Hebbel-Theater in Berlin), and Poor Beck (Royal Shakespeare Company). Her opera credits
include Philip Glass' Orphee and Bluebeard (Glimmerglass Opera) and Ile De Merlin and Luisa Miller (Spoleto Festival USA).
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Christopher Akerlind (Lighting Designer) returns to
the Huntington where he has designed for Well, The Piano
Lesson, Seven Guitars, and The Young Man from Atlanta. His Broadway credits include 110 in the
Shade (Tony nomination), Talk
Radio, Shining City, Awake and
Sing! (Tony nomination), Well,
Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Light in the Piazza (Tony
Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nomination), and The Piano Lesson, among others. Mr. Akerlind's recent projects include
Phillip Glass's new opera Appomattox (San Francisco Opera); Robert Woodruff's productions of Brittanicus, The Island of Slaves, Orpheus X, Olly's Prison, and Oedipus (American Repertory Theatre); and Il Barbiere de Siviglia (Metropolitan Opera).
He received an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and the
Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration. He received his B.F.A. from
Boston University in 1985.
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Obadiah Eaves (Sound Designer) has designed sound for Shining City, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and the current revival of Come Back, Little Sheba on Broadway. He has created music and sound for dozens of
OffBroadway productions, including the world premieres of works by such
playwrights as David Mamet, Woody Allen, and Suzan-Lori Parks. He won a Lortel
Award for his work on Nine Parts of Desire (Manhattan Ensemble Theater and national tour), and a Viv Award for Fucking
A (The Public Theatre). His music
has appeared on HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery, TLC, and in ads for Fisher-Price
toys.
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Linda Gates (Vocal
and Dialect Coach) has Broadway credits that include The Bacchae, John
Gabriel Borkman, Heartbreak House, and Macbeth. Ms. Gates's recent Chicago credits include Oedipus
Complex, Pericles, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove (Goodman Theatre); The Color Purple (National tour and Steppenwolf Theatre Company); and
work with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Writers Theatre,
Remy Bumppo, Victory Gardens, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and The Court
Theatre. She has worked extensively in opera, and was the English diction coach
at The Metropolitan opera for Placido Domingo in The First Emperor and The Magic Flute directed by Julie Taymor, and the Lyric Opera and
Chicago Opera Theater. Her
regional theatre credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre and the Long Wharf Theatre. Ms.
Gates is a Chicago based vocal coach, head of voice at Northwestern University,
and the author of Voice for Performance.
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Eileen Ryan Kelly (Production Stage Manager) has
Huntington credits that include Third, Brendan, Present Laughter, Well,
The Cherry Orchard, Rabbit
Hole, Radio Golf, Love's Labour's Lost, The Hopper Collection, Les Liasons Dangereuses, The Sisters Rosensweig, Falsettos, 36 Views, Sonia
Flew, and Bad Dates. Her other credits include productions at
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Olney Theatre
Center, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Ms. Kelly is an alumna of Boston
Unversity's College of Fine Arts. (74)
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Kayla G. Sullivan (Stage Manager) has theatre
credits that include The Nutcracker (Boston Ballet); Dying
City, Miss Witherspoon, See What I Wanna See, and 9 Parts of Desire (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Dear Liar and Our Son's Wedding (Gloucester Stage Company); Copenhagen and The Beard of Avon (Publick Theatre); and Zanna Don't! (SpeakEasy Stage Company).
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Goodman Theatre was named the country's Best Regional Theatre by Time magazine in
2003. The Goodman is Chicago's largest not-for-profit theatre and a leader in
the American theatre, internationally recognized for its artists, productions,
and educational programs since 1925. Artistic Director Robert Falls and
Executive Director Roche Schulfer's leadership has earned the Goodman
unparalleled artistic distinction, garnered hundreds of awards —
including the Tony Award for Outstanding
Regional Theatre (1992) — and moved dozens of plays from Chicago to New
York and abroad. Central to its commitment to the reinvestigation of
classics and new play development is the Artistic Collective, including Frank
Galati, Henry Godinez, Steve Scott, Chuck Smith, Regina Taylor, and Mary
Zimmerman. The Goodman moved in 2000 into a
new state-of-the-art complex with two principal theaters: the 856-seat
Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre and the 400-seat flexible Owen Bruner Goodman
Theatre. Board Chairman is Shawn M. Donnelley and Women's Board President is
Alice Young Sabl.