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T H E AT E R O N T H E L A K E Dear Friends, Summer is here at Theater on the Lake and we are happy to welcome you to our 2011 summer season!

So much has happened in Chicago since we’ve seen you last summer. From record breaking snow storms to a brand new Mayor, change is in the air! As you may have noticed, the renovation and revitalization of the brick walls surrounding our building is finished. We are also welcoming a new concessionaire into the South Pavilion space this season. But what thankfully hasn’t changed, is our commitment to bringing you the best theater this city has to offer.

Whether it’s your first time here or you’ve been subscribing for 30 years, the 2011 Theater on the Lake companies are sure to make you laugh, cry and leave wanting more!

So please join us in welcoming this year’s talented companies. We are pleased to open with The Improvised Shakespeare Company who will make you laugh so hard you cried. Our friends from Bohemian Theatre Ensemble are back with their highly acclaimed musical Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a perfect show for the whole family! And what would the season be without a few high powered dramas such as Infamous Commonwealth Theatre’s A Doll’s House and Eclipse Theatre’s After the Fall?

We’d like to extend an enormous thank you to each of the eight organizations for sharing their talent and passion with you this season.

And now please… sit back, relax and enjoy Chicago’s favorite summer tradition with us.

Hallie Gordon Artistic Director

Krista Bryski Richard Managing Director

Let us know how we are doing. E-mail us at adtotl@gmail.com.

T H E AT E R O N T H E L A K E 2 011 S TA F F Managing Director..........................................................................................................Krista Bryski Richard Artistic Director............................................................................................................................ Hallie Gordon Production Manager.................................................................................................. Maude Graham-Nieds Assistant Production Manager.............................................................................................Cortney Hurley Box Office Manager........................................................................................................................... Sara Haley House Manager...................................................................................................................................Kitty Baker Master Electrician...................................................................................................................Jacob Snodgrass Technical Director..........................................................................................................................Chris Howell Sound...........................................................................................................................Red Line Event Services Sound Board Operator.................................................................................................................Brian Shader Lighting Board Operator....................................................................................................Karen Thompson Lighting Crew.................................................................... Elizabeth Boros-Kazai, Andrew Glasenhardt,

Megan Snowder, Karen Thompson Running Crew........................................................................................................................... Trumaine Hardy Press/PR: Chicago Park District............................................................................................... Marta Juaniza

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Richard Barletta & William Massolia Artistic Directors present

LETTERS HOME Adapted for the stage by William Massolia Directed by Kevin Kingston Lighting Design: Heather Gilbert Projection Design: Brandon Wardell Original Music/Sound Design: Brett Masteller Stage Manager: Becky Bishop Featuring: Christian Kain Blackburn, Christopher Chmelik, LaNisa Frederick. Cameron Harms, Zach Kenney, Kevin Kingston, Alex Kyger, Ryan Lempka, Ellie Reed & Lynda Shadrake The Griffin Theatre Company is a member of the League of Chicago Theatres, the Theatre Communications Group and is partially supported by grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, CityArts and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

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ENSEMBLE & CREW CHRISTIAN KAIN BLACKBURN (Ensemble) is pleased to return to Letters Home after performing in the national touring production last season.

He dedicates these performances to his brother John. Come home safe.

CHRISTOPHER CHMELIK (Ensemble) is a founding member and the Artistic Director of The Inconvenience an interdisciplinary arts syndicate. He has been seen in productions around town at Steep Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lifeline Theatre and Caffeine Theatre. He has worked with Griffin Theatre as Paul in On The Shore of the Wide World and The Hostage both with director Jonathan Berry.

He has also been a part of the National Touring production of Letters Home with director Kevin Kingston. He is very grateful for the opportunity to perform in Chicago and to revisit this work.

LANISA FREDERICK (Ensemble) is pleased to rejoin the Griffin Theatre on Letters Home having performed with the first national touring company in 2007. She is very proud and honored to share these stories again, especially since her brother just returned home safely from Iraq. A native of Cincinnati Ohio past credits include: Passing Strange (Baliwick Chicago) The Gimmick (Jeff/BTAA nominated, Pegasus Players), Stage Black (MPAACT), Doubt (Red Twist Theatre), The Exonerated (Raven Theatre), A Street Car Named Desire (Know Theatre Tribe, Cincinnati), Alexander Projekt 1 (Splitmoon Theatre, London), A Winters Tale and The Heidi Chronicles (Corbett Theatre, London). An artistic associate of MPAACT Chicago LaNisa received her B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and M.A. from University of Essex, England.

CAMERON HARMS (Ensemble) is extremely excited and proud to be a part of this amazing production. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Cameron is a graduate of Duke University where he studied History and Business. He has worked with The Griffin Theatre in No More Dead Dogs, Bailiwick Chicago in F**king Men and Emerald City in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is very thankful to all the U.S. Troops around the world, and gives a special thank you to the Everett family members currently deployed. Enjoy the show!

ZACH KENNEY (Ensemble) is proud to be a part of Letters Home, having joined the cast in 2008. Most recently, he performed in The Gospel According to James (Victory Gardens Theatre), directed by Chuck Smith.

Other credits include Mary’s Wedding (Indiana Repertory Theatre), The Farnsworth Invention and Not Enough Air (TimeLine Theatre). A San Francisco native, Zach studied at American Conservatory Theatre.

As part of A.C.T.’s New Plays Program, he originated the title role in The Actor by Horton Foote (in collaboration with the Royal National Theatre, London). Zach received his professional training from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

ALEX KYGER (Ensemble) is honored to be back with Letters Home after touring with the production last Fall.

Recent acting credits include: No More Dead Dogs (Griffin Theatre), Prom Night (Red Tape Theatre), and Shut Up Sweet Charlotte! (Provincetown Art House).

Alex is a company member of Red Tape Theatre and bouffon company Les Enfants Terribles who will be performing at the New York Fringe Festival this August. During the day, Alex can be found at American Theater Company where he serves as the Development Associate. He would like to send a Theater on the Lake 3

E N S E M B L E & C R E W ( c o n t .) special thanks to his Dad who epitomizes the selfless men and women that fill the ranks of our military.

RYAN LEMPKA (Ensemble) is pleased to be joining Letters Home in Chicago at Theater on the Lake.

Ryan has appeared with Griffin Theatre on the National tours of Letters Home as William Porter and The Stinky Cheese Man as Jack. A recent graduate of the Chicago College of Performing Arts he made his professional debut at Red Tape Theatre alongside Les Enfants Terribles in Prom Night. Most recently Ryan was seen in Griffin Theatre’s production of No More Dead Dogs as Wallace Wallace. Other recent credits include: a reading for The Inconvenience as Jerome in Palos Verdes and Cal Schultz in Blatant Testimony’s production of Scared S***less. Television Credits include: Blue Lake Casino and Hotel National spot for iSino. Ryan would like to thank his Mom, Dad, and Sister for their amazing love and support. “War is like love, it always finds a way” - Bertolt Brecht LYNDA SHADRAKE (Ensemble) has been touring with Griffin Theatre’s Letters Home and Frindle since 2009.

She co-created and performs in The Spew, an improvised parody of TV’s The View, around town and at The Acorn Theatre this fall. She played Sister for many years in the long-running Late Nite Catechism. With the Noble Fool she was in Flanagan’s Wake, Don’t Drink the Water, Roasting Chestnuts, The Baritones, and Psychic Café. A co-founder of the Free Associates, she appeared in Cast on a Hot Tin Roof, As We Like It, Blithering Heights, and more. Other improvisation includes The Comedy Shrine, ComedySportz, and the Chicago Improv Festival where she currently serves on the board. TV/Film: Trading Space, special prank episode, and independent films Dear Mr. Fidrych and Dancing with Ernesto. Thanks to Bill and Kevin for allowing her the opportunity and privilege to be in Letters Home, and to Paul, Caylee and Jake for their unconditional love and support.

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ELLIE REED (Ensemble) is excited to join the cast of such a meaningful show.

Previous credits include Rachel in No More Dead Dogs (Griffin Theatre Company) and Ronda in Hooters: A Play (Buzz22 Chicago). Ellie is a graduate of Northwestern University where she spent her time acting, writing, improvising and performing stand-up comedy. She is currently continuing her comedic education at iO Chicago and through The Second City Conservatory. She is an ensemble member of Buzz22 Chicago, a theatre company proudly entering its second season.

KEVIN KINGSTON (Director/ Ensemble) honored to be a part of sharing these stories with you. Hailing from Arab, AL, Kevin joined Griffin in 2003 in the Jeff Award winning production of Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging. Since then, they have kept him busy appearing in various touring productions, Stardust, and Journey’s End. He also has had the chance to work with the good folks at Lifeline Theatre, Writer’s Theatre, Chicago Fusion Theatre, Free Reader’s Ensemble, Eclipse, Rogue Theatre, and Grey Zelda. Other directing credits include Curse of the Starving Class, Typhoid Mary, The Landry News, Stinky Cheese Man, and Room 17. He will be attending DePaul this Fall to pursue his MFA in Directing and is recipient of the Garland Wright Award for Directing.

HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Design) Chicago credits include: Letters Home, Picnic (Griffin Theatre), The Detective’s Wife, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Old Settler (Writers’ Theatre) Home, Comedy of Errors, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and What the Butler Saw (Court Theatre), Honus and Me, Esperanza Rising, Hana’s Suitcase, and The Hundred Dresses, (Chicago Children’s Theatre), The Front Page, Master Harold and the Boys and Not Enough Air (Timeline Theatre), Our Town and Cabaret (Hypocrites) and A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Regional credits include The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre) and Off-Broadway credits include

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Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre). Upcoming projects include Our Town at the Broad Stage in LA and The Better Half for Lucky Plush Productions in Chicago. Heather was a 1999-2001 recipient of the NEA/TCG Development Program Award. She serves as the Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College and received her MFA from The Theatre School at DePaul.

BRANDON WARDELL (Projection Design) is a freelance Lighting and Scenic Designer in Chicago. He recently designed Set and Lights for Three Days of Rain (Backstage), the lights for Harper Regan and A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Steep), The Moonstone and Mrs. Caliban (Lifeline), Aunt Dan and Lemon and On An Average Day (Backstage), And a Child Shall Lead and The Ghosts of Treasure Island (ASC). Recent scenic designs include The Chicago Landmark Project (T7), Baal and Maria’s Field (TUTA), In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Steep), and Dracula (Building Stage). Brandon earned his MFA from Northwestern University and teaches at Northern Illinois University.

WILLIAM MASSOLIA (Adaptation/Artistic Director) is a founding member of the Griffin Theatre Company. He is the author of over 30 plays and adaptations including, Be More Chill, Little Brother, Stardust, Loving Little Egypt, Shakespeare’s Dog, Ash Can Alley, and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. His play Letters Home recently completed a 17 city Na-

tional Tour of North America and his children’s play, Frindle was presented in 22 US cities in the 2009/2010 season. Massolia is a 7-time Joseph Jefferson Award nominee for his work as a playwright. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, Mr. Massolia is a past member of the League of Chicago Theatres Board of Directors, a recipient of an IAC Playwriting Fellowship Award and currently sits on the theatre advisory panel for the Illinois Arts Council.

RICHARD BARLETTA (Artistic Director) is a founding member of the Griffin Theatre Company. In his almost 30 years of theatre he’s directed over 125 productions, many of these with the Griffin. Some of his favorites would include: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, All The Way Home, Ah, Wilderness!, Shake Your Groove Thing, Shakespeare’s Dog, Ash Can Alley, Henry and the Second Gunman, A Night in Mantua, The Whipping Boy, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Frindle, There’s a Girl in my Hammerlock and Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, for which he received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for direction.

Richard holds an MFA in Directing from the Goodman School of Drama and a BS in theatre from the University of Evansville.

In addition he has directed productions at the Theatre School, DePaul University and Loyola University in Chicago. He received Joseph Jefferson Awards for both directing and ensemble with the Midwest premiere of Stags and Hens.

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION NOTES Letters Home is performed with no intermission A post play discussion with immediately follow the performance.

Joe Schermoly.................................................................................................................Technical Director Devin Boyd & Melissa Trentacoste..........................................................................Production Interns

ABOUT LETTERS HOME Letters Home puts the current wars in Afghanistan & Iraq front and center by bringing to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East. The production is inspired by the New York Times Op-Ed Article “The Things They Wrote” and the subsequent HBO documentary Last Letters Home, and additionally uses letters and correspondences from Frank Schaeffer’s books, Voices From the Front, Letters Home From America’s Military Family, Faith of Our Sons, and Keeping Faith. The play without politicizing gives audiences a powerful portrait of the soldier experience in our ongoing wars. The initial production originally produced in 2007 at City of Chicago’s Cultural Center, was critically acclaimed and nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for “Outstanding New Adaptation.” Since that time the play has toured throughout the United States and has been seen by over 50,000 people.

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G R I F F I N H A S P E R F O R M E D L E T T E R S H O M E AT : Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall – Sarasota, Florida Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut Cleveland Playhouse Square – Cleveland, Ohio Coral Springs Center for the Arts – Coral Springs, Florida The Grand Theatre – Wausau, Wisconsin Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University – Indianapolis, Indiana The Bushnell Center for the Arts – Hartford, Connecticut Paramount Arts Center – Peekskill, New York Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center – Westhampton Beach, New York Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts – Cerritos, California SUNY Purchase College – Purchase, New York Overture Center for the Arts – Madison, Wisconsin Kingsborough College – Brooklyn, New York Capital Center for the Arts – Concord, New Hampshire Young Auditorium, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Wisconsin Tennessee Center for the Performing Arts – Nashville, Tennessee Civic Center of Greater Des Moines – Des Moines, Iowa University of North Carolina – Pembroke, North Carolina Merrimack Performing Arts Hall – Huntsville, Alabama Hippodrome Foundation – Baltimore, Maryland The Palace Theatre – Greensburg, Pennsylvania Performing Arts Center, Warsaw High School – Warsaw, Indiana Philadelphia High School – Philadelphia, New York

A N N UA L F U N D The Griffin Theatre Company would like to gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies throughout the year, which have enabled our arts organization to continue to produce quality arts programming for young and old. If you would like to find out more about supporting the Griffin Theatre Company please call 773-769-2228 or use the form attached. $10,000 and up Alphawood Foundation The Chicago Community Trust The California Community Foundation Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation I.A. O’Shaughnessey Foundation David & Elizabeth McFadzean $5,000 - $10,000 The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation The Illinois Arts Council The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation $2,500 - $4,999 City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs The Saints $1,000 - $2,499 David Aitken Diane Aitken 6 Theater on the Lake

Richard Barletta Claire Conley FMC Foundation James Denton Jeff Graves Bill & Mary Lou Griffin Jordan Humberstone Illinois Switchboard Corporation Paul Klaeysen Therese A. Kozlowski Helmut Mlakar Maureen Murnane Northside Federal Savings Square D Foundation Teresa Sullinger Weldy-Lamont Associates $500 - $999 AOL Time Warner Mr. & Mrs. Frank Barletta James Donnelley Timothy Fox Karen and David Larson Thomas & Barbara Leopold Mr. & Mrs. William Massolia Doris McGee The Playboy Foundation Sue & Tim Reardon Hugh Spencer

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A B O U T T H E C O M PA N Y Our mission: The Griffin Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary and meaningful theatrical experiences for both children and adults by building bridges of understanding between generations that instill in its audience an appreciation of the performing arts. Through artistic collaboration the Griffin Theatre Company produces literary adaptations, original work and classic plays that challenge and inspire, with wit, style and compassion for the audience.

The Griffin Theatre Company Artistic Directors - Richard Barletta and William Massolia

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After the Fall

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By ARTHUR MILLER

By ARTHUR MILLER Directed

by STEVE SCOTT* Featuring Directed by STEVE SCOTT*

EUSTACE ALLEN, JERRY BLOOM, KATE BROWN, JULIE DALEY*, NORA FIFFER*,

By ARTHUR MILLER SALLY EAMES-HARLAN, MARGARET GRACE, KEVIN KENNEALLY, ERIC LEONARD, Featuring Directed by STEVEROBERT SCOTT*L. OAKES, NINA O’KEEFE*, JOE MCCAULEY, SUSAN MONTS-BOLOGNA, EUSTACE ALLEN, JERRY BLOOM, JULIE DALEY*, GERALDINE DULEX, SALLY EAMES, CHAD RAMSEY AND NATHANIEL SWIFT* Featuring KEVIN KENNEALLY, MAURA KIDWELL, ERIC LEONARD, MADELINE LONG, EUSTACE JERRYSUSAN BLOOM,MONTS-BOLOGNA, KATE BROWN, JULIEROBERT DALEY*,L.NORA FIFFER*, Producers JOE ALLEN, MCCAULEY, OAKES, SALLY EAMES-HARLAN, MARGARET GRACE, KEVIN KENNEALLY, ERIC LEONARD, KEVIN SCOTT* AND NATHANIEL SWIFT* NINA O’KEEFE*, CHAD RAMSEY and NATHANIEL SWIFT*

JOE MCCAULEY, SUSAN MONTS-BOLOGNA, ROBERT L. OAKES, NINA O’KEEFE*, CHAD RAMSEY AND NATHANIEL Assistant Director SWIFT* Producers SARAH MOELLER* KEVIN SCOTT* and NATHANIEL SWIFT* Producers

Scenic Design KEVIN HAGAN

KEVIN SCOTT* AND NATHANIEL SWIFT* Lighting Design Assistnat Director MICHAEL MCNAMARA

Sound Design CECIL AVERETT*

Stage MOELLER* Manager SARAH ELLEN WILLETT

Costume Design Scenic Design KEVINLAMBERT HAGAN RACHEL Sound Design CECIL AVERETT* Costume Design RACHEL LAMBERT

Assistant Director SARAH MOELLER*

Assistant Stage Manager Lighting Design CNAMARA MICHAEL JEN M POULIN Stage Manager *DenotesELLEN EclipseWILLETT Ensemble Member Assistant Stage Manager July 8th –JEN August POULIN22nd, 2010

Dramaturg CHAD RAMSEY KATIE VANDEHEY* Media Relations Dramaturg KEITH ROMERO CHAD RAMSEY Properties KATIE VANDEHEY* MARIA DEFABO Media Relations KEITH ROMERO Properties MARIA DEFABO

*Denotes Eclipse Ensemble Member

July 13 - 17th, 2011 July 8th – August 22nd, 2010 Eclipse Theatre’s 2010 Arthur Miller Season is generously supported in part by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (City Arts I), The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and our many individual donors.

Eclipse Theatre’s 2010 Arthur Miller Season is generously supported in part by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (City Arts I), The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and our many individual donors.

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CAST (in

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Nathaniel Swift*...........................................................................................................................Quentin Madeline Long...................................................................................................................................Felice Maura Kidwell.................................................................................................................................Maggie Sally Eames......................................................................................................................................... Holga Joe McCauley......................................................................................................................................... Dan Jerry Bloom....................................................................................................................................... Father Susan Monts-Bologna................................................................................................................. Mother Nina O’Keefe*....................................................................................................................................... Elsie Julie Daley*........................................................................................................................................ Louise Eustace Allen..........................................................................................................................................Lou Eric Leonard..................................................................................................................................... Mickey Geraldine Dulex........................................................................................................................ Ensemble Kevin Kenneally........................................................................................................................ Ensemble Robert L. Oakes......................................................................................................................... Ensemble Chad Ramsey............................................................................................................................. Ensemble The action takes place in the mind, thought and memory of Quentin.

There will be one 10 minute intermission

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Steve Scott*....................................................................................................................................Director Kevin Scott*..........................................................................................Managing Director/Producer Nathaniel Swift*.......................................................................................Artistic Director/Producer Kevin Hagan...................................................................................................................Scenic Designer Rachel Lambert........................................................................................................Costume Designer Michael McNamara..................................................................................................Lighting Designer Cecil Averett*.................................................................................................................Sound Designer Sarah Moeller*.......................................................................................................... Assistant Director Ellen Willett......................................................................................................................Stage Manager Jen Poulin...................................................................................................... Assistant Stage Manager Maria DeFabo........................................................................................................................... Properties Chad Ramsey........................................................................................................................... Dramaturg Katie Vandehey*..................................................................................................................... Dramaturg Keith Romero....................................................... Media Relations by KROME Communications * Denotes Eclipse ensemble member

BIOGR APHIES NATHANIEL SWIFT* (Quentin) joined the Eclipse ensemble in 1999, and has been involved in every Eclipse production since; as a director, actor, designer and producer. He was honored with a Non-Equity Jeff Award for Directing in 2002 for Romulus Linney’s 2, and for Acting in a Supporting Role in 2009 for playing Doug in Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge. He has also directed a world premiere play, Lesson One, for Collaboraction’s 2007 Sketchbook festival, and adaptations of the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Flowers for Algernon with the Village Players Theatre in Oak Park. He currently resides in Chicago with his dog, Cassandra, and cat, Kismet, within walking distance from Wrigley Field.

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MADELINE LONG (Felice) last performed with Eclipse in Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues and is very happy to be working with them again! She is a proud member of LiveWire Chicago Theatre and has performed in their productions of The 13th of Paris; Hideous Progeny; Wonder of the World; and Soldiers: The Desert Stand (After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance). Additional Chicago credits include The Little Foxes (Shattered Globe Theatre); Perfect and Raised (the side project theatre co.); and The Skin of Our Teeth (Backstage Theatre Co.). Madeline received her B.A. from Boston College and studied at the British American Drama Academy’s

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Midsummer in Oxford program. Thank you to her amazing parents for all their love and support.

MAURA KIDWELL (Maggie) recently appeared in Three Tall Women at Court Theatre, and Lobby Hero at her home company, Redtwist Theatre. She has also performed with The Gift and Chicago Dramatists, and she is an artistic associate with Erasing the Distance - “Shedding light on mental illness through theatre.”

Recent film work includes Return to the Hiding Place, and Lifetime Original Movie Last Man Standing.

SALLY EAMES (Holga) has played roles including Virginia in The Clean House, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Dorine in Tartuffe (for which she received a KCACTF commendation as a guest artist), Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals and Linda in Death of a Salesman. She was also dialect coach for Eclipse’s production of Democracy. A Pacific Northwest native, Sally is now happily falling in love with her newly adopted city, and would like to thank her friends and family here and elsewhere for their support and love.

JOE McCAULEY (Dan) recently performed in the Chicago premiere of Resurrection Blues, as well as The Rimers of Eldrich, Sextet and Talley & Son in the Lanford Wilson season. He has worked at the Artistic Home where his credits include Days to Come, Juno and the Paycock (Jeff nominee- Best Production, After Dark Award- Best Ensemble), Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, The Petrified Forest and Clash by Night.

Other theaters he has worked for in Chicago include City Lit, Twelfth Night; The Annoyance Theater, Stations; Collaboraction, Sketchbook and American Theatre Company, among others.

JERRY BLOOM (Father) recently appeared in The Body Snatchers at City Lit, Raven Theatre’s hit revival of Death of a Salesman, Oak Park Festival’s Cyrano de Bergerac, and Terry McCabe’s Jeff Nominated adaptation of Scoundrel Time, Lillian Hellman’s memoir of the McCarthy Era. Earlier at City Lit, Jerry appeared in Mike Nussbaum’s popular “Noir” play, Dashiell Hamlet, and Frank Galati’s adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And he

has the honor to have been in the original Chicago productions of Noises Off, Hauptmann, and Never the Sinner. Jerry does voice-overs for radio and television commercials (notably Hyundai) and for excessively violent video games.

SUSAN MONTS-BOLOGNA (Mother) recently returned to Chicago where she did her Master’s work at The Goodman School of Drama and studied with Del Close at Second City. Her Chicago credits include When She Danced (u/s) at TimeLine with Nick Bowling and Awake and Sing (u/s) at Northlight with Amy Morton.

Regional work includes Custer (world premier); A Little Bit Less Than Normal; Ah, Wilderness and Friends (world premier) at the Milwaukee Repertory; Plaza Suite, Love Letters, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, On Golden Pond, Arsenic and Old Lace and Six Degrees of Separation at Crossroads Repertory (Terre Haute, IN). New York credits include Blessed Event (B’way contract), Men in White and Darkness at Noon at Quaigh Theatre and Overruled at Soho Repertory.

Her film credits: Mademoiselle and The Prowler. On television she was known as Professor Aja Doyan on NBC’s Search for Tomorrow. Love to Daniele and Lauren.

Thank you Steve.

NINA O’KEEFE* (Elsie) joined the Eclipse Ensemble in 2009. Her Eclipse credits include Resurrection Blues (Jeanine), Democracy (Esther), Candles to the Sun (Fern u/s) and 365 Plays/365 Days (Writer Women) along with other staged readings. Other Chicago credits include Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs/Webb) with Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Siddhartha Project and Sketchbook 7 and 9 with Collaboraction Theatre Company, MultiPurpose Doom (Trisha U/S) with Sandbox Theatre Company and Disturbed (Victim) with Oracle Productions. Regional credits include The Wizard of Oz (Wicked Witch of the West) with Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre. Nina is represented by Stewart Talent Agency and is a graduate from Millikin University with a BFA in Acting.

Thanks to Mom, Dad and Patrick for their unconditional support. Love to Erik and G. JULIE DALEY* (Louise) has been an Eclipse Ensemble member for the past ten years, appearing in Tennessee William’s Theater on the Lake 11

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Confessional (Violet), Lillian Hellman’s The Lark (Joan of Arc) and Autumn Garden (Nina), Romulus Linney’s A Woman Without a Name (Susie Balis), John Guare’s Women and Water (Lydie Breeze) and Landscape of the Body (Rosalie), Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn (Connie Dayton) and Keith Reddin’s Brutality of Fact (Maggie). She has also worked with Irish Rep, Griffin and Chicago Shakespeare to name a few.

EUSTACE ALLEN (Lou) is a graduate of The Artistic Home Acting Studio, and is a member of The Artistic Home Ensemble.

Credits include the recently acclaimed The Skin of Our Teeth, Days to Come, Modigliani and Clash by Night with The Artistic Home; It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play with American Theater Company; Resort 76 with Infamous Commonwealth; and Big Love with The Mill. Eustace hails from St. Louis, MO and is a graduate of the Theater School of Lindenwood University.

ERIC LEONARD (Mickey) was last seen with Eclipse as Flanders Kittredge in Six Degrees of Separation. He was also seen this spring at the Steppenwolf Garage in XIII Pocket’s production of Adore. Eric has also worked with many other companies in Chicago and other parts of the country.

Thanks for coming.

GERALDINE DULEX (Ensemble) is thrilled to join this outstanding cast and excited to be back on stage with Eclipse Theatre after appearing in A Memory of Two Mondays and The Autumn Garden. Géraldine is a proud company member with Trap Door Theatre and her favorite Chicago credits include Minna and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Trap Door), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Steppenwolf ), and The Censor (Ebb and Flow, recipient of an Orgie Award). Thank you, Eclipse!

KEVIN KENNEALLY (Ensemble) previously performed in Eclipse’s Jeff Awardwinning production of Another Part of the Forest. Kevin has been performing on the Chicago stage for more than 20 years, having most recently appeared as Ben Hubbard in Shattered Globe’s production of The Little Foxes, along with roles in their Jeff Award-winning productions of Judgement at Nuremberg and Meet John Doe. Other roles include the Reverend 12 Theater on the Lake

Baines in Silk Road’s Golden Child, Uncle Ben in The Hypocrites’ Death of a Salesman, Gooper in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Thomas Putnam in TimeLine Theatre’s The Crucible; as well as roles in Prop Theatre’s anti-war satire Embedded, Raven Theatre’s Night of the Iguana and A Memory of Two Mondays, and appearances with Famous Door, Bailiwick, Remains, and many, many other groups who have since gone on to that great big Green Room in the sky. His film credits include Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, About Last Night, The Color of Money and Secret War of the Outsiders. Thanks to his wife Jeanie for her love, support and reminding him every day why she is so much smarter than he is.

ROBERT L. OAKES (Ensemble) is originally from the Mojave Desert of Southern California. He has an MFA from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of the Performing Arts. Rob is an Artistic Associate and founding member of Red Tape Theatre Company where he was most recently seen in their Jeff Recommended production of The Love of the Nightingale. In addition to performance, Rob has designed projections for numerous shows as well as creating the adaptation for Red Tape’s production of An Enemy of the People. Beside Red Tape Theatre, Rob has worked with Circle Theatre, Grey Zelda Theatre Group, New World Repertory Theater, The Side Project and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He has studied Meisner Technique with Ted Hoerl and Eileen Vorbach.

CHAD RAMSEY (Ensemble) Having the opportunity to participate in this remount of “After the Fall,” is something akin to finding a very special toy at the bottom of the cereal box. The yummy cereal is all gone but wait... Decoder ring? Score!

Having gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Arizona in Dramaturgy, and acted extensively in his native Tucson, Chad has had a great first taste of the eclectic Chicago theater scene, working with Gorilla Tango, Redmoon Theatre, Collaboraction, National Pastime, and Hell in a Handbag where he was recently seen much beardier than today portraying the titular role in “Trogg! A Musical”. Chad would like to thank Mom and The Old Man for obvious and incalculable reasons, J.

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Michael Bennett and JP Pierson for dragging him to this toddling town, and this cast for being such splendid little muppets.

STEVE SCOTT* (Director) is the Associate Producer of Goodman Theatre, where he has overseen more than 150 productions; he is also a member of Goodman’s Artistic Collective. His Goodman directing credits include Horton Foote’s Blind Date; Rabbit Hole; Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock and No One Will Be Immune for the David Mamet Festival; Dinner With Friends; Wit; the world premiere of Tom Mula’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-directed with Michael Maggio); and four seasons of A Christmas Carol.

Other recent directing credits include Souvenir at Northlight Theatre; Buried Child and Dealer’s Choice for Shattered Globe Theatre; The DNA Trail and Yohen for Silk Road Theatre Company; Frozen for The Next Theatre Company; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing for the St. Lawrence (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival; The Teapot Scandals of 1923 and Falsettos for Porchlight Theatre; Ah, Wilderness!, God’s Country, and Judgment at Nuremberg for the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University’s College of Performing Arts (where he is a faculty member); and a number of productions for the Eclipse Theatre (where he is an ensemble member), including John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, Keith Reddin’s Big Time, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, and Lanford Wilson’s The Moonshot Tapes. He has directed for a variety of other companies, including Theatre Wit, the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, National Jewish Theatre, Theater at the Center, Lifeline Theatre, Organic Touchstone Theatre, and the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Mr. Scott has served on panels for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trust/ Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. He is a member of the Jeff Committee’s Artist and Technical Team, a board member of Season of Concern, and an associate artist with About Face, Chicago

Dramatists, and Colllaboraction Theatre companies. He was one of six resident directors for WBEZ’s series Stories on Stage, and has contributed articles to a variety of publications, including the Encyclopedia of Chicago. Mr. Scott is the recipient of five Jeff nominations, an After Dark Award, and the Illinois Theatre Association’s Award of Honor.

As an actor, he most recently appeared in The Next Theatre’s production of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been…?

(Jeff Award for Outstanding Ensemble).

Upcoming projects include A Delicate Balance for Redtwist and David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face for Silk Road.

SARAH MOELLER* (Assistant Director) is an Eclipse Ensemble member, and has previously served as dramaturg for Resurrection Blues, Democracy, Blue Surge, Autumn Garden, Candles to the Sun, Plaza Suite, and Bourbon on the Border, as director for Song for Coretta, SLP 365 Days/365 Plays Week 43, stage manager for Sweetest Swing in Baseball and Boy Gets Girl. She also co-curates the Playwright Scholar Series at Eclipse. In addition she has production managed for Teatro Vista and Around the Coyote. Sarah is also a company member at Collaboraction where she has served as production manager for the last two seasons and worked as a director and stage manager.

When she isn’t at the theater she teaches elementary music around Chicago.

ELLEN WILLETT (Stage Manager) has stage managed with Lifeline Theatre, Steep Theatre, Strawdog Theatre Company, Adventure Stage Chicago, National Pastime Theatre, and many more. She also serves on the board of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), a unique and vibrant music ensemble dedicated to advancing the music of our time.

JEN POULIN (Assistant Stage Manager) has stage managed with Theatre Mir, BackStage Theatre Company, Mary Arrchie Theatre Company, Rasaka Theatre Company, WildClaw Theatre, and Silk Road Theatre Project. She holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. Love and thanks to cast and crew, her family, otters, Ellen and The Boy. Theater on the Lake 13

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KATIE VANDEHEY* (Dramaturg) is a proud member of the Eclipse Theatre Ensemble, a group she has had the pleasure of working with for many years. She most recently worked as co-dramaturg for Democracy by Romulus Linney. She is happy to have another excellent partner in dramaturgy this time around too.

Thank you Chad for all of your help.

KEVIN HAGAN (Scenic Designer) is a graduate of the College of Design at Louisiana State University, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in scenic design from the Theatre School at DePaul University. Kevin most recently directed and designed highly regarded productions of Suddenly, Last Summer and The Glass Menagerie with Shattered Globe Theatre. Other recent design credits include Buried Child, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Come Back, Little Sheba and The Price for SGT; Bach at Leipzig for Writer’s Theater; Fiorello! for TimeLine Theater and Six Degrees of Separation for Eclipse Theater Company.

MICHAEL McNAMARA (Lighting Designer) is very pleased to be designing his first show with Eclipse. For eight years he was Resident Assistant Lighting Designer with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC where he worked on more than fifty productions with design teams from around the world.

He has also assisted the Seattle, San Diego, Pittsburgh, and Portland Opera companies and at the Royal Opera in London. In recent years, he has served as Associate Lighting Designer for productions in Toronto, San Diego, Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. He has designed with numerous Chicago area theatre companies including Writers’ Theatre, Griffin, Dolphinback, Magellan, Pegasus Players and First Folio Theatre where he is an Artistic Associate. Outside of Chicago, Michael has most recently designed with the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis and the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts in California. He has designed and taught as a guest artist at the University of Kentucky, the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Wheaton College and, this fall, at Marquette University. He is currently the Head of Lighting at Purdue University after previously teaching at the University of Arizona. Michael is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

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CECIL AVERETT* (Composer/Sound Designer) designs sound and composes music for theater, film, multimedia and civic installations. In addition to the recent production of Cabaret at Drury Lane, some of his regional theater credits include productions at the Goodman, Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, and Northlight. Recent designs off-Broadway include Beyond Glory at Roundabout, and Cap21’s premiere of Waiting for My Man. Cecil was the recipient of an After Dark Award (original music) for his work on Eclipse Theatre’s production of Frame 312 as well as a Joseph Jefferson Award nominee for sound design of both Into the Woods and Passion Play.

RACHEL LAMBERT (Costume Designer) is the costume shop manager and a secondyear graduate student in design at Purdue University. After the Fall is her first production with the Eclipse Theatre. She has designed costumes for The Tortoise and the Hare at the Texas Shakespeare Festival and working as a designer/art director on two independent film projects. Before coming to Indiana, she worked for several years at Tricorne Studios in NewYork City as a draper’s assistant on such Broadway shows as Wicked, The Producers, Hairspray, Mama Mia, and Nine to name a few. She is excited to be part of this production and would like to thank Nat and Kevin for the opportunity.

MARIA DeFABO (Properties) has designed props for Six Degrees of Separation and A Song for Coretta with Eclipse.

Some of her other favorite credits include props design for Oedipus, Frankenstein, Cabaret, and No Exit (The Hypocrites).

Associate Scenic Design and Props Design for Mary’s Wedding (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble), Assistant Props Design for Icarus (Lookingglass Theatre), Props for Wilson Wants it All (The House Theatre), The Colored Museum (Congo Square), 2,000 Feet Away (Steep Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Theo Ubique). Maria is a recent graduate of Loyola University Chicago, and is very excited to finally be a big kid.

She has much appreciation for her family and friends for supporting her through her theatrical endeavors.

COLLABORACTION Anthony Moseley Executive and Artistic Director presents

1001

by Jason Grote directed by Seth Bockley featuring Antonio Brunetti, Carly Ciarrocchi, Joel Gross, Mouzam Makkar, H.B. Ward, and Edgar Sanchez

Sarah Moeller Producer

Ari Clouse Stage Manager

Nathan Green Assistant Director

AJ Tarzian Set Designer

Mac Vaughey Lighting Designer

Mikhail Fiksel Sound Designer/ Composer

Elsa Hiltner Original Costume Designer

Kristen Ahern Costume Designer

Deb Lindell Original Props Designer

Nathalie Ayala Props Designer

John Wilson Technical Director

Jeffrey Gardner Dramaturg

Two Birds Casting Casting Directors

Katie Ritchie Asst Stage Manager

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CAST LIST Mouzam Makkar..............................................................................................A” (Scheherazade/Dahna) H.B. Ward...................................................................................“B” (One-Eyed Arab/Sinbad/Ensemble) Joel Gross...................................................................................................................... “C” (Shahriyar/Alan) Carly Ciarrocchi............................................................ “D” (Dunyazade/Kuchuk Hanem/Ensemble) Antonio Brunetti.................................................................. “E” (Wazir/Horrible Monster/Ensemble) Edgar Sanchez..............................................................................................“F” (Yahya/Asser/Ensemble)

PRODUCTION TEA M Anthony Moseley...........................................................................................Executive Artistic Director Seth Bockley........................................................................................................................................ Director Sarah Moeller.................................................................................................................................... Producer Ari Clouse............................................................................................................................... Stage Manager Nathan Green................................................................................................................... Assistant Director AJ Tarzian.....................................................................................................................................Set Designer Mac Vaughey....................................................................................................................Lighting Designer Mikhail Fiksel.................................................................................................Sound Designer/Composer Elsa Hiltner..................................................................................................... Original Costume Designer Kristen Ahern................................................................................................................. Costume Designer Deb Lindell..............................................................................................................Original Prop Designer Nathalie Ayala.........................................................................................................................Prop Designer John Wilson..................................................................................................................... Technical Director Amanda Rozmiarek.............................................................................................................. Scenic Painter Jeffrey Gardner..............................................................................................................................Dramaturg Two Birds Casting............................................................................................................ Casting Directors Katie Ritchie........................................................................................................ Assistant Stage Manager

BIOGR APHIES Antonio Brunetti (E) Antonio is thrilled to revisit this thrill-ride of 1001, after the Chicago premiere last fall. Recent Chicago credits include The Franchise at Sketchbook: Evolve; A staged reading of Hilda for the International Voices Project; Hamletmachine at Trap Door Theatre, where he is a company member; Crave with Candentia Theatre (also performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival); Chaste, also at Trap Door; G.I.F.T. with Collaboraction, where he is also a company member; Where Did Everybody Go? with Dramatis Personae and Anung’s First American Christmas with Vitalist Theatre.

Antonio returned to Chicago, where he was born and raised, in 2008, after almost six years living and working in Europe. Stage and film credits there include Oleanna and The Glass Menagerie with Altesschauspielhaus in Stuttgart, Germany; Fool for Love at the 100 Grad Festival in Berlin, Germany; The Graduate at the Stuttgart Theatre 16 Theater on the Lake

Center; Macbeth in Friedrichshafen, Germany; a pilot episode of The Report in Antwerpen, Belgium and the short film The Chronoscope in Dublin, Ireland.

Carly Ciarrocchi (D) Carly Ciarrocchi ith tho exthited to be joining the 1001 cast for another ride through the NYC subway! Since last year’s run, she has been lucky enough to work with Seth Bockley again on the Redmoon Theatre’s 2011 Winter Pageant. Next, she spent some time out at 16th Street Theater voicing female beat poets in The Beats (remounting in September!).

She is a proud company member of Barrel of Monkeys and spends the school year teaching and performing in their CPS programs. Look out at the end of August for a late night showing at the Flat Iron of Egg and Alfie, her clown detective collaboration with playwright Aaron Weissman and fellow clown gumshoe Nick Combs! Finally, watch for

B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) the Radio Disney AM 1300 Road Crew this summer at Chicago’s street festivals to see DJ Carly rock the mic to a lot of Justin Bieber. Millions of high fives and abbreves to Seth, Collaboraction and her friends and family!

Ari Clouse (Stage Manager) is so happy to be remounting one of her favorite productions at Theater on the Lake.

Previous stage management credits for Collaboraction include the fall 2010 production of 1001, Sketchbook Reverb, and Sketchbook 11: Evolution, which she just closed in June. Earlier this year, Ari stage managed for Theater Mir (The Caucasian Chalk Circle), and Vintage Theater Collective (Helen). Ari received her B.A. in History from the University of Chicago in 2010. She would like to thank Seth for being such a lovely human being and Katie for being an outstanding ASM she can completely trust.

Hugs to Mom, Dad, and the Pequod.

Edgar Miguel Sanchez (F) Chicago credits include Red Noses (remount) at Strawdog Theater, Welcome to Arroyo’s at ATC, Wilson Wants It All with The House at The Chopin, Cuba...and his Teddy Bear with Urban Theater Company, How to Act Around Cops at The Artistic Home, Twelfth Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry at Apple Tree Theater, Posada Magica with Teatro Vista, Men of Steel with Theater Wit. Regional credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Comedy of Errors all at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Miami, Florida.

Elsa Hiltner (Costume Designer) recently returned to Chicago after living in the Middle East, where she was studying the area’s costume history. Her favorite Collaboraction credits include Jon, El Grito del Bronx, and G.I.F.T. Elsa’s designs are also often seen at Signal Ensemble and First Folio Theatre, among others.

H.B. Ward (B) is a member of Curious Theatre Branch. With that company, he has appeared in nine productions, including Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing and Waiting for Godot. He has acted with many Chicago companies, including Prop Thtr, Collaboraction (including The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Jon, Sketchbook X, Workbook, Sketchbook: Reverb, and the original production of 1001 in 2010), DOG – a Theater Company, The Magpies, Teatro Vista, WNEP, Theater Oobleck, Tympanic Theater, 16th Street Theater, Wildclaw Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, and Goodman Theatre, and in one film, Stephen Cone’s In Memoriam.

Jason Grote (Playwright) has been produced nationally and internationally, and has received wide-spread critical acclaim and recognition. Additional plays include “Maria/Stuart” (Woolly Mammoth); “Hamilton Township” (Salvage Vanguard); “This Storm Is What We Call Progress” (Rorschach Theater); “Box Americana; Civilization (All You Can Eat)”; and “Darwin’s Challenge.”

His work has also been produced or developed at The O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, The Sundance Theater Lab, Playwrights’ Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Atlantic Theater, Soho Rep, Portland Center Stage, The Edinborough Festival Fringe, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Bielefeld Festival (Germany), HERE, Baltimore Centerstage, The Glej Theater (Ljubljana, Slovenia), The Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, among others.

Grote has been commissioned to write new work by ACT/Seattle, The Denver Center, The Keen Company/Playscripts Inc., among others.

Jeffrey Gardner (Dramaturg) Jeffrey is a freelance director and dramaturg in addition to serving as Collaboraction’s Marketing Coordinator. Recent dramaturgy credits include MEDEA WITH Theater on the Lake 17

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CHILD (Sideshow Theatre) and G.I.F.T. (Collaboraction). Recent directing credits include TWO SOCKS DISCUSS LOSS (Simple Theatre), WAR MUSIC (4th River Theatre), OF MICE AND MEN (MtV Arts), and THE BACCHAE (4th River theatre).

He is also the producer/episode director for Our Fair City, an episodic web series. www.nilsgardner.com Joel Gross (C) Joel is honored to return to Collaboraction after this year’s Sketchbook festival and to be directed by Seth.

He spent most of 2009 as Dakin in Timeline Theatre’s Jeff Award winning production of The History Boys. A proud member of Gray Talent Group, Joel divides his time evenly between theatre (Timeline, Lookingglass, House, Dog & Pony, ET, al.), film, commercials, and teaching acting. After 1001, Joel returns to Timeline for To Master the Art. Thanks to PJ Powers, Bill Brown and Anthony Moseley for working with my conflicts on this one. I owe all of you...BIG. John Wilson (Technical Director) is a proud Collaboraction company member as well as the company’s facilities manager. He hustles as an actor, scenic designer, teacher, director, and storyteller around town.

theatre credit after graduating from Western Michigan University and moving here to pursue a career in costume design. From this springboard, and with the help of original designer Elsa Hiltner, she has gone on to work for such companies as Filament Theatre Ensemble, New Suit Theatre Co., The Ruckus, and assist in founding Strange Bedfellows Theatre. This summer she can be seen working at Mason Street Warehouse in Michigan and designing for Prince of Thieves, a webseries modern retelling of Robin Hood legends.

For more information go to www. behance.net/kristenp.

Mac Vaughey (Lighting Designer) Mac is a Chicago-based lighting designer and electrician. Mac is the resident lighting designer at the 16th Street Theatre in Berwyn, and an artistic associate with Teatro Luna, Walkabout Theatre and Premiere Theatre and Performance. Recent credits include work with Porchlight Music Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The American Theatre Company, The Next Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Teatro Luna, Sinnerman Ensemble and Walkabout Theatre.

Mac is also the master electrician for Timeline Theatre, The Next Theatre, the American Theatre Company and Light Opera Works. In his spare time, Mac works as the Executive Vice President for Studio BE, a not-profit performing arts training and development center and performance venue in Lakeview.

Katie Ritchie (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with the 1001 crew again! She has worked Mouzam Makkar (A) with Collaboraction as an assistant is ecstatic to be stage manager, production intern, working with and actor, appearing most recently in Collaboraction again Sketchbook: Reverb and Sketchbook: Evofor the remount of lution. Having moved to Chicago last 1001. Recent Chicago year after graduating from Florida State credits include Thirst University in Tallahassee, Katie plans to and Here Where It’s start her own theater company in the Safe (Stage Left Theater), Twelfth Night near future. Break a leg, everyone!

(First Folio Theatre), Yoni Ki Baat (Rasaka Theatre), Ten Minute (the side project), Kristen Ahern (Costume Designer) is Seven (Silk Road Theatre Project), The thrilled to be working on the 1001 Chicago One-Minute Play Festival remount this summer! The original (Victory Gardens) as well as understudy in September was her first Chicago credits for Heartbreak House (Writers’ 18 Theater on the Lake

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Theatre) and Diversey Harbour (Theatre Seven of Chicago). Regional credits include the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Cardinal Stage, IN). She can be seen next in The Fever Chart: Four Visions of the Middle East at Eclipse Theatre and in the independent feature film, Promise Land. Makkar is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and Writing programs and is currently attending The School at Steppenwolf.

Nathan Green (Assistant Director) is a director currently residing in Chicago.

He co-founded and ran Atlanta-based Fish & Bicycle Theatre, an ensemblebased physical theater company combining event-based theater with circus arts. He directed their first three sitespecific spectacles as well as numerous smaller devised guerrilla works. He has worked extensively with Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater, appearing in their hit show Meds, as well as Chicago’s Collaboraction, where he closely assisted Seth Bockley on 1001. In 2009, he completed a directing internship at Actors Theatre of Louisville and at the Humana Festival, was an assistant to Anne Bogart for the SITI Company production of Charles Mee’s Under Construction. Recent directing credits include “The Making of a Modern Folk Hero” (Red Tape’s Fresh Eyes Project) and “Dead Letters” (Collaboraction’s Sketchbook Festival).

Sarah Moeller (Producer) is a Collaboraction company member and Chicago-based director, dramaturg, producer and production manager.

She started at Collaboraction in Spring of 2006 and then stage managed

Sketchbooks 6, 7 and 8. She has production managed and produced Sketchbook’s 9, 10 and 11. At Collaboraction she project manages the Experience Design department and has production managed mainstage shows since 2007. Outside of Collaboraction she is also a company member at Eclipse Theatre Company where she has been the resident dramaturg since 2007, working on productions such as Bourbon on the Border, Plaza Suite, Blue Surge, Autumn Garden, and Resurrection Blues among others. She also directed Pearl Cleage’s A Song for Coretta and will be co-directing the upcoming Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace. At Eclipse she also serves on the Artistic Committee and curates the Playwright Scholar Series.

Seth Bockley (Director) is a Chicagobased playwright, director and performer. Credits include 1001 by Jason Grote, Jon -- winner of the 2008 Jeff Award for Best New Adaptation (Collaboraction); The Twins Would Like To Say (Dog & Pony); and Laika’s Coffin and Winter Pageant 2010 for Redmoon Theater, where he spent two years as a Directing Apprentice through TCG’s New Generations program. His musical February House, a collaboration with lyricist and composer Gabriel Kahane, premieres next spring at the Public Theater. In June he directed Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) for Clubbed Thumb’s SummerWorks series at HERE Arts Center. He is a member of the Goodman Theater’s Playwrights’ Unit and a recipient of the Goodman’s Ofner Prize.

This project is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Collaboraction also receives generous support from the Alphawood Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, the Saints Foundation, the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the City Arts Assistance Program, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

1001 by Jason Grote will continue at Collaboraction in the Flat Iron Arts Building located at 1575 N Milwaukee. Performances will run July 28th - August 28th, Thursday through Sunday with select Monday performances, at 8pm. For more information visit collaboraction.org or call our office at 312.226.9633.

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Beggars’ Banquet SAVE THE DATE annual Gala of Decadence and Debauchery Collaboraction’s 10th Annual

Beggars’ Banquet October 15, 2011

annual Galaspace of Decadence and Debauchery at Collaboraction’s in the Flat Iron Arts Building (1575 N Milwaukee) October 15, 2011 at Collaboraction’s space in the Flat Iron Arts Building Email info@collaboraction.org to join the host committee.

(1575 N Milwaukee)

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