JOHN CULBERT (Scenic Designer) designed lights for Court's recent production of Hamlet and scenery for My Fair Lady. He received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his lighting design for Court's production of The Triumph of Love. He has also received Jeff nominations for Mirror of the Invisible World at the Goodman Theatre, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, Serious Money, Candida, Electra, The Misanthrope, and The Little Foxes at Court Theatre. Recent designs include Opera National du Rhin's (Strasbourg) Akhnaten; Court Theatre's Piano, The Learned Ladies,The Cherry Orchard and An Ideal Husband; Northlight Theatre's Sky Girls; Goodman's Boy Gets Girl, and As You Like It; and Lookingglass Theatre's Eleven Rooms of Proust. He has designed productions for the Boston Lyric Opera, Singapore Repertory, Cleveland Orchestra, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Playhouse 91, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Opera Delaware, Colorado Opera Festival, Baton Rouge Opera, and Southern Repertory. Other projects include the lighting design for the Chicago Park District's Buckingham Fountain and Grant Park Sculptures and Living Together, an exhibit at the Field Museum. Mr. Culbert serves as Dean of The Theatre School of DePaul University.

MICHELLE HABECK (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Projection Design. Regional: Lobby Hero, The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t at The Goodman Theatre; Ten Percent Of Molly Snyder at Steppenwolf Theatre; Amber Waves (Lighting Design), An Almost Holy Picture (Scenic Design) at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Waiting for Godot at The Swine Palace Repertory Theatre. Chicago: Faulkner’s Bicycle, Indulgences In The Louisville Harem at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble; A Skull In Connemara at Northlight Theatre; They All Fall Down, The Richard Nickle Story with Lookingglass Theatre. Other Chicago productions include Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, By The Bog of Cats, Egyptian Ratscrew, Alcestis, The Lark, Sounds From The Vaults at The Chicago Field Museum. Associate Design credits include: Playing With Fire: The Julie Taymor National Museum Exhibit, The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Group 2002 and The Earth Center Gallery Interactive Multi-Media Environmental Museum, King Hedley II (Regional and Broadway 2001). Michelle is the 2002 recipient of the Michael Merritt (Michael Maggio) Emerging Artist Award and The 2002-2004 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Grant for Designers. Michelle holds an MFA in Design from Northwestern University.

JOSHUA HORVATH (Sound Designer) is pleased to back at the Court Theatre where he was the sound engineer for fifteen shows. Sound design credits include Taking Care, Winesburg,Ohio and Jesus Hopped the A' Train (Steppenwolf), They All Fall Down (Lookingglass), Wizard of Oz (Chicago Shakespeare), Nocturne (Naked Eye), Xena Live: Xena Lives: The Musical and Raising Voices (About Face). Josh is a production affiliate with Lookingglass Theatre. He also teaches Sound Design and Technology at DePaul University. Josh composed the music for the feature length film Stray Dogs and the short film Pretty Ladies: the Super8explosion.

LINDSAY JONES (Sound Designer) - A composer/sound designer for theatre and film based in both Chicago and Los Angeles, Lindsay is glad to be returning to Court where he has also designed The Chairs and Gross Indecency. Off-Broadway credits include Beautiful Thing at the Cherry Lane Theatre and Closet Land at New York Performance Works. Regional credits include Old Globe, Alliance, Steppenwolf, Meadowbrook, The Juilliard School, Indiana Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, Geva, Chicago Shakespeare, American Players, Northlight and Human Race Theatres as well as many others. Current and upcoming shows include Intimate Apparel at Center Stage and South Coast Repertory, Once In A Lifetime at People’s Light and Theatre, O Jerusalem at The Flea, Dinner With Friends at Goodman, and 3 shows at Utah Shakespeare Festival. In the last four years, Lindsay has received 2 Joseph Jefferson Awards and 7 nominations for his work in Chicago theatre as well as the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Lindsay and his wife Jamie Pachino are currently writing their first musical Hubbin’ It: On The Road with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys which will premiere in Chicago with Roadworks Productions in September 2003. Their much more exciting collaboration, however, is the recent birth of their first child, Huck.

JACK K. MAGAW (Associate Scenic Design) works as a freelance designer and is currently adjunct faculty at both DePaul University and Loyola University. Most recently, he designed scenery for Pegasus Players' nationally acclaimed production of Sunday in the Park with George for which he received an After Dark Award as well as scenery for The Waverly Gallery and Muscle. He has also designed scenery for Death of a Salesman, Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet at Loyola University, scenery and lighting for the City Lit Theatre productions of The Vagabond and The Turn of The Screw, and scenery for numerous productions at Victory Gardens Theater including Rain, River, Ice, Steam, Bluff and Ariadne's Thread. Jack also works extensively in commercial and graphic design. He has produced artwork and designs for clients such as Anheuser-Busch, Ford Motor Company, Jose Cuervo, and the Chicago Tribune among others. In addition, he has designed posters and other promotional material for several Chicago theatres. Upcoming projects include Things Being What They Are at Steppenwolf Theatre, Angels in America at Barat College and The One-Eyed Man is King at Pegasus Players.

ANDRE PLUESS (Sound Designer) has designed 14 plays at Court, most recently Phèdre and Hamlet. The Romance Cycle is his ninth production with Charles Newell. Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre (Artistic associate), Victory Gardens (resident designer), Roadworks (ensemble), About Face (associate artist), Steppenwolf, Northlight, 7 Stages in Atlanta, Mark Taper Forum and Odyssey Theatres in L.A., Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertpry, and the New York Drama League. His design for Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses recently closed after a successful run on Broadway. He has received four Joseph Jefferson Citations, a Jeff Award, seven Jeff nominations, an L.A. Ovation Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for music and sound. Some upcoming projects include Trojan Women at the Goodman, Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare and Race with Lookingglass. He is thrilled to be working with old pals, Josh and Lindsay.

LINDA ROETHKE (Costume Designer) designed costumes for The Court's recent production of James Joyce’s The Dead, and is pleased to be back. Linda has also designed costumes for the Court's productions of Hay Fever, The Little Foxes, Old Times, On the Verge and An Ideal Husband, for which she won a Jeff Award. Her regional theatre credits include Proof, Spinning into Butter, Shadowlands, How I Learned to Drive, and A Beast on the Moon (Alliance Theatre); Description Beggared or An Allegory of Whiteness, A Wonderful World, and Quake (ATL); Proof and Spinning into Butter (The Reperatory Theatre of St Louis); A Flea in Her Ear and Cymbeline (Utah Shakespeare Festival); A Pirate's Lullaby and Schoolgirl Figure (Goodman Theatre). Linda has directed workshops in costume design, drawing, and rendering internationally, and is currently serving as Director of M.F.A. Studies in Design at Northwestern University, were she is an Associate Professor.