BRIAN SIDNEY BEMBRIDGE

LINDA ROETHKE (Costume Designer) is pleased to be back at Court Theatre where she previously designed 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 of Design.

JOEL MORITZ (Lighting Designer) designed lights for Court's productions of Phèdre, The Chairs and My Fair Lady last season. He has designed for the stage in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and internationally. New York credits include Just As If directed by Andrei Belgrader, The Tempest (Judith Shakespeare Co.), and Lion in the Street (29th St. Rep). Here in Chicago, his work has appeared in Bee Luther Hatchee at Northlight Theater; This Is Our Youth and Disappeared at Roadworks and Steppenwolf; 28 and Her Name Was Danger at Lookingglass; Dealer's Choice, Ecstasy, Charles Mee's Orestes, The Lights (Jeff Nomination), and End of the Road (Jeff Nomination) with Roadworks Productions; Dream Boy (Jeff Award), A Home at the End of the World (Jeff Nomination), and In the Heart of America (Jeff Nomination) at About Face Theatre; Eleven Rooms of Proust (directed by Mary Zimmerman); Vices with Fox Theatricals; six productions with James Bohnen and Remy Bumppo; and Voice of Good Hope and Among Friends at Victory Gardens. Other credits include Ecstasy at The Odyssey in Los Angeles and selected works by Joe Pintaro at the Traverse Theatre and Boys Life at the Assembly Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland. Joel is a founding member of Roadworks Productions and a member of Cerqua Rivera Art Experience.

BRUCE HOLLAND (Sound Designer) is the Co-Founder of Center Stage Productions and has an extensive background in theatrical and corporate design and production management. Bruce and CSP design, technical direct and stage manage over 200 productions annually with a variety of clients including Intel, Kraft Foods, and Ford Motor Company. Bruce is happy to be returning to Court Theatre. His last sound design at Court was My Fair Lady this spring. Other Sound Design credits include: Putting It Together at Court Theatre; Thunder Knocking at the Door, The Glass House, Always...Patsy Cline, and Mark Twain and the Laughing River for Northlight Theatre; Genesis and Passion for Pegasus Players; and Kiss of the Spider Woman for Apple Tree. When Bruce is not in tech or on a plane traveling to the next show, he spends every possible moment with his wife Shelley and their eighteen month old daughter, Katie.

MARK HOWARD (Choreographer) is the Artistic Director of the acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company and the Founder of the World Champion Trinity Academy of Irish Dance. He has been crossing dance and cultural boundaries for nearly two decades. Mr. Howard continues to choreograph new works for the company and has expanded his independent career to work in theatre, television, concert and film. His earlier works include the Emmy Award-winning PBS Special, “World Stage,” ABC's “About Us: the Dignity of Children,” hosted by Oprah Winfrey, and most recently, the PBS Special, “One Step Beyond,” which features Howard and the company. Mr. Howard has done extensive film work for Disney, Touchstone, Universal and DreamWorks, working with directors such as Ron Howard and Sam Mendes. He recently choreographed scenes for Road to Perdition and became a personal dance coach for Tom Hanks. Howard was a regular guest on “Late Night with Johnny Carson” and “Jay Leno.” Other television credits include “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” “Live with Regis,” “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning.” His choreography has also been featured at Chicago's Goodman and Steppenwolf Theatres and has led to numerous Choreographer's Fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts