LUCY SMITH CONROY (Director) Court Theatre: Hamlet and The Little Foxes (Associate Director); Resident Dramaturg (1998-99 Season). Regional: Arcadia (Portland Stage Company); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Theater at Monmouth). New York: All's Well That Ends…Well; Lying; Life is a Dream; Peer Gynt 1:16:19; Certain Things, Which I Will Call Sacred (The Lovers' Project); The Rover; tea and text for six women; The Raven; Josephine the Songstress; and Destroy, She Said. Lucy is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA Directing Program, where she studied with Anne Bogart and Robert Woodruff and was the recipient of the 1999-2001 Bingham Fellowship. She is a founding member of blessed unrest, an NYC-based theatre company.

LENA BRODERSEN (Assistant Director) is thrilled to work on this production at Court Theatre. She is a recent graduate of Bard College where she studied with JoAnne Akalaitis. Lena assistant directed Wir Richten Sharf und Herzlich: a history of political German Cabaret, at the Bad Vilbel Burgfestspiele. Here in Chicago she has worked as stage crew with Collaboraction, and teaches with CircEsteem: Chicago’s Youth Circus.