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JOHN
CULBERT (Set
Designer) recently designed scenery for Court Theatre’s
The Romance Cycle and lighting for Hamlet. 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 and Fair Ladies at
a Game of Poem Cards, Serious Money, Candida, Electra, The Misanthrope,
and The Little Foxes at Court. Recent designs include Lyric Opera’s
production of Regina; Court Theatre’s Piano, The Learned Ladies,
The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband, and LaBête; Northlight
Theatre’s Sky Girls; the Goodman’s Trojan Women, Boy
Gets Girl, As You Like It, The Ties that Bind, and Pirate’s
Lullaby; the Lookingglass Theatre production of S/M and the About
Face Theatre production of Eleven Rooms of Proust. He designed lighting
for Akhnaten and Resurrection at Boston Lyric Opera and Death of
a Salesman for Singapore Repertory. He has designed productions
for the Cleveland Orchestra, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Playhouse 91,
Bristol Riverside Theatre, Colorado Opera Festival, Baton Rouge
Opera, and Southern Repertory. Other projects include the lighting
design for the Chicago Park District’s Buckingham Fountain
and Living Together, an exhibit at the Field Museum. Mr. Culbert
serves as the Dean of The Theatre School at DePaul University. |
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RACHEL
ANNE HEALY (Costume
Designer) is delighted to join the creative team for Guys and
Dolls, marking her debut at Court Theatre. Other design credits
include: selected plays for the Albee Festival and Lobby Hero at
the Goodman, numerous productions with Writers’ Theatre (most
recently the successful and simplistically elegant production of
Our Town) and several designs for Northlight Theatre including the
upcoming production of Lady Windermere’s Fan. Ms. Healy’s
designs have also been seen on stage at Steppenwolf, Milwaukee Rep,
Chicago Shakespeare, American Players Theatre, Peninsula Players
Theatre, Naked Eye, Rivendell, Next Theatre, American Theatre Co.,
Apple Tree, Organic Theater, as well as productions for Northwestern
University and Loyola University. Currently running and upcoming
productions include: My Own Stranger at Writers’ Theatre,
Far Away with Next Theatre, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
at Steppenwolf , and Twelfth Night produced by American Players
Theatre. Ms. Healy is currently serving as an adjunct professor
at DePaul University and Northwestern University where she teaches
Rendering for Stage Design. |
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MICHELLE
HABECK (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Thoroughly
Modern Millie, Projection Design (also National Tour & London)
Regional: Court Theatre (The Romance Cycle) Goodman Theatre (Lobby
Hero, The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t) Steppenwolf Theatre
(Ten Percent Of Molly Snyder) Indiana Repertory Theatre (Amber Waves,
LD) (An Almost Holy Picture, SD) The Swine Palace Repertory Theatre
(Waiting for Godot) Northlight Theatre (A Skull In Connemara) Chicago
credits include designs for: Lookingglass Theatre Company, Rivendell
Theatre Ensemble, Strawdog, Eclipse Theatre, Uffish Theatre, Irish
Repertory Theatre and The Chicago Field Museum. Associate Design:
The Boy From Oz (Broadway), Playing With Fire: Julie Taymor Museum
Exhibit, King Hedley II (Regional, Broadway), Gem Of The Ocean (Regional),
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Baily Circus Blue Group 2002.
Awards: 2002 Michael Merritt (Michael Maggio) Emerging Artist Award,
The 2002-2004 NEA/TCG CDP Grant for Designers, a Finishers Medal
for the 2003 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. Michelle holds an M.F.A.
in Lighting and Scenic Design from Northwestern University. |
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JOSHUA
HORVATH (Sound Designer) is proud to be
at Court after designing last seasons Romance Cycle, and running
sound for 14 productions. Other credits include: Winesburg, Ohio,
Jesus Hopped the A’ Train, Taking Care (Steppenwolf), Hannah
and Martin (Timeline), Nocturne (Naked Eye), Raising Voices and
Xena Lives (About Face), The Spitfire Grill , Dirty Blonde, and
Jammin with Pops (Apple Tree), Lost in Yonkers and Another Part
of the Forrest (Eclipse), They All Fall Down (Lookingglass), Polariod
Stories, Noises Off, Juluis Ceasar, Assassins (Depaul University),
Chidren of Eden and Life in the Theatre (Northwestern University),
States of Independence (Wright State University), Les Blancs (University
of Wisconsin). Associate Design: La Luna Muda and Secret in the
Wings (Lookingglass). Assistant Design: Bounce (Goodman). Film:
Stray Dogs and Pretty Ladies: the Super8explosion. Upcoming Projects
include: Tempest and Titus (Millwauke Shakespeare), Homebody/Kabul
(University of Wisconsin), Proof and Electricidad (Goodman), and
Fraulien Elsie (Court). Joshua is a production affiliate of Lookingglass
and teaches Sound Design at DePaul University. |
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RACHEL
SHTEIR
(Dramaturg) is the Head of Dramaturgy at the Theatre
School at DePaul University. Before coming to Chicago, she taught
at many conservatories and liberal arts institutions nationwide
including Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia,
the National Theatre Institute and Bates College. Dr. Shteir has
published widely in magazines and newspapers including The New
York Times, American Theatre, The Nation, Chicago Magazine, Chicago
Tribune, and Grit, Glamour, and the Grind, her book about the
history of striptease is forthcoming this year from Oxford University
Press. She is also a working dramaturg who has worked on Beaumarchais’
Marriage of Figaro at Target Margin Theatre in New York. Other
projects in Chicago include Dean Corrin’s Battle of the
Bands at Victory Gardens, Sister Carrie at Lookingglass, and Maria
Arndt at Steppenwolf. In addition, she has done work in New Media
and Dramaturgy at the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre in New
York City. There she created several projects dealing with the
avant-garde and new media and taught an interactive theatre course
to students at SUNY Binghamton. Dr. Shteir holds an MFA and a
DFA in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama and a B.A. from
the University of Chicago. |
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JACK
MAGAW
(Associate Scenic Design) is a Chicago-based designer and
is adjunct faculty at both DePaul and Loyola Universities. Most
recently, he designed scenery for A Raisin in the Sun at Studio
Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY as well as scenery for Steppenwolf
Theatre's production of Things Being What They Are and Pegasus Players'
Broadway Bound and Sunday in the Park with George for which he received
an After Dark Award and a Joseph Jefferson Citation nomination.
He also recently assisted John Culbert with designs for Court Theatre's
Cymbeline and Pericles and Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production
of Regina and designed scenery for Death of a Salesman and Cabaret
and lighting for Assassins at Loyola University in addition to scenery
for numerous productions at Victory Gardens Theater including Bluff
and Ariadne's Thread. Upcoming projects include The Fall to Earth
for Steppenwolf Theatre, Anyone Can Whistle for Pegasus Players,
Strictly Dishonorable for American Theatre Company and The Madwoman
of Chaillot for Loyola University. |
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MATT
HARDING (Dialect Coach) is pleased to be
returning to Court Theatre after leaving Chicago for two years to
serve as a Visiting Professor of Voice and Speech at Indiana University
in Bloomington. While at IU, Mr. Harding taught courses to both
graduates and undergraduates and coached over 20 productions for
the Department of Theatre and Drama and the affiliated Brown County
Playhouse where he had the pleasure of playing the “King”
in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. In Chicago, Matt coached Piano, Twelfth
Night, Hay Fever and the After Dark Award-winning The Invention
of Love for Court Theatre, the Jeff-Award winning Hard Times for
Lookingglass, Angels in America Parts I and II for Buffalo Theatre
Ensemble, The State of Mississippi, The Face of Emmett Till and
Broadway Bound for Pegasus Players, To Kill a Mockingbird, Away
with the Fairies, Traslations, and And Then They Came For Me. .
., for Northwestern University. Mr. Harding’s work has also
been heard in Four Dogs and a Bone, directed by Crispin Bonham Carter
at the Etcetera Theatre Club in London and a recent production of
Arcadia at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Mr. Harding holds a BFA
in Acting from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, an Advanced
Certificate in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and
Drama in London and a Masters in Theatre from Northwestern University.
He is a member of SAG, AFTRA, VASTA, and the sole proprietor of
VEI (Vocal Enhancement Instruction) under the auspices of which
he continues to coach actors, business people and public speakers.
Currently his work is also featured in Blue/Orange at Northlight. |
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