JOHN CULBERT (Scenic Designer) has recently designed lighting for the Court Theatre/ Redmoon Theatre production of Cyrano, the Goodman Theatre’s Hughie and scenery for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Regina and Court Theatre’s Guys and Dolls. 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 and Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, Serious Money, Candida, Electra, The Misanthrope, and The Little Foxes at Court Theatre. Recent designs include Court Theatre’s The Romance Cycle, Hamlet, Piano, The Learned Ladies, The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband, and La Bête; Northlight Theatre’s Sky Girls; the Goodman Theatre’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.

JAQUELINE FIRKINS (Costume Designer) designed costumes for the Court Theatre productions The Importance of Being Earnest and Fräulein Else. Other design work includes sets and/or costumes for Goodman Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Westport Playhouse, Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare Festival of Tulane, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brave New Repertory, About Face Theatre Company, and Yale School of Drama. Independent film design includes Now and Again and Morning Comes. Jacqueline is a Recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award and a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago.

MARCUS DOSHI (Lighting Designer) has collaborated with many leading American companies including Yale Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Milwaukee Shakespeare, California Shakespeare, Great River Shakespeare, Geva, Indiana Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Synapse Productions, The Civilians, Soho Rep, and The Lincoln Center Festival among many others. Mr. Doshi’s recent international work includes director Peter Sellar’s production of The Children of Heracles for the 2004 Wiener Festwochen & the Holland Festival 2004, the recent India tour of Thresh Dance Company’s Strings Unattached, and the Royal University of Fine Arts’(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) classical Khmer dance Samritechak for the 2003 Bienalle di Venezia. In 2001 Mr. Doshi was honored with the USITT Barbizon Award for Lighting Design. And, in 2003, he was chosen as a recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program. He holds degrees from Wabash College and Yale University School of Drama.

ANDRE J. PLUESS AND BEN SUSSMAN (Composers/ Sound Designers) are pleased to return to Court where they have designed over 15 productions, most recently Quartet. Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre (artistic associates), Victory Gardens (resident designers), About Face (Associate Artists), the Goodman, Steppenwolf, and many other Chicago theatres. Broadway credits include I am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. They have received 8 Joseph Jefferson Awards and Citations, an L.A. Ovation Award, a Drama Critics Circle Award and a Lortel nomination for composition and sound design. Some current projects include Intimate Apparel at Steppenwolf, The Clean House at Yale Rep, Silk and Floyd and Clea at the Goodman, Pericles for Washington D.C. Shakespeare, Lookingglass Alice for Lookingglass, One Arm with Tectonic/About Face, B.F.E. for Long Wharf, as well as the regional tours of The Secret in the Wings and I am My Own Wife.

JACK MAGAW (Associate Scenic Designer) works as a professional scenic and lighting designer and is currently adjunct faculty at DePaul University in Chicago. Recent design credits include Topdog/Underdog and Copenhagen at Madison Repertory Theatre, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Court Theatre, Kimberly Akimbo for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, A Raisin in the Sun at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY, Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of The Fall to Earth as well as The Subject Was Roses at Writers’ Theatre, Congo Square Theatre Company’s production of Black Nativity at the Goodman Theatre and Pegasus Players’ The Upper Room, Broadway Bound and Sunday in the Park with George for which he received an After Dark Award and Joseph Jefferson Citation nomination. In addition he has designed scenery for numerous productions at Victory Gardens Theater including Berlin 45, Bluff and Ariadne's Thread. He also assisted John Culbert with designs for Court Theatre’s Guys and Dolls and The Romance Cycle, and Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Regina. Upcoming projects include scenery for Rembrandt’s Gift at Madison Repertory Theatre and Seven Guitars for Congo Square Theatre Co.