JOHN CULBERT (Scenic Designer) recently designed scenery for Court Theatre’s productions of Man of La Mancha and Travesties, Rigoletto for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Regina and lighting for Chicago Children’s Theatre’s A Year with Frog and Toad, Goodman Theatre’s Hughie and Court/Redmoon Theatre’s Cyrano. 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 Guys and Dolls, The Romance Cycle, Hamlet and Piano; Northlight Theatre’s Sky Girls; Goodman Theatre’s Trojan Women and Boy Gets Girl; the Lookingglass Theatre production of S/M and the About Face Theatre production of Eleven Rooms of Proust. He has designed productions for the Singapore Repertory, Boston Lyric Opera, 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.

MARC STUBBLEFILED (Lighting Designer/ Director of Production) makes his Chicago design debut at Court Theatre. Prior to joining the Court Production staff five seasons ago, Marc designed throughout the country, including Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well in Los Angeles and Mozart’s Secret Marriage in Houston. Marc has a BA from Rice University and an MFA in Design and Production Management from UCLA.

NAN CIBULA-JENKINS (Costume Designer) is delighted to be back designing at the Court Theatre where she previously designed My Fair Lady, The Misanthrope and The Piano. Other credits in Chicago include costume design for The Goat, Dinner with Friends, Wit, Boy Gets Girl, All the Rage, Arcadia, Riverview, Romeo and Juliet, Sunday in the Park with George, Glengarry Glen Ross (at the Goodman Theatre); The Dresser, TopDog UnderDog, Glengarry Glen Ross, Molly Sweeney, Death and the Maiden, (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Tempest, Anthony and Cleopatra, Much Ado about Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Regional Credits include work at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre in Princeton, Hartford Stage, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Public Theatre, ACT Seattle, Manhattan Theatre Club and Arena Stage. Film credits include David Mamet’s House of Games, Things Change, and Homicide. Ms Cibula-Jenkins is a recipient of the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration. She is head of the costume design program at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

ANDRE PLUESS and BEN SUSSMAN (Composers/Sound Designers) have designed over 20 shows at Court. Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre (artistic associates), Victory Gardens (resident designers), About Face Theatre (associate artists), the Goodman, Steppenwolf and many other Chicago and regional theaters. Broadway credits: I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. Awards: nine Joseph Jefferson Awards and Citations, an L.A. Ovation Award, a Drama Critics Circle Award and a Lortel nomination for composition and sound design. Recent design credits include Steppenwolf’s After the Quake; Goodman Theatre’s Silk; The Shakespeare Theatre and Goodman Theatre’s Pericles; Berkeley Repertory’s Honour; Long Wharf Theatre and Playwrights Horizons’BFE; Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Lady Windemere’s Fan; Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory and McCarter Theatre’s The Secret in the Wings; Yale Repertory’s The Clean House and Arena Stage’s The Passion Play Trilogy. Their musical Winesburg, Ohio, which premiered at Steppenwolf, was produced by the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia this past fall.