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Patricia Hodges

 

PATRICIA HODGES (Lettice) comes to Chicago from the Rep Theatre of St. Louis where she performed the role of Flora Humble in Humble Boy, a role she also played earlier this year at the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. Broadway credits include The Best Man, Design for Living, Dancing and Lughnasa, and Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway she took over for Mary Tyler Moore as Rose in Neil Simon’s Rose’s Dilemma at Manhattan Theatre Club and appeared in Communicating Doors and On the Verge. Pat also toured nationally with the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Carousel. Her regional credits include Maxine in Night of the Iguana at the Guthrie and ACT in Seattle, Three Tall Women, The Seagull, Light up the Sky, Woman in Mind, Hay Fever, Betrayal, The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing and many more. Film and TV credits include From Here to Where You’re Going, Maisie on Another World, Bunny on One Life to Live and a repeat offender on Law & Order. This is Patricia’s first appearance at Court Theatre.

Linda Reiter

LINDA REITER (Lotte) is excited to make her Court Theatre debut. She is an ensemble member of Shattered Globe Theatre where she was just seen as Bananas in House of Blue Leaves. Linda has garnered 6 Jeff citations for her performances with SGT. Some favorites include: Judgment at Nuremburg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All My Sons, Bondagers, and The Manchurian Candidate. Other Chicago credits include: Arcadia (Remy Bumppo), Marriage Play (Goodman Theatre’s Albee Festival), Flyovers and Immortal Imperatives (Victory Gardens), Cheri and Tall Ships (Live Bait).

John Judd
JOHN JUDD (Bardolph) last appeared at Court Theatre as Sir Edward Clarke in Gross Indecency. He was most recently seen in A Number at Next Theatre, Last of the Boys at Steppenwolf, Gagarin Way at A Red Orchid Theatre, and Orson’s Shadow at Barrow Street Theatre in New York. Other favorite roles include Roy Cohn in Angels in America with The Journeymen, Walter in The Price and Porfiry in Crime and Punishment at Writers’ Theatre, and BabbyBobby in The Cripple of Inishmaan at Northlight. Recent screen appearances include Prison Break on Fox TV, Batman Begins and the independent feature 5/25/77.
Linda Gillum
LINDA GILLUM (Framer) returns to Court Theatre after appearing in Fräulein Else. She is an Artistic Associate with Remy Bumppo Theatre where credits include Tartuffe, Aren’t We All, A Delicate Balance, Some Americans Abroad, Holiday, Top Girls and Man and Superman. Linda has worked with A Red Orchid, Mercury, Northlight, Roadworks, ShawChicago, Steppenwolf and Defiant Theatre (R.I.P.) and as a director for Defiant, Next, Noble Fool and Timberlake Playhouse. TV/Film credits include Early Edition, Haunted, Bruised Orange and Casting About.
Jamie Vann
JAMIE VANN (Surly Man) was recently in Bus Stop at Writers’ Theatre, Revenge of the Space Pandas at Goodman Theatre and Three Sisters at Strawdog Theatre. Other appearances include Next Theatre (Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer), Collaboraction (Life and Times... of Tulsa Lovechild, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message…), Vitalist Theatre (King Lear, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol), and several others, including Raven, Live Bait, Serendipity, Pegasus Players, Greasy Joan & co., WNEP, Buffalo Theatre, and Chicago Childrens’ Theatre.
TOURISTS/THE PUBLIC  Sam Undine, Sarah Fornace, Sarah Doe Osborne, Kit Novotny, Drew Dir, Deborah Munro, Victoria Bartley, David Goodloe, Matt Howard
 

STAGE MANAGEMENT

LESLEY ANNE STONE (Production Stage Manager) is based in Chicago. She toured with The Second City from Ohio to Hong Kong before landing at Chicago Opera Theater. Credits there include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Resurrezione, Il Viaggio a Reims, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Cosi fan Tutti, Semele, and Akhnaten. Outside of Chicago, she has worked with The Milwaukee Rep, The Dallas Opera, New Orleans Opera, and at the new Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. At the Fisher Center, she is proud to have stage managed JoAnne Akalaitis’ Phèdre and Orestes, as well as Janacek’s Osud, also directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. At Court Theatre, she has assistant stage managed Phèdre, The Sound of a Voice, and Man of La Mancha, and is happy to return this season to stage manage Lettice and Lovage.

  SARA GAMMAGE (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to return to Court Theatre where her previous credits include Guys and Dolls, Fräulein Else, Travesties and Man of LaMancha. Other Chicago credits include Dessa Rose and Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Apple Tree Theatre, the pre-broadway tryout of All Shook Up, Sink, Sank, Sunk with Redmoon Theater, The World Goes 'Round with LaRed Productions, and The Last Five Years with Syndicate Productions. Sara also spent two summers as the Stage Manger at the Wagon Wheel Theatre in Warsaw, Indiana. A proud graduate of Northwestern University.
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