JACK MAGAW (Scenic Designer) works as a professional scenic and lighting designer and is currently adjunct faculty at DePaul University in Chicago. Recent design credits include Loving Repeating directed by Frank Galati for About Face Theatre, Our Town and Topdog/Underdog at Madison Repertory Theatre, Fences and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Court Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of The Fall to Earth as well as The Chosen and Bus Stop at Writers’ Theatre, Two Trains Running for Pegasus Players and Grace at Northlight Theatre. He received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination and a Black Theatre Alliance Award for his design of Congo Square Theatre’s production of Seven Guitars and an Outstanding Season After Dark Award in recognition of his work over the 2004-05 season. Upcoming projects include Much Ado About Nothing for Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre, The Illusion at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Julius Caesar for Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

DIANE D. FAIRCHILD (Lighting Designer) is excited to be working with the wonderful staff at the Court again. Previous shows at Court are 2005's Endgame and 2002's Scapin. Design credits: Chicago: Next, Redmoon, Noble Fool; NYC: The Juilliard School, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Joyce Soho, HERE, New Georges; Regional: Intiman Theatre, Trinity Repertory, Syracuse Stage. Diane is also a proud member of Infamous Commonwealth Theatre where she has designed My Thing of Love and The Kentucky Cycle. Ms. Fairchild holds an M.F.A. in theater design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and she earned her B.F.A. in design and technology for the theater from Wright State University in her native, Dayton, Ohio. Love to F.L. and B.S.

JACQUELINE FIRKINS (Costume Designer) designed costumes for the Court Theatre productions of Man of La Mancha, Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest and Fräulein Else. Other design work includes sets and/or costumes for the 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.

RAY NARDELLI (Composer/Sound Designer) Past Court Credits include Fences, Man of La Mancha, Endgame, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Fräulien Else (Jeff Nomination). Ray has composed music and designed sound at the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens, The Gift Theatre, Northwestern Theatre, Depaul Theatre, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, Meadow Brook Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Dolphinback Theatre, American Girl Theatre, Skylight Opera, and Wright State University Theatre. Assistant Sound Design credits at Goodman, Steppenwolf, Manhattan Theatre Club and Next Theatre. Ray has recorded, mixed and produced CD’s for the musicals The Sound of One, Hillbilly Antigone and La Luna Muda. Film credits include Stray Dogs, Pretty Ladies, and Crush. Ray teaches sound design at DePaul University. Other work includes sound and music used on NPR, PBS, NBC’s The Today Show and Jeff Gorden Racing, a CD-ROM game. Memberships include ASCAP, IATSE #2. and USA #829.

JOSHUA HORVATH (Composer/Sound Designer) Court credits: The Romance Cycle, Guys and Dolls, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Fraullien Else, Man of La Mancha, and Fences. Chicago credits: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Next, Congo Square, and Timeline. Regional credits: Madison Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Shakespeare, The Alley, Kennedy Center, Kirk Douglas Theatre, and the Robey Theatre (LA). Film compostion: Stray Dogs and Pretty Ladies: the Super8explosion. Recent and upcoming shows: The Trip To Bountiful (Kansas City Rep), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Goodman), Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet (Great River Shakespeare). Joshua has been nominated for three Joseph Jefferson awards and received one (Electricidad, Goodman Theatre), and has been nominated for an LA Weekly award. Mr. Horvath is a company member of Lookingglass, teaches sound design at DePaul University, and is cofounder and owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC.