GREGORY ANDERSON (Gus/Augustus Coverly) makes his Court debut with Arcadia. Chicago credits include Oklahoma! with American Theater Company, Power and The Best Man with Remy Bumppo, Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged) with Noble Fool, and Three Days of Rain with Actors Revolution Theatre. He is a graduate of Duke University’s Department of Theater Studies.

CASSANDRA BISSELL (Chloë Coverly) returns to Court having previously played Ophelia in Hamlet. Other credits: King John, The Tempest, Richard II, and Short Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Memory House (Victory Gardens and Actors’ Theatre of Louisville 2005 Humana Festival); In the Blood and Measure for Measure (Next Theatre); A Man for All Seasons, Caught in the Net, Proof, Red Herring and Tom, Dick and Harry (Peninsula Players); Romeo and Juliet (NEA Shakespeare in American Communities tour.) Cassandra holds a BA in Gender Studies from the University of Chicago.

BETHANY CAPUTO’s (Thomasina Coverly) recent Chicago credits include Jessica in The Merchant of Venice at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Mamet Festival “Daughters, Sisters, and Mothers” at the Goodman Theatre, Echo in Eleemosynary at Victory Gardens, and Annie in the premiere of Transference at the Mercury Theatre. Other regional credits include the premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood at Arena Stage, Miss Y in The Stronger at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, Maggie in Painting Churches with the Actors’ Ensemble, and she appeared in a documentary about the teachings of Michael Chekhov produced by the Michael Chekhov Association and partially funded by the National Endowment of the Arts.

JONATHAN ELIOT (Jellaby) graduated from the National Theatre School in Montreal and is now at work on a PhD at the University of Chicago. Acting credits include After the Harvest, CTV, and Pericles for Festival of Classics, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Canstage, and Harker in Dracula for MTC/Theatre Calgary. He wrote and acted in the narrative feature Crime Fiction which had its world premiere at Slamdance this year. He is delighted to be working with Court Theatre.

MARY BETH FISHER (Hannah Jarvis) returns to Court where she appeared in The Glass Menagerie, Travesties, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other Chicago credits include: Frank’s Home, The Clean House, Heartbreak House, Dinner With Friends, The Rose Tatoo, The Guys, Boy Gets Girl, Spinning Into Butter, Marvin’s Room, Design for Living, Light Up the Sky, The Night of the Iguana (Goodman), The Dresser, The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf), Away (Northlight), Theatre District (About Face), and My Own Stranger (Writer’s). NY credits include: Frank’s Home (Playwrights Horizons), Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), The Radical Mystique, By the Sea... (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout), and Extremeties (Westside Arts). Ms. Fisher has worked in regional theatres all over the country, most recently as Goneril in King Lear at Milwaukee Rep. TV & Film: Without a Trace, Numb3rs, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Turks, To Have & To Hold, Dragonfly, Trauma, and the award-winning short film Safe Storage.

RAYMOND FOX (Ezra Chater) is delighted to return to Court Theatre where he previously appeared in Henry IV and The Invention of Love. He recently performed in The Wooden Breeks at Lookingglass Theatre where he is an ensemble member. Broadway/Off Broadway: Metamorphoses (Second Stage and Circle in the Square). Regional: Goodman Theatre, Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep., Indiana Rep., Meadow Brook Theatre, Kansas City Rep., Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Next Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Mark Taper Forum, Arden Theatre, American Repertory Theatre and Canada’s Stratford Festival.

KATE FRY (Lady Croom) is happy to be returning to Court Theatre where she has performed in The Romance Cycle, My Fair Lady (Jeff award, After Dark Award), Twelfth Night, Piano, The Learned Ladies, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband, Tartuffe, The Philadelphia Story, and The Barber of Seville. Other Chicago productions include work with Chicago Shakespeare (Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, The Moliere Comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labor’s Lost, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Apple Tree Theatre (Uncle Vanya, Pygmalion, Kindertransport, Falsettos), Marriott Theatre (Oliver!, Guys and Dolls), Candlelight Playhouse, and Roadworks Productions. Regionally, she has worked at The Mark Taper Forum, the McCarter Theatre Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Streetsigns Productions. She is the recipient of the Sarah Siddons Chicago’s Leading Lady award. Kate is married to actor Timothy Edward Kane.

KEITH D. GALLAGHER (Capt. Brice) comes to Chicago from Catonsville, MD. He trained at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and was recently seen in Stoppard’s The Real Thing produced by Remy Bumppo Theatre at Victory Gardens’ Green House (the old building). Keith is thrilled to be making his first appearance at Court Theatre and hopes that everyone is just as thrilled to see him. Thanks to all for coming.

GRANT GOODMAN (Septimus Hodge) is thrilled to make his Court debut with Arcadia. He most recently appeared in Chicago in The Two Noble Kinsmen at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. New York credits include: King Lear and The Iliad (Lincoln Center), Pericles (The Culture Project), and The Three Sisters (Chekhov Now International Festival), among others. Regional credits include extensive work with such theatres as Yale Repertory, PlayMaker’s Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Syracuse Stage, Tennessee Rep, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Milwaukee Shakespeare Festival, The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Aquila Theatre Company of London, The Centennial Theatre Festival, and Stonington Opera among others. Film & Television: As the World Turns, Sex & the City, Sleepers, and Falling From Grace. Training: NYU. This summer, Mr. Goodman will appear as Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts I & II in San Francisco.

DOMINIC GREEN (Richard Noakes) is an English actor, who recently moved to Chicago from London. His theatre credits there include Macbeth and Hamlet (English Shakespeare Company), Sweet Love Remember’d (The Globe), The Wind In The Willows (Bristol Old Vic and the West Yorkshire Playhouse), and The Merchant Of Venice (Kiklos Teatro). In Chicago, understudy in A Young Lady From Rwanda (Victory Gardens), Caravaggio (Silk Road), and The Permanent Way (New Leaf). Television credits include The Bill (Thames TV), New Beginnings and Dead End (Channel 4).

ERIK HELLMAN (Valentine Coverly) is thrilled to be making his first appearance at Court Theatre. Most recent credits include Huck Finn at Steppenwolf, Feast at Chicago Dramatists, Hatfield and McCoy at the House, Tartuffe with Remy Bumppo and New Orleans at the Side Project. Erik has also performed in Chicago with Oak Park Shakespeare and Off-Broadway with The Mirror Repertory. Erik is a member of DOG: a theatre company, A Crew of Patches, and Strawdog Theatre Company were he appeared in Three Sisters (After Dark Award: Best Ensemble), Impossible Marriage (Jerff Nomination: Best Supporting Actor), and Puntila and his Man Matti. Erik is a Denver native and a graduate of Northwestern University.

KEVIN McKILLIP (Bernard Nightingale) makes his Court debut. His credits include: The Story at Goodman Theatre; Intimate Apparel and The Story at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Hamlet (title role) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jeff Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Puck) at Fist Folio Shakespeare Festival; and Early and Often and Ghetto (Jeff Award - Best Production) at Famous Door Theatre. At The Stratford Festival of Canada, he appeared in Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra, and was the recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Award. Other Credits include Peninsula Players Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, ShawChicago, and American Players Theatre.

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