JOHN DALTON (Set Designer) has worked at many prestigious stages around town, such as Lookingglass, Steppenwolf, About Face, the Piven Theater, and Remy Bumppo; as an exhibition designer he has worked in Millennium Park, The Field Museum, The Kohl’s Children’s Museum, and the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse. He is thrilled to be working for Court Theatre for the first time, and is humbled by the talent, artistic integrity, and creative spirit of his fellow artists he has joined here. He hopes to work with them again in the future. John is currently working as a freelance designer, serving many different media and venues; he lives in Evanston with his daughter.

JACQUELINE FIRKINS (Costume Designer) previously designed at Court Theatre for Lettice & Lovage, 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, 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 heads the design program at Loyola University Chicago.

MARK McCULLOUGH (Lighting Designer) previously designed lighting at Court Theatre for last season’s Man of La Mancha. He has worked extensively throughout the United States and abroad for theatre and opera. Theatre credits include numerous regional theatre productions as well as Jesus Christ Superstar (on Broadway and for the U.K. and U.S. tours); Whistle Down the Wind at London’s Aldwych Theatre; Aladdin (Hyperion Theatre in Disney’s California Adventure Park) and many Off-Broadway productions including Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home and How I Learned to Drive; Lobby Hero and This Is Our Youth. He has designed lighting for Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro at Metropolitan Opera; for Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades at Royal Opera Covent Garden; for Wagner’s Walküre at Washington Opera; for Shostakovich’s The Nose at Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and for productions at New York City Opera; L’Opéra de Montréal; Boston Lyric Opera; San Francisco Opera; Dallas Opera; Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Glimmerglass Opera, among others. His work abroad includes lighting designs for Opéra National du Rhin; Opera North;Teatro di San Carlo and several productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Gate Theatre in Ireland.

JOSH HORVATH (Sound Designer) Court: Lettice and Lovage, Fences, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Fräulein Else, The Romance Cycle. Chicago: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Chicago Shakespeare, About Face, Lookingglass, Congo Square, Next, Timeline, and Shattered Globe. Regional: Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, Madison Rep, Hartford Stage, Robey Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Kansas City Rep, the Kennedy Center, and Great River Shakespeare. Film: Pretty Ladies: The Super8explosion and Stray Dogs. Awards and affiliations: one Jeff award and three nominations, LA weekly nominee, Lookingglass production affiliate, co-owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC, and teaches at DePaul University. Recent and upcoming shows: Clay (About Face), Joe Turner, Black Nativity (Congo Square), Miss Witherspoon (Next), Flyin’ West, Arcadia (Court), and Man of La Mancha (Long Wharf).

RAY NARDELLI (Sound Designer) Past Court Credits include Lettice and Lovage, Fences, Man of La Mancha, Endgame, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Fräulein Else (Jeff Nomination). Ray has composed music and designed sound at 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 CDs 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.

KENNY INGRAM (Movement Coach) previously choreographed Candide for Court Theatre and is very happy to be back for Raisin with Charlie. Kenny won a Jeff Award for Best Chroeography for 42nd Street at Marriott Theatre, and a Black Alliance Award for his work in Dreamgirls at Marriott Theatre. His choreography has been seen in Nomathemba (Steppenwolf), I am a Man (Goodman), Dreamgirls (Papermill Playhouse), There is a Garden (Chicago Opera Theatre), and Gypsy (Marriott). Mr. Ingram directed and choreographed Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Chicago Shakespeare. He was Assistant Resident Director for Hal Prince’s Showboat at the Auditorium Theatre, and he served as Dance Captain for Susan Stroman. Kenny choreographed a dance segment for ABC’s What About Joan for Joan Cusack. He has set choreography for Stephanie Mills, Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo. Kenny teaches jazz dance classes at Ruth Page Foundation.

JOCELYN PRINCE (Dramaturg) is a Chicago-based theater practitioner and writer. She is delighted to return to Court Theatre after Assistant Directing its recent production of Fences by August Wilson.  Dramaturgy credits include: The MLK Project at Writers’ Theatre; My Juilliard, Kingdom and Eyes at eta Creative Arts Foundation; Teibele and Her Demon at European Repertory Company, Daughters of the Mock, Spunk, King of Coons and The House That Jack Built at Congo Square Theatre; and Intimate Apparel at Steppenwolf Theatre. Jocelyn currently appears in Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks with The Mill Theater Company at the Athenaeum. She also Assistant Directs Steppenwolf’s The Bluest Eye, adapted by Lydia R. Diamond, which will travel Off-Broadway to the New Victory Theater this fall. Jocelyn is an MA/PHD student in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). She is a freelance contributor to TimeOut Chicago magazine. She thanks Vanessa and derekdion for their continued love and support.