The Comedy of Errors

SEAN GRANEY previously directed The Mystery of Irma Vep and What the Butler Saw at Court Theatre. He is the Artistic Director/Founder of The Hypocrites, for which he has directed over 30 productions. He was a participant in NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Directors 2004/06, and has won two Joseph Jefferson Citations. Other credits include Edward II (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Hundred Dresses (Chicago Children’s Theatre), and The Hairy Ape (Goodman Theatre).

TOM BURCH is thrilled to return to Court following last year’s The Comedy of Errors. Other Chicago credits include Talking Pictures and Gas for Less (Goodman Theatre); Souvenir and Civil War Christmas (Northlight Theatre); No Exit, Frankenstein, and Hairy Ape (The Hypocrites); as well as shows for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Next Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, and many others. Regional credits include Mistakes Were Made (off-Broadway, Barrow St. Theatre), Sense and Sensibility (Actors Theatre Louisville), and shows at Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, Peninsula Players, and others. He’s the recipient of four Jeff nominations (one win), and three After Dark Awards. Upcoming projects include shows for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Hypocrites, and Northlight. His work can be seen online at www.tomburch.com.

JACQUELINE FIRKINS is pleased to return for her seventh season at Court Theatre. She also designed costumes for last season’s production of Porgy and Bess. Design work includes: sets and/or costumes for Victory Gardens Theater, TimeLine Theatre Company, House Theatre of Chicago, Marin Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Westport Playhouse, Shakespeare & Company, Shakespeare Festival of Tulane, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brave New Repertory, About Face Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Yale School of Drama, and Dorset Theatre Festival. Jacqueline is a recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award and heads the design program at Loyola University Chicago.

HEATHER GILBERT previously designed The Comedy of Errors, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and What the Butler Saw for Sean Graney at Court Theatre. Recent designs include A Streetcar Named Desire and The Old Settler at Writers’ Theatre, Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York and with the Hypocrites in Chicago, and The Hundred Dresses with Chicago Children’s Theatre. Her work as a lighting designer has been seen on many other Chicago stages including Steppenwolf Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Timeline Theatre, About Face Theatre, and countless storefronts all over the city. Heather was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Grant. Heather serves as the Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago, and received her MFA at the Theatre School at DePaul.

MICHAEL GRIGGS's Chicago credits include Dave DaVinci Saves The Universe (Jeff Nominated), The Sparrow (Jeff Nominated), San Valentino and the Melancholy Kid, The Curse of the Crying Heart, Valentine Victorious (Jeff Nominated), Cave With Man, The Boy Detective Fails, Hope Springs Infernal (Jeff Nominated), The Wizard of Oz, and Hatfield & McCoy with The House Theatre of Chicago; Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (Jeff Citation), Mud, Threepenny Opera, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Miss Julie, True West, The Bald Soprano, and Death of a Salesman with The Hypocrites; Argonautika (Jeff Nominated), Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten (Jeff Nominated), The Brothers Karamazov, and The Wooden Breeks with Lookingglass Theatre; Ghostwritten (Jeff Nominated) with Goodman Theatre; Sonia Flew with Steppenwolf Theatre; Honus and Me and The Hundred Dresses with Chicago Children’s Theater; A View From The Bridge with American Theater Company; Edward II with Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Po Boy Tango with Northlight Theatre; La Posada Magica with Teatro Vista; Puntila and His Man Matti with Strawdog Theatre; Pyrates and Dracula with Defiant Theatre; and Water with Chicago Dramatists.  Michael is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and a proud company member of The House Theatre of Chicago and The Hypocrites.

WILLIAM COLLINS (Stage Manager) Past shows at Court Theatre include: Three Tall Women, The Comedy of Errors, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Illusion, Thyestes, Arcadia, Uncle Vanya, Carousel, and most recently, Porgy and Bess. William has also worked with Redmoon Theater (Sink. Sank. Sunk …, The Cabinet), Peninsula Players Theatre, About Face Theatre, The Neofuturists, Goodman Theatre, and Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre.