The Mystery of Irma Vep

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).

JACK MAGAW works as a freelance scenic designer and also teaches design at The Theatre School at DePaul University.  Recent design credits include Wait Until Dark (Court Theatre), All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre), Evie’s Waltz (Geva Theatre), This Wonderful Life (Indiana Repertory), Radio Golf (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Winesburg, Ohio and A Flea in Her Ear (Kansas City Rep), Pure Confidence (Florida Studio Theatre), Souvenir (Skylight Opera Theatre), Four Places (Victory Gardens Theater), Better Late (Northlight Theatre), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Clarence Brown Theatre), and Picnic (Writers’ Theatre).  He received Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Picnic and Bus Stop (Writers’ Theatre), Fences (Court Theatre), and Seven Guitars (Congo Square).  Upcoming projects include Funny Girl (Drury Lane Oakbrook) and A Life (Northlight Theatre).

ALISON SIPLE is thrilled to be designing at Court for the first time. Recent projects: Fedra: Queen of Haiti (Lookingglass), Oedipus (The Hypocrites), Edward II and Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (Chicago Shakespeare), and The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo). Off Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre) and The 4th Graders Present an Unnammed Love Suicide (The Hypocrites at 59e59). Upcoming work includes Icarus (Lookingglass), No Exit (The Hypocrites), and A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf Theatre for Young Audiences). Alison won Jeff Citations for Time and the Conways (Griffin) and for Leonce und Lena (The Hypocrites) in 2005. She is an Associate Company Member of The Hypocrites and an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass. Check out her work at alisonsiple.com.

HEATHER GILBERT designed the lights for Honus and Me for Chicago Children’s Theatre at the Goodman Theatre and Court Theatre’s What the Butler Saw, both directed by Sean Graney.  Other designs of Ms. Gilbert’s have been seen on Chicago stages such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre, About Face Theatre, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, Organic Theater, Rivendell Theatre, the Gift Theatre, and many others.  Outside of Chicago Ms. Gilbert’s work has been seen in theatres from Singapore to Louisiana, New York to Los Angeles and Seattle.  She participated in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program.  In addition to her work as a lighting designer, Ms. Gilbert has designed for museums, architecture, and projection design for the theatre. She serves as the Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago. Upcoming collaborations include Hana’s Suitcase with Mr. Graney at Chicago Children’s Theatre in the spring.

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.

ELLEN HAY has had the pleasure of stage managing more than 20 productions at Court Theatre over the past decade.  Favorites include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Caroline, or Change, Arcadia, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Fair Lady, The Invention of Love, and Nora.  Other credits include work at the Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, and The Public Theater.

SARA GAMMAGE is always delighted to return to Court Theatre. Previous Court credits include The Mystery of Irma Vep, Guys and Dolls, Fräulein Else, Travesties, Man of La Mancha, Lettice and Lovage, Raisin, Flyin’ West, What the Butler Saw, The First Breeze of Summer, and Wait Until Dark. Other Chicago credits include Edward II at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Botanic Garden at the Greenhouse Theater, A Christmas Story at Theatre at the Center, Once Upon a Time in New Jersey at Marriot Theatre, 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. She recently finished another season at Peninsula Players Theatre in Door County, WI; credits there include Wait Until Dark, Is He Dead?, Rumors, and The Lady’s Not for Burning. Sara is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.