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 lives in Chicago and teaches design at both DePaul and Northwestern Universities. He most recently designed Sizwe Banzi is Dead for Court Theatre. Other recent Chicago and regional theatre credits include A Life and Lowdown Dirty Blues (Northlight Theatre), Heroes (Peninsula Players Theatre), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Court Theatre), Funny Girl (Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre), Mauritius (TheatreSquared), She Loves Me, The Old Settler, and Picnic (Writers’ Theatre), All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre), Evie’s Waltz (Geva Theatre), This Wonderful Life (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Radio Golf (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Winesburg, Ohio and A Flea in Her Ear (Kansas City Repertory), Four Places (Victory Gardens Theater), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Clarence Brown Theatre). He received Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Picnic and Bus Stop (Writers’ Theatre), Fences (Court Theatre), and Seven Guitars (Congo Square Theatre). Upcoming projects include Madagascar (Next Theatre) and Eclipsed (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 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.

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 delighted to return to Court Theatre. Previous Court Theatre credits include Flyin’ West, What the Butler Saw, The First Breeze of Summer, Wait Until Dark, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Illusion, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Home, Orlando, Porgy and Bess, Spunk, and An Iliad. Other Chicago credits include productions with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Greenhouse Theater, Theatre at the Center, Marriot Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, and Redmoon Theater. She spent several seasons at Peninsula Players Theatre in Door Country, WI; credits there include A Little Night Music, Comic Potential, Wait Until Dark, Is He Dead?, Rumors, and The Lady’s Not for Burning. Sara is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.