Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika

EDDIE BENNET has appeared at Court Theatre in The Wild Duck, Titus Andronicus, and Arcadia.  Chicago credits include: Mary (Goodman Theatre), War with the Newts (Next Theatre), Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Speech and Debate (American Theatre Company), and several productions in collaboration with The Building Stage.  Regional credits include work at Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Education: BA, Bard College; NTI/Moscow Art Theater.  Eddie is also an instructor at Black Box Acting.

MARY BETH FISHER has appeared at Court Theatre in Three Tall Women, The Year of Magical Thinking (Jeff Award), The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, Arcadia, Travesties, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other Chicago credits include: God of Carnage, The Seagull, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Clean House, Dinner with Friends, Heartbreak House, Spinning into Butter, Boy Gets Girl (Goodman Theatre); Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Dresser, The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Laramie Project: Epilogue, Little Dog Laughed, Theatre District (About Face Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). She has worked in regional theatres all over the country, most recently in Superior Donuts (Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles). NY credits include: Frank’s Home (Playwright's Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucile Lortel nominations), The Radical Mystique, By the Sea … (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout Theatre Company); Extremities (Westside Arts Theatre). TV/Film: Chicago Code, State of Romance, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, and Trauma. Ms. Fisher received the 2010 Chicago's Leading Lady Award from the Sarah Siddons Society. She is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

HEIDI KETTENRING has appeared at Court Theatre in Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Guys and Dolls (After Dark Award.)  Chicagoland credits: the Broadway in Chicago production of Wicked and work with Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writers’ Theatre, Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Evergreen Park, Theatre at the Center, and American Theatre Company.  Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Works in Palo Alto, Peninsula Players, and Bar Harbor Theatre.  Tour: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.  Heidi has also sung concerts with The Three Divas, the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Pensacola Symphony, and can be heard singing on a Disney Princess children’s book.  She is a five-time Jeff Award nominee, the recipient of the Sarah Siddons Chicago Leading Lady Award, and a proud graduate of Northwestern University.

ROB LINDLEY has been seen at Court Theatre in The Wild Duck, Caroline, or Change, and Carousel (Jeff nomination).  Rob has also been seen in Candide (Goodman Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC); Urinetown (Mercury Theatre); Wings (Apple Tree Theatre); A New Brain, Children of Eden, Closer Than Ever (Porchlight Music Theatre); Bach at Liepzig, Oh Coward! (Writers' Theatre).  Rob won a Jeff Award for Best Actor in a Revue for Oh Coward! and can be heard on the company's CD "Bright Young People".  Rob also produces/directs/hosts many gala concerts for organizations such as Court Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, and The Chicago Humanities Festival.  Rob is also an improviser, improv instructor, and cabaret performer.  His vocal trio Foiled Again has won an After Dark award and their debut CD Foiled Again: Live is available on iTunes and CDbaby.com.  Rob is married to Chicago musical director Doug Peck.

GEOFF PACKARD is making his Court Theatre debut. Credits include: Broadway – Rock of Ages, Phantom of the Opera; Chicago – Candide (Goodman Theatre – Jeff Award Best Actor); National tours – Wicked, Phantom of the Opera; Regional – Candide (Huntington Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre, DC – 2011 Helen Hayes Award Best Actor), Liberty Smith, Shenandoah (Ford’s Theatre), Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed Opera House.) Special thanks to his loving family back in NY, and his lovely wife Chelsea. To all those who have fought for love and acceptance.

MICHAEL POGUE is proud to return to Court Theatre. He debuted earlier this season in Spunk. His other credits include VENUS and Carter’s Way at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Radio Golf at Raven Theatre; Lobby Hero at Redtwist Theatre; Night and Day at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company; and Six Degrees of Separation at Eclipse Theatre Company. He deeply thanks his family, friends, colleagues, and mentors for their support.

HOLLIS RESNICK has appeared in over fifteen productions at Court Theatre including The Little Foxes, Titus Andronicus, Man of La Mancha, James Joyce’s “The Dead,” The Chairs, An Ideal Husband, and The Cherry Orchard. Recently she was seen in Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Candide (Goodman Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre, DC). Other credits include Light in the Piazza (Arena Stage, DC), A Streetcar Named Desire (Cleveland Play House), and The Guardsman (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta.) Chicago appearances include Grey Gardens (Northlight Theatre), Hairspray and Mame (Marriot Theatre Lincolnshire), and Rough Crossing (Writers’ Theatre.) National tours include Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. She has sung at the Ravinia Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Millennium Park, and many others. She is a ten-time Jeff award recipient, as well as two Sarah Siddons awards, the Helen Hayes award, the Connecticut Critics Circle award, and a 2012 recipient of the Lunt Fontanne Fellowship for regional actors. She wishes to thank Charlie and Court Theatre for this amazing opportunity. Visit her at www.hollisresnik.com.

LARRY YANDO returns to Court Theatre, where he has appeared in Fake, Travesties, An Ideal Husband, Ghosts, Electra, Measure for Measure, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Travels with My Aunt.  Other Chicago roles include Candide (Jeff Award Best Supporting Actor) and three years as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Defiant Theatre); The Two Noble Kinsmen, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, All’s Well That Ends Well, King Lear, Henry IV Parts I and II, Antony and Cleopatra, and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Mother Courage (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Bach at Leipzig, As You Like It, Nixon’s Nixon, and Rocket to the Moon (Writers’ Theatre); The Birthday Party and Eastern Standard (Apple Tree Theatre); I Hate Hamlet and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Royal George Theatre). Regional credits include Angels in America, Arcadia, and Amadeus (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Glengarry Glen Ross, Cloud Nine, Betrayal, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Burn This, I Hate Hamlet, and Private Lives (Madison Repertory Theatre.) He also performed as Scar in the national tour of The Lion King for three years. He was honored as Chicago magazine’s Best Actor in Chicago and received DePaul University’s prestigious Excellence in the Arts Award. Yando has taught advanced acting classes at The Theatre School at DePaul University, Northwestern University, Columbia College, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Classical Training Program. He was also chosen for the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, a widely acclaimed national program to serve regional theatre actors and the future of American theatre.