The Wild Duck

JOHN REEGER has appeared in over 30 Court Theatre productions, having most recently portrayed Werle in The Wild Duck. Favorite Court roles include Gabriel Conroy in James Joyce’s "The Dead," Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady, and Ben Hubbard in The Little Foxes. Recent credits include Christopher Belling in Curtains at Drury Lane Oakbrook, Julian Marsh in 42nd Street and Thénardier in Les Misérables at the Fulton Opera House, and Amadeus and Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

JAY WHITTAKER returns to Court where he has appeared in The Glass Menagerie as Tom, James Joyce in Travesties, Christian in Cyrano (co-production with Redmoon Theatre), and Iachimo in Cymbeline and Antiachus/The Bawd in Pericles for The Romance Cycle. Most recently Jay was seen as Ian in Shining City at the Goodman Theatre and the Huntington Theatre Company, and prior to that he appeared in two Christopher Marlowe plays at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. In New York Jay appeared Off Broadway in Frank's Home at Playwright's Horizons Theatre and Rose Rage at The Duke on 42nd Street. In Chicago Jay has worked with Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Next Theatre, and Famous Door. Television and film credits include Early Edition (CBS), Prison Break (Fox), Let's Go to Prison, Death of a President, and Dustclouds.

MAURY COOPER was last seen at Court Theatre in Endgame and The Importance of Being Earnest. He was also the recipient of the Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actor in Judgment at Nuremberg and The Price at the Shattered Globe Theatre. His most recent Chicago appearance was in The Brothers Karamazov at Lookingglass Theatre. His further Chicago theatre credits include Steppenwolf, Goodman, Next, Remy Bumppo, and Northlight. Nationwide, Mr. Cooper has appeared at the Guthrie (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, Berkeley Rep, Portland Rep (OR), Yale Rep, Alley Theatre (TX), The Public Theatre (NY), Lincoln Centre (NY), L.A. Theatre Center, and the Williamstown Playhouse (CT). His Canadian credits include Manitoba, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Manitoba, and Theatre Calgary. Mr. Cooper also toured Japan in Buried Child.

KEVIN GUDAHL has appeared at Court Theatre in The Wild Duck, Titus Andronicus, Uncle Vanya, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, My Fair Lady, School For Wives, Putting It Together, The Misanthrope, Travesties, and Celimene and the Cardinal. Other Chicago credits include: numerous appearances at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in such shows as Richard III, Comedy of Errors, A Little Night Music, Julius Caesar, and the title roles in Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth; The House of Martin Guerre, King Lear, and Turn of the Century at the Goodman Theatre; and the musicals 1776 and The King And I at the Marriott Theatre. Additional Chicago credits include shows at Writer’s Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theatre.  International stage appearances include Pacific Overtures at the DonMar Warehouse in London; Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2) at the Swan Theatre for the RSC; and five seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada.  Film and television credits include Crime Story, The Untouchables, Early Edition, While You Were Sleeping, Home Alone III, and Baby on Board.  Kevin is a recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award and the After Dark Award, and teaches Shakespeare at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Act One Studios.

MARY BETH FISHER has appeared at Court Theatre in The Year of Magical Thinking (Jeff Award Solo Performance), The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, The Glass Menagerie, Arcadia, Travesties, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Her Chicago credits include The Seagull, Rock n’ Roll, Frank’s Home, The Clean House, Dinner With Friends, Heartbreak House, The Guys, The Rose Tattoo, Boy Gets Girl, Spinning into Butter, Design for Living, Light Up the Sky, The Night of the Iguana, and Marvin’s Room (Goodman); Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Dresser, and The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf); Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare); The Laramie Project: Epilogue, The Little Dog Laughed, and Theatre District (About Face Theatre); and The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo). Her NY credits include: Frank’s Home (Playwrights Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), The Radical Mystique, and By The Sea…(Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout Theatre Company); and Extremities (Westside Arts Theatre). TV/film credits include: Ride Along, State of Romance, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Turks, Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, and Trauma. She received the 2010 Chicago’s Leading Lady Award from the Sarah Siddons Society. Ms. Fisher is an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

LAURA SCHEINBAUM is ecstatic about returning to Court where she was last seen as Louise in Carousel. Other credits include Carousel at Long Wharf Theatre, I Sailed with Magellan at Victory Gardens, Mary Zimmerman's Pericles at Goodman, Eloise and Ray at Roadworks, Frank Galati's Ragtime, The Pyrates with Defiant Theatre, and The Diary of Anne Frank and Kindertransport at Apple Tree. She is a proud graduate of Northwestern University. This one is for Dad.

JOHANNA MCKENZIE MILLER is pleased to return to Court Theatre after playing Julie Jordan in Carousel. Chicago Credits: Perdita in The Winter's Tale, Queen Anne in Three Musketeers at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Christine in Phantom, Maria in Sound of Music at Theatre at the Center, Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Belle in Beauty and the Beast at The Marriott Theatre, and Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music at The Ravinia Festival with Patti LuPone and George Hearn. www.johannamckenziemiller.com

TIMOTHY EDWARD KANE has appeared at Court Theatre in The Illusion, Wild Duck, Titus Andronicus, Uncle Vanya, The Romance Cycle, and Hamlet. Chicago credits include: The North Plan (Steppenwolf Garage), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arms and the Man (Writers’ Theatre), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Goodman Theatre), The Miser, She Stoops to Conquer–After Dark Award (Northlight Theatre), and more than a dozen productions at Chicago Shakespeare including The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and King Lear. Regional credits include work at The Mark Taper Forum, Notre Dame Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Education: BS, Ball State University; MFA, Northern Illinois University. Mr. Kane is married to actress Kate Fry.

ROB LINDLEY has appeared at Court in The Wild Duck, as Stuart in the critically acclaimed Caroline, or Change, and as Enoch Snow in Carousel which earned him a Jeff Award nomination. Rob is an artistic associate with Porchlight Music Theatre, having directed and performed in many shows there including A New Brain (Roger), Children of Eden (Abel), Sweeney Todd, and Closer than Ever. Rob is a graduate of The Second City Training Center Conservatory and now teaches at Second City in the Musical Improv program. Many weekends Rob can be seen improving musicals with Baby Wants Candy at the Apollo Theatre. Rob has also appeared in productions at Long Wharf Theatre, Wayside Theatre, Ravinia Festival, Marriott Lincolnshire, Theatre at the Center, and Light Opera Works. Rob is a member of the After Dark Award-winning cabaret trio Foiled Again.

HENRY MICHAEL ODUM last worked with Court Theatre on Caroline, or Change. In the Chicago area, favorite roles include Charlie et al. in Stones in His Pockets with Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, Tateh in Ragtime for Porchlight Music Theatre, Pangloss in Candide for Chicago Cultural Affairs, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard for Light Opera Works, and numerous curmudgeonly uncles for City Lit's Jeeves series. Elsewhere, Henry has appeared with Theatre at the Center, Noble Fool, Circle, Bailiwick, Bowen Park Opera, and NPR's Chicago Theatres On-the-Air. With Pegasus Players, Henry created the role of Milton in the world premiere of William Finn's Muscle and toured internationally in The Fantasticks (Jeff Citation).

EDDIE BENNETT most recently performed in the touring productions of Macbeth and All's Well That Ends Well with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Other recent credits include Speech & Debate (American Theater Company), Titus Andronicus, Arcadia (Court Theatre). He also collaboratively created and performed in The Building Stage's production of Noir. Eddie is a graduate of Bard College where he studied under JoAnne Akalaitis.