1First Folio Theatre

A N A G E N C Y O FT H E S T A T E O F I L L I N O I S

Alison C. Vesely David RiceArtistic Director Executive Director

by William Shakespeare

Nick SandysDirector & Fight Director

Scenic Designer – Angela MillerLighting Designer – Camden Peterson

Sound Designer – Christopher Kriz, U.S.A.Costume Designer – Rachel Lambert

Voice & Diction Coaching – Phil TimberlakeProperties Designer – Angela M. Campos

Choreographer – Patrice Egleston Stage Manager – Kate Danziger, AEA

First Folio Theatre is in residence at Mayslake Hall on the grounds of the Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook. The Estate is owned and operated by the Forest Preserve

District of DuPage County. This program is provided by First Folio Theatre, a not-for profit organization.

This program made possible in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council (a state agency), and the DuPage Community Foundation.

First Folio Theatre is a member of the League of Chicago Theaters and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

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Opening – July 9, 2011

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CAST ( i n o r d e r o f a p p e a r a n c e)

Samson ................................................................................................................. Zach LivingstonGregory ...................................................................................................................... Nate SantanaAbram ........................................................................................................................ Joshua RazaviBenvolio ............................................................................................................. Brian PlocharczykTybalt ..........................................................................................................................Luke CouzensCapulet ...................................................................................................................... Tom McElroy*Lady Capulet ........................................................................................................ Patrice EglestonMontague .................................................................................................................John Milewski Lady Montague ........................................................................................................Julia StemperPrince Escalus .....................................................................................................Michael DowneyRomeo ................................................................................................................................ Will AllanParis .........................................................................................................................David SajewichNurse ...................................................................................................................Annabel Armour*Juliet.........................................................................................................................Kelsey BrennanMercutio .................................................................................................................Christian Gray*°Friar Lawrence ...................................................................................................... Phil TimberlakePeter .....................................................................................................................................Dan TootFriar John ....................................................................................................................... Matt DreierBalthazara ....................................................................................................... Cassidy Shea StirtzOfficers, Servants ............................ Matt Dreier, Kristen T. King, Zach Livingston, Joshua

Razavi, Nate Santana, Cassidy Shea Stirtz, Dan Toot *Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.° Artistic Associate

UnderstUdies

Lord Capulet – Michael Downey; Paris, Samson – Matt Dreier; Lady Capulet, Balthazara, Lady Montague – Kristen T. King; Tybalt – Zach Livingston;

Friar Lawrence – John Milewski; Romeo – Brian Plocharczyk; Peter, Lord Montague, Escalus – Joshua Razavi; Mercutio – David Sajewich;

Benvolio – Nate Santana; Nurse – Julia Stemper; Juliet –Cassidy Shea Stirtz; Gregory, Abram, Friar John – Dan Toot

setting

Europe, 1818

There will be one 15-minute intermission

The use of cameras, videotape recorders, or audio recorders during this performance is strictly prohibited by copyright laws.

First Folio Theatre is a professional theatre employing members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

F IRST FOLIO PRODUCTION HISTORY

First Folio has received 1 Joseph Jefferson Award, 18 Joseph Jefferson Nominations and 2 After Dark Awards

1997 The Tempest1998 A Midsummer Night’s Dream1999 The Taming of the Shrew2000 Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing2001 Macbeth; As You Like It2002 Antigone; Twelfth Night (Jeff Recommendation)2003 The Comedy of Errors2004 Hamlet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2 Jeff Nominations); Staged Reading Series (Indoor space premiere)2005 The Importance of Being Earnest (Jeff Nomination); The Taming of the Shrew; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court2006 Private Lives (Jeff Nomination); The Tempest; The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (Jeff Nomination)2007 Angel Street (Jeff Recommendation); Richard III (Jeff Nomination); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe2008 Jeeves Intervenes (Jeff Nomination); Driving Miss Daisy (2 Jeff Nominations); Much Ado About Nothing (2 Jeff Nominations, 2 After Dark Awards); The Passion of Dracula2009 Design for Living, A Moon for the Misbegotten (4 Jeff Nominations, 1 Jeff Award), Macbeth, The Castle of Otranto2010 Jeeves in Bloom (1 Jeff Nomination); Will Rogers: An American Original; Twelfth Night (2 Jeff Nominations); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe2011 Blithe Spirit (Jeff Recommendation)

More information can be found at www.firstfolio.org

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Will AllAn (Romeo) returns to First Folio after playing Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing in 2008. Recent Chicago credits include Billy in The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? at Remy Bumppo

Theatre Company, Servant and performed as Konstantin in Robert Falls’ production of The Seagull at the Goodman Theater, Leper in A Separate Peace at Steppenwolf, and Scripps in The History Boys at TimeLine Theatre (Jeff Award – Outstanding Ensemble and Production). In Chicago, he has also worked with Strawdog Theatre Co., Victory Gardens, and Chicago Children’s Theatre. Regionally he has worked at The Heartland Festival and The Human Race Theater Company. Upcoming projects include Red at The Human Race Theatre Company and the World Premiere of E.L. Doctorow’s The March at Steppenwolf – adapted and directed by Frank Galati.

AnnAbel ArmoUr (Nurse) is an artistic associate with Remy Bumppo Theatre Company where she has appeared in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Fiction, Philadelphia Story, Mrs. Warren’s

Profession, The Best Man, Power, Aren’t We All, Humble Boy, A Delicate Balance, Hidden Laughter, Money, Top Girls, Hapgood, Road to Mecca, and Heartbreak House. She most recently appeared in The Goat or, Who is Sylvia with Nick Sandys. Some favorite include: At Home at the Zoo(Victory Gardens), Picnic ( Writers’ Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (Cleveland Playhouse), Sunday in the Park with George (Chicago Shakespeare), Long Day’s Journey (Irish Rep & Galway Arts Festival), Before My eyes (Victory Gardens), Angels in America I & II (Journeymen), Grapes of Wrath (Ford’s Theatre D.C,) and The First Look Series (Steppenwolf ). She can be seen in the films: Amityville Horror, Conviction with Hillary Swank and the upcoming Contagion with Matt Damon. Annabel is the recipient of two Joseph Jefferson Awards and two After Dark Awards

Kelsey brennAn (Juliet) makes her First Folio debut. Chicago credits include The Gospel According to James (Victory Gardens Theatre) and The

Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo Theatre). Regionally, Kelsey has appeared in The Gospel According to James (world premiere at Indiana Repertory Theatre), Trouble in Mind, A Christmas Carol, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Ah, Wilderness!, Henry IV, and The Belle’s Stratagem (American Players Theatre), and The Value of Names (Next Act Theatre). Kelsey is a graduate of Ohio University.

lUKe CoUzens (Tybalt) is very excited to be working with First Folio Theatre for the first time. He recently appeared in War & Peace: a dance-theater short, directed by Jim Manganello.

Other credits include Leonard Cowherd II in Letters Home (Griffin Theatre), and Dylan Klebold in Columbine & Roses (Chicago Fringe Festival). He can also be seen in the short films Chimera (dir. James Fotopoulos, Fantasma Inc.), A Wake (Columbia College Chicago), and Victims of Gravity (dir. Vlady Oszkiel, Ozzarts Productions) which recently played at the Columbia House during the Sundance Film Festival, among others. Luke received his BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

miChAel doWney (Escalus) returns to First Folio for his third production with the company. He first worked with First Folio as the male understudy for their production of Jeeves in

Bloom and later as the male understudy for Blithe Spirit. Michael has also been seen locally as King Phycus in King Phycus and The Spaceman in Hey! Mr. Spaceman (Strange Tree Group); Mr Hatch in Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch! (Lifeline Theatre); and The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (20% Theatre Company). Outside of Chicago, Michael has appeared at the Phoenix Theatre and Theatre on the Square in Indianapolis, Indiana and at Theatre South Carolina and Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. Favorite roles include Katurian in “Pillowman” and John Severing in “The Violet Hour”.

mAtt dreier (Friar John, Ensemble) is thrilled to be working with First Folio for his second time! He has previously

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been seen as the understudy of Mr. Kipps in First Folio’s Woman in Black. In Chicago, he has recently directed Scared Sh*tless (a love story) and has worked with such companies as Steppenwolf, Blatant Testimony, and Urban Theater Company (where he is a proud company member). Outside of Chicago, he has been seen in Hot L Baltimore (Madison Theatre Guild), Tecumseh! (Scioto Society), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre). Recent film credits include supporting roles in Everything and Nothing (Seventh Level Productions) and Arms of an Orphan (dir. John Mossman). He will be assistant directing Beauty of the Father with UrbanTheater Company this next fall.

PAtriCe egleston (Lady Capulet, Dance Choreographer) returns to First Folio after playing Lady Macbeth in 2009’s Macbeth. Previously at First Folio, she choreographed the

dances for Much Ado About Nothing. Most recently, she played Lady Pembroke in The Madness of George III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Other credits include Reverend Mother Celine in Mariette in Ecstasy (Lifeline Theatre), Barbara Fordham (understudy) in August: Osage County (Steppenwolf Theatre), Kate in All My Sons (Oak Park Festival Theatre), and Lady Croom in Arcadia (Remy Bumppo Theatre). You may currently see her in the webseries BANGbangShoot! on the website www.theatremir.com. She is proud co-conceiver of the series, ensemble member, and writer/director of two of the episodes.

ChristiAn grAy (Mercutio) happily returns to First Folio, where he has appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998), The Taming of the Shrew (1999 & 2005), Romeo

and Juliet (2000), Much Ado About Nothing (2000), Twelfth Night (2002), The Importance of Being Earnest, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Private Lives, Jeeves Intervenes, The Passion of Dracula, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and recently as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves in Bloom. He has also appeared in First Folio’s outreach shows of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare’s Warring and Wooing, and directed outreach productions of Romeo and

Juliet and Shakespeare’s Warring and Wooing. He most recently played Bluntschli in Arms and the Man for ShawChicago, where he is an ensemble member. He has performed with over a dozen Chicago area companies, including Court Theatre, Remy Bumppo, and Writers’ Theatre. Regional credits include Fort Worth Shakespeare (TX), Kentucky Repertory, and Pennsylvania Stage Company. Recent film/internet/television credits include Plastic (FPPI Films), Reclamation (NTG Productions), and Normal (Rule 42 Productions); a webisode series Classholes (Red City Productions); and commercials for Stein Gardan & Horseshoe Casino.

Kristen t. King (Ensemble) is excited for her First Folio debut! New to Chicago as of last summer, you may have caught her as Belle in A Christmas Carol (Metropolis), or Lizzie

Borden in Axe Lizzie (Cock and Bull). Other favorites include Mina in Dracula, Don Antonio in The Rover, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (ISU).

zACh livingston (Samson, Ensemble, Fight Captain) is excited and honored to appear in his first production with First Folio. Around Chicago, he has appeared in Zero (Oracle Theatre);

Extinction Fantasies (Tympanic Theatre); Soul Samurai (Infusion Theatre) and A Klingon Christmas Carol (Commedia Beauregard). Zach is a member of Commedia Beauregard and he will reprise his original role as well as direct the fights for this year’s installment of A Klingon Christmas Carol. He has also choreographed fights for several other productions around Chicago.

tom mCelroy (Lord Capulet) makes his First Folio debut. Other Chicago Credits include Lord Montague in Romeo & Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare, William Crocker in The

Farnsworth Invention at Timeline Theatre (Jeff Award – Best Production, Mid-sized Theatre), Torlief in the world premiere of Old Glory at Writer’s Theatre, Ralphie’s Old Man in A Christmas Story at Noble Fool, Marcus Hubbard in Another Part Of The Forest at

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Eclipse Theatre (Non-Equity Jeff Nomination – Best Actor, Non-Equity Jeff Award – Best Ensemble) as well as roles at Steppenwolf, Court, Next, Red Twist, Theatre on the Lake, National Jewish, Terrapin, Bailiwick, Pegasus Players, A Red Orchid, and The Royal George. Film work includes The Dark Knight, What If..., and Contagion as well as many independent features and short films. Television includes Early Edition, Prison Break and The Chicago Code. Tom also has many on camera commercial and industrial credits. He voiced Rayford Steele in the Left Behind dramatic audio series (144 episodes) and has voiced multiple characters in The Twilight Zone, The New Adventures Of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer and Unshackled radio dramas. Tom is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

John mileWsKi (Lord Montague) returns to First Folio for his second production. He last appeared at First Folio as Ratcliffe in Richard III. John has just recently appeared as Mr Baquin

in Slaughter City (Jackalope Theatre). He has also been seen in Candles to the Sun and Six Degrees of Separation (Eclipse Theatre); as Salieri in Amadeus (Beverly Arts Center); as Dracula in Dracula (Village Players). Musical credits include Fagin in Oliver! (Rising Stars Theatre); Dear World (Circle Theatre); and as El Gallo in The Fantasticks (Green Man Theatre).

briAn PloChArCzyK (Benvolio, u/s Romeo) Makes his debut on the First Folio main stage after appearing in “Warring and Wooing,” and “The 50 Minute Midsummer”for First

Folio’s Educational Outreach Program. Some of Brian’s favorite Chicago roles include Edward Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (City Lit ), Tom in The Glass Menagerie ( Oak Park Village Players), and Justin Hammond in After Ashley ( Stage Left) which garnered him a Jeff nomination for best actor in a principle role. Brian’s other Shakespeare credits include Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona (Talisman) Percy in Richard II (Actors Revolution) and the Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare). Outside of Chicago, he toured many prestigious theatres on the East Coast with Letters Home (Grifin Theatre). Brian was just seen as Freely in Mother Bear

with Mortar Theatre, and will next be playing Stephen, this fall in Stage Left’s Chicago premiere of Farragut North. Brian is also a voice over actor, stage combat and stunt performer, as well as a karate instructor. He would like to thank his wife and family for their support. Check out www.brianplo.com for more info.

JoshUA rAzAvi (Abram; Ensemble) is appearing in his first production with First Folio. Relatively new to Chicago, he last appeared in The Alchemist with Nothing

Special Productions (BoHo Theater) and the sketch comedy show The Chicagoan (Gorilla Tango Theater). Before arriving in Chicago, Josh spent last summer appearing in the outdoor drama Tecumseh! and Romeo and Juliet (The Scioto Society) in Chillicothe, Ohio. He received his BA from Illinois State University’s Acting program in May 2010.

dAvid sAJeWiCh (Paris) is excited to be making both his First Folio and Chicago area theatre debuts with this production. He is a recent graduate from the Theatre

Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University where he graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Outside of Chicago and school, he has also appeared at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Michigan, as well as New Line Theatre in St. Louis.

nAte sAntAnA (Gregory, Ensemble) is very excited to be making his debut with First Folio. He has been seen in Slipping and What happened when…(The Side Project) and References

to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (The Phoenix Theater of Indianapolis). Additionally, Nate has worked as an ensemble member for Imagination Theater.

JUliA stemPer (Lady Montague) is excited to be making her debut with FirstFolio. A recent arrival to Chicago she has also performed with

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Red Tape Theater in their Fresh Eyes Festival. Favorite touring productions include Stone Soup Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) and Shakespeare in the Parque’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia). Recent regional performances include Twelfth Night (Globe Theatre - London), Heuristics in the Diner (Traverse Theatre - Edinburgh), Marriage a la Mode (Arches - Glasgow), Captain Squishy’s Yee-Haw Jamboree (Capital Fringe - DC) and Alice in Wonderland (Classika Theater - DC).

CAssidy sheA stirtz (Balthazara, u/s Juliet) is honored to make her First Folio debut. She has also been seen in And A Child Shall Lead as Gabriela (Adventure Stage Chicago); Scenes

from an Italian Notebook (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble); and The Diary of Anne Frank (Metropolis Performing Arts). Cassidy has done featured background work for The Dilemma. She is a recent graduate of Millikin University’s BFA program. Favorite roles while attending include Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Masha in The Seagull, and Nancy in Frozen.

Phil timberlAKe (Friar Lawrence, Vocal Coach) appeared at First Folio as Caliban in The Tempest, as well staged readings of The Seagull (Trigorin) and Playboy of the Western World

(Jimmy). He also coached dialects for Playboy, Private Lives, Importance of Being Earnest, and Connecticut Yankee, and was the vocal coach for Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Taming of the Shrew. Phil is an ensemble member at Lifeline Theatre where he was nominated for non-Equity Jeff Awards as Best Supporting Actor for both Queen Lucia and Busman’s Honeymoon. Other Chicago acting credits include Apple Tree (Violet), Powertap (The Beaux’ Stratagem), Shaw Chicago (Misalliance), City Lit (Playboy Stories), and Shakespeare’s Motley Crew (Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream). He has also coached dialects for the Goodman, Lifeline, Stage Left, Signal Ensemble, and New World Repertory. Phil is an Associate Professor of Voice and Speech at The Theatre School, DePaul University.

dAn toot (Peter, Ensemble) is making his First Folio debut. He has appeared around Chicago as Fish in Cherry Smoke (The Side Project), Colin in the world premier of Run of

the Mill (CUT Theatre), as well as Dr. Jekyll in Jeffrey Hatcher’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Theatre-Hikes) among others. Dan originally hails from the east coast where he appeared in productions of Noises Off! (playing Tim) and A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (The Hartford Stage) and Stefano in The Tempest (Capital Classics). He was also a two-season company member at The Monomoy Theatre in Chatham, Cape Cod, Mass.

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niCK sAndys (Director & Fight Director) is an Artistic Associate with First Folio where he has appeared in Blithe Spirit, Twelfth Night (Jeff Nomination 2010), Much Ado About Nothing (Jeff nomination 2008), Richard III, and Midsummer Night’s Dream, and has directed Macbeth (2009). His other directing credits include: Fiction, American Ethnic (Remy Bumppo--Artistic Associate); Twelfth Night (Noble Fool Theatricals); The Consul (Chamber Opera Chicago); Taming Of The Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Merry Wives Of Windsor (Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park); Breaking The Code, I’m Not Rappaport, Walk In The Woods (Stage West, TX); Separation, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Circle Theatre, TX). Furthermore, his Jeff-award-winning work as a fight director has been seen all over Chicagoland, including at The Goodman (over 25 productions), Lyric Opera of Chicago (over 35 productions), Northlight, Steppenwolf, Remy Bumppo, Next, Shattered Globe, Timeline, and Victory Gardens, as well as The Metropolitan Opera and Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC. He is a certified Fight Director with The Society of American Fight Directors and is adjunct faculty at The Theatre School at DePaul.

Alison C. vesely (Artistic Director) is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder (with her husband David Rice) of First Folio Theatre where she directed The Woman in Black and Blithe Spirit earlier this year. Last season she directed the world premieres of Will Rogers: An American Original and The Castle of Otranto, as well as the Chicago premiere of Jeeves in Bloom. This past fall she directed Richard III for Hilberry Theatre in Detroit. In 2009, she was nominated for a Jeff Award for her direction of A Moon for the Misbegotten, which was also nominated for Best Production. Previous First Folio directing credits on the indoor stage include Design for Living, The Passion of Dracula, Driving Miss Daisy, Jeeves Intervenes, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, Angel Street, Private Lives, A Connecticut Yankee…, and The Importance of Being Earnest. On the outdoor summer stage Alison has directed Richard III, The Tempest (1997 & 2006), The Taming of the Shrew (1999 & 2005), Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Antigone, As You Like It, Macbeth (2001), Much Ado About Nothing (2000), Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998). Onstage at First Folio she has been seen as Widow Kitty in The Taming of the Shrew and Amelia in The Comedy of Errors. She has also overseen First Folio�s school touring

shows, which have played to over 100,000 students in the past fourteen years. Before founding First Folio, Alison was the Classics Project Director for Footsteps Theatre, a women�s theater company specializing in all-female productions of Shakespeare�s plays. Alison worked as the Folio Director and Dramaturge on many productions at Footsteps, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsommer Night’s Dreame, and Macbeth. She also performed in these productions, earning an After Dark Award for the title role in their production of Macbeth. Additionally, Alison directed Richard III for both Footsteps and Shakespeare’s Herd at the Chicago Cultural Center. Other directing credits include Real Human Dialogue, Riders to the Sea, Kiss Me Kate, and Scrooge. Alison has been an adjudicator for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Irene Ryan Awards as well as serving a three-year term on the Theater Program Grants Panel for the Illinois Arts Council. She is a proud graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University.

dAvid riCe (Executive Director) is co-founder (with his wife Alison C. Vesely) of First Folio, where he has produced over 30 shows, stage managing fifteen of them. As a playwright he specializes in stage adaptations of literary works, including The Castle of Ortanto and The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (Jeff Award Nomination for New Adaptation in 2007). His adaptation of Dean Monti’s Why Dogs Don’t Talk was chosen for City Lit Theater’s first annual Art of Adaptation Festival. As an actor, he has been seen at First Folio as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, Chris the Sly in The Taming of the Shrew, Egeus and Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aegeon in The Comedy of Errors, Feste in Twelfth Night and Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing. David has also appeared as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy with Charlotte Rae (Briar Street Theatre); George Reed in 1776 (Marriott’s Lincolnshire); Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened... (Kinetic Theatre); and in numerous other plays and musicals, including Follies (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse), Kuni-Leml (Illinois Theatre Center), and Room Service (Bailiwick). David originated the role of Mr. Toad of Toad Hall in Doug Post’s musical version of The Wind in the Willows at the Organic Theater. Die-hard trivia fans might be interested to know that David was a 4-time winner on Jeopardy! David has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Assn. since 1991.

AngelA m. CAmPos (Properties Designer):

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Angela is excited to join the talented cast and crew of Romeo and Juliet with her first production at First Folio. She is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois where she studied English, Cinema Studies, and the science of coffee drinking. Chicago credits include Memory and Three Days of Rain (BackStage Theatre Company); Lovers (City Lit); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Polarity Ensemble); Theories of the Sun and Heddatron (Sideshow Theatre Company); The Chicago Landmark Project and We Live Here (Theatre Seven of Chicago). Ms. Campos is also currently working on a short film entitled Under the Table with Glass City Films. She would like to thank her friends and family for all their unwavering support.

KAte dAnziger (Stage Manager) is excited to return to First Folio for her eighth production with the company. She most recently stage managed their production of The Woman In Black. She has also stage managed Macbeth and Twelve Night and assistant stage managed The Taming of the Shrew, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Tempest, and Angel Street at First Folio. Other Chicago credits include Escanaba in da Moonlight and The House of Bernarda Alba (Circle Theatre); Blancaflor (tireswing theatre); Siskel and Ebert Save Chicago (Factory Theater); and Being 11 (Serendipity Theatre Collective). Kate has a MFA in Stage Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Jeri FrederiCKson (Asst. Director, Asst. Stage Manager) is stoked to be working with First Folio again after assistant stage managing Blithe Spirit with them this past winter. Chicago credits include: Stage Manager for The Water Engine and Production Stage Manager for The Chicago Landmark Project at Theatre Seven and asm intern for Lookingglass Alice at Lookingglass Theatre Company. She has a B.A. in Theatre from Hope College.

ChristoPher Kriz (Sound Design) is pleased to be working with First Folio again, having previously designed The Woman in Black, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe and The Castle of Otranto. Other Chicago credits include Eclipsed (Northlight), Precious Little (Rivendell Theatre), This (Theatre Wit), Madagascar (Next Theatre), Dead Pile (XIII Pocket), Shining City (Redtwist) and Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (16th Street Theatre). Recent credits include the national tour of America Amerique (Jena Company),

Open Systems(Goodman Theatre/WBEZ), Aiming For Sainthood (Victory Gardens), Thieves Like Us (House Theatre), The Invasion Of Skokie (Chicago Dramatists), Baal (TUTA), Master Harold and The Boys and All My Sons (TimeLine). Upcoming productions include Conquest Of The South Pole (Strawdog Theatre) and Festen (Steep Theatre). To hear more of his work, please visit www.christopherkriz.com

rAChel lAmbert (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be working with First Folio and thanks David and Alison so much of the opportunity. She is currently the costume shop manager and a second-year graduate student in design and directing at Purdue University. She recently completed an internship at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis where, among other things, she designed costumes and puppets for Avenue Q. This summer she will also be designing costumes for Eclipse Theatre’s productions of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creekand their revival of After the Fall at Theatre on the Lake. In the fall she will be directing a multi-media production of the Book of Mark at Purdue.

AngelA miller (Scenic Design) is a First Folio Artistic Associate whose recent First Folio shows include The Woman in Black, Blithe Spirit, Twelfth Night, Will Rogers An American Original, Jeeves in Bloom (Jeff Nomination), The Castle of Otranto, Macbeth, and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Jeff Nomination). Other FFT credits include the premiere and remount of The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, The Passion of Dracula, Driving Miss Daisy, Jeeves Intervenes, Angel Street, The Tempest, Private Lives, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Other credits include Jolson & Company, The Thing About Men, Almighty Bob, Over the River and Through the Woods (later adapted for the Mercury Theatre), A Christmas Story, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, High Society, Gigi, and Little Shop of Horrors at Theatre at the Center; Five Guys Named Moe, and And the World Goes Round at Drury Lane Evergreen Park; His Way, A Tribute to the Man and His Music at the Mercury Theatre and at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts; and Rose-Marie and Yeoman of the Guard for Light Opera Works. Angie recently designed a production of High School Musical (that was for her kids!) at The Little Theatre on the Square, where she also designed It Had to Be You, as well as High Fidelity for Route 66 Theatre Company.

CAmden Peterson (Lighting Design) is thrilled to return to First Folio for another summer.

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Previous First Folio credits include Blithe Spirit, Twelfth Night, & Macbeth. Other Chicago-area designs include Agnes of God and Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Hubris Productions); Inherit the Whole (Mortar Theatre Co.); and Lost in Yonkers (Village Players Theatre). She graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University with her BFA in Lighting Design. While at TTS, she designed Urinetown (dir. Dexter Bullard), The Sugar Wife (dir. Patrice Egleston), The Heidi Chronicles (dir. Jane Drake Brody), and the world premiere of Isaac Holter’s Good Worker (dir. Carlos Murillo). In addition to her work in theatre, Camden is a designer with Performance Lighting, Inc. Past events with Performance include We are the World / We are the Drum (with choreographer Frank Gatson, Jr.), Lollapalooza - Playstation, and Celia! The Life & Music of Celia Cruz. Her work can be seen online at www.camdenpeterson.com.

Kim sCheChter (Assistant Lighting Design) is thrilled to join the production crew at First Folio. Kim is a senior at Columbia College, majoring in Lighting Design & Photography. She is currently designing lights for Only Kidding! at Emergent Theatre, and has recently volunteered on electric crews for Chicago theatres such as Redmoon and City Lit. College productions include assistant lighting designs for Rag and Bone and What Didn’t Happen at Columbia. Kim has also interned two summers with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in Bloomington. Kim sends thanks to her family for all their love & support.

beth zUPeC (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be returning to First Folio were she previously assistant stage managed Blithe Spirit, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, Twelfth Night and Jeeves in Bloom. Previous Chicago credits include stage manager/assistant director for Apocalypso (Point of Contention) stage manager for The Wind in the Willows (City Lit) The Miracle Worker (Village Players Theatre) assistant stage manager for One Flea Spare (Eclipse) The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Village Players) and stage manager intern for Funk It Up About Nothin’ and Willy Wonka (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Beth also served as the casting intern at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Beth is a graduate of the University of Kansas where some of her credits include A Flea in Her Ear, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and In Darfur.

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miChAel F. goldberg is currently working on a new show centering on the lighting of Michael McNamara and the music of Pantera. He has also been very busy chauffeuring his boys to soccer, basketball and hockey practices/games this winter as well as trying to maintain a backyard ice rink. Michael is very much looking forward to First Folio’s upcoming extravaganza The Merchant Project in summer 2012.

ChristiAn grAy – See Cast Biography

seAn grennAn is spending the first part of the summer in residence at the Peninsula Players theatre where they are mounting a production of his play Making God Laugh. Very happily, Making God Laugh will also be produced here at First Folio this coming winter. Additionally, his plays, Beer for Breakfast and As Long As We Both Shall Live will open this season at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City. (Defying logic and decency, he will also act in the former!) He is currently at work on straight shows as well as a new musical, 1st & 10, with composer, David Kreppel. His shows Married Alive!, A Dog’s Life, and Another Night Before Christmas, written with composer Leah Okimoto, have been produced all over the country and Canada and are published with Playscripts, Inc. He’s very pleased that the latter, Another Night... will bow at Chicago’s Theatre at the Center this holiday season under the direction of Bill Pullinsi. Sean looks forward to the next opportunity to come and play in the grass with his excellent friends at First Folio!

elsA hiltner has just returned from a leave of absence from First Folio after spending a year in the Middle East, where she and her husband were studying Arabic culture. She will be back to designing costumes for First Folio beginning with this fall’s production of Tea At Five.

melAnie Keller is excited to be joining fellow Artistic Associates Kevin McKillip and Sean Grennan in Door County, Wisconsin at Peninsula Players this summer, appearing in the hilarious comedy The Fox on the Fairway. And this fall, she looks forward to returning to Signal Ensemble Theatre, where she will appear in two Chicago premiere productions by exciting Canadian playwright, Hannah Moscovitch. Later this coming season she will return to First Folio to appear with Nick Sandys in The Turn of the Screw as well as playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

Kevin mCKilliP is currently trodding the boards at his usual summer haunt, Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin, where he will be appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest, A Few Good Men, and God of Carnage. He will return to the First Folio stage next winter in Making God Laugh.

miChAel mCnAmArA recently worked on the Dallas Opera production of Boris Godunov and a new production at the Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic. Michael is now back in the area recreating his design for Eclipse Theatre’s After the Fall at Theatre on the Lake.

AngelA miller – See Staff Biography

hAyley l. riCe is currently appearing in The Women at Circle Theater. She has most recently been seen at First Folio as Edith in Blithe Spirit and Lady Matilda in The Castle of Otranto. Other recent roles include Dolores in Dream of a Common Language at Prologue Theatre Company and Flora in The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! with Point of Contention Theater. Hayley is also a casting associate for First Folio and a company member at the newly formed Focal Point Theatre Company.

niCK sAndys – See Staff Biography

F IRST FOLIO THEATRE STAFF

Artistic Director .............................................................................................................................Alison C. VeselyExecutive Director ................................................................................................................................ David RiceDirector of Educational Outreach .............................................................................................Megan SchuttVolunteer Coordinator ..................................................................................................................Kris Biendarra Graphic Designer ........................................................................................................................... Carol AllemanTechnical Director .........................................................................................................................Jason PikscherTech Assistants .................................................................................................Miguel Garcia, Ricky HarbeckeAsst. Scenic Artist ................................................................................................................Samantha SchubertMaster Electrician ..............................................................................................................................Cassi CobertAsst. Electrician ............................................................................................................................... Kim SchechterPhotography .......................................................................................................................................... David RiceAuditor ................................................................................................................................................ Paul WielandInsurance Provider ................................................................................................................Paczolt InsuranceCasting Assistants...........................................................................Hayley Rice, Melanie Keller, Nick SandysVolunteer Ushers and Concessions ................................... The Saints and First Folio’s Volunteer Corps

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F IRST FOLIO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

President ...............................................................................................................................................Alan BeckerVice-President ................................................................................................................................Ellen CallahanSecretary ..........................................................................................................................................Theresa WilkieTreasurer .......................................................................................................................................... Chris BeaulieuTrustees ..............................................................................................................John Bauer, Margaret Bennett,

Richard Berman, Barbara Disko, Brian McKillip, Patricia Noska, David Rice, Alison C. Vesely

Advisory boArd

Robert J. Schillerstrom (DuPage County Board Chairman)D. “Dewey” Pierotti (Forest Preserve Board Chairman)

Dr. Richard Strier (Professor of English, University of Chicago)Dr. Michael Shapiro (Professor of English, Loyola University)

Dr. Peter Kanelos (Professor of Dramatic Literature, Loyola University)David LaBrash (President, Clarendon Hills Bank)

Melissa LaBrash (CPA)

First Folio invites all persons interested in joining our Board of Trustees, our Board of Advisors, the Folio Society, or our staff of volunteers to contact us at (630) 986-8067

for more information on how you can become a part of the Western Suburbs premier professional theater!

DONORS L IST

(Donations received between June 1, 2010 and June 1, 2011

Lifetime Bard’s Club Members(For Outstanding Support)AnonymousSusan & Alan BeckerJeanE CharnasJoyce ChelbergMeg & Jim FletcherBrian McKillipSusan & Brian (Coach) O’ConnorJohn Plosnich BARDOLATOR ($5,000 +)AnonymousIllinois Arts Council Alan & Susan BeckerGaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation DuPage Community Foundation

HAMLET ($1,000+)Anonymous (2)Bank of AmericaMargaret BennettRick BermanDr. & Mrs. John BuntrockEllen CallahanClarendon Hills Bank/Hinsdale Bank & TrustJac CotigualaMarie & David DicksonBarbara DiskoRon & Judy Eshleman Rita GetzPeg GramasArt & Nancy Hirsch

Paul Keller Kinder Morgan FoundationBrian McKillipIn Memory of Martha MeesTerrie & Lee MunderPatricia NoskaTeri Ellen RogersRobert & Sue Sanford Coleman & Deborah TuggleAlison C. Vesely & David Rice

KING LEAR ($500+)AnonymousMs. Irene Antoniou Chris BeaulieuBennett Law Firm, LLCDavid Smith & Suzanne Bessette-SmithJoyce ChelbergMerl DouglasMary Ann FlynnRobert & Lynn JonesLottie & Shadow KowalskiBarbara LinduskaCathy & John MachotaMr. & Mrs. Carl ManofskyJeff & Barb ModlinJoeanne & Jeffrey MonroeDaniel NowaczynskiAlfred PotterJim & Maureen Reichardt Irene StalenySusan TolinJoan & Raymond Wielgos Theresa Wilkie

LADY MACBETH ($250+)In Memory of Dan AllarAnonymous (4)The Arch FoundationJeff & Allison Bennett

Ronald & Wendie BentonBob & Kay CarlsonJoel & Betty ChrastkaSusan Elwart Jim FarrellMary Ann FlynnGregg & D’Anna GugertyMarilyn HalaszLeslie & Tyrone JacobsonJudith KellerChristine KenarEvan & Tina KrithIn Memory of Walter KulivowskiKeith & Stephanie KushnerPatricia & Richard LoechlMary Ellen LukavskyB.A. & Janice MackGil & Yvonne MeyerMs. Audrey MuschlerNorthern TrustFrank & Mary NowinskiDorothy RichmondMary & John RooksPat SchultzJoe SekuraDoris ShepherdDonald & Anita Shotola Joseph & Mary Beth TurekBarbara VoorheesKathleen & John WestbergWilliam & Sue WomackRobert & Cindy WunderlichGeorge ZahrobskyJim & Mary Zajac

PROSPERO ($100+)Vanda AleknaKen AmosAnonymousAnita & John BauerSteven & Rosemary Belling

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DONORS L IST (c o n t.)

Roy BenedekGene & Helen BenesJohn BerwangerCarol BlackSandra BovesPatrica BrandinMarilyn BrownIn memory of John R. BuckleyBob CampbellPatricia CampbellRachel Daugherty & Michael GuentherBruce DeVillerMarybeth DoughertyDiane EleveldGeorge & Marie ForsterTom & Anne FuellingJudith GreyJane & Kirk GrimmJane HerronRichard HeslerBonnie HiltonPrism Entertainment-Nancy HixonBarbara N. HolmanVida HotchkissJorge & Beatriz IorgulescuWalter & Susan JayAnn Boisclair & Jeff JensRuth & Mark KarasekJane & Paul KlenckJeffrey A. Koblish, D.D.S.Jacqueline KorandaMaureen KozakLeo J. Krupp & Debbie KruppLarry & Melanie KruppDavid & Melissa LaBrashCynthia LaughlinRichard & Linda LauterbachThe Lofchy FamilyMarilyn LongwellJanet LuceroKathleen & Mark LundbergShari & Larry LuteyLise LutzSteven & Joyce MalyRobert & Linda ManskiSharon ManuelCynthia MarlerJulie & Roland Marshall & FamilySheila MaschekPatrick & Mary MauroKathy McKillipTom & Olga MosilloKaren & Mark MuellerDolores ObergMagne B. OlsonRay & Esther PaiceVicky & Tom Pate D. Dewey PierottiLucy PillingerMary Plunkett Joy RansdellJoe & Anne RieberJohn & Lisa RocheChet & Pat RozanskiIrene RuffnerJames & Margaret SchlegelKristine Schnacke

In honor of Merl DouglasJackie SmithConnie SprovieriCarl StrangLisa Super & Nathan Brown Lynn & Gene SuwanskiThomas SzotTracey TarantinoJohn TempletonEunice TreadwayBob & Ann WattJohn Weinberger, Jr.James WhiteheadNancy WoodruffMarcianne Zajeski

OTHELLO ($25+)Anonymous (5)Barb AguirreLance AndersonKristine & Peter BaldoElizabeth & Edward BarrowCheryl BergerKristine BiendarraArlene BlahaDonald BohringerBelinda BremnerDiane BrooksStephanie BurgRay BurkhardtAnne CanaparyLaurel Carlson & David HersemannMary ChristofidisMichael ColucciAnn CookElaine CookIrene CopackJoe & Judy CosenzaWilliam & Sherry CraterMary CroisMargaret DegnanMajor & Mrs. George F. Dempsey, USAF (Ret.)Robert DeSalvoBarbara DiLibertiSue DornfeldCarol DoyleCharles & Debra DoyleDeborah DubsonCarol DucommunGrace EckDaniel EfnerJames EnglingMargaret EvaPaul FarberErin FaulknerWilliam FergusonAnita FieldDavid FoulserPaul Francis Mary FrederickNoelle FrostTom & Anne FuellingRichard GallicchioJohn & Olivia GowChristian GrayDiane GrazianoMaureen F. Greene

Hair LoomsDebra HamiltonGail & Jim HannonBob & Carol HansenKrista HansenLucille HilgerJames InkpenLenore IvancevichS. JecmenSteven JohnsonBeverly Kurasz-JohnstonIn Memory of Eunice JuracicJohn KayJerry KellyMelanie KellerMichael KennedyCatherine KistlerKatherine KleinCynthia KoehlerVirginia GottPatricia KralikAnnette LamonElinor LamontCarol LarsonLinda & John LarsonCaryl LezatteFran & Charles LichtCheryl MaibuschAlice MalickiAnna Marek Nancy MartinGeorge MartinyEric MaurstadMr. & Mrs. Judson McCarthy, Jr.Richard & Bernice McKillipKathleen McKillipKevin McKillipMichael McNamaraPatricia & Ray MehlerMarianne MiklasAngie MillerMarvin MirskyElizabeth & Arturo MoraKerri & Glora MorrisseyVictoria NarayanBob & Joan NejdlAnthony & Linda NelsonParicia O’BrienLeslie O’ConnellRosemary OlsenRoberta ParkhillNan Parson Mary PaviaMargaret PetersonCharles PlockBarbara PlonaMichelle PorebskiDragomir PropadovichThomas & Elaine RathDennis ReaganMarianne ReinhoferJim RendelAmy RieselmanCarole RigoniNeil RingquistSally RobertsDaniel & Barbara Roos Deborah RyanMary Ann Ryan

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DONORS L IST (c o n t.)

Nick SandysDiane SartherKathleen SchmoheCharles SextonCarol SheppardPamela SignorellaRenee & Geoffrey SilverJeanne SmithJudith SmithDennis & Patricia SmithSuzette SniegowskiRandy SparksPaula St. LouisMichael StemberkGerianne StohlquistApril & Preston StosurDenise StoutWalter SulskisGail TagneyNina & Frank ThorpJeanne TiltonMr. & Mrs. Myles TlustyElizabeth J. TrompSabrina TsaoCarol VarneyMelva WalkerThe Waters FamilyKen WendorffJudith WernerMary Wiesen In Honor of Theresa WilkieBrigitte WinklerRoseann WolfJeff York

2010 Auction SponsorsOur Artistic AssociatesArtistic HomeJohn Bauer

Alan BeckerMargaret BennettEllen Callahan Bob Campbell PhotographyChicago Dramatists Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Court Theatre Jim Cunningham Barbara Disko Eclipse TheatreElmhurst SymphonyGoodman TheatreInn at Irish Hollow, Galena Lifeline Theatre Lookingglass Theatre EnsembleMario TricocciMarriott TheatreMetropolis TheatreBrian McKillip Next TheatreNoble Fool Theatre Northlight Theatre Provision TheatreQuality Tire and Service CenterPorchlight Musical Theatre Rasaka Theatre Remy Bumppo Theatre ShawChicago Theatre Signal Theatre EnsembleSilk Road TheatreSteppenwolf Theatre Teatro LunaTheatre Wit Timeline TheatreA. Coleman Tuggle Victory Gardens Theatre Theresa Wilkie Writers’ Theater

Matching Grant DonorsAetna Foundation Allstate Bank of AmericaMcMaster-Carr Supply Co.Nicor EnergyNorthern Trust

In-Kind DonorsArabian Knights FarmAnita & John BauerBennett Law Firm, LLCBoeger Landscape SupplyCharlotte AnnMarilyn BrownEllen CallahanBob CampbellClarendon Hills BankJ. Cunningham Productions, Inc.Clarke EnvironmentalLa Verne DissmeyerTony DobrowolskiMargaret EvaForest Preserve District of DuPage CountyElisabeth GrzywaNancy HacketKathi HarbeckeThe Inn at Irish HollowCynthia KranicMario Tricoci-Oak Brook CenterBrian McKillipStephen MelvinDeb MillerGail MrozakMueller Broadcast DesignPatricia NoskaLloyd OsbornPizzazz Promotional Products

SPEC IAL THANK YOU

Our wonderful Board of Trustees; Chrissie Howorth, Janneke Fowers, Taip Bashir, Sherry Brooks, Neal Quigley, David Naydenoff, & the entire staff and Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County; Paczolt Insurance; Pizzazz Promotional Products

of Hinsdale; Village Cleaners of Clarendon Hills, Donna Steel and Steele Beam Theater

A special thanks to Kiley Moore and Rachael Hancz for spectral services.

First Folio has lots of ways for you to join in on the fun!FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT US AT 630-986-8067 or visit www.firstfolio.org

WISH L IST

Knaack Box or other Tool Storage ContainersVintage dresses, tuxedoes, and hats

Any antiques that can be used for propsBolts of fabric (especially muslin)

Design & Printing servicesAccounting services for annual audit

First Folio is a 501(c)(3) organization. All donation of services and goods are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.