Gary Griffin (Director/Associate Artistic Director) in his tenure at Chicago Shakespeare Theater has directed Private Lives, Amadeus, Passion, A Flea in Her Ear, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Pacific Overtures, The Herbal Bed, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream and Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet. Broadway directing credits include The Color Purple (11 Tony Nominations including Best Musical) and The Apple Tree (Tony Nomination for Best Musical Revival). Off Broadway credits include: Saved (Playwrights Horizons); The Apple Tree, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Pardon My English, The New Moon (Encores); and Beautiful Thing (Cherry Lane Theatre). Tour credits include the national tour of The Color Purple. London credits include Pacific Overtures at the Donmar Warehouse (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production and Olivier Award nomination for Best Director). Regional credits include work with: The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Signature Theatre and Hartford Stage. His Chicago credits with Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Writers' Theatre, The Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Pegasus Players and Famous Door Theatre have earned him eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for directing. Mr. Griffin's directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of West Side Story at Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and The Merry Widow and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Kevin Depinet (Scenic Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he designed scenery for The Emperor's New Clothes. Other Chicago credits include: August: Osage County (Associate Designer), Detroit, American Buffalo, Dublin Carol (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Crowd You're in With, High Holidays, Mary (Goodman Theatre); What the Butler Saw (Court Theatre); Oh Coward!, Do the Hustle (Writers' Theatre); Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ragtime (Drury Lane Oakbrook). Regional credits include: American Buffalo (McCarter Theatre); Another Part of the Forest, The Comedy of Errors (American Players Theatre); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); My Name Is Asher Lev (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); and Around the World in 80 Days (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Mr. Depinet has worked on Michael Mann's film Public Enemies. He studied at Ball State University and The Yale School of Drama, and is now an adjunct professor of design at DePaul University.

Mara Blumenfeld (Costume Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include: A Flea in Her Ear (Jeff Award), A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures at CST and Donmar Warehouse, London (Olivier nomination), Sunday in the Park with George and Short Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Juliet (2003) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001–2003). Other Chicago credits include productions with: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre Company (Ensemble Member). New York credits include: Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square, Second Stage); The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center); The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci (Second Stage); Measure for Measure (Joseph Papp Public Theater/NYSF); and Homebody/Kabul (BAM). Regional credits include productions with: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre and Arden Theatre Company. Opera credits include: Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera), and The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Upcoming projects include Camelot (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) and Ethan Frome (Lookingglass Theatre Company).

Christopher Akelind (Lighting Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Othello, Measure for Measure and Antony and Cleopatra. Other Chicago credits include: Rock 'n' Roll (Jeff Award), Shining City, The Light in the Piazza (Jeff Award), Electricidad (Goodman Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Piano (Court Theatre); Superior Donuts, The Pillowman, Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Recent work includes: the Broadway productions of Superior Donuts, Top Girls and 110 in the Shade; Kdo! (Brussels, Belgium); Virginia, The Golden Ticket, and Hubicka for Ireland's Wexford Opera Festival; and Martha Clarke's revival of her Garden of Earthly Delights at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Mr. Akerlind is the recipient of the Chicago area's Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, and numerous nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards.

Joshua Horvath (Sound Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he designed sound for The Wizard of Oz. Other Chicago credits include work with: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company (Artistic Associate), About Face Theatre, Next Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, and The House Theatre of Chicago. Off Broadway credits include Clay (Lincoln Center). Regional credits include productions with: The Kennedy Center, Center Theatre Group, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, Centerstage and Long Wharf Theatre. Mr. Horvath teaches sound design for theatre and film at Northwestern University and is coowner of Aria Music Designs, LLC. He is a four-time recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award and an LA Weekly Award nominee.

Ray Nardelli (Sound Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: King Lear, The Wizard of Oz and Romeo y Julieta. Other Chicago credits include productions with: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater and Congo Square Theatre Company. Off Broadway credits include Lookingglass Alice at The New Victory Theater. Pre-Broadway credits include The Addams Family, All Shook Up and Light in the Piazza. Regional credits include productions with: McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, The Alliance Theatre, Buffalo Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, American Theater Company, The Gift Theatre Company, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare on the Green and Skylight OperaTheatre. Mr. Nardelli has recorded, mixed and produced CD's for the musicals Oh Coward!, The Sound of One, La Luna Muda and Hillbilly Antigone, and has over 400 film, TV, DVD, and computer game credits worldwide. He has received four Jeff Awards and seven additional nominations.

Jenny Giering (Original Music) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include The Mistress Cycle (Apple Tree Theatre and New York Musical Festival). Off Broadway credits include Alice Unwrapped (The Zipper Factory Theater). Regional credits include: Crossing Brooklyn (The Boston Music Theatre Project, The Transport Group and The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective); and Saint-Ex (The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company). Ms. Giering's awards include: The National Art Song Award, The Dramatists' Guild Jonathan Larson Fellowship, the Constance Klinsky Prize from Second Stage Theatre Company, and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. She was named the Clifton Artist in Residence at Harvard University and Composer in Residence at The Sundance Institute Theatre Program playwrights retreat at UCross. Ms. Giering is currently at work on a new commission for Playwrights Horizons.

Melissa Veal (Wig and Make-up Designer) has designed wigs and make-up at Chicago Shakespeare for over 40 productions, including: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Private Lives, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Amadeus, The Comedy of Errors, Othello, Passion, Troilus and Cressida, The Three Musketeers, A Flea in Her Ear, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (at CST and The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon), Much Ado About Nothing, The Molière Comedies, A Little Night Music, Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 (at CST and The Duke on 42nd Street), all four CPS Shakespeare! productions and as wig supervisor for The School for Scandal. Regionally Ms.Veal designed wigs and make-up at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. She worked with the Stratford Festival for 10 seasons, where she received four Tyrone Guthrie Awards, including the Jack Hutt Humanitarian Award. Other Canadian credits include work with: Rhombus Media, The Shaw Festival, Mirvish Productions and The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. Ms. Veal received the 2007 Hurkes Award for Artisans and Technicians.

David Woolley (Fight Director) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Peter Pan, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, King John, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth and Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream. Recent Chicago credits include: Billy Elliot (Ford Oriental Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Writer's Theatre); and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Jeff Award, Teatro Vista/Victory Gardens). Off Broadway credits include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage) and Edmond (Provincetown Playhouse). Regional credits include: Julius Caesar, Lysistrata (Guthrie Theater); Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press Award), Escanaba in da Moonlight and Duck Hunter Shoots Angel (Purple Rose Theatre Company). Mr. Woolley is co-creator and performs as Guido in Dirk & Guido: the Swordsmen!, now in its 21st year. He is a Senior Lecturer at Columbia College Chicago and Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Matt Raftery (Choreographer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he appeared as Peter in Peter Pan. Other Chicago choreography credits include: The Music Man, My Fair Lady, The Bowery Boys, Les Miserables, Sleeping Beauty (The Marriott Theatre); Funny Girl (Drury Lane Theatre); The Christmas Schooner (Theater at the Center); A Wonderful Life (2006, Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago); and Oliver! (Illinois Theatre Center). Regional choreography credits include: Carousel, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Brigadoon, Oklahoma!, Pirates of Penzance (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre); and Sideshow (The Colony Theatre Company). Acting credits include Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, the first national tour of Show Boat, and numerous regional productions.