Laura Rook (Juliet) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Recent Chicago credits include: Skylight (Court Theater); Hesperia (Writers’ Theatre); Playing with Fire (Bohemian Theatre); Henry V (Muse of Fire Theater Company); and productions with Silk Road Rising, Infamous Commonwealth Theatre and XIII Pocket. Favorite regional credits include: Troilus and Cressida (American Players Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); and three seasons with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and Schools. Laura holds her BFA from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. As a freshman at Richards High School in Oak Lawn, Laura read Romeo and Juliet. “I absolutely loved everything about the play”—and admits to her high school crush on Leonardo DiCaprio. Coming with her class to see the play on Chicago Shakespeare’s stage “made me fall in love with the story even more. I knew then that I wanted to do what those actors were doing one day.”

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