Romeo and Juliet

Patrese D. McClain makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Other Chicago credits include: Cocked (Victory Gardens); Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (Windy City Playhouse); White Guy on the Bus (Northlight Theatre, Jeff nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress); Tartuffe, Misanthrope, Spunk (Court Theatre, Jeff nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress ). Regional credits include: Mountaintop (People's Light); Two Trains Running (GEVA Theatre Center); Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, For Colored Girls and No Child...  (The Black Rep, St. Louis Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for No Child). Film and television credits include: Chicago Fire, Sirens and Detroit 1-8-7. After high school at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago, Patrese received a BFA from Howard University and her MFA from Pennsylvania State University. She entered Howard as a political science major—“I was going to be the first Black female president.” For a high school audition, Patrese used the “’Balcony Scene,’ but I played both parts. Yikes.”   

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