Sense and Sensibility
April 8
June 7, 2015
in CST's Courtyard Theater
based on the novel by Jane Austen
book, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon
directed by Barbara Gaines
New Work Partner
Megan McGinnis
Marianne Dashwood
Megan McGinnis makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. Past Chicago credits include Daddy Long Legs (Northlight Theatre, Jeff Award nomination). Ms. McGinnis was most recently on Broadway as the Standby for Daisy and Violet in the revival of Side Show. Other Broadway credits include: Eponine in Les Misérables, Beth in Little Women, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Parade and The Diary of Anne Frank. She has performed in London and toured the US with Daddy Long Legs (Ovation Award, Eliot Norton Award), as well as with The Sound of Music, James Joyce's The Dead and Fiddler on the Roof. Film and television credits include: A Goofy Movie and Anywhere But Here, Blossom (NBC); Wings (NBC); and Sister, Sister (ABC). She can be heard on the original cast recordings of Daddy Long Legs, Little Women, Parade, and Sutton Foster's album Wish, singing the duet "Flight." Ms. McGinnis received her BA in English from Columbia University in New York.