Red Velvet

MARA BLUMENFELD returns to Chicago Shakespeare for her twelfth production, where her credits include: Red Velvet, King Charles III, Road Show, Sunday in the Park with George (2002, 2012), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, A Flea in Her Ear (Jeff Award), A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, 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, Writers Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre Company (ensemble member). Her New York credits include: Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, Second Stage Theater); The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center); The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Second Stage Theater); Measure for Measure (Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival); and Homebody/Kabul (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Opera credits include: Rusalka, Lucia di Lammermoor, and La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera); and The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago).  Ms. Blumenfeld has received four Joseph Jefferson Awards, and the 2012 Michael Merritt Award.

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