The Wizard of Oz
July 6
August 25, 2019
CST's Courtyard Theater
by L. Frank Baum
with music & lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company
directed by Brian Hill
choreographed by Kenny Ingram
Jose Antonio Garcia
Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
JOSE ANTONIO GARCIA CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare productions of The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew; Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks production of The Taming of the Shrew. CHICAGO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare Project of Chicago); Gypsy (Porchlight Music Theatre); Apartment 3A (Windy City Playhouse); Upstairs Concierge, A Christmas Carol, Oedipus Complex, King Lear, Revenge of the Space Pandas (Goodman Theatre); Fallow (Steep Theatre); Incident on Run #1217 (Factory Theatre); Electra (BoHo Theatre); The Vow (Stage Left Theatre); The Last Meal Man (Collaboraction); Honus and Me (Chicago Children’s Theatre). REGIONAL: Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre. FILM: Captive State, An Acceptable Loss, Win It All, Working Man, Animator, Cleveland Abduction, Consumed. TELEVISION: The Chi, Shameless (Showtime); Proven Innocent, Empire, Mob Doctor, Prison Break (FOX); Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Fire (NBC); Sense8 (Netflix); Boss (Starz); Written Off (Amazon). EDUCATION: MFA, Indiana University; BFA, University of Connecticut.