Q Brothers Christmas Carol

Rick Boynton focuses on current and future artistic planning and production, as well as the development of all new plays, musicals, and adaptations for CST. Projects include: The Book of Joseph, Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, 5th Avenue/ACT, upcoming at Alliance Theatre), Sense and Sensibility (CST, Old Globe), Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Edinburgh, Vancouver), Othello: The Remix (CST, London, Germany, Edinburgh, South Korea, New York), Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Australian tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Three Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest (in collaboration with Redmoon). Former artistic director of the Marriott Theatre and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, he has starred in productions nationally, including CST’s production of A Flea in Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark Award). As casting director/associate at Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: the television series Early Edition, Missing Persons, Untouchables, and ER; the films While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, among others; and numerous national tours. Boynton has lectured at his alma mater Northwestern University and is the former president of the board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: over twenty productions, including Romeo and Juliet, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Q Brothers Christmas Carol, Red Velvet, Madagascar, Shakespeare in Love, The Book of Joseph, King Charles III, Tug of War: Foreign Fire and Civil Strife, Ride the Cyclone, The Little Mermaid, Pericles, Road Show, Shrek the Musical, Othello: The Remix (CST/ international tour), Cadre (CST/tour to South Africa, Edinburgh, Vancouver), Beauty and the Beast, Murder for Two; Short Shakespeare! productions of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Disney on Ice: Road Trip Adventures. CHICAGO: Court Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, Drury Lane Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Windy City Playhouse. OFF BROADWAY: Ride the Cyclone (MCC Theater), Othello: The Remix (Westside Theatre). REGIONAL: Signature Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre. TELEVISION: concept artist for Gossip Girl (HBOMax) and The Watcher (Netflix); set designer/concept artist for Gilded Age Season 2 (HBOMax); art consultant for American Horror Story (FX). www.scottadamdavis.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Madagascar – A Musical Adventure, Pericles (Jeff Award nomination), Seussical, Cyrano de Bergerac, Shrek the Musical, Cadre (CST/ tour to South Africa, Edinburgh, and Vancouver), Othello: The Remix (CST/ international tour), Murder for Two, How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?, The Three Musketeers. CHICAGO: The Marriott Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Broadway in Chicago, Victory Gardens Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Paramount Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Northlight Theatre. OFF BROADWAY: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Henry Hewes Award nomination); The Screwtape Letters (Westside Theatre/national tour); Romulus (Guggenheim Museum); The Hourglass (New York Musical Festival). REGIONAL: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Old Globe, American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company. AWARDS: Jeff Award winner, nineteen-time nominee.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Nell Gwynn; assistant designer for The Tempest, The Little Mermaid, Seussical. CHICAGO: Mies Julie (Victory Gardens Theater); Long Way Home (Q Brothers with Chicago Children’s Choir); The Skin of Our Teeth (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); The Pride, The Flowers, Stupid Kids, The Young Ladies of… (About Face Theatre); How We Got On (Haven Theatre Company); Killer Angels (Lifeline Theatre); Landladies (Northlight Theatre); Breach, Roadkill Confidential, Dead Letter Office, The Twins Would Like to Say, God’s Ear, As Told by the Vivian Girls (Dog & Pony Theatre Company); Faster (Side Project Theatre Company). FILM: Letters to the City – Jail Is Not My Home, May Days, What Remains, Some Girls Never Learn. TELEVISION: Brujos. EDUCATION: BA in English, theatre arts, University of Iowa. AWARDS: Non-Equity Jeff Awards for Sound Design 2008, 2014, 2017; Nicholas Meyer Scholarship for Playwriting 2005.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: wig and make-up designer/head of department for over ninety-five productions, including Ride the Cyclone, Sense and Sensibility, King Lear, Henry V, Road Show, Gypsy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cyrano de Bergerac, The School for Lies (Jeff Award), Sunday in the Park with George, Othello: The Remix (CST/ tour), Elizabeth Rex (Jeff Award nomination), Follies, The Madness of George III (Jeff Award), Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (CST/Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon), Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 (CST/The Duke on 42nd Street). Veal then returned to the Stratford Festival, where she had worked for ten seasons and received four Tyrone Guthrie Awards and the 2019 Tyrone Award. During her tenure at Chicago Shakespeare, she also received the 2007 Hurckes Award for Artisans and Technicians.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Q Brothers Christmas Carol. CHICAGO: Collaboraction, The Old Town School of Folk Music, workshops at Lollapalooza Music Festival, member of Brickheadz Crew. REGIONAL: member of L.A. Breakers. TELEVISION: performer in Hotwire (Colette music video); performer in Safe and Sound (Capital Cities music video); America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV); Show Us Your Character (USA). EDUCATION: Graduate of music business program, UCLA. Anacron is currently a professional recording artist, an experiential educator specializing in professional development and relationships, and a United States Ambassador for the Department of State Bureau of Culture and Education. @Anacron_LA

Mason celebrates his twenty-third year at CST as Artistic Associate/Casting Director, where his credits include over 150 productions and programs and thirty-five plays in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to numerous productions with Chicago Shakespeare founder Barbara Gaines, other productions of note include: a host of Sondheim musicals (Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music, Passion, Road Show, Gypsy, directed by Gary Griffin); SIX (CST, Broadway, A.R.T., Ordway Center, the Citadel); Ride the Cyclone directed by Rachel Rockwell (CST, off Broadway at MCC Theater, Fifth Avenue Theatre/American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theatre); Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Edward Hall (CST, The Duke on 42nd Street). He also directed and co-created Shakespeare Tonight with Beckie Menzie, as part of CST’s Shakespeare 400 Festival. Prior to casting, Mason enjoyed a career as a Joseph Jefferson Award-winning actor and singer and has been a visiting educator for Northwestern University, the School at Steppenwolf, the Guthrie Theater BFA program, Acting Studio Chicago, DePaul, Columbia, Roosevelt University, and multiple university programs across the country.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: Red Velvet, Q Brothers Christmas Carol (2017), Madagascar, King Charles III, Othello, Amarillo, and Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet. CHICAGO: An American in Paris, Disney’s Mary Poppins, The Color Purple, Matilda, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors (Drury Lane Theater); This Is Our Youth, Leveling Up, Lord of the Flies, I’ll Get You Back Again (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Dutchman/TRANSit (American Blues Theater). TOURS: The Book of Mormon. REGIONAL: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Betrayal, Private Lives, Captors (Huntington Theatre Company). EDUCATION: BA in stage/production management, Emerson College.