Much Ado About Nothing

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Measure for Measure, Richard III. CHICAGO: A Case for the Existence of God, Light Falls, Red Rex, Zurich (Steep Theatre); Villette, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Lookingglass Theatre Company); graveyard shift (Goodman Theatre), Mary’s Wedding (First Folio Theatre), Fair Maid of the West, You Can’t Take it With You (Oak Park Festival Theatre), Moon Man Walk (Definition Theatre). REGIONAL: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, McCarter Theatre Center. FILM: Exes of Christmas Past, Rabbit, Rabbit, Instinct of Fear, The Christmas Pitch, Black Pill. TELEVISION: Chicago Med and Chicago PD (NBC), Power Book IV: Force (STARZ), Single Drunk Female (Freeform), Fargo (FX), neXt (FOX). Debo is represented by Gray Talent Group.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well. CHICAGO: Bust, A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre). OFF BROADWAY: Promenade (New York City Center); Julius Caesar (Theatre for a New Audience); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Pearl Theatre Company); Fashions for Men (Mint Theater Company). REGIONAL: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Geva Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company. TELEVISION: The Gilded Age (HBO); Evil, Madam Secretary, Instinct (CBS); The Good Fight (Paramount+). FILM: The Knick (Cinemax). EDUCATION: BA, University of California, Irvine. markbedard.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Sunny Afternoon. CHICAGO: Million Dollar Quartet (Metropolis Arts Center); Hair (MadKap Productions). REGIONAL: Much Ado About Nothing, indivisible with (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Jersey Boys, Titanic (Fireside Dinner Theatre); The Full Monty, Dennis DeYoung’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney’s A Jolly Holiday, From Here to Eternity (Skylight Music Theatre). EDUCATION: BFA in acting, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. @joey.chelius

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: thirty productions, including Sunny Afternoon, Henry V, Richard III, Joseph in The Book of Joseph, King Charles III, Pericles, School For Lies, Sunday in the Park with George, Timon of Athens. CHICAGO: Frank Sr. in Catch Me If You Can, Applegate in Damn Yankees (Marriott Theatre); Dr. Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (Mercury Theater); Intimate Apparel (Northlight Theatre); Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Writers Theatre); Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (Drury Lane Theatre); 2666 (Goodman Theatre); work at Court Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Theatre at the Center, TimeLine Theatre Company, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, About Face Theatre. OFF BROADWAY:  Rose Rage (The Duke on 42nd Street). REGIONAL: Old Globe Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and 19 seasons with Peninsula Players Theatre. FILM: The Merry Gentleman directed by Michael Keaton. TELEVISION: Antoon Dumini in Fargo (FX); Chicago PD, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire (NBC); Monster (Netflix). AWARDS: Eleven Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, After Dark Award. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The King’s Speech, Richard III, The School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Julius Caesar, A Little Night Music, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Pacific Overtures, titles roles in Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. CHICAGO: Inherit the Wind, The House of Martini Guerre, King Lear (Goodman Theatre); My Fair Lady, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof, Proof (Court Theatre); Translations, Parade, Twelfth Night (Writers Theatre); Marriott Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater. REGIONAL: The National Theatre (Washington DC), Peninsula Players, Notre Dame Shakespeare. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canadian Stage, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company (Chicago Shakespeare tour). FILM: While You Were Sleeping, Home Alone III, The Poker House. TELEVISION: Emperor of Ocean Park (MGM+); Shining Girls (Apple TV); Chicago Fire, Crisis (NBC); Boss (Starz); Empire, The Chicago Code (FOX); Early Edition (CBS). Gudahl is a multiple Joseph Jefferson Award recipient, and is a Shakespeare verse coach and folio instructor.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Rosie Cotton in The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale. CHICAGO: The Robin in The Secret Garden (Court Theatre); Lily in James Joyce’s The Dead (Court Theatre). INTERNATIONAL: Rosie Cotton in The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale. ONSTAGE FLUTE/PIT ORCHESTRA CREDITS: The Matchbox Magic Flute (Goodman Theatre); Die Kathrin (Chicago Folks Operetta); Juno (Timeline Theatre); Jekyll and Hyde (Kokandy Productions); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Porchlight Music Theatre); A Man of No Importance (Pride Films and Plays). EDUCATION: BM and MM in flute performance, DePaul University. Hannau studied Meisner at Blackbox Acting and Shakespeare with Susan Hart. Sheteaches flute and early childhood music education at the Music Institute of Chicago.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: As You Like It, School for Lies. INTERNATIONAL: seven seasons including Feste in Twelfth Night, Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance, Katerina in Taming of the Screw, Thaisa/Marina in Pericles, Emilia in Othello (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); ten seasons including Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Usher/God in Everybody, Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Grushinskaya in Grand Hotel, Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, Eliza in My Fair Lady, Billy Dawn in Born Yesterday (Shaw Festival); Jean/Donna in After the Rain (Tarragon Theatre); Frances Piper in Fall on Your Knees (World premiere/Canadian Tour); Nora in Doll’s House Part 2 (RMTC/MIRVISH); Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (Grand Theatre); Rose Stopnick in Caroline or Change (Musical Stage/Obsidian, ElginWinter Garden). TELEVISION: Catherine Cardinal in Cardinal, Saving Hope (CTV); Five Days at Memorial, Acts of Crime (ABC); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). FILM: The Anniversary. EDUCATION: BFA, York University; Stratford Festival Conservatory. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Richard III,  The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Edward II. CHICAGO: Dial M For Murder, Ring of Fire (Drury Lane Theatre); Translations, Smart People, Marjorie Prime (Writers Theatre); 1776, The Sound of Music (Marriott Theatre); Lindiwe, Familiar, The Burn, The Crucible (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, Mousetrap, One Man Two Gov’nors, The Misanthrope, Proof, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Arcadia (Court Theatre); Georgiana and Kitty, Miss Bennet, Lost in Yonkers (Northlight Theatre); Eastland (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Luna Gale (Goodman Theatre). REGIONAL: Let The Right One In (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre. Film: The Dark Knight, Walden, The Killer. TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD (NBC); Empire (FOX); The Good Fight (Paramount+); Mrs. America (FX); Fargo (FX); 61st Street (AMC/CW).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Among The Dead (Jackalope Theater); Everybody, Tartuffe (The Theatre School at DePaul University); Columbinus (The Yard Theater Company). REGIONAL: The Colony Theater. FILM: Invader, Crooks, Burrow. TELEVISION: Chicago Fire (NBC). EDUCATION: BFA in acting, The Theatre School at DePaul University.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Chlorine Sky, Choir Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Joseph Jefferson Award – Best Ensemble); You Had A Good Run (Goodman Theatre); Birthday Candles (Northlight Theatre); Sunday in the Park with George (Porchlight Music Theatre); Black By Popular Demand (The Second City); Reasons (Black Ensemble Theater). REGIONAL: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Portland Stage Theater). TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Chicago Med (NBC). EDUCATION: Columbia University.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Inherit the Wind (Goodman Theatre); Villette (Lookingglass Theater Company); The Chinese Lady (TimeLine Theater Company, Joseph Jefferson Award Nominee). REGIONAL/TOUR: Life of Pi (Broadway National Tour); Dracula (Cincy Playhouse); John (ArtsWest); The Journal of Ben Uchida (Seattle Children’s); Jane Eyre, A Tale for Time Being (Book-It Rep); The Great Inconvenience (Annex Theatre) EDUCATION: MFA in acting, Northwestern University. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V. REGIONAL: Fish in The Royale (American Players Theatre); King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Much Ado About Quite A Lot (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). EDUCATION: BFA in theatre acting, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. AWARDS: Hattie McDaniel Award 2023, Samuel L. Stickler Faculty Players Award 2024, National Arts and Letters Drama Award 2023.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure. CHICAGO: Noises Off (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Nacirema Society (Goodman Theatre); Alaiyo (Definition Theatre); Hand to God (Paramount Theatre). REGIONAL: Pipeline (TheatreWorks Colorado Springs). TELEVISION: Shining Girls (Apple TV+); 4400 (The CW); How to L0ve (OTV). EDUCATION: BA in theatre, Northwestern University. AWARDS: 2024 Definition Theatre Amplify New Play Commission Winner; 2023 Kilroys Web; 2021 Reva and David Logan Foundation Artist Grant.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Sanctuary City (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Gender Play, or what you Will (About Face Theatre); Anna in the Tropics (Remy Bumppo); Same Sects (Haven Chicago); When Harry Met Rehab (Greenhouse Theater). REGIONAL: Anna in the Tropics, The Winter’s Tale (American Player’s Theatre); How to Defend Yourself, We’ve Come to Believe, A Christmas Carol, Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). EDUCATION: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, The King’s Speech, King Charles III, Cymbeline, The Three Musketeers, Timon of Athens; understudy in Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Red Velvet. CHICAGO: Parade, Days Like Today, Isaac’s Eye (Writers Theatre); Betrayal Wonderful Town,Camino Real, Bounce, Turn of the Century, Floyd Collins, The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman Theatre); The Da Vinci Code, Mamma Mia!, Young Frankenstein, Fiddler on the Roof (Drury Lane Theatre); Discord, Mothers and Sons (Northlight Theatre); The Secret Garden (Court Theatre); Samsara (Victory Gardens Theater); The Brother/Sister Plays (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Nine (Jeff Award nomination, Porchlight Music Theatre). REGIONAL: Candide (Huntington Theatre Company); My Fair Lady (Asolo Repertory Theatre); 1776 (American Conservatory Theater); The American in Me (Magic Theatre); Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago P.D.  (NBC); Soundtrack (Netflix) The Big Leap, Empire, Prison Break (FOX) The Chi (Paramount Plus); EDUCATION: BFA in acting, University of Southern California. @jeffparkeractor, jeffparkeractor.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Wallis Simpson in The King’s Speech, Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, The Jailer’s Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen; Short Shakespeare! productions of Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: The Cherry Orchard, Good Night Oscar, Carlyle, A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Charlotte in A Little Night Music, Susan in Company, Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House, Thea in Hedda Gabler (Writers Theatre); Lookingglass Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Provision Theater, TimeLine Theatre Company, Lifeline Theatre, Eclipse Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company. REGIONAL: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, National Theatre D.C., Seattle Repertory Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, four seasons with American Players Theatre. TELEVISION: Chicago Med (NBC); South Side (HBO/Comedy Central). EDUCATION: MA, Northwestern University.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare in Love. CHICAGO: A Lie of the Mind (Raven Theatre); Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre); Love Song (Remy Bumppo); In Quietness (A Red Orchid); the live in(n) workshop (Rivendell); Happy Days are Here Again (Steep); Campaigns, Inc. (Timeline Theatre Company); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, Much Ado About Nothing (Oak Park Festival Theatre); The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Northlight Theatre); The Temperamentals, Significant Other (About Face Theatre); Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Good Doctor, Tartuffe, Macbeth, (Organic Theater Company); Twelfth Night (Midsommer Flight). REGIONAL: Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, All My Sons (American Players Theatre). EDUCATION: BFA in Acting, Northern Illinois University, training intensives at Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Massachusetts) and the Moscow Art Theatre (Moscow, Russia).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: Debut. Chicago: Court Theatre, Body Politic Theater. Regional: 13 seasons resident company member at Milwaukee Repertory Theater,  12 seasons with Great River Shakespeare Festival, 14 seasons with PCPA Theaterfest,  American Players Theatre, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Renaissance Theatre Company, Next Act Theatre. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a playwright Daly has written The Daly News,  To the Promised Land, An Evening of Carl Sandburg. He is also the author of Rough Magic: Scenes from an Actor’s Life.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Stabbed in the Heart (Factory Theater); Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Haven Theatre); 9 to 5 (Metropolis Performing Arts Centre); Valhalla (The Plagiarists); Notes and Letters, The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe, Moby Dick: A Musical, Adventurers (Underscore Theatre Company); Things I Could Never Tell Stephen (PrideArts); Bonnie & Clyde, The Fantasticks (Madkap Productions); Lucky: A Musical (Second City). REGIONAL/TOUR: Kirche Kuche Kinder (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival). EDUCATION: BFA in musical theatre, Texas Tech University. Hall is an ensemble member with A Short Leap Theatre Company.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Titus Andronicus, Chicago (Redtwist Theatre); Vinegar Tom (Red Theater); Cry It Out (Oil Lamp Theater); Murder Rewrote (Hell in a Handbag Productions); Krugozor (Theatre Evolve); Language of Angels (Three Crows Theatre).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: The Outsider (Buffalo Ensemble Theatre); Mauritius (Parker Players Theater Company). REGIONAL: Great River Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Shakespeare Theatre/Wooden O, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, New Century Theatre Company, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, GreenStage Shakespeare in the Parks, Annex Theatre, Ensemble Shakespeare Theatre, Mt. Baker Repertory Theatre. IMPROV/MIME: Impro Theatre (Company Member), Unexpected Productions/Seattle TheatreSports (Company Member), Magic Circle Mime Company (Company Member). TELEVISION: Everyone Is Doing Great (Hulu). EDUCATION: BS in education and social policy, and bassoon performance, Northwestern University. Mountjoy-Pepka is an acting instructor for adults and teens at Acting Studio Chicago.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: Debut. CHICAGO: Kid Prince in Kid Prince and Pablo (Lifeline Theatre);  Manuel in That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven, Sonny in In the Heights (Visíon Latino Theatre Company). FILM: She Wore Witch Fingers, July Rising. EDUCATION: acting major at The Chicago High School for the Arts. Zambrano also works as an arts educator for The Chicago High School for the Arts.