Paranormal Activity

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Caroline, Or Change (Tony Award Best Costume Design nominee).  WEST END: Caroline, Or Change (Olivier Award Best Costume Design nominee); Groan Ups (UK Tour); Nick Mohammed’s The Best and Worst of Mr Swallow, Show Pony. INTERNATIONAL: 50 First Dates Musical (The Other Palace); The Human Body, Henry V, Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse, Evening Standard Best Set Design Award nominee); Beginning, Middle, Pericles, I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre); Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company/Barbican); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum); Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe); Vassa, Otherland (Almeida); The Enormous Crocodile Musical (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/US Tour); Christmas Carol-ish Musical (Soho Place); Streetcar Named Desire, Scuttlers (Royal Exchange Theatre); Improbable, Philip Glass’ Tao of Glass (Manchester International Festival); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre, Off West End Award). COSTUME DESIGN: The Odyssey (National Theatre); Unreachable (Royal Court); Shipwreck (Almeida). OPERA: La Boheme (Gothenburg Opera House); Opera for the Unknown Woman (Welsh Millennium Centre). EDUCATION: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Motley Theatre Design Course.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: West Side Story. INTERNATIONAL: Aida (Circustheater); The Starry Messenger, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie, The Moderate Soprano, Frozen, 2071, The Nether and The Lehman Trilogy (West End); Shipwreck and Oil (Almeida); Linda and Girls & Boys (Royal Court); Miss Saigon (Austria, Japan, New York and UK tour); Antony and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Ugly Lies the Bone and The Great Wave (National Theatre); The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Talking Heads, A Christmas Carol, Alys, Always and My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Desire Under the Elms (Crucible Theatre); Elegy for Young Lovers (Theater an der Wien); Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mary Poppins (touring); Hamlet and The Master and Margarita (Barbican); I Can’t Sing (The London Palladium); The Little Big Things (Soho Place). OPERA: Boris Godunov (Teatro alla Scala); Lucia di Lammermoor and Otello (Metropolitan Opera); The Merry Widow (Bergen National Opera); Atlas (LA Philharmonic); Don Giovanni and Król Roger (Royal Opera House); The Hobbit, The Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni and Der Freischütz (Danish Royal Opera); Zeitgeist (Coliseum); Das Liebesverbot (Teatro Real); Tristan und Isolde (Festival d’Aix–en-Provence); The Flying Dutchman (Finland National Opera); West Side Story (Malmö Opera); Don Giovanni (Barcelona Opera and Houston Opera); Marco Polo (Guangzhou Opera House); Madame Butterfly and Carmen (Bregenzer Festspiele); Porgy and Bess (National Opera, Amsterdam, and Met Opera). DANCE: Like Water for Chocolate (Royal Opera House, Costa Mesa, and Metropolitan Opera); Malgorzata Dzierzon (Ballet Rambert); Connectome (Royal Ballet). TELEVISION: The Cube (ITV). AWARDS: BAFTA for The Cube (2012); Knight of Illumination Award for Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House (2014); Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design on West Side Story on Broadway (2020); Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Video / Projection Design on The Lehman Trilogy (2021/22); Telly Awards for Use of 360, Animation, and Interactivity on Frameless Immersive Art Gallery London (2023). Additional professional industry credits include Paris Fashion Week, Olympic and Paralympic 2012 closing ceremonies, FIFA World Cup Opening ceremony 2022. Halls has designed visuals for performing artists such as Adele, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Rihanna, Elton John, U2, and Dua Lipa. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut.  BROADWAY: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis Theater); Back to the Future: The Musical (Wintergarden Theater); Company (Bernard B. Jacobs Theater); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric Theater); Angels in America (Neil Simon Theater).  LONDON WEST END: Dr Strangelove (Nöel Coward); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix); Back to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Ballet Shoes, The Witches, Peter Gynt, Julie, Treasure Island (National Theatre); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Nöel Coward); Company (Gielgud); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne), Big The Musical (Dominion) .  UK REGIONAL: Paranormal Activity and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse); Merlin (Northern Ballet). INTERNATIONAL: The Illusionist (Tokyo); The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo); Wicked (Germany).  AWARDS: Special Tony Award 2025 for Illusions and Technical Effects for Stranger Things: The First Shadow 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. INTERNATIONAL: Giant (West End/Royal Court); Anna Kerenina (Chichester Festival Theatre); Otherland (Almeida Theatre); The Unseen (Riverside Studios); Imposter 22, Hope has a Happy Meal, That is not who I am, Poet in da Corner (UK tour), All of it, Pity, You for Me for You, Plaques & Tangles, A Time to Reap (Royal Court Theatre); Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); The Band’s Visit, Appropriate, Becoming: Part One, Salt Root & Roe (Donmar Warehouse); All of Us (National Theatre); Three Sisters, Othello, The Winters Tale, Hamlet, Henry VI, Richard III (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Gaslight (Watford Palace); A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic); Leave to Remain, The Seagull, Shopping & Fucking (Lyric Hammersmith); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Snow in Midsummer, The Roaring Girl (Royal Shakespeare Company); Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); King Lear (Globe Theatre); Dutchman, The Secret Agent, Fireface, Disco Pigs, Sus (Young Vic); Bank on it (Theatre-Rites/Barbican); Paradise, Salt (Ruhr Triennale, Germany). DANCE: Merlin (Northern Ballet); Mothers, Soul Play (The Place); Refugees of a Septic Heart (The Garage); View from the Shore, Animule Dance (Clore ROH). OPERA: Don Carlo (Grange Park); Orlando (WNO/Scottish Opera/San Francisco); Cendrillon (Gyndebourne); Ruddigore (Barbican/Opera North/UK Tour); Critical Mass (Almeida); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom, Tongue Tied (Linbury ROH); The Bartered Bride (Royal College of Music); Against Oblivion (Toynbee Hall).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Encounter. OFF BROADWAY: Blackwatch (St Anns Warehouse); Shun-kin (Lincoln Centre). REGIONAL: Let The Right One In (Berkeley Rep). INTERNATIONAL: Viola’s Room (Punchdrunk); Hamlet Hail To The Thief (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Land of the Living (National Theatre); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse/Harold Pinter Theatre). EDUCATION: Theatre Design, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. AWARDS: two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, three Olivier Awards, two Helpmann Awards, one WhatsOnStage award and an Evening Standard award. BOOKS: He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Billie Jean, 42 Balloons. CHICAGO: Honeypot (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre/Northwestern); Into the Woods (Kokandy Productions); Seven Guitars (CityLit Theatre); cultural sensitivity director on Kid Prince and Pablo (Lifeline Theatre Company). OFF-BROADWAY: How to Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). REGIONAL: Afterglow (The Hudson Theatres); Destiny of Desire (Old Globe Theatre); Siluetas (Power Street Theatre); Hair, Bernarda Alba, Rent (University of Michigan). INTERNATIONAL: Orlando (Antipodes Theatre Company). FILM: all the words but the one, Some Kind of Paradise, Aristotle, Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. TELEVISION: LACE (AllBlk Network). EDUCATION: MFA in directing, Loyola Marymount University. Morgan is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE), an adjunct professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and the Director of Accessibility and Inclusion at the Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (IPEC).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: The Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan. CHICAGO: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story (Marriott Theatre); Sound of Music, Rock of Ages, Kinky Boots, Hand to God, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s Newsies, Once, Cabaret, Million Dollar Quartet, Sweeney Todd, The Little Mermaid (Paramount Theatre); The Mountaintop (Invictus), The Life and Deaths of Alan Turing, Albert Herring (Chicago Opera Theatre); Ironbound, Requiem for a Heavyweight (Artistic Home); The Gulf (About Face Theatre); Cabaret (Theatre at the Center); Brigadoon, Secret Garden, Cabaret (Music Theater Works); The Whaleship Essex, Mill Fire (Shattered Globe), and others. Acting credits: Paramount Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Drury Lane Theatre, Artists’ Ensemble, The Old Globe. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: 150 plus productions over 24 years, including 35 plays in Shakespeare’s canon under current Artistic Director Edward Hall and Founding Artistic Director Barbara Gaines. Also at CST: nine productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals under the direction of Gary Griffin. CHICAGO: Bounce, Light in the Piazza (Goodman Theatre); REGIONAL: SIX (CST, American Repertory Theater–Artios Award, Ordway Center, The Citadel); Ride the Cyclone (CST, Fifth Avenue Theatre/A Contemporary Theater, Alliance Theatre); OFF-BROADWAY: Ride the Cyclone (MCC); Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Artistic Director Edward Hall (The Duke on 42nd Street); Marionette Macbeth (New Victory); BROADWAY: SIX, The Notebook; INTERNATIONAL: The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale (Auckland, NZ); Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse–Olivier Award, Outstanding Musical); Henry IV, Parts One and Two (RSC). Prior to casting, Mason enjoyed a career as a Joseph Jefferson Award-winning actor and singer and has been a visiting educator at Northwestern University and multiple college programs across the country.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: The Crucible (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Toni Stone, Ah, Wilderness!, A Christmas Carol, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Measure for Measure, Camino Real (Goodman Theatre); How a Boy Falls (Northlight); Camelot (Drury Lane Theatre); Turret (Jeff Award nomination – Best Performer in a Principal Role), The Malignant Ampersands, Grey House, Small Mouth Sounds, directed Revolution (A Red Orchid Theatre). REGIONAL: American Players Theatre (five seasons;  favorite credits include The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida); Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Uprooted Theatre, Forward Theatre Company, Renaissance Theaterworks. FILM: Runner; Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party; Survivor, Soldier, Sinner, Savior; Rabbit Rabbit; Pornacopia. TELEVISION: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med (NBC); Mind Games (ABC); Dad Man Walking (web series). MOTION CAPTURE: Mortal Kombat 1 (NetherRealm Studios); Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (Raven Software). AWARDS: Named to Players 50 2025 (Newcity Stage). Knight is a member of the artistic ensemble at A Red Orchid Theatre and serves as the Associate Artistic Director. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Red Dog Theatre. BROADWAY: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Tina–The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, On the Twentieth Century. OFF BROADWAY: Dark Disabled Stories, american (tele)visions, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Hurricane Diane, Wild Goose Dreams, Jersey Boys, Pacific Overtures, Dead Poets Society, Mobile Unit’s Hamlet, Once Upon A Mattress. REGIONAL:  Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Two River, Pig Iron, Gulfshore Playhouse, The Barnstormers, Crossroads Rep. EDUCATION: Indiana State University. Lisby has also worked on numerous showcases, readings, galas, and events.