42 Balloons

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. PROJECTS: Babies (The Other Palace, London, 2024); Hot Mess (Edinburgh Fringe, 2025). EDUCATION: BA in theology, Durham University; MA in musical theatre, Goldsmiths University. AWARDS: The Stage (UK) Debut Award 2024 for Best New Composer, Lyricist, or Bookwriter for 42 Balloons. @jjgodfreyy

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. INTERNATIONAL: 42 Balloons (Lowry Theatre, The Stage Debut Awards nomination for Best Director); The Way Way Deep (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe/Fringe World, Theatre and Performance Award— Overall Winner); Mario: A Super Musical (The Cockpit/Union Theatre), as co-director: The Limit, Catch Me (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), as associate director: Greek (Arcola Theatre); Lock & Key (The Vaults); 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (The Other Palace), as assistant director: Wasted (Southwark Playhouse). WORKSHOP CREDITS: Rust (Leeds Conservatoire); My So-Called Haunting (University of Chichester); Train On Fire (MT Fest, The Other Palace); Busk (Dare Festival, Shoreditch Town Hall); Little Sausage (Drayton Arms Theatre). DRAMATURGY: Red Book (Seven Dials Playhouse). UPCOMING, as director and bookwriter: Hot Mess (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe). EDUCATION: BA in english, University of Cambridge. Coote is the co-founder of Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy.

CHICAGO SHAKEPSEARE: SIX. BROADWAY: SIX (Lena Horne Theatre). INTERNATIONAL: SIX (West End, UK Tours); 42 Balloons (The Lowry/Vaudeville Theatre); Why Am I So Single (Garrick Theatre); babies (The Other Palace, Lyric Theatre). EDUCATION: BA in music, University of Cambridge; PGDip in music direction, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. AWARDS: Joseph Jefferson Award for Music Direction (SIX); Grammy Award Nomination for Musical Theatre Album (SIX: The Musical—Live on Opening Night); Olivier Award Nomination (SIX).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. INTERNATIONAL: Scissorhandz (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); House of Cleopatra (Edinburgh Fringe); The Children’s Inquiry, for LUNG Theatre (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Babies (The Other Palace); 42 Balloons (The Lowry); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre); Woodhill, for LUNG Theatre (Shoreditch Town Hall, The North Wall, Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse); Brief Encounter (New Wolsey/UK Tour); 42 Balloons (The Vaudeville); But I’m A Cheerleader (The Turbine), The Red & The Black (Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, Umeda Arts Theater). EDUCATION: Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing Arts.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. UK: The Fifth Step (Soho Place); Otherland (Almeida); 42 Balloons (The Lowry); Mates in Chelsea, Inside Bitch, Bad Roads, B Human Animals (Royal Court); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (The Royal Exchange); Samuel Takes a Break (The Yard Theatre); Bootycandy, A Small Place (Gate Theatre); Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre); Red Ellen (Northern Stage), Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer, O, Island! (Mischief Festival for Royal Shakespeare Company); Isla (Theatr Clwyd); La Traviata (Nevill Holt); La boheme (ENO: Drive & Live); Yolk and Aliens (Brighton Festival); Curious (Soho Theatre); Mr. Burns, Gone Too Far (Guildhall); There Are No Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Youth Theatre); Europe, You Got Older (LAMDA); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Elephant (Birmingham Rep); Outside, Out of Water (Orange Tree Theatre); The Tide Whisperer (National Theatre Wales). EDUCATION: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. AWARDS: Linbury Prize for Stage Design, Lord Williams Prize for Design, The Prince of Wales Design Scholarship.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. INTERNATIONAL: Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo & Juliet (Globe Theatre); Othello (Riverside Studios); The Architect (Greenwich + Docklands International Festival); August in England (Bush Theatre); Quadrophenia (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Black Shadows (Ballet Black UK Tour; Kyoto (Royal Shakespeare Company/Soho Place West End); 42 Balloons (The Lowry); Vanya (Duke of Yorks Theatre/Richmond Theatre); Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Black Sun (Ballet Black Double Bill/UK Tour); A Number (Old Vic); White Noise (Bridge Theatre); Is God Is (Royal Court Theatre); Anna X (Harold Pinter Theatre). FILM: Costume Trainee for My Name is Leon (BBC1). EDUCATION: BA honors in theatre design, Wimbledon College of Arts AWARDS: Black British Theatre Award for Costume Design Recognition 2020, Best Revival Olivier Award Winner 2024 for Vanya.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Groundhog Day, &Juliet, Life Of Pi. OFF BROADWAY: People, Places And Things, Man To Man, The Machine, Burn. REGIONAL: Ogunquit Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Minnesota Opera, Maltz-Jupiter Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Starlight Express, Just For One Day, Message In A Bottle, The Time Traveller’s Wife, Sylvia, The Drifters Girl. EDUCATION: BA in theatre design at Central Saint Martins in London. AWARDS: Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Olivier Award, 2x Whatsonstage Awards, Broadway World Award, UK Theatre Award. Goulding also works as a set designer with upcoming productions of Indigo, Footballer’s Wives and Lost Atoms.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Bad Cinderella (West End), Miss Saigon, TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (West End, International Tour, Tony Award nominated). WEST END: The Devil Wears Prada, Macbeth, Waiting For Godot, Miss Saigon (European, US, Australia tours), Uncle Vanya (Olivier Award nominated), From Here to Eternity. UK: Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); The Seagull (Barbican); Frankenstein, London Road, Light Shining In Buckinghamshire, The Witches (National Theatre); 42 Balloons (The Lowry); The Convert (Young Vic). OPERA: The Hours (Metropolitan Opera); Amadeus (Royal Danish Opera); Salome (Houston Grand Opera); Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House/LA Opera/Houston Opera); Akhnaten (English National Opera/LA Opera/Metropolitan Opera); Oklahoma! (Grange Park Opera); Alcina (Glyndebourne). MUSIC: Alicia Keys: Keys To The Summer (US Arena tour); Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld (world tour); Sigur Rós (all world tours since 2012); UAE National Days (49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd); Gary Barlow: A Different Stage (West End/UK tour); Björk Cornucopia, Billie Eilish Live (Steve Jobs Theatre). AWARDS: Three Knights of Illumination Awards, Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Frankenstein.

PAUL GATEHOUSE CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. SOUND DESIGN: Amélie (Werk7 Theatre, Munich); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton); SIX (Arts Theatre/National Tour); Mary Poppins (Zurich/Dubai, Asian premiere in Japan). ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGN: Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); Half A Sixpence (Noel Coward Theatre); Les Misérables (London 25th Anniversary/International Tour/Madrid/Manilla/US Tour); The Phantom of the Opera (London/Broadway/Las Vegas/25th Anniversary/ Hamburg/Paris); Evita (US National Tour); Miss Saigon (Tokyo/Netherlands); Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre); The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act, The Sound of Music (The London Palladium); Love Never Dies, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi Theatre); Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular (Las Vegas); The Woman in White (Broadway); Starlight Express (Tour). RECORDINGS: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – Original London Cast Recording (Producer/Mixer); Disney’s Newsies Theatrical and DVD Release (Mixer); Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording Theatrical, DVD, and CD Release (Recording Engineer/Mixer).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: The Devil Wears Prada (James M. Nederlander Theater). BROADWAY: Pirates! The Penzance Musical (2025 Revival), & Juliet, The Wiz (2024 Revival), Suffs, Back to the Future, Sweeney Todd, Jagged Little Pill. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse, Olney Theater Center, Goodspeed Opera House. TELEVISION: Only Murders in the Building, Welcome to Wrexham (Hulu). EDUCATION: BA in music, Rutgers University.
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CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. 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: 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.

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An award-winning Casting House based in London and New York. Recent notable UK & US theatre casting includes Olivier Award-winning Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre London
/Golden Theatre New York), Olivier Award-winning Titanique (Criterion Theatre/Lido 2 Paris), Olivier Award-nominated SIX (Vaudeville Theatre/UK & International Tours), Olivier Award-nominated Bluey’s Big Play (UK Tour), and the Olivier Award-nominated revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park), as well as Pretty Woman (US Tour), and CLUE (US AEA Tour).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. OFF BROADWAY: Resident Director, Titanique (Lucille Lortel winning Best Musical 2022); Your Alice (BAM/Edinburgh Fringe/The Arcola Theatre London); Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares (Audible Theatre/Edfringe); Death Drop (New World Stages). REGIONAL: Native Gardens (Westport Country Playhouse); Moonfaker (New Musicals Lab); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Shenandoah Music Theatre); 3 Hams (EdFringe); Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (Scranton Shakespeare Festival) You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Straftford Shakespeare Festival); Lysistrata Jones (Ophelia Theatre); Tour Director for Ragtag Theatre Company’s Rapunzel (Barrington Stage/Red House Arts); Titanique (CAA/Mirvish Productions). WRITING: Your Alice (BAM); Next Round (Gala Theatre UK/Theatre Lab/Scranton Fringe); We Carry On – A series of radio plays. www.billieakentyers.com @billieakentyers.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. REGIONAL: Director of How The World Began (Westport Country Playhouse, Script in hand Series); Associate Choreographer for Sing Street (Huntington Theatre Company); Choreographer for Peter and the Starcatcher (White Heron Theater). Assistant Director of A Sherlock Carol (New World Stages); Choreographer of Forget Me Not (Manhattan School of Music). INTERNATIONAL: Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre). Gonzalez is the Associate Choreographer for Moulin Rouge the Musical working with companies all over the world including London, Germany, and Australia.

KAILEY ROCKWELL (Associate Music Director) CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Waitress, The Sound of Music, Dreamgirls (Paramount Theatre); Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Writers Theatre); Beehive (Marriott Theatre). REGIONAL: The Color Purple (North Carolina Theatre). EDUCATION: BM in contemporary and popular music, Columbia College Chicago.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare in the Park. CHICAGO: The Wizard of Oz (Marriott Theatre). REGIONAL: The National Theatre (Washington DC), American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Berkeley Playhouse, Symphony Space. OPERA/FILM: The Matrix (San Francisco Symphony); Gustavo Dudamel (LA Philharmonic). EDUCATION: BM in vocal performance, Concentration in music direction , Northwestern University. AWARDS: Best Arrangement for the entire set at ICCA 2022 Quarter Final. @cameronmiya

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Judgment Day, Measure for Measure, It Came From Outer Space, The King’s Speech, SIX, Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Ride the Cyclone. CHICAGO: Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Sweat, Kinky Boots, Beauty and the Beast, The Producers, The Wizard of Oz, Once, Elf the Musical, Sweeney Todd, The Little Mermaid, Hairspray, The Who’s Tommy (Paramount Theatre); Nightwatch (Goodman Theatre); Bakersfield Mist, Danny Casolaro Died for You, The How and the Why, A Raisin in the Sun, Wasteland (TimeLine Theatre Company); Hillary and Clinton (Victory Gardens Theater). REGIONAL: Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: I Banquo, I Cinna, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: Waitress, The Full Monty, A Streetcar Named Desire (Paramount Theatre); The Steadfast Tin Soldier, A Christmas Pantomime (Lookingglass Theatre Company). REGIONAL: It’s A Wonderful Life (Capital City Theatre); Ever in the Glades (Kennedy Center Family Theater); Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol (Red Tail Productions). TOUR: Disney’s Winnie the Pooh (Rockefeller Productions). EDUCATION: BS in theatre management, Northwestern University.